Walk alone in the abyss

Marches, clashes, confrontations.

Most people in the empire did not expect that this kind of landscape that often appeared in some parts of the new federation would one day be staged in the empire.

The cause of the incident has become very complicated, including the continuous influence of public opinion, the intensification of public sentiment, and the promotion of relevant organizations behind it...

When a dreadnought ship representing the pinnacle of human standing armed forces in the Milky Way arrived at Saka, the territory of the white ghost, and aimed its main gun at the white ghost, the emotions of the people of the empire were completely detonated.

The huge empire, with nearly one-fifth of the administrative planets, experienced riots of varying degrees in just three galactic hours.

Yaha star, which first erupted in solidarity with the white ghost demonstrations.

In the past three galaxies, millions of people have gathered in more than a dozen major cities of Yaha. They chanted "ghosts are innocent" and held high the slogan "white ghosts are the messengers of justice". A landmark building moves towards another iconic building.

Among them, at least tens of thousands of people have started various forms of live broadcast.

The demonstrations here were relatively restrained. The people did not smash, burn, or loot, but just walked on the street, occupying some positions on public transportation, calling for more people to join the queue of solidarity with the white ghost.

Most of the areas where demonstrations broke out in the empire were relatively peaceful scenes.

The Sherman Empire does not have a tradition of mass parades, but this time, people took to the streets, driven and guided by a certain force, and used their spontaneous actions to speak out for the white ghost.

What's more interesting is the "self-learning and evolution" of these parades.

I don't know who came up with the idea. A group of demonstrators entered the spaceport of the planet where they were located, and blocked all passages of the spaceport with a human wall, which successfully made the local government feel tremendous pressure.

This way of blocking space traffic can affect the order and operation of the local government, and it also makes the local government have to stand up to appease.

Seeing that this method is effective, more and more parades began to follow suit, and the crowds gathered towards the spaceport of the planet where they were located, causing the empire's passenger routes to be paralyzed by 5%, and as time moved forward, this number continued to increase .

This kind of news, no matter who it is or what means it uses, is extremely difficult to suppress.

What's more, at this stage, the empire has no initiative at all in the unified online world it has built.

The sixth galactic hour after the start of the Yaha Star Parade.

The demonstrations in the empire have spread to one-half of the administrative star circle in the empire, which should be the most stable star circle in the empire, but at this moment it is the 'hardest hit area' with the largest number of demonstrators.

Some fringe planets located on the border of the empire should have been the most intense conflict areas, but in fact, quite a few planets with a population of more than 300 million failed to pull out a parade of more than 100,000 people.

After getting the relevant data, Boss Yang didn't understand it at first, but he quickly figured out the key issues.

——The prosperous planet in the imperial star circle, the shear pressure within the class is the most obvious, there are many nobles and capitalists, and the youth groups and student groups gathered from various regions of the empire maintain a high level of thinking vitality.

Regarding the riots in the empire, the New Federation, the United States of Freedom, the Guell Union, and the younger brothers behind the three hooligans are naturally rejoicing.

A sharp news commentary began to spread wildly inside and outside the empire.

This is an article written by a New Federation interstellar reporter, and the title of the article is very eye-catching.

"Empire on the Brink of Civil War".

The subtitle is more pragmatic:

"White Ghost's Resistance to the Empire is Essentially the Resistance of the People of the Empire to the Imperial Power".

This article sharply pointed out that the core power group of the empire wanted to assimilate the white ghost, and became angry after being rejected by the white ghost, so there was a ridiculous scene of the dreadnought gun pointing at the planet Saka.

The article also gives a series of examples, telling how the imperial aristocracy maintains its own privileges, and the necessity and urgency for them to assimilate the white ghost.

By the way, this article also clearly explained the causes and consequences of the Dominguez tragedy, as well as the tragic slave life of the Dominguez people in the empire today, and listed more than a dozen similar tragedies that the empire has produced in the past thousand years .

If one reads this article alone, one can probably draw a conclusion—a revolution from the bottom up is about to break out in this empire.

Overseas media have already started celebrating ahead of schedule.

And the hundreds of billions of people in the empire...

Most people just pay attention to this matter, and their lives have not been greatly affected.

