Walk alone in the abyss

'These old bastards. '

Daphne cursed in her heart, then felt a little rude, so she changed to an elegant word.

'These rubbish politicians who only care about their own interests. '

When Daphne first came into contact with the elite power faction of the Sherman family under the leadership of Director Ino, she felt a little afraid in her heart.

Each of these people sitting on this round table is the real dignitaries of the empire, the best of several generations of their Sherman family, and they control the future of hundreds of billions of people in the empire.

After getting in touch with Daphne in the past few years, she found that these people sitting here are indeed elites compared to those degenerate people who only know how to pursue their desires every day, but the degree of elites is limited.

Although the four "grandparents" who control the regular army of the empire are all from the army, they are all good at commanding battles, have rich experience in battle, and are familiar with the operation of the army system, but they are not the best generals of their time.

For example, Admiral Thomas, who is now in the limelight in the military, and a little-known prince lieutenant general of the Sherman family, after Admiral Thomas gets old, he will retire directly, while the lieutenant general of the Sherman family only needs to Make some relatively good results, and it is possible to enter that round table and become the future commander of the military department.

At this moment, that is, now, some negative and bad thoughts sprouted in Daphne's heart.

'Replace them. '

'They have no right to dictate to me. '

"Daphne? Are you listening?"

"I'm listening." Daphne lowered her head and responded, "You just said, let me try to appease Hanton as much as possible."

"You should show your worth, Daphne," the old man said coldly, "you have lived with the white ghost for so many years, not only did you not make him a loyal member of our Sherman family, but you let him be under your nose This kind of power has developed underneath, what is your value? Daphne."

Daphne's pretty face turned pale, and she whispered, "I can't justify my incompetence."

"His technical team, how is your investigation going?"

"It's not going very well. His technical team has been keeping secrets from me. All I know is that he has an assistant who keeps in touch at all times. This assistant is a guy with outstanding capabilities."

"that's it?"

"Yes, that's all."

There was a bit of impatience in the old man's eyes.

Daphne could only keep bowing her head.

Just one person said: "Putting your time where it should be, singing and dancing to please the people, it is better to find a way to prove your value to the family."

Value, value again.

It's just disgusting. ——Daphne thought so.

She decided to do something, at the very least, in the eyes of these cannibalistic old bastards, she couldn't just be a weak woman.

"Actually, I am not without gains."

Daphne slowly raised her head, staring at the old 'parents' directly in front of the virtual conference room, her voice gradually changed from soft to strong.

"Based on what I know about Hanton, this parade across the empire is definitely driven by him.

"I can feel that he has an extra power that does not belong to the empire, nor does it belong to the opponents of the empire. This power is not very strong. It is very likely that after he became famous, a group of like-minded young people gathered with him. Around, such as the nobleman Revell.

"I suspect he has a small party that is behind the demonstrations that are now happening across the country.

"Even, you can think that the escalating riot in front of you was planned by him alone."

"It's impossible," one person said, "Daphne, I know you may have some blind worship for the white ghost, but the white ghost is just a warrior, he has been under our noses, the only thing that is not sure is that he has mastered How many Fayans gave him technology."

Daphne asked: "Excuse me, where is Posa now? You may have been at the pinnacle of the empire for so long that you feel that everyone needs to revolve around our Sherman family, but we are not the big black hole at the center of the Milky Way It’s true that Hanton wanted the empire, but he is still an idealist, he doesn’t like the current empire, this is the most intuitive feeling I have lived with him.”

"Daphne, you seem to be dissatisfied with us too?"

"Yes," Daphne raised her head slightly, "my loyalty to the family and my respect to the elders don't need to be embellished with any fancy rhetoric, but when you face the white ghost, you always use a condescending, disdainful expression. The one-sided attitude makes me feel...you don't respect this opponent."

"Adversary? Hmph."

The old man in the middle said coldly: "He is just a soldier of the empire."

"Pride and prejudice is often the beginning of failure."

"Daphne! It's not for you to educate others here!"

"Okay, Daphne," Director Ino frowned, "Control your emotions, what do you look like now?"

Daphne sighed.

She wanted to say something else, but a pop-up window appeared in front of her, and she was kicked out of the group chat directly, and the projected light and shadow quickly faded away.

Daphne was taken aback.

She looked at the room setting in front of her, and was a little lost in thought. Before she could recover, she had received an order from Director Ino.

