Chapter 18: To fall is to stand

The first is accompanied by a shrill siren. The cannon on the side of the hatch showed a shocking red sign on the mountain, similar to an insect-like animation, reminding the people inside the spaceship that the surveillance scanning system had found a chip, the back of the neck of the Federation.

The officials of the Imperial Royal Intelligence Agency, disguised as silk smugglers, reacted very quickly, and in a fraction of a second, they took out the guns on their waists, stopped the two Huai Caoshi behind them, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed in all directions, and the sound of data combing, analysis and tracking sounded in the intercom system on their wrists.

In a few seconds, the officials of the Yue Intelligence Agency put down the firearms in their hands with extremely strange expressions and looked at the small-eyed man behind Her Royal Highness the Princess. Only then did I know that the source of the alarm turned out to be this person.

This man is actually a Federal!

The officials thought of His Highness's comfortable closeness to this person during the departure of the spaceship, and countless questions arose in their hearts, could the rumor that caused the rebellion of the nobles be true?

"Turn down the sound of the alarm system. Huai Caoshi frowned slightly. Walking forward, he said in a cold voice, "I don't want to keep listening to these harsh sounds on the journey back to Tianjing

Xu Le followed her forward, shrugging his shoulders at the strange-looking imperial officials on both sides of the hatch, expressing his innocent feelings, and the fact that Her Royal Highness the Princess did not order his subordinates to turn off the chip scanning system was a little disappointed, and it was also proved from the other side. Although Her Royal Highness the princess can be called the first fierce person in the universe, she is still cautious and careful.

Huai Caoshi carried her hands behind her back, staring at her subordinates with an indifferent expression and still refusing to rest assured that she had replaced the electronically controlled explosives on Xu Le's double fans, until her subordinates worked hard to find a set of heavy electric shock alloy shackles from the warehouse and put them on Xu Le's ankles, she really relaxed and slowly straightened up.

Xu Le watched her eyes slowly narrow. Like a book with a black cover that is about to close, his eyebrows suddenly raised, and he said, "Don't fall." ”

Huai Cao opened his eyes, stared at him and said, "What did you say?"

"Don't pour. Xu Le didn't seem to feel her sharp gaze, and said forcefully:

"Don't forget what you promised me. ”

What did you promise? A dignified way to die or a dignified way to live? Huai Caoshi's eyebrows frowned slightly, and after a while, she remembered something, and a gentle smile rarely bloomed in the corner of her lips, and she stretched out her right hand and pointed to Xu Le on the chair, and said to the subordinates around her: "As long as he doesn't run away, stay good."

"Yes, Your Highness. The intelligence officer on board the spacecraft replied without hesitation.

Hearing this explanation, Xu Le also really relaxed, and his feet that were tightly bound in heavy shackles moved, as if they were scratching. Then looking at Huai Caoshi's eyes slowly narrowing again, he reminded the imperial officials around him: "Hold her." ”

The Imperial officials didn't know what these three words suddenly came out of this Federation person, and more importantly, they had never imagined that Her Royal Highness the Princess, standing by the porthole of the battleship, was thin and thin, but gave people a feeling of invincibility, and Her Highness, who was about to become great with his strength alone, would fall

Sky.

So their response was a step slower.

Huai Caoshi's narrowed eyes finally closed softly together, and with a single eyelid touch, the eternally burning crystalline engine furnace seemed to be turned off, and she still held her hands on her shoulders, proudly and indifferently puffed her chest, and fell backwards in this cool posture.

There was a muffled crack, and the ground of the spaceship she hit as she fell trembled slightly.

There was a burst of incredible exclamations and shouts all around, and the officials of the Imperial Intelligence Agency rushed over as fast as they could, and after a few moments, they discovered with some fear and some incredulity that His Highness was not injured in any way, but was "asleep."

