Merit Book·Xinghai

At this time, the traces of the previous battle on Wangfei Star are still there. There are other buildings around the White Palace, most of which have been blown to pieces. Outside the ruins, many places in the forest are still burning. The smoke billowed, turning the blue sky into a haze.

Judging from the traces of these battles and the appearance of those people, it is not difficult to guess what happened before.But at this time the spaceship encountered an attack, and it was impossible to ignore it, Leopold said: "Change the No. [-] bomb."

"Change the No. [-] bomb."

"Change the No. [-] bomb."

The order was conveyed layer by layer, the gun barrel outside the spaceship retracted, turned around, and a new gun barrel stretched out.

Ze Ruo and the others were driving the mecha, and they had already arrived near the spaceship and began to attack.They knew that with their current equipment and ammunition reserves, wanting to defeat the giant steel beast in front of them was tantamount to dreaming.However, if they escaped, their heads would explode into a cloud of blood.Going forward is death, and retreating is also death. Even though they actually put their own life and death aside when they launched an attack, Princess Tanada still has many brothers and sisters in her hands, as well as thousands of them who are undergoing training and have not yet The children from Prison Star who left the training camp.These people are all hostages in the hands of the princess. If they want to escape from the battlefield, or even if the battle is a little bit rough, the princess will randomly let some of them "know why the flowers are so red".

When forcing them to come out to fight, the maid beside the concubine explained these things clearly, and did not allow them to have any luck.

They can only fight to the death... Maybe, when all the rebels are dead, the remaining unaware, docile and obedient children can survive—after all, they Prison Stars are born killers and tools. It's... a rare item, right?

Ze Ruo felt a little lucky and sorry when he thought that before Qi Cheng Dao Wang Xing joined the war, he insisted on keeping the little girl Jin Yingzi behind on the grounds that he was underage.

——Girl, pretend you don’t know anything and live on!

Even if life and personal freedom are all manipulated by others, just being alive is enough.

Alive, there is still hope.

Thinking of that man named Rong Yuan and his unpredictable methods, Ze Ruo felt a burst of regret.Jin Yingzi once suggested that he could find a way to join forces with that man, but he refused because he... didn't believe in that man.He was worried that they would finally get out of the concubine's control, and they would be caught by another person with ulterior motives.

I knew so... I knew so...

Ze Ruo gritted his teeth with hatred, manipulated the mecha, and rushed towards the buzzing muzzle of the spacecraft like a moth to the flame, ready to block the gunfire with himself so that others could continue to attack.

There were other people's exclamation and yelling in the earphones, but Zeruo didn't seem to hear it, his mecha opened its limbs, and blocked the muzzle without hesitation.

In fact, with the power of the cannonballs on the spaceship, his mech would be torn apart like pieces of paper at this distance, and it wouldn't even be able to stop him much. In the final analysis, what Zeruo did was just committing suicide.

In the palace, the princess saw Ze Ruo's actions on the magnified screen, a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and a happy light shone in her eyes.

"boom--"

White light spurted out, and Zeruo's mecha was completely submerged.

Many people groaned and screamed, but then they saw the white light dissipate, and Ze Ruo's mech looked intact, but fell straight from the air as if it had lost its power.The two nearby mechas hurriedly flew over to catch him, and found that the pilot's life signal hadn't completely disappeared, and almost cried with joy.

Afterwards, the people on the ground saw that the mechas all over the sky fell from the sky like dumplings.The mechs themselves have built-in safety devices to prevent falling from high altitudes when there is a problem with the power system. I saw that before the mechas touched the ground, they were wrapped into huge balls by the white flocs suddenly ejected from the mecha shell. The speed of the fall suddenly slowed down, and then slowly fell to the ground.

It's just that the people on the ground didn't see the scene of them landing, because when the mecha started to fall, they all fell down one by one, their limbs were stiff, their breathing was weak, and they looked like dead people.

The No. [-] bomb is a biochemical weapon. The spores that spread rapidly at the moment of the explosion carry a large amount of virus. After invading the organism, it can paralyze the whole body in a very short time. The fallen people can still hear, Can see, think, have touch and pain, but the only thing that can move is the eyelids.This kind of ammunition was originally used in public security situations such as riots, demonstrations, or kidnapping of hostages. It is rarely used in the army. It is used occasionally to make the enemy clearly feel the process of their own death. , so it is regarded as a prelude to torture, which is distasteful.

But at this time, Leopold used this ammunition to save these people present.

Princess Tanada, who originally planned to watch a good show where they killed each other, let out a "tsk", extremely dissatisfied, her pretty face was covered with frost.

Leopold's spaceship landed.

Then it fell!

After Zeruo's mecha landed, the white floc on the surface was quickly dissolved. The camera of the mecha was facing the direction of the spaceship and the palace, so he saw that the ground where the spaceship landed suddenly cracked. The huge gap swallowed the huge spaceship in its entirety.Various impacts and explosion sounds came from inside the black hole, causing the ground to undulate like waves and bounce twice from time to time.The sound in the hole lasted for about half an hour before calming down again. Ze Ruo in the cockpit of the mecha couldn't help stretching his neck, although he couldn't see what happened below no matter how hard he tried.

