Empire [Rebirth]

The coming-of-age ceremony is the most important festival in a federal person's life, bar none.

No matter how poor ordinary people are, they will try their best to entertain their relatives and friends on this day. If the relatives in the family die, they will invite teachers from the same grade in the school and even the administrators of the whole district to participate.

The coming-of-age ceremony of the heir of the Lin family is naturally grand and extraordinary.

The Lin family abides by the ancient rituals. One month before the heir holds the coming-of-age ceremony, he will retreat in front of the ancestor's tombstone for a month to wash away distracting thoughts, understand the responsibility and mission of inheriting the family's glory, and protect the family's security oath.

Of course Lin Zhen is no exception.

With the development of science and technology, the preservation technology for corpses has been perfect. As long as you can afford the money, you can perfectly preserve the human body if you want to. Part of the inheritance is specially planned to maintain their own remains, but some don't even want to leave a single gene, so the graves in the mausoleum are uneven.

Lin Zhen stayed in the mausoleum for a month. His grandfather sent him in and then left. Except for some life-sustaining food and water, Lin Zhen had no access to anything other than the mausoleum.

His grandfather, the current head of the Lin family, said to him before leaving: "I trust you, you are my proudest child, you know what you want to do, what you should do, you don't need grandpa to intervene, but there is one thing, grandpa wants you remember."

He turned his eyes to the neatly arranged tombstones and remains of the patriarch, and said softly: "Everyone here has their own legendary life, and you also have your own life. Responsibility comes first, but a person's life is not only Responsibility. Understand?"

No one would have imagined that he would explain his heir like this.

Lin Zhen was also surprised. He looked at his grandfather and nodded silently without understanding the deep look in his eyes.

Lin Xiao quietly looked at the mausoleum in front of him. He didn't know what he was recalling. Maybe it was his one-month retreat here during his coming-of-age ceremony many years ago, or it could be some unpleasant memories that made people dare not disturb him.

His gaze finally stopped for a moment at the last tablet, then turned and left.

Lin Zhen stood there for a long time before starting to wipe the tombstones and coffins of the previous patriarchs.

Yes, the successive heirs of the Lin family spent the month before they came of age, wiping and cleaning the mausoleum with their own hands. This is not an easy task for the federal people who seldom do their own cleaning and rely on robots.The succession of the Lin family's hundreds of people, with a little slack, may not be completed within a month.

Just as his grandfather said, the heads of the Lin family have had their own extraordinary lives, and their tombs can be seen from their tombs to some extent.

Some life is smooth, and some life is lonely.

As long as the Patriarch is willing, besides the body of the Patriarch himself, there are also his approved companions who can be stationed in the Mausoleum, but such cases are too rare.

People who stay with each other for a lifetime after marriage are not enough for them to recognize that they will be accompanied by that person for life after death. There are only 27 mistresses in the entire main tomb, of different genders.

Some people recorded their lives with words or images on the coffin, while others did not even leave a single word.As the successor of this generation, Lin Zhen has been familiar with their deeds since he was a child, but when facing these people, he still has the feeling of knowing them for the first time.

It's not the person revealed in the hologram or text, but the real, warm or indifferent person presented in front of him.He wiped it carefully, time passed quickly, but he didn't touch it when he reached the last tombstone.

Kane Dee Colin

It turned out that grandpa had brought him here.Lin Zhen reached out and caressed the tombstone. The coffin behind the tombstone was not sealed. He knew that there might not be only one person's name on the tombstone, and the empty coffin would welcome another owner in decades.

Lin Zhen squatted down slowly and leaned against the tombstone. The expression on his face was moved for a moment, but in the end, out of habit, he remained expressionless when he was most sad.

Here only Kane is the only person he has come into contact with in his short 25 years of life. This person once played a pivotal role in his life, but in the end he left his life without any warning and became a part of this icy mausoleum. member.

Lin Zhen's finger ran across the name engraved on the tombstone, and he recognized the handwriting, which was written by his grandfather and not borrowed from others.He suddenly thought, what kind of mood did his grandfather, that man who was determined all his life, carve this name with a knife, and that mood seemed to be transmitted from his fingertips to his heart through the sharp incision, making his eyes It became wet, so I had to close my eyes, raise my head, and take a deep breath.

The deceased is gone.

What about the living people?

He wondered if he would meet such a person in his life who could be brought into his tomb.He suddenly thought of Caesar, but quickly vetoed it with self-deprecation.

His life is still very long, and there are still many people waiting for him to meet, but he is already sure that the possibility of that person appearing is very slim, and the only thing that is certain is that it will definitely not be Caesar.

And when Lin Zhen was about to finish his retreat, Caesar also had to return to the Schiller Military Academy because of the third-year assessment.

