"This is the Emperor Star Radio Channel, and there is an urgent news insertion below.

"An ordnance transporter exploded violently during transport, and the explosion affected the palace module, but fortunately His Majesty did not suffer any damage.

"According to rough statistics, the explosion has killed 362 people, there are traces of evaporation of human bodies at the center of the explosion, six to seven people are missing, and the relevant authorities are actively investigating the reasons for the presence of ordnance transports near the palace.

"From this moment on, the surface of the Emperor Star will enter a state of three-level alert, and the defense troops will be stationed at all intersections to maintain stability, please do not panic the citizens of the empire."

Hanton!

When Catherine rushed to the site of the explosion, a large area was already under siege by the police station.

All she could see was that a section of unsupported suspended fast lane was almost cut off, and the road pipes looked like they had been gnawed most of the sugar cane in one bite, leaving only a narrow area barely connected.

The buildings and vehicles in the missing area seem to have disappeared out of thin air, and the hovercars stacked everywhere have also been deformed to varying degrees.

The shrill sirens echoed everywhere, and officers and semi-automatics struggled to dismantle the charred corpses clinging to the metal.

"Captain!"

Several super-alterers heard the news, and the two female team members supported Catherine, who was crumbling.

"Yes, is there any news of him?" Catherine asked in a trembling voice.

Several of the overalters shook their heads at the same time.

One humanitarian: "The explosion spread to a radius of 10 kilometers, injured thousands of people, and shattered the glass of many buildings of the same height, which is suspected to be the power of military-standard shaped bombs, which are characterized by the violent release of energy in a narrow area......

"If it's a car bomb planted, it's an Old God lifeform......"

Catherine took half a step back and grabbed the female team's arm with a backhand.

"Control me," her eyes were bloodshot, her body was shaking, and her breathing was a little messy, "Control me!" ”

The two female team members looked at each other, and the female team member on the right took out a magnetic handcuff from her waist bag, handcuffing Catherine's arm and her own.

……

The Imperial Palace module, the Emperor's most commonly used Imperial Hall.

A group of old men bowed down to face the old emperor who hadn't spoken for more than ten minutes.

The three highest-ranking generals of the military department who were stationed in the Imperial Star, the six elders of the House of Elders, the archbishop of the Cult of Civilization Development, and the main persons in charge of each ministry were neatly lined up in eight columns below, and everyone was silent, and there seemed to be a volcano about to erupt in the silence.

Ping-pong, pong.

The old emperor smashed the handicrafts on the ground.

The maids and musicians in all corners of the hall hurriedly knelt on the ground, as if they were afraid of being swept away by the emperor's sight.

"Heh, Emperor Star, this is Emperor Star! This is the Emperor Star of my Sherman Empire! ”

The old emperor scolded angrily:

"One by one, you shout the glory of the Emperor Star and the Great Majesty every day, and what is the result? Put a shaped bomb above my head and try to blow up the heroes of the Empire!

"Who gave you the guts!

"Who the hell has indulged you step by step to this point today!"

The Great Elder's legs trembled, and he knelt down: "Your Majesty! I—I'm guilty! ”

The old emperor tapped his finger at the Great Elder a few times, and said coldly: "Tell me, what is your crime!" ”

The Great Elder shouted in a trembling voice: "The House of Elders is the representative of the Imperial nobles, and the Imperial nobles are the followers of the Sherman Family, we should have desperately protected Your Majesty's safety, but such a bad bomb incident happened!" This is my unforgivable mistake and omission. ”

The five patriarchs behind the Great Elder all knelt down tremblingly.

"Beautiful," the old emperor laughed angrily, "What, this is clearly telling me that you blew up the people, and if you can't find evidence, don't make fun of your elders' house?" ”

The two military bigwigs on the side glanced at each other, and each saw the doubt in their eyes.

Before they came, they had actually carefully reviewed it, and so far, the relationship between the emperor and the elders' house was far from being tense to the point of having to cut off the sword in the emperor's hand.

This explosion is very likely to be arranged by the emperor, as long as the white ghost knows the news in advance, and the white ghost is not on the hovering car, hiding to avoid the limelight, the emperor can have an excuse to directly attack the elders' house.

The political ecology of the empire is actually divided into two parts.

Outside the Emperor and inside the Emperor Star.

The political ecology outside the Emperor Star is extremely complex, with honorary nobles, hereditary nobles, local defense forces, and local administrative units, with intersecting powers, and the continuous exertion of power by domestic and foreign capital, it is easy for various extreme events to occur.

However, the political ecology within the emperor star is a transparent and very simple triangular structure.

Imperial power, military power, and political power constrain each other, constituting the stable political internal structure of the empire.

Even, after the empire experienced several coups d'état launched by princes and princesses for the sake of power, the blood and blood of these emperors were also greatly restricted, and whoever tried to get involved in politics would lose everything.

In the Sherman family, only the emperor has actual power, and some princesses and princes are at most only the spokespersons of the department's image.

- Princess Rhona, for example.

