Chapter 806, Crickets in the Golden Cage
Megrey's Universe, Miting Star Domain, Miting Star.
The golden dome reflects the light of the artificial sun, soaking the entire chamber in a honey-like color. Kane Alcavon, the president of the McGrad's Universe, leaned on the throne inlaid with teardrop rubies, and the pearl curtain made a shattering sound as his nervous trembled.
Below him, many ministers knelt on the black jade floor tiles inlaid with star maps, with electronic shackles engraved with family heralds on their necks - this was the new policy three months ago, and Alkafon declared that he needed to ensure "the concentration of the court meeting."
He had to do it.
It has been thirty years since the catastrophe broke out. And Alcafon fifteen years ago was not like this. At that time, he was still enterprising.
There are some special places in the McGrath Domain.
Due to some historical problems, the chairman of the universe is a long-term dynasty family of all generations.
Ten thousand years ago, when the emperor was conducting a great expedition, the Alkafon family was a family of rulers named ‘McGrey’ human pocket empire with Miting Star as the core. When the Emperor arrived, they quickly raised the entire Pocket Empire to surrender.
And, their country is very special. During that longer dark age, McGrey's Kingdom was astonishingly without any abnormalities.
In their kingdom, neither disgusting alien technology nor disturbing subspace powers were seen. It is a very pure human country, and the people's living standards are quite good. It is an enlightened monarchy...
The complete surrender not only brought hundreds of complete and pure worlds to the empire, but also actively responded to the empire's call, provided resources, formed legions, and sent troops to fight. In the expedition that lasted for hundreds of years, it played a great role in restoring the entire universe.
So, this universe was named after the country of McGrey and was granted to the Alcafon family for a long time. The Chairman of the Earth Domain, controlled by the Arkafon Dynasty for generations, is known as the "McGrey Royal Family".
The Alkafon family once had a glorious history. Not only did they make great contributions to the empire during the Great Expedition, but they also emerged from many wise kings after the Great Expedition. There were even many times when King McGrey went to the Holy Terra to serve as the high lord as the chairman of the universe.
But, the Empire is a big dye vat.
After being included in the empire for ten thousand years, I am afraid that there are only some clues that can be seen in documents, records, and history. Today's McGrey Star Domain is no different from the ordinary Empire's Universe Domain. The McGrey royal family also "degenerate" in their long, unworrying power life.
You can't really produce wise kings from generation to generation, right?
The so-called "all-time series" of the Alkafon royal family cannot really reach the level of "all-time". In the last thousand years, the Alcafon family has lost the position of Chairman of the McGrath Domain many times, until eight hundred years in the last thousand years, their family has not been in power.
Although they did not directly control the position of Chairman of the Universe, they were still one of the most important political families in the McGrad Universe.
Kane Alcavon's great-grandfather came to power in the last Iron Armor War. He came to power while the McGrath Universe was invaded by the Iron Armored Army and was in chaos. After the war, the Alkafon family fell into political siege again, looking swaying.
Kane Alcavon is the young generation of kings. At the age of fifty-four, he took over the unstable McGrey Throne from his great-grandfather.
He is lucky to stand out from countless descendants of the Alkavon royal family; he can stabilize Alkavon's already unstable royal power again, and it can also prove that he is capable.
But in the tenth year after he took power, a catastrophe broke out. From this perspective, he was unfortunate again.
Even unfortunately—or it can be said that he was lucky—in the first year of the catastrophe, he received a letter to fellow disasters from the high lord and from the alliance leader Gu Hang.
This seems to be an opportunity.
Just like his ancestor ten thousand years ago, when facing the upcoming emperor, he made an extremely correct choice, at least ensuring the glory and wealth of their family for thousands of years.
Now, the same choice came to him.
And he, without hesitation -
chose to scold Gu Hang.
In the entire McGrad Universe, he scolded Gu Hang the most fiercely.
Call him a country thief, an empire traitor, accomplice of the Chaos...
He smashed Gu Hang's head all over.
He beat him from the bottom of his heart and did not accept the alliance. Even before the catastrophe broke out, he was a staunch anti-alliance faction, believing that it was a warlord who was separatist on the border, and thus received support from many policies of the central government of the empire.
He was jealous of Gu Hang, who are you? You just want to ride on my head?
You deserve to be the high lord?
Also worthy of being a savior?
All in all, it just doesn't recognize it.
In terms of actual interests, accept the control committee, even if it will guarantee a certain power under this new system. But, how can we compare with the royal power?
As for comparing this opportunity with his ancestors ten thousand years ago... Don't be funny, can Gu Hang be compared with the emperor, build a new empire, and then continue his family for ten thousand years?
Dream!
And McGrey has similar ideas, more than just him?
Everyone knows what the alliance system is. No matter how you guarantee the existing vested interest groups, it can only be said to reduce losses. In the final analysis, they still need to subvert the existence, redistribution, and reform. In any case, they take away power and wealth from their hands. In the future, they will not be able to eat much of the dividends of social development. The rank system of the alliance does have a very good living standard at the high level, but it is different from now on, everything is mine, private, or private.
These opponents still have great power, and after Kane Alcavon issued the declaration against Gu Hang, these people were united quite smoothly by his side.
The entire group was still very powerful in the early stages of the catastrophe. They were united and they were enterprising. In the first fifteen years of the disaster, they established a contact circle of about one hundred worlds.
Communication and navigation are connected.
Although it is impossible to be as smooth as the alliance, it is already rare in the current environment.
But they paid a lot of money in this process. The loss of population is secondly, and the shrinking of wealth is even more heartbreaking.
