Walk alone in the abyss

The army has withdrawn its troops, but not completely.

It may be that those military bosses were confronted by Yang Ming head-on, and they couldn't hold back their face. The order to withdraw troops was just to let the imperial fleet leave the three planets where the Domingos gathered, and keep the dreadnoughts at the longest attack distance from the planets. , continue to put pressure on the Dominguez.

Simultaneously, Yang Ming also received a transfer order from the empire, requesting Yang Ming to go to the border area of ​​the empire as soon as possible to complete the docking with the empire's military intelligence bureau.

If you are tough, you still have to follow the transfer order.

In order to facilitate the next plan, Yang Ming did not take the fleet's escort formation, and let the escort formation execute the normal marching order, and went to the established star field to join the ships of the Military Intelligence Bureau and the Border Guards.

On the other hand, he took the Dongfeng and conducted a concealed voyage near the escort formation.

Yang Ming had just returned to the Dongfeng, and before he could have a simple interaction with Xiao Lu, a private communication on an encrypted channel was projected over by him.

"Boss! Admiral Thomas! I saw on his camera that he seemed to be in a very happy mood."

"Pleasure?"

Yang Ming was a little confused, so he raised his hand to confirm, and the bust of General Thomas appeared in front of Yang Ming's eyes.

The smile on the corner of Admiral Thomas's mouth became more obvious. With a smile in his eyes, this accomplished imperial general asked softly, "Handon, how do you feel now?"

"Mood? It's okay, what's the matter?"

"Oh," Admiral Thomas said with a smile, "Your performance at the meeting just now was too dazzling, hahaha! This is the first time I saw those guys with pig-eyed faces, and I dare not say half wrong."

Yang Ming shrugged, went to the small refrigerator to get a bottle of happy water, and sat on his own captain's seat.

Yang Ming wondered: "They really want me to do the thing of plundering slaves?"

"Yes," Thomas laughed, "Many people want to get your hands dirty, which will help gradually weaken your influence within the empire, including the influence of the grassroots of the empire's military."

Boss Yang could only curl his lips.

Thomas restrained his smile, and said sternly, "You must pay attention to this problem, Hanton, the people within the empire are afraid and jealous of you now, and you have given them a lot of invisible pressure."

"Then what can I do?"

"Only you can find the answer to this question."

Thomas laughed, and his tone became much more relaxed: "How did you get that list?"

"Using mind control to enter their core, negotiated with their leader."

Yang Ming did not share relevant information, but instead said:

"What is the attitude of the empire towards Dominguez now? Is it just pure bullying and exploitation?"

"Yes," Thomas said without any shyness, "In the history of the empire, the Dominguez tragedy happened many times, but Dominguez should be regarded as the most special one. The empire was unable to suppress and annex this country within a hundred years. nationality."

"Oh?" Yang Ming asked, "How to suppress and annex it?"

"It's very simple," Thomas said, "some are recruited as slaves, some are suppressed until they lose their vitality, and then the slaves are divided into management. After the parents give birth to their children, the children are raised in a centralized manner, killing each other's history and culture. Ethnic culture, ethnic hatred naturally cannot exist."

Yang Ming frowned slightly: "Empire, do you often do this kind of thing?"

"If you look at the history of tens of thousands of years, there are not many times, and the frequency is not low."

Thomas sighed:

"Plundering the population is a necessary condition for maintaining the high material life of the imperial nobles.

"Foreign wars and the incorporation of slaves are more radical means, while the system of dependent countries is a more moderate and continuous means.

"Handon, you have now stood at the core of the empire, and you have influence beyond the reach of ordinary nobles. You must accept these facts and learn to be a general with an imperial flavor."

Yang Ming couldn't help laughing.

The taste of empire, what taste? Domineering, arbitrary? He also wants to build a big manor with a group of beautiful slave beauties?

Boss Yang sighed: "I may never be fully compatible with this group, but I will try to make some adaptive changes."

Thomas asked: "Hendon, answer me honestly, are you dissatisfied with the current state of the empire?"

"Yes," Yang Ming said sternly, "You don't know the mission I carry. Let me briefly describe it. It is that I will find a way for the humans in my hometown to find a new home after they arrive in the Milky Way...... The environment is concerned."

