However, Ptolemy was like falling into an ice cellar at this time, and his heart was so frightened that he even wanted to use his hand to pump his big ear scraper.

After summing up the courage to vent the emotions that had been buried in his chest for a long time, Ptolemy finally calmed down, and knew that if he stabbed the big basket, he might die at these words in the future.

Although the Sun King did not seem angry, who knew what was really going on in the heart of this majesty. If he's in a good mood, he can say he doesn't care, but what if he's in a bad mood one day?

Will it settle accounts after the fall?

If you think about it carefully, although your words are refreshing, they will have endless troubles.

"Didn't you just hint at me—cunning enough to refuse persuasion, enough to cover up your own mistakes? ”

Seeing him standing in front of him in silence, Evan got up from the bench, walked over and patted him on the shoulder:

"Ptolemy, you are a wise man, and I have watched you rise step by step from an idle royal family to a courtier, and can I not know you? You already regard me as a gambler in your heart, and I can't say it even if I am full of mouth, so it is better for you to go with me. ”

"Go, where are you going?" said Ptolemy.

"Out of the sky!"

As he spoke, Ivan froze and grabbed his shoulders hard, and a cold metallic sheen appeared on his skin, almost transparent, with clear metal pit lines spreading throughout his body. Immediately afterward, his body revealed a lot of starlight from the inside out, intertwining and radiating to form a cosmic projection, faintly glimpsing thousands of rotating stars, and showing a kind of space-time change that was different from the outside world.

The space in the study suddenly twisted and rotated, as if it was squeezed up and down by some huge force, and soon only a pale afterimage remained.

The whole three-dimensional space seems to be photographed into a plane for a moment, and then the edges are folded once, and the two coordinates that are far apart also overlap. After that, the flattening and two-dimensional suddenly disappeared, and the surrounding scenery returned to three-dimensional space.

“......”

When Ptolemy reacted, he found himself suspended in a sea of clouds, with a white round steel city below.

Cities are built on water-covered plains, where countless trains move rapidly along roads and bridges, and the red and green lights flicker frequently, controlling these steel dragons, and at each station of the tracks there are huge lifting platforms, and the machinery and equipment retreat the goods of the trains into the platforms, and the platforms filled with goods then sink into the ground, and then the underground rails pull them to the next destination.

The interior of the city is home to a variety of factories, and at the center is a reactor that resembles a metal volcano, with pipes tens of meters in diameter that drain large quantities of metal raw materials into the furnace. When the top lid is closed, the volcano will quickly turn black and red, and dozens of pillars of blazing red fire will erupt from the ring-shaped holes.

"Your Majesty, where is this?"

"This is Eaton, to be precise, the federally controlled area of Eaton. ”

Ivan grabbed his shoulder with one hand, pointed to the steel city below the sea of clouds with the other, and calmly explained:

"This city belongs to the Eaton Star Development Consortium, and you can think of it as another Hybolen Development Consortium, except that the people of this planet have succumbed. You see, the Federalists dominate everything on this planet, and they have taken over the market on Eaton with advanced manufacturing. Now Eaton is flooded with the products of the Federation, and there is not even its own currency. ”

"Digital currency?" Ptolemy's pupils narrowed, and his expression became serious.

"Yes, the planet's economy is a set of data that links the central brain of the federated digital currency. This means that the people of the Federation can use a digital symbol that is not even paper to continuously suck up all the wealth of the planet. ”

As he spoke, Ivan refracted the light with the Absolute Realm, allowing the two to enter stealth mode and enter the city.

The city is divided into five districts, and the five sectors form a complete circle, which is the entire territory of the city.

Colleges, hospitals, casinos, factories, wholesale markets, and everything can be found in the city – most strikingly, in the destitute slums that occupy a small half of the city, where women don't even have a pair of pants.

"I don't understand! Why are there so many slums when the Federalists are so productive enough to feed and clothe everyone?" Ptolemy asked with anger as he looked at the poor man who was barely human, crying out for hunger and cold.

