2094. Visitor in the dark
"Dunn..." Palpatine's gloomy and distorted voice sounded.
Dunn-Vesex hurriedly rolled out of the queue, almost crawling on the ground, bowed and said, "What are your orders, Your Majesty."
"Geth was released by Tang Xiao. I am very sure of this." Palpatine said slowly.
"Now Northern Territory's defense is as solid as a rock, Your Majesty. Not only that, I am also constantly looking for Geth's home planet. As long as I can find it there, it will be crucial to unlocking the secret of Geth." Dunn-Vesex said.
"I strongly believe that you can stop the invasion of Geth, Dunn." Although Palpatine's tone was extremely gloomy, his words revealed his trust and love for Dunn, "But the key to the matter is how Tang Xiao released Geth."
Dunn Wessex frowned and pondered, "Among the countless intelligence and stories, one thing that is relatively certain at present is that Tang Xiao and the others come from the unknown star territory. In the era when our history has not yet been recorded, a huge war may have broken out in the unknown star territory. Tang Xiao and the others are war refugees. The seventh under my banner The army has been responsible for the exploration of the unknown star field for a long time, and a lot of information has been received. We are convinced that in addition to the Chiss, there are countless races in the unknown star field, some of which are powerful and some strange. The evolution of species in the unknown star field may be completely different from what we usually know. The Geth may be one of them."
"So since Tang Xiao can find Geth and control Geth, what about us?" Palpatine asked, "If Unknown Regions still has weird and powerful races, find them and let them be used by the Empire!"
"As you wish, my Majesty." Dunn-Vesex responded quickly.
"Wilhuff!" Palpatine looked in the direction of Tarkin again, "Can the completion date of the DS-1 combat platform be confirmed?"
Wilhuff-Tarkin stood up and said very confidently, "Although the construction process of DS-1 is full of difficulties, we have eliminated many problems. Recently, Krennic found a genius energy scientist Galen-Erso, who will help us solve the most difficult technology of DS-1 - the crystal energy focusing problem."
He raised his hand and said, "Five years! Five years later, while our fleet is getting ready, the DS-1 battle space station will also complete the final construction! Under the joint attack of DS-1 and our invincible fleet, Duchy of Dawn will not have any chance to struggle!"
"Hahahahaha! Very good! Very good! Very good!!" Palpatine said several good words in succession, and he seemed to be in a very good mood now, "Remember, don't bomb Dawn Star Planet with DS-1. I want to leave a message for Tang Xiao Life... I want him to watch everything he has built being destroyed by me bit by bit... Hahahahaha... Men are killed, women are ravaged, Homeworld is burned, and the land is trampled. I want him to wail in pain and despair for ten thousand years... Hahahahaha..."
He laughed and walked down from the throne, passing through the core of power of this group of the Empire. They are also very knowledgeable and automatically arranged into two teams headed by the most popular Dunn-Vesex and Wilhuff-Tarkin, followed by Palpatine.
"Duchy of Dawn Is there anything we can do about the recent political turmoil?" Palpatine asked again.
Imperial Intelligence Department Minister Blackhole immediately replied, "I am arranging for people to approach Francis-Underwood. I believe that with the power of our the Empire, Francis will definitely not be able to refuse the price offered."
"Haha... can you get close to the Prime Minister of Duchy of Dawn?" Palpatine asked coldly, "Since you can get close to him, you can naturally assassinate him, right?"
"This is really not possible at the moment." Blackhole shook his head, "But Francis's cronies, Douglas-Stamp, were forced to resign today because of the scandal. I think he will be our most suitable breakthrough point. Magistrate Mas-Salen (Mas Sirrah has led his team to carry out this mission."
"Very... good... (Goooood), hehehehehe. As long as you can instigate rebellion against the Liming Prime Minister of the Duchy government, I will reward you heavily, hahahahaha." Palpatine laughed proudly again.