The nervous officials escorted His Highness to rest and were busy opening the treatment cabin, while the officials who stayed in the cabin looked at Xu Le with strange eyes, on the big picture, they didn't understand the real relationship between this Federation person and His Highness, and on a small scale, they didn't understand why this person could see that His Highness was about to fall.

Xu Le lowered his head, his eyes followed the explosives on his swollen shoulders and landed on the heavy alloy shackles, and he pulled the corners of his lips and smiled.

After fleeing and fighting in that sea of mulberry trees for so many days, there was hardly a moment of rest, even if it was a real metal body, I was afraid that it was going to collapse, after entering the spaceship, Huai Caoshi confirmed that it was temporarily safe, once the spirit was relaxed, those fatigue and injuries poured out like a torrent, how could it not fall?

If,,If so, she doesn't fall yet. In the face of such a terrifying enemy, Xu Le really lost all hope, but fortunately, she still fell after all.

The empire was a hierarchical society. The royal family, nobles, commoners, untouchables, slaves, the five classes are divided quite clearly, and the imperial power can still be maintained in the vast space age, and the imperial family relies on the oppression of the class from top to bottom and the incomparably bloody maintenance of order, and the history of the empire is actually a history of repression and resistance. Bloody history has gradually turned the untouchables and slaves into a class, the most miserable class.

In recent history, the most miserable class in the Imperial Realm has become Federations, although very few have been captured into the Empire. But this kind of object, who can spit and throw eggs on the side of the street, can only enjoy the treatment of pigs and dogs.

The Federalists are the best targets for untouchable slaves to vent their grievances, the supreme weapon for maintaining the stability of the Empire's society, and the beacon that guides the Empire forward, so it is natural that it has become the most unshakable link in the strict order of the Empire, and anyone, whether he is a pariah struggling in the slums or a slave with his back to the sky in the mines, has been cultivated to have an instinctive hatred for the Federalists, a fanatical blood-eating impulse.

Existence is not necessarily justified, but there is certainly a legitimate need.

If Xu Le hadn't snatched that sentence out of her mouth before Huai Caoshi fell asleep, then how miserable his treatment would have been on this Intelligence Agency's camouflage spaceship, just like the two Imperial experts on the Red Rose, the Imperial Intelligence Agency officials would definitely not mind slowly torturing and tossing him as an experimental material, until his body was completely exhausted, his liver and intestines and limbs were broken, and he was unable to swallow the past of the Federation heroes with a breath of relief.

Fortunately, at the top of the strict imperial order, there is an unchallengeable imperial power, since Her Royal Highness the princess has spoken, no matter how lowly the Federation people are, they have instantly turned into guests who must be treated well, no matter how unwilling the officials of the Imperial Intelligence Agency are, they must do it, because His Royal Highness will always wake up from a deep sleep.

The disguised smuggling ship broke through the blockade of the rebel fleet and sailed long in the dark silence of space, following the top-secret smuggling route shared by silk smugglers and the Royal Intelligence Service, farther and farther away from the turbulent planet.

During these days, the space standard meal. Delicious Imperial hand-ground coffee, increasingly clear Imperial discourse, Empire and Zhongkai to pass the time

Reciting and understanding is gradually easy to understand the language that is directly related to today's understanding, and the public is Xu Le's instructions in the spaceships.

If the heavy shackles on his ankles hadn't rubbed the skin and bleed, if the explosives had not been so painful from the swollen shoulders, he would have enjoyed the journey.

Other than that, he had been silently watching the actions of the Imperial Intelligence Agency officials, who he had watched as they dealt with the rebel fleet. Talking to those smugglers hidden in the dark, seemingly dangerous but actually escorting Huai Caoshi away from danger in an understatement, I can't help but feel more and more in my heart

Surprise.

The Imperial Drug Intelligence Agency, an intelligence agency much like the Charter Bureau but without a Charter computer, is too capable of displaying too much.

Countless eyeliner spy intelligence information. It's like the ubiquitous chip information feedback on the federal side. If the glory of the charter of the Federation relied on the superior computing power of the central computer and the ubiquitous information nodes, then the intelligence agency used by the imperial family to rule the universe relied on "people, people everywhere, people like the sea and mountains, people like oceans and mountains."

