"It was a pleasure to talk to Your Excellency."

"Really?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, it is indeed a pleasure."

"Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

"Are you kidding?"

Chen Guo didn't speak, just smiled.

Indeed, if you want to kill early, why talk so much nonsense that makes no sense?

"Then Your Excellency, I look forward to seeing you again!" Kraft Van Dill gently stretched out his palm.

"And a chance to meet again?" Chen Guo shook hands with him with a smile, and Kraft Van Dier's palms were covered with calluses, especially the position of the tiger's mouth.

However, this is not a callus left by regular shooting, but rather a mark left after being severely burned by some kind of soldering iron.

It was as if there was something here, and Kraft Van Dier was covering it up and deliberately burned his palm.

"There will be, and the next time we meet will be Terra above Terra, under the Emperor's glory."

What Kraft Van Dier said was that kind of affirmation, which made Chen Guo feel for a moment that he was also a time-traveler who had read the chronicles.

Otherwise, how could he be so sure that in the Horus Rebellion, Terra and the Emperor would definitely win in the end!

But soon, Chen Guo understood.

Kraft Van Dill is not a traverser, but as an internal affairs expert in the Ministry of Intelligence, he has information and intelligence like a vast ocean, which naturally includes the balance of power between the rebel and the loyal.

Relying on this information, he predicted that Horus would fail...... Even, the Ministry of the Interior and the Council of High Lords, represented by Kraft van Dier, had long expected this to happen based on various information, and they just deliberately indulged in just trying to squeeze out this big!

After all, the genetic protogens who possessed countless powerful fleets in their hands had long been dissatisfied with the emperor's decision to exclude them from decision-making.

And the high lords, who are vested interests, are naturally hated by the genetic primitives.

It is no exaggeration to say that the vast majority of genetic prototypes are actually not humanly human.

They believe that mortals should inherently belong to the ruled class, and that the strong should rule over the weak, that they should dictate the lives of the weak at will, and that they should seize all the wealth of the weak at will.

The weak can only be in the position of being ruled forever!

This kind of voice and atmosphere of the genetic prototype has long been no secret in the empire.

Although some of the genetic protogens never said these words, their contempt for mortals was not hidden.

Of course, the High Lords also knew about these power-hungry genotypes.

In their eyes, these genetic protogens with armies are like vassal kings, and they belong to extremely unstable factors.

As a mortal ruling class raised by the Emperor, the Council of High Lords certainly wanted to rid them of these restless elements.

It's just that because the Great Expedition is still going on, and the genetic protogens also have terrifying military forces in their hands, no matter how bold and dissatisfied the High Lord and even Makado are, they don't dare to reduce the strength of the various Astarte legions during this time period.

Is there such a possibility...... Behind the Horus rebellion may actually be fueled by these high lords.

It's just that they didn't expect this rebellion to be so large.

So big that it almost burned the entire empire to the ground!

In other words, it's a game of play!

Looking at Chen Guo, who didn't know what he was thinking, Kraft Van Dier seemed to realize that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, and immediately remedied: "Of course, the only prerequisite for us to meet on Terra is that Horus will lose!" ”

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"My lord, he wants to take advantage of you!"

As soon as he returned to the spaceship, Des directly blocked Chen Guo's way.

"Oh, do you feel it already?"

"Yes, my lord!" Des expressed his opinion, "All the questions that Kraft Van Dier has asked before are just tentative, and it is the last sentence that is really fatal."

"Which sentence? …… Will Horus lose? ”

Chen Guo just thought about it for a while, and with his huge memory, he easily remembered the conversation between Kraft Van Dier.

Chen Guo smiled and shook his head, "Des, now that the dust has not settled, Horus, as the battle commander, his strength is extremely strong, who will lose and who will win, it is too early to discuss." ”

"No, it's not this sentence, it's the first half of the sentence!" Des continued, "He said it, and that's the only condition...... My Lord, what is the only condition?

