Chapter 26 Chapter Twenty-Five

"Don't look panicked." Demozil said, "This is my suggestion. I have stayed in this position for too long, and the recent successive crises have made me reach the level of the three laws. The limit of action that can be tolerated, if this continues, I will be paralyzed sooner or later. You are the natural successor." "I'm not a natural successor," Seldon yelled. "Where do I know how to run an empire? The Emperor is foolish enough to think that I solved this crisis with psychohistory. But I really didn't." "That's all right, Harry. As long as he believes you have the psychohistorical answers, he'll eagerly follow your lead, and that will make you a generation of virtuoso very easily."

"But he might as well have followed me into the ditch." "I have a feeling that your sharp judgment—or intuition—will lead you in the right direction...with or without psychohistory." "But what would I do without you—Daniel?" "Thank you for calling me that. I'm not Demozel anymore, it's just Daniel. As for what you'd do without me - might as well put some of Jo Ruonan's ideas about equality and social justice into practice? This It may not be his true intentions—he may just see them as a way to gain popular support—but these propositions are not bad in themselves. Also, let Richie help you in this regard. Attracted, but he ended up on your side and broke Qiao Ruonan, he must feel a little bit guilty about this, and feel like a traitor. Make him understand that he is not. In addition, you can also study in psychohistory You have shown your strengths, now you have the emperor as your backer, and he is devoted to you wholeheartedly."

"But what are you going to do, Daniel?" "I have other affairs in the galaxy to be involved with. The Zeroth Law is still in effect, so I must work for the good of human society as a whole, at least as far as I can decide. And, Harry— —” "What, Daniel." "You still have Dors." Seldon nodded. "Yes, I still have Dors." He hesitated for a moment, then grabbed Daniel's firm palm. "Goodbye, Daniel." "Goodbye, Harry," Daniel responded. After speaking, the robot turned around, head held high, and drifted away along the palace corridor, the heavy Prime Minister's robe on his body rustling with his walking away.

After Daniel left, Seldon stood there for a long time, lost in thought.Suddenly, he walked towards the Prime Minister's office.Seldon had one more thing to tell Daniel—and that was the most important thing. Seldon hesitated for a moment in the softly lit corridor before pushing the door open.But it was found that the place was empty.Only the black robe was left covering the chair. Seldon's last words to the robot echoed in the Prime Minister's office: "Goodbye, my friend." Ittu Demmerzel is gone; R. Daniel Oliver is gone.