After the grand but boring welcome process, a group of high-ranking empire officials entered their capital in a vehicle provided by the consortium's reception staff. On the way, I finally learned how exaggerated feats Lilina had performed.
Not only did she distribute leaflets and preach at the Roland Gale border, this girl even helped Roland Gale sink one hundred and twenty "Shepherd" warships from the very beginning.
In a very accidental accident, Lilina's fleet encountered Roland Gale's exploration force in the desolate area. It was the first contact between the two parties. Out of professional habit, a certain priest led hundreds of fully armed imperial warships to a ferocious place.
He went up to preach, but at this time, a shepherd fleet suddenly appeared and began to attack the consortium's exploration force indiscriminately.
The subsequent development was very dull. Feeling that her priestly work had been rudely hindered, the female pope became furious on the spot. She waved her troops forward and fired a volley from behind the shepherd.
He had the advantage, and he had elite troops at hand, plus he had an extremely wretched and vicious commander-in-chief. There was no need for suspense in the battle. More than a hundred of the Shepherd's warships, which were no higher than expedition-class, were all killed on the spot. In this battle,
, which is the historic acquaintance between the Temple 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 the only one who knew that the Shepherd was not the only one, and that there was another "emperor" in the good and lawful camp (Lilina's self-evaluation).
"***" exists, and the latter is about to enter the power of a series of facts in this universe.
Lilina was forced to withdraw into deep space shortly after that, but her vigorous and publicity campaign played a huge role. Although the ordinary people of Roland Gale were unable to know, their entire senior management was affected by the news.
After a sensation, only considering the stability of the country, and more importantly, the "Temple Legion" had been defeated by the "Shepherds" who had the upper hand, the consortium government never announced to ordinary citizens what they had learned from Lilina.
It was not until today that the Temple Legion appeared again, and together with the regular troops of the empire, the consortium government, which had once given up hope, once again remembered that a certain little madwoman gave them propaganda on a certain day in a certain year, a certain month
The fantasy story comes.
Reminiscent of the rumors of the "Shepherd Civil War" that have recently begun to appear all over the galaxy, the consortium government finally confirmed one thing: the Emperor is really here, and has already begun to take action.
This is the reason why we can have normal contact with the consortium so smoothly. If the latter is another civilization, we will not be able to see a neat welcome team and a greeting process that has been rehearsed in advance, without facing a catastrophic situation.
The retreat scene is pretty good.
The place where leader Roland Gale is located, well, should be called the Presidential Palace. It is a very tall black building, shaped like a vertically placed rectangular metal block. There is no light exposed, and the entire building has no doors or windows -
Does it look familiar?
Obviously, this reminds people of the residence of Aleister, the Hanged Man, that tomb-like building with no doors or windows, 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. Wouldn't it be boring to live in it?"
I made no secret of my surprise and complaints, but the middle-aged man with a military temperament accompanying me (now we know that his name is "Ling?j", what a strange name) just smiled bitterly and shook his head: "
This is a cruel world, and in order to survive, our leaders have given up a lot of things. In fact, the leaders of all other forces are similar."
After entering this weird building through a teleportation device, the other Roland Gale officials accompanying him took the initiative to stop. Apart from talking a few useless nonsense and coughing twice, they were dumbfounded. Although
They perform well in terms of calmness and etiquette, but in my opinion they are really boring. It's great that these people are leaving now.
The strangely named "Ling?j" took the lead and drove away all the entourage.
"Please follow me. The leader is right in front. He has given an order. This meeting is top secret. Even I must stop at the last door. Please don't mind."
"It doesn't matter, time is precious, and efficiency is the priority in everything. We are not just here for free," I nodded, and then activated the mental connection, "Lilina, do you know what kind of person their leader is?"
Lilina shook her head: "I've seen it on the communication device. It's an old man, but I haven't seen it with my own eyes."
During the conversation, we had reached the deepest part of this somewhat gloomy building, and what appeared in front of us was a silver-white alloy door.
"The leader is behind this door. I will be outside at any time." Ling?j stood on the side of the door and opened the passage for us.
Before that, I had already imagined what kind of person the leader of Roland Gale would be. According to Lilina, he was an old man who looked to be at least seventy or eighty years old. He was very energetic and as hale and hearty as an old general.