Douglas-Stamp suddenly raised his head and drank the entire glass of wine. Even the bartender at the bar was shocked by the amount of alcohol he drank.
"One more drink! Cerea's Dew Wine, it's really... delicious..." Douglas-Stamp said drunkenly.
"My suggestion is, don't. My friend, you have already drunk too much. Dew Wine has great stamina. If this continues, you may not even be able to find the door home." Some elderly bartenders shook their heads.
"Don't you think I can't pay you?" Douglas roared angrily, raised his wrist to open the payment tool on Omni-tool, and punched the bartender in the face due to his drunkenness, "I have plenty of fucking money!"
"That's not what I meant, friend. I own this bar, and I really don't want to make money like you." The bartender sighed, "Have a glass of juice, it's my treat. Then go home, or sleep on the sofa in the back?"
"Wow! Is this drunk guy the one who apologized on TV yesterday?" A drinker next to him seemed to recognize Douglas and pointed here.
"Obviously you are wrong! George is the younger brother of my wife's cousin! Get away from me, this guy is drunk!" The old bartender waved his hand to drive away the curious drinkers.
"Alas..." After the drinker left, he sighed, leaned on the table while washing the cups, and whispered to Douglas, "Listen, friend, a person like you shouldn't appear here. You are not good at both public and private matters. Go back and find your assistant, bodyguard, bodyguard... whatever. Anyway, don't stay here."
"Who am I? I am a civilian now. I don't have any job, civilian." Douglas said drunkenly, "How can a civilian have a bodyguard? No, no. I only have my coat... Oh, by the way, if I don't have money to pay the bill, this coat can be worth 5,000 yuan."
"I won't accept your coat. It's in our best interest to go back to where you belong and do what you're supposed to do." The old bartender shook his head and said.
"That's enough, I'll send him back." A man in a black trench coat suddenly came over from nowhere, sat in front of the old bartender, and pushed a credit ingot worth 1000 Number Four currency in his hand.
"Who are you? I've never seen you in this bar." The old bartender became alert.
"Obviously you remembered it wrong. It doesn't matter, I'll take him away." The black windbreaker said.
The old bartender was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Ah, okay. I understand. Take him back quickly, this guy is drunk."
The black windbreaker helped Douglas-Stamp up and led him outside.
After he had just walked out a few steps, he saw several burly men in plain clothes walking over and whispered to him, "Put him down!"
"So you are his family? Anyway, before you take this drunkard away, pay for my coat first! This guy vomited all over me!" The black windbreaker had an annoyed look on his face. The previous gloominess was completely gone, and now he looked completely philistine.
As expected, his body was covered in Douglas's vomit.
"Okay, I'll give you the money. It's enough for you to buy ten coats. Thank you for taking care of my... uh, distant cousin!" One of the big men said nothing, and took out a handful of credit ingots and stuffed it in. "I'm sorry. So you should go home quickly, wash your clothes and go to bed."
"I fucking want... Oh, okay, no problem." After seeing the face value of the credit ingot in his hand, Black Windbreaker immediately beamed and turned around happily.
The big man breathed a sigh of relief, touched the invisible intercom on his Adam's apple, and whispered, "This is Blue Team, we found Douglas... Yes, he is drunk. But everything around him is normal... Okay, I will arrange for Green Team to follow that person for a while."
Douglas-Stamp Opened his eyes and found that it was already morning, and he had been cleaned up and placed on the bed. A warm fragrance hit his face, and he realized that there was a naked young girl lying next to him. And judging from the current state of the bed, it was obvious that at least 20,000 words of drama had occurred between them.
He sat up suddenly, his movement startling the girl. She leaned over with a smile, kissed Douglas-Stamp on the cheek, then dropped a communicator and said, "I hope you had a good time last night, sir. Now, you should listen to this communication."
After saying that, she grabbed the clothes on the bed and left without looking back.
