Walk alone in the abyss

The Sherman family let the white ghost be the commander of the expeditionary force for a few months, and at the end of the day, they also gave the white ghost enough dignity.

Flowers, applause, honor, live broadcast simultaneously on official channels across the country;

The one who presented the commendation order written by the emperor was the imperial singer and Princess Daphne in an elegant evening gown;

Witnessing the awarding ceremony was Prince Jinofu of the Empire and the Supreme Commander of the Military Department;

Yang Ming received an 'Imperial Peace Medal' and the rank of Major General without a real position from the military department, and also received the promise of a 'prepared duke' from the Council of Elders, which means that Yang Ming only needs to wait for an honorary duke to die naturally, You can be automatically promoted to the honorary duke of the empire.

Of course, the real grand dukes of the empire all have the absolute right to speak in a certain field.

For Yang Ming, titles and honors outweigh their practical significance.

What's more, the four words of white ghost, in the empire, do not need the blessing of other titles now.

Yang Ming took advantage of the situation and delivered a short speech.

He felt that his skin was really thicker now, and he would come to "Zhangkou" when he said some high-sounding words, and his expression was extremely sincere.

"It's really bad news for me to be forced to leave the front line before the war is over.

"Now that the war has entered a stable period, and the main fleet of the New Federation has been paralyzed, the empire can continue to teach this regime, which has committed many crimes against the empire in the past hundred years, a continuous and profound lesson.

"The award I received today, I think, is not an award on behalf of the army as a whole. Those martyrs who died for the war deserve more respect, and their families should receive condolences.

"The material rewards given by the empire, as well as all the income I have received from live broadcasts in the past, including all the income from the genuine white ghost peripherals, will be used to set up a special fund for open operation to care for the families of the soldiers who sacrificed for the country , when you encounter difficulties, encounter troubles, or feel too sad, you can use various methods to find my fan support club.

"It is said that war is a disaster for human civilization.

"It is said that war is an extension of politics, a means to seek the interests of politicians or privileged classes.

"But here, in this war to defend the interests of the empire and maintain the dignity of the empire, our soldiers are not sacrificed for politicians, for the privileged class, we make all sacrifices valuable, and when someone tries to devour these values , I will stand in front of you and fight them to the end.

"Next, I will go to other battlefields, and now I can honorably announce that those noble gentlemen of the empire who have done no good deeds, I am back."

Yang Ming ended the performance with a threatening sneer.

There was warm applause all around.

Apparently, none of the nobles present felt that they would be targeted by the white ghost. In fact, in order to alleviate the conflict, the empire had been carrying out the rectification campaign for the nobles, but the effect was not as obvious as the one led by the white ghost.

Yang Ming was transferred back this time, and he also focused on this.

Originally, Yang Ming thought that the live broadcast would end here.

Daphne held the commendation order in front of Yang Ming, leaned slightly, and took the initiative to give Yang Ming a kiss.

Yang Ming immediately took half a step back, covering his cheeks, showing an expression as if he was being bullied by Daphne.

Daphne reacted very quickly, she smiled gracefully at Yang Ming, then bowed slightly, and said to Yang Ming:

"Mr. White Ghost, I heard that you are single now. I don't know if I have the opportunity to be your partner on the journey of life. Temporary or long-term, I can accept it."

Yang Ming nodded with a smile: "Sorry, Your Highness, I have no plans to fall in love just yet."

Daphne immediately said: "Because you were broken up by Captain Catherine before, do you still have trauma in your heart?"

Yang Ming stared at Daphne, but Daphne just smiled and blinked slightly.

"Yes," Yang Ming sighed, "I think, I won't think about having another relationship in the short term, I will keep working hard for the promises I made, and fulfill the promises I made to the people of the empire who trusted me." promise made."

"It's a pity," Daphne sighed softly.

Yang Ming stepped forward with a smile, gave Daphne a hug, patted her on the shoulder four times, then turned around and exited gracefully.

The old princess glanced at Daphne with suspicion.