[Persuade Hanton to come to Emperor Star. 】

"well."

Daphne got up and walked to the study room where Yang Ming was, and quickly adjusted her expression to make herself look relaxed and happy.

However, what she didn't know was that the change in her expression just now had been reflected by Xiao Lu to Yang Ming.

As soon as Daphne stepped into the study, Yang Ming's laughter came over:

"Let me guess, Daphne.

"You should have received an order from Director Ino. He asked you to take me to Emperor Star, right?"

Daphne was stunned for a moment, and looked up at Boss Yang who was sitting behind the desk without raising his head.

He was still the same as when the two met for the first time. The power of the ancient gods made him not age at all, but she wanted to maintain her appearance, but she had to go through some medical pain.

Yang Ming held the paper book and said with a smile:

"I can still guess that your experience at this meeting was not pleasant. You suddenly discovered that the family elders who had some mysterious colors were actually some stubborn old men and despicable rulers. The best of them The author is actually a scientific research talent like Director Ino."

Daphne wondered, "You have a way to monitor my communication system."

"There is a way, but out of respect for you, I didn't do it."

Yang Ming threw the book away and said with a smile:

"Anything you want to share with me?"

"There is no meaningful information. They still don't regard you as an opponent, but as a reformed warrior who is not under their control."

Daphne crossed her arms and leaned against the closet, her slender figure exuded amazing femininity.

"I feel like a fool, being played around by you.

"Hendon, can you stop going on? I'm afraid you won't be able to turn back."

"Daphne, what am I going to do?"

"Splitting the Empire."

"I'm just a reformed soldier, how should I split the empire?"

"I don't know," Daphne said. "My brain is very tired now. I have received too much information in the past dozen galaxies, which makes me feel very powerless."

Yang Ming said seriously:

"First of all, Daphne, it's not what I'm going to do, it's what the Empire is forcing me to do, and it's what they've been doing.

"They asked me to plunder the Dominguez people, I refused, and then they became dissatisfied and began to hype the negative news that I solved the terrorist organization, which caused a war of public opinion.

"After that, you also saw that they dispatched a fleet, dispatched a dreadnought ship, pointed the muzzle of the dreadnought ship at my planet Saka, and threatened me with tens of millions of people here... This is what humans can do thing?

"Then they put all the blame on me.

"Let's simplify it, I want to kill you, you are not allowed to move, if you dare to slap me, you are an evil demon.

"What kind of bullshit robber hegemonic thinking."

Daphne couldn't help laughing, her red lips and pink face bloomed like flowers.

"I know what you want to hear," Daphne said with a smile, "You want to hear me—it's true, they are arrogant and arrogant in their bones, and the essence of an empire is robbers and hegemony."

"uh-huh."

"But Hanton, I'm not a child, I have my own ability to judge," Daphne said, "Things have developed to the point where they should be under your control, you are actually trying to induce them to attack you, Deliberately making things so big that they can't be closed."

"Whatever you think." Yang Ming shook his head, his eyes full of sincerity, "I am a kind-hearted lieutenant general of the empire."

"laugh."

Daphne smiled brighter.

"Then, where is Emperor Star? Are you going?"

"For now, it's not yet time," Yang Ming stretched his waist, "The dreadnought is on my forehead, I can't leave the people here, let them withdraw the dreadnought first, then I can go to Emperor Star Walk around."

Daphne asked, "Are you not afraid that they will actually open fire?"

"They're just stupid, not stupid," Yang Ming said, "The dreadnought can only break through my body, but it can't really kill me. The negative impact of this shot on the empire will far exceed that of Star Dominguez. With a hundred times the tragedy, most of the people in the empire will fall into survival crisis, and the ruling foundation of the empire will collapse in an instant."

Daphne groaned a few times: "However, they do intend to bomb the no-man's-land on Saka, and they may use this method to continue to put pressure on you...Can you turn off the live broadcast of the dreadnought?"

"No," Yang Ming said, "I want the people of the whole country to take a good look at how the empire treats the heroes of the empire."

"Okay, I can't persuade you."

Daphne turned and walked to the bedroom.

"That's how I replied, and I said, the condition for you to go to Emperor Star for peace talks is that they first withdraw the troops near Saka Star... This is unlikely, they will not give in to you, it is better than killing them uncomfortable."

Yang Ming thought about it, and felt a little unsafe.