"However, this capacity only belongs to the Federation, who came to this planet to make money, not to do charity. For them, Eatons who can't create value are garbage that they can throw away at will...... As for those Eatons who can create value. ”

Ivan turned and pointed to a tall white tower in the distance, motioning for the other party to look at it himself.

With Ptolemy's super eyesight, he could vaguely see many Eatons in combat uniforms, climbing up the threaded stairs outside the tower, one by one like climbing termites.

"Mercenaries?" he said, surprised.

"Yes, the Federation's position on Eaton Planet is such as the source of cannon fodder for war. Because of this, they will not develop the economy for the planet. Because these cannon fodder of Eaton Star are the best-selling products of Eaton Star, once Eaton's economy improves, the number of people willing to act as cannon fodder will definitely shrink greatly - this situation is not in the interests of the Federation. ”

"It's madness!"

Ptolemy clenched his fists, his teeth clenched, and his body trembled violently from the over-excitement.

One by one, one by one

Western Star Field, Taal Jupiter.

The capital of Tar Jupiter, the City of Moonlight, was founded in the center of the confluence of two long rivers, which flowed south for more than 700 kilometers before emptying into the sea in the Sfenrik region.

The area where the two rivers flow is the most prosperous area of Talmu, which used to be known as the China of Trees because of the abundance of giant trees and the fact that people like to build houses on trees. Therefore, the Talmu civilization, also known as the giant wood civilization, has its own culture, language, religion, and even worldview and political system.

But since the Federation extended here, everything has changed.

First, the original power of Talmu was overthrown and replaced by a republican system of consuls favored by the Federation, and then the religion of the local tree god quickly withered and was replaced by the Holy See of Truth, which the Federation believed in. Then came the reform of the language, the native language of hieroglyphs, which was seen as a symbol of decay and obsolescence, was abandoned and replaced with a federal-style alphabetic language.

In the end, even the education that local children receive is a federal-style education.

......

Evan and Ptolemy were walking the streets of Moonlight City in stealth mode, watching the Talmuds speaking federal official language all over the streets silent.

Looking at a statue of a tree god that had collapsed on the road and no one cared about it, Ptolemy said hatefully:

"Where is Tar Jupiter here, it's a miniature version of the Kashni Federation!"

"Yes, they gave up their history, their culture, and turned Tal-Jupiter into a copy of the Federation, and they couldn't even read their own ancient texts. What's even more ridiculous is that even so, they are not accepted by the federation, and every year they apply to become a partition of the Kashni Federation, but every year they are denied. Ivan raised his head, looked at the space fortress suspended in the sky, and said in a flat tone.

“...... It's called wanting to be a dog but not being able to. ”

Ptolemy sighed and shook his head, and said in a tone of hatred that iron is not made of steel:

"The people of this planet do not have a very good standard of living, not only are the core industries controlled by the federation, but even the food is not self-sufficient. ”

"It's not that there is no way to be self-sufficient, but that the agricultural products of the Talmu civilization cannot compete with the agricultural products industrialized by the Federation, which leads to the bankruptcy of homesteaders. Had to go to work for the Federalists, earn their virtual currency, buy their food. ”

"It's just knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow!"

“......”

The corners of Evan raised slightly, and instead of answering his words, he asked instead:

"Ptolemy, let me ask you, can the Giant Tree Civilization that has lost its language and writing still be called the Giant Tree Civilization?"

"No, it can't count. ”

Ptolemy shook his head and looked around at the Confederate buildings around him, falling into a long silence.

After that, Evan took him to continue to do space jumping, traveling from east to west, and seeing the human characteristics of one planet after another.

And the last stop of this journey is the former number one power in the Western Star Field, the Fars People's Republic.

One by one, one by one

Western Star Field, Fars Star, Eastern Battlefield.

As the first power in the western star field in the past, the city of Fars Star is solemn and quiet, and the color of the whole city is cold, creating a serious and well-defined atmosphere. The streets and alleys are straight and horizontal, except for the simple bungalows that are military camps, and there are no shops, stalls, or taverns in sight—the whole city exudes a faint militarized atmosphere.