Seventh grade students do not need to return to school for assessment. They only need to apply and be approved by the instructor of the subject to be exempted from the examination.Caesar had to devote himself wholeheartedly to preparing for the assessment, and the theoretical test was still a big headache for him. Although there were many theoretical lessons in the special training camp, they were more focused on practical application after all, and were different from the content of the assessment.

Not to mention that he has become a member of the reserve army, and his status as a combat member does not allow him to be unqualified.

During the intensive preparations for the assessment, Lin Zhen, who was much thinner, finally stepped out of the mausoleum.

"Young master, please follow me." The steward took him to take a bath, and then brought him to the master's study, "Master is waiting for you inside, please come in."

The butler withdrew respectfully.

When Lin Xiao heard the sound of the door opening, he raised his eyes and saw that it was him, his serious face softened a little.

"Look at these materials first." He handed a holographic image to Lin Zhen, and then went about his own business. Lin Zhen stepped aside and sat down, and began to browse the information in the holographic image with no expression on his face.

There were many women of his age, and Lin Zhen naturally knew what it meant for them to appear in this document.

According to the practice of the head of the Lin family, the candidate for the heir's fiancée will be determined at the 25th coming-of-age ceremony.These people were strictly screened by the family. In terms of all aspects of comprehensiveness, family background is second. Apart from appearance, character and health, the degree of matching of gene activity is the most important criterion for the Lin family to consider.

There was a period of time when the federation accepted systematically assigned people with the best genes as partners to produce more outstanding offspring, but this policy was overturned within less than a hundred years of implementation.

Humans are emotional creatures after all, and as humans live longer, it's not fair for them to accept an emotionless partner.

But the Lin family has always kept this habit.

The members of the Lin family have always been emotionally indifferent. If it weren't for this rule, some patriarchs would never have a partner until their death. However, there are only one or two mistresses who are partners in the mausoleum. fiancee.

Lin Xiao looked up at Lin Zhen in his busy schedule, and saw that he was browsing through these materials indifferently, stopped working with some headaches, and said to Lin Zhen: "Your own fiancée is up to you to choose, you don't need to make a decision now, the coming-of-age ceremony These children were invited to the scene that day, so you can see them in person."

Lin Zhen nodded.

"Married?" Caesar looked at Qin Xin, the little fat man was lying on his shoulder, pitying his omnipotent cousin.This rule of the Lin family is extremely inhumane. In his opinion, it completely deprived Lin Zhen of his enthusiasm for life.Marriage is the most important thing in a person's life. To decide on a candidate so hastily is to give birth to an excellent heir. Will his life be happy?

"That's right, I heard from my parents that it's like buying something on the Holographic Optical Network. It's just picked out. Heck, they may not even have met before, not even the oldest ancient earth. Such a domineering marriage rule, you say, is it abominable?"

Unfortunately, Lin Xiangxi was also in the dormitory that day. He had listened to Qin Xin's nagging complaints for a long time, and at this moment he couldn't help interjecting: "Don't judge others by yourself. This rule has not been abolished by a patriarch for so many years. , you don’t need to worry about them.”

"Hmph, it's not you who is going to be married on a blind date, of course you said that."

Qin Xin, who has always been submissive in front of Lin Xiangxi, has undergone a qualitative change at this time. The training of the s combat team and his life in Xi Ruier Military Academy in the past few years have changed him a lot.He has become very confident. Although he still relies on and worships Caesar and has a very naive personality, he is no longer the young man who concealed his inferiority complex.

In front of Lin Xiangxi, he puffed up his chest and put on a full cousin demeanor, "Xiaoxi, put yourself in your shoes, if you were placed here today, I would find you a breeding partner based on the degree of genetic matching." Can you bear it for a lifetime?"

Breeding... Lin Xiangxi's face turned ugly, and after a while he said without confidence: "It's not like my brother has the right to refuse. As long as he doesn't want to, grandpa will never force him."

"..."

Qin Xin froze. He knew that with Lin Zhen's character, he would never refuse. "Hey! Little Sasa, where are you going? Aren't you not training today?"

"I'm going to stay in the confinement room for a while."

"Oh……"

Qin Xin backed back shyly. He didn't have a good impression of the confinement room, so he could only shout: "Are you coming to see me off tomorrow? I'm going to the main star and you must be in the legion when I come back. Only then can we meet."

Caesar waved his hand, "Understood, long-winded."

But the next day, Caesar, Qin Xin and Lin Xiangxi embarked on a spaceship to the main planet to attend Lin Zhen's coming-of-age ceremony. His identity was the adopted son of the head of the Qin family and the next heir of the Qin family.