Walk alone in the abyss

[The chief executive of the Emperor Star circle received an edict, and began to enter the Emperor Star one after another the next day to report directly to the Emperor. 】

[His Majesty the Emperor hosted a banquet for major generals and above generals of the Imperial Army. 】

[The Council of Elders issued the latest order that nobles with private lands must report to Emperor Star one after another within half a month. 】

[The person in charge of the imperial star scientific research unit will, in the next two months, adjust according to his own work progress, and enter the imperial star to participate in the seminar. 】

[The core reformer unit of the Skyfury Fortress will send representatives to accept the personal award from His Majesty the Emperor. 】

…

Yang Ming sat in the corner of the Yilan Duo star space port, holding the "Galaxy Daily" that Lu made for him, and looked at the news with a serious expression.

The current trend is already obvious.

This is the contemporary emperor of the Sherman Empire, who wants to strengthen the leading position of imperial power at the core of imperial power.

In the past month, all kinds of news about Emperor Star came one after another. His Majesty the Emperor, who had previously been hidden at the core of the empire's power system, suddenly seemed to have gone mad and kept announcing his existence.

This is actually not conducive to the stability of the empire.

The territory of the empire is too vast, most of the administrative stars are very far away from the emperor star, and the existence of the empire itself is too long compared to the life span of human beings.

The ideological awakening of the people has already been completed.

In order to prevent civil upheavals, the empire's adjustment mechanism is constantly reducing the privileges of the nobles, and constantly promoting the Empire's Invincible Fleet, so that the people believe that the planet they live on is the most secure, richest, and most potential place in the galaxy.

In addition, the Imperial House of Elders always used to compare the contradiction between the common people and the nobles in the empire to the contradiction between ordinary people and the capitalists in a country like the New Federation.

In this way, the people of the empire will feel that their lives are actually quite good.

Yang Ming felt that the biggest advantage of the Sherman Empire system was that Levi Sherman clearly pointed out that the imperial power must be the reins around the neck of the aristocrats, pulling the aristocracy hard and reducing the oppression of the aristocrats on the common people. , Let the upward channels of most occupations in the society continue as usual, and the opportunities should be kept as equal as possible.

For a long time, the social environment of the Sherman Empire has been relatively relaxed. Military power and resource exploitation rights have been firmly controlled by the emperor and nobles, and the imperial power, nobles, and civilians have maintained a fragile balance.

The old emperor's sudden high-intensity declaration of self-existence is already impacting this balance.

Those with vested interests in the original pattern have fallen into anxiety.

At this moment, the great nobles are worried about whether His Majesty the Emperor will continue to reduce the privileges of the nobility, and the officials in high positions are worried that the Emperor will suddenly announce that he will take back the direct appointment rights of officials at all levels.

The military department at this moment is the most stable, because they are directly responsible to His Majesty the Emperor, and it is no different from before.

"Oh, it's almost troublesome."

Yang Ming turned over the electronic newspaper, and immediately switched to foreign news.

[The vice president of the new federation condemns the brutal invasion of the empire, which is a trampling on human civilization. 】

[Once again, backwardness defeated advanced, barbarism defeated civilization. 】

[The end of the empire: what is the reason for the partial military advantage of the new federation? A brief analysis of the battle of thousands of ships between the two great powers in the Milky Way. 】

Six black dots slowly crossed Yang Ming's head.

Really!

Winning or losing depends entirely on one mouth, winning the Internet public opinion circle?

Yang Ming really admires the propaganda method of the New Federation.

On the other hand, the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau, an imperial intelligence organization with such a bloated staffing, can't make a loud fart at all in the interstellar range.

Simply disassemble it earlier and separate the three major sections of military intelligence, foreign intelligence, and internal and external public opinion.

A camera ball floated out of Yang Ming's pocket.

This kind of floating sphere is a network access terminal that has just become popular recently. In the lobby of the space port, many people can see one floating on their shoulders.

However, this is not technological progress, but a fashion reincarnation. This type of network access terminal also emerged about a hundred years ago.

Law's voice came: "Boss, Miss Mimily has two minutes to enter the spaceport."

"knew."

Yang Ming made a gesture of throwing something away, and the projected newspaper exploded into a little bit of fluorescent light.

Law whispered: "Are you really not going to change clothes?"

Although he came to pick up people, Yang Ming's attire was indeed a bit too casual, with slippers, shorts, a floral shirt, and a straw hat, he could go directly back to his hometown on Earth to guard the fish pond.

Yang Ming clicked his tongue: "It's all for picking up my eldest niece, what are you doing so handsome?"

"But boss, when you mention Miss Mimily, there will always be a slight increase in the secretion of certain hormones in the body."

Yang Ming scolded angrily: "It's okay, why do you care if I secrete hormones? The reason why human beings can stand on the top of the Milky Way is because we can use rationality to restrain animal nature, and use etiquette, integrity and shame to endow history with a profound soul."

"Boss, why have you been talking in a routine lately?"