Heavily armed soldiers guarded the main traffic routes, and the vicissitudes of life and solemn faces were full of numbness and tiredness.

"Seventy years ago, they used Fars' possession of substandard weapons of destruction to destroy the strongest country in the Western Star Field. And fostered forces with completely different ideas, allowing them to kill each other, plunging the planet into a long civil war...... Until now. Evan led Ptolemy through the barracks, walked to a huge bronze statue, and said lightly.

"A weapon of destruction that doesn't meet the specifications?"

"You can go back and look it up, until now, 70 years later, the Federation has not been able to say what a non-standard weapon of destruction is. ”

That is to say...... For an inexplicable reason, they destroyed this powerful country in the Western Star Field. ”

Ptolemy looked at the rusty bronze statue in front of him, nodded thoughtfully, and there was a chill in his teeth: "They don't make sense at all...... As long as they feel that you are a threat, they will target you! What's worse is that they still have the weapon of public opinion, saying that black is black, and saying that white is white......"

"You say, the situation of Fars Star is not like the Menes Empire?"

"It's like!

"Tell me...... Does groveling work?"

"Shame...... But!"

Ptolemy lowered his head, a look of shame, and opened his mouth to argue, but Ivan reached out to stop him.

"I know what you're trying to say. ”

Ivan grabbed his shoulder again, and with a backhand wave of his sleeve, the scenery around him spun and compressed again.

......

Time and space changed instantly, and by the time Ptolemy's senses had regained their dimensions, he had already appeared in the study of the Hyperion Star Court.

Evan took out his computer and didn't say anything, just showed him two videos.

The previous paragraph is a video of Noroluxa Star Press TV, insulting the Menes royal family as a squinting, yellow-skinned monkey. The latter is a news report that the star Noluspa was hit by a meteorite swarm, causing tens of billions of federal dollars in losses and thousands of deaths and injuries.

Ptolemy was furious in the first video, gloating at him in the back, and then bewildered and confused—he didn't know what the two pieces of news were related.

"Noluspa was attacked by a meteorite swarm, and I did it...... The whole federation knew that I did it!But no one reported it publicly, not even the government of Norouses, no one came out to accuse me—can you understand?" Ivan looked at him calmly, his tone without a hint of waves, as if telling something that had nothing to do with him.

"I understand that they are afraid of losing both sides...... They dare not tear their faces with Your Majesty!" Ptolemy suddenly realized.

"Now, do you understand?"

"The minister understands! The minister has completely woken up!"

Ptolemy pressed his left hand his chest, bowed deeply, and said in an extremely calm tone:

"As long as there is the slightest sign of the rise of the Empire, the Federation will not let us go, so the idea of groveling for peace is an extremely wrong way of thinking! They do have the ability to be saviors, but in the end they become vampires who knock out the bone and suck the marrow. If this continues, they are the only ones who will go to the golden age...... Most of the human civilizations, including Hyperion, are regarded by them as lackeys, just cannon fodder for them on the way to the Golden Age!"

After a moment of silence, Evan ordered Ptolemy to raise his head, look at his countenance, which was so calm that it was almost cruel, and asked in a deep voice:

"Tell me, what would you do?"

Ptolemy took a deep breath, straightened his back, and said in a sonorous voice.

"Give up illusions and get ready to fight!"

"Good, that's what I want to tell you!"

Evan looked at him with relief, stretched out his hand, and patted him on the shoulder:

"The five planets that I can't snatch from the Empire are the foundation of the Empire, and we have to withstand the pressure and develop wholeheartedly. The peace of the Menes Empire, the civilization of the Menes Empire, cannot be pinned on the handouts of the enemy...... We can only defend ourselves!"

"Your Majesty!"

Ptolemy's eyes were sour, and he felt his breath boiling like fire, and he held back tears and trembled: "You are King of Hebolen, our great leader, and I regret that I had said such things to you out of ignorance. Only now do I understand that you are the one who loves this country the most. ”

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