For Johnson, eradicating a threat and exploiting it are never contradictory.

Even though he will deal with all potential threats in the first place and take extreme measures to complete them, it does not mean that he will not judge the situation, especially when considering major decisions.

Originally, in his eyes, the battle of Colchis was only to deal with the Iron Man problem after all, even if he attacked another Astarte army and killed a genetic protogen, it was only a value that could be 'sacrificed'.

The reputation of the First Legion and the trust of the Empire are important, but they are not uncompromising for it.

Especially when Elaine explained to himself that 'the Bearers will be the driving force of the Great Rebellion in the future', Johnson had one more reason to destroy Colchis.

And that's exactly the problem - if Colchis and the Whisperers were destroyed now, then the problems that Elaine said would be exposed to the Empire, and there would be no back-up or preparation to be laid in them.

This is the 'bad' of the Bearer when he is destroyed at this moment.

Knowing the crisis, facing the crisis, dealing with the crisis, and properly measuring the heavy scale in the heart has been almost a breathing instinct for this beast from the Caliban.

However, when a storm is about to sweep the galaxy, he can't predict the development of things in advance because he erases some trivial things in advance...

That's what Johnson can't tolerate.

If you let go of the Bearer at this time, and let the compatriot in front of you, who seems to have the ability to predict, guide Luojia to the front line against Chaos, then there will be room for mitigation in this matter.

Thoughts as many as stars flickered in Johnson's brain, and the scales that had ruthlessly weighed everything in the past unconsciously tilted slowly toward the bearer.

Johnson's beastly eyes narrowed slowly, carefully observing Elaine's nonchalant smile.

Moreover...

"I seem to know your nature, don't I?"

Elaine smiled and spoke Johnson's thoughts.

Obviously, what she showed was not just the level of understanding of the 'Lord of the First Legion', but a deep contact, listening, and witnessing the past of the 'Children of the Forest'.

That's why Johnson instinctively believed that the 'Great Rebellion' described in her words would take place.

Her words were all directed at Ryan El Johnson's scheme.

"Take it easy, my brother. Everyone has secrets..."

"You have your secrets, I have mine, and Luojia... He also has his secrets. ”

"So, it is not in anyone's interest for Luojia to die in this time period, and those iron men... It's probably not as 'dangerous' as you think. ”

"After all, they're essentially just a bunch of [living corpses]."

Elaine said lightly, transmitting a lot of the data parsed from the Iron Man Core to Johnson.

It details the history of the Iron Man relic during the Dark Tech Age, as well as data that closely resembles the Iron Man corpses on Colchis.

“… It seems that you have solved the [Mother]. ”

After quickly reading the materials, Johnson instantly realized that Elaine seemed to have come into contact with the Iron Man's mind engine, and dismantled its core original.

"It stands to reason... There should be no concept of 'death' for subspace life, and if I'm not mistaken, its consciousness should have left the planet. ”

“…… So, you plugged an original Iron Man with psionic contamination into the data hub? ”

"Nope. It is being parsed on the LAN. ”

Although he received the expected reply, Johnson immediately listed the home planet of the Children of the Mountains as a [target].

“……。”

"Johnson, calm down. Don't tell me, you're going to give my home planet an extinction order as well. ”

Ignoring Elaine's increasingly ugly face, Johnson shut down the communications without saying a word.

However, the matter of Colchis should have come to an end.

Although Johnson maintained a cold attitude from beginning to end, he had already canceled in his mind the decision to destroy Colches now.

But... Nukeriyah was also placed on the alert list.

If there had been a mechanistic crisis there, Johnson would have not hesitated to drop a torpedo.

……

"Mother, what's going on now...?"

Karn was at a loss for Johnson's abruptly ended call.

From his point of view, the communication between the two genetic protogens was too obscure and strange for an Astarte like himself to observe.

And later, even the words 'destroy Nukeria' came out...

"It shouldn't be a problem."

Elaine shook her head slightly, not seemingly surprised by the abrupt end of the call.

"But, what the hell is the Extinction Order...?"

Apparently, Karn cared more about the 'Extinction Order' mentioned in their exchange.

“… Alas, hopefully Nukeria will not have any big trouble in the future. ”

Recalling Johnson's cautious attitude, Elaine couldn't help but sigh.

finally persuaded this extreme brother to come back, but accidentally put his home planet in.

Perhaps, this is 'those who play with fate will eventually be played by fate'.

Glancing at the fleets of dark angels on the star charts that were gradually de-alerted, Elaine temporarily let herself forget about Johnson's 'I've set my sights on you'.

After all, things have taken a turn for the better, and thank God.

It's never easy to communicate with genetics with very different personalities.

Before this, she used various means to persuade Luojia to come back from the critical point before the rebellion, if she suddenly couldn't think about it after such a stimulus from Johnson, then everything she had done before would be in vain.

In fact, before the conversation ended, Elaine didn't know if she would be able to get the cautious brother to change his mind.

As long as you are a normal person, I am afraid that you will not be like Johnson, who will change his current thoughts because of his illusory 'great rebellion'.

… Although Johnson's idea of preparing to destroy Colches is not something that a normal person can come up with.

If it were to be replaced by other normal genetic progenitors, I am afraid that the 'Great Rebellion' and 'Chaos' in Elaine's mouth would simply be ignored as crazy words like Conrad, and no attempt to imagine any possibilities and threats in them.

Johnson is the only one who values the weight of each threat so much, and carefully piecing together the conditions in his favor from a lot of information.

……

……

I went to the hospital for acupuncture for a while, and I feel that my face is indeed a lot better... It just hurts!

(End of chapter)