From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

2004 4 Month 14 Day.

Prime Universe Pacific Time: 04:23.

The imperial palace, located at the top of the ruins, was literally packed with people in any area open to the public.

Local residents of the main universe, fellow humans from different universes, as well as dwarves, elves, elites, and a few Grunts, gathered in the open area of ​​the Imperial Palace, patiently waiting for the opening of the ceremony in more than two hours.

Of course, the residents were not just standing there or waiting foolishly.

The imperial palace, covering an area of ​​20,000 square kilometers, is equivalent to a giant city built by Atlas in several years with a huge amount of manpower and material resources.

Only a few areas involving confidential matters are closed, and most locations are open to the public.

In addition, in addition to the mainly Chinese architectural style, there are also "attractions" of ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations.

It has a complete commercial and entertainment street, and even different star-rated hotels with Chinese, Greek and Egyptian themes.

The most important thing is that in terms of consumption, the Imperial Palace will not charge tourists high prices due to its special nature.

Or they deliberately hide the price list, and when passengers have finished shopping and eating, they are forced to pay ten or even a hundred times the market price.

As a giant company, Atlas' priority is not how to make money and profit, but how to create services and products that win the trust of customers.

Therefore, the human empire based on Atlas will naturally not play the "throwing away watermelons and picking up sesame seeds" drama to consume the loyalty and enthusiasm of the residents.

The consumption of tourists in the commercial and entertainment street of the Imperial Palace is almost the same as that in the New Accra City, and is basically on par.

The prices of hotels open to the public are also within the range that travelers can afford.

The tickets will not suddenly become three or five times more expensive because of today's imperial ceremony and various holidays in the future, causing travelers to decide not to go back.

For example, before Atlas took over completely, during holidays in various countries in different universes, the prices of convenient hotels that were originally extremely cheap and dirty could exceed the standard room prices of ordinary four-star or five-star hotels.

But if “you” don’t buy it, someone else will.

As soon as “you” hesitate, the official website and mobile app will show “Sold Out”.

You can't just go to the local hotel and ask if there are any rooms available after arriving at your destination, just giving it a try.

This most disgusting yet helpless method is the most disdainful way of making profits for Atlas.

In addition, Atlas’s smart AI can also identify scalpers who engage in malicious secondary sales.

At this stage, if residents want to register an account that requires online spending, they must rely on the ID card number.

Each ID can only register one account.

When booking products such as suites, seats and concert tickets, the account holder must be present and secondary sales are not allowed.

If the stupid AI responsible for review finds any abnormality, a refund will be made directly and the account will be banned for 7 days.

However, if the stupid AI finds substantial evidence of secondary sales, the account will be directly cancelled, and the owner of the account will not be able to register again within six months, and will also have to pay a fine of 20,000 to 60,000 credit coins.

When scalpers saw the severity of the punishment, especially Atlas's strict screening measures, they immediately gave up the idea of ​​benefiting from it.

After all, if you get caught doing this, you will have to pay a fine of 20,000 to 60,000 credits.

It's really not worth it.

Atlas may not be able to achieve absolute fairness and justice, but it will provide the best living environment for residents as long as it can.

Because the owner of Atlas never put making money as his top priority from the beginning to the end.

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No, it should be the executives and owners of the vast majority of companies who even calculate money into the monthly salary of cleaners, holding the idea that "no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, and must not be allowed to be tasted by those below."

This is simply human nature.

Once they have tasted the sweetness of power and wealth, they are likely to be unable to stop, becoming more and more corrupt and depraved.

Only a few can stick to the bottom line.

Therefore, according to this situation, only absolute strength can maintain fairness and justice and prevent the rampant breeding of termites.

And this moment.

The personnel responsible for maintaining normal order in the Imperial Palace are 200,000 elite "Emergency Countermeasures Forces (AECS)" who have changed their repaints, as well as more than 5,000 adult and underage Flame Lizards.

Moreover, the paint scheme of these 200,000 AECS elites seems to be very similar to the legion paint scheme of the Flame Lizard.

