The Blue Light Mountain Territory was originally the property of the Parkland chaebol, and when the parliament decided to fight the war, the Parkland chaebol was expelled. As for the final outcome of this marginal aristocracy, no one will pay attention to it. In front of the giant beast of the Dark Council, the chaebol who has some influence on the edge of the coastline is not even a lost dog, and is completely crushed like ants.

As for whether the ants are still alive or have become the nutrients of giant beasts, who cares?

After that, the Pakland chaebol's fiefdom was naturally taken over by the Augustus family. The Parliament is expanding externally, and as the top wealthy family supporting the Parliament, the Augustus family only gets their fair share of the benefits. While reaping the benefits, the wealthy also have their own responsibilities. For example, if the battle at the front line is lost and the enemy moves north, then the family of Augustus must meet the enemy, and sending the eldest son of the family to serve as the commander of the front line is only a small part of the obligation.

Interests are always relative.

As the head of the Augustus family, Leo knew this very well. But when he received the news of Hart's disappearance and the end of his life, he still couldn't help but feel dizzy. Hart is already seen as the future helm of the family, and he may not be as good as Rhein in terms of force potential, but in other ways. For example, in terms of strategy, the management of the family is much better. Of course, in this chaotic era, as the head of the family, you must also have the force to suppress the people in the clan.

With Hart's strength that he had advanced to the tenth order not long ago, it was enough, even if his potential was only to the tenth order.

For such a promising young man, the family has only invested a lot in him. And Hart also repaid the family with his practical actions and front-line achievements, and in more than a year, his actions have been recognized by important members of the family. No surprise, in a few years, Leo was able to take a back seat and put the responsibility of the family in the hands of this young man.

At that time, with the help of Rhine's force, the two brothers will work together, and Leo can almost see a brighter future for the Augustus family.

But at this time, the news of Hart's disappearance came.

The commander of the defenders in Niru had been executed by Leo for dereliction of duty, but it was far from calming the anger and fear of his son's disappearance. Leo knew very well that he didn't have the energy to raise another Hart, not to mention that among Hart's siblings, there was only one Ryan who could barely replace him. But Rhine will definitely not be a good head of the family, and Rhine's feelings are delicate. This may be the quality of a good poet, but it is not what a head of a family needs.

It's been more than 24 hours since Hart went missing, and every minute of it has been a torment for Leo for more than a day. He didn't roar in anger, but was as quiet as a bottomless abyss that would break to pieces if anyone accidentally touched it.

For as long as Hart was missing, Leo stayed in his study for as long as he could. Now even the servants in his study, who did not have the slightest strength, could feel the oppressive aura like a great storm. This is undoubtedly a chore for the butler who needs to report the latest news to Leo from time to time, even if the butler has served the Augustus family for thirty years, and knows that Leo will never lift a finger against him. But every time he stepped into the study, the butler almost thought that he had stepped into the lair of the beast.

Every time he had to be careful, he would always sweat profusely and his legs would go limp.

But this time, his steps were steady and light, and the corners of his mouth even couldn't help showing a smile or two. Pushing open the door, the study was still extremely depressed, and Leo was looking out the window with his hands behind his back. Just a back is enough to suffocate. The momentum unconsciously released from him was like flowing magma. Although the surface is calm, it is already boiling inside!

"If you still can't find Hart, you don't need to report it, just let the few pieces of waste in charge of the search come to me with their heads. Leo said without looking back.

The housekeeper took a deep breath and said, "Master, Miss Xiuya, the major general of the Blood Cavalry, and Mr. Zuo Fei of the law enforcement regiment ask to see you." ”

"What are they doing here?" Leo frowned, especially as the Speaker's daughter and the head of the Law Enforcement Corps walked together, which looked like a strange pairing no matter how you looked at it.

"In addition to them, there is also Mr. Zero from Dawning City...... and Master Hart. ”

"Hart?" Leo said with a whirlwind turn, his eyes shining brightly, "You said that Hart was with them, and they caught Hart." You just said that Dawning City's zero, that's right, even Konstantin was lost under the hands of this young powerhouse, and it was easy to capture Hart. Well, they dare to send it to the door themselves, and I have no one in the Augustus family?"

"Master......" The butler hurriedly said, "The situation is a bit special, Young Master Hart doesn't look like he's under any prohibition." Aside from looking a little tired, there's nothing wrong with anything else. ”

Leo was on the march, and it was clear that things were unexpected. He nodded, put away the oppressive aura that had been entrenched in the study, adjusted his mind, and asked the butler to arrange for the visitor to go to a secret room. Based on Leo's experience, it is not difficult to see that these people must have a lot of articles, especially one of them is considered to be the enemy's zero, so the problem is even more complicated.

Leo believes that even if Xiuya is crazy and cooperates with his enemies, the law enforcement team will never do this, let alone the head of the law enforcement team. Leo also knows that person from Zuo Fei, who is lazy like a homeless person on the surface, but in fact, he is a guy with amazing means. Such a man would never walk with Zero for no reason. Shuya aside, Zuofei and Zero alone are enough to make Leo act carefully.

