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Compared to the meeting with Kaul, Qin Mo's meeting with Inquisitor Horst was much more formal.

It's like having a meeting.

Qin Mo, the Lord of Tyrone, Adam, Marshal of Tyrone's fleet, and Gray, who represented the Army and the Janissaries, attended the meeting together.

This meeting will not decide the fate of Tyrone's entire galaxy, but it will decide whether the three worlds, totaling 17.2 billion people, will go to war with their own kind next.

In the conference room of the command building in New Cato, Horst and Qin Mo sat opposite each other.

"I know that the Tyrone system had a brutal war a year ago, the loyalty party heresy, and I know that most people in this system don't want to go to war."

Horst's voice was calm, looking down at the papers on the table, and he was very flat and elaborated.

"But you're going too far."

"Sure, you can dispute the Inquisition's investigation, but you can't intercept the Inquisitors at the edge of the galaxy or even send an entire fleet against the ships they're on."

Horst glanced at Adam as he spoke.

Adam was extremely tough in the confrontation, and he gave a well-known order: if the target ship crossed the boundary, we would destroy the ship before the fortress.

"From the beginning of the investigation to the present, everything you have done has added fuel to the fire."

With that, Horst snapped his fingers at the attendant beside him.

The attendant immediately took out a box from his waist, and then respectfully opened the box.

Qin Mo saw that the box contained a revolver and six bullets with carved patterns. The pistol was very delicate and beautiful, but the old revolver, with a slightly sci-fi appearance, was probably a collector's item.

"This used to be a tyrant's weapon, I killed him and kept it as a collector's item." Horst said as he took the revolver out of the box, then pulled out the magazine and reloaded it.

As he reloaded, Horst explained his reasoning.

"What you're doing is like loading this gun."

"For example, to intercept the ships of the Inquisition, to contain the members of the Weeping Warband, who should be on an expedition. Every thing that goes overboard is adding a bullet to this gun. ”

Horst stopped when he loaded five bullets, then slid the magazine to flick the barrel of the gun, and the magazine of the revolver returned to the firing position, and the whole gun was ready to fire.

"If I pull the trigger at this time, I may or may not be able to shoot a bullet, everything depends on the probability, and the probability of the bullet not going out is very low when I have five bullets loaded." Horst raised his gun and pointed it at Qin Mo.

Gray and Adam looked at Horst but didn't stop them, because they knew that if the two sides fought, Qin Mo wouldn't need anyone's protection.

Qin Mo stared at the muzzle of the gun and understood what Horst meant.

It's like roulette in Terra's ancient times.

And the reason that Horst said is that every time he does anything to resist the Inquisition, he fills the magazine of his revolver, and the survival rate is getting lower and lower until he must die.

"This pistol is for you." Horst's grip on the gun was slightly loose, and the revolver slid in his hand with the muzzle pointing down.

"Thank you." Qin Mo took the pistol and pulled out the magazine, then got up and picked up the last bullet and stuffed it into the magazine.

At this point, the magazine is completely full.

Horst looked at Qin Mo suspiciously, not knowing what he wanted to do.

Qin Mo threw the pistol back into place, and then put the muzzle of the gun on his head: "I understand what you said, but I choose to bet on it to jam." ”

"No...... This weapon will not jam. Horst explained.

"Then I'll stop it." Qin Mo pulled the trigger.

Horst's retinue quickly stood up to block it, but Horst remained motionless, but there was also a slight nervousness.

The trigger of the revolver was pulled and no bullets were fired, as if it was really dumb.

Qin Mo pulled a few more times, and no bullets came out of each blow.

Horst felt that Qin Mo had used some kind of force to prevent the ammunition from being fired, and then realized that Qin Mo meant that he could make the Inquisition silent.

This was a bit crazy, but Horst thought that if Qin Mo was wrong, then he would not have come to the nest capital world in person to announce the verdict of the court.

"You're in luck, the Inquisition finds you innocent." Horst took out a piece of parchment and handed it out, "You are now the new governor appointed by the Empire, you are the ruler of the three worlds of the Tyrone system, and you are the well-deserved Lord of Tyrone." ”

Qin Mo took the parchment and put it down.

Horst went on to talk about a number of things, such as what the Empire's Governor's obligations were to the Empire, including responding to war calls, sending out men to form the Astral Corps, and tithing.

The focus is on tithes.

Before Horst arrived, he participated in a meeting where the upper echelons of the Inquisition and the High Lords' Council discussed the matter of collecting taxes, and the final result of the discussion was that tithes had to be paid, but how to pay them could be discussed. Now there are new crises emerging throughout the Empire, and it will be difficult to suppress if there is trouble in the Tyrone system.

"There's only one kind of tithing that the Tyrone system will pay, and that's the dimensional engine." Qin Mo said.

"You mean the new navigation technology that isn't based on subspace?" Horst asked.

"That's right." Qin Mo nodded.

Horst thought about it for a moment and thought it was very feasible.

This stable new navigation technique is very important to gradually wean the empire from its dependence on subspace.

At first, Horst was worried that Qin Mo was reluctant to promote the Dimensional Engine, but now this doubt has been dispelled.

But Horst still has a question: "Why did you offer to tithe?" ”

"Because subspace is a dung pit, human beings can no longer dive into the dung pit and swim and then bring a body of into the material universe." Qin Mo replied.

Hearing this, Horst felt that Qin Mo was indeed on the side of the entire human race, and it was still to be considered whether he was on the side of the empire.

However, the dimension engine does not mean that it can be promoted.

"The vast majority of people don't trust your technology very much, and there are many people in the Inquisition who think that your technology is a heretical poison, and the promotion progress may be very slow, but as long as your dimensional engine is really good and not adulterated with private goods, then it will definitely replace the subspace engine in the end." Horst said.

After talking about tithes, Qin Mo didn't say anything anymore, everything he wanted to say had already been said.

But Horst still has something to say: "I'm investigating a strange plague and need your help. The reason is that there are only two places where this plague is raging, one is the hazy star field where Kadian is located, and the other is your Tyrone and the surrounding galaxies, which is strange. ”

Qin Mo frowned when he heard this, and a bad speculation popped up in his heart.

"This is the result of my investigation into the plague by my colleagues and ......" Horst took out a stack of documents he had written from his entourage and handed them to Qin Mo.

Qin Mo immediately took a closer look and found that there were two characteristics of this plague-plagued place.

One is the walking corpse with the plague.

The other is the emergence of new sects in places where the plague is raging, which claim that the empire has betrayed the will of the emperor and that the plague is the emperor's punishment.

Before the plague began to rage, the number of space hulks appeared more and more frequently, as well as the raids of alien and heretical ships.

"The plague of unfaith." Qin Mo put down the document and stared at Horst very seriously, "An expedition against the Gate of Kadian is about to begin. ”

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