Among them, the specially-compiled McP power armor and the regular elite full-coverage mechanical skeleton both have the Flame Lizard's legion logo printed on the shoulder armor.

In fact, these 200,000 AECS elites were collectively reorganized at the beginning of this year and became the auxiliary forces of the Flame Lizard Legion.

So the name is no longer "Emergency Countermeasures", but the elite legion of the Human Empire.

In addition to the Astartes and auxiliary troops, there are 800 clone soldiers whose equipment and clothing are also painted with the Flame Lizards, as well as T- Terminators, who jointly maintain order inside and outside the Imperial Palace.

The city of New Accra also provided assistance of nearly 30,000 police officers to ensure the smooth conduct of the imperial ceremony.

Among them, residents of the main universe and the One-Zero (Terminator) universe may feel a little fear of the T-800, which looks like a metal skeleton.

However, residents of other universes have become accustomed to the T-800.

Because the T-800 has begun to gradually integrate into the Atlas police and military systems, it is responsible for handling high-risk matters on behalf of real humans.

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at this time.

Sui Yang, wearing a black custom-made suit with gold threads decorating the collar and cuffs, was standing in the top-floor hall of the core building of the Imperial Palace, overlooking the view of the Imperial Palace.

Then, he gently grasped the solid wooden fence with both hands, closed his eyes slightly, and deeply sensed the emotions of everyone present.

There is joy, excitement, excitement and "eagerness to try".

It seems that as a human being, he feels proud to see humans becoming stronger.

At the same time, there are also disputes, dissatisfaction, worries, etc.

Disputes and dissatisfaction must be caused by conflicts between tourists, and they are worried.

They are worried about whether he, the human emperor, and the human empire he founded will follow the "old path" of history.

Eventually it became corrupt and the people were destitute.

Sensing this worry, Sui Yang opened his eyes and continued to overlook the scenes in the Imperial Palace.

He himself was deeply distressed by the "old path", and as he was old, his psychological endurance was far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.

Ordinary temptations are pure boredom to him.

Power, wealth?

When Sui Yang was still a young man in his sixties, he already had everything that ordinary people could hope for.

At that time, he controlled both the black and white worlds in Seattle, and countless beautiful and charming women came to him on their own initiative.

It can be said that before he was over 60 years old, Sui Yang still had the mentality of an "ordinary person" and had ordinary worldly desires.

However, after he changed his appearance and returned to the public eye as his own "grandson", Sui Yang finally had his true pursuit and sincerely wanted to create a better country for mankind.

Sui Yang does still have "desires", but his goal is no longer "worldly".

Moreover, after having a son, his mentality changed quietly.

Before having a son, Sui Yang felt that life and death didn’t matter, but with the coming of Guilliman and Sanguinius.

Especially since he personally took care of the two fast-growing little ones, Sui Yang finally had an "anchor" in his heart and was no longer helpless.

Although Sui Yang wants all mankind to be stronger, more prosperous and happier, he also has some selfish motives and hopes to provide his sons with a better development platform.

When Guilliman, Sanguinius, Lion, and Horus began to take over the company's branches in different universes one after another, Sui Yang would sometimes feel lonely.

That's why he kept Magnus by his side.

However, after growing up, the original body is no longer as straightforward and funny as he was in childhood.

There was no way around it. The Primarch's extraordinary physique meant that their childhood was destined to be extremely short.

Therefore, as long as his sons follow the formal procedures and take the initiative to make requests to the company, Sui Yang will usually provide help.

Tread.

At this moment, the sound of familiar footsteps interrupted Sui Yang's recollections.

Footsteps came beside me.

Sui Yang didn't need to glance at her to know that it was Alexia Ashford, who had a strange personality and liked to use viruses and serums to conduct research on herself.

Alexia, who was wearing a dark blue V-neck dress, saw Sui Yang put his hands on the three-meter-high fence, looking down at the Imperial Palace with a vacant look in his eyes, and then crossed his hands in front of his chest and said:

"What's wrong, Your Majesty? You look a little melancholy?"

"Fortunately."

Sui Yang turned slightly to the side, looked down at Alexia, whose figure and temperament had changed slightly, and asked:

"You're experimenting on yourself again?"

The reason why Sui Yang asked this was that Alexia was now over 1.9 meters tall and her "dimensions" were still increasing.

He hadn't spoken to Alexia in person for some time.

After all, Alexia was at the Accra campus, busy with customized transformation surgeries for the last batch of Grey Knights, and also needed to perfect the Custodes project.

He himself was also busy finishing up the imperial ceremony.

What Sui Yang didn't expect was that Alexia had grown a little taller.

Alexia is also wearing crystal high heels that show off her figure and foot shape, making her height now nearly two meters.

The most important thing is that her body proportions are still perfect, as if they were "enlarged" overall.

"correct."

Seeing the undisguised surprise in Sui Yang's eyes, Alexia raised her hands slightly and said with a little pride:

"In addition to my work, I also took time out to prepare my own Veronica virus. With the help of nanorobots, I can be considered to have been reborn."

As Alexia spoke, she slowly approached Sui Yang, who was still two meters and a half taller than her, raised her left eyebrow frivolously, and smiled:

"Don't worry, I did all this research at my own expense, not a penny from the company."

Hearing this, Sui Yang shrugged and said jokingly:

"You're not afraid of killing yourself."

"If I don't change, I won't be able to bear you."

"Don't talk about that right now."

Sui Yang hurriedly stopped Alexia from speaking bluntly.

His sons were in the meeting hall below, and even though he spoke to Alexia in a low voice, Sui Yang always felt a little "guilty".

But Alexia looked triumphant.

Like she did it on purpose.

In fact, ever since Sui Yang's height exceeded three meters, she and Sui Yang rarely had "private communication".

Because if she continues, it will cause harm to her body.

There's nothing we can do about it. Her brain is just a little more developed than normal people's, but the rest of her body may not be as good as that of women who exercise regularly.

Sui Yang's height stabilized at 5.4 meters, and after his spiritual energy reached a certain level, he was able to "change" his height at will.

But Alexia felt increasingly unbalanced.

Mainly because of the appearance of the Elf Queen Tinas, Alexia was very unhappy.

She had never seen a queen who seemed to be detached from the world and like she was out of touch with the world, actually take the initiative to "send" something, and say that everything was due to fate, prophecy, and so on.

In addition, the muscle and bone density of the elves is several times that of humans, and they can withstand unimaginable damage and impact.

The longevity of the elves made Alexia, who had been "playing badly" for many years, start to "work hard".

Because she is a "mortal" after all.

If she doesn't make changes, she will end up like Wang Zhaofeng and the old veterans who worked with Sui Yang to start a business, decaying into the ground and turning into dust.

This was the most difficult ending for her to accept.

She doesn't want to grow old and die.

So, Alexia made a clone of her at her own expense and performed extensive experiments with the Veronica virus.

The mutant strain finally extracted was the Veronica virus that was only suitable for her.

After confirming that the risk of using clones was low, Alexia immediately injected the exclusive Veronica virus. Then, she injected a disposable nanorobot to assist in the comprehensive transformation of her body.

After completing the transformation period, she conducted a combat experiment with the T-800 and the Heavy Armor Tyrant.

The data obtained shows that her individual combat power is much higher than that of an ordinary Astati.

However, this exclusive virus, which took her many years of effort to complete, cannot be mass-produced.

Moreover, during the experiment, she also discovered that her physique was quite compatible with the Veronica virus.

Even if the virus was not customized and there were no nanorobots to assist her, after being injected with the virus, she only needed to lower her body temperature to achieve perfect transformation.

The best way to lower your body temperature is to refrigerate yourself and hibernate for ten years.

But she didn't have that much spare time, and the company had a lot of projects waiting for her to deal with, so she took a "shortcut".

"Ha ha!"

At this moment, Alexia couldn't help laughing when she saw Sui Yang's serious expression, and said:

"I know. Don't worry now. There'll be plenty of time to talk later.

Oh, right," Alexia said, and then seemed to remember something and continued:

"That Athena seems to hope that you can provide her with some help so that she can better fight against supernatural creatures."