Chapter 236: The Domino Effect
The Poole Star District, Star Eder, the capital of the Sun Flame Empire, is in chaos everywhere at the moment.
The domino effect of the defeat of the Imperial Army was inevitable even in the administrative center of the Empire. Eder's military and civilians, who had long been fed up with Lin Bin's iron-blooded rule, spontaneously took to the streets, strongly demanding that Emperor Lin Bin abdicate and change the Riyan Empire back to the original republican constitutional system by means of demonstrations and sit-ins.
At first, the protests were very restrained. After all, as native-born Eders, they don't want their homeland to be shattered. However, with the help of a group of people with different motives, all the protests slowly took a turn for the worse, and the clashes between the people and the Imperial military and police intensified, and then riots inevitably broke out. In the end, all kinds of ** and even uprisings broke out one after another in many towns of Eder.
In the face of their fathers and fellow villagers, a considerable number of imperial officers and soldiers chose to be silent! Many officers and soldiers saw that their relatives and friends were involved in the riots, and they were so angry that they also rose up one after another.
For a while, this planet, the administrative center of the Riyan Empire, was actually full of smoke, and it was chaotic!
In the city of Dessa, the administrative building of the former Fifth War Zone has long been converted into an administrative center of the Empire. Dozens of meters below the administrative center lies a secret base left behind by Auston when he ruled the Fifth War Zone in the early days. The base is equipped with all the necessary facilities, and the space is large enough to directly station a fully reinforced armored regiment.
Although the chaos in various parts of the planet has not affected Desa for the time being, at this moment, in this secret base, there is a rumor. Everywhere, you can see the Janissaries of the Praetorian Guard, who are three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, nervously guarding the main roads, and even a large number of chariots and mechs have been opened at various checkpoints. With such a dense defense, it is estimated that even a fly would not want to fly into the base lightly.
"How's your majesty?" Somewhere deep in the base, he hurried to the door of a lonely room with a tired look on his face, and asked a staff adjutant who was guarding the door.
"Back to the general, Your Majesty still won't let anyone in......," the adjutant stepped forward and reported respectfully with a low sigh.
"Open the door!" Zhou Shen frowned slightly, and said lightly.
The adjutant hesitated slightly, turned around and waved his hand to the guards at the door, and the thickened automatic door opened. Although, His Majesty the Emperor ordered that no one be allowed in, but after all, at the moment, in the entire empire except for the Emperor, only Zhou Shen probably had the most power. In addition, Lin Bin's current state is a little bad, so this adjutant still disobeyed the emperor's order.
Behind the automatic door, there is a spacious dormitory, although it looks quite luxurious, but for some reason, there is only a dim wall lamp lit in the room, which makes the whole bedroom look dark and abnormal, and even faintly a little weird.
Raising his steps into it, he swept the wide dragon bed at a glance, except for the messy quilt, but he didn't find any trace of Lin Bin, and his heart skipped a beat. At this moment, a faint sound of running water suddenly drilled into Zhou Shen's ears. Following the prestige, he saw a glimmer of bright light faintly shining through the crack in the door of the bathroom in the dormitory.
"Majesty!" Zhou Shen hurriedly walked over, and when he opened the door, he saw Lin Bin, who was wearing a nightgown, sitting on the floor by the bath, staring blankly at the ceiling.
Hearing the sound, Lin Bin, who was furnished but pale, just glanced back blankly, and then stared at the ceiling and continued to concentrate. It was a patient who was out of his mind, stimulated by the sky.
"Your Majesty, you... Are you alright? Zhou Shen couldn't help but sigh slightly, cautiously walked to Lin Bin's side, squatted down, and asked in a low voice.
"It's ...... outside" Lin Bin still had empty eyes, shook his head blankly, and spit out two unclear words on his dry and cracked lips.
"Outside...... Back to your majesty, the situation outside has been brought under control! The Imperial Army has put down most of the rebellions and is encircling the last few rebels! Zhou Shen wanted to report the truth truthfully, but after thinking about it, he couldn't bear to stimulate Lin Bin again, so he prevaricated casually.
"Good work!" Lin Bin still didn't look at Zhou Shen, and after three words lightly, he continued to stark at the ceiling indifferently.
"Your Majesty, do you want to be a doctor ......?"
"Get out!" Zhou Shen wanted to continue to say something, but was interrupted by Lin Bin's faint three words.
"Zhou Qing, you don't need to comfort me in the future!" Zhou Shen sighed helplessly, and when he got up and was about to go out, Lin Bin's somewhat weird voice came from behind him again.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhou Shen trembled slightly, and then realized that this young man who had founded a great empire with his own hands was actually not as ignorant as he seemed on the surface, and hurriedly turned around and said respectfully.
"Guard it well, if anything goes wrong, this general is the only one who asks!" Walking out of the room quickly, Zhou Shen took a deep breath, said a cold word to the adjutant at the door with a straight face, and strode away.
Although he was in the planetary fortress, Lin Bin was almost beaten to death by Hao Yi directly. However, probably because his fate should not be extinguished, this guy actually walked in front of the ghost gate and escaped back in a thrilling way. With the empire's powerful medical technology, a few days later, Lin Bin, who returned to Edher, was in good health. It's just that I don't know if it's because of overstimulation or other reasons, after waking up, Lin Bin has been in a state of confusion.