No one knew that the Blue Light Mountain had brought a few special guests today, and Zuo Fei directly notified the arrival of several members of the Augustus family through the secret channel of the law enforcement team. So when the four of them followed the butler to a small, windowless secret room, the rest of the Augustus family, including Rhine, knew that Hart had returned to the hinterland.

As soon as the butler withdrew, Leo walked in. When the door closed, he and Hart hugged each other. Then he said, "Just come back." ”

Letting go of Hart, Leo's gaze swept over Xiuya and Zuo Fei, and finally stopped on Zero's face. He said directly: "You let Hart go, it's good." You can ask for anything but the withdrawal of my troops, young man. ”

Hart looked at Zero in embarrassment, and Zero said casually, "Tianhao, I have nothing else to ask for but to let you withdraw your troops." ”

Leo's whole person suddenly became fierce: "Now that you are in the territory of Augustus, do you think that our family can't compete with the eleventh-order powerhouse against you?"

"If I was here to fight, do you think Hart would be able to stand here?" asked Zero rhetorically, no weaker than Leo.

Leo narrowed his eyes: "Maybe you just can't kill my son." ”

Hart coughed dryly next to him and said, "Father, it's easy for Zero to kill me." ”

Leo looked at his son in surprise, and Hart spread his hands and said, "Okay, Mr. Zuo Fei." If you don't say it again, I don't care if my father fights with Zero. ”

Zuo Fei smiled bitterly and said to Leo: "Mr. Leo, our law enforcement team and several councils suspect that the speaker is leading the council into the abyss. ”

Leo asked quietly, "Who are the councilors?"

Zuo Fei answered them one by one, but every name he said made Leo's eyelids jump. His eyelids jumped seven times, and these seven names, even if they were slightly inferior to his Leo, were still very important names in the council. If Zuo Fei doesn't say anything, then one of the biggest trust dangers in parliament's history is about to erupt.

At the center of the storm is Speaker Oglok. If this kind of thing is not handled well, it is not surprising that even if the parliament collapses immediately.

Leo said in a deep voice, "What the hell is going on. ”

They talked in detail in the chamber for two hours, and the butler stood outside the door for two hours. Until the door opened, Hart came out with a smile and said to the butler, "Please bring us some coffee, father and guests need to be refreshed." ”

The butler glanced into the door, and Leo was pinching his eyebrows. Judging from his nearly thirty years of experience serving the head of the family, Leo was in trouble. He was always decisive, and even if Hart went missing, Leo reacted immediately. It can be said that it is very rare for him to show such hesitation and indecision like now.

Hart closed the door again, and heard Leo mutter, "Prosius, I find it hard to believe that there is such a ...... Exists?"

"You can ask my father about this, and he will give you the same answer as we do. Xiuya said proudly.

Leo looked at her and said with a complicated expression, "Major General, do you know what you're doing?"

"Of course I knew that by nature, I was betraying my father. Xiuya's eyes softened: "Emotionally speaking, I know very well that I am saving him." I don't want him to go to the point where everyone is betraying his family, so even if it hurts him, I'm willing to do it. ”

After looking at her for a minute, Leo sighed, "It seems that there is such a thing." ”

"If you don't believe me, I can ask Douglas to testify. He is also one of the few people who feels the world changing. Zero said.

Leo shook his head: "No need, I know very well what kind of person Major General Xiuya is." Since even she jumped out and said this, nine times out of ten things are true. ”

"Besides, you brought Hart back and didn't choose to kill him. Leo looked at Zero and said, "Although in the short term, killing one Hart won't change the overall situation." In the long run, it will lead our family into a crisis of no successor ten years later. This is definitely a ticking time bomb for both our family and the Parliament. Now that you've shown your sincerity, there's no reason why I shouldn't believe it. ”

"There's a more serious problem. Zuo Fei sighed and said, "According to the information we have, the Speaker has transferred a large amount of war resources from the Council in the name of war, but it is still unknown where these resources have gone. ”

Hart also said: "The Speaker's recent actions are really strange, father, do you remember my request to apply to the Council for high-level combat power? Even if the combined forces of Valhalla and Dawning City have forced into the front line, and the Speaker is reluctant to transfer the Abyss Black Cavalry, then where does this part of the combat power go?"

Leo's eyes moved, and he suddenly gritted his teeth and spit out two words: "Dark Nest!"

"Dark Nest?"

A few people looked at each other, and even Xiuya and Zuo Fei had never heard of this word.

Leo muttered, "Damn, Augur, you still do it. ”

"Father, what is the Dark Nest?" asked Hart for the others.

"It was a plan, one shortly after the Black Rider of the Abyss came out. Leo said softly.

After the Abyssal Black Rider was successfully concocted, Oglock came up with an even bolder and crazier idea. The Abyssal Black Rider's genetic blueprint comes from the Discord, but the Council has spent a lot of resources on it in order to preserve its will. It can be said that the cost of each Abyss Black Rider is very staggering, and the number of success is determined. The huge consumption of resources determines that the Abyss Black Rider cannot mass-produce it.

Because the main resource consumption of the Black Knights lies in the preservation of the will, Oglok proposed to eliminate this requirement and use a method similar to intelligent AI to control it, so as to achieve the goal of reducing success and mass-producing tenth-order biological weapons. This method is actually similar to Asmo, except that Asmo is not yet able to produce tenth-order weapons.

There were only three people who knew about the plan at the time, and only Leo knew about it, except for Oglok and Dr. Shauna, who had been the original director of the Abyss Project. When Leo learns that Oglok has this idea, he tries to stop it. Leo believes that a tenth-order weapon without a will is a hundred times more dangerous than the Abyss Black Knight. With will, then like the Abyss Black Rider, their behavior can also be regulated by a series of emotions such as morality and loyalty.

Without will, it is like a beast that has opened its shackles, and even if it is controlled by an AI system, no one can guarantee that these weapons will go out of control one day. And once the mass-produced tenth-order weapon gets out of control, it will be an absolutely devastating blow.

Because of Leo's fierce opposition, Oglock promised to abandon the Dark Nest Project.

But now, he's clearly restarted. Leo shook his head and said: "Auger has always been a stubborn old thing, and the reason why he turned against Douglas back then was because of the fundamental differences in principles between the two. For so many years, Auger has been proving himself to Douglas, but I didn't expect that his obsession has now turned into complete madness. ”

Zuo Fei sighed when he heard this: "So I'm most afraid of dealing with paranoia, and they are just a line away from madmen." ”

Xiuya immediately glared at him fiercely, and the latter smiled bitterly and said, "No offense, but the truth is." ”

"Father, given your familiarity with the Speaker, what do you think of the current stage of this plan?" asked Hart.

Leo walked back and forth in the secret room a few times and said, "This guy Ogg, I'm afraid that when this war starts, he will secretly prepare to restart the Dark Nest Project." ”

"Wait, you mean. This war, and all of it, is just a cover for the Speaker to start the Dark Nest?" said Hart.

Leo sighed, "I'm afraid so, because only war will distract all the councillors, including me." Because only in war does the Speaker have the greatest power to allocate resources. There is also only war, and when the dark nest plan is exposed, he can also use war as an excuse to prevaricate out. Ogg intends to purge the world, a purge with his ideas. ”

"Where's Darknest's base?" Zero asked directly.

"Grim Reaper Ridge. ”

"Grim Reaper Ridge?" the people present gasped again.

Grim Reaper Ridge Zero is all too familiar, whether it was when he was a wilderness mercenary, or later in order to travel to other continents, he salvaged the Destiny from Grim Reaper Ridge. The complex environment on that mountain range, with an Abyss Lord like the Devourer of Filth, was indeed not a good place to set up a research base. But because of this, no one thought that the base of the Dark Nest would be set up on that mountain territory.

Death Ridge is a stone's throw away from Phoenix, and once the Darknest warriors are mass-produced and put into the battlefield, the first to suffer from the catastrophe will definitely be Phoenix. Zero couldn't help but be glad that he found out early, otherwise he would have thought that everything was under control, and by the time the Darknest Warrior appeared, it would have been too late.

At that time, Oglok had already made a thorough plan, and even the personnel arrangements and resource preparations had been completed. In the end, it ran aground because of my opposition, and if he restarted this plan, then the Dark Hive base would definitely still be on Death Ridge. Except for one thing, I don't know exactly where the base is. ”

"It's good to know that you're on Grim Reaper's Ridge. Zero said in a deep voice: "I have to go back immediately, and then organize an operation, this base must be destroyed." ”

Leo nodded: "I can lend two tenth-order powerhouses here, I can't have more, any more will leak the news." ”

"In this way, the fighting on the front line has to continue. Hart mused, "At the very least, we'll have to make a show to the Speaker." ”

"That's right, I'll let Sol know when I get back, so he can put on a good show with you. Zero said.

Hart shrugged: "Fate is really wonderful, two days ago I was thinking about how to kill this guy Thor, but now I have to cooperate with him." ”

Leo smiled, "Just let it go, I'll talk to those old guys too." Let's see how we can stop Augy from going wrong after you've taken out the Dark Nest. ”

Several people came secretly and left secretly. A few days later, Hart returned to Niru City, and as for how he disappeared and how he would return, he had already thought of a set of explanations. Zero secretly went to see Thor and told him about the Dark Hive Project and his cooperation with Augustus.

The war continued, and the main battlefield for which the two sides were contested was still full of artillery fire, but with the deliberate mobilization of the commanders on both sides, the battle seemed fierce, but the number of casualties plummeted. Of course, the officers of the council will only attribute it to Hart's dispatch.

Just when the war attracted most people's attention, a secret team set off from Phoenix City and quietly headed for Death Ridge. The team is led by Zero, and the team includes his own Kaede, Yeru, and Haiwei. Su Ze continued to stay on the battlefield, occasionally appearing, giving the illusion that Dawn City was still at war. Next are the two members of the council, Xiuya and Zuo Fei.

Finally, there are Starley and Nero, two powerhouses from Valhalla, and two family powerhouses lent by the Augustus family, Naxi and Van Gellis.