Yang Ming laughed: "I learned from "The Emperor's Biography". After reading it a few times, I can remember some words unconsciously."

"Miss Mimily appeared."

Lu thoughtfully projected an arrow in front of Yang Ming's eyes, pointing at the crowd rushing ahead.

In fact, there is no need for Li to point out, Yang Ming glanced over, and the most eye-catching and beautiful girl was the target he had been waiting for for half an hour.

Mimily is already well-known in the pirate world.

She is wearing a white wide-brimmed top hat, a pair of wide sunglasses hanging on her delicately made-up face, her long hair dyed wine red is slightly permed, and her light gray suspender dress fits her figure perfectly, with lace wrapped around her arms The white stockings extending from the bottom of the gloves and skirt gave her a bit of a rich lady's temperament.

Is this still the Mimily who jumped and stabbed people?

Yang Ming frowned and curled his lips in confusion, but Mimi Li had already seen him, cheered, and ran over with her thighs together, very ladylike.

"Shu millet~"

What the hell is that accent!

Seeing that she had opened her arms enthusiastically, Yang Ming opened her arms with a smile in order not to spoil her face.

Mimi Li bumped into his arms like a milk swallow.

Yang Ming felt that there were many male creatures around him regardless of age, and they cast slightly sour eyes on him.

Yang Ming smiled and patted Mimily's arm, sniffing the strange scent, said with a smile:

"Okay, there are too many people here, let's go to the boat first and talk about the old days."

Mimily's suitcase floated over from behind, and on the fixed screen at the front of the suitcase, Molly wearing an elegant long dress appeared, and bowed to Yang Ming.

"Hello, Your Excellency Yang Ming."

"Hi Molly."

Yang Ming laughed, and Mimi Li had already held his arm, looking forward.

"Where's my papa?"

"My father rushed to a meeting in a neighboring country," Yang Ming said with a smile, "Now is a critical period for resource integration, and he, an energy tycoon, is very busy."

The corner of Mimi Li's mouth twitched slightly: "I'm busy, I didn't come to see him either."

"What's the matter with you, you dress up like a lady."

"Don't you like it?" Mimi Li smiled, seeming to intentionally hug Yang Ming a little tighter, "I'm being wanted by seven or eight small countries, of course I have to cover it up."

Yang Ming smiled and said, "It's all here, what are you afraid of?"

"It's always good to be careful," Mimi Li took off her top hat and threw it on the suitcase, a few hairs fluttered to Yang Ming's shoulders, "Why is uncle free this time? Shouldn't you be busier?"

"Go to the boat and talk."

Yang Ming agreed, and led Mimily into the military emergency passage of the space port. Under the watchful eyes of a group of passengers, he boarded a small transport ship and landed on the surface.

Just entering the cabin, Mimily breathed a long sigh of relief when she found that there were only a few maid robots moving around.

"It's killing me!"

Mimi Li complained, and raised her hand to untie her long skirt, Yang Ming quickly turned around and sat in the driver's seat.

There was a rustling sound from behind, and Yang Ming couldn't help turning his head to look, only to see Mimi Li took off her long skirt without hesitation, wearing only a protective jacket and safety pants that were as thin as a vest, In the suitcase, I took out hot pants that were no longer than two centimeters longer than safety pants.

In less than two minutes, the rich daughter turned into a fiery hottie, and her high heels were replaced by a pair of thick-soled short boots.

She was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, with her two straight long legs crossed over the edge of the console, shaking her feet slightly.

Yang Ming said: "You should also pay attention."

"Uncle is not an outsider." Mimi Li blinked her long eyelashes, and took the initiative to lean towards Yang Ming. "Or, Uncle still has some thoughts about me?"

"I promised your father that I can't do anything to you."

Yang Ming sighed lightly:

"While I'm not a conservative person, I do need to respect the promises I make.

"Didn't you just ask, why am I free?

"Just after the imperial expedition ended, there was some turmoil in the country, and the emperor's star circle was not very stable, so I took the excuse of illness and came back to take a walk to avoid the limelight."

Mimily wasn't interested in imperial politics, so she changed the subject after asking a few questions.

She said vigorously: "Okay! Since you have time, Captain Ben will reluctantly be your escort and accompany you around."

"Your fleet doesn't care?"

Mimi Li smiled and said: "What kind of fleet, it's just a group of pirates and some small broken ships. The pirate group has entered the rest period. They went to the black market to resell the squeezed goods. During this period of time, the business is good. They probably will be busy for a few months. .”

Yang Ming was a little puzzled: "Aren't you in charge of finances directly?"

"If I have to do everything by myself, even eight of me will be exhausted by the affairs of the pirate group."

Mimilie stretched.

She seems to be showing off her beautiful figure on purpose, with her slender waist stretched without any fat, her snow-white skin exuding a slight luster, and the smooth waistcoat line is very eye-catching.

Yang Ming almost forgot that this person is a whitening enthusiast.

