Auchan had no idea what happened.
On the night when he thought he had reached a consensus with the third prince, he drank some wine complacently and fell asleep in a leisurely mood, imagining how many benefits he would get from the third prince in the near future …
However, when he woke up again, he found that he seemed to be imprisoned in a dark and narrow box. Not only were his hands and feet entangled in special metal, he could not move, and his face and mouth were also locked by something like a dog muzzle. Be tight and tight, so that he can't make a sound.
—Auchan, who has been to some gray trading places, knows that this is a means specially used to imprison those slaves who have certain strength and prevent them from breaking free and escaping.
"!" He blushed with shock and anger, gushing out from the depths of his heart? An indescribable humiliation!
At the same time, there were waves of fear that even he himself was ashamed to admit.
-what happened?? What happened? Where am I? Could it be before going to bed? Is there something wrong with that glass of wine? Someone still sneaked into the house... ah! It's the third prince! Must be the hands of the third prince?! It must be him! He wants to kill someone? ! !
— No, calm down, calm down. If the third prince really wants to kill someone, I'm already dead. He would not dare to openly kill an imperial lieutenant general! It must have been just his warning... yes, that's it! He probably just wanted to warn me to keep my mouth shut.
—Phew... that's fine. It's all my fault that I was obsessed with ghosts. I actually wanted to get something from the third prince, but I forgot how ruthless this guy is? Hot! Think you can threaten the empire with a handle? Future successor, before? Am I being blinded by greed? It's okay, okay, he still doesn't dare to do such a frenzied thing like murdering people in the imperial capital. That's it! Huh... Calm down, calm down, when you see him later, you must keep calm, bow your head and give in as soon as possible...
In the dark and narrow box, Auchan's mood fluctuated rapidly. After getting through the initial fear and anxiety, he thought he had guessed the truth and gradually regained his composure.
His eyes revealed a look of wisdom that saw through everything. In his heart, he silently counted the time, just waiting to be brought in front of the third prince. Then he knelt down and surrendered according to everything that had been rehearsed, bowed his head and admitted defeat, and passed the time temporarily. this crisis.
After his mood returned to calm, he felt the current situation, and the anger of being humiliated gradually flooded his heart.
—Third Prince? I remember this lesson. Bow your head for now, when you have a chance in the future... I want you to look good! How beautiful Wu Heng was back then, isn't he now a dog in the water? Empire? The heir is great? Just wait and see, it's best to secure your position as the heir, and don't show any flaws. When the time comes... I will pay back ten times and a hundred times the humiliation I suffered today!
The script in his heart had been rehearsed over and over again, even the posture and tone of kneeling begging for mercy had been planned out, but Auchan hadn't welcomed the third prince he expected for a long time. His patience was gradually running out, and he even began to imagine the scene where the third prince would step on his feet and humiliate him in the future, but his situation remained unchanged.
The only thing he could feel was that the black box that blocked him seemed to be moving smoothly, and the outside world was completely silent, with no sound at all.
In the silent darkness? Panic swept over again.
Auchan began to feel unconfident about his previous guess. Could it be that... the third prince really wanted his life, where was he going to throw him and bury him alive? Or...he guessed wrong from the very beginning, the person who attacked him was not the third prince at all? ?
Compared with the former? The latter seems to be more terrifying. This means that everything is beyond his expectation and control.
Locked in this dark and narrow box? I don't know when he will see the sky again? Auchan's mood is ups and downs like a roller coaster. No matter how hard it is to keep calm, he falls into constant fear.
As time went by, this fear became deeper and deeper. Just when Auchan was almost desperate, there were finally noisy and chaotic voices from the silent outside world.
"Didn't it just go out a few days ago? The new ones will arrive soon? So fast this time?"
"Old rules, don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked. The higher-ups have explained that the goods this time are very important and must not be lost. They must be delivered within the specified time. Otherwise, think about the things on everyone's necks!"
"Hiss—the superiors value it so much, it seems that this time he is a big customer! Brothers can make a lot of money again!"
Amidst the noisy discussions, Auchan felt that his box was being continuously transported downwards. From the surrounding conversations, he heard that it probably arrived in a certain warehouse.
In his heart? It's not good.
If it were another person, they might not understand what happened. But Auchan, who has experienced some underground transactions, has already guessed where he is—this is a shady smuggling airship, and the so-called goods are either people or arms.
On the frontline battlefield, there are many such things.
Especially when the Empire was at war with the Star Alliance, there would often be arms dealers taking advantage of troubled waters to smuggle arms across the border to make huge profits, and some would take the opportunity to sell captured captives to certain places with special gray transactions. For example, the star thief group "Black Shark" has a long-term trading relationship with this kind of underground venue, and even has a series of chains.
