beep! beep! beep! beep! Accompanied by a sharp alarm sound, a shocking red sign appeared on the light curtain on the side of the hatch, similar to a worm-like animation, reminding the people in the spacecraft that the monitoring and scanning system found a chip, the chip on the back of the Federal's neck... .
Disguised as silk smugglers, the officials of the Imperial Royal Intelligence Service responded very quickly. In a fraction of a second, they took out the firearms at their waists, and stopped the two of Huaicaoshi behind them, aiming their black muzzles in all directions. , the voice of data sorting, analysis and tracking is intensively sounded in the call system on the wrist.
A few seconds later, the officials of the Intelligence Agency put down their firearms with extremely strange expressions and looked at the small-eyed man behind Her Royal Highness, only to realize that the source of the alarm was actually this person.
This man is actually a Federal!
The officials thought of His Highness's comfort and closeness to this person during the process of the spacecraft's departure from Hanxing, and they had countless questions in their hearts. Is the rumor that caused the noble rebellion true
"Turn down the sound of the alarm system." Huaicaoshi frowned slightly, stepped forward, and said coldly, "I don't want to keep listening to these harsh sounds during the journey back to Tianjing."
Xu Le followed her forward, shrugged at the imperial officials with weird expressions on both sides of the hatch, expressing his innocence. He was a little disappointed that Her Royal Highness did not order his subordinates to turn off the chip scanning system. It proves that although Her Royal Highness is the most fierce person in the universe, she still acts cautiously and carefully.
Huai Cao Shi carried his hands on his back, stared at his subordinates with indifference, and replaced the electronically controlled explosives on Xu Le's shoulders, still unwilling to rest assured, until the subordinates worked hard to find a set of heavy electric shock alloy shackles from the warehouse and put them on Xu Le. On her ankle, she really relaxed and slowly straightened her body.
Xu Le watched her eyes narrowed slowly, like a book with a black cover that was about to be closed, her eyebrows suddenly raised, and she said, "Don't fall."
Huai Cao Shi hurriedly opened her eyes, stared at him and said, "What did you say?"
"Don't fall." As if he didn't feel her sharp gaze, Xu Le said forcefully, "Don't forget what you promised me."
What did you promise? To die with dignity or to live with dignity? Huaicao Shi frowned slightly, and after a moment thought of something, a gentle smile rarely appeared on the corner of his lips, he stretched out his right finger to Xu Le on the chair, and said to the surrounding subordinates: "As long as he doesn't escape, Treat him well."
"Yes, Your Highness." The intelligence officer on the spacecraft replied without hesitation.
Hearing this statement, Xu Le also really relaxed, and the feet tightly bound in the heavy shackles moved, as if scratching, and then looked at Huaicao Shi's eyes that slowly narrowed again, yes The imperial officials around him reminded: "Hold her up."
The imperial officials did not know the meaning of these three words that the federation suddenly said. More importantly, they never imagined that Her Royal Highness, standing by the porthole of the battleship, with a thin body, gave people a feeling of invincibility. His Royal Highness, who is about to become great by virtue of his strength, will fall one day.
So their response was a step slower.
Huaicao Shi's squinted eyes finally closed softly together, the single eyelid touched like this, the eternally burning crystalline engine seemed to be turned off, she still held her hands, proudly and indifferently raised her chest, keeping the This cool pose fell backwards.
There was a muffled sound, and the ground of the spaceship she hit with one fell shivered slightly.
There was a burst of unbelievable exclamations and angry shouts all around, and the officials of the Imperial Intelligence Agency rushed over at the fastest speed. After a while, they were a little scared and a little unbelievable to find that His Highness was not injured, just... fell asleep. .
The nervous officials escorted His Royal Highness to rest and were busy opening the treatment cabin, while the officials who stayed in the cabin looked at Xu Le strangely. In a big way, they did not understand the relationship between this federal man and His Highness. The real relationship, from a small point of view, they don't understand why this person can see that His Highness is about to fall.
Xu Le lowered his head, his gaze followed the explosives on his shoulder blades, and landed on the heavy alloy shackles, pulled the corners of his lips and smiled.
After fleeing and fighting in the sea of mulberry trees for so many days, I hardly ever rested for a moment. Even if it is a real metal body, I am afraid it will collapse. After entering the spaceship, Huaicao Shi confirmed that it is temporarily safe. With the injuries pouring out like a torrent, how could she not fall
If... If she didn't fall down, in front of such a terrifying enemy, Xu Le would really lose all hope, but fortunately... She still fell after all.
The empire is a society with strict hierarchy. The five classes are clearly divided into royalty, nobles, commoners, pariahs, and slaves. In the space age of the vast star field, the imperial power can still be maintained. The imperial family of the empire depends on the class from top to bottom. The history of the empire is actually a history of repression and resistance. The bloody history has gradually turned the pariahs and slaves into a class, the most miserable class.
