Chapter 2093 Visitor in the Dark
2094. Visitor in the Dark
"Dunn..." Palpatine's gloomy and distorted voice sounded.
Dunn Wessex hurriedly rolled out of the queue, almost crawling on the ground, bowed and said: "What are your orders, Your Majesty."
"Geth, it was Tang Xiao who released him. "I'm pretty sure of that," Palpatine said slowly.
"The defense line in the north is now as solid as a rock, Your Majesty. Not only that, I am also constantly looking for the geth's home planet. As long as I can find it, it will be crucial to unlocking the secrets of the geth." Dunn-Wei Sykes said.
"I strongly believe that you can stop the geth invasion, Dunn." Although Palpatine's tone was extremely gloomy, his words revealed his trust and love for Dunn, "But things are different. The key is how Tang Xiao released Geth."
Dunn-Wessex frowned and pondered, "Among the countless pieces of information and stories, the one thing that is relatively certain at the moment is that Tang Xiao. Xiao and the others come from the Unknown Star Territory. In the era when our history has not yet been recorded, a huge war may have broken out in the Unknown Star Territory. Tang Xiao and the others are war refugees. My Seventh Army has been responsible for the exploration of the Unknown Star Territory for a long time, and there are many of them. We are convinced that in addition to the Chiss, there are countless races in the Unknown Star Territory, some powerful and some strange. The evolution of species in the Unknown Star Territory may be completely different from what we usually know. Si, maybe one of them."
"So now that Tang Xiao can find Geth and control Geth, what about us?" Palpatine asked, "What if the unknown star field is still weird and powerful. Races exist, find them, and make them available to the Empire!"
"As you wish, my Majesty," Dunn-Wessex responded quickly.
"Wilhuff!" Palpatine looked in Tarkin's direction again, "DS-1 combat platform, can the completion date be confirmed?"
Wilhuff-Tarkin stood up very He said with certainty: "Although the construction process of DS-1 was difficult, we have eliminated many problems. Recently, Krennic found a talented energy scientist, Galen Erso, who will help us solve the problem of DS-1 The most difficult technology - the problem of crystal energy focusing."
He raised his head and said: "Five years later, while our fleet is preparing, DS-1 will fight. The final construction of the space station will also be completed! Under the joint attack of DS-1 and our invincible fleet, the Dawn Principality will not have any chance of struggling!"
"Hahahahaha! Very good! Very good!" Palpatine said several good words in succession, and he seemed to be in a very good mood now, "Remember, don't bomb the Dawn Planet with DS-1, I want to save Tang Xiao's life... ...I want him to watch everything he has built be destroyed by me bit by bit...hehehehe...men are killed, women are ravaged, homes are burned, and the land is trampled. Let him wail in pain and despair for ten thousand years! Hahahahaha..."
He walked down from the throne laughing and walked through the power core of the empire. They were also very sensible and automatically arranged into two teams headed by the currently favored Dunn Wessex and Wilhuff Tarkin, following Palpatine.
"Is there anything we can do about the recent political turmoil in the Dawn Principality?" Palpatine asked again.
Hei Dong, the Minister of Imperial Intelligence, immediately replied: "I am arranging for someone to get close to Francis Underwood. I believe that with the power of our empire and the price offered, Francis will never be able to refuse. "
"Haha...you can get close to the Prime Minister of the Dawn Principality?" Palpatine asked coldly, "Since you can get close to him, you can naturally assassinate him, right?"
"This is indeed impossible to do at the moment." Black Hole shook his head, "But Francis' close confidant, Douglas Stamp, was forced to resign due to a scandal today. I think he will be the most suitable for us. Breaking point. Magistrate Mas Sirrah has led his team to carry out this mission."
"Very...good...(Goooood), hehehehe. If you can instigate rebellion against the Chancellery of the Principality of Dawn, I will reward you heavily, hahahahaha." Palpatine laughed proudly again.
