The Savior Says She's Having a Breakdown - Chapter 28
Chapter 28: Negotiation (Part 1)
In the end, Feng Qingyu couldn’t shake off the certain red-haired large shadow.
Seeing Margie appear with Feng Qingyu, Mina was not at all surprised. She greeted them calmly and said, “Today’s test is ‘Friendship.’ Please go all out.”
Hearing those four words, Feng Qingyu felt that the consequence of being too clever was truly digging a hole for oneself to fall into.
“Let me calm down first.”
“No problem.”
Trying hard to discard all thoughts unrelated to friendship, Feng Qingyu nodded, signaling Mina to begin.
Friendship, for Feng Qingyu, was not as intense as the family affection before. Growing up, she had been laughed at by many because of her name. Although many were not malicious, because of this, she didn’t make many friends.
Her closest relationship was with her college roommate, Feng Yuanyuan. But even so, if asked to think of things that truly embodied friendship, she couldn’t find many. Counting them, it was probably just helping to make medicine when sick or going to karaoke and movies together when feeling down… She blamed herself for living too uneventfully for the first twenty years.
But even if the first twenty years were uneventful, the subsequent ones didn’t have to be this exciting, right?
Being abducted by aliens, then learning from the aliens that she was a so-called Goddess Clan member, being recaptured by her own people after returning to Earth, then rescued by the aliens again, cooperating with the aliens to avoid being captured by her people again, and now being pursued by an alien!
Truly, “uneventful lives are often similar, but exciting lives are all different!”
The test concluded, and the result was unsurprising: failure.
Mina said, “I think the direction of ‘love’ is correct. Whether it was the love between family members before, or the love between friends today, the divine power intensity has fluctuated. However, today’s fluctuation was clearly not as intense as before.”
Feng Qingyu nodded: “That’s for sure. The feelings for friends are not as deep as those for parents.”
“So, do we really have to rely on romantic love?”
Feng Qingyu raised an eyebrow: “Relying on this love, which is even more ethereal than friendship, I think it’s better to rely on ‘Great Love’.”
“But didn’t you say ‘Great Love’ is even harder to achieve?”
“I think you’ve all already concluded that ‘romantic love’ can help me break through, but have you considered that the possibility of ‘Great Love’ is higher?” Feng Qingyu said, “I don’t know why my divine power is confined by that black substance, but based on the information I know, the creation of humans by Nüwa was out of ‘Great Love,’ and so was the God who created humans in another Earth mythology, also out of ‘Great Love.’ In the face of Great Love, family affection, friendship, and romantic love are all Lesser Loves. I don’t think the possibility of romantic love would be higher than Great Love.”
“But aren’t we currently unable to test ‘Great Love’? So, as long as we can confirm if ‘romantic love’ is the key, we’ll know the result.”
“But if it’s confirmed that ‘romantic love’ is not the key either, wouldn’t we be just as helpless?”
Mina was momentarily speechless.
Feng Qingyu added, “I think, regardless of what you are considering, you should not pin all your hopes on me alone. Especially when it seems like success is getting closer and closer. If the final hope is dashed, you might find it difficult to accept.”
“You mean…?”
“Although your King has forbidden you from intervening in the investigation of the Spirit Spring drying up, people should learn to be flexible.”
Remembering that Hena had also mentioned this before, Mina looked at Margie.
The latter was also very tempted by this suggestion, so she asked, “Do you have a plan?”
“In the current Star Kingdom, am I the one with the greatest hope of saving the Star Kingdom?”
Mina nodded: “Naturally, His Majesty has also said so.”
“Then, to better solve your predicament, I want to know about your past affairs. That’s not too much to ask, is it?”
“But His Majesty may not agree.” Mina was not hopeful about matters that Idith had given orders on.
“How will you know the result if you don’t try?” Feng Qingyu smiled at her. She didn’t expect the words Hena used on herself to be returned to them intact. It truly was a revolving door.
Seeing Mina looking over with anticipation, Margie nodded to Feng Qingyu and said, “If you want to, I can help you arrange an appointment with Mother.”
“Good.”
“I’ll go to the study to write an invitation letter to Mother.” Doing things immediately was one of Margie’s rare virtues. As soon as she finished speaking, she walked out the door.
Seeing Margie leave, Mina curiously asked, “Why are you so proactively helping us now? I thought you didn’t care about anything except your own matters.”
“I also have to thank you for coming up with the idea of making me date Margie! It scared me into wanting to quickly hide back home!”
“I think Her Highness is a very good person.”
“You all say that, but none of you want to date her!”
“Alpha Star people don’t understand love. If I hadn’t met you, my whole life would have only been about loyalty to His Majesty and Her Highness. Reproduction was solely for the country. Now you’ve made me realize that humans can have such rich emotions,” Mina sighed, her tone a little sorrowful, “Actually, the more I learn about your Earth’s information, the more I envy you.”
Feng Qingyu, who was usually not good at comforting people, felt awkward: “Actually, Alpha Star is not as bad as I initially thought.”
“Thank you. You don’t need to comfort me.” Mina smiled at her. “I know that Alpha Star’s system and culture seem strange in the eyes of you Earthlings, but it’s based on our own environment. Earth is far from the Sigma, Beta, and other star systems, so you naturally don’t know how terrifying interstellar wars are. I wonder if you’ve ever been curious why our technology is so advanced, yet the weapons we use daily are cold weapons.”
Feng Qingyu nodded: “I’ve always wanted to ask but haven’t found the opportunity.”
“The negative impact of thermal weapons is too great for a planet, and it’s irreversible. So the Interstellar Alliance of course, Earth isn’t qualified to join yet, so you don’t know mandatorily stipulates that any planet inhabited by humans must absolutely not use any thermal weapons.”
“Can they be used in interstellar space?”
“Only in the universe far away from any human-inhabited planets.”
Feng Qingyu nodded. This policy was somewhat similar to the requirements for nuclear weapons use on Earth: “Mhm, Earth has similar regulations.”
“Do you still have wars on Earth?”
“Yes, but the country I’m from is very peaceful.” Feng Qingyu sighed, “Although I used to often call you bandits and thugs, and once questioned Hena why peaceful means and methods couldn’t be chosen, I can actually understand. But understanding doesn’t mean acceptance. I was born in an era and country without the ravages of war. I’ve seen the miserable conditions of countries during those wars, so I hate war. I also hate all countries, organizations, and individuals who like to instigate war.”
Mina agreed: “In fact, why wouldn’t we? Although Her Highness previously led troops into battles and won every time, our casualties were also very severe. I remember once, eight years ago, Her Highness’s spacecraft was ambushed, and she nearly lost her life. Don’t let Her Highness’s tendency to use force to coerce people fool you; she also hates war. She’s just not good with words and can only express her emotions through body language.”
Regarding Margie’s action-over-words behavior, Feng Qingyu had analyzed it before when she was bored. Both Margie and Barbara, if placed on Earth, would be typical “self-proclaimed supreme” second-generation elites. And compared to second-generation elites, they also possess the legal power of life and death.
Although Idith seemed very reasonable during their one meeting, Margie and Barbara were raised by her, so it was evident that Idith’s ideology was also the same. In this type of autocratic, centralized monarchy, the royal family is supreme, and no one can restrain the King. It’s normal to have such an ideology.
Only people living in an environment that pursues “equality and freedom” can realize how ridiculous the behavior of these people is.
The Alpha Star people are just like the Nüwa clan people. Because they have lived in this environment since childhood and haven’t been exposed to other types of civilizations, they are accustomed to their environment and their fate. Even if they are discriminated against or oppressed, since everyone is in the same situation, they don’t feel that anything is wrong.