Menes and the invaders proposed a location for negotiation at the junction of the royal city and the edge of the celestial body, where there was a newly built military fortress. Originally, it was the defense line of the royal capital built by King Ekhnatun, but unfortunately it did not come in handy until his death, and now, it has become a disgraceful place for the Menes Empire to negotiate the surrender.

The royal city of the lake, Ekhtadon, on the outskirts of the court.

Ivan in a heavy dress walked out of the corridor with panda eyes on his head, looking up like a dying fish and looking at the celestial bodies in the sky. At the same time, he took a deep breath and stretched his waist, trying to dispel the dark clouds in his heart, preparing for the new day when he became a puppet king.

Before he could finish his breath, a dull sound came from his right side, followed by a dazzling golden light that flooded everything, and the heavy gasping of horses faintly sounded in his ears.

"What's going on?"

Ivan squinted his eyes, slowly adjusting to the bright light, and saw a strong golden war horse, impatiently kicking its front hooves, squinting at him with an unruly look.

The mane of this war horse is like that of a lion, floating upwards without the influence of gravity, it is pure gold without any variegation, burning pale golden flames from head to toe. To its left and behind it, there were seven other horses of almost no different size, with pitch-black reins tied to the open-top golden chariot behind it.

"Solar Chariot!?"

Because its shape is too striking and unique, Evan immediately knows the origin of this car after taking a look.

It is said that this chariot, once the royal chariot of the sun god Atum, carried him through the sky during the day and returned to the east through the underworld at night to be reborn again. Even though it was later replaced by the Ship of Ten Thousand Years and the Ark of the Sun, it was still an important token of the identity of the Sun God, and the Golden War Horse was highly spiritual and would only obey those they approved.

"Come on, the ministers have already set off first, and you are going to take another route. "'Eru Romé stood at the front of the chariot, grasped the reins, and bowed her head to him.

"Good ......"

Ivan replied weakly, tucked the scepter in the crook of his arm, and walked quickly to the chariot.

At the moment when he and the golden war horse passed by, the other party suddenly snorted, and a stream of air spewed out from his nostrils, blowing to the ground, blowing away a large amount of gravel and dust.

咴 - 咴咴——!

Then the eight war horses let out a piercing neighing at the same time, raised their front hooves high, and stepped down fiercely, and the huge force shook the ground slabs to pieces, and a large amount of gravel and dust jumped into the air and brushed down, like a layer of dust rain.

People look down on me, and horses look down on me!

A hint of fierceness flashed in Ivan eyes, and he exhaled suddenly, and a golden sun wheel was printed on his heart, and countless fine black tracks appeared all over his body. The sun wheel contracted instantly, then expanded and glowed, and the golden stream of light overflowed with black trails in the blink of an eye. His whole body instantly poured out golden flames from the inside out, setting off a rapidly expanding circle of flames, and swept towards the eight war horses.

Boom ——!

The golden horse was hit by the oncoming wave of fire, and fell to the rubble it had raised with a wail, and struggled for a moment before it got up with its head drooping. After getting up again in embarrassment, the war horses looked at him with different eyes, and they lowered their heads and tamed a lot.

Ivan's talent has been recognized by the royal family, and he has not slackened over the years, and he has already turned on the Void Engine at a young age. In addition, it is the bloodline of the Sun King, and the deterrent power of the Flame War Horse is inherently strong, so it is no problem to launch a rush to tame these horses.

“......”

Seeing this scene, Ailu Luomei's pupils suddenly contracted, and her eyes looked at him with a slight surprise.

"Even horses have learned to bully the soft and fear the hard......"

He glanced at the golden war horse led by him, returned the other party's previous eyes to it, quickened his pace and climbed into the chariot, and nodded at the princess:

"Let's go. ”

"No, the person who went with you, not me. She smiled and shook her head, loosened the reins, and jumped lightly off the chariot.

"It's me!"

