After the grand but boring welcome process was over, a group of high-ranking empire officials entered their capital in a vehicle provided by the consortium’s support personnel. On the way, I finally knew how exaggerated the feat Lilina had been.
Not only did she distribute leaflets and teach at the border of Roland Gail, but this girl even helped Roland Gael sink one hundred and twenty "Shepherd" warships at the very beginning.
In a very accidental accident, Lilina's fleet encountered Roland Gaier's exploration troops in the desolate area. Go up to preach, but at this time, a shepherd fleet suddenly appeared, and began to attack the consortium's exploration troops indiscriminately.
The subsequent development was very flat. The nv Pope, who felt that his clergy work was being rudely hindered, was furious on the spot, swung forward, and let Qi Lengzi shoot from behind the shepherd. With an advantage, and all elite troops at hand, plus having an incomparably wretched commander-in-chief, there is no need for suspense in the battle. Shepherd's more than 100 warships, the highest of which were no more than the expedition class, died on the spot. The first battle was the historical acquaintance of the Templar Legion and Roland Gale.
Because of this, Roland Gale became the only force in the universe that knew the existence of the Xiling Empire at that time, and it was also the only one who knew that the Shepherd was not the only one, and there was another "Empire" that was in the camp of kindness and law (Lilina's self-evaluation). Army" exists, and the latter is about to enter this universe such a series of factual forces.
Lilina was forced to withdraw into the deep space shortly after that, but her vigorous and publicity campaign played a huge role. Although the ordinary people of Roland Gail could not know about it, their entire high-level leaders were excited by the news. There was a sensation, only considering the stability of the country, and more importantly, the "Temple Legion" has been beaten away by the "shepherd" who has the upper hand, so the consortium government has never announced to ordinary citizens that they are from Lilina. According to the information obtained, until today, the Templar Legion reappeared, and they also appeared together with the regular troops of the Empire. They propagated the Arabian Nights to come.
Reminiscent of the rumors of the "shepherds' civil war" that started to appear frequently in the galaxy recently, the consortium government finally confirmed one thing: the imperial army has really come, and has already begun to act.
This is the reason why we were able to make normal contact with the consortium so smoothly. If the latter was another civilization, we would never be able to see a neat welcome team and a pre-rehearsed welcome process, and retreat without facing a catastrophe. The scene is pretty good.
The place where the leader of Roland Gail is, um, should be called the Presidential Palace. It is a very tall black building, shaped like a vertically placed cuboid metal block. There is no light shining out, and the whole building has no windows— Does it look familiar
Obviously, this reminds people of the residence of Aleister the Hanged Man, the windowless and tomb-like building, but the one in front of us is obviously more advanced and grander.
"It's really strange that the president's office is set up in such a place. Isn't it too boring to live in?"
I made no secret of my surprise and complaints, but the middle-aged man with military temperament (now we know, his name is "Ling? j", what a strange name) just smiled wryly and shook his head: " This is a cruel world, in order to survive, our leaders gave up a lot of things, in fact, the leaders of all other forces are similar."
After entering this strange building through a teleportation device, the other Roland Gaier officials who accompanied him stopped on their own initiative. They were stunned except for a few useless nonsense and coughing along the way. , although they performed well in terms of calmness and etiquette, but I feel that they are really boring. It is really good that these people leave on their own initiative now.
"Ling? j" with a strange name took the lead and drove away all the followers.
"Please come with me. The leader is right ahead. He gave an order. This meeting is top secret. Even I have to stop before the last one. Please don't mind it."
"It doesn't matter. Time is precious. Efficiency is the first priority. We didn't just come here for free." I nodded, and then activated the spiritual connection. "Lilina, do you know what kind of person their leader is?"
Lilina shook her head: "I've seen it in the communication device, it's an old man, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes."
During the conversation, we have reached the deepest part of this somewhat dark building, and what appeared in front of us was a large silver-white alloy door.
"The leader is right behind this road, and I will be on standby outside at any time." Ling Ji stood on the big side and opened the passage for us.
Before that, I had imagined what kind of person Roland Gale's leader would be. According to Lilina, it was an old man who looked at least seventy or eighty years old, very energetic, like an old general Haha, I think that when the door is opened, there will be such an old gentleman in front of everyone, wearing a neat uniform, waiting for us to arrive behind a large desk, full of the calmness of an old man and Roland Gay. The leader of Er was neither humble nor overbearing when facing the emperor of the empire, and around him, there should be piles of thread-bound books, various versions of Jin Ping Mei... Anyway, it means that it is full of books.
