Crescent Empire.

This is a ninth-level mid-level civilization, and its suzerainty is one of the nine empires, a certain ninth-level high-level civilization under the command of the Hidden Yuan Empire.

Of course, there is no subordination between the suzerainty and the subject, the suzerainty will not interfere in the internal affairs of the subject, the subject country only needs to pay the sacrifice at the specified time, and the suzerainty will try its best to protect the security of the subject country when it is violated.

The worship is limited to the two direct subordinates, which means that the Crescent Moon Empire only pays the worship to the ninth-level high-level civilization suzerain.

Therefore, there is almost no contact with the higher level of the Hidden Yuan Empire.

When the Hidden Yuan Empire was suddenly attacked and there was a gloomy fog, the Crescent Moon Empire continued to operate as usual - what did that have to do with them?

"Emperor!"

The monarch of the Crescent Empire was reading the official documents submitted by the various provinces of the empire at this moment, when a personal entourage hurriedly walked in.

"What's the fluster?" Shen Mu frowned.

"The envoy of the Hidden Yuan Empire is here."

"What?!"

Shen Mu was stunned for a moment, and it took a while before he came back to his senses: "Are you sure that the other party is the envoy of the Hidden Yuan Empire?" Is there no problem with identity? ”

The person hurriedly nodded yes, and said respectfully: "The identity has been confirmed, there is no problem." ”

Hearing him say this, the Emperor Shen frowned, and muttered to himself, "How could the Hidden Yuan Empire come here?" What's more, even if there is anything related to my Crescent Moon Empire, it should be conveyed by the Qiyun Empire...... Not! Let's meet first. ”

As the suzerain's suzerain, and the envoy of the Yinyuan Empire, one of the nine empires, Shen Mu naturally did not dare to be a little lazy.

He put on the imperial costume that he would only wear on solemn occasions, and summoned the imperial high-ranking people in the empire to greet him outside the palace in person.

A few hours later.

A battleship more than 20,000 meters long and engraved with the symbol of the Hidden Yuan Empire stopped in the outer orbit of the imperial capital, and the group immediately walked out of the cabin.

These people disappeared from the spot with just a flash of their figures, and when they reappeared, they had already arrived, outside the gate of the palace on the Imperial Capital Star.

"I've seen the envoy of the Hidden Yuan Empire." Shen admired his face with a respectful look.

"Hmm...... No need to be polite. ”

The envoy waved his hand casually and said, "The envoy still has important things to do, so he can't delay more, so he will simply explain the situation here." ”

"Special Envoy, please."

"Does the Emperor know about the attack on the Hidden Yuan Empire?"

"This ......"

Although there is not much contact with the Hidden Yuan Empire, as one of the nine most powerful empires in the entire universe, the Hidden Yuan Empire was attacked by a strong enemy, which is definitely a remarkable event. Especially on the Internet, after directly disclosing the video and audio picture, not to mention the admiration of being the king of a country, even most ordinary people already know it.

Hearing the other party say this directly, Shen Mu could only nod: "I heard some of it before, but it's just ...... I didn't expect it to be true. ”

That's right!

Many people learned about the retaliatory attack on the Hidden Yuan Empire through the impact picture that spread quickly on the Internet.

However, the vast majority of people thought it was fake, thinking that someone had deliberately made such a prank: the nine empires had existed for billions of years and possessed unimaginable power, who would dare to go to war with an existence of this level?

"The empire has suffered a lot of losses, and there is only one thing for this trip."

The envoy frowned and said, "In order to make up for the losses caused by this battle, I hope that the Crescent Empire will be able to raise a batch of strategic resources. ”

What?

Shen Mu thought he had heard it wrong.

If the things circulating on the Internet are true, the Hidden Yuan Empire has indeed suffered heavy losses, but how can they make the Crescent Moon Empire pay for their losses?

Even if you want to raise strategic resources, it won't be their turn, right?

After all, the Crescent Moon Empire is not a direct vassal of the Hidden Yuan Empire, and it has never been heard of being levied across a level.

"Did the envoy make a mistake? The Crescent Moon Empire is a vassal state of the Qiyun Empire, and its own country pays its offerings to the suzerain's country on time every year, if the Hidden Yuan Empire wants to collect strategic resources, it should also find a direct vassal country to ...... with its own country."

"Emperor, who is the suzerainty of the Crescent Moon Empire?" The messenger interrupted the voice of admiration.

"Qiyun Empire, of course." Shen replied.

"Who is the suzerainty of the Qiyun Empire?"

"The Hidden Yuan Empire."

"So...... Since they are on the same line, they should naturally share honor and disgrace, if this kind of thing happens to my Hidden Yuan Empire, can the Crescent Moon Empire sit idly by? ”

"This ......"

Shen Mu was secretly helpless in his heart, and then exchanged glances with several important ministers of the empire, and then said: "Since the envoy has said so, the Hidden Yuan Empire has suffered huge losses, and the country should indeed do something to do its part—then, the country will offer 100 million units of earth vein source spirit and five million tons of gray crystals. ”

The envoy's brows suddenly furrowed, and he said in a deep voice: "This envoy was appointed to the imperial cabinet to go to the vassal countries to collect resources, but he did not come to beg for alms. ”

"What do you mean by that?" Shen Mu's face was displeased.

