Meng Liu opened his sour eyes from the bed.
Into the eye is the white wall, the window sill locked. He has been in this ward for half a month, or in other words, he has been detained for half a month.
He curled up and hugged himself weakly.
More than half a month ago, he was still sleeping in this ward, this bed, snuggling up in his queen's arms. Later, he grabbed Randall's arm and asked where the pinhole came from.
Later, he had a fight at the Male Insect Protection Association, was injured, was hospitalized, and was transferred back to the ML-owned private insect hospital, back to the same ward.
Nominally hospitalized, but Mengliu finds himself deprived of his liberty. He could also go out of the ward to take a walk in the garden, but the army bugs of the First Legion were following him anytime and anywhere, and they couldn't get through the gate of the hospital at all.
Meng Liuliu turned over on the bed and felt the light brain in his arms.
The light brain still has a signal, but he can't contact the outside world at all, and his permissions are limited, so he can only browse the web.
Meng Liu poked at the communication interface, trying to contact Charles and the others for the countless times without any hope. He thought about contacting Gu Xi, but after all, he thought it was over. Although Charles, the red-haired male, was unreliable, at least he could call the police for him.
Yes, he intends to call the police.
This time Meng Liu was really annoyed. Anyway, with Randall's power, no one dared to count him when he called the police.
But this communication was still fruitless.
Meng Liu's heart was calm, and just as he was about to turn it off, news suddenly popped in.
The title is really scary. After Meng Liu browsed through it, his face became more and more gloomy, and he followed the link to the live broadcast.
…
The Male Protection Society was surrounded by the worms of the 1st Legion three days ago.
These army insects were ordered by the marshal to bring out all the male insects in the association and forcibly take them away from the five planets in the capital circle. As for the name of the fight, it is said that what kind of war is coming, in order to protect the safety of the male insects, they must be taken to the alien protection center for unified isolation.
What "protection center"? It's obviously a prison/imprisonment!
Chairman Meng knew that he was very angry and asked to negotiate with Marshal Randall. Unfortunately, these army worms would not listen, and used weapons to send all the male worms to the starship.
The males on the capital star left, the females of countless families panicked. They posted overwhelming dissatisfaction and condemnation of the military department on the star network, but the military department under Randall's management did not pay any attention to it.
Congress was also surrounded and controlled by the First Army.
Members of parliament were specially invited into the "protection center" of senior officials and dignitaries. Lin Xi'an, president of the Military Review Committee, was also "invited" to enter here.
When one of the members saw Lin Xi'an, he shouted: "President Lin, what's going on? Randall is crazy? Is the first legion crazy? Or is your military department crazy?"
Members of Congress have begun to think of military coups, federal invasions, insecticides, mass destruction, and so on—a series of possibilities.
Lin Xi'an sat on the floor of the crowded hall, with cross-legged hands spread out: "You ask me, who do I ask? If the military department is crazy, I'm still here to accompany you to squeeze together?"
The congressman yelled, "Fuck! There's got to be a worm to explain - here's why! We've been locked up here for no apparent reason? Or is Randall just fucking crazy!?"
But soon, the reason they wanted was broadcast live on the screen in the hall.
Clear, ironclad evidence.
—It is indeed this handsome and elegant imperial marshal, crazy.
Randall still sat firmly in the swivel chair, knees folded, relaxed.
Hearing Gu Yu questioning him about these strange words, Randall's expression remained the same. It was as if no one could peel off his perfect mask, and no one could probe his heart through that gentle mask.
"Lieutenant General Gu, you are all smart bugs, so why are you stupid—say?"
Randall said politely: "To know that a lie is to be true, it has to be believed by the liar. For the first half of my life, I lived in a big lie without ever knowing it, so I was full of life. Sincerity and passion."
He narrowed his eyes with a smile, and his eyes stopped on Lu Chen: "Lieutenant General Lu, you and I were both young at that time, full of infinite enthusiasm, and always felt that relying on our own efforts, we could change the war, change our destiny, and change the world."
There was a little sharpness in Lu Chen's cold pupils.
Randall got up in a leisurely manner, and pulled the white gloves away from his fingertips. He raised his blue eyes, looked at the two insects opposite, and smiled lightly.
"It's not surprising that you were deceived by me. After all, it was a long time before I found out that I was deceived too."
"Since I was a child, all the worms have told me that I am a born S-rank female worm, a unique genius in the empire. No matter whether it is in politics or in the military, there is no field that can restrict me from showing my edge."
"They taught me how to open my eyes to the world, how to fulfill my responsibilities as a female, to give my life to our empire, to our people. They also said that love is the most beautiful thing in this world, and it is the female The most beautiful character."
Randall threw the stripped gloves on the console heavily, and pressed down the end of his eyes, his gentle eyes shot out such a sharp coldness for the first time.
"But this group that gave birth to me and raised me has been making up a big lie! They taught every female to love and give, but from birth they deprived these females of the right to be loved and offered! Because They never got it either, so it's just that this lie is passed on from generation to generation."
Randall's sharpened eyes curved, and he smiled genially.
"However, no one is immune."
"As compensation, males are taught from-birth to be loved and given with peace of mind. No one ever told them how to love and give-that would be seen as morbid and unethical. Like- A female wants to be loved like that."
Randall smiled almost tenderly: "But isn't that a lie? They say love is a virtue, and justice and equality are virtues, but love cannot be just and equal."
All the bugs staring at the live broadcast held their breath. Either imperial females or males concentrated in "conservation centers".
Their eyes were more or less focused on Randall's hands.
The white, slightly calloused hand slowly picked up the white gloves on the stage.
The owner of the hand said softly again: "After I stood in the position of the marshal, I saw more things that I couldn't see before - it turned out that this lie was justified, even essential. ."
Holding the gloves, he turned to look at Gu Yu and Lu Chen: "Because only in this way can our ethnic group reproduce and survive harmoniously and successfully."
His smile was a little helpless: "In the final analysis - because there are more females and fewer males, right?"
Gu Yu paused, looked him in the eyes and said, "Is this the real purpose of the male worm country doing so-big?"
Randall said, "You are indeed very smart, Lieutenant General Gu."
Gu Yu's gray pupils condensed: "So for this purpose, do you hesitate to use the simplest and most rude way to achieve equality between men and women?"
Randall shook his head and explained gently: "I originally planned to give up all of this race. Such disgusting reptiles, wrapping themselves with advanced civilization, still can't change their disgusting spirit, it is better to destroy them all. ."
"However," Randle paused and said with a smile, "I still have to thank the two of you for participating in the experiment, which made me realize that we are not all born with evil and irreparable."
Gu Yu asked: "What kind of partnership is between you and Wensha Moser? Did you plan the bug wave in the arena?"
As he said that, Gu Yu's eyes suddenly became cold, and he squeezed his teacher Lu's knuckles in the palm of his hand, so that Lu Chen couldn't help but turn his head to look at him: "-When Kexing suppressed the rebellion, it happened in Is the accident on Lu Chen also related to you?"
Although Wensha Moser had admitted that he did this, he still couldn't dispel Gu Yu's suspicions.
Moser injured his legs, and his teacher Lu also injured his legs.
Randall was infertile, and neither could his teacher Lu.
- It's too unreasonable to match.
In the face of his questioning, Randall sighed softly: "I admit that I did the two incidents of Ura Star and Arena Bug Tide. I also have a cooperative relationship with Wensha Moser. I think Asking for his money, after all, it is too easy to expose the property under my own name, and Mosel wants to borrow Ares's name to make a madness. As long as the madness is not too crazy, of course I am happy to make a deal with him. "
"Crazy?" Lu Chen stared at his former colleague, "What does this mean?"
Randall curled the corners of his lips, but was quite frank: "The large and small attacks in the kingdom of males in the past few years in the empire are almost the meaning of madness."
Lu Chen looked at him deeply: "Xingxing's rebellion and my injury... Also?"
Randall-傂: "Mother wants to get revenge on Gu Yu by hurting you, it's that simple."
Lu Chen asked calmly, "You were fully aware of this before it happened?"
Randall-ton, his smiling eyes scattered slightly, and the corners of his lips twitched unconsciously.
