"Damn it! I'll grind him to dust!"

"How dare you humiliate me like this!"

"Die, all of you!"

The roars continued within Helenburgh.

Reinhardt's eyes were bloodshot, like a raging beast. Everyone around him shrank back like quails, not daring to breathe, and no one dared to try to persuade him in his anger.

The news that Prince Reinhardt will marry Princess Alice was announced on the evening news last night, and everyone in the country knows it.

But just one night later, his future princess ran off with another man. Let alone a prince, even for an ordinary man, what could be more humiliating than being cuckolded in front of the entire nation?

However, some people in Ryan don't see it that way. Interestingly, there are quite a few people on Zhang Fan's side regarding his elopement with Alice.

As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison.

Compared to the 40-year-old, dark-skinned, and thin "Prince," Zhang Fan is undoubtedly the most handsome man in the universe, especially with his military bearing honed on the battlefield, which makes countless young women fall in love with him.

A young general and a beautiful princess secretly pledged their love. However, the princess was forced by her family to marry into the strