Chapter 68: Thunder (Form 8)
From the time he killed the royal family of the Zhao and Song Empires and controlled the rise of the army in the southwest region, his information has been placed on the table of countless heads of state or people with great power.
Zagu S. W. Iseras, a native of Celtalia in the Zhao Song Empire, of unknown age. He is extremely self-disciplined, does not smoke, does not drink, does not women, only sleeps four hours a day, and lives a simple life. Compared to the heads of other nations or nobles, Zagu lived like an ascetic, and his habits were so ashamed that even the ascetics of the Papal States of St. Calinia would have seen it. For decades, Zagu's character has become extremely calm and calm, and in the past few years, nothing will surprise him, even the last time he attacked the Lekima Federation, but he was defeated when victory was imminent, and even when General Douglas, the commander-in-chief of the front army, was captured by the enemy, he did not have the slightest impulse and regret, just waved his hand casually, as if he was going home for dinner, and said two words: "Retreat." ”
But contrary to his calm and calm character, Zagu is an out-and-out madman at heart.
His only hobby is to conquer cities and seize territory. For this purpose, he can give anything.
Desperate militarism, dictatorial control!
After he succeeded to the throne as emperor, every decree and every decision was made to make the army stronger and the battleship mecha indestructible! And the struggling people, he turned a blind eye.
According to the Universe Bank, Iseras's military spending as a percentage of GDP is the highest of any country, at a staggering 64.3 percent.
Since he came to power, Yserath has not built a single park, a school, or a public facility in the country. The tone corresponds to the rapid rise of several super-large heavy industry group companies, and countless powerful mecha warships have stepped off the production line and incorporated into the active army. Almost every day, Iseras's combat prowess rises a notch. There are only two ways out of this hellish life, one is to smuggle and spend a lot of money to find a smuggler to escape from Isseras, but unfortunately under the strict defense of the border patrol, except for the years when Zagu first came to power, the rate of successful escape in these years is less than 10%. As for the remaining ninety percent, they have already dissipated into the vast starry sky;
Another way out is to become a soldier.
During Zagu's reign, the soldiers' salaries were raised almost several times a year. The wages of soldiers gradually surpassed those of ordinary people, white-collar workers, elites, and civil servants, and they became the most well-paid civilian class. Under this stimulus, the first choice of every young person after finishing high school is to be admitted to a military academy and become an officer. If you don't pass the test, then try every means to join the army, even if it's a small soldier, it's better than any other profession.
People who work hard are desperately earning enough money to support their families, while those who are good at drilling camps are like fish in water.
Society is gradually collapsing, and the virtues of kindness, love, compassion, and optimism that should be expected of human beings have disappeared one by one.
It's not that no one thought of resisting, but Zagu, who had the army firmly in his hands, how could he be defeated by a group of people who wanted to be strong but not robbed, and who wanted no people? After several successive "bandits" and brutal suppression, to this day, Zagu's position is becoming more and more calm.
Among the flagships, Zagu's slightly short body stood with his head upright, and the momentum that was inadvertently revealed made people feel that he was the tallest of all of them.
From the very beginning of this battle, Zagu has closely watched it, so to speak, from beginning to end.
But whether it was when the morale of the rebels was like a rainbow, or when the two innate masters were invincible, and then when the rebels fled in disarray, his expression did not change in the slightest. Everyone else thought that their majesty was calm enough, but they didn't know that from the moment the self-exploding battleship exploded just now, and the plasma was everywhere, Zagu was distracted.
He suddenly thought of his childhood, his parents, and the years he had fought for.
Suddenly, he came back to his senses, and his eyes fell on the screen again.
The self-detonating battleships belonging to the rebels exploded one after another, and correspondingly, the more than 1,000 royal warships that protected around the flagship were constantly engulfed in plasma, and nearly a thousand warships were destroyed in just a short period of distraction. The enemy, on the other hand, only lost about 200 self-detonating battleships.
It is often said that when a person is about to die, he will always remember the past. Am I, Zaku, going to die here today?