Eleven days have passed since Imperial Standard Time. Xu Le was once again deeply shocked by the picture that appeared on the light curtain.

It is impossible to describe the fleet in space directly ahead, in fact, when this fleet of hundreds of Imperial warships suddenly appeared in front of the interstellar passage, the entire universe seemed to be swallowed up by a dense group of warships, and the black horizontal flower logo on the bow of these warships was so striking that it was chilling.

The terrifying Imperial Royal Fleet finally left the space base outside Tianjing, and they passed by the lone Intelligence Agency spaceship, leaving ten warships as protection, and the rest of the warships all rushed towards the Obstruction Star.

A few days later, the light curtain appeared on the space images around the departing star, countless silent explosions and dazzling fireworks bloomed one after another in that space.

Xu Le squinted at all this. I found that the intelligence agency officials around me did not have any excited expressions, perhaps in the eyes of these imperial officials who were extremely loyal to the royal family, this aristocratic rebellion was a joke, and as long as His Majesty and His Highness were alive, those reactionaries would be torn to shreds sooner or later.

"What are you thinking?"

A voice sounded behind him.

Xu Le subconsciously spoke, he spoke in Imperial Chinese, but immediately reacted, the person behind him spoke Federal, and there was only one person who spoke to him in Federalism on this spaceship. Person.

He turned his head, looked at the ordinary but no one dared to despise the recountenance, and said with a smile: "Awake?"

"Hmm. Huai Caoshi walked to the chair with a cup of coffee, looked at the flames on the light curtain, and said, "It seems that there is something wrong with your emotions." ”

"There is a sea of fire from the star, I don't know how many people will die, can that governor survive?"

"The bad news I just received is that Governor Ke Baoning has been martyred. ”

Xu Le was silent for a moment and then said, "I thought of the officer who had surrounded us in the mulberry sea that day. Although I can't fully understand your conversation, I feel sorry for him. Your aristocrats seem to like to be very fond of pretending, but they don't understand that pretending to be coercive is always easy to kill. ”

Huai Caoshi put down the coffee cup and said, "You don't understand. ”

"I really don't understand, for example, why should the Governor of Copanine, who knew he was going to die, insist on it for you and your father?"

"Your president is a puppet of ballot politics. And with us, "Your Majesty is the Emperor."

This is the end of the discussion. Xu Le was silent again, and suddenly asked, "Can you explain to me the composition of the Imperial fleet that went to quell the rebellion this time?"

The two of them were not the only ones in the room, those Imperial Intelligence Agency officials who were working quietly had actually been listening carefully to the conversation between His Highness and the Federation, their profession was destined to make the Federation a compulsory course, so they heard these conversations clearly, the previous paragraph of the conversation shocked them that Her Royal Highness the high-ranking princess would speak to the Federation pariahs in an equal tone, and the last sentence really made them feel the urge to kill Xu Le immediately.

The configuration of the Imperial fleet, whether it is the most coarse functional ship ratio or the most subtle firepower increase line value, is undoubtedly top-secret information, even ordinary nobles are not qualified to access this information, let alone a Federation person.

There was silence on the ship, and the officers of the Intelligence Agency thought that His Highness might be furious, or that they might not respond unexpectedly, but the next response was beyond their comprehension.

"This fleet is the Sky Thunder Fleet, which belongs to the Royal First Fleet, and the flagship Pine Thunder is powered by twenty-one composite engines, with three layers of armor increasing in thickness"

Huai Caoshi was silent for only a moment, and then began to calmly tell the absolute secret information of the emperor, as if he completely forgot that Xu Le in the chair was a federal soldier.

The entire Imperial Officials of the spaceship were stupid, there was a dead silence except for her voice, and the night cat could hear thunderous footsteps as he walked by.