In recent history, the most miserable stratum in the Empire Star Region has become the Federation. Although there are very few Federations captured in the Empire, this kind of object that even untouchable slaves can spit and throw eggs on the street, The treatment they enjoy can only compete with pigs and dogs.
The Commonwealth is the best target for the untouchable slaves to vent their dissatisfaction, the supreme weapon to maintain the social stability of the empire, and the beacon to guide the empire's progress, so it is naturally the most unshakable part of the strict order of the empire. Anyone, Whether he is a pariah struggling in the slums or a slave with a black back in the mines, he has been cultivated with instinctive hatred and fanatical blood-devouring impulses towards the Commonwealth.
Existence is not necessarily reasonable, but there are certainly reasonable needs.
If Xu Le hadn't snatched those words out of her mouth before Huaicao Shi fell asleep, then he could imagine how miserable his treatment on this camouflaged spacecraft of the Intelligence Agency would have been, just like the two people on the Red Rose. As an expert in the empire, the officials of the Imperial Intelligence Agency would definitely not mind slowly tormenting him as an experimental material until his body was completely broken, his liver, intestines and limbs were cut off, and he was unable to swallow the past of the federal hero with one breath.
Fortunately, at the top of the strict imperial order is the unchallenged imperial power. Since Her Royal Highness has spoken, the lowly federal people have instantly turned into guests who must be treated well, even if the officials of the Imperial Intelligence Service are not reconciled. , must also be done, because the deep sleep of His Royal Highness always wakes up one day.
The disguised smuggling spaceship did not know what method it used to break through the blockade of the galaxy by the rebel fleet, sailing long distances in the dark and silent space, along the top-secret smuggling channel shared by silk smugglers and the Royal Intelligence Service, away from the The turbulent planet is getting farther and farther away.
In these days, space-standard meals, delicious imperial hand-ground coffee, increasingly clear imperial discourses, imperial novels used to pass the time and phrases in the novels that start to be difficult to understand and gradually understand until fully understood, this is Xu Le All life on this ship.
If the heavy shackles on his ankles hadn't bleed through the skin, and if the dynamite through his shoulder blades hadn't been so painful, he'd have enjoyed the ride.
In addition, he has been silently watching the actions of the Imperial Intelligence Service officials. He watched these Intelligence Service officers dealing with the rebel fleet, talking to the smugglers who were hiding in the dark, and escorting them in an understatement. Keeping Huai Cao Shi away from danger, he couldn't help feeling more and more shocked inside.
The Imperial Royal Intelligence Service, an intelligence agency that resembles the Charter Bureau but does not have a Charter Computer, has shown too powerful a capability.
The intelligence information of countless eyeliner spies is like the ubiquitous chip information feedback from the Federation. If the brilliance of the charter of the Federation relies on the super computing power of the central computer and the ubiquitous information nodes, then the intelligence agency used by the imperial family to rule the universe relies on... people, people everywhere, it seems The sea is like a mountain, and the ocean is like a mountain and a dense forest.
Eleven days passed by Imperial Standard Time, and Xu Le was once again deeply shocked by the picture that appeared on the light curtain.
The sky and the sun can’t describe the fleet in the space directly ahead. In fact, when this fleet of hundreds of imperial warships suddenly appeared in front of the interstellar channel, the entire universe seemed to be swallowed up by a dense group of warships. The black hibiscus flower logo on it is so striking and chilling.
The terrifying Imperial Royal Fleet finally left the space base outside Tianjing Star. They passed by the lonely intelligence agency spaceship, leaving ten warships as protection, and the rest of the warships rushed towards Lisaka Star.
A few days later, the space scene around Lisaka star appeared on the light curtain, and countless silent explosions and dazzling fireworks bloomed one after another in that space.
Xu Le squinted at all of this, and found that the intelligence officials around him did not have any excited expressions. Perhaps in the eyes of these imperial officials who were extremely loyal to the royal family, this noble rebellion was a joke, as long as His Majesty and His Highness were still alive. , those reactionaries will be torn to shreds sooner or later.
"What are you thinking?"
A voice sounded behind him.
Xu Le spoke subconsciously, speaking in Imperial language, but he immediately realized that the man behind him was speaking Federal language, and there was only one person who spoke to him in Federal language on this spacecraft.
He turned his head, looked at the ordinary face that no one dared to despise, smiled and said, "Awake?"
"Yeah." Huaicaoshi walked to the chair with a cup of coffee, looked at the lights on the light curtain, and said, "It seems that there is something wrong with your mood."