Douglas-Stamp opened the communicator, and Francis-Underwood appeared in the holographic projection. He was wearing glasses and seemed to be working on documents.
"You're awake, Doug. I hope this woman can let out some of your excess anger and help you regain your composure. Don't worry, your wife doesn't know about this." Francis said without raising his head, "But you made another serious mistake last night. You drank too much and escaped from protection. This makes me have to reconsider whether it is appropriate to continue to let you stay with me."
"I swear this kind of thing will never happen again, absolutely not!" Douglas-Stamp quickly got up.
"How do you expect me to trust you, Doug?" Francis-Underwood was still looking at the document without raising his head. "I have made all the proper arrangements, but you secretly ran out to get drunk because of your inner resentment? Tell me, which of these things was not brought about by you?"
"No! This is just an accident! I don't have any other ideas!" Douglas said loudly.
"Now, go home. Calm down and stay away from the hustle and bustle of politics. I will come back to you at the right time." Francis finally raised his head and said.
"Have you given up on me? After I took the blame for you, your first reaction was to abandon me! Fuck!!" Douglas was still drunk and cursed angrily, grabbing the water bottle next to him and smashing it with a crash.
"Standing in our position, the first thing you should not have is such an emotion, Doug." Francis said seriously, "Go back and calm down for a while."
"Don't always be so condescending Frank!" Douglas pointed at Francis's nose in the holographic projection and said loudly, "Do you think I don't know? You are afraid! Afraid that Hari Seldon will get Tang Xiao because of 'that thing' E! Then he will take away your Imperial Chancellor position! Once "that thing" is carried out, it will be Imperial Chancellor!! Do you think you are equally crazy in this matter!
However, Francis-Underwood just looked up at him, said nothing, and closed the communication.
With a bang, the communicator in Douglas's hand shattered on the wall.
At this time, there was a polite knock on the door.
Returning to the villa he bought in the suburbs of Dawn Star Planet, Douglas-Stamp turned on the holographic projection and stared at the news that was constantly playing in a daze.
The news is all about recent events. Prime Minister's Office is implementing new economic policies, but has been criticized for disregarding national security and blindly pleasing ignorant people. Some people even say that Francis is taking this opportunity to please those civilian companies that have been left out in the preparation process.
"You know nothing!" Douglas waved his hand, and Omni-tool automatically sensed and turned off the projection.
Yes, these guys know nothing!
The struggle between Francis-Underwood and Helmut-Zemo is not a battle of ideas at all, let alone a battle between pacifism and warism, but a battle for the throne of Imperial Chancellor in the future!
Tang Xiao wants to take a step further from the position of Grand Duke of Dawn. Helmut-Zemo has been preparing for this for a long time, and Tang Xiao himself has not explicitly rejected this.
As we all know, if the ruler does not refuse on such a topic, it means agreeing.
So after taking the next step, what about the others? Will it continue to improve as the rising tide lifts all boats, or will it be swept away by the waves? Hard to guarantee. Because now Tang Xiao, his mood is very unstable and no one can guess it.
But one thing is quite obvious, and that is how much Tang Xiao values Hari Seldon. He has been focusing on cultivating this new generation of young people in politics, and Hari Seldon has also delivered excellent results.
If this continues, and the Operation Zero proposed by Hari Seldon is implemented, or even succeeds in the end, then no one will know whether the position of Prime Minister is Francis!
Therefore, Francis was also forced to the wall.
Douglas sighed, stood up and walked subconsciously towards the wine cabinet. However, after taking a few steps, his steps hesitated...
That's right, you shouldn't drink anymore.
But at this time, another voice suddenly sounded in the room, "If you want to have a drink, go ahead and drink it. Although they confiscated all your wine collection, I still brought you a bottle. It's in the first compartment of the second row of the wine cabinet... it's very conspicuous."
Thanks to Dang Kongshan for tipping 100 Qidian Coin!!