Only Xu Le noticed the light that flashed in Huai Caoshi's eyes, and only he understood why Huai Caoshi dared to tell him these things.

"What you're asking isn't really important. Huai Caoshi paid attention to the structure of the fleet, and looked down at Xu Le with a smile on his face.

"Is there really a laser weapon in the space base on the outskirts of Tianjing? Xu Le continued to ask unceremoniously.

"When you have the ability to call, you will naturally know. Huai Caoshi put her hands behind her back and said calmly: "But I can give you an approximate firepower, according to the escort ability of your fleet over there, it should be able to last for seventeen seconds." ”

"What about the wolf's tooth mecha?The micro-engines in the wedges in the forty-seven spherical joints, although they can avoid the electronic turbulence interference in the containment room, how can they be synchronized?" β”„β”„The quiet smuggling spaceship headed towards Tianjing Star, and the voices of two young people with ordinary appearances and actually more proud and confident than anyone else sounded in the quiet cabin, this conversation didn't know how long it lasted, Emperor ** Fang's deployment, Tianjingxing's customs and people, the most famous food of the imperial people, and the most direct questions had the most direct answers, and then brought the most direct shock to the imperial officials on the ship.

In the middle of the answer, there was a certain sword-like atmosphere brewing.

In that sea of mulberry trees, Xu Le and Huai Caoshi had discussed, and now it just pushed that discussion one step further.

You say you want to escape, but you're just asking for trouble.

She knew that he would definitely have to escape, and that if he knew this information, once he fled, it would cause more harm to the empire, but she wanted to say it, because she firmly believed that he could not escape, but the more she knew, the more she wanted to escape, the more painful it became.

This is an interesting gamble.

Xu Le, the man who already looked like a gallows guard, had the hair tied around the neck of the carp with the death line written on it. Every time Huai Cao Shi said one more word, those chips would increase more and more, reaching thousands of tons, tens of thousands of tons. Tens of millions of tons, like seawater.

"Actually, you don't have to bet this with me. ”

The ghosts of the royal warships around the ship scattered. A vague nebula loomed in the distance. Xu Le didn't know if it was the destination, and after ending today's discussion and having a preliminary understanding of the literary history of the empire, he suddenly said to the Huaicao poems beside him.

"I never gamble. Wai Zhuoshi squinted at the nebula, which was only the size of a fingernail, and said, "Since the beginning of the war, there have been a total of twenty-seven Federation prisoners who pretended to surrender and then tried to escape. Many of them are much more cunning than you. There are many powerful men, but none of them can escape three kilometers from the planet's surface. ”

Xu Le was silent, knowing what she was talking about.

Huai Caoshi glanced indifferently at the back of Xu Le's neck, a trace of disgust appeared in her eyes, and said mockingly: "Just like we can't enter the Federation, so do you. Let the dog's tail be planted in the body, and I don't know what you Federation people think. ”

Xu Le smiled, did not have a fierce quarrel with the other party about the chip, and instead said: "This is not something I can choose or decide. ”

"I sympathize with you and you. Huai Caoshi frowned slightly and said, "So I don't understand." Why are you smiling so happily watching death get closer and closer, I don't believe you really have the confidence to escape. ”

"Of course. Her straight eyebrows were there. Squint said, "I'm looking forward to you giving me some surprise." ”

"Could this be the legendary so-called master Lonebin?" Xu Le scratched his head, his shoulders ached, and his brows furrowed.

"Probably. Huai Caoshi replied.

In the magnificent interstellar age, the individual heroism supported by super strength has long given way to the cold mechanical order, and in this context, anyone who dares to express the feelings of invincibility like the princess by the porthole can probably be classified as a madman or a pretending idiot, but the history is so long. With such a large human base, there will always be peerless cattle people who are qualified to say such things.

For example, Li Pifu, such as the person who was slapped by Li Pifu, such as him, such as her, such as him.

"I'll do my best. Xu Le looked into her eyes and replied in the most serious tone in his life.

