When a person loses his mind because of extreme anger, even a pure pacifist will tend to use violence to solve problems, which is human nature, even if it is Grace. Augustine's high IQ – though He Xie didn't see it – was no exception, and she began to scream, then lunged at Guo Bo, reaching out to try to choke him by the throat. It was so sudden that almost no one including Quarridge reacted, if her goal was Sefrich, she would probably succeed, but Guo Bo couldn't, before her fingers touched him, He Xie had already grabbed her and put a pistol against her head.

"If you move, I'll kill you." He warned in a tone that was no joke.

It was only then that the others reacted to the sudden incident: Waverett and another soldier rushed up and dragged her aside, and Quaritch's hand reached for his pistol, only to feel empty, only to realize that it was in He Xie's hand.

The colonel's face was a little more ugly.

He Xie noticed it and handed the pistol to him. "Thank you, Colonel."

His steps made Quaritch secretly relieved. He took the pistol and nodded his head, "Gladly." ”

Together, they then turned their gaze to the dejected Augustine. Waylitt and his companions controlled her very tightly, no matter how much they struggled, they couldn't get rid of it, they could only vent their anger with continuous cursing, but there were only a few adjectives over and over again, nothing more than "madman" and "executioner", etc., and they couldn't find any novelty at all.

He still had a smile on his face, and he listened attentively, not saying a word, and let Augustine play. His attitude obviously surprised everyone other than He Xie, Sefritsch hesitated for a moment, then exchanged glances with Quarridge, and finally walked to his side: "Commissar ......"

Guo Bo raised his eyebrows. "Director Severidge?"

"Should we let Grace ...... Dr. Augustin calms down for a moment? Severidge whispered, "these words of hers...... The impact is not good. ”

"There's no need." Guo Bo said disapprovingly, "She is right, I am a madman, an executioner, a murderer, this is true, many people say so." ”

"But ......"

"But I at least know who signed my check, and I want you to keep that in mind." Guo Bo gradually raised his voice so that everyone in the command center could hear it, "As I said just now, the RDA sent us here for ore, and if there is no ore, even if the RDA does not go bankrupt due to the huge investment, the people above will let all the people here get out." I'm not threatening anyone, but I wish you all the best of luck when you return to Earth after six years of sailing, and that if anyone can't find it, no one will remember him when he desperately needs money and is at a loss for his empty account, including our kind, kind, compassionate Dr. Augustin. ”

He walked slowly to Augustine with his hands behind his back, stared at the scientist who was going from angry to thunderous for a while, then turned around, and then said to the people around him: "You must understand that Dr. Augustin is different from you, she is a famous extraterrestrial civilizationist, probably the best on the whole planet, and has just discovered an unprecedented research result, without RDA, she can find other investors, and she doesn't have to worry about falling into the same situation as you." And Mr. Sully. "He walked up to Jack. "He's got a new blue-skinned girlfriend here, the daughter of a clan chief, and I'm guessing he doesn't want to go back to Earth." But even if he returned, he would just go back to the mud pit at the bottom, where he used to be, and maybe it would make him feel at home. ”

"you." Jack. Sully said.

Guo Bo smiled and tolerated his offense. "So, ladies and gentlemen, here's a simple multiple-choice question," he glanced over, "are you willing to sacrifice your own future for Dr. Augustine's noble personal cause, or will you sacrifice the blue-skinned natives you don't know to create a happy retirement for yourself?" ”

He Xie began to applaud to set the mood for Guo Bo's speech. "Whatever you choose, I will never sacrifice myself for the betterment of others. Don't even think about it. ”

"Yes." Weverett agreed, "No noble scientist will give me a hand when I am poor." ”

A few mercenaries in the command center began to echo them, and then some of the staff - these ordinary employees of low rank cared more about their jobs than great scientific discoveries, they were afraid of losing their jobs, they didn't want to be reduced to the bottom of society, and they knew very well that no nobleman in a high position was willing to do a little favor for them, so it was easy to side with Guo Bo - but the person Guo Bo wanted to say was Severidge.

Unless the time comes to do so, Guo Bo doesn't want to forcibly remove Mr. Supervisor's power: he can't stay in this position for so many years without his own cronies, and although the regular forged directives can allow him to hand over power, if he wants to make a small move behind his back and create some small problems for the security forces in an all-out war against the blue-skinned aliens, then it will be difficult to stop it.

Only by letting him decide for himself the use of force is the best thing to do.

But Severidge was still hesitant - Mr. Supervisor's concern for his reputation was almost as high as his concern for unemployment, if not higher.

Guo Bo pondered for a while and decided to push him again.

"The situation is very dire right now, our bulldozers are about to reach the homeland tree of the blue-skinned natives, they are definitely planning an offensive and may have already taken action. Director," he pressed as he approached Severidge, "I will authorize Colonel Quarridge to take command of the base as instructed as long as the company's personnel and assets suffer, and I am sure you will not want to write to the relatives of the staff members who may have died in the attack, telling them why their son, husband, and father died on a strange planet six light-years away. ”

Severidge looked up as if it dawned on him: if something happened to him, his reputation would be ruined, and the company would never help him—but it would probably blame him for all the blame.

He pursed his lips and cast a pleading look at Quarridge: "Colonel, if I approve the use of force, can you guarantee that we will not be attacked more?" ”

"I can't." Quaritch glanced at Guo Bo and then at Jack. Sally, then, said, "But thanks to Jack, I know there is no other solution than force. ”

He walked over to the monitor and selected a video to start playing it. "You can check this out."

Jack. Sully appears on the monitor. "The Na'vi will not leave their homeland, they will not accept any conditions." He looked a little haggard, "What do they want?" Light beer? Jeans? They don't need anything from us at all. Everything they asked me to do was a waste of time...... They will never leave the Homeland Tree. ”

"You see, since we can't make a deal," Quaritch concluded, "we're going to do a lot easier. ”

Severidge knew he had been driven into a dead end. "Well, Colonel, I allow you to do whatever is necessary, but ......"

"Wait." Guo Bo stopped him, turned around and made a gesture to Weverett, "Corporal, please escort our scientific research team to the confinement room." ”

His order was immediately carried out. Wayfleet dragged the struggling Augustin out of the command center, and another soldier pushed Jack away. Sally, then Noam. Spearman, the third member of the Avatar team, consciously followed.

He didn't realize it and couldn't, because He Xie stared at him.

In fact, there is another person, Chudi. Chaken, Augustine's pilot, but she was important to Guo Bo's plan, so she was deliberately not mentioned.

When all the irrelevant people had left, he pulled Severidge and Quarridge into the director's office and closed the door.

The two of them were keenly aware that he might have some secret plans that no one else wanted to hear, and the thought of his fame made them nervous at the same time. "Commissar, what do you want to say?"

Guo Bo pulled a chair and sat down, looking up at Sefririch and Quaritch. "I'll just say it, I'm going to solve the trouble here once and for all." "Neither the company nor you want to see this place in a war against the insurgency that could last for a few years, which would hurt the company's interests and be very troublesome, so we either don't do it or we just do it," he said. ”

"Holocaust, you mean." Sefriedg's face immediately collapsed. If Guo Bo and Quaritch were to do such a thing, he would immediately be as famous as this political commissar.

Guo Bo shook his fingers. "It's not the means that matter, it's the result, and if the problem can be solved without the massacre, we don't need to use it."

"What do you want to do?"

"I got a piece of information that the Blue Skins have a holy place called the Tree of Souls, which is more important than the Homeland Tree, and if they know that we are going to destroy it, they will concentrate all the samurai ready to stop us. If we destroy these elites from various clans and destroy the Tree of Souls, they will no longer be able to fight us. ”

Sefritsch didn't ask where he got the information about the Soul Tree, he didn't care about it, he only cared about whether Guo Bo could do it. "How many samurai can they concentrate?"

"Twenty thousand, probably."

"We can deal with so many blueskins?" Seyfritsch turned to Quaritch, and the Colonel shook his head slowly.

"We don't have to deal with so many blue skins, we only need to deal with the best of them, no more than two thousand."

The number was acceptable, and Severidge's muscles that had just tensed relaxed. "But how do they know we're going to destroy that tree?"

"Someone will warn them."

"Who?"

"Grace. Augustin and Jack. Sally, and their accomplices. ”

"They're not going to help us deal with those blue skins." Seyfriech shook his head negatively.

Guo Bo smiled again. "They won't, but they'll help the Blueskins deal with us."

"What do you mean......"

"As soon as they know that we are going to destroy the Homestead Tree, they immediately think of breaking from prison and rush to warn their friends. This kind of behavior can give them the trust of the Blue Skins, and when the time comes, we will announce that we are going to destroy the Soul Tree, and their accomplices will leak it to them, in the face of such a dire situation, what do you think a retired Marine can come up with? ”

Without waiting for Sefritsch to answer, Guo Bo continued: "He will ask the clans to send samurai to prepare for war with us, and we will suddenly attack and kill them all before he and the Blue Skins are ready...... I mean, crush. ”

Sefritsch and Quaritch were almost convinced, leaving only one last question: "How could the natives accept his leadership?" ”

"You have to believe Jack. Sully has that ability, though it's a harrowing thing. Guo Bo said happily, "Besides, if he can't, we can still help him." ”