The Visitor
The things he promised were merely expedient measures to garner votes. The Riken Race are not a dictatorial race, and his position as speaker is not as powerful as one might imagine. Passing some controversial bills is not so simple.
Take, for example, the people of the Trimble District. This is the most chaotic area on the entire Riken Star. Although it is only about 300 miles in radius, it is home to a large number of violent elements.
Gangs, drug dealers, mercenaries, and other shady professions abound here, and petty theft is considered quite law-abiding. A convenience store owner might be a retired high-ranking member of a gang; ordinary people simply cannot survive here.
In order to defeat his rivals, he rashly promised the Trimblins some conditions, such as that once he became Speaker, he would definitely work hard to promote drug legalization reforms, reduce crime penalties, and exclude low-value robberies from the criminal list, etc.
As a result, he not only won the votes of the Trimble District, but also the votes of all relevant professionals, successfully defeating his opponents and taking the position.
Now, although he also wants to fulfill his original promise, no matter how he tries to embellish those proposals, their straightforward content cannot fool even ordinary Riken Person.
If he insists on pushing through these bills, whether they will succeed is uncertain, but he will likely be a spectator in the election four years from now.
At that time, having only served one term as speaker, he would likely become a laughing stock in the history of the Riken Race, which was not what he wanted to see.
But those people in the Trimble District were no ordinary people either. They weren't common folk; they were the kind of people who slept with a pistol on safety under their pillow.
Promises made to these guys aren't so easily broken. He'd only been dragging his feet for six years, and he'd already received countless death threats from unknown figures.
A few days ago, a standard-issue bomb was found near his residence. It's unclear where it came from. Although the bomb squad came, the matter was eventually dropped.
The other side played their cards openly; it was clearly the work of the Trimble District. But that area had been fortified so thoroughly that even regular troops dared not easily venture in.
If something really happened to him, he could simply escape and hide in the Trimble District, and probably no one would bother to thoroughly investigate the area for a dead man.
Faced with a choice between his life and his future, Speaker Delrin was torn, and even his supposedly elite Think Tank could not offer a good solution.
Just as he was thinking that his headache was about to flare up again, the office door was pushed open.
A robust, resolute-looking middle-aged Riken Person strode in. His upright posture and powerful stride clearly indicated that he was a soldier.
"Speaker Delrin, please forgive my unannounced Visit."
"General Munro, is there something urgent that brings you here?" Delrin thought to himself, annoyed that he hadn't made an appointment beforehand. But dealing with someone like Munro didn't require excessive formalities; just get straight to the point. That's what they liked.
Sure enough, Munro nodded, a slight smile playing on his lips on his sharp blue face. He also disliked tedious small talk, and this guy, Delrin, was quite to his liking.
General Munro turned to look at his secretary, Ram, who had come in with him.
"Your Excellency Speaker, Your Excellency General, I'll go prepare some drinks for you both." Ram readily made up an excuse and left the room, closing the door behind him.
"Your Excellency Speaker, here is some information. Please take a look." Munro handed a document and placed it on Speaker Delrin's desk.
Speaker Delrin took the documents, glanced down, and exclaimed, "<Cat Ear Project>?"
He casually flipped through it and found it to be a plan from nearly a hundred years ago. His memory slowly returned; he was young then and vaguely remembered that there was such a thing.
At the time, they used the advanced technology of the Riken to launch a spaceship toward a nearby star system. The specific purpose was not disclosed to the public; they only said that they suspected there was a habitable Ecological Star there and were going to explore it.
Those who boarded the ship were hailed as heroes by the media, known as the first colonists to leave their Mother Planet. Everyone dreamed of acquiring a new habitable planet and expanding their race's territory.
However, as many years passed, the attention surrounding this matter gradually diminished. Furthermore, since the matter was handled by the military and little information was released, the public had largely forgotten about it.
Let alone the general public, even the speaker of the council wouldn't have remembered such a thing before seeing this plan.
"An unnatural energy burst has been detected?" Opening the plan, the Speaker's expression gradually turned serious as he slowly flipped through the pages.
"Communication records? Discovery of a mysterious creature? Ability to perform fusion reactions directly within its body? Ability to exhale energy and trigger a nuclear explosion?" His questions grew increasingly sharp, and finally, he abruptly looked up. "General Munro, you didn't come here with a script asking me for investment, did you? The Council can't handle this. You should go to a film company; they'd probably be very interested. After all, this script is quite good; I'm completely engrossed in it."
General Munro shook his head and said calmly, "This is the complete record of Cat Ear Project over the past ninety years, the real deal."
"Are you really not joking?" Speaker Delrin was still somewhat skeptical. The contents of this plan were shocking; a normal person who suddenly saw it probably wouldn't be able to accept it easily.
"I came here specifically to entertain you; I'm very busy." Munro's voice remained calm.
Speaker Delrin stared directly into General Munro's eyes, and General Munro returned the gaze without flinching. After several seconds, Speaker Delrin lowered his head again and resumed reviewing the documents in his hands.
He could see that General Munro was serious; he really wasn't joking.
"If it's true, that would be a huge discovery. But these are just partial reports from the spaceship; can we trust them?"
General Munro nodded, reached into his pocket, pulled out a miniature memory device, and handed it to the Speaker: "View it once, then delete it automatically."
Delrin shook his head and chuckled, "Is that really necessary? I have the highest level of security here." Seeing that Munro didn't answer, he shook his head again and inserted the memory card into the computer.
A few seconds later, the computer automatically began playing the contents of the memory.
The video shows Godzilla landing on land, being intercepted by the Riken Person, conventional weapons proving ineffective, then launching Nuclear Bomb, followed by a counterattack amidst Godzilla and smoke, spewing energy to destroy artillery positions, and finally drifting away.