"I know about it."

Thomas pondered a few times, staring at Yang Ming:

"So, you don't actually mean to be dissatisfied with the empire, His Majesty, or the military?"

"Why should I be dissatisfied with these?"

Yang Ming also said solemnly:

"I have walked all the way, and you have watched me. You should know me. I have a unique feeling for the empire."

"Yes, Hunton," Thomas sighed, "but the current situation is that many people think that you are a time bomb, and when the time comes, you will detonate the existing framework of the entire empire."

Yang Ming: ...

Needless to say, these people's feelings are quite accurate.

"Let time tell," Yang Ming sighed, "General, when I complete the encirclement and suppression of the Dominguez terrorist organization, I will find a way to separate myself from the position of real power."

"The real power of the empire is not the key," Thomas said. "The key is actually the trust of the people, soldiers, and grassroots officers in you, and their expectations of you. They will expect you to make the empire change."

Yang Ming asked back: "Then what can I do? Amend my principles of life, or degenerate myself for the public to see? General, I like this kind of fame. I don't need anything, but this reputation is what I must maintain. of."

Thomas rubbed his forehead with his hand and sighed long.

"Fame aside, there is influence."

"If there is no solution to this problem, could it be that the problem is not my fault?"

Yang Ming laughed:

"General, I know you're thinking about me, but you can't ask an idealist to give up his ideals, you can't ask an official who wants to keep his integrity to do something corrupt, and you can't ask a soldier to abandon his own honor.

"Thank you General.

"However, I will keep going on the path I have chosen, no matter how many obstacles I encounter, I will try my best to overcome them one by one.

"To be honest, the status quo of the empire has nothing to do with me. I just need to maintain a good relationship with the Sherman family and His Majesty to achieve my mission."

"Hendon," Thomas said, "I was once an idealist too."

"Yes, General, I can feel it," Yang Ming's eyes were bright, "but I hope that you will become a new idealist in the future."

"I try my best."

"Let's talk about this first, I will take a break to prepare a plan to encircle and suppress terrorists," Yang Ming raised his drink bottle, "I don't want to be an enemy of the military department, but if someone in the military department wants to trip me up, I will There will be no consideration of mercy."

"I will moderately convey your meaning to them."

call out!

The communication screen is cut off directly.

Boss Yang squinted and smiled, leaning against the captain's seat, gradually lost in thought.

Has the military department started to fear itself now?

The master of high meritorious deeds, what is there to do if you don't fight back.

In the long history of the empire, there must be many secrets that only the royal family and the Sherman family elite know, and among these secrets, there should be lessons learned time and time again.

Do you want to speed up your various plans a little bit?

"law?"

Yang Ming asked, "Tell me, should we speed up that matter?"

"Boss, don't be in a hurry," Lu's voice was a little ethereal, "Think about the huge Emperor Star mecha."

"Ah, keep it safe." Yang Ming instantly dispelled the urge to take political risks in his heart, "put more computing power inside the Emperor Star, the old emperor's attitude towards me is more important now."

"Okay boss," Li asked, "do you want me to chat with him for you if I have nothing to do?"

"Look at the arrangement," Yang Ming said with a smile, "You don't need to ask me about such trivial matters, remember to show me the chat records after the chat."

"clear!"

Li hehe laughed a few times, and he didn't know what interesting question he thought of.

Yang Ming stretched, got up and walked to the sofa bed in the corner.

He also needs to take a good rest.

These intrigues within the empire are more tiring than beheading the Queen of the Zerg Race.

...

Domingos?

Outside the border of the empire, in the hidden cabin of a merchant ship, Catherine held a routine meeting with more than a dozen overhaulers who rebelled against the empire, as well as leaders of some resistance organizations.

Catherine folded her arms, leaning against the shelf, frowning slightly.

Her tall and slender figure always gives people an inexplicable sense of beauty.

However, everyone who has seen her fighting in armor has no intention of appreciating this kind of femininity. Every time they finish speaking, they will subconsciously glance at Catherine.

Fortunately, Catherine seemed to be in a good mood today, and did not ask those sharp and sharp questions.

