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"It worked, they said what you wanted them to say."
Standing on the surface of the tracker, Ren Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, and looked up at the distant starry sky above his head.
It was an endlessly dark universe, only a very tiny ray of light shone stubbornly and tenaciously.
Ren Zhong thought about the ecliptic plane of this elliptical galaxy, and thought to himself, "When I was a child, I used to think that the stars in the sky were flying fireflies, and then I knew that these were stars. Then I realized that they are not just stars, but An extragalactic galaxy that may be larger than the Milky Way. Behind that small spot of light, there may be trillions of stars, and there are epic stories between countless races and civilizations. I just don’t know which of those small spots of light Is it the Virgo supercluster? Where is my Milky Way?"
While he was whispering in his heart, another scorching light was caught in the corner of his eye.
He turned his face away slightly, and activated the armor's energy shield at the same time.
Without looking, he knew that the No. 0001 battleship had turned into a small sun that was close at hand.
The compressed three-phase thermonuclear bomb hidden in the No. 0001 cargo warehouse is releasing its once-in-a-lifetime terrifying heat energy.
Ren Zhong's "friend", who accompanied him all the way to the present universe, may really be a unique mutant life form. Li Yang, who is obviously not a psychic demon, but more like a demon than a demon, is bathing in the flames.
Before he even had time to ask the last question in his life, he fell down so humbly.
Chapter 456
The so-called conspiracy generally refers to solving problems secretly by means of hiding under the water.
It took the Augustus family nearly 1000 years and dozens of generations to carry out a conspiracy.In this conspiracy, countless Yuanxing people became the wailing souls in the Mengdu Group's laboratory, and turned into dry bones that no one cares about.In the eyes of the suffering people and the participants in the whole thing, it must be a great thing to create a biological organization similar to a "net" and make one's ancestor the most powerful of the nine "creation gods" Big plans.However, the essence of the matter is just a small struggle for the rights and interests of his small family by a marginal administrator in the empire.It's sad.
Ying Hao spent 200 years to lay out the layout, constantly freezing, waking up, wooing, buying, and cultivating, and finally established the promotion associations that spread over the nine major enterprises and various institutions of Yuanxing, and penetrated into countless grassroots organizations. The Yuanxing military industry, which is only loyal to the association and ancestors, has become an organization that is only loyal to itself. It can almost compete with the elders and all levels of the association that has survived forever thanks to the blood and system passed down by the nine old popsicles. I have to say it's a big deal. .His purpose is to rewrite the direction of the source star civilization on a certain level, change the people who get the tickets from waste in his own eyes to a group of energetic new generations, make himself the helm of the source star civilization, and then Homeland Empire to accomplish a greater cause, a higher dream.According to Ying Hao's plan, from the perspective of the grassroots citizens of Yuan Xing and the talented people in the barren people, judging from Yuan Xing's short thousand-year history, it can be regarded as a big conspiracy to create the world.However, the essence of this conspiracy is placed in the entire empire, but it is still just a drop in the ocean of boring ups and downs.
It's a pity that the above two seemingly insignificant conspiracies were easily destroyed by Li Yang, a synthetic human born from a garbage dump, using a method similar to that of a mechanical descendant, deprived of all achievements, and finally It became a joke.
As for Li Yang, he looks sinister enough and powerful enough, but his plot actually has no layout, just a little doll with a heavy machine gun broke into the conference room of the high-ranking people, and then pointed the gun at the people one after another. Man, exclaimed Hands up, be my friend, and then this man actually became his friend, and helped him with a plan that had little meaning, something crazy, that didn't even make sense.Relying on this ability to open and hang, he is almost on the verge of success.Maybe Li Yang himself never had any plans, but just bragging about manipulating his own supernatural powers, and then turning everyone who is attractive and possibly useful into his "friends", and using the abilities of these friends.
If it wasn't for the big explosion at the end, if it wasn't for the scorching pain he felt for a ten-thousandth of a second when he became one with the sarcoma, maybe Li Yang would think that his most proud strategy was to get the loyalty of the heavy burden .In a sense, most of Li Yang's conspiracy and self-confidence really come from the burden.
But in the end Li Yang's absurd ambition was taken away by the most important and trusted "friend" with a simpler plan.
It was just an explosion, but the power of this explosion was a bit big.