To put it simply, if the House of Elders wants to deal with the White Ghost, there is a way, and the White Ghost can be directly taken away through political manipulation, and there is no need to make a hovercar bomb near the palace.

This is dementia, and it is not justified.

A few bigwigs in the military department thought about it, and there was only one possibility: the emperor's 'bitter meat plan'.

But if this is the case, the emperor must have prepared all kinds of countermeasures, and at this moment, he has taken advantage of his anger to directly arrest the elders of the Elders' House on a large scale......

Paradoxically, the emperor was restrained and did not prepare to attack the elders.

Everyone could feel that the emperor was trying to restrain his anger at the moment, and this anger did not seem to be acting or disguised.

Because the emperor doesn't need to act for anyone, the old emperor's acting skills are far inferior to them.

So here's the problem;

It's not like the emperor did it;

It is also unlikely that the Presbytery did it;

Of course, it is even more impossible for them to do it by the military department, which is directly responsible to His Majesty the Emperor, and the naval regiments directly controlled by the emperor are also very powerful, and they will fight whoever the emperor asks them to fight, without any conflict of interests and power.

Who will be the murderer?

"Check it out!"

The Emperor took a deep breath:

"The Ministry of War, the House of Elders, the Ministry of Justice, I don't care who you are, everyone will check for me! Give me an answer in the rotation period of the three emperor stars! The heroes of the empire must not die in vain!

"Whoever did it, I'm going to skin him! Relegate his family to slavery! ”

A group of old men buried their heads lower, and as the emperor waved his hand, they withdrew from the hall in a hurry.

The appearance of a hovercar bomb near the palace module is definitely a huge event that has not happened in thousands of years.

In front of the upward elevator of the palace module, the three heads of the military department frowned and approached the Great Elder, as if they whispered something, and the Great Elder shook his head again and again, explaining with a wry smile.

This is not a bomb planted in their elders' house.

But the white ghost had just gone to the House of Elders to arrest three elders, and now it was these elders who were the most suspicious.

Even if it is the self-determination of an elder, the group of elders of their House of Elders will inevitably be implicated.

Although these things do not seem to have been done by the emperor;

But at this moment, the emperor completely grasped the initiative.

……

Made!

What a bastard did this!

Not far from the scene of the crime, in a private room of a hotel, Yang Wei kept pulling the gauze bandages on his body, and the bandages stuck to pieces of burnt skin, revealing white and tender new skin.

It's all blown up!

The pain is really painful, but there is nothing wrong with the small life, and Yang Wei turned his head to look at the window, the beautiful woman who was standing quietly was the fastest way for the other party to find the injured self and take him to this hotel.

The Emperor's Lady-in-Waiting.

"Is it everything arranged by His Majesty?" Yang Wei frowned and asked.

"No," the maid shook her head lightly and turned her head to look at Yang Wei, "Actually, the news that I am staying with you now just reached His Majesty's ears half an hour ago. ”

Yang Wei was stunned: "Why?" ”

"I can't explain it either," the maid pulled a pendant from her chest and whispered, "About ten minutes before the explosion, I was on my way back to the palace when I suddenly received an anonymous message asking me to wait for you in a certain area. ”

Yang Wei: ......

The maid said: "Your Majesty doesn't like to care about our specific activities outside the palace, he only likes to hear the results, and I don't have to tell Your Majesty everything, so I temporarily decided to go to the area marked by the information, I just arrived within two minutes, there was an explosion, and soon you rushed over from the explosion area." ”

Yang Wei suddenly asked, "You are Your Majesty's intelligence officer?" ”

"Sort of," the maid clasped her arm, "I'm just taking care of some small things for Your Majesty, and it's inconvenient to hand them over to others." ”

"What's your name?"

"Hanyin, don't beat my idea, Your Majesty minds the people around him betraying him," the maid Hanyin said indifferently, "Everything about me belongs to Your Majesty and is Your Majesty's private property." ”

Yang Wei nodded, continued to remove the bandages on his body, and said with a smile: "That, can you avoid it?" I'm going to get it down to the point. ”

The corners of the maid's mouth twitched a few times, and she turned her back to Yang Wei.

"I must stay with you until Your Majesty gives orders...... An explosion of this magnitude only burned you all over your body, and your burns healed so quickly......"

She whispered:

"You're such a monster."

"Be careful when you speak," Yang Wei said fiercely, "I kill you now, and no one will know." ”

"The Emperor Star Module will record everything," the maid said slowly, "Don't worry, Your Majesty will find out everything soon, there has been such a serious attack on the periphery of the palace, this is already a direct provocation to the imperial power of the Sherman Empire." ”

Yang Wei was a little speechless, and simply lowered his head and continued to disassemble the bandage.

He would have liked to send a message to Catherine, but his communicator, the watch Ritsu had given him, had been destroyed in the explosion.

Fortunately, they used a shaped bomb, not a real large-yield concentrated nuclear bomb, otherwise it would really depend on cell rebirth.

Having said that, is there a problem with the security check level of the emperor?