, I think when the door opens, what will appear in front of everyone will be such an old gentleman, wearing a crisp uniform, waiting for us behind the large desk, his face full of the calmness of an old man and the leader of Roland Gale
He was neither humble nor arrogant when facing the emperor, and around him, there should be piles of thread-bound books, various versions of Jin Ping Mei... Anyway, it has such a bookish meaning.
However, I guessed wrong.
What appeared in front of us was a very bright silver-white rotunda. The entire hall was cast from some kind of high-strength alloy. There was no light visible, but it was filled with a soft halo. Except for the platform at the edge of the hall, there was no room inside.
It is a circular staircase extending downward like the ancient Roman Colosseum, extending layer by layer, extending more than ten meters deep, until it reaches the circular platform at the bottom, and the leader of Roland Gale is on that platform.
His line of sight was exactly level with the upper platform of the hall, and he could look at us effortlessly.
A...huge head.
You read that right, the leader of Roland Gale is a huge head, twenty meters high - of course, in appearance he is a hale and hearty man with medium-length white hair and a thin layer of white hair.
With his beard and hard facial lines, he looks 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 definitely a unique thing in this universe. I am the leader of Roland Gale, Roland Gale."
The huge head opened its mouth, and the sound was like a loud bell. The entire shape of this pitiful hall was like a concentrator. As soon as the old man below opened his mouth, the entire hall was filled with updrafts. Fortunately, we opened the shield in time.
Also, when it comes to the other person’s name, I don’t comment on it seriously just to show politeness.
"Okay, I understand." I pressed my ears hard, finally recovering from the impact of this huge head. "Now I know why you can't go to the landing site to greet me in person. You are really 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 deeply shocked by the magic of the theory of evolution.
"You are surprised, Imperial Leader, very presumptuous, but I am even more surprised now that you seem to have the same emotional pattern as humans - please do not interpret this as provocation, this is just my personal feeling."
My sister had a curious expression on her face, and at the same time she showed a soft smile: "It seems that there are really many things we don't understand about each other. As you can see, the real Xiling apostles are also creatures with feelings.
Those rebels are just a bunch of out-of-control drones. We will talk about this later. Now I am just curious, are you...born like this?"
I couldn't help but cover my face with my hands: Sister, I generally don't inquire into other people's privacy, but girls have a spirit of gossip, and no one can stop this curiosity.
The... old man named Roland Gale, well, just the old man. I can't find any other way to describe the "human" leader in front of me. He didn't feel any embarrassment or discomfort when facing my sister's inquiry.
, just like an ordinary honest elder, he showed that kind of very generous smile: "Whether you believe it or not, since the day I learned that you were coming, I have been thinking continuously for three days and three nights, but now I find that with
It seems that your communication is not as terrible as you thought at the beginning. Sorry, I am always a bit talkative as I get older... As for me, I look like this..."
The huge head in front of us did not hide the reason for his appearance, or in other words, once the reason for his appearance of honor was revealed, it also increased our sense of responsibility.
All thanks to "our rebels".
Just as the Roland Gale official waiting at the door said, in this cruel world, in order to allow their people to survive, many leaders have given up many things that are unimaginable to ordinary people. Fina is a half-human being.
A semi-mechanical synthetic thinking machine, and old man Roland Gale used outstanding biochemical technology and bionic technology to turn himself into a head that never needs to rest and has infinite thinking ability and energy.
Before coming to this universe, Roland Gale was just a human being, a young business leader who ambitiously led the family business group he founded to engage in interstellar trade. However, an unforeseen warp engine failure destroyed his business group.
The business group was brought into this strange and cruel world.
With talent and hard work that ordinary people cannot imagine, Roland Gale survived in this most chaotic world and founded the original consortium power, a huge economic and military empire. Using his amazing acumen and military talent for long-term interests,
Roland Gale almost unified the entire Dongtian District when he reached middle age, which made him almost a miracle - even the shepherds noticed this growing power.
Then, disaster struck.
In a war era hundreds of years ago, the Roland Gale Consortium faced at the same time the invading army in the Nantian District and the crazy expansion of the local Angels and Black Mist Pirates. The war once entered a stalemate. Perhaps if everything went well, victory would still be achieved.