When it was Catherine's turn to make a concluding speech, Catherine took the initiative to walk back to the conference table and opened a projection sand table, revealing the extremely vast border of the Sherman Empire.

"I heard from everyone's reports that everyone has developed well recently."

A group of people nodded quickly.

Catherine asked slowly: "What do you think of the Dominguez people? Sum it up in one sentence."

"Uh, big sister, they are a group of lunatics, and they usually attack very darkly, and they will not show any mercy to civilians."

"However, they are our important partners and one of the main forces of the resistance organization in the empire."

"The regional brigade I am in charge of has always maintained a cooperative relationship with them. They are well aware of the actions of the imperial border guards and have penetrated the grassroots of the imperial army very well. Moreover, they seem to never lack soldiers and technical personnel."

"Behind us is the remote capital of the Free United States, and behind them is the New Federal CIA. Although there are differences between the two, they are all engaged in anti-imperial business, and cooperation is inevitable."

Everyone expresses almost the same point of view when you say something and I say the same thing.

—The Dominguez were their comrades in arms.

Catherine nodded slightly, and said slowly: "Everyone is now on the same front in the anti-imperial camp, and dealing with each other will be inevitable in the future."

A group of people nodded.

"Sister, why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

"Did they offend you somewhere? Sister? If they are dishonest, we can also directly fuck them!"

"We used to be super soldiers of the empire, and we were not very familiar with these guys. Now we have almost mastered their routines, and the areas where they are active are also under our control. If there is a conflict with them, I suggest that we carry out beheading operations. "

"They are not afraid of the regular army of the empire, they are afraid of us reformers."

"Actually, there have been several incidents where they stopped our key supplies. The gene stabilization agent we want to use has two channels in their hands. They have tried to use this to suppress us."

"Sister, what are you laughing at?"

Catherine said indifferently: "I just suddenly feel that you guys are completely different from before. This kind of change is not bad, and it feels more cordial."

A middle-aged aunt with a think tank said with a smile:

"Leader, we and them are actually two kinds of people.

"Our ideal is to regenerate this empire through our efforts, so that hundreds of billions of people can build a stable, prosperous democratic and free utopia.

"They are not. What they want is to overthrow the empire. They hate everything about the empire, even innocent people."

"That's a problem," Catherine nodded slowly. "Today's regular meeting, I will add a topic for you, how to let them walk on the same path with us, and how to make the Dominguez people no longer hate the people of the empire. , but concentrate all firepower on the aristocratic class of the empire."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

"Sister, why are you suddenly interested in these things?"

"Besides, the Dominguez terrorist organization has always been very radical. Let's persuade them? Well, the moderate Imperial Revolutionary Army is going to persuade the radical international terrorist group. Isn't it a bit ridiculous to say it? .”

"How ridiculous?"

Catherine said sternly: "Everything is for the sake of overthrowing imperialism and the aristocratic privileged class! Now let me think about it here, and give you half an hour. If everyone can't come up with an idea, then go to the ring with me to fight." Three rounds."

A group of men and women, including the think tank, trembled a few times at the same time.

Catherine dragged a chair, raised her legs gracefully, opened a book constructed by virtual projection, and quietly waited for her subordinates to contribute a brilliant idea.

Earlier, Law informed her that she was preparing to take over the Dominguez terrorist organization;

Catherine didn't understand why this happened, but her trust in Li and her understanding of Yang Ming made her immediately start these support tasks.

In fact, the most difficult problem is how to recruit these radical Dominguez people and how to make them obey their command.

Coercion by force will only have the opposite effect. At this stage, we can only think of ways to fool... Cough, protect them, gain their trust, and gradually become their leader.

'He's coming near the border soon. '

Catherine smiled suddenly.

The soldiers on the side glanced at her, and Catherine quickly recovered her calm expression, continuing to maintain the majesty of the eldest sister.

at the same time.

The corner of the Dongfeng bridge.

Yang Ming, who had just fallen asleep, frowned lightly, as if he had entered a dreamland, but the dream was very vague, and his thinking was extremely active.

This is not a dream, more like some kind of telepathy.

It's a bit like the hallucination produced when I was briefly dizzy after fighting the big queen.

'Ming...'

The familiar call.