After shutting off the communicator, Ye Chen looked at A-Zhui beside him and laughed. "Du Kao is so stingy it's infuriating. Sometimes I really want to kill that old bastard. He can't see the situation clearly at all."
Hearing this, Angel Yan chuckled. "If Du Kao could see the situation clearly, he wouldn't have caused the war between the De Nuo Civilization and the De Xing Civilization ten thousand years ago.
According to the records of the Angel Civilization, Du Kao was the supreme military commander of the Nuo Star back then. He personally launched the war against De Xing. In the end, as the war expanded, it spiraled completely out of control.
That was also where Du Kao got his title of 'War Maniac.' It could be said that this fellow was responsible for more than half of the De Nuo Civilization's destruction. Because of that, Du Kao's reputation in the universe was extremely foul."
Ye Chen nodded. If Du Kao had simply been a soldier, there was no doubt that he would have been highly qualified. But in other respects, he was truly hard to describe.
What was especially ridiculous was that although Du Kao had been the supreme commander of the De Nuo Civilization, he had no idea at all what gods actually were. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been sniped and killed by a Godslayer Bullet in the future.
This was the author's interpretation of this part of the anime's plot: Du Kao completely failed to understand the concept of gods, which was why he was so easily killed by a Godslayer Bullet. If anyone has a different opinion, feel free to leave a comment.
After returning to the Yanhuang Empire, Ye Chen sent all the technical materials he had obtained to the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
Among the materials acquired this time, the three most important types were Controllable Nuclear Fusion technology, Dark Dimension communication technology, and the technology for manufacturing a type of spacecraft.
Aside from those three core technologies, the rest were miscellaneous materials at the level of the Home Star Civilization. Moreover, all these technical materials had one thing in common: not a single one involved weapons.
That old bastard Du Kao simply hadn't dared to give him any weapons technology, terrified that Ye Chen would cause him trouble and use the weapons they manufactured against them.
Although he hadn't obtained any weapons-related materials, Ye Chen was still very satisfied with the outcome overall.
After all, he had never planned to let them leave Blue Star in the first place. He had used this nonexistent condition to freeload so many technical materials. What was there to be dissatisfied about?
With these materials, once the Yanhuang Empire had completely digested them, it would be able to enter the ranks of first-level interstellar civilizations.
Time passed, and half a year went by in the blink of an eye.
The entire European continent was completely occupied by the Yanhuang Empire.
From then on, the European continent became part of the Yanhuang Empire's territory.
That same year, the Russian Dynasty, Kazakh Khanate, Mughal Empire, Safavid Dynasty, Dzungar Khanate, Khoshut Khanate, and other major powers sent envoys to the Yanhuang Empire's European headquarters, hoping to "negotiate peace."
Of course, "peace negotiations" merely sounded nicer. In essence, they were surrendering and seeking to become vassals of the Yanhuang Empire.
Yanhuang Empire, Xuanhuang City.
After hanging up the phone, Ye Chen couldn't help laughing. "Looks like we won't need to wage any more wars for the expansion ahead."
Ye Chen then looked at Yuan Lan. "Draft an imperial edict. Order Gu Hongchen to immediately head to the European base and take charge of these peace negotiations..."
"Yes!!"
The following day, in the afternoon.
Yanhuang Empire European Headquarters.
Gu Hongchen stepped off the plane in the Yanhuang Empire's standard official uniform, followed by a group of people.
"Wu Dongming pays his respects to Lord Gu!" Wu Dongming, the supreme commander of the European headquarters, immediately bowed when he saw Gu Hongchen.
"General Wu, there's no need to be so courteous..."
Looking at Wu Dongming before her, Gu Hongchen said expressionlessly, her beautiful features soft and delicate.
Her voice sounded gentle and warm, yet her face was as cold as frost, giving people the feeling that she kept others thousands of miles away and was extremely cold.
This contradictory air around her came from the fact that she had been expressionless since childhood. Those unfamiliar with her could only assume that she was very difficult to get along with.
Seeing this, Wu Dongming instinctively concluded that she would indeed be difficult to deal with.
Wu Dongming then took several people away to rest.
The next day, a huge room was bustling with people. They were envoys from various countries.
The leading envoys were all crown princes or imperial heirs from their respective nations. Clearly, every country attached great importance to these "peace negotiations." They had no choice—if they didn't take them seriously, their countries would be destroyed.
Gu Hongchen strode toward the dais and finally sat at its very center, looking down expressionlessly at the noisy crowd below.
At that moment, the people below also noticed Gu Hongchen. She was simply too conspicuous. In the entire enormous room, she was the only woman.
Moreover, she was sitting in the seat of honor above them.
Seeing this, the people below were furious, but they did not dare show it because of the Yanhuang Empire's might.
In most of their countries, women were nothing more than dependents. Now that they saw the Yanhuang Empire had sent only a woman, they assumed that the empire was insulting them and did not take them seriously at all.
As time passed, the atmosphere in the room grew increasingly tense. Under Gu Hongchen's icy gaze, everyone felt as though they were suffocating.
"Envoys from the Persian Empire, the Khoshut Khanate, and the Bukhara State, you may return now that I've called out your countries."
At the very start, Gu Hongchen immediately named several empires, her tone flat, as though she were merely stating something ordinary.
But to the envoys of those countries, her words sounded like thunder exploding beside their ears.
Their bodies went limp, and chills ran down their backs.
Because with those words, Gu Hongchen had effectively passed a death sentence on the empires behind them.
As soon as Gu Hongchen finished speaking, soldiers outside immediately entered the room. They grabbed the envoys from the countries she had named and roughly threw them out, ignoring their resistance.
As the doors to the room closed, their miserable wails could still be heard from outside.
Each cry was like a sharp sword stabbing into the hearts of the many envoys present.
It was simply too much. Who could withstand such a massive show of force right from the start?
Moreover, this show of force was incomparably bloody. It had been bought with the lives of countless citizens of those expelled empires.
There was no need to guess. Those expelled empires were doomed.
Now, when they looked at Gu Hongchen on the dais, their eyes held nothing but fear and awe. Her delicate, beautiful face had become, in their eyes, a disguise worn by a demon.
After all, who could have imagined that such a beautiful and seemingly frail woman had just determined the deaths of millions, perhaps even tens of millions, with a single sentence?
On the dais.
Gu Hongchen remained expressionless, without the slightest ripple in her eyes, as though she had not been the one to speak moments ago.
She felt nothing about having determined the destruction of those empires and the deaths of tens of millions of their people with a single sentence. She felt not even a trace of pity.
That was because she was Ye Chen's fanatical believer. In her world, there were only Emperor Ye Chen and the Yanhuang Empire. No matter how many people from other empires died, she would never feel the slightest pity.
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