Mimi Li said slowly: "Since you choose to employ someone, you have to trust him. Rather than worrying about whether this person will betray you all the time, it is better to see his nature clearly before employing someone, and maintain your own prestige on a daily basis."

"All right," Yang Ming chuckled, "Are you going to continue working in the pirate industry?"

"There is no plan to change the line for the time being, but..."

Mimi Li turned her head to look at Yang Ming, her jewel-like eyes shone with light.

"If you allow me to follow you, Uncle, I can temporarily put aside this career.

"What you have experienced is incomparable to my daily pirate life."

"My side is too dangerous," Yang Ming said softly, "I will discuss these matters later. Although I have established a firm foothold in the empire, my foundation is still too shallow, and the road to promotion is not clear. I am also thinking about how to develop next.”

"Uncle, do you want to become the master of the empire?"

"It can only be said that gaining power in the empire will help me to achieve my ideals and goals."

Mimily thought carefully.

Yang Ming turned on the projection screen, pushed it in front of Mimi Li, and said with a smile, "Look, this is the itinerary I arranged for you."

"Uh, Dark Star 2 base? Are we going to your secret base?"

"There's an omnic production line there," Yang Ming said softly, "Aren't you yearning for mechanical transformation? I'll take you to design a few plans for mechanical transformation."

"real?!"

Mimilie was overjoyed, and then she had a tactful sniff of conspiracy.

"Uncle, are you trying to persuade me to give up mechanical transformation, right? I don't change my mind so easily."

Yang Ming smiled without saying a word.

The dark fragrance wafted throughout the cabin, which made him feel much better.

...

"well."

Emperor Star, somewhere on the edge of a city where hundreds of thousands of technicians gather, in a park.

Catherine, who was wearing exoskeleton armor and a tactical helmet, jumped off the hoverboard and sat on a stone-like seat in front of a fountain, quietly lost in thought.

Leaving the manor area of ​​those nobles in the palace, Catherine finally didn't have to watch the scenes of the collective depravity of the great nobles.

There are very few imperial citizens on Emperor Star, only about 100 million people, of which 90 million are 'ordinary citizens', and 10 million are slaves who are like the private property of the royal family and nobles.

There are not many slaves in the empire, and most of them are on some half-resource and half-administrative planets, and they are felons or prisoners of war.

——Before the empire destroyed a small country, it demoted about 3% of its population to abnormal citizens.

Sin and oppression happened to these slaves.

Catherine had actually heard about the persecution of slaves by nobles, but when she actually saw the scene, it still shocked her deep-rooted concepts.

The nobles of the empire are not so noble.

The Emperor Star, which was supposed to be the spiritual symbol of the empire and the representative of civilization, is full of the ugliness of human nature.

Catherine looked down at the communicator. Although she couldn't communicate with the outside world, touching the guy's head with her fingers gave her a little more comfort.

There was a slight tremor on the ground.

The emperor star module began to rotate, and the simulated stars in the sky also began to shift positions.

The star system where Emperor Star is located is dark, because the star in the center has been wrapped by a thin energy-absorbing device, which continuously provides almost endless energy for Emperor Star.

But even so, sometimes energy has to be transported from outside the star system.

Dixing seems to be a monster devouring energy.

Catherine raised her hand to hold the front of the helmet, one figure after another suddenly appeared in her mind.

‘Catherine, don’t think about these meaningless questions and do your job well. '

Director Ruiwa's voice is always so calm.

‘Captain Catherine, we have been fighting desperately just to protect these scumbags? We set the date of death when we were born, and we went to participate in the mortal human dimension ascension experiment, just to pave the way for these scumbags? I can't accept this, I can't accept it! '

‘Captain, we are super reformers, we should face powerful enemies instead of becoming watchdogs of nobles. '

'I can't stand it anymore. '

The voices of the team members gradually became more excited.

‘I saw with my own eyes that they hung up several young people and beat them to death bit by bit, and the corpses were taken to feed their pets! '

Someone whispered in the ear:

‘Children born from slaves are still slaves. They are using genetic optimization technology to select playthings for themselves. Humans are just playthings here, do you understand? '

‘What’s the big deal, if you don’t like it, try to be one of them. '

‘We are super reformers, why should we care about these messy things, otherwise why is this place called the Empire, not the Sherman Federation? '

These figures suddenly disappeared and turned into a girl wearing only one piece of underwear. She rushed out from the corner of the roadside manor, but was grabbed by two mechanical guards and dragged back to the corner gate of the manor.

'help me! help me! Please help me! '

It suddenly occurred to her that in the several foreign wars she participated in, the corpses of soldiers and enemies seemed to be piled up into a hill, and she was standing on the top of the hill blankly at this moment.

"snort!"

Catherine suddenly covered the helmet with both hands, her body trembling slightly, as if she was enduring great pain, her ears kept buzzing.

What she didn't know was that a hidden camera device hidden in a tree not far away had already focused on her and observed her carefully.