This paragraph, what they said before, is somewhat inconsistent.

After the live broadcast ended, the major portals in the empire were quickly captured by the entry "Empire Diva's Failed Show of Love", which slowed down all kinds of public opinion.

Inside the ship lounge.

The old princess found Daphne who was taking off her makeup, frowned and said:

"Daphne, why did you suddenly use such an aggressive strategy just now to kiss a man directly, it will leave the impression that our royal women are frivolous and impolite, and you already know that he is somewhat resistant to the power behind you.

"It's not a very sensible thing to do."

"Auntie, I'm sorry, I couldn't hold back at that time," Daphne said in a low voice, "I must at least announce to the public that this is my Daphne's man, and let other women who want to get his ideas stay away from him .”

The old princess whispered: "You mentioned Captain Catherine."

Daphne smiled and said, "Yes, aunt, she is Hanton's ex-girlfriend."

"What kind of woman is that? Is it attractive?"

"Warrior, one of the most powerful reformed warriors in the empire."

"Wow, then I really have to worry about your weak little body, that's right, they are transforming people, oh, I haven't tried transforming people yet."

Daphne: ...

It's okay, my aunt didn't delve into these issues too much.

Her aunt's attention was obviously on more exciting things.

half an hour later.

In the lounge No. 4 of this venue dedicated to receiving princes and nobles.

Daphne pushed open the door of the lounge, and she saw a warmly furnished living room and two rows of hangers full of military uniforms.

She took two steps forward tentatively, and asked softly, "Handon?"

Click.

The door of the lounge closed by itself, and Yang Ming's voice came from behind the door:

"Your Highness, you seem to have received some news."

Daphne turned around immediately, and she changed into a tube top tight skirt. With her soft figure curve and fair skin like a porcelain doll, she interpreted the beauty and sexiness of the imperial nobles.

She imitated Yang Ming and crossed her arms: "My partner, your reaction is too slow, something happened to your ex-girlfriend."

"Yeah?"

Yang Ming curled his lips slightly: "I'm in the army, I don't have a source of information, and I don't know anything about these things."

Daphne said:

"Of course, it's just a suspicion now. My intelligence sources show that the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau only captured Catherine once appearing on the impoverished planet where the rebel leader was hiding. This is not direct evidence. will intervene.

"Your loyal partner, Captain Gris, has led the secret troops of Skyfury Fortress to search for Catherine.

"However, the most suspicious thing now is that Captain Catherine suddenly disappeared six galaxy hours ago; there is a chip of the super-reformer organization in her brain, which can display the location in real time. She seems to have noticed that she has been exposed. fact."

Yang Ming secretly smiled inwardly.

The super reformer organization is now all surnamed Bligh, and Bligh is called the little black perverted ghost.

Yang Ming frowned tightly: "Catherine, with the rebel leader? Are you sure?"

"Of course," Daphne raised her head slightly, "This is the woman you've been obsessed with before. If I'm right, you'll have some troubles and need to cooperate with the investigation. In the empire, rebellion is the number one felony."

Yang Ming wondered: "Those who have super-reformed need to be ideologically imprinted."

"Thought branding can be deciphered," Daphne said. "For example, thought branding is limited, and their main body of allegiance is the empire and the emperor. Then they can carry out self-suggestion and strong hypnosis, telling themselves that the emperor has been emptied and that the empire is on the way." Walking on the wrong path, you must set things right to save the empire... This kind of thing has happened before, and now the entire super-reformer organization is checking itself."

Yang Ming rubbed the center of his brows, lowered his head in deep thought.

"I still don't understand..."

"That's none of your business, Hunton, look at me."

Daphne took the initiative to move forward, holding Yang Ming's cheeks with both hands.

"We are partners, I have put all my resources on you, don't let me have nothing, can you?"

Yang Ming laughed, swept away her palm casually, and said slowly: "Then, should I still thank you? Your Royal Highness."

There was an unknown fire in Daphne's heart.