He couldn't help but turn his head, his gaze sweeping over everyone in the command room. These people were the most loyal people who had followed him for more than ten years, and they had not had the slightest fear in the face of an overwhelming rain of bullets on the battlefield, but now, why did each of them have such a pale face.
Have they all concluded that they have failed?
Zagu suddenly sneered.
Who am I, I am Zagu, my dream is to conquer the whole universe. How could I die when my dreams had not yet come true?
Zagu raised his head suddenly, and the velvet big cloud behind him was windless, and strode towards the light brain control center in the command room.
"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty! The officer in charge of controlling the main control of the optical brain heard someone approaching, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at it, but he suddenly trembled with fright, and hurriedly got up and saluted.
"Get out of the way." Zagu said lightly.
"Uh...... Be! ”
Although I don't know what His Majesty is going to do, but in this situation, if he doesn't get out of the way, I'm afraid he will immediately turn into a corpse.
"Your Majesty, what are you going to do here?" Several old men who hurried over stood beside Zagu with gloomy faces. His Majesty was about to sit down and glared at him coldly: "Kurdi, you are just the head of internal affairs, do you have to report to you first on every move?" ”
The old man named Kurdi was suddenly covered in sweat, and hurriedly shook his head and said in a panic: "Your Majesty, Weichen is loyal, and the sun and the moon are clear!" ”
"Oh?" Zagu looked at him with a smile: "Since you are so loyal, when you go back this time, you will spit out all the money you have embezzled over the years." I guess I can build half a fleet. ”
In an instant, it was as if Kurdi had been struck by a thunderbolt.
He asked himself that he had always been very careful, and no one would know, but how did His Majesty know?
However, after staying by Zagu's side for more than ten years, he still reacted quickly, and hurriedly lay on the ground, not daring to raise his head: "The criminal knows his mistake, and when he goes back this time, he will immediately contribute all his family property." But Your Majesty, now that the thieves are about to come, please ask Your Majesty to evacuate immediately in a lifeboat. ”
"Hehehe......" Zagu looked at him with a mocking expression: "This kind of thing has happened countless times in history, and every time there will be a large group of courtiers crying bitterly to persuade the emperor to flee." It's a pity, even a middle school student knows that if the emperor doesn't leave, those ministers won't dare to escape. That's it, if you want to go, there are many escape boats, so you can go as you like. ”
The old men's faces were extremely ugly, and it was clear that Zagu's words had said everything they had in mind.
Immediately, someone lay on the ground and shouted to the sky. However, before he could speak, as soon as he squeezed out two tears, Zagu waved his hand, and a beam of light burst out of his hand and passed through the man's head. The body shook, and then fell to the ground, and after two convulsions, he never moved again.
Throwing the beam gun in his hand aside, Zagu sneered: "I've let you go, and it's really annoying to be noisy here...... And you, if you want to go, you can leave, if you don't go, you will be quiet, dare to talk nonsense, just like that! ”
The ministers hurriedly took a few steps back, frightened, and did not dare to say a word again, not even to let out the atmosphere.
Sitting in front of the main control light brain, Zagu stroked the virtual keyboard, smiled coldly, and quickly tapped on it with both hands, no less fast than a regularly trained mecha warrior.
After entering a complex password, an interface that everyone had never seen before suddenly popped up.
The others couldn't understand what Zagu was doing, but the officer who was operating the light brain before suddenly widened his eyes. Isn't the out-of-body graphics displayed on the screen the battlefield outside? Aren't those white markings the remnants of the first detachment of the Royal Fleet outside that are desperately resisting? Why...... Why did those warships change positions with His Majesty's actions? Isn't it possible for each ship to operate independently?
Suddenly, the officer was drenched in a cold sweat. He had already seen that the system that His Majesty was now operating was able to remotely control all the surrounding Isseras warships!
Under Zagu's control, the remnants of the battleships that had lost their formation were controlled by him one by one, and quickly formed a new formation, fighting while retreating, never making contact with those self-detonating battleships, and only using weapons to delay the speed of those self-detonating battleships. At the same time, the tens of thousands of transport ships not far away that had become extremely chaotic were also controlled by Zagu, one by one the engines were overloaded, and rushed towards the group of self-exploding warships.