"Libanxing is a sea of fire. I don't know how many people will die. Will the governor survive?"
"The bad news I just received, Governor Ke Baoning has already died."
After a moment of silence, Xu Le said: "I thought of the officer who had surrounded us in the mulberry sea that day. Although I can't fully understand your conversation, I feel sorry for him. Your nobles seem to like to pretend. But I don't understand that pretending is always easy to kill."
Huai Cao Shi put down the coffee cup and said, "You don't understand."
"I really don't understand. For example, that Governor Ke Baoning, who knew he was going to die, why did he persist for you and your royal father?"
"Your president is a puppet of vote politics, and with us... Your Majesty is the Empire."
"The discussion of this issue ends here." Xu Le was silent again, and suddenly asked: "Can you explain to me the composition of the imperial fleet that went to suppress the rebellion this time?"
The two of them were not the only ones in the room. Those officials of the Imperial Intelligence Agency who were working quietly had actually been listening carefully to the conversation between His Royal Highness and the Federalist. The dialogue was heard clearly. The first paragraph of the dialogue shocked them that the aloof princess would speak to the federal pariah in an equal tone, and the last sentence really made them have the urge to kill Xu Le immediately.
The configuration of the imperial fleet, whether it is the most general functional ship ratio or the smallest firepower increase line value, is undoubtedly top-secret information, even ordinary nobles are not qualified to access this information, let alone ask questions. is a federal.
The spaceship was quiet, and the officials of the Intelligence Agency thought that His Highness might be furious, or that they might not respond to their expectations, but Huaicao Shi's next response was beyond their understanding.
"This fleet is the Tianlei Fleet, which belongs to the Royal First Fleet. The flagship Songlei is driven by 20 sets of composite engines, and the thickness of the armor is increased by three layers..."
Huai Cao Shi was silent for only a moment, and then began to calmly tell the absolute secret information of the imperial military, seemingly forgetting that Xu Le in the chair was a federal soldier.
The imperial officials in the entire spaceship were dumbfounded, except for her voice, which was dead silent, and the thunderous footsteps could be heard by the night cat walking by.
Only Xu Le noticed the light that flashed in Huai Cao Shi's eyes, and only he understood why Huai Cao Shi dared to tell him these things.
"These are not important things you asked." Huai Cao Shi finished talking about the composition of the fleet, looked down at Xu Le with a smile, and looked calm and confident.
"Are there really laser weapons in the space base outside Tianjing Star? We've been speculating over there." Xu Le continued to ask unceremoniously.
"You will know this when you have the ability to call." Huai Cao Shi put her hands behind her back and said calmly, "But I can give you an approximate firepower value. According to your fleet's escort ability, it should be able to Seventeen seconds."
"What about the wolf-tooth mecha? The micro-engine wedges in the forty-seven spherical joints can avoid the interference of electronic turbulence in the holding room, but how is synchronization achieved?"
The quiet smuggling spaceship sailed towards the Tianjing star, and the voices of two young men who were ordinary in appearance but were actually more proud and confident than anyone else in the quiet cabin rang out. I don’t know how long this conversation lasted. Department, the scenery and people of Tianjing Star, the most famous food in the empire, the most direct question has the most direct answer, and then brought the most direct shock to the imperial officials in the ship.
During the question and answer, there was a certain sword-like atmosphere brewing.
In that sea of mulberry trees, Xu Le and Huai Cao Shi had discussed it before, but now it's just taking that discussion a step further.
When you say you want to escape, you are only asking for trouble.
She knew that he would definitely flee, and that once he knew the information, once he escaped, it would cause more harm to the empire, but she chose to say that because she firmly believed that he could not escape. .
This is an interesting gamble.
Xu Le, the man who had been hung upside down on the gallows, had steel chips tied to the hair that wrote the line of life and death. Every time Huai Cao Shi said a word, those chips would increase to thousands of tons. Tens of thousands of tons, tens of millions of tons, like sea water.
"Actually, there is no need for you to gamble with me."
The ghosts of the royal battleships scattered around the spaceship, and a vague nebula appeared in the distance. Xu Le didn't know if it was the destination. After finishing today's discussion and having a preliminary understanding of the history of imperial literature, he suddenly felt a Huai Cao Shi said.
"I never gamble." Huaicao Shi squinted at the nebula the size of a fingernail, and said, "Since the war started, there have been twenty-seven federal prisoners who pretended to surrender and then tried to escape, and many of them are more cunning than you. There are many, many powerful strongmen, but no one can escape three kilometers on the surface of the planet."
Xu Le was silent, knowing what she was talking about.
Huaicao Shi glanced at the back of Xu Le's neck indifferently, with a hint of disgust in his eyes, and mockingly said: "Just as we can't enter the Federation, so do you. Let the machine plant a dog's tail in the body, it won't work. Know what you Federalists think."