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Douglas Stamp suddenly raised his head and drank the entire glass of wine. Even the bartender at the bar was shocked by the amount of alcohol he drank.
"One more drink! The dew wine from Planet Seria is indeed... delicious..." Douglas Stamp said drunkenly.
"My suggestion is, don't. My friend, you have already drank too much. The stamina of Rain and Dew Wine is very strong. If this continues, you may not even be able to find the door home." Some elderly bartenders Shaked his head.
“Don’t you think I can’t pay you?” Douglas roared angrily, raised his wrist to open the payment tool on the universal tool, and punched the bartender in the face with his drunkenness, “I have plenty of fucking money! ”
"That's not what I meant, friend. I open this bar, and I really don't want to make money like you." The bartender sighed, "Have a glass of juice, it's my treat. Then go home, or stay in the back How about sleeping on the sofa?”
“Wow! Is this the drunk guy who apologized on TV yesterday?” A drinker next to him seemed to recognize Douglas and pointed here.
"Obviously you are wrong! George is the younger brother of my wife's cousin! Get away from me, this guy is drunk!" The old bartender waved his hand to drive away the curious drinkers.
"Alas..." After the drinker left, he sighed, leaned on the table while washing the glasses, and whispered to Douglas, "Listen, friend, people like you shouldn't appear in this world. Here. It doesn't matter whether it's public or private. Go back and find your assistant, bodyguard, guard...anything. "
"Who am I? I am a civilian now. Any job, civilian." Douglas said drunkenly, "How can a civilian have a bodyguard? No, no. I only have my coat... Oh, by the way, if I don't have the money to pay, this coat can be worth it. 5,000 yuan.”
"I won't accept your coat. It's in our best interest to go back to where you belong and do what you're supposed to do." The old bartender shook his head and said.
"That's enough, I'll send him back." A man in a black trench coat suddenly came over from nowhere, sat in front of the old bartender, and pushed a credit ingot worth 1,000 No. 4 coins in his hand. .
"Who are you? I've never seen you in this bar." The old bartender became alert.
"Obviously you remembered it wrong. It doesn't matter, I will take him away." said the black windbreaker.
The old bartender was stunned, then nodded, "Ah, okay. I understand. Take him back quickly, this guy is drunk."
The black windbreaker helped Douglas Stamp up and led him outside.
As soon as he walked out a few steps, he saw several burly men in plain clothes walking over and whispered to him: "Put him down!"
"So you are his family? Anyway, before you take this drunkard away, pay for my coat first! This guy vomited all over me!" The black windbreaker had an annoyed look on his face. The previous gloominess was completely gone, and now he looked completely philistine. As expected, he was covered in Douglas's vomit.
"Okay, I'll give you the money. It's enough for you to buy ten coats. Thank you for taking care of my... uh, distant cousin!" One of the big men took out his hand without saying a word. He took out a handful of credit ingots and stuffed them in his hand, "I'm sorry. So you should go home quickly, wash your clothes and go to bed."
"I want to fucking... Oh, okay, no problem." After the black windbreaker clearly saw the face value of the credit ingot in his hand, he immediately smiled and turned around happily.
The big man breathed a sigh of relief, touched the invisible intercom on his Adam's apple, and whispered: "This is the blue team, we found Douglas... Yes, he is drunk. But everything around him is normal. ...Okay, I will arrange for the green team to follow that person for a while.”
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Douglas Stamp opened his eyes and found that it was already morning, and. He had also been cleaned up and placed on the bed. A warm fragrance hit his face, and he realized that there was a naked young girl lying next to him. And judging from the current state of the bed, it was obvious that at least 20,000 words of drama had occurred between them.
He sat up suddenly, and his movement woke up the girl. She leaned over with a smile, kissed Douglas Stamp on the cheek, then dropped a communicator and said: "I hope you had a good time last night, sir. Now, you should listen to this communication."
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After saying that, she grabbed the clothes on the bed and left without looking back.