Isn't that the clarity that tells you that everything else has been settled, except for the last rebel legion of Horus? A smile appeared on Des's face, "Kraft Van Dier, he has extended an olive branch to you, he has been calling you Your Excellency, which is an acknowledgment of your identity as a human being.

As a mortal politician, a high-ranking official of the Imperial Ministry of the Interior, if he dares to do so, and dares to recognize your human identity, it means that he is ready to use you.

As for whether you will take his olive branch, which may be full of thorns, it will depend on your own choice in the future. ”

Chen Guo nodded thoughtfully, he really hadn't thought about it that much before, and now as soon as Des said it, he immediately recalled the meaning of Kraft Van Dier's vague expression.

A politician like Kraft van Dier, who has been crawling around for an unknown number of years, is absolutely unlikely to say the wrong thing.

In a political center like Terra, saying the wrong thing is a dead end.

However, isn't this exactly what Chen Guo wants!

Otherwise, why did he have to talk to Kraft Van Dier for so long, just cut him down with an axe?

After being in contact with Kraft van Dill for so long, don't you expect to get some tangible benefits from him?

Chen Guo knew that his individual strength was strong enough, but the strength of the fleet and ground legions under his command was still too weak.

Therefore, it takes enough time for the fruit to develop.

When his fleet has more than twenty battleships, hundreds of cruisers and countless frigates, and tens of billions of ground legions fighting for him, he will no longer have to fear anyone.

And if Kraft Van Dill can make Chen Guo's identity imperial, does that mean that Chen Guo will have time for peaceful development and no longer have to be constantly harassed by the Assassin Court or the Empire's secret fleet......

"Master!"

The Demon Mask First Officer, who had been staying on the spaceship, walked over, and he interrupted Chen Guo's musings with a loud voice.

"What's wrong?"

"Captain Lou Doyin said that they had managed to shoot down more than ninety-five percent of the frigates, but seven or eight of them had successfully escaped with the subspace engine units activated.

In addition, the ground sweep force had also sent a message that all the documents in the Assassin's Court Archives had been copied.

There were some assassins who hid in some extremely secret and dangerous places, and used the terrain advantage to kill a lot of Zero grams......"

"My lord, I'll solve it!" Des turned around and was about to take command of the ground forces, but Chen Guo held him back.

"There's no need, the rest will be given to Kraft Van Dier!

If he really wants to win me over, he will definitely help us solve these problems.

If he's not going to win me over, it's just a delaying tactic...... Then forget it, find an opportunity to cut him again in the future.

Notify all ground forces to board the ship and prepare for evacuation. ”

"Yes, my lord!"

Orders were given at a rapid pace, landing on the planet, and the troops chasing down the assassins of the Assassin Court were quickly recovered.

Dressed in ornate power armor, Kraft Van Dill stepped through the corpse-strewn passage to the blazing ground under the protection of two mountain-like Oglien apes, one on the left and one on the right.

Through the thin atmosphere, Kraft Van Dill looked at the ships in the starry sky that sprayed blue phantoms, and quickly disappeared into his sight, a smile of unknown meaning on his face.

"Sir, he's not human!"

"Yes, sir, there is a stench on his body that makes Cass want to vomit, and Cass doesn't like him very much!"

"Shut up, he's human, remember?"

"Yes, sir!"

"Sir, Cass understands!"

"Understood, send a signal, let the fleet come and pick us up!"

"Yes, sir...... Be careful! The Oglian ape-man standing on the left suddenly swung his fist, and the tire-sized fist, under the blessing of the metallic power armor, the speed of the punch directly hit the afterimage.

"Winter~"

As the bright red blood splattered in all directions, a corpse with the upper half of its body completely disappeared slowly emerged into reality and fell to the ground in front of Kraft Van Dier.

It was the corpse of an assassin in the Assassin's Court, but he didn't have a weapon in his hand, so he probably didn't come to assassinate Kraft Van Dier.