The person who spoke was a red-haired female officer, dressed in a neat military uniform, with a slender figure, slender legs and matching straight and slender trousers, and black low-heeled patent leather shoes, looking very fresh and capable.

She stepped out of the shadow of the doorway and stopped in front of Ivan:

"Your Majesty, my name is Rennie, and I will be your escort officer in the future. ”

"Are you going with me?"

He pointed to the tip of his nose and looked at Eru Romei in surprise:

"But I don't know how to drive a solar chariot!"

"They don't need to drive, and they know the road. ”

“......”

Seeing that the other party was sure, he could only jump into the saddle and hold on to the armrest on one side at the same time.

"Sit tight, Your Majesty. ”

The female officer grabbed the reins and looked at him sideways, a flash of contempt in her eyes.

"Let's go!"

As the words of 'Regent' fell, the chariot of the sun spun around the square and galloped down the wide straight. It ran for several kilometers like an airplane, getting faster and faster, and wisps of intense flames emanated from the wheels, as if they were alive under the wheels.

Whoosh——!

The golden warhorse trampled on the flames, suddenly left the ground, and soared into the sky with a flame trail.

......

The chariot of the sun galloped across the sky, and in the early morning, the sun shone brightly, the neighing of the horses pierced through the clouds, and the tracks of golden threads burned on both sides of the wheels. In the vast sea of white clouds, the burning chariot of the sun is like another round of the sun, which seems sacrosanct.

“......”

This is the first time Ivan's ride on the 'flying car', although he is a little frightened, he still hopes to fly as long as possible, and it is better to never fly to the destination. He glanced at the female officer, and saw that the other party's expression was calm and terrifying, and he didn't seem to care at all about what happened next.

Anyway, it's me who is behind it, she's just a bystander watching me, what's there to worry about?

He shook his head self-deprecatingly, and when he looked at the canopy again, he noticed that a thin orange-red line appeared in the center of the celestial body chassis in mid-air. Small at first, it soon turned into a ball of light, like an eye that slowly opens to look down on the earth. The cluster of light continued to expand, and soon a slanting pillar of light extended downward, enveloping the military fortress on the edge of the royal city.

"They've arrived. ”

The female officer told him softly, the voice was not loud, but it could clearly penetrate the other party's ears.

......

Intramuros Fortress, top.

With the long neighing of the war horse, the sun chariot continued to circle around the fortress, decelerating and descending in circles, with a spiral-shaped golden trajectory, slowly falling to the earth.

Bang ——!

After a muffled thud, the carriage landed.

The war horse stopped in place with a snort, and the female officer and Evan jumped out of the car one by one, and saw that outside the command room of the fortress, in addition to the imperial soldiers, there were several strangely dressed people standing.

They were dressed in closed armor of indiscernible material, grayish-black and angular in color, perfectly fitting the muscular lines of the human body, and the bright surface was trimmed with a simple medallion plating. The eyes of the helmet are covered with a layer of inky crystals, resembling a crescent moon, and the mouth and nose are protruding, and the overall shape is somewhat similar to the gas mask of the blue star.

“......”

After seeing the intruders for what they really were, Ivan stared at their helmets and realized something faintly.

......

Entering the command room, in the center is a quaint solid wood table, carved with scorpions, crocodiles and eagle patterns, and the load-bearing pillars are embedded with gold-encrusted sun wheel insignia. Portraits of the leaders of the Sun Kings hang on the walls, the latest of which is King Ekhnatun, after whom the fortress is named.

The intruders sat at the table in similar armor, their backs straight, and they had somehow mastered the language, and were even able to greet them in the accent of Ekhtadon.

After the representatives of the two sides met each other, the invaders, who claimed to be the head of the Hyberen trade consortium, came up with a treaty of surrender.

1. The Menes government paid an indemnity of 450 million deben, to be repaid in 39 years, with an annual interest rate of 4%, and the total principal and interest was about 982 million deben, which was guaranteed by customs duties and standing tariffs.

