The dead sea of civilization

Canterlot‘s Council Chamber—

Clooffi was pondering if something had happened to King Yongchang. Looking at the pendant around his neck, he remembered Meiyu Jincu and King Yongchang's instructions, and suddenly a name came to mind in a roundabout way—Son of the Wind Demon...

"Clooffi... Clooffi?"

Clooffi came to his senses. "What's the matter?"

"What do you think caused it?"

Twilight asked. He couldn't say.

Clooffi silently shook his head. Celestia saw through him; it used to happen when she discussed matters with their family. Their family members always acted like this, a good inheritance that made it easier for her to see through her former cabinet ministers.

The leaders looked at each other, and all eyes turned to the princesses.

Celestia felt she couldn't hesitate any longer, "Clooffi."

Clooffi stood up abruptly, "Yes, what are your orders."

Celestia walked over, spread her wings, "You know why, don't you?"

"I don't know yet..." Clooffi's face showed an unusual gravity; he couldn't reveal the Qilin Kingdom, a promise he had made himself.

Celestia folded her wings, brought her face extremely close to Clooffi's, causing him to feel the princess's body heat. The princess whispered, "Your family is still there, waiting for you." This statement made Clooffi's eyes light up, and a thunderclap echoed in his heart, with that voice coming in and out of existence...

"Please, this matter concerns the safety of our country, this is your hometown, isn't it?"

Clooffi became even more entangled, home and promise were like a twisted hemp rope around his heart.

Seeing him standing there in a daze, Twilight felt that this was not a solution, so she suggested, "Princess, maybe it's just a magical fluctuation that ended well. We can inspect the magical fluctuations throughout Ponyville, something Starlight can do." Starlight stepped forward and nodded. Clooffi frowned tightly, his hoof pressing hard on the pendant on his chest; it's better to take the initiative to reveal it than to be passively discovered.

"Stop... no need..." The horses looked puzzled at Clooffi, while Celestia showed a victorious expression. Clooffi looked up at the princess, "As long as... you tell me where my home is..." Celestia nodded.

Clooffi took a deep breath and began...

Crystal Castle Pier—

"Yay! We're here!" Meiyu Jincu happily jumped off the boat, the Imperial Censor led the officers to one side of the ship to organize the unloading of items, and the soldiers lined up in two rows on the pier.

Mei Yu looked at the huge castle in front of her and couldn't help but marvel that it was actually carved from a single piece of crystal! She wanted to go in, but was stopped by Zhong Yan, "Hey, don't just barge into someone else's house." Mei Yu was a bit disappointed. In this area, there was only this castle and a small town. To be honest, compared to Bianjing, this town was not much. What surprised her was that there were still houses with thatched roofs here. Oh... Mei Yu recalled that since the reform of Emperor Xingqi, there have been no houses with thatched roofs in the country. It has been almost a few hundred years, and at that time, the space-time barrier was still effective, and the development outside... was so slow, she couldn't figure it out.

"Mei Yu, let's go!" The officer shouted at Mei Yu, and she followed the marching army all the way to Cantlorette. "Coming! Wait for me!" Mei Yu caught up, and Zhong Yan said, "You, a general, running around, I just organized it, what, thinking that with me, your uncle here, you don't have to do anything?" Mei Yu heard this, quickly looked around, fortunately, the soldiers were marching seriously, "Oh, uncle, it's rare to go abroad, I've never been out since I was a child, we have 7000 years here, no local Qilin has ever come out, can I not be excited? Just for today..." "Oh, okay, okay..."

"Thank you, uncle!" Then Mei Yu skipped away again.

Zhong Yan sighed, and the officer patted him on the shoulder, "Sir, don't worry, at her age, she should be like this." The Imperial Censor nodded and said, "So, what should we do after we get here?"

The officer thought about it and felt that it was nothing more than finding a place to set up camp and settle the army, "Fix the house, this desolate mountain and wild land, there are not many big cities, and there is only this small broken town within ten miles."

But the serious gaze of the Imperial Censor stopped the officer: "Do not make hasty judgments, if the other party's monarch does not agree, we still need to talk further." The officer pursed his lips tightly.

Zhong Yan looked at the marching army, seemingly talking to himself, "We have thirty million people... where is the place to stay..."

After walking for a while, two steel rails appeared in the distance, and the soldiers stopped there.

"What a joke? A railway?" The leading generals in front laughed.

"Hey! What's the fuss up there!" The officer shouted a few times, and suddenly an idea came to his mind, and he exchanged glances with the Imperial Censor, who nodded, "Where is General Mei Yu?"

Mei Yu was leisurely stepping on the grass beside her with one hoof on a flower, and the military order exploded in her mind like molten iron, "Coming!" She ran over immediately.

"Go check why they have stopped ahead!" Zhong Yan said firmly.

Mei Yu heard this, and reluctantly said in her heart, "Yes..." Then she threw an unhappy face to the officer who was secretly laughing behind Zhong Yan and walked reluctantly.

Western border—

"Did you get the crystal's energy?"

"Yes."

"Go to your uncle's place, the energy there can help you summon your father and his brother's army."

"But... are you sure they are still there?"

"Open the door of time and space, they are lying in the museum with the spears..."

"Which exhibition hall, I can't remember clearly."

"Wait... let me think..."

(Silence, the flickering of the oil lamp)

"Well... the theme of the exhibition hall is... Qin"

(Footsteps...)

"Remember! Be careful! They are not easy to provoke now!"

"Yes, I will be careful."

(Sound of closing the door)

"Ah, this silly child, after thousands of years, he is still so stubborn."

He played with the double-headed eagle scepter in his hand and talked to himself,

"We didn't win back then..."