Li Yang can control everyone he wants, and is almost invincible in Yuan Xing, a small corner of human society.
Perhaps, if he really succeeds, in the distant future, Li Yang, who has a monster-like special ability and can integrate his thoughts into the sarcoma of human corpses that can multiply and replace indefinitely, can really gain eternal life and become more and more terrifying. Even invincible across the universe, but all of this came to an abrupt end with that bright firework.
Li Yang has only one Achilles' heel, which is Ren Zhong, the only person he can't control in this universe.
Perhaps Li Yang himself will feel a little wronged, but if he knows that this is the Nth time that he has been assassinated by Ren Zhong, he may feel a little relieved.
In fact, Ren Zhong has considered whether to keep his life alive. After all, Li Yang's ability is really easy to use, and he can almost be regarded as the protagonist's golden finger in the world.
But Ren Zhong is very afraid of Li Yang's method of quietly taking over other people's thinking, which can easily make him almost unable to trust the people around him.
In some previous timelines, even Zheng Tian and Yu Jin had their minds taken over by Li Yang, so that Ren Zhong at that time had to use reopening to adjust his behavior pattern, divert Li Yang's behavior dynamics, and try to change his mind as much as possible. Make sure that your real plan will not be interfered by Li Yang.
For example, now, Ren Zhong turned his head silently, looking at Qian Wangshen and several other Starfire soldiers who had lost consciousness inside the battle armor behind him.
Ren Zhong, who has experienced many times, is not nervous, and it won't be long before these people who are absolutely loyal to themselves will wake up.They will remember what happened, but it will feel like it was a dream, but it is difficult to distinguish the real dream from the fake.
Afterwards, Ren Zhong quietly disarmed the self-explosive device in his armor, then turned his head and stared at the radiance that was still emitting scorching hot light, so strong that the armor's all-black shading mask could not resist it, and heaved a long sigh of relief.
He murmured to himself, "I finally got the perfect ending I wanted."
Yes, this seems to be a coherent narrative, but in fact Ren Zhong has blew himself up thousands of times.
Sometimes, ship 0001 did not explode, but was suddenly attacked by Ma Xiaoling.
Sometimes, Ma Xiaoling failed to break through to the surface of the tracker, so he had to use a three-phase bomb to blow up the passage, and the angle of the explosion was really not beautiful enough, or too many other innocent and ignorant fighters were involved.
Sometimes, Chen Hanyu refused to leave No. 0001 with him.
Sometimes, the final airwaves of the old popsicles are less than satisfying.
Sometimes, the accidental detonation that happened in the warehouse of battleship 0001 doesn't look like an accident enough, and the fault self-test information released by the instantaneous black box looks too much like a conspiracy.
……
In his own final battle, Ren Zhong indulged his obsessive-compulsive disorder to the extreme, and even picked out the details to the extreme.
However, there are always accidents and unstable factors in everything, and there are always so many unsatisfactory places.
But after continuing to use his resurrection ability almost retaliatoryly, he played a perfect clearance performance.
This matter is difficult, but also very simple, in short, he did it.
What happened next was a little bloody, but it made sense.
The warriors who entered the throne room did not find the Ascendant, who was said to be very powerful and terrible.
The first soldier to break in was very lucky to capture the final scene, which was the moment when nine frozen elders who had made up their minds to die for their country shot at the same time.
Those were clearly nine ordinary but extraordinary people.
This footage was saved and sent back to the Fleet Command and the Supreme Elders of the Chamber of Commerce.
Including the core members of the elders group and the key figures in the nine major groups woke up almost at the same time after a brief coma, and then held an emergency meeting in panic.
Ren Zhong, chairman of the Ren Group and Marshal of the Armed Fleet who was on the front line, participated in this top-level meeting centered on the server in Shangyuanjing with the help of a point-to-point ghost particle communicator.
Everyone, no matter where they are or what they are doing, must access the meeting immediately.
The atmosphere at the meeting was as serious as the twelfth lunar month, and every participant was buzzing in his mind, and felt infinite fear of what he had done.
Only the aging Hewitt Augustus was more indescribably desolate and lonely than fear.
He had just woken up from the hospital bed when he was taken into the conference room.
The disturbing memories of 20 years exploded in his mind like spring thunder, knocking him dizzy.