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With a "bang", Leopold was thrown at Princess Tanata's feet. In order to prevent him from bursting out suddenly, his hands and feet were all broken, and he lay on the ground covered in blood, in a state of extreme embarrassment.

Princess Tanata was obviously very satisfied with his current appearance. After appreciating it for a while, she smiled and said, "Long time no see, Leopold."

Leopold opened his eyes and looked at her coldly.

The princess said: "The last time we met here, I was your prisoner. Now that the status has been reversed, how do you feel?"

Leopold didn't answer, his eyes rolled around quickly, and he looked around.

During the more than 100 years that Princess Tanada was imprisoned here, she actually hollowed out half of the planet and transformed it into a war fortress.When Leopold's spaceship suddenly sank, although he was surprised, it was not difficult to deal with it. However, the series of attacks that followed did not give him any room to breathe, and the system of the spaceship was also hacked and fell into the enemy's hands.Then the hatch of the spacecraft opened automatically, and a group of people rushed up and subdued him and his soldiers.

Junya, as the most elite army in the empire, would not be subdued so easily, but the problem is that the ones fighting them are not "people" in the full sense.

It was a group of biomechanical transformation people.

No reason, no pain, no fear of death, every part of the body can stretch out weapons, and the number is as many as ants.

In that narrow space, Leopold and the others defeated enemies ten times as many as them, but afterward, a hundred times as many enemies rushed forward, killing and driving them inexhaustibly.Among them, he even saw a few familiar faces, which were the faces of the young soldiers he had sent to guard Princess Tanata.

The people brought by Leopold were all controlled at this time, but those people did not kill them, perhaps because the princess wanted to transform these elites into her weapons, only Leopold was brought to the Tower In front of Princess Nada.On the way, when he passed through the long corridor and hanging ladder, he saw that in the invisible underground space, there were countless mechanical transformation soldiers standing densely. They stood in a neat line like stone statues, without making a sound. , and there is no movement, it doesn't look like a living person at all.

Perhaps, when they were transformed, their consciousness had been completely wiped out.

Looking at the blank and dead eyes of these reformers, Leopold hated Princess Tanata to the bone.Listening to her proud words, I wish I could tear this woman apart.

Leopold gritted his teeth and said: "How long do you think you can be arrogant? Almost all the people in the organization have been cleaned up, and those who were confused by you in the past have already been demoted or transferred! All you can rely on is These are just shady troops, but even if you defeat me by surprise, the empire will send more powerful troops later, and at that time, you and your people will only be wiped out under the fire of the empire!"

"That's right, I think so too." Tanada smiled and said: "So I made a little preparation, how about you?"

She clapped her hands together, and two men and two women came up behind Leopold.Leopold thought that no matter what he saw, he couldn't care about it, but when he saw the four people, he was shocked, and his seriously injured body almost jumped off the ground!

"You...you..." Leopold said in shock, even feeling that he had lost the ability to think.

The four people in front of him shocked him inexplicably.

In the front is a maid with an ordinary appearance. Leopold didn't think of her at first, but only remembered her when he saw her uniform of the maid of the Ice Palace. When he entered and exited the Ice Palace, he would often see this maid. , but the other party is like a shadow, never attracting anyone's attention.Leopold would remember her because he knew that the maid had a brief conversation with Lance before he died, so he paid special attention to it.

He has always been unable to figure out why Lance committed suicide so resolutely when he discovered the anomaly without getting any definite information, and now he finally understands.

It turned out that it was actually an order from the princess, conveyed through this humble maid.

The man behind was the colleague Leopold thought had died long ago——Duke Dumont.

Although this man has the title of duke, he is not very eye-catching among the many nobles in the imperial capital, and he has no close friends or enemies with bad relations. He always walks alone, as if he has nothing to do with anyone.But only the old emperor's confidants like Leopold know that Duke Dumont is the emperor's most trusted person. He controls the underground forces of the empire and has a secret team in his hands that does not exist in any public records. The emperor deals with some dark people and things.

He was so trusted and valued by the emperor, but he was also the princess's person. Although Leopold had known for a long time that the power of the princess had penetrated deeply, he didn't feel the deep chill until now.

It was only at this time that he understood why the old emperor was so afraid and disgusted with Princess Tanada.

But what really horrified and inexplicable to Leopold was the man and woman behind him.

One is an old man with white hair and wrinkled face.

One is a red-haired, blue-eyed woman in her prime.

It's the old emperor and Selinda.

No, it should be said that they are people who look exactly like them.

Even the curvature of the sideburns and hair, the position of a mole on the side of the cheek, the demeanor at the corners of the eyebrows and the corners of the eyes, and some inadvertent small movements are all exactly the same as me.

