Chapter 1761 Power and Balance
Faced with Soshyan's rejection, Bertus Willibald was silent for a moment, and then the forged battle ax in his hand tapped the ground lightly.
"Even if Angstrom is destroyed, it will never fall into the hands of heretics and traitors! I have sent instructions to all forges and foundries, and they will self-destruct in an hour! "
"Why bother, Great Sage, Angstrom's achievements today are due to the blood and sweat of thousands of technical priests and thousands of years of accumulated knowledge. I will not kill you."
“Huh?”
"Your fate will be left to Mars to decide. Until then, Angstrom will be governed by a joint council of seven wise men until a new Forge Director is appointed by Mars."
This is also a compromise plan that Soshiyang thought about for a long time. It would be too obvious to directly push the representative designated by Reza to come to power. Mars is likely to be completely angered, but after all, he has an appointment with Reza, and he does provided a great help, then change the idea and let the foundry director remain vacant, and then arrange the position of councilor for Reza's secret son. This can be regarded as an agreement, but it will not anger Mars too much.
And after experiencing this incident, Soshiyang has a deeper understanding of the duality of the Mechanicus. Therefore, even if Reza is currently in the honeymoon period of cooperation, it is difficult to say that there will be no possibility of falling out in the future. Now The expedition is not over yet. If Angstrom is completely controlled by them, it seems that he will have little leverage in the subsequent negotiations with Reza. It is better to maintain a weak balance now and serve as a middleman to let Reza. Try to maintain a state of seeking yourself as much as possible.
The rest depends on how Reza plays the game with the local forces in Angstrom. Anyway, the wedge of power has already been driven into the opponent. If this cannot control Angstrom, then what will happen? It's not his fault.
In addition, letting Mars decide Angstrom's new foundry director is also a way to save Mars' face and reduce the hostility they may have due to this incident. At the same time, keeping Bertus alive can also reduce Angstrom's reputation. The local forces of Mu were hostile to the expeditionary force. After all, if the foundry director died in his hands, the blood would be difficult to wash away from his hand armor for a long time.
As for the cruel words he said before the war, I can only say that as a person responsible for hundreds of billions of lives, he needs to think more and make more choices, and cannot do things based on a sense of honor alone, although this sounds like some cunning politicians’ rhetoric, but it is also true.
This is also the reason why Soshyan asked Seth to guard the door. He guessed that Reza would probably arrange for an assassin to come in and completely eliminate the "little tail" Bertus Willibald.
“You want to send me to Mars?”
After hearing Soshyan’s words, Bertus Willibald seemed a little skeptical.
“I can’t analyze the logic.”
Soshiyang walked forward with a smile, lowered his head slightly and said softly:
"My relationship with Reza may not be as close as the sage thought."
Bertus Wei Libald's visual instrument flashed slightly, and then he said in a lower voice:
"Commander Soshyan, actually I can give you more"
Soshyan shook Shake his head.
"The ending has been decided and cannot be changed. I wish you a pleasant journey to Mars in the future."
After a moment of silence, Bertus Willibald suddenly raised the mechanical battle ax in his hand, which glowed with a shining The halo displays an inner force field, and is embedded with a gem the size of a human eyeball. It is both a powerful power weapon and a scepter that symbolizes domination. This scepter alone can declare Bertus Willibald's rights to the world of Angstrom Forge.
The Terminators immediately became nervous after the opponent's action, and activated their weapons one after another. However, Soshyan was not worried at all, and just looked at the opponent with a smile.
"Chapter Master Soshyan Alexei, in accordance with the binary inheritance rights and the seal edict of the Martian Forging General, I am the legal Forging Director of Angstrom. Only he can legally revoke my authority. , and only he can take away this scepter."
Soshiyang raised his head slightly and noticed that the lights on the temple dome went out at some point, and there were some vague shapes crawling in the darkness.
As expected, Reza's mechanical assassin sneaked in despite Seth holding the door.
If it weren't for his presence, I'm afraid they would have killed him.
He lowered his head, looked at Angstrom, the great sage at the end of his life, and said softly:
“Sage Bertus, power is never given with a stick. It’s power that gives this stick a unique meaning. Once the aura of power dissipates, it will be just a metal stick. Now the decision to define this power is in my hands, so if you are interested in this stick If you don’t want to part with it, you can take it away.”
Bertus Willibald was stunned, and then his logic analyzer clearly analyzed the meaning of every word in Soshyan’s words. , and connotation.
Then, he lowered his arms and hunched his back slightly, looking very frustrated. "I understand. Please allow me to take away my personal servants and some personal property."
"You make a list, and I will have them delivered to you right away. "
It only took a few seconds for the great sage of Angstrom to list out the list and print it into a parchment through the portable micro-printing device. Soshyan took it and handed it to Maxi. Milian, ask him to collect all the people and things according to the list.
After finishing all this, Soshyan pointed to the door.
"I'll take you out."
Perhaps because he had received too many surprises today, Bertus Willibald was even used to this kind of abnormal behavior and nodded slightly.
“It’s an honor.”
While walking in the corridor where a large number of cleaning machines began to clean up the debris after the war, Soshyan suddenly spoke to Bell beside him in a very low voice. Tus said:
"Great Sage, can you give me those evidences and records."
"What?"
"We intercepted a fleet of the Hoyland family not long ago."
After Bertus's visual device flickered for a moment, he finally realized that Soshyan What do you mean by "evidence"?
However, he was a little hesitant, because once those things were exposed, not only would he be punished by death, but many people in Angstrom would also die
Seemingly guessing the other party's concerns, Soshyan He chuckled lightly and said:
"Don't worry, Great Sage, I am only using it to deal with other people, and will not do any harm to you and Angstrom. Moreover, I believe that such confidential data records will definitely be kept on you alone, let alone leaked. ”
After careful consideration, he chose to surrender.
“I believe you, Supreme Commander Soshyan, actually we have nothing to do. The heretics control many key rare minerals but we have never directly sold military supplies to them.”
As he spoke, he took out a small memory storage piece.
“The transaction records of more than a hundred years are in it.”
"Thank you."
After Soshiyang put away the memory storage piece, Bertus suddenly changed the subject.
“Also, what do you plan to do with the Blessed Barrier, which is the Star Fortress that is about to be completed?”
“Don’t worry, it will always belong to Angstrom, no one can It cannot be taken away. Of course, if the war situation becomes tense, the expeditionary force may borrow it for a period of time, but I promise that I will never transfer it to other people or organizations. After the war, I guarantee with my personality and soul that it will definitely stay in Angus. Torm. "
Bertus nodded. He spent all his time in Angstrom's rule on the Star Fortress, and this was the only legacy he could leave to the Forge World.
"Thank you so much, Chapter Leader Soshiyang."
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