"The Crescent Moon Empire is a ninth-level mid-level civilization, and according to the meaning of the Imperial Cabinet, your country will have to pay 50 billion units of Earth Vein Source Spirit and two billion tons of gray crystal."

"What?!"

Not only did Shen Mu's face change drastically, but all the high-ranking members of the empire who were with him also showed shocked expressions, followed by uncontrollable anger.

You know, as strong as the income of the Nine Great Empires in a year, it is only a trillion units in the case of the Earth Vein Source Spirit, so what about the Crescent Empire?

Compared with the Hidden Yuan Empire, there is still a level in the middle, and the gap can be imagined.

In the offerings they pay to the Qiyun Empire every year, the number of Earth Vein Source Spirits is only a few hundred million units, and the number proposed by the other party is almost the sum of the offerings they have paid for a hundred years, and it is also the income of the imperial treasury for more than ten years, which is simply a robbery!

"The envoy probably got something wrong!"

Shen Mu's face immediately became gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "First of all, there is no direct subordinate relationship between this country and your country, the Yin Yuan Empire has suffered huge losses, and the country has given certain strategic resources out of friendly relations with each other, but it should definitely not be called requisition. Secondly, the amount demanded by your country is not at all acceptable to your own country, so if your country cannot defeat the enemy and suffers losses, you have to pay for it? ”

"You're mistaken, the Crescent Moon Empire alone can't buy this order, the Crescent Moon Empire is just one of the countries that levy it, and the emperor doesn't plan to pay the offering."

"If it's okay...... The envoy can leave! ”

"Do you know what the result of rejection is?"

"I'd also like to know what the result of the rejection will be!"

Shen Mu's face was cold and terrifying, and as soon as his words fell, a large number of imperial capital garrisons rushed over from all directions.

The envoy was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a sneer: "Very good!" I hope you don't regret it, let's go! ”

When the envoy left with a group of retinues, a commander-in-chief of the Crescent Moon Empire said in a deep voice: "Emperor, this is ...... Will it cause trouble? ”

"Contact the Qiyun Empire immediately and ask about the situation."

"Yes!"

However, when they tried to contact the Qiyun Empire, they found that they couldn't get in touch.

At the same time, the envoy of the Hidden Yuan Empire, who had left angrily just now, was now sitting in the main control room of the battleship with a smile on his face.

He crossed Erlang's legs with a weird smile on his face: "Shennong's move is indeed insidious enough, will the Crescent Moon Empire continue to stay under the command of the Qiyun Empire now?" ”

"Meteor, I can't see that your envoy looks like you." Listening to the voice, you can know that this person who is pretending to be an envoy and entourage is none other than Gnie.

"Fortunately, Shennong brought stronger technology to hack into the database of the Hidden Yuan Empire and help us forge the military identity of the Hidden Yuan Empire."

"That's nature, otherwise it would have been exposed."

Meteor, who was pretending to be an envoy, nodded, and then frowned: "Our action here is easy, I don't know what happened to Shennong's side." ”

Gnie pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Is there anything that the boss can't do?" ”

That's right!

The identity of their envoy is completely fake...... No! To be precise, their identities are real, with the help of technology that is stronger than that of the Nine Great Empires, they have unknowingly invaded the core database of the Hidden Yuan Empire, and added the identity information of several people, so the identities they disguised can be found in the database of the Hidden Yuan Empire.

It's just that there are tens of billions of soldiers in the Hidden Yuan Empire, and they didn't find out when they invaded and tampered with the data, and it was even more impossible to find out afterwards.

It's impossible for them to have nothing to do, so they will dig out the information of these hundreds of billions of soldiers and investigate them one by one, right?

At least, now that the entire Hidden Yuan Empire is in a hurry, there is no time to do such a thing.

But......

Meteor They pretended to be envoys to ask the Crescent Empire to collect and worship, the purpose was to make the Crescent Empire rebel and break away from the vassal states under the jurisdiction of the Hidden Yuan Empire, but if the Crescent Empire asked the suzerainty for verification, and the Qiyun Empire asked the Hidden Yuan Empire for verification, wouldn't this conspiracy be exposed?

Obviously, Qin Yan could not allow this kind of thing to happen, so this operation was divided into two parts.

Meteor and the others are responsible for pretending to be envoys, while Qin Yan is in charge, so that the Crescent Moon Empire has no way to verify: the direct suzerainty of the Crescent Moon Empire is the Qiyun Empire, and they have no way to directly contact the high-level of the Yinyuan Empire, once something happens to the Qiyun Empire, then ......

The time goes back much further.

Before the Meteor group arrived at the Crescent Moon Empire, the Qiyun Empire, which was 200 million light-years away, also ushered in someone who claimed to be the envoy of the Hidden Yuan Empire.

The difference was that there were only more than a dozen envoys to the Crescent Moon Empire, aboard a mere warship, while the envoys who came to the Qiyun Empire were a huge fleet.

Of course, these warships look exactly the same as the warships of the Hidden Yuan Empire, but in fact, they are all using stronger technology from another universe, deliberately disguised as the battleships of the Hidden Yuan Empire - with more powerful technology, it is not difficult to imitate something with relatively weak technology.