However, I guessed wrong.
What appeared in front of us was a very bright silver-white rotunda, the whole body was cast by some kind of high-strength alloy, no lights could be seen, but it was filled with a soft halo. Except for the platform at the edge, the inside of the hall It is a circular staircase extending downwards like the Colosseum in ancient Rome, extending layer by layer, extending to a depth of more than ten meters, until reaching the circular platform at the bottom, and the leader of Roland Gaier is on that platform, His line of sight was exactly level with the platform on the upper floor of the hall, and he was able to meet our eyes without any effort.
A... gigantic head.
You read that right, the leader of Roland Gail is a huge, twenty-meter-high head—of course, the image is a hale and hearty man with medium-length white hair and a thin layer of white hair. An old man with a beard and a hard face like an old general.
"Hello, leaders of the empire, it is a great honor to have a face-to-face conversation with you. This is absolutely unique in this universe. I am the leader of Roland Gaier, Roland Gaier."
The gigantic head opened its mouth, and the sound was like a bell. The entire shape of this stupid hall is like a sound-concentrating tube. Once the old man below opened his mouth, the entire hall will be filled with updraft—fortunately, we opened the shield in time.
In addition, regarding the other party's name, I will not seriously complain about it to show politeness.
"Okay, I understand." I clasped my ears hard, and finally recovered from the impact of this huge head, "Now I know why you can't go to the landing site to greet you in person, you are such a giant .”
"Giant... No, I am no longer a human being. As you can see, this head is my entire body."
This time, I was stunned, and then deeply shocked by the magic of the theory of evolution.
"You are surprised, the leader of the empire, very presumptuous, but I am even more surprised now, you seem to have the same emotional model as human beings—please don't understand this as a provocation, this is just my personal feeling."
Elder Sister had a curious expression on her face, and at the same time showed a gentle smile: "It seems that there are really many things we don't understand each other. As you can see, the real Xiling apostle is also a creature with feelings , those rebels are just a bunch of out-of-control drones, we'll talk about that later, right now I'm just curious, are you... born this way?"
I couldn't help but cover my face with my hands: elder sisters generally don't hide their inquisition from others, but girls and children all have the spirit of gossip, and this curiosity is really going to come up, no one can stop it.
The old man named Roland Gale, well, the old man, I can't find any other way to describe this "human" leader in front of me. He didn't feel embarrassed or uncomfortable when faced with my sister's question. Just like an ordinary honest elder, he showed that kind of very generous smile: "Whether you believe it or not, I have been thinking about it for three days and three nights since I found out that you are coming, but now I find that the same Your exchanges don't seem to be as terrible as you imagined at first, sorry, I'm getting older, I'm always a bit talkative... As for my appearance... "
The huge head in front of him did not conceal the reason for his appearance, or in other words, once the reason for his becoming this honor was revealed, it would aggravate our sense of responsibility.
All thanks to "our rebels".
Just like what the Roland Gaier official who was waiting said, in this cruel world, in order to keep their people alive, many leaders have given up many things that are unimaginable to ordinary people. Fina is a half-human A semi-mechanical synthetic thinking machine, while the old man Roland Gale used outstanding biochemical technology and bionic technology to turn himself into a head that never rested, with infinitely powerful thinking ability and energy.
Before coming to this universe, Roland Gale was just a human being, a young head of a business group, who was ambitious to lead the family business group he created to engage in interstellar trade, but an unforeseen Quyue engine failure knocked his The business group brought this strange and cruel world.
With unimaginable talent and hard work, Roland Gale survived in this most remote area, established the initial consortium forces, a huge economic and military empire, and used his amazing acumen for long-term interests and military talent, Roland Gale almost unified the entire Eastern Sky Region when he reached middle age, which made him almost a miracle—even the shepherds noticed this expanding power.
Then, disaster struck.
In an era of war hundreds of years ago, the Roland Gale Consortium faced the invading army in the southern sky region, the madly expanding angels in the local area, and the Black Mist Pirates. The war once entered a stalemate. It belonged to the consortium, but at this time Roland Gale made a fatal mistake, a blind and impulsive military decision. The other party did not elaborate on that mistake, but the huge head told us that that mistake led to the almost complete destruction of the entire consortium. At one point, the Southern Sky Region almost occupied one-third of the consortium's territory, while the remaining two-thirds were torn apart by the Angel Pirates, Black Mist Pirates, and the sudden attack of the Shepherd Fleet.