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 explain that mistake in detail, but the huge head told us that that mistake led to the almost complete destruction of the entire consortium.
, Nantian District once occupied almost one-third of the consortium's territory, while the remaining two-thirds of the territory was shattered by the angel pirates, black mist pirates and the sudden attack of the Shepherd fleet.
Fortunately, Roland Gale decisively gave up the fallen frontier at the last moment and tried his best to drag the war into a stalemate in a small area. It was not until the "Shepherd" announced the beginning of the era of peace that the consortium finally turned the corner.
This near-death crisis made Roland Gale question his decision-making ability, but he knew that there was no other possible leader in the consortium except himself. In order to let the already endangered 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 artificial brain is composed of machinery, biological tissue, bionic neural networks, half a ton of chips and our
It is a combination of uninterrupted energy technology learned from the 'Emperor'... I am no longer tired or impulsive, and all my emotions are set in a safe place between humans and machines
threshold, and any decision I make now will be the limit of what human wisdom and machine wisdom can make. The consortium will stand firm from now on. We have driven away the colonists in Nantian District and will have the 'Emperor ***'
The angel pirates who are secretly supporting are blocking the door, and now, I have made the decision to stand with you, which may cause the consortium to be destroyed in an instant by the anger of what you call the 'rebels', but I believe,
It’s worth it.”
"You are very admirable, really."
Sister was silent for a few seconds, and then bowed slightly to the huge old man's head in front of her. Viska next to her snorted slightly, but there was still some approval in her voice: "As a lower race, you...
...You have done well, and you can barely bear the title of warrior."
Even the old man Roland Gale, who had few expressions, still showed an expression of extreme surprise and surprise after facing his sister's slight bow and Viska's soft praise. Obviously, he still retained the imagination of the imperial people.
The concept of "cold, ruthless, and harsh", well, from a certain perspective, this impression is not wrong.
I was surprised by the courage of the old man in front of me and his experience, but what I care more about is, how many such examples are there in this universe?
"There are so many. If you are as powerful as you and are interested in questioning these simple races like us, 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
We have fought against each other many times with our leaders, and we know our comrades and enemies very clearly. I know that the Emperor of the Kemetre Empire in the Southern Sky District was once a Tidar star, but now he is a huge quantum computer.
An uninterrupted fusion reactor provides him with energy. Also in the Nantian District, the twelve-person parliament 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 stay awake.
, the king of the Holy Kingdom in the North Sky region merged himself with his wife who died on the front line, and used the mysterious technology stolen from the empire to transform the two of them into a tireless half-energy that was bound in a strong magnetic field.
Biology, the Pope of Gusta Church in Xitian District used biochemical technology to create a brain matrix for himself, but his own head was empty, only a bunch of bionic antennas, and his papal crown was actually a piercing analgesic signal transmitter
device to prevent him from reflexive spinal cord death due to 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 is destroyed by her own subjects.
Installed on a steel throne, playing the role of a calculator day and night... too many, almost every kingdom that can survive to this day, their leaders are such things that are almost out of the biological category, and the purpose of doing this
It's basically the same. Don't make mistakes again. Have unlimited energy, accurate judgment, efficiency, agility, and fearlessness. Lead your kingdom as a perfect leader every second. We have countless soldiers who shed blood and sacrifice 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 leaders have paid - it is no lighter than life."
"Yes, it's very heavy." Apart from these words, I was speechless. Even my rough nerves, such as Qianqian, were quiet now.
"But only in this way can we survive. The 'Emperor' is too powerful for ordinary races. Even occasional teasing often requires the strength of our country to contend. We have to give up everything to ensure that in the end
Don’t give up your life at the critical moment.”
The huge old man's head spoke plainly, and his pair of deep eyes stared at us calmly.
"To be honest, I'm a little embarrassed now." I shrugged, and then the mercury lamp immediately hugged my neck and rotated hard: I just forgot that this girl was still there.
"I'm sorry, I have tried my best to control my emotions." The huge head's face was a little nervous, but mostly relieved, "I know you are different from them, and those words just now were just stating the 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 destroy the rebels. In the face of imperial technology, they are like primitive people.
It doesn't matter how much we sacrifice as human beings, but we just want to survive. Even if our strength is meager, if forced to do so, the ants will resist - that's all." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come*
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