He clearly remembered that his last memory before he fell into a coma was ordering the warrior in uniform named Xu that he had trained so hard to join the battlefield and become a key member of a certain attack on the Seeker spaceship.Then, he also saw the moment when the frozen elders swallowed their guns and committed suicide in the real-time synchronization of the battlefield, especially the sad look on the face of the ancestor Barton Augustus he once worshiped.
He stared blankly at the face on the screen covered with dark age spots, wrinkled, and only a few sparse hairs, and couldn't believe it was himself.
He raised his hands tremblingly and stroked his mottled face, which was like bark. The touch of his fingers across his face was like sandpaper rubbing against a century-old dead wood.
There was a dull pain in the back of his hand, and he turned his head to look at his right hand again.A needle was inserted into the back of the black hand, and the hormone medicine for hanging was slowly being injected into the body along the needle.
He was screaming crazily in his heart.
What have I done?
How am I so old?
The endless ambitions of the once heroic blond youth have been cut into fragments by the blunt knife of time.
Especially in the blink of an eye, he found that he had worked foolishly for Li Yang for nearly 20 years unconsciously, and the ship that had not even had time to embark on the expedition was already old and dying.
He almost collapsed.
The heads of many other families in the video conference room looked at this guy sympathetically.
Although he himself has fallen, at least he has enjoyed a normal cryogenic slumber these years, and has not been drained like this guy.
Secretly rejoiced in their hearts.
But thinking about it again, the more ambitious and capable Ying Hao...
Forget it, it seems that I can't tell who is worse.
At least Ying Hao died with a dream.
That is also a kind of happiness.
But I may not be lucky, everyone knows the importance of frozen elders.
There is no doubt that everyone, including everyone present, participated in this mutiny and murder that is absolutely not allowed within the empire.
Yes, they all participated in the murder of their ancestors and the founders of the Origin Star society.
It stands to reason that they have completed a fairly beautiful coup and can inherit power reasonably, but the problem is that Yuan Xing has never had independent power, and has always been just a vassal among the vassals of the empire.
So, what kind of punishment will you be punished for killing the administrator?
Could it be that the warships of the empire suddenly flew up in the sky, and then bombarded the source star outside the asteroid belt?
Amidst their extremely complicated thoughts, the silence in the video conference room lasted for nearly a minute.
In the end, it was Ren Zhong, the supreme military commander, who said with a heavy heart: "According to reliable information, we have been attacked by the enemy of the empire, the Mencius. Nine great administrators of the Seeking Colony lost their lives."
"Mind Demon?"
The participants were stunned for a moment, and then gradually realized.
Obviously, as the core leaders of the Nine Great Groups and members of the Supreme Elders, they are very few people on Origin Star who have the right to know the real history.
They do know some things about the Machine Empire and the other three major enemies.
It's just that in the previous battle report, everyone was kept in the dark, they were all Li Yang's "friends", and no one mentioned the existence of the mind demon in the battle report.
But now, as long as the burden is broken, many doubts and confusions before will be answered in an instant.
At this time, it was Ma Xiacheng, the current helm of the Shenxun Group, and Ren Zhong's former close comrade-in-arms who was the first to regain his composure, and asked with some doubts: "If it is really the enemy of the empire who invaded secretly, how can we... get rid of it?" What about the control?"
Ren Zhong grinned, moved his fingers slightly, and called up the starry sky that had returned to silence in the video conference.
Battleship 0001 once existed there.Now there are only a few bean-sized metal particles that have melted and recondensed.
Everyone looked at the void, not knowing why.
Ren Zhong clicked on playback, and the content in the video started from the explosion of the No. 0001 battleship, and quickly fast forwarded to the return to silence.
"Luck favored us."
Next, Ren Zhong told a not-so-long "story".
In this story, he put himself back into Li Yang's circle of friends, and pushed many of his past actions to be driven by Li Yang, including the establishment of a dragon-slaying camp and the development of an amazingly powerful compressed three-phase thermonuclear bomb.
"Under Li Yang's control, I placed a three-phase bomb on every ship. You have also seen its power. The purpose of placing this bomb is to threaten you at a critical moment and completely control The situation. However, the three-phase bomb on No. 0001 has a quality problem. There is a parameter error in the excitation sensor of its detonator. Detonation procedure."