He also met Lu Chen's black eyes, and withdrew his gentle attitude, his eyes were inexplicable, - word - pause, but almost sentenced both of them -
"Yes. I do know."
Lu Chen's steady steps abruptly retreated.
He suddenly noticed Randall's strangeness. Or rather, he found that what he knew about Randall before was all overconfidence, and he never really knew the bug.
"Mr. Lu." Gu Yu didn't look back, but his hand was still firmly in his grip.
Lu Chen found stability from this tightly clenched hand.
Even if the colleague who was handed over to the back of the past pointed the gun at him, there is this - the hands will never let go of him, there is this - the worm deserves his unconditional and whole-hearted trust.
He lowered his eyes, restrained the many emotions that were surging, and forced himself—the heart that was ups and downs in the sky gradually calmed down. When he looked up again, he was still the most calm and self-contained army commander in the military.
"Randall," Lu Chen said, "what you want to do is absolutely impossible. No matter how many females you kill, within a few hundred years, the unequal fertility rate will still cause the problem to recur. Doing—everything will be in vain.”
Randall said calmly: "I have already thought about this issue."
A faint smile appeared in his eyes again: "Before you came, you must have noticed the rain in the capital star, right? - Or not only the capital star, but also the front lines and various galaxies of the size of the empire, wherever the military is stationed, Everyone has experienced this rain without knowing it.”
Gu Yu later realized the truth behind it: "This rain is—"
Randall put down his gloves and motioned for his hand to hand over a bottle of spray. He sprayed it into the air with a light expression, and said in a gentle tone: "Gu Zhongjian, you are very smart, remember to send a sample of that rain from the front line back to the capital star for inspection. In fact, there is no need to test it, it is indeed non-toxic and harmless, it is just an enlarged version of the bottle in my hand."
The fog floated in the air for a moment, and Randall's face became blurred.
His voice was still clear: "This is the genetic modification agent that I have tried to organize the insect researcher after six years ago when I was unable to reproduce due to an accident. It's hard to say whether it works, after all, I can't see the opposite sex in a short period of time. How much the effect of female fertility is, it may be useful, or it may not be useful at all, and it is busy from beginning to end."
The fog sank, and Randall's handsome face became clear again.
"But what does it matter?" Randall said softly. "What does it have to do with me in a few hundred years? Lieutenant General, I can't wait too long, and I can't look back. "
"What do you mean?" Hearing what he said, cold sweat broke out from Gu Yu's back.
Randall said: "The two of you must be familiar with the military's 'Hope Star' plan? One of them is to study an interstellar light bomb with enough power to instantly destroy a galaxy - that is, the Hope Star, numbered HS ."
Lu Chen's voice—Shen, had a bad hunch: "But to use the Star of Hope, you need five army commanders—to sign the consent form!"
Randall curled his lips slightly: "I have the production method, as well as insect power, raw materials and funds, Lieutenant General Lu, why do you think I can't make another one by myself?"
Lu Chen's face was a little pale, and his lips moved stiffly: "You proposed the 'Star of Hope' plan, not to restrain the Federation at the beginning, but to use the scientific research forces gathered by the empire to research this light bomb for you. !"
Randall sighed, "Yes."
Lu Chen exhaled slowly: "Randall, how can you..."
Randall said: "I know this is crazy, but anyone who is clear-headed will think I'm crazy. But Lu Chen, do you really have to wait for the day when the genetic modification of the fertility rate is successful? Bones. And whether there is that-day is unknown."
Randall restrained his smile, his handsome features became cold, and he said very calmly: "History needs an executioner, and I am willing to be the sinner of that history."
"The glory and merits of the first half of my life will be wiped out today, but until I close my eyes, I will not regret the sins I committed today."
"That's me—crazy Randall Cerricks."
He raised his chin slightly again, his face showing a smile as always: "Lieutenant General, you won the arena last time, how about we make another bet this time?"
He raised his hand, and he brought an iron box from a corner.
The box opened, and it was a bright countdown.
The residents on Capital Star watched the live broadcast and were all stunned.
Randall looked down at the time and said with a smile, "This is the star of hope, and you, there is only a fifteen-minute countdown."