2. The eastern part of Ekhtaton was designated as the embassy district and became a "country within a state". Indigenous people are not allowed to enter the area, and the Hyperion Trade Consortium can send troops to garrison it.

Third, the establishment of a protected area, the Menes Empire is at a critical pass, and it will be taken over by the Hyperion Trade Consortium.

Fourth, the liquidation of the rebels and the punishment of the generals who inflicted serious losses on the consortium shall be drawn up by the consortium and tried and handled by the consortium court. The indigenous people of the Menes Empire were forbidden to form or join any organization that was "hostile to the Consortium", and violators were to be put to death. Wherever armed rebellion breaks out, officials are immediately dismissed from their posts and never hired.

5. Recognize the transcendent status of federal citizens within the territory of the Menes Empire, and the judiciary of the Menes Empire has no right to interfere. Citizens of the Federation are allowed to travel to and from any region at will, and are allowed to engage in various businesses such as commerce and industry, and the land purchased is owned by them.

Sixth, the federal government has the right to exploit all minerals within the territory of the Menes Empire.

Seventh, federal clergy are allowed to enter the country to preach, and the government has no right to interfere with the people's freedom of religious belief.

8. The Menes Empire dissolved the House of Parliament and was taken over by the General Administration of Hyperion, with full powers to govern the empire on behalf of the Sun King, and had the right to appoint and dismiss personnel.

When Evan saw these treaties, he almost understood why the previous generation of Sun Kings would rather commit suicide, and he would rather die if his Blue Star's home country wanted to sign this kind of treaty. After the signing of the eight treaties, that is, basically everything that could be sold was sold, and with the erosion of religion and culture, the whole of Menes was afraid that it would be doomed.

If I really sign it, even if I can get out of here alive, I will die at the hands of the rebels sooner or later.

Cold sweat is rolling on Evan's head at the moment, he is not an orphan with cumin here, and there is a helpless mother on it.

Fortunately, he was not the only representative of the Menes Empire, and several eloquent officials immediately stood up and indignantly accused the other party of being insincere and demanded that they redraft the treaty.

However, Keane, who claimed to be the head of the Hyperion Trade Consortium, completely ignored the demands of these officials, and only told them that his army could turn the entire territory of Menes into a sea of fire within half a month.

As soon as these words came out, the eloquent who had been talking endlessly just now suddenly froze, and his sharp words suddenly lost their power. In the face of absolute strength, any verbal counterattack is pale and powerless.

The situation in the negotiations is basically one-sided, and the Hyperion trade consortium, which has absolute strength, unilaterally controls the rhythm, and no matter how the Menes side refutes the protest, it can always be easily dismissed with a threat or two.

“......”

Ivan was silent the whole time, he knew that there would be no suspense in this negotiation, because there were too few cards to use on Menes's side, and no matter how high the eloquence of several ministers was, it was useless.

What to do?

What to do?

What to do?

Unwilling to wait for death like this, he began to rack his brains to think about it, while observing the things around him, trying to draw inspiration from them.

At this moment, Evan suddenly discovered a detail, a guard behind the person in charge, Keane, seemed to have been paying attention to the female officer beside him, and clasped his hands, his body trembling slightly.

Do these two people know each other?

Ivan was a little strange and couldn't help but pay more attention to the other party, but at this moment, he saw that the other party suddenly pulled out the cross-shaped weapon on his waist and threw it at Renny like lightning.

Be careful!

Evan immediately got goosebumps, and the moment he opened his mouth to remind him, he suddenly realized that if he could make good use of the matter in front of him, he might be able to negotiate to a certain extent to save the disadvantage.

"Die, you butcher!" the guard's roar instantly drowned out the voices of the crowd's arguments.

The female officer looked at him expressionlessly, sitting calmly in place, with that level of weapon, she didn't even bother to dodge, and she couldn't even break through her own defensive barrier.

However, at this time, something unexpected happened, and Ivan, the Sun King, who had been silent in his seat and had almost zero sense of existence, suddenly jumped up.