"The tracker spacecraft of the elders of the administrators has a characteristic, that is, after the destruction or the death of all the administrators, it will send out a particularly strong information flow signal to warn the empire. It is called the last wave."
"This is the signal transmitted by the three-phase bomb detonation device in the tracker 0001 when it interacted with the black box of the 0001 battleship immediately before it was activated. The black box successfully broadcast this information before it was destroyed by high temperature. We captured Here we are. The situation at the time was like this..."
Ren Zhong announced a long list of program codes, and Ma Xiacheng and Ying Ye performed double authentication on Ren Zhong's words after reading it.
This is a fact.
After listening, the dozens of people present all felt the mystery of the fate of the universe.
How good is the luck of these people.
This can also be reversed!
"In addition, I have another piece of good news. After the death of the administrators and elders, the last radio wave announced by the Seeker spacecraft was captured by the 'net' that has just resumed its initial function. You can take a look at this information. "
It gave the others nearly 10 minutes to digest the "last ripple" of the old popsicles. After everyone regained their thinking again, Ren Zhong said with emotion: "So, it is not us who murdered the administrator, but the psychic. No one can falsify the information broadcast by the universe, and the empire will soon learn that we are innocent. As the inheritors of the Origin Star colonization team, we still have the legal right to return to the empire and integrate into the empire system."
The audience's eyes subconsciously showed joy, and they just felt that the whole thing was too happy, too coincidental, and their luck was too good.
Only Hewitt Augustus remained ashen.
He has a few days to live, and all his ambitions have become a dream. Whether he returns to the empire or not has nothing to do with him, a dying old man.
"Everyone, we have received the favor of the universe and successfully survived this catastrophe. Then, we should discuss what system we will use to return to the empire. My proposal is as follows. After all, the journey is still long and far away. The last radio wave It is also an all-area broadcast that does not distinguish between friend and foe, so our return home may not be so smooth. Therefore, we should establish a stronger management system."
In the video in everyone's eyes, as the marshal of the army, the highest position in Yuanxing's administrative management system, and occupying the largest video frame, Ren Zhong said with a grin.
His ambition is clearly written on his face, as obvious as his white teeth when he smiles.
Chapter 457 Iron-Blooded Viscount
Maybe it was shocked by the sudden ambition of Ren Zhong, a new giant rising in the form of a desolate man, or maybe it was because the minds of many of the highest power holders have not yet broken free from the previous upheaval, or maybe they couldn't think about it for a while. Either he made an appropriate rebuttal, or he was afraid of the power of Ren Zhong, who was still the marshal of the army. After Ren Zhong made his statement, no one spoke for a while, and fell into a strange silence.
Ren Zhong did not intend to give others the time and space to discuss privately, and continued: "As I said earlier, this journey back home will become very difficult. Even if the 'Net' can help us clear up the misunderstanding with the empire, it cannot It influences the thoughts of sublimators, pilgrims, and spiritual demons. The resources accumulated by a complete colonial base for thousands of years are enough to attract covetousness."
"The inefficient mechanism of the elders of the association is sufficient to manage the internal affairs of the source star, but now we have to face the unknown deep space of the universe, although the 'network' that is about to be repaired will provide us with enough information to guide, But our memory and our bodies haven't experienced that experience yet."
"We are going on a long-distance voyage with a straight-line distance of four light-years, and the actual distance is still unknown. After the last radio wave is sent out, our whereabouts are no longer hidden, and we may be threatened by the enemy of the empire at any time. In the fleet There will be a total of 20 billion people, 20 billion lives. There will be either 20 or [-] people on each ship. Not one or two, not one hundred. In case of an accident, many people will die .”
"Therefore, in the long-distance fleet, order must be rebuilt, and there is only one option. Let the most capable person get the greatest power... His orders must be carried out with the highest efficiency. He will carry it alone. responsible for the success or failure of 20 billion people and the entire Seeker colonization strategy. I call it absolute totalitarianism. And I, with a lot of responsibility, am the best and only person to do my job.”
When fully expressing his position, Ren Zhong was actually reviewing his long-standing strategy in his heart.
He killed the old Popsicles, and also caused the Trailseeker's final alarm to reveal the existence of the colony.
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