Therapy Planet No. 13

The assistant was visibly taken aback when he heard the order.

After cutting off the communication with Riley, Rhodes turned his attention back to his assistant: "What's wrong? Did I not express clearly enough?"

"No."

The assistant answered subconsciously, but with a hesitant look, hesitating: "But... But if you directly push everything to the pirates, if they didn't do it, wouldn't it just anger them?"

It is not Lucas who is leading the war now, and everyone knows it well.

But in case a big hat is directly slapped on his head, no one is sure what other moves Lucas will make.

I'm afraid I won't be able to eat and walk around.

And, most importantly...

"I'm just exposing the facts, sooner or later."

The assistant boldly asked the doubts in his heart: "Senator...Fernando...what's going on?"

As one of Rhodes' personal assistants, he was responsible for many private matters, and countless political secrets, but he had never heard of Fernando, the Zerg race.

Could it be that this news was handled by another personal assistant?

——You know, for the sake of confidentiality and to prevent them from being poached or betrayed by other forces, the standard configuration of senators' personal assistants is basically three, and there are only a lot more for hawk leaders like Rhodes.Every acolyte, apart from the object of their allegiance, knows that the intelligence is incomplete.

But that's not right either... Since it's not his part, it shouldn't be handled by him.But it doesn't sound like news that just came out.

Even though Zerg can be seen participating in the battle on the battlefield, the current mainstream speculation given by the staff is that the Zerg and the interstellar pirates have formed an alliance, and there is no further friendship.but--

How did the Senator know that Fernando and the Star Pirates had a deeper secret?

And to ensure that this secret can divert the public's attention-even to divert all the attacks on the Federation to the interstellar pirates?

Rhodes shook his head and chuckled, without answering his question.

He was obviously not much older than his assistant, but on his young face was the old way of a politician who had been fighting for a long time: "Go, it's fine. Besides, even if something happens, we still have Senator Joe."

In case Lucas reacts aggressively or in other ways that are unexpected, Joshua, who has been in contact with him, will definitely try to stop him.

He doesn't like the war ruining several of his important logistics and transportation routes, and he will definitely try to stabilize Lucas' emotions.

Taking a step back, before Sanxingdui had an accident, Rhodes would consider ceding a little interest to temporarily stabilize the situation; but what happened to Sanxingdui, isn't it an opportunity?

—— Liming's successful escape shows that such an operation is absolutely feasible. As long as the method data is still in Sanxingdui, thousands of hundreds of "Dawns" will surely be copied in time.

Rhodes suppressed the excitement in his heart, his expression calm as usual.

Humph.

war.

War is never the end.

War is just a means.

***

On the evening of March 2874, 3 in the Commonwealth, a large-scale social human experimentation scandal was exposed, and it quickly fermented among Star Network and various media, and was dubbed the "Digital Planet" incident by the public.

That night, with the Southwest Starfield as the key area, protests of an unsuitable scale broke out in every starfield in the universe.Demonstrations were held, and even some excited parents once blocked the air track to the university city galaxy, hoping that the Ministry of Education would come forward to give an explanation.

Almistar had to send a part of the garrison force to maintain order, and under such circumstances, in the early morning of the next day on the 27th, the Freedom Alliance launched its sixth frontal assault in the Northeast Starfield.

But this time, part of the federal military strength was wiped out.Involvement in the line, no time to care, lost the opportunity, resulting in the rapid expansion of the scope of the war.

The Northeast Star Territory is about to lose more than half of its defense. At this time, it has reached the 28th day of the third day of news fermenting.

联邦2874年3月28日，上午10点08分24秒，一篇名为《消失的费尔南多》的文章发布在星网里。

This is an unobtrusive title, but it was tagged #Digital Planet# by the publisher.

In the first 3 minutes of its release, no one clicked in, until [-] minutes and [-] seconds later, the number of hits broke through the zero seal mark.

Then, in just a few hours, "The Disappearing Fernando" received hundreds of billions of retweets, quickly sweeping all social networks.

Click in and take a look. It is not a lively soft text, but an analysis post with pictures and texts. There is only one core question: where is the only Zerg queen who has become a climate?

The article starts from the analysis of the last time and place where the queen haunted, and found that although the Zergs also moved strangely before, they would cause some troubles on the border to show their presence from time to time because of trying to expand, but from a certain point, the Zergs seemed to be Suddenly, it was as if the world had evaporated, dormant in the turbulent flow of meteorites, without any movement.

After a long time, the Zerg appeared in the armed forces of the interstellar pirates and officially declared war on the federal government.

But even so, Fernando, Queen of the Zerg, never spoke in public, not even speaking out when several times the bug swarms were massacred.

Whether it is from the Zerg's consistent behavioral logic or behavior, it is quite abnormal.

After the question was raised, about an hour later, another self-media with some reputation on Starnet suddenly published a recording of "anonymous submission", and gave it a rather literary name: "The White Shark Hidden in the Deep Sea" ".

White Shark is Lucas' pirate name.

It was a short passage, only a few minutes long, but the dialogue inside was clearly heard:

"...And we have also provided nobles with a new food source. Compared with the singleness of the bacteria robe, meat must be more delicious."

I don't know whose voice it is, but it sounds familiar.

"But that's not my child anymore!...I lost contact with them!" Fernando's voice can be heard immediately, with a unique sense of emptiness that the Zerg imitates human speech.

"No no no...they didn't die, they just...evolved."

Someone started to match this timbre in the public sound library on the star network, but found that there was no such person.

"This is - stop! I agree to borrow troops!"