The spaceship landed on a massive planet. A bulletproof limousine escorted the group out of the royal secret military base and drove about 70 kilometers into a heavily guarded manor.

Xu Le, who was wearing a dark helmet, couldn't see any pictures, couldn't even hear any sound, all of this was completely out of his brain's reasoning. The acceleration of gravity when landing, the speed felt by the body, and the time in the mind are all just inferences.

The soles of his feet stepped on the protruding cobblestone road, Xu Le was escorted by the emperor ** and staggered forward, and he suddenly said: "I still have a very important question to ask, that is, what kind of eight rice." ”

He knew that Huai Caoshi definitely didn't leave at this time, and if she was leaving, she would definitely say something to herself. Sure enough, after a while, he heard the man's indifferent and calm voice: "I will tell you before you die." ”

Xu Le smiled and didn't say anything more.

Huai Caoshi squinted her eyes, looking at the back of the figure who disappeared into the underground passage, and she didn't know why she always felt something strange in her heart, not because of this gamble she thought she would win, but because of something else.

On the way back to the core star field of the empire on the Red Rose, she needs to know Xu Le's secrets at all costs, but after receiving a complete intelligence analysis. She immediately retracted the idea of cutting off the person's arm, because she firmly believed that with this person's seemingly wooden but strong temperament, she would definitely choose to commit suicide without hesitation once faced with such a situation.

At that time, she didn't want him to die too early, too quickly, and now the situation in the empire does not allow him to commit suicide, he can only be killed, because the royal family still has to give a clear explanation and explanation after all.

The dark silent cell is no stranger to Xu Le. He had been in such a lonely environment for half a year, and the fox fortress used to be as kind but damn as his second home, except that he had old things playing love action movies back then. What can we have now? I just keep thinking. The metal bracelet on his left wrist has been being tried and gently stroked in secret.

The life in the black prison did not last long, he ushered in the senior judges of the imperial trial and the cruel executioners in his eyes, and after listening carefully to the imperial sentence with a Tianjing accent, Xu Le finally understood that he would be executed in public at the gate of the palace tomorrow.

He frowned his itchy brow, scratched his itchy hair, rubbed his itchy instep, and the electric controls on his swollen shoulders and the heavy shackles on his ankles clanged in a somewhat disturbing way.

"What about the dignity you promised?"

He looked at the darkness outside the black prison and asked very seriously.

"No torture, no Ling Chi, no humiliation, dying from a metal bullet, isn't that dignity for a soldier?"

Huai Caoshi appeared at the door of the black cell, and said indifferently with her hands behind her back.

"I don't understand why you're going to do so much to judge, but my empire is right, and you seem to say I'm the illegitimate son of Li Pifu. Xu Le stared at her by the door.

"Isn't it an honor for a Federation person to die in such an capacity?"

"Of course not. Xu Le shook his head and said: Master, I have a name, a surname, a father, a mother, a sister, a teacher, and a friend, so I don't have this hobby. ”

Huai Caoshi was silent for a moment, and then said, "I will tell you about Badao before the execution. ”

After saying this, she silently turned around with her hands behind her back and prepared to leave.

"It's a pity I didn't get a chance to hear the best secrets. Xu Le looked at her back and grinned, his white teeth as bright as Bei's eyes when he was like this.

Huai Caoshi's pupils shrank sharply, her body roared through the air, and she slashed at Xu Le's chest with one finger!

However, when his fingertips were still a few centimeters away from his chest, the smiling small-eyed man spurted out a mouthful of black blood, and then fell straight down.

Yesterday from Mudanjiang to Harbin, and then no ticket back to Fuqing, and finally bought a soft sleeper, the conductor laughed crazy, "Find a day to talk about what you have been busy these days, shame."

It was broken for a total of seven days, and I owe you seven chapters, this chapter is 6,000 words, and I make up one chapter, and I still owe six chapters. : I thought of a line just now, it should be in a comedy movie, and my family asked; What did you promise? What is that?