Just as she was about to speak, Yang Ming suddenly reached out and raised her right hand up high. A force pulled her, making her spin face to face with the man in front of her, and her back pressed against the door of the lounge.

Yang Ming pressed his other hand beside Daphne's face, and looked down at Daphne.

Daphne became inexplicably nervous.

She looked up at Yang Ming, her breathing became a little chaotic, her snow-white skin trembled slightly, her light lips opened slightly as Yang Ming approached, and her long eyelashes also slightly closed.

Sudden.

"Don't you like women?"

Yang Ming's voice came from a few meters away.

Daphne opened her eyes and found that Yang Ming was already sitting on the sofa with a playful expression on her face.

"You are so ungentlemanly!"

Daphne snorted, feeling a little sore in her wrist, she lowered her head and walked to sit opposite Yang Ming.

Her posture still maintains the elegance of a princess.

"I will follow you from now on. The original plan was for you to arrest the nobles for rectification and take a second post in the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau, but now that Captain Catherine has happened, how to arrange it later has become unknown.

"However, I will try my best to help you control the impact."

"Don't worry," Yang Ming closed his eyes and rested on the sofa, "Catherine is just my girlfriend, not my wife. I can explain that she approached me before to try to make me betray the empire, and I, firmly take the stand of the Empire."

"You suddenly changed a lot," Daphne said softly.

Yang Ming smiled: "What doesn't change, I am who I am, I just want to understand some things. A word to you, this is my motto."

"What?"

"Give up illusions and prepare to fight."

Daphne shook her head, unable to understand the meaning of this sentence.

...

At the same time, somewhere in the empire, there was a poor planet with a population of 200 million, inside an abandoned underground fortress.

Catherine, who was wearing a combat uniform, was standing frowning in front of a few simple military solid-state screens, staring at the data that kept flashing across the screens.

She asked softly, "Have they all withdrawn?"

"Boss, the brothers have already withdrawn, how did you get exposed this time?"

"Someone betrayed our information, the organization we have contacted before," Catherine said with a bit of coldness on her face, "Don't worry about it, I have already sent people to get rid of the so-called revolutionary army who are collaborating with the imperial authorities. It has existed for so long, and it really has its own way of survival."

"Those bastards!"

"Boss, why not attack the empire directly!"

"That's right, Boss, other rebel organizations dare not show their faces, but we are super reformers, we have the force to assassinate high-ranking officials and capture warships, not to mention we have a killer weapon!"

"Notify the contact points everywhere, destroy all intelligence materials, and enter a completely silent passive acceptance mode."

Catherine said:

"We've worked so hard for so long, all we have to do now is wait.

"Yes, we do have the basic conditions for an uprising now, but now that the empire is caught in a war with other powerful countries, domestic conflicts are bound to intensify, and we still have the opportunity to unite more resistance organizations.

"To bring down the empire, what is needed is not millions of machines, nor millions of soldiers, but the rebellious spirit of hundreds of billions of people. What we want to ignite is this flame.

"Other than this, other sacrifices are meaningless, understand?"

"yes!"

"I'm going to rest for a while, and wake me up immediately if anything happens."

Catherine nodded slightly, turned and walked to the side passage, several men and women looked at each other, their expressions became much more relieved.

The bosses all went to sleep, which means that they are very confident that they can avoid this turmoil.

In the lounge, Catherine turned on the shielding device, pursed her lips tightly, and her expression became more serious.

She walked behind the simple desk, turned on her communicator, thought for a few minutes quietly, and finally found that special contact person and sent a message.

[Thank you for the reminder, otherwise we would lose at least half of our core members. 】

The other party replied immediately: [You are welcome, these are just my boss's explanation. Captain Catherine, my boss may want to release some views that I have already broken up with you, I hope you can understand. 】

Catherine sighed and continued typing:

【Now I just feel that he let me mess around and cooperate with me to play a game of uprising.

【I'm afraid right now that when my uprising fails with a high probability, he will catch me by his side and tell me——Look, you tried it, and you will honestly stay by my side in the future.