But Kraft Van Dill sneered to death, and he glanced at the other Oglim ape-man next to him, who patted the battle video recorder on his chest.

"The Temple of Castus, the Grand Mentor of Novi to confirm the rebellion.

The specific story was when the internal affairs expert of the Intelligence Department of the Imperial Ministry of the Interior was Kraft Van Dier, who was trying to kidnap and assassinate, the heroic Imperial Guard arrived in time and fought desperately to rescue, and the internal affairs expert Kraft Van Dill was seriously injured and rescued, and then the Imperial Guard used a whirlwind torpedo to destroy the temple of the renegade assassins, but many rebels still escaped......

This message was sent to Terra via a secret base station, and copied to all Assassin temples in the Extreme Star Field, so that they could be tasked with eliminating these traitors. Kraft Van Dill rummaged through the corpse on the ground for a moment, and soon picked up a dagger glowing with blue light.

Don't think about it, this dagger must have been quenched with poison.

And it must be a poison that seals the throat with blood.

After glancing at his body for a moment, Kraft Van Dill shook his head, though this body was nothing more than a remotely controlled clone.

But after all, the consciousness of pain can be transmitted into the body through the device, so let's talk about it after disconnecting for a while!

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More than ten days later, the fleet successfully entered the territory of the 500 World of Otlama.

Although at this time, the flames of rebellion still burned in the five hundred worlds of Otlama.

However, because the Ultramarines with sudden riots began to defend everywhere, and because of Angron's violent death, which led to the early end of Loga's Shadow Expedition, the rebels in the territory of the five hundred worlds of Otlama gradually became scarce, and the entire territory began to become relatively safe.

Interstellar trade between various planets has also reopened, and starports have begun to open up to passing ships to provide supply services.

While passing through a star sector called Nokavia, Chen Guo ordered the fleet to be stationed and replenished, and began to make every effort to repair the ships that had been damaged during the battle and rush.

On the third day of revenge from the Assassin's Court, the fleet collided head-on with a belt of irregular meteorites that flowed at an extremely fast speed, damaging many ships that had not suffered any damage in the previous battle, and were injured by these large rocks, and even the side of the heavy cruiser was hit into a large crater.

There was no way, in order to prevent the capital ship from being damaged before it reached the destination, Chen Guo could only be forced to stop the pace of progress and find such a starport that looked quite good to be stationed and replenished.

It was only a short distance from Macurag, the center of the five hundred worlds of Otlama, and even if it meant walking from the real universe, it would only take thirteen or fourteen terra days to reach it.

As soon as he stepped into the Star Port, Chen Guo was shocked by the lively atmosphere in front of him, he had not seen such a lively and prosperous Star Port for a long time, and he was stunned to have a feeling of the New Year.

Casually taking Des and Lu Duoyiner, who was not wearing power armor, in the Star Harbor, Chen Guo enjoyed this rare prosperous scene, and at the same time, he was constantly inquiring about information about the Second Empire.

I don't know if it's because it's very close to the date of the establishment of the Second Empire, Chen Guo almost didn't take the initiative to ask, and only heard a lot of news about the Second Empire along the way.

And it was all positive news, the inhabitants of the five hundred worlds of Otlama were actually very supportive of the establishment of the Second Empire, and there was no opposition at all, as if they had been expecting to do so for a long time.

It's no wonder, though.

Under Kiliman's rule, the 500 Worlds of Otrama is a peaceful, prosperous, and stable little empire, and the people here are much better off than those outside the 500 Worlds of Otrama.

Under such circumstances, how could the people of the Five Hundred Worlds of Otlama have a sense of belonging to that dark, cruel, and chaotic empire?

Perhaps, this is the reason why Machado, who could not make the entire empire prosperous and stable, would always be afraid of the Kiliman rebellion......

As he walked, Chen Guo suddenly stopped, because he saw a very familiar sign among the trading shops on the left and right.

Judging from the low Gothic on the archway, it was the shop of a merchant ronin family.

"Oh...... It's the Callivan family! ”