He spread his arms like moths to a fire, and without hesitation, he protected the female officer in front of him, allowing the cross-shaped weapon to pierce his chest.

Sneer——!

The high-temperature blade pierced through Evan's chest, and the blood turned into red steam and spewed out, and at this moment, the atmosphere in the entire negotiation room was frozen in an instant.

“......”

The female officer looked at him, her pupils shrank into a point like a needlepoint, shooting a sharp cold light, her left hand instantly slid towards the saber, and with a flick of her waist, she was about to lift the table and cut people.

Ivan endured the sharp pain in his chest and sealed her vision with his body, and then, shrouded in his own blood mist, he shouted a sentence hoarsely with all his strength before the scene was completely chaotic:

"Don't panic! I'm fine!"

This sentence seemed to have played a role, and the person in charge of the invader hurriedly restrained his subordinates, and in a tone of anger and deplention, ordered the daring madman to be taken down.

"Don't do it!"

Ivan leaned against the female officer's body, turned his face sideways, and glanced at her.

Their eyes met for a brief moment, and at that moment, they found that this man's eyes were unexpectedly calm, like cool spring water seeping into the heart, and there was a reassuring power.

"Good. ”

She nodded, letting go of her grip on the hilt of her sword,

"Let's go ahead. ”

Evan endured the severe pain, pulled out the murder weapon with great difficulty, threw it on the ground, and calmly sat back in place.

"I am sorry that my people have done unforgivable things in this holy meeting. Keane, the person in charge, also calmed down at this time, although he apologized, there was not much apology in his tone.

"It's okay, I don't blame him, let's move on. ”

When Evan pulled out the wound, he deliberately tore the charred flesh, causing the wound to crack and blood dripping to the ground.

"Your Majesty, your body ......"

"Your Majesty, suspend the meeting for the time being, let's go and deal with the wounds first!"

"Your Majesty, leave it to us here. ”

The accompanying bureaucrats began to persuade him, trying to let him treat his wounds first, although everyone knew that this Sun King was the backstabber, and sooner or later he would be finished, but now after all, he has the status of a monarch and a minister, and he still has to express it when he should express it.

"Is my words so hard to understand?"

Ivan sat stubbornly in place, looking around the place, and finally landed on the eight treaties:

"The wound on my chest hurts, but this pain is nothing compared to the pain in my heart!"

“......”

Menes' entourage was speechless and fell silent.

"From now on, until the last drop of blood is drained, I'm not going anywhere, I'm here!"

His eyes widened, he was dressed like an angry bull, his fingers dipped in blood, and he struck out the fourth with a slight tremble:

"I can't let those who are loyal to my country die in the same shame as I do. ”

He's threatening me!

Keane looked at the bleeding wounds of the other party, and suddenly realized that if the young king in front of him died, he would become a hero of Menes, arousing their will to resist. The consortium's plan to control Menes will also be postponed, and even if it is forcibly suppressed, it will face one rebel army after another - these people will be the labor force of the consortium in the future!

The Sun King of Menes...... It's really a tough one......

Even the enemy, seeing such a hard bone, has to say admiration from the bottom of his heart.

In fact, it was not only him, at this time, everyone understood the attitude of the Sun King - he wanted to use his life as a bargaining chip in exchange for the interests of the country.

“......”

After figuring out the current situation, all the officials of the Menes Empire, including the attendants, were in awe.

Several elderly officials, looking at the straight back of the young Sun King, had a sour nose, and soon their faces were full of old tears - the king is not the king of the dead country, the minister is not the minister of the dead country, why is this great Menes about to die!?

In fact, Evan is not so noble, he, a puppet king, must find ways to clear his name if he wants to live. The eight articles of the dead country are counted and signed, and a few must be deleted. This time, taking advantage of the opportunity sent by the intruder's pig teammates, he had an idea and resorted to this bitter trick to smear himself with pathos.

Save as much reputation as you can. If not, then it is better to let yourself die here than to be accused of being a traitor.