Douglas Stamp turned on the communicator, and Francis Underwood appeared in the holographic projection. He was wearing glasses and seemed to be working on documents.
"You're awake, Doug. I hope this woman can let out some of your excess anger and help you regain your composure. Don't worry, your wife doesn't know about this." Francis Without looking up, he said, "But you made another serious mistake last night. You drank too much and fell out of your protection. This makes me reconsider whether it is appropriate for me to continue to have you around."
"I swear such a thing will never happen, absolutely not!" Douglas Stamp quickly got up.
“How can you expect me to trust you, Doug?” Francis Underwood was still looking at the document and did not look up. “I have made all the proper arrangements, but you because You feel resentful and secretly go out to get drunk? Tell me, which of these things did you not bring upon yourself?”
"No! It's just an accident! I don't have any other ideas!" Douglas shouted.
"Now, go home. Calm down and stay away from the hustle and bustle of the political arena. I will come back to you at the right time." Francis finally raised his head and said.
"Have you given up on me? After I took the blame for you, your first reaction was to abandon me! Fuck!!" Douglas, still drunk, cursed angrily and grabbed the bottle next to him. The water bottle was smashed with a crash.
"Standing in our position, the first thing you should not have is such an emotion, Doug." Francis said seriously: "Go back and calm down for a while."
< br>"Don't always be so condescending Frank!" Douglas pointed at Francis's nose in the holographic projection and said loudly, "Don't you think I don't know? You are afraid! Afraid of Hari Seldon because of 'that thing' And get Tang Xiao's approval! Then he will take away your position as the Prime Minister! Once 'that thing' is carried out, he will be the Prime Minister of the Empire! Do you think you are calm? You are equally crazy about this!”
However, Francis Underwood just looked up at him, said nothing, and closed the communication.
With a bang, the communicator in Douglas' hand shattered on the wall.
At this time, there was a polite knock on the door.
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Back in the villa he bought on the outskirts of Dawn Planet, Douglas Stamp turned on the holographic projection and stared at the news that was constantly playing in a daze.
The news is all about recent events, about the Prime Minister's Office implementing new economic policies, but it has been criticized for disregarding national security and blindly pleasing ignorant people. Some even say that Francis took this opportunity to curry favor with civilian companies that had been left out in the cold during preparations for war.
“You know nothing!” Douglas waved his hand, and the universal tool automatically sensed and turned off the projection.
Yes, these guys know nothing!
The struggle between Francis Underwood and Helmut Zemo is not a battle of ideas at all, let alone a battle between pacifism and warism, but a battle between pacifism and warism. It’s a battle for the throne of the future Imperial Prime Minister!
Tang Xiao wants to take a step further from the position of Grand Duke of Dawn. Helmut Zemo has been preparing for this for a long time, and Tang Xiao himself has not explicitly rejected this.
As we all know, if the ruler does not refuse on such a topic, it means agreeing.
So after taking the next step, what about the others? Will it continue to improve as the rising tide lifts all boats, or will it be swept away by the waves? Hard to guarantee. Because now Tang Xiao's mood is very unstable, and no one can guess it.
But one thing is quite obvious, and that is how much Tang Xiao values Hari Seldon. He has been focusing on cultivating this new generation of young people in politics, and Hari Seldon has also delivered excellent results.
If this continues and Operation Plan Zero proposed by Hari Seldon is implemented and even succeeds in the end, then no one will know whether Francis will be the Prime Minister or not!
So, Francis was also forced to the wall.
Douglas sighed, stood up and subconsciously walked towards the wine cabinet. However, after taking a few steps, his steps hesitated...
Yes, you shouldn't drink anymore.
But at this time, another voice suddenly sounded in the room, "If you want to have a drink, go ahead and drink it. Although they confiscated all the wine you had, I still brought you a drink. Come over here. It’s in the first compartment of the second row of the wine cabinet...it’s very conspicuous.”
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