…
Randall turned indifferently, and was about to step and retreat under the escort of the army bugs.
Suddenly there was a sound from behind.
- Road fight, fell to the ground.
The colonel who was escorting behind him shouted in a panic: "Marshal be careful!"
Randall turned around unhurriedly, Gu Yu's gun had already touched his forehead.
Randall was not surprised. Looking at Gu Yu and Lu Chen, who had counteracted a few bugs and grabbed the gun behind him, he smiled and said, "The two of you have only started now, so you are really polite to me."
At the same time that Gu Yu faced him with his gun, countless army insects around him reacted to the change, and calmly aimed their guns at Gu Yu and Lu Chen.
The colonel who brought them said: "Let go of the marshal! Don't force us to shoot!"
Gu Yu raised his eyelids lazily: "If you don't let it go, you won't survive, and if you let it go, you won't survive. Anyway, it's all dead, it's better to die."
"Fortunately, that's what I mean." Randall smiled faintly, "It's better that we die together."
Gu Yuwei - raised his eyebrows: "Shoot at the same time?"
Randall said: "Your lieutenant general Lu will also die. I'm afraid you don't have the courage to die together."
Lu Chen said lightly behind Gu Yu: "Unfortunately, the most courageous way to die is to die with him."
Hearing this, Randall chuckled softly: "The two of you are really worthy of being a model couple, so why hesitate, we'll shoot at the same time."
Gu Yu was not afraid of death, but he was more reluctant to let Lu Chen die. He didn't expect that Randall was not afraid of death, but in the end he was the one who hesitated.
The army insects did not dare to shoot easily, and the scene fell into a stalemate, only to hear the fifteen-minute countdown "tick-tock".
Before the live broadcast, the people of Capital Star were completely chaotic, the airport was blocked, and all the bugs were trapped in the capital circle. Seeing that they couldn't escape, all the worms seemed to be coming to the end of the world, crying and scolding, hugging their lovers and crying bitterly, pointing at their enemies and scolding, and those who ran naked/running on the street...
In the last fifteen minutes of my life, I finally have the courage to do what I never dared to do or did not do in the past.
During those fifteen minutes, Gu Xi suddenly calmed down.
His brother was in the live broadcast, and he didn't need to cry and cry. The worm he loves has long since divorced him. Gu Xi turned his head and looked at Phimes, who was holding his arms - snot and tears - and suddenly found tragically that he could only die with this female worm now.
When Gu Xi was extremely sad, there was a sudden movement in the live broadcast screen that was stuck.
All the desperate worms stopped their desperate moves.
——A black-haired male worm suddenly appeared in the picture. He pointed the dagger at his neck and walked slowly into the picture, but the army worms around him who held guns did not dare to move rashly.
Gu Xi was dumbfounded.
Meng Liu was not sent to the protection center with the other males? Still in the capital star? !
Could it be that Randall was willing to let Meng Liu die? !
But obviously, Meng Liu, who stayed in the capital star, became the worm who broke the deadlock.
He looked at Randall coldly and said, "Tell them to put down their guns."
Gu Yu was stunned—he didn't expect Meng Liu to be left in the capital star by Randall.
When Meng Liu appeared, Randall's beautiful blue eyes sank, and his voice was equally cold: "What if I don't let it go?"
Mengliu paused: "You have no choice. Randall, I am threatening you with death."
Randall - groaned, staring at him.
Meng Liu also looked at him calmly. The scab on his neck had not yet healed, and now he was stabbed in it steadily. It's just that compared to the last time, the action of piercing the skin this time is more calm, and it can be regarded as being reborn twice.
Randall's eyes turned completely cold, and he waved his hand: "Put down all the guns."
All the army bugs put their guns down. Gu Yu also put down the gun that was on Randall's forehead and tilted his head to look at Meng Liu, who was standing a little further away.
Meng Liu nodded slightly to him, but still did not let go of the hand holding the dagger.
Gu Yu immediately walked to Lu Chen quickly and brought over all the tools that could be found on the console.
Lu Chen picked up the iron box and opened it with the tool he handed over, his palms sweating unconsciously. But after looking at the structure, he realized that something was wrong: "No, this countdown can't be stopped once it starts!"