"Mr. Luo doesn't want to have a strong princess."

zla -

The call stopped abruptly here.

It doesn't matter who the person talking to the Queen is, because once the words "borrow soldiers" come out, everyone knows that he must belong to the interstellar pirates.

What matters is not the person, but the dialogue inside.

"His Royal Highness?" Someone quickly left a message, "Is the Queen dead?"

"What the hell is such a big conspiracy?"

"So now it's the interstellar pirates who changed the Zerg dynasty. Is the pirate dictatorship?"

"It's the 4782 year of the Federation, and I can still see such a bloody plot from the ancient court!"

"Are you here to be funny? Is no one as curious as I am about what made the Queen lose control of the Zerg?"

"No, what I'm curious about is how this was secretly recorded. Is it too exciting?"

However, this question was quickly covered by other key points that more people cared about, and even a wave was not made.

"Friends in front of you are not alone! I am also curious! What do you mean by evolution! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

When the war started, the Federation blocked the signal tower in the war zone, and what happened inside could only be heard from the mouths of the exiled people in the war zone.

Even the videos and pictures brought out by human flesh cannot be displayed because the shooting time and location are located in the war zone.

Therefore, other people's understanding of the war is limited to reports from both the official and the pirates—the news from these two channels is often opposite, and it can be summed up as nonsense, but they have to listen to it.

"Wait, wouldn't the Zerg be in a mess without the Queen's control? Maybe the Queen isn't dead? Don't open your minds so much, hey!"

"Didn't you say you controlled the princess?"

"The princess also has the natural inheritance of the Zerg. How can she obediently give up her power to be used by others? Do you have any common sense of the universe!"

Two things that can be said to be irrelevant and closely related are about to overwhelm the public opinion provoked by Digital Planet. It can even be said that human beings have one less confidant, but human experimentation is closely related to everyone's interests, and more people pay attention to it.

However, five hours later, the account that posted "The Disappearing Fernando" passionately published a second article: "Invisible Hands".

It begins with a confession:

"...I was just thinking about it, but I didn't expect...you, no one, connected the control of the Zerg with the human experiment?"

Then start a crazy brainstorming mode: start from the analysis of the 13 planets that exploded, and brainstorm to find out what they may have in common, a list of keywords, and find that "control" and "assimilation" cannot be avoided. ", "mental net", "consistency" and other words.

It was even suggested that in this audio, the queen paused obviously before borrowing troops, probably recognizing something.

Losing touch and shifting control can become somewhat synonymous.

Coupled with the battle report of the large-scale attack of interstellar pirates in the Northeast Star Field yesterday-and this point, whether it is the report of the Federation or the pirates, is the same, so it is worth believing.

This article connects the front and back logics together and puts forward a bold hypothesis: all of this!It's all a conspiracy of pirates!

How could a federation that has taken democracy and equality as its mission since its establishment conduct such a long-term social experiment? !Even if you say that the current government has problems, how can you deny the group of founding fathers who sacrificed for justice and human rights in the early days of the federation? !

What's more, the audio also proves that the pirates now have the ability to control the Zerg - since they can control the Zerg, why can't we doubt how their "control" technology came about?

Maybe it was summed up bit by bit from these human experiments!Those leaked materials didn't have a federation mark on it, saying that anyone can establish it, so why should it be recognized as a federation because of its large scale?

As soon as such an argument was raised, it was obviously more effective than the breaking news of the previous evening news break.

The most important thing is that in the war of words, many public accounts who used to scold the government for making money have jumped out to express their views - of course there are those who don't believe it, but generally speaking, those who believe in the government still account for the majority.

As the saying goes, words can be feared.

Public opinion is what it is, it doesn't matter what the truth is, what matters is how many people believe it.

— at least on the face of it.

What's more, most of the people who can still connect to the star network are ordinary citizens.

Ordinary meaning means that you are neither rich nor homeless; neither have access to high-end places, nor will you roam the black market of Starnet.

Many people are very ordinary, and ordinary means that this is the mainstream.

The missing Fernando, the white shark hiding in the deep sea, and the invisible hands.

The three "evidences" turned things around in one day.

"Senator, there are still some doubts in the Southwest Starfield, we..."

"Increased publicity."

In the study, Rhodes heard the latest report, squatted down, and picked up Sidao standing quietly by his legs.

The decorative candles on the side were slightly swayed by the slight air current.

"I don't care about anything else?"

Rhode raised the four knives to the top of his head, Fat Ju felt a little uncomfortable, stretched out his minions that hadn't been trimmed for a long time, stared at Rhodes and let out a dissatisfied cry.

The slightly heavy breathing caused the candles beside him to be extinguished.

"Let them go." Rhodes cut off the communication.

Discordant sounds are like candles, as long as all the oxygen is sucked away, they will go out by themselves and die of suffocation.

You don't even have to stretch your claws.

Rhode held Sidao in his arms and sucked it hard, sighed leisurely, and said to himself: "The rabble."

But guiding the mob is also a very time-consuming and labor-intensive task.

Si Dao flashed his paws and swayed in front of Rhodes—fortunately, he avoided it quickly, slow down, and there would be three more cat claw marks on the bridge of his nose!

The automatic sensing candlestick detects that the candle is extinguished, stretches out the decorative mechanical arm, lights a little fire, and ignites the extinguished wick.

"When will you be domesticated?"

He stared into Shidao's eyes, his expression was dimmed by the flickering candlelight.

The author has something to say: Thank you An Huan mine x1 (I remember you in my input method 23333)

Previous story summary: The complete dialogue is in Chapter 72.