Walk alone in the abyss

"This is the Dixing Broadcasting Channel, there is an urgent news to be broadcast below.

"An ordnance transport vehicle exploded violently during transportation, and the explosion affected the palace module. Fortunately, His Majesty did not suffer any injuries.

"According to rough statistics, the explosion has killed 362 people. There are vaporized human corpses in the center of the explosion, and six to seven people are missing. The relevant departments are actively investigating the reason why the ordnance transport vehicle appeared near the palace.

"The surface of the Emperor Star has entered a level-3 alert from now on. Defense forces will be stationed at various intersections to maintain stability. Please do not panic the citizens of the Empire."

Hunton!

When Catherine rushed to the explosion site, a large area had been cordoned off by the security forces.

She could only see that a section of the unsupported suspended expressway was almost cut off, and the road pipeline seemed to be half-eaten sugar cane, leaving only a narrow area barely connected.

The buildings and vehicles in the missing area seem to have disappeared out of thin air, and the suspended vehicles stacked everywhere have also deformed to varying degrees.

The piercing siren sounded everywhere, and the police officers and semi-automatic machines tried their best to dismantle the charred corpses stuck to the metal.

"team leader!"

Several overhaulers came after hearing the news, and two female team members supported the crumbling Catherine.

"Yes, is there any news about him?" Catherine asked in a trembling voice.

Several overhaulers shook their heads at the same time.

One person said: "The explosion spread to a range of ten kilometers in diameter, and thousands of people were injured. The glass of many buildings at the same height was broken. It is suspected to be the power of a military-style shaped energy bomb. The characteristic of this shaped energy bomb is its energy. A violent release in a narrow area..."

"If it's a car bomb installed, it's considered an ancient god life form..."

Catherine took half a step back and grabbed the arm of the female team member with her backhand.

"Control me," her eyes were bloodshot, her body was trembling, and her breathing became a little messy, "Control me!"

The two female team members looked at each other, and the female team member on the right took out a magnetic handcuff from her pocket, and handcuffed Catherine's arm with her own.

...

The palace module is the most commonly used meeting hall for the emperor.

A group of old people bowed and faced the old emperor who hadn't spoken for more than ten minutes.

The three highest-ranking generals of the military department stationed in Emperor Star, the six elders of the elders' house, the archbishop of the civilization development religion, and the main leaders of various ministries lined up neatly in eight rows below, and everyone kept silent, and the silent There seems to be a volcano that is about to erupt.

Ping, Dangdang.

The old emperor smashed the handicraft on the ground.

The maids and musicians in every corner of the hall quickly knelt and prostrated themselves, as if they were afraid of being caught by the emperor's sight.

"Oh, Emperor Star, this is the Emperor Star! This is the Emperor Star of my Sherman Empire!"

The old emperor cursed angrily:

"One by one, you shouted the glory of the Emperor Star every day, and shouted the great majesty, the result? Put a shaped bomb on my head, trying to blow up the heroes of the empire!

"Who gave you the courage!

"Who is it that pampered you step by step to where you are today!"

The great elder's legs trembled, and he knelt down: "Your Majesty! I, I am guilty!"

The old emperor pointed at the great elder a few times, and said coldly: "Tell me, what crime do you have?"

The Great Elder trembled and shouted: "The House of Elders is the representative of the imperial nobles, and the imperial nobles are the followers of the Sherman family. We should have tried our best to protect His Majesty's safety, but such a bad bomb happened instead! This is something we cannot wait for." Forgive mistakes and omissions."

The five elders behind the great elder all knelt down tremblingly.

"Beautiful," the old emperor laughed angrily, "Why, this is clearly telling me that you bombed people, and if you can't find evidence, don't make fun of your elders' house?"

The two military leaders on the side looked at each other, and each saw the doubt in their eyes.

Before they came, they had actually carefully reviewed the situation. So far, the relationship between the emperor and the elders' house was far from being tense to the point where the sword in the emperor's hand had to be severed.

This explosion was most likely arranged by the emperor. As long as the white ghost knew the news in advance, and the white ghost was not on the hover car and hid to avoid the limelight, the emperor would have an excuse to directly attack the elders' house.

The political ecology of the empire is actually divided into two parts.

Outside the Emperor Star and within the Emperor Star.

The political ecology outside Emperor Star is extremely complicated. Honorary nobles, hereditary nobles, local defense forces, and local administrative units have intersecting powers, and domestic and foreign capital continue to exert power, and various extreme events are prone to occur.

But the political ecology in Emperor Star is a transparent and very simple triangular structure.

The imperial power, the military power, and the political power all constrained each other and constituted the stable political internal structure of the empire.

Even after the empire experienced several coups launched by the princes and princesses for power, it also imposed great constraints on the flesh and blood of these emperors. Whoever tried to get involved in the political arena would lose everything.

In the Sherman family, only the emperor has actual power, and some princesses and princes are at most only the spokespersons of the department's image.