According to the law, the empire is generally stable at this stage, and there are no conditions for large-scale uprisings. If you want to cause conflicts within the empire in a short period of time, you can only start from multiple angles and aspects.

The most direct way to meet the most basic uprising conditions is to inject a large number of unemployed young adults into the society.

Just like now, people will be filled with righteous indignation for what happened to the white ghost, complaining on the Internet, and scolding a few words about the death of the imperial aristocracy around their friends; but it is really necessary for most people to stand up against the empire and face it with flesh and blood. Starships and ion cannons, that can only be whimsical.

Boss Yang is not in a hurry.

This is just the beginning.

...

A conference room in Skywrath Fortress.

Gris sat in front of a projection screen with a sad face, and kept shouting with a communicator:

"We must make it clear to the members of the support clubs everywhere that demonstrations must not develop into violent conflicts, and we must put an end to beating, smashing, burning and looting! Let alone crimes! That is to discredit the white ghost!"

"Uprising? Uprising! Do you think this is a primitive civilization? Now is the interstellar era. Do you have a fleet? Even though the empire has gone too far this time, everyone's life is not impossible. We only need to support the white Ghost, do you understand the solidarity?"

"Hey, I'll go, how did I accept this task?"

Captain Gries wiped the hot sweat off his forehead, turned his head to look at his team members, and shouted angrily:

"Hurry up! Now you are all official staff of the White Ghost Fans Support Club! Make sure that this news reaches most of the White Ghost fans! Let the White Ghost fans maintain order instead of being radical molecular!"

"Captain, is this really the task assigned by the white ghost?"

"Ah, his assistant ordered it," Captain Gris grinned, "Don't worry, this is a political game, the two sides are manipulating each other, how could the white ghost really cause internal chaos in the empire?"

A group of transformation fighters nodded with half understanding.

"Hurry up and work! Our current work is of great significance, we must control the extent of the riots!"

"Captain, are we doing private work?"

"Not counting! I received two orders, one from the president of the support club, who is also the assistant of White Ghost, and one from the military department. Both orders have the same content, which is to avoid bloody conflicts as much as possible."

Gris sighed and said with emotion:

"That's right, let's make a fuss and vent our emotions."

"But captain, some planets have already suffered casualties, and some people have already begun to surround the noble manor."

"Captain, there has just been news about some minor nobles being attacked by civilians."

Grace frowned tightly.

In order to support the demonstrations of the white ghosts, it is more for the people to express their support for the white ghosts.

But if the demonstrations gradually turned into violent conflicts against the noble class, and there were vicious incidents in which the nobles were beaten to death by the people, then the problem would be serious.

Gris scolded: "What on earth is the Imperial Army thinking? Why did they start forcing the white ghosts all of a sudden? Made! If these bastards really cause big trouble, we will not be the ones who are unlucky in the end!"

"Captain! There's something new on the White Ghost's live broadcast on the official website!"

"What?"

"Uh, the empire has sent another fleet, about 200 battleships, to guard the dreadnought. The main guns of the dreadnought have been fully charged."

"The Imperial Army will hold a press conference in fifteen minutes!"

Grace: ...

"The brains of these old things were kicked by bugs?"

Gris burst out with a few foul words, and none of the young reform fighters in the conference room dared to answer.

...

Saka Star, outside the Lord's Mansion.

A large number of people arrived here a few galactic hours ago. They didn't make any noise or raise any banners. They just stood quietly on the street outside the Lord's Mansion, with their backs to the Lord's Mansion, and formed a few human walls arm in arm.

When Saka star faced the crisis of extinction, the white ghost never gave up on them.

When the dreadnoughts were targeting the White Wraith, they were also unwilling to give up the White Wraith.

Behind the window of the bedroom of the lord's mansion, Yang Ming looked at this scene, and his heart was full of emotion.

While these were his plans to challenge the Imperial hegemony, he did feel encouraged that he was on the right path.

Law's report sounded in his ears from time to time.

Most of what Yang Ming heard was good news.

So far, the best news is that "the Sherman family tried to activate the empire's national defense system and was denied access." Those scientific researchers who are responsible for maintaining the black box of the core of science and technology are already sweating profusely at this moment.