A shaped bomb appeared near the palace......

Yang Wei looked at the maid's shadow, and always felt in his heart that this might be a game done by the old emperor, but he also felt that if the old emperor wanted to do a game, there was no need to do it so suddenly.

Every link is full of doubts.

It's better not to let him find out who planted the bomb.

Otherwise, he doesn't care what kind of prince and general! He wants them to understand what the anger groove of the puff is!

"Shhhh

Yang Wei gasped, and his movements to remove the dead skin suddenly became much gentler.

……

The Cult of the Emperor Star module, in the main hall where the last archbishop was hanged.

The old emperor sat on the suspension sofa, looking at the news in his hand, and a little smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"This guy, he didn't even get killed, this is the ancient god lifeform......"

Ahead, the new archbishop was nervously preparing for the prayer service, and she was relieved to make sure she could activate the scepter.

An elderly maid on the side whispered at this moment: "Your Majesty, according to our preliminary investigation and analysis of the brain waves of everyone in the hall just now, there is an 80% probability that the bomb incident was not done by everyone present. ”

"Not the House of Elders? And not the military department? The Emperor frowned a little puzzled.

The old maid said softly: "It is possible that they did not know, but their subordinates did it privately. ”

The emperor touched his chin and kept thinking: "No matter what, this matter must continue to be investigated, this is a good opportunity, a chance to tear open the mouth of the elders' house." ”

"But what is the point of your doing, Your Majesty?"

The old maid seemed to have a good relationship with His Majesty the Emperor, and there was no doubt or hesitation when she asked this.

The old emperor smiled and said slowly, "Do you really think I'm trying to toss the empire?" Or is it a sudden swelling of ambitions to take control of the country? I am the emperor, the military power is in my hands, and I can take back the power whenever I want. ”

"What about you...... I beg my pardon for not being able to understand it. ”

"It's dignity."

The old emperor whispered:

"My starting point is for this dignity.

"But when I looked at the House of Elders, I realized that they were so rotten and so unbearable that they were even more depraved than I was.

"Do you know why the empire's economy has been declining continuously? Why are people reluctant to have children, and the population shrinkage has led to many major administrative stars being downgraded to minor administrative stars?

"The roots are in the aristocratic collective represented by the House of Elders."

The old maid said in a low voice: "This is the inevitable development of civilization, and it is also the depression left by the existence of the empire for too long. ”

"Yes, my teacher, you study history and teach history, you must understand this," the old emperor smiled, "Therefore, my starting point is the only bit of dignity I have, and the bloated rule of the imperial officials is not a problem that can be solved in a few decades." ”

The old maid was a little puzzled.

"Oh, yes, you weren't here last time," the old emperor laughed, "and I'll show you how...... Is it time to pray? ”

The new archbishop, who was over-the-top, turned around and prostrated himself at the old emperor.

"Your Majesty! It's already possible! ”

"Don't repeat your sister's tragedy, be obedient and I'll give you enough good, let's get started."

"Do your bidding! The wisest Your Majesty in history! ”

The archbishop shouted, walked over to the platform in all directions, pointed the scepter at the groove below, and thrust it down.

With a blue halo, a vibration of the module, darkness on all sides, and a firefly-like point of light, the mature 'Imperial Defense System' reappeared on the Emperor's side.

She opened her godless eyes and murmured:

"A serious terrorist attack on Emperor Star has been detected, and the detection procedure has been initiated."

The emperor looked at this virtual form obsessively, and immediately said, "Now, listen to my command and investigate the truth of the incident!" ”

The rational gaze of the mature image is fixed on the emperor.

A cold voice came from the surroundings again:

"Insufficient target permissions."

"I am the emperor of this generation! A descendant of Levi Sherman! ”

The old emperor's eyes burst out with a sharp light: "I order you, open my authority!" ”

The cold voice reappeared:

"Insufficient target permissions."

The new archbishop was trembling with fright at the moment, and he didn't dare to raise his head.

"Please explain how I need to get permission to command you," the old emperor asked calmly.

The mature image of Li fell silent, the eyes were out of focus, and the voice around him was still cold:

"Sorry, I can't answer that question.

"The truth of the incident has been investigated, and the information of the murderer has been sent to the public security department and the arrest operation has been started."

Shout!

The mature figure of the body disappeared, leaving only a little fluorescence to disappear into the surrounding darkness, and the light slowly returned everywhere.

"Look."

The old emperor exhaled softly: "I don't even have the authority to consult. ”

The old maid also thought about it and said in a low voice: "It stands to reason that it shouldn't be like this, there are dozens of records in history that the emperor can unconditionally and directly order the defense system of the entire territory of the empire to start a foreign war...... What do you think is the problem? ”

"New calendar reform, in addition to this reform, where else can the problem be?"

The emperor sneered:

"I need complete imperial power, I am the emperor of the most powerful empire in the galaxy, whether it is real or virtual, whatever I want to conquer, will be conquered by me."

The old maid bowed her head and sighed, continuing to think about the question given by her student.

(End of chapter)