Xu Le smiled, and instead of having a heated argument with the other party about the chip issue, he said, "This is not something I can make a choice or decision."
"I sympathize with you and you." Huaicaoshi frowned and said, "So I don't understand, why you are so happy watching death get closer, I don't believe you really have the confidence to escape. ."
"Of course," she said with her straight eyebrows slightly raised and her eyes narrowed, "I'm looking forward to some surprises from you."
"Is this the so-called loneliness of masters in the legend?" Xu Le scratched his head, his shoulders ached and his brows wrinkled.
"Probably so." Huai Cao Shi replied.
In the mighty interstellar era, the individual heroism supported by super strength has long given way to the cold mechanical order. In this context, anyone who dares to express his invincibility like the princess at the porthole can probably be classified as a lunatic. Or pretending to be an idiot, but with such a long history and such a large human base, there will always be peerless geniuses who are qualified to say such things.
Such as Li Pifu, such as the person who was slapped by Li Pifu, such as him, such as her, such as him.
"I'll try my best." Xu Le looked into her eyes and replied with the most serious tone in her life.
The spaceship landed on a huge planet, and the bulletproof limousine picked up the group to leave the royal secret military base, traveled about 70 kilometers, and entered a heavily guarded manor.
Xu Le, who was wearing a dark helmet, couldn't see any pictures or even hear any sound. All of this was completely derived from the inferences in his brain. The acceleration of gravity when he landed, the speed felt by his body and the time he counted silently in his mind, everything. Everything is just inference.
The soles of his feet stepped on the protruding cobblestone road. Xu Le was staggered forward by the imperial soldiers. He suddenly said, "I still have a very important question I want to ask, which is that eight rice."
He knew that Huaicao Shi definitely didn't leave at this time, and if she wanted to leave, she would definitely say something to herself. Sure enough, after a while, he heard the man's indifferent and calm voice: "I will tell you before you die."
Xu Le smiled and said nothing.
Huai Cao Shi squinted her eyes and looked at the figure that disappeared in the underground passage. She didn't know why she always felt something weird in her heart, not because of this game she thought she would win, but because of something else.
On the way back to the core star field of the empire on the Red Rose, she needed to know Xu Le's secrets at all costs. However, after receiving the complete intelligence analysis, she immediately retracted the idea of cutting off this person's arm, because she firmly believed that in this way People with seemingly dull but firm dispositions will definitely choose suicide without hesitation once faced with such a situation.
At that time, she didn't want him to die too early or die too fast, but now the situation in the empire does not allow him to commit suicide, he can only commit suicide, because the royal family still has to give the neutral nobles a clear explanation and explanation.
Xu Le is no stranger to the dark and silent prison. He once lived in such a lonely environment for half a year. Fox Fortress used to be as kind as his second home but damn it, but he was old at that time. Things play love action movies, what can there be now? There's only constant thinking, trying in the dark, and stroking the metal bracelet on his left wrist.
Life in the dark prison did not last long. He welcomed the senior judges of the imperial court and the brutal executioners in his eyes. After listening carefully to the imperial verdict with a Tianjin accent, Xu Le finally understood that he would be in the office tomorrow. Public executions were carried out at the gates of the palace.
He wrinkled his itchy brows, scratched his itchy messy hair, rubbed the itchy back of his feet, and the electronic controls on his shoulder blades and the heavy shackles on his ankles rattled, a little disturbing.
"What about the dignity you promised?"
He looked at the darkness outside the black prison and asked very seriously.
"No torture, no lingering, no humiliation, dying from a metal bullet, isn't this dignity for a soldier?"
Huai Cao Shi appeared at the door of the black prison, and said indifferently with her hands on her back.
"I don't understand why you are doing such an extravagant trial, but my empire's words are good. You seem to say that I am Li Pif's illegitimate child." Xu Le stared at her by the door.
"Isn't it an honor for the Commonwealth to die in this capacity?"
"Of course not." Xu Le shook his head and said, "Master, I have a name, a surname, a father, a mother, a sister, a teacher, and friends, but I don't have such a hobby."
Huai Cao Shi was silent for a moment, then said, "I will tell you about Badao before the execution."
After saying this, she turned around silently with her hands on her back and prepared to leave.
"It's a pity that I didn't have the chance to hear the secret that I wanted to know the most." Xu Le looked at her back and grinned, Bai Fang's eyes were as bright as Pei's.
Huai Cao Shi's pupils shrank sharply, his body whistled and swept through the air, poking at Xu Le's chest with a finger!
However, when his fingertips were still a few centimeters away from his chest, the smiling small-eyed man spit out a mouthful of black blood, and then fell straight down.