Fortunately in misfortune, Roland Gale resolutely gave up the occupied frontier at the last moment, and tried his best to drag the war into a stalemate within the scope of iǎ, until the "Shepherd" announced the beginning of the era of peace, and the consortium finally turned the corner.
This near-death crisis made Roland Gaier question his decision-making ability, but he knew that there was no second possible leader in the consortium other than himself. In order to make the already precarious country survive, he decided to let himself Never make a mistake again.
"This is the final result." The old man's head always had a calm expression, and his voice was low and steady, "As you can see, an artificially manufactured brain is composed of machinery, biological tissues, bionic neural networks, half a ton of chips, and our brain. Combined with the non-stop energy technology learned from the 'Imperial Army'... stuff, I am no longer tired, I am no longer impulsive, all emotions are set at a safe threshold between human and machine, and , any decision I make now will be the limit that human intelligence and machine intelligence can make. Blocking from home, and now, I have made a decision to stand with you, which may instantly destroy the consortium in the anger of what you call the 'rebels', but I believe that it is worthwhile to do so. "
"You're admirable, really."
My elder sister was silent for a few seconds, then bowed slightly to the huge old man's head in front of me, while Viska next to me snorted lightly, but there was still some approval in her voice: "As a lower race, you... You did a good job, and you can barely bear the title of warrior."
Even the old man Roland Gail, who had a very little expression, showed a very surprised and surprised expression after facing his elder sister's slight bow and Viska's soft praise. Obviously, he still retained the imaginary imperial man. The concept of "cold, ruthless, and harsh", well, in a way, this impression is not wrong.
I was amazed at the courage and experience of the old man in front of me, but what I care more about is how many examples like this are there in this universe
"There are a lot. If you are as powerful as you are interested in asking our humble races, then you will know everything, because these are not secrets at all. Everyone in the universe knows that in the endless cycle of war, all forces in the entire universe Our leaders have fought many times, and we know our friends and enemies very well. I know that the emperor of the Kemitre Empire in the southern sky region was once a Tedar star, but now he is a huge quantum computer. Three uninterrupted fusion reactors provide him with energy. Also in the southern sky area, the twelve-member council of the Violet Federation is twelve brains soaked in test tubes. They need to replace the nutrient solution and part of the brain tissue every ten years to maintain Awakened, the king of the Holy Kingdom in the northern sky merged himself with his wife who died in the front line, using the mysterious technology he stole from the empire to transform the two of them into a tireless semi-human bound in a strong magnetic field. Energy creatures, the Pope of the Gusta Church in the Western Heaven District used biochemical technology to create a brain matrix for himself, and his own head was empty, only a bunch of bionic antennas, his Pope's crown is actually a piercing pain relief signal A hair trigger to prevent his spinal cord death from never-ending severe headaches, the queen of Gotak's free kingdom is a half-human, half-mechanical combination, her biological part cannot survive independently, so she was killed by her own The subjects are installed on the steel throne, and they play the role of a calculator day and night too much. Almost every kingdom that has survived to this day, their leaders are such things that are almost out of the biological category, and the purpose of doing so is basically The above is the same, let yourself not make mistakes, infinite energy, accurate judgment, efficient, agile, fearless, lead your kingdom as a perfect leader every second, we have countless soldiers who bleed and die on the front line Hundreds of millions of subjects face the threat of death every day, but they still maintain a minimum of loyalty, because they know how much their leader has paid—it is no less important than life."
"Yes, very heavy." Apart from this sentence, I was speechless, and even my rough nerves were quiet now.
"But only in this way can we survive. The 'Imperial Army' is too powerful for ordinary races. Even occasional scenes often require the strength of our whole country to fight. We have to give up everything to ensure that we will not be killed at the last minute." Give up your life."
The huge old man's head spoke plainly, and those deep eyes stared at us mercilessly.
"To be honest, I'm a little embarrassed now." I shrugged, and then the mercury lamp immediately hugged my neck and spun vigorously: I just forgot that this girl was still there.
"I'm sorry, I've tried my best to restrain my emotions," the huge head's face was a little nervous, but more of a relief, "I know you are different from them, and those words just now are just stating facts, please don't Misunderstanding... I am not arrogant enough to bargain with the empire, but I hope that my words can make you sympathize with us ordinary races. Perhaps for you, the most important task is to wipe out the rebels, and you are like primitive people in front of the empire's technology Generally, it doesn’t matter how much we sacrifice, but we just want to survive, even if our strength is meager, if we have to, the ants will resist—that’s all.” A