—Like Princess Lorna.

To put it simply, the Elderly House has a lot of methods to deal with the white ghost. It can be directly removed through political manipulation. There is no need to set up a floating car bomb near the palace.

This is demented behavior, and it is unreasonable.

Several bigwigs in the military department thought it over and over again, and there was only one possibility of the emperor's "bitter trick".

But if this is the case, the emperor must have prepared all kinds of countermeasures. At this moment, he has already used his anger to directly arrest the elders of the elders' house...

Paradoxically, the emperor was very restrained and did not intend to attack the elders.

Everyone could feel that the emperor was trying to restrain his anger at this moment, and this anger did not seem to be staged or pretended.

Because the emperor didn't need to act to anyone, the old emperor's acting skills were far inferior to theirs.

Then the problem comes;

It's not like the emperor made it;

It is also unlikely that it was made by the elders' house;

Of course, it is even more impossible for their military department to do it. The military department is directly responsible to the emperor. The fleet directly controlled by the emperor is also very powerful. Whoever the emperor tells them to fight, they will fight. There is no conflict of interest or power. .

Who will be the murderer?

"Go and check!"

The emperor took a deep breath:

"Military Department, Elder's House, Ministry of Justice, I don't care who you are, everyone will check for me! Give me an answer within three emperor star rotation cycles! The heroes of the empire must not die in vain!

"Whoever did this, I will skin him! Reduce his family to slavery!"

A group of old people buried their heads lower, and with the emperor waving, they hurriedly exited the hall.

The floating car bomb appeared near the palace module. This is definitely a huge event that has not happened for thousands of years.

In front of the ascending elevator of the palace module, the three heads of the military department frowned and approached the elder, seeming to say something in a low voice, the elder shook his head again and again, explaining with a wry smile.

This is really not a bomb planted in their presbytery.

But the white ghost had just gone to the court of the elders' house to arrest three elders, and now they are the elders who are most suspected.

Even if it is an elder's self-assertion, the group of elders in their elders' house will inevitably be implicated.

Although these things do not seem to be done by the emperor;

But at this moment, the emperor has completely taken the initiative.

...

Made!

What bastard did this!

Not far from the crime scene, in a private room of a hotel, Yang Ming kept pulling on the gauze bandages on his body. The bandages stuck to pieces of scorched skin, revealing white and tender new skin.

It was all fried and shelled!

The pain really hurts, but there is nothing wrong with his life, and Yang Ming turned his head to look at the window. The beautiful woman standing quietly was the one who found the injured self as quickly as possible, and brought him to this hotel .

The emperor's maid.

"Did His Majesty arrange everything?" Yang Ming asked with a frown.

"No," the maid shook her head lightly, and turned to look at Yang Ming, "Actually, the news that I'm staying with you now just reached His Majesty's ears half an hour ago."

Yang Ming was stunned: "Why?"

"I can't explain it either," the maid pulled out a pendant from her chest and whispered, "About ten minutes before the explosion, I was on my way back to the palace when I suddenly received an anonymous message asking me to go to a certain area Wait for you."

Yang Ming: ...

The maid said: "Your Majesty doesn't like to care about our specific activities outside the palace, he only likes to hear the results, and I don't need to report to His Majesty in detail, so I decided to go to the area marked by the message. I just arrived within two minutes. There was an explosion, and soon you were running from the blast area."

Yang Ming suddenly asked: "Are you His Majesty's intelligence officer?"

"That's right," the maid folded her arms, "I'm just handling some trivial matters for His Majesty, which are inconvenient to leave to others."

"what's your name?"

"Hanyin, don't get me wrong. Your Majesty is very concerned about people around him betraying him," the maid Hanyin said indifferently, "Everything about me belongs to Your Majesty and is His Majesty's private property."

Yang Ming nodded, continued to remove the bandages on his body, and said with a smile, "Well, can you avoid it for a while? I'm going to remove it to a vital position."

The corner of the maid's mouth twitched a few times in Hanyin, and she turned her back to Yang Ming.

"Until His Majesty gives orders, I must stay with you...An explosion of this magnitude will only burn your whole body, and your burns will heal so quickly..."

She whispered:

"You are a monster."

"Be careful what you say," Yang Ming said fiercely, "If I kill you now, no one will know."

"The emperor star module will record everything," the maid said slowly, "don't worry, His Majesty will quickly find out everything. Such a serious attack on the periphery of the palace is already a direct challenge to the imperial power of the Sherman Empire."

Yang Ming was a little speechless, so he simply lowered his head and continued to disassemble the bandage.

He actually wanted to send Catherine a message, but his communicator and the watch that Lil gave him had been destroyed in the explosion.

Fortunately, they used shaped energy bombs, not real high-yield polynuclear bombs, otherwise it would really have to rely on cell regeneration.

Having said that, is there a problem with Emperor Star's security level?