In the world, even identical twins cannot be so similar, so there is only one possibility——

These two are actually Kelong people.Moreover, they are Kelong people who have been carefully cultivated according to their own living habits, knowledge and education, words and deeds, etc., so they have this kind of copy-and-paste effect.

In an instant, Leopold understood Princess Tanata's plan - she wanted to use these two Kelongs to replace the existence of the original owner, so that the emperor of Landia... no, it should be said that the entire empire became in her hands plaything!

Originally, she should have planned to replace the seriously ill and old emperor with the Kelong people. With Lance as the internal support, this replacement can be completed without anyone noticing.After the death of the old emperor Kelong who was manipulated by her, it is logical to pass the throne to his "beloved wife" Princess Tanada.In the history of Landia, because the children were young, there was an old rule that wives temporarily took over the imperial power of their husbands. The ministers did not strongly oppose this kind of thing, because the imperial power would eventually fall into the hands of their children.

However, before they could replace him, the old emperor died suddenly and unexpectedly, which temporarily derailed their plans.However, they were not completely unexpected about this situation, so the princess had already cultivated a perfect substitute for Celida.

but--

Leopold roared: "You crazy woman! Her Majesty the Empress is your own daughter!"

If their plan is successfully completed, then the best outcome for Selinda is to be banned for life.Even, in order to ensure nothing goes wrong, the best way is to let her disappear into this world silently.

Leopold had no doubt that Princess Tanata could do such an inhuman thing.

Hearing his roar, Princess Tanada didn't feel ashamed at all.She beckoned, and the Klong girl immediately knelt down at her feet, resting her head on her knees. Princess Tanata stroked the girl's silky long hair and said, "This is my daughter too. Also kept my blood, inherited my genes, and she grew up beside me, didn't she?"

Leopold felt speechless, not because he felt that what Princess Tanata said made sense, but because he realized that for this person in front of him, any verbal condemnation or insult was like a breeze On the other hand, no one can change what she has decided.

But Leopold still wanted to struggle—even though he knew it was futile—but he still tried his best to prop up his upper body, stared at Duke Dumont with wide eyes, and shouted: "Dumont! Your Majesty has wronged you!" Is this how you repay Your Majesty with a heavy responsibility and a mountain of kindness to you?" The Majesty he was talking about at this time was naturally referring to the deceased old emperor.

"Hahahahahaha..."

Du Meng didn't respond, but Princess Tanata burst out laughing suddenly, as if she was extremely amused by Leopold's words, she laughed so hard.

Leopold didn't look at him, but fixed his eyes on Duke Dumont, hoping to see a slight difference in his face.

But he was disappointed.

"If you think this will make him change his mind, or even turn against me, then you should give up, it's impossible." Princess Tanata laughed enough, she put away her smile, and said coldly, "Because He took my soul talisman."

"What?" Leopold didn't understand for a while.

Princess Tanata patted the head of the Klong girl and told her to stand up, then she straightened her skirt and said with a smile: "The army found three soul charms near the Pillar of Creation back then, can you listen to them?" Have you ever said that?" Seeing that Leopold recalled it, she continued: "How could I miss such an interesting thing? Among the three soul talismans, the one sent to the Academy of Sciences was intercepted early in the morning, and then mixed into the My blood. At first I didn’t think about who I should feed it to, and then I heard that the old man wanted to use the soul talisman to control Dumont, so I let Lance drop the bag and let Dumont drink my soul talisman Next. As for the soul talisman of the old man, he was fed to an old and ugly dog. The old dog was loyal to him, but unfortunately... who cares?"

"So, do you think the old guy really trusts Du Meng? No, he just trusts the soul talisman. Before he died, he asked Du Meng to assassinate me, wanting to die together. It's a pity that Du Meng's true allegiance The person is me!"

"You too." The princess patted Leopold's face lightly. This action was full of ambiguity and insult, and she said, "Do you think that the old guy has more trust in you, and you are willing to Do you want to die for your confidant?” She chuckled lightly, each word whispering like a devil: “You want to know, in order to guarantee this ridiculous ‘trust’, did the old man prepare any backhands to control you?”

"Is... what?" Leopold couldn't help but asked along with her.

"Hehe, guess~" Wang Hao laughed viciously.

Seeing that the man lying on the ground was pissed off again and struggled desperately, Princess Tanada felt that she had finally avenged the prison he had sent to this ghost place, she waved her hand in satisfaction, and said lightly: "Drag on!" , kill it."

After finishing speaking, he took a sip of the chilled juice that was handed over by the maid next to him in time, and moistened his dry throat, making his smile even sweeter.

That's how it should be!After doing so many things and enduring for so long, what's the fun in hiding them all the time?She should let her enemies know that going against her will eventually make them lose everything, that any struggle is futile, and that those ridiculous loyalty, love, and trust are all completely destroyed to be interesting.

"I don't understand, what's the fun in playing with people's hearts and killing loyalty?" A faint voice said.

The princess suddenly turned around, her expression changed for the first time.

The author has something to say: Remarks: Some places in the text are not typos, but harmony needs.