At present, many people in interest groups think it's OK. It’s time for everyone to make money and make back the losses caused by the catastrophe and the cost of re-exploitation investment in the past fifteen years. Even, including Alcafon himself, had similar ideas.
Especially in the process of developing outward, as the entire regime grows larger, the cost of developing outward has increased sharply, and the difficulty has reached a terrifying level.
The pioneering gradually stopped, and the hedonism and extravagance began to gain the upper hand again.
This step of the process came so quickly that it even caught people off guard.
These trends are even more powerful than before the catastrophe.
A whole day of cocktail party, glorious ceremonies, exquisite buildings and artworks... if it were just these, it might be normal.
But many abnormal things, such as unrestrained indulgence parties, abuse of psychotropic drugs, childbirth, same-sex, group promiscuity, abuse and fun... These are unacceptable. Even some "fun" that are more disgusting and more breaking through the bottom line of human nature have become popular in secret.
It is said that Kane Alcavon also personally participated in some of the evolution and later on, he was even a "big playmaker".
But these were all threatened three years ago.
After more than twenty years of dark side expedition, the alliance really came.
The arrival of the alliance shattered the self-deception of the McGrath Domain government: before that, they generally believed that the so-called saving all the empire worlds was just bragging. The alliance is coming to them across thousands of worlds, and I don’t know how long it will take to fight—especially after they have personally experienced how difficult and painful it is to explore the outside world.
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Even if the alliance can really come, it won’t be a few hundred years later.
As a result, the alliance has arrived in just over twenty years.
The two sides officially started war.
But with the current virtues of the government in the universe, can it still be defeated?
Yes.
In recent years, the degree of psychics has been found to increase significantly in more than a hundred worlds under the control of the Mitingxing authorities; the number of mutants infected by subspace has also increased significantly. The latter should have been dealt with seriously, but after some powerful people "played" in private, they claimed that these mutants could be trustworthy and recruited a large number of troops.
The combat power of these mutants is quite good. In addition, the number of psychic wizards is dozens of times that of the past. In the early stages of the war, they fought back and forth with the alliance.
It's only in the early days.
And then, when the league stepped up its efforts and changed its tactics, their doomsday was coming day by day.
Another court meeting was held on Mitingxing under such a general background.
"So what you mean..." Alkafon suddenly stretched his neck, and a dangerous red light flashed through the amethyst monitor embedded in his cheekbones. "Is it wrong to execute General Hawke?"
The Adam's apple of the military chief rolling: "We are just worried that the execution of the best fleet commander will shake..."
"What to shake? How can the maggots gnaw on the efficiency of rotten meat?" Alkafon suddenly lifted the curtain, revealing his face covered with purple veins - that was the sequelae of long-term injection of some high-quality agent. He stepped barefoot across the back of the kneeling chief financial officer, his spine covered with joy ridges bulged like centipedes under his silk robe.
Another minister held his knees and handed onto the data board: "In the past three months, the fall of the border galaxy has accelerated by 37%, and the Wang Fleet needs..."
"Pure more loyalty is needed!" Alkafon kicked the data board, and the sharp fragments slashed the minister's cheeks, "Just like the truth I discovered when purifying the kitchen last month - when 98% of ordinary ingredients are removed, the girl's heart and liver broth will reveal its original taste."
A muffled sound suddenly came from the dome of the hall, and a few gold powder fell on the wig carefully maintained by the Minister of Etiquette. Everyone tacitly ignored the regular tremor that lasted for four months - that was the aftermath of the bombing of the orbital defense platform.
Four months ago, small-scale alliance fleets have been constantly invading the Miting Galaxy, and sometimes giving the orbital defense platform system a shot.
"Maybe you can consider contacting the Control Committee..." The young Foreign Affairs Secretary was interrupted as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Contact?" Alcafon suddenly giggled, grabbed a barbed silver comb from the secret compartment of the throne, and began to combed his knotted hair frantically, "Do you know what happened in the execution room yesterday? The guy who called himself Gu Hang's messenger, his internal organs reorganized an artistic painting in a strong magnetic field!"
"In fact, the loyalty of the people..." As soon as the Minister of Civil Affairs started the holographic projection, the head of state pierced his palm and nailed it to the wall.
"Loyalty? Let me see!" Alkafon inserted the nerve access port into the eyes of the Minister of Civil Affairs. The holographic picture stained with blood suddenly filled the hall - a flesh and blood mass was being held at the bottom of a certain nest. The mutant believers used bone spurs to engrave excerpts on the walls of "The Letter to the Disaster Compatriots". "Is this what you call loyalty?!" He pinched the skull of the Minister of Civil Affairs with his hand, and his purple nails began to extend, slowly inserted into his brain from different organs on his head.
The severe pain made the other party scream, but it sounded like a wonderful movement in Alcafon's ears.
He even listened to the whispers in pain through countless torture methods in the past and learned how to adjust the techniques so that this movement can become more beautiful.
Most of the ministers around him fell into enjoyment with him. Although perhaps they will become ‘instruments’ in the future, at least they are still listeners now.
But there are also a few who keep their eyes clear and look at each other.
The most important defense minister in the Military Affairs Department finally sighed silently under the eyes of several other colleagues, and then nodded slightly.
After getting the hint, the Foreign Affairs Secretary pressed a button on his back with relief.
After 36 minutes, the torture is almost over and the movement is about to end.
But at this moment, all the lights in the royal court began to flash violently. Then, in a panic among the crowd, it suddenly went out.
Twelve rays of lightning split the explosion-proof door of the conference hall, with red background and white sides. The Terminator Space Marines with the logo of the bird of rebirth in the fire directly crushed the floor tiles of Mo Yu with heavy steps.
(This chapter ends)