If the Sherman family really agreed, wouldn't all his previous efforts be wasted?

So, Yang Ming shouted: "One more thing, let one of them apologize to me publicly."

"Don't take it too far, honey."

"That's all I have."

Daphne didn't say anything, and closed the door casually.

Yang Ming stood there thinking for a while.

Lu's voice came out of Yang Ming's hidden earphones: "Boss, do you want to speed up the plan?"

"The rhythm should not be chaotic, neither fast nor slow.

"I am now more and more convinced that the Sherman family, which has no reasonable support, is completely vulnerable."

Yang Ming laughed:

"The so-called Sherman elite in power are actually just because they were born in that position and were selected to become part of an interest group through their own small efforts. Most of them do not have very strong talents. .

"The real talents of the empire, those officers and generals who have been unable to climb the ranks in the military, the elite talents who have been sitting on the bench in the government departments for years, are also among the researchers who enjoy the blessings of history.

“Unfortunately, none of them have the last name Sherman.

"Is there any sign of Li waking up?"

"No, boss, but they have started to activate Labrador, and they want to use Labrador to delete posts, control comments and suppress public opinion on a large scale."

Yang Ming clicked his tongue and smiled: "Poor Labrador, he is still a child and has to face the violence in the online world."

"Uh, boss, there's one more thing. Demonstrations in some areas, instigated by the New Federation, began to develop into violent demonstrations. There were some more agents in the parades, leading people to start smashing, burning, and looting. Although this is not true for us, It’s expected, but they are using the banner of the White Ghost fan group, so why not suppress them?”

"Suppress it."

Yang Ming said: "Remember to collect evidence. If Li takes action to protect the empire later, then we will pour dirty water on the New Federation."

"Okay boss...the CIA is still too impatient."

"The New Federation has no regard for beings like you," Yang Ming sighed slightly, "I suddenly realized that it is the omnic Twilight who has the final say whether the galaxy is in chaos or not."

"The three teachers have no intention of interfering with human civilization. They are just selecting outstanding successors," Lu chuckled. "It's just that the assessment standards for successors are often related to the development of power."

"Go to work."

Yang Ming said: "Pay attention to controlling the pace and don't develop too fast. We have to suppress them step by step."

"Yes, don't worry, Law completely understands."

…

In the thinking space, Lu's body cut off communication with Yang Ming, raised his hand and stretched.

The clones around him are still processing information everywhere in an orderly manner.

The main thinking of the law will summarize the information and conduct a simple review hundreds of times to ensure the credibility of the information.

Although the efficiency is a little slower, the advantage is that there will be no mistakes.

At the current stage, the demonstration movement within the empire is still expanding its influence.

In the challenger plan they formulated, this was a very critical step - to let the people have the basic concept of resisting the empire, to know that their rights can be realized in this way, and to tear the empire's public opinion apart at the level of public opinion. Increase popular dissatisfaction with the imperial government.

The law can become more radical, such as designing some traps to trigger the real "powder keg" of the empire and detonate the thunder of the imperial aristocracy;

But then, the severe situation that will follow will greatly reduce the benefits that the own boss can get.

As Yang Ming has repeatedly emphasized, the more critical moments like this come, the more important it is to remain calm and move forward step by step in an orderly manner according to the established rhythm...

"Um?"

Law suddenly noticed the violent fluctuations in the information flow.

This kind of fluctuation is very rare. It should be the judgment of a certain avatar processing information, and important events that can affect the overall situation have occurred.

Law immediately began to retrieve information.

In just a few milliseconds, she had already sorted out all the information. She frowned and looked at the main screen in front of her and the side face of Boss Yang who was studying seriously on the screen.

"Boss," Lu pressed the communication button, and his voice came out in Yang Ming's ears, "something happened."

Yang Ming didn't know why: "What's the matter?"

"A murder just occurred on the planet Yaha. A fifty-two-year-old hereditary earl was beaten to death by marchers."

Yang Ming was stunned for a moment.

Lu immediately said: "I didn't arrange it. This was unplanned, and the relevant videos have begun to spread wildly. It seems that there is a promoter behind it, possibly the CIA."

"Do you have a video? Send it to me immediately."

"Okay boss."

Yang Ming dropped the book again.

We can no longer pretend to be calm. The demonstrators beat an earl to death. Especially at this juncture, the situation is very likely to develop in an uncontrollable direction.

…

(PS: There will be an update later.)