[After thinking about it recently, I found that he is too powerful.

[Under the eyes of the empire, such a huge force has secretly developed, controlled the super-reformer organization, and possessed the appeal and popular prestige that can slightly challenge the royal family. 】

The other party sent a smiley face and continued to reply: [Didn't you notice it? Your future rebel army is also a semi-directed force in the territory of my boss's power. 】

Catherine was stunned for a moment: 【Is this what he calculated long ago? 】

[No, my boss just respects your choice, but your development path was in my calculations before. 】

【you? Who are you? 】

【I? I am the boss's assistant, the boss's most trusted assistant, you can call me, Lil. 】

"Law?" Catherine whispered.

Words kept popping up on the projection screen in front of her:

[I can tell you right now that if you want to overthrow the empire, you can't accomplish one percent with the existing resistance forces alone, but the existence of the resistance forces, the rebel army, and the revolutionary army has extremely high symbolic significance. You are the torch , and this torch is responsible for illuminating the darkness before dawn.

[I hope that you can continue to be my boss' support, a comrade-in-arms and partner beyond personal feelings.

[The power possessed by the boss is actually far beyond your imagination, and the strength of the enemy is also far beyond your imagination. 】

Catherine raised her hand to cover her forehead: [Can you briefly describe it? 】

[Do you think that the modular design of the Emperor Star and the absorption of the energy of a whole star as an energy reserve are simply used to demonstrate the technology of the Empire?

[In the empire's dimension-enhancing plan, the Emperor Star is the core of dimension-enhancing. Of course, I haven't been able to find the core data in it yet.

[But don't worry, that's not an enemy that needs your worry.

[Please be a fire, illuminate the darkness of the empire, and burn off the shackles of the people. 】

Catherine replied: [I can only be a walker holding a torch. The real fire is not me, but us. 】

[You have more and more the temperament of a rebel leader. 】

Catherine shook her head with a smile, and ended the chat happily.

...

half a day later.

Imperial frontier.

On a transport ship that had just returned to the territory of the empire, Yang Ming was sitting quietly in a corner holding a professional book on military affairs.

Daphne hurried over, sat in front of Yang Ming, and said in a low voice: "Things are a little troublesome."

Yang Ming asked without raising his head, "What's wrong?"

"Neither the super-reformers organization nor the Military Intelligence Bureau can find Catherine's whereabouts. There are forty-two super-reformers who disappeared together. It has been confirmed that there may be some kind of organization among them, and this organization has been revealed before. There are clues, but it has not been paid attention to.”

clatter.

Yang Ming closed the book, and looked up at the anxious Daphne.

"You would be so upset over something like this?"

"Of course not," Daphne snorted, "Uncle Ino was furious. Those are all important experimental materials for him, especially Catherine... Uncle complained before that he hasn't collected valuable materials for a long time. According to the data, the super-reformer organization was requested to provide a group of powerful super-reformers, and Catherine is on the list... this may not be a coincidence."

Yang Ming nodded slightly.

Sorry, this is just a coincidence. Catherine has not been preparing for the uprising for a day or two, and this time it was only accidentally exposed.

However, this can be regarded as avoiding a greater crisis.

Daphne said, "Can you find out where she is?"

"Sorry, I can't get in touch either," Yang Ming put the specially-made watch in front of Daphne, all the data in it was naturally altered by Li, and all the chat records were falsified, "You can determine for yourself."

Daphne hesitated, but grabbed her watch and searched carefully for a while.

Soon, she handed back the watch.

"Then you don't make a sound, and don't care about this matter, I will settle it for you."

Boss Yang nodded with a smile.

"Should we still go to the Military Intelligence Bureau next?"

"Well, first of all, you need to have some real power. Major General Atero of the Military Intelligence Bureau has a good relationship with you and just happens to be your subordinate."

Ah well, it seems pretty good to engage in soft meals once in a while, at least it's quite worry-free.