A shaped bomb appeared near the palace...

Yang Ming looked at the beautiful figure of the maid, and always felt in his heart that this might be the trick of the old emperor, but he also felt that if the old emperor wanted to make a trick, there was no need to do it so suddenly.

Every link is full of doubts.

Better not let him find out who dropped the bomb.

Otherwise, don't care what princes and generals he is! He wants to let them understand what a man's anger tank is!

"hiss--"

Yang Ming took a deep breath, and the movement of exposing the dead skin was much gentler.

...

The module of Emperor Star God Sect, in the hall where the last archbishop was hanged to death.

The old emperor was sitting on the suspended sofa, looking at the news in his hand, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"This guy, he wasn't even killed by the bombing. This is the life form of the ancient god..."

Ahead, the new archbishop was nervously preparing for the prayer ceremony. She was relieved after repeatedly confirming that she could activate the scepter.

An elderly maid at the side whispered at this moment: "Your Majesty, according to our preliminary investigation and the analysis of the brain waves of everyone in the hall just now, there is an 80% possibility of the bomb incident. Everyone did."

"Isn't it the elders' house? It's not the military department?" The emperor frowned suspiciously.

The old maid said softly: "It's possible that they didn't know about it, but the subordinates did it privately."

The emperor stroked his chin and kept thinking: "No matter what, we must continue to investigate this matter. This is a good opportunity to tear open the gap in the elders' courtyard."

"But Your Majesty, what is the meaning of your doing this?"

The old maid seemed to have a good relationship with His Majesty the Emperor, and she didn't have any doubts or hesitation when she asked this question.

The old emperor smiled, and said slowly: "Do you really think I want to toss the empire? Or is my ambition suddenly expanded and I want to control this country? I am the emperor, and the military power is in my hands. Power can be taken back."

"Then you... please forgive me for not being able to understand."

"It's dignity."

The old emperor said softly:

"My starting point is for this dignity.

"But when I set my sights on the Elder's House, I realized that they are already so corrupt and unbearable, they are even more depraved than me.

"Do you know why the empire's economy continues to decline? Why are the people unwilling to have children, and the shrinking population has led to many administrative stars being downgraded to minor administrative stars?

"The root lies in the noble collective represented by the House of Elders."

The old maid said in a low voice: "This is the inevitable development of civilization, and it is also a chronic disease left by the empire for too long."

"Yes, my teacher, you study history and teach history, you must understand this," the old emperor said with a smile, "so, my starting point is my little dignity left. It’s not a problem that can be solved in decades.”

The old maid was a little puzzled.

"Oh, yes, you weren't here last time," the old emperor said with a smile, "I'll show you a demonstration...can I pray?"

The exaggerated new archbishop turned around and prostrated himself against the old emperor.

"Your Majesty! It's ready!"

"Don't repeat your sister's tragedy, be obedient and I will give you enough benefits, let's start."

"Follow your orders! The wisest majesty in history!"

The archbishop shouted, holding the scepter and walking to the square platform, aiming the scepter at the groove below, and inserting it forcefully.

Blue halos, module vibrations, and firefly-like light spots appearing in darkness on all sides, the mature 'Empire Total Defense System' reappeared beside the emperor.

She opened her dull eyes and murmured:

"A serious terrorist attack on Emperor Star has been detected, and the detection process has been initiated."

The emperor looked at this virtual appearance obsessively, and immediately said: "Now, follow my command and investigate the truth of this incident!"

The rational eyes of the mature image focused on the emperor.

A cold voice came from around again:

"Insufficient privileges on target."

"I am the emperor of this generation! I am the descendant of Levi Sherman!"

A sharp light burst out of the old emperor's eyes: "I order you to open up my authority!"

The cold voice appeared again:

"Insufficient privileges on target."

The new archbishop was so frightened that he couldn't lift his head.

"Please explain how I need to obtain the authority to command you," the old emperor asked calmly.

The mature image of Li fell into silence, his eyes were out of focus, and the voices around him were still cold:

"Sorry, I can't answer that question.

"The truth of the incident has been investigated, and the murderer's information has been sent to the public security department and the arrest operation has started."

call out!

The figure of the mature figure disappeared, leaving only a little bit of fluorescent light that disappeared in the surrounding darkness, and the light was slowly returning everywhere.

"look."

The old emperor exhaled lightly: "I don't even have the authority to consult."

The old maid also looked thoughtful, and said in a low voice: "It stands to reason that it shouldn't be so. There are dozens of records in history that show that the emperor can directly order the defense system of the entire empire to start a foreign war without conditions... Do you think the problem lies in the where?"

"The reform of the new calendar, apart from this reform, where else can the problem lie?"

The emperor sneered:

"I need complete imperial power. I am the emperor of the most powerful empire in the galaxy. Whether it is real or virtual, whatever I want to conquer will be conquered by me."

The old maid lowered her head and sighed, continuing to think about the question her student asked.