Yang Ming raised his head and looked towards the next room.

Daphne was there, using a set of dedicated encrypted communication equipment, to participate in the round table meeting of the Sherman family.

Yang Ming really wanted to know what tricks these people could come up with right now.

As long as the Sherman family does not go mad collectively, they dare not directly bombard Saka, otherwise the division of the empire will be irreversible;

The Sherman family might think that the tens of millions of people on Saka would be a drag on his white ghost, but in fact it was the opposite, this place actually provided 'political protection' for Yang Ming.

Next room.

Daphne was sitting in a gray projection space, with a tense facial expression, clenching her fists from time to time.

Evidently, she had heard some arguments that struck her as utterly absurd.

In this meeting, there were indeed many old people from the Sherman family who were a little emotional.

"...do you want to overwhelm us with demonstrations?"

"This is the Empire, not the New Federation!"

"These despicable pariahs don't even know why they can survive in the galaxy!"

"Is there any practical significance to say these angry words now? We must be alert to the possibility of peaceful evolution by foreign forces at this moment! Especially the two camps of freedom and democracy, they will definitely use these problems in the current empire to further divide us !"

"Then what should we do? The dreadnought can't scare the white ghost, so we just give in?"

"Of course not. We don't need to be soft. The disastrous consequences of being soft are far greater than the threat of foreign forces."

"Imperial royalty cannot fail."

The virtual conference room gradually fell silent.

Director Ino said indifferently: "Everyone, are you in disarray?"

"Ino, the dreadnought was dispatched by you, what are you going to do next?"

"I admit that I really underestimated Hanton's preparations for this matter," Director Ino's eyes flickered a little, "He should have anticipated what kind of method we would use to prepare in advance. Now we have a strategy to deal with it, which makes us very passive now."

"Give me a solution," Director Ino's grandfather said in a deep voice.

Director Ino nodded: "The solution is very simple, directly summon the white ghost, and take him away from Saka on the grounds of letting go of the traitor to the empire."

Immediately someone raised an objection; "Doesn't this mean that the empire is persecuting the white ghost?"

Director Ino asked: "Is there any practical significance to care about this name and reputation now? Isn't it a fact that the people have accepted and recognized the high-level imperial military's attempt to persecute the white ghost?"

A few people were thoughtful.

Director Ino said seriously:

"We must not make any concessions. Now we have reached a critical stage of the game with Handon. Let the people scold them. Their living environment is in our hands, and there will be no big troubles.

"The real threat now is Hanton himself.

"He can be resurrected infinitely, which means that he can use this characteristic of himself to launch thousands of attacks on us. As long as one or two successes, we will usher in disaster.

"His own danger is far more than a hundred times that of Valkyrie.

"Don't be intimidated by the public parade. The people have no ships, no cannons, and they can't even leave the planet they were born without our permission... What are you guys in a hurry here? The Sherman family has controlled this empire for tens of thousands Years, can't even deal with this turmoil?

"I suggest that the meeting be adjourned for the time being. Don't discuss what to do so early. Let's finish a set of punches first."

An old man asked, "Ino, what's behind your set of punches?"

"The dreadnought lock is the first step. Secretly speculating that the white ghost has a plan to mentally control His Majesty the Great Emperor is the second step... Next, release a signal of goodwill and ask the Grand Duke Ghost to go to Emperor Star to explain to His Majesty how to let Catherine go." to see how he responds.

"He's on Saka, we absolutely can't fire unless you want the empire to fall into a wave of struggles where hundreds of billions of people are panic-stricken, but as long as he enters a ship, we will take the initiative.

"Then, we have to come up with two conditions, the first is his home planet, and the second is the video data of us defeating a real ancient god to put pressure on him.

"There is no way to plan for the latter. We have to formulate a strategy based on his reaction. Our goal is to let him leave the people of the empire and the people's foundation. Everything else is for later."

The group of old people nodded slowly.

That is to say, from this moment, Director Ino has gained more power to speak in the family.

Eno looked into the corner: "Daphne, what is Hanton doing now?"

"Reading, an interstellar adventure novel."

Daphne spoke softly.