The universe and starry sky are vast, but not everyone has a super navigation system like System 999. In order not to get lost in the starry sky or run into a storm, the safe routes that have been explored will be marked on the star map.
For example, there are only a few fixed routes from the barren star field to the empire's territory. Even a smuggling arms dealer, unless he is desperate, can only take those few paths.
There are naturally long-term inspections by the imperial army on these routes.
The smuggled arms dealers and "black sharks" have their own way to enter the Empire and the Desolate Star Territory freely, and they have already managed it up and down, especially the army patrolling the pass, which is the most important thing.
As long as they tacitly loosen the pass and relax when patrolling, they can let people pass quietly.
As a high-ranking military officer, Auchan has also participated in several times. The favor fee given to him by the arms dealer alone is worth the income of working hard on the battlefield for several years.
This is already a tacit gray income for many military officers. Several special regiments with special backgrounds, backed by the royal family and great nobles, even participated in the trafficking of prisoners of war. Compared with the "Black Shark", there are no taboos, and the prisoners of the Imperial Legion are all natural persons captured during the war.
——The Empire's hatred for the Star Alliance is far beyond imagination. The new humans have never regarded natural people as their own race, and these? It's just that freedom, equality and human rights are still being promoted on the surface, so things like trafficking prisoners of war must never be publicized, and can only be done secretly.
In some underground trading places, there are quite a few perverts who want to buy natural people to torture them; there must be a lot of private research institutes who try to secretly carry out the banned gene blending experiments on natural people.
And they believe that the Star Alliance must have similar behaviors, such as capturing new humans for experiments and so on.
The empire?has been?too long, and too many places are beginning to rot. Before Wu Heng became commander-in-chief, it was common for the military to open the back door privately and allow arms dealers to circulate; it was not until he became commander-in-chief that he rectified military discipline that such things gradually decreased, not disappeared. , but to a more secretive state.
After all, there are some things that Wu Heng, who was born as a commoner, cannot touch.
At the beginning, Auchan was punished by Wu Heng because of "not caring about inspections". Even though he was later promoted and trusted because of his meritorious service in combat, he still felt dissatisfied. Coupled with Wu Heng's strictness, many unspoken rules no longer count, cutting off countless people's financial opportunities. This is why? Auchan chose to betray, and one of the reasons why so many people fell into trouble.
Now, when Auchan realized that he had actually become one of the goods transported by the arms dealer, and was about to be taken out of the? Empire? Domain by God? Unknowingly, he finally panicked.
He really knows all too well the virtues of those guys at the border crossings, because that's what he used to do. Especially now that there is no Wu Heng who strictly controls military discipline.
Back then, how much Auchan hated Wu Heng for being too strict and cutting off his financial resources, how much he now wishes for his own? Colleagues can abide by military discipline and stop this spaceship!
It is a pity that his colleagues are obviously not better than him in terms of integrity. The journey was uneventful and nothing happened. The smuggled spaceship swaggered out of the Empire's borders, carrying an Imperial lieutenant general.
Auchan, who had been silently counting the time, estimated how far the spaceship had traveled, and was completely desperate.
He has already confirmed that the mastermind behind this matter is by no means the third prince. All the plans and calculations in his heart have suddenly come to nothing, and there is only a sense of emptiness that does not know where the future lies and where life and death are unpredictable. This kind of life and death is completely in the hands of people, and the feeling of being out of control at all is really frightening!
But soon, he didn't even have any thoughts of fear—because he was going to starve to death.
Although the new human body is strong, generally speaking, ten days can last without eating or drinking, but half a month has passed since Auchan was arrested until he was sent to Black Whale Island. Obviously beyond the general situation.
The intense consumption of energy in the body made Auchan dizzy with hunger, his stomach convulsed, and even his thinking stagnated a little. The whole person seemed to be in a dying, half-dead state. I don't have time to worry about what those outsiders are talking about.
Just when he felt that he was about to starve to death, the black box that locked him suddenly hit the ground heavily.
With a "bang", the dark and narrow box fell to the ground, and the black metal on the surface immediately surged like flowing water, quickly unfolded and deformed, and spread along the long?long?shackles on Auchan's limbs.
And Auchan, like a dead dog, appeared in front of Yuan Buwei without hindrance?! He was still wearing the single clothes he had when he was arrested, his hair was disheveled, his bones were bony, his eye sockets were deeply sunken, and he lay motionless on the ground, as if he was about to die in minutes.
A question mark popped up on his forehead: "?"
The arms dealer who was in charge of transporting the man was also taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized, he slapped his forehead and said, "It seems that he is hungry. These boys really don't know how to be flexible! This man is not a munition, but he needs to be fed regularly. "
But at the beginning, it was not specified that people were required, and it was not said that all must be complete. Is this okay
It was not because I glanced at this person and knew what they wanted, so I said lightly: "Since everyone has shown their sincerity, I am not a person who has broken their promise. Please wait for a day and stay by my side Arrangements are made, tomorrow? Let’s have a good talk with everyone about the big things we really want to cooperate with?”
The others were very satisfied when they got the news. In fact, they are still a little bit overwhelmed.
Unexpectedly, the power of the united forces actually accomplished a major event? He captured a lieutenant general from the most heavily guarded imperial capital in the empire and came back!
Don't look at these people calling the wind and rain in the barren star field, they seem to be all big bosses, but in the face of real big forces like the Empire and the Star Alliance, they are actually just brothers. Even? Anti-government organizations like White Dawn are the same.
Now that the division of labor and cooperation between the various forces has actually caused the empire to suffer, how can this not shock them inexplicably
Are you so powerful? In other words, is the power of the entire Desolate Star Territory combined so powerful? No, to be precise, is the Lord of the "Star Sea" who all contributed to this matter and played an important role in it, so powerful
For a while, many people had some indescribable thoughts in their minds. It seems that unconsciously, the unbreakable impression of the empire seems to have been shaken a bit. But the figure of the other person seemed more and more unfathomable.
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Auchan was dying of starvation. He just felt that he was going to die in the next moment, becoming the most ridiculous and most aggrieved imperial lieutenant general who died in history. At this moment, an extremely familiar voice faintly sounded beside his ears.
"... First? Take him down and lock him up."
He heard the voice he had heard countless times give such a faint order, without any emotion in it, as if the other party was still the high-ranking empire? Commander, too lazy to bother with such an inconspicuous little character, Not even the hatred of being betrayed.
Before his brain, which was too lazy to function due to lack of energy, could react to why a useless person seemed to be making a comeback again, Auchan was suddenly pulled up and dragged forward very roughly.
He heard another voice asking: "You don't hate him? As long as you speak, we have a hundred and eighty ways to entertain this traitor. I'm sure it will open his eyes."
"It's just an idiot being used by others. Why should I care? If I didn't find out the gene comparison done by the third prince on Xingwang.com, I would never have thought that I would be able to get married with the third prince." Auchan was very familiar with that His voice was faint, with a bit of aloofness and arrogance that he was more familiar with, "Don't touch him, just lock him up like this, he will also be a witness to expose the Third Prince in the future. Since he thinks that my big brother blocked him Road, I really want to try what it feels like to completely cut off his road."
The third prince? claim kinship? ? Gene comparison? ! brother? ! !
"!" Auchan, who was on the verge of death, was frightened awake.
... The amount of information is so large, he seems to know something extraordinary? ?
Seeing that Auchan's eyelids trembled a few times, he was obviously awake, heard all the words clearly, but pretended to be unconscious and was taken away by someone, the system 999 was a bit strange, Yuan Buwei looked at him inexplicably: [Host, something is wrong with you.]
Yuan Buwei raised his eyelids: "What?"
[... Did you say those words on purpose for him to listen?]
"You actually see? It's coming?"
Yuan Buwei's tone was very surprised.
System 999 felt that IQ seemed to be despised, and immediately tried to prove his strength: [Of course. With your personality as the host, why would you waste your time in arresting a person from a long distance and keeping him in good care, just to let him be a witness in the future? This is very wrong.]
What it didn't say was: with the character of the host, it should obviously squeeze the tool man to death. As for identifying the third prince? Don't be funny, does my host seem to be someone who cares about his own reputation and what others think? Casually? It is his style to create evidence and directly pour dirty water on it. There must be a problem with being so tactful.
Although the system 999 didn't say anything, why didn't it know what it was thinking? He was slandering himself, and he suddenly smiled: "999, you really have become smarter. It seems that now you can take on more important responsibilities."
The system 999 feels bad.
Sure enough, I heard my host continue to say: "As an advanced intelligent life form that can travel through the heavens, it turned out that it was on par with the star network of this world before, and it was still faintly at a disadvantage. Even the dark network of the star network I can’t even get in. I know 999 you’ve always felt ashamed. Now it’s all right, a smart system must know that it should take on more heavy responsibilities and work hard to improve itself, aren’t you right?”
System 999: […]
... Sure enough, even the system is not spared, this is the real style of the host. Well, it's very hostile.