Due to the death of a group of high-ranking generals of the empire and the defection of defection, there are only a handful of generals in the imperial temple, and as the most prominent minister around the emperor, Zhou Shen naturally took advantage of the situation to control the military and political power of the entire empire. However, at this moment, the Riyan Empire has become a ruined edifice crumbling in the midst of the earth-shattering wind and rain, and the slightest carelessness is very likely to be an immediate disaster.
Therefore, at this moment, there is no joy in reaching the pinnacle of power, on the contrary, there is endless worry about his future.
After Lin Bin fell, the Iron Legion that originally controlled the entire imperial political situation behind the scenes also fell apart. The vast majority of high-ranking generals who hold military power, as long as they are lucky enough to escape from the battlefield, choose to support their own troops, or directly erect a banner and claim themselves kings.
The Riyan Empire, which looked incomparably glorious on the surface in the past, turned into devastation in just a few days, like a hollowed-out tree, falling down with a bang.
Right now, the power that Zhou Shen can control in his hands is directly under Lin Bin's Imperial Praetorian Guard, as well as eighty percent of the garrisons on Eder Planet. In addition, the other planets of the empire have long been invisibly out of the control of the central government of the empire, as well as the garrisons in various regions.
By the way, the original Einsatzgruppen under Hua Wu had already disbanded on its own.
Walking out of the administrative center building, the streets of the imperial capital that used to be bustling and busy outside are now deserted and bleak. A gust of cold wind mixed with a few pieces of shredded paper garbage blew, which actually made Zhou Shen shiver subconsciously.
"Go, the military headquarters of the First Army outside the city!" He bent down into his car, gave a detailed explanation to the adjutant in the front seat, and leaned back on the soft, comfortable and spacious back seat to close his eyes and recuperate.
The First Army Group of the Imperial Guard is the only armed force stationed in the Empire. At such a delicate juncture, Zhou Shen must always maintain his control over this armed force, even if the final outcome is unpredictable, he can only do his best to settle the destiny of heaven, in order to repay Lin Bin for his kindness to him.
The convoy swept out of the empty neighborhood, straight out of the imperial capital, and drove onto the high-speed motorway leading to the military camp outside the city, speeding forward through one ridge after another.
A qiē seems a little too quiet! Even Zhou Shen, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating, unconsciously flashed a trace of uneasy premonition in his heart.
"Boom!"
When the convoy climbed over a mountain beam and entered a valley, a change occurred!
The two fire assault vehicles that had opened the road earlier were thrown into the air with a loud bang as if they had suddenly run over a mine, and smashed heavily into the open space on both sides of the driveway. It's just that in the smoke and dust, there is not a single flash of conventional bomb fire, there are only two swarthy figures, and even the assault vehicle that was "blown up" did not explode because of this.
"Enemy attack!" The convoy came to a halt in a hurry, and a band of Marines rushed out of the armored personnel carrier. Before the officers' loud exclamations landed, the two strange black shadows that whistled out of the smoke and dust in front of them like thick tree trunks slammed into the two armed off-road locomotives behind. There was a sound of metal cracking, and the two locomotives were "bitten" by the two thick black shadows, and then thrown into the air fiercely.
"Spine needle crawler! I'm X! Fire! The captain of the convoy, who recognized the two hideous and terrifying black shadows at a glance, turned pale with fright, and crawled to the side of an armored personnel carrier, and screamed in a lost voice.
"Da Da Da, Da Da ...... "God knows how these two spine reptiles usually only appear in the base of the swarm. For a moment, the sound of gunfire resounded throughout the valley.
"Snort......"
"Whew......"
The next moment, on the seemingly calm loess surface on both sides of the locomotive road, pits suddenly exploded, and one after another jumping insects, cockroaches, and snakes rushed out like a tide, and the entire convoy was surrounded in an instant......
After a few moments, the valley was calm again. The less than 100-meter-long locomotive was littered with smoke-emitting armored locomotives and mutilated corpses of marines. Of course, there were also many insect corpses that were torn apart by the blast and dripping with a colorful and smelly liquid.
With a bloody face, he sat on the ground and leaned against the car behind him that had been overturned and smoked, carrying a pistol with empty bullets in his hand, panting and staring coldly at the insects not far away, staring at him fiercely.
He had a terrible, gurgling wound of blood on his left leg, which had been left for him by a jumping worm. However, the unlucky jumping worm didn't end well, and ate seven or eight high-explosive pistol bullets in its big mouth, and it was blown up all over the ground.
Zhou Shen never dreamed that he would encounter such an alien insect army here. According to the intelligence of the Imperial Army, the insect swarm on Planet Eder had been completely wiped out two years ago. What puzzled him even more was that after killing all his escorts, the insects did not continue to kill him who was seriously injured, but as if they had received a strange order, they quickly pushed down a place dozens of meters away, and looked at him coldly.
"Your Majesty, it seems that the minister can no longer continue to serve you!" Looking at the insects grinning at him in the distance, Zhou Shen smiled miserably, took out a glorious bullet that had been hidden for many years from the pocket of his close-fitting military jacket in his arms, and calmly stuffed it into the magazine.
However, just as Zhou Shen was trying to end his life, in the open space not far away, a gust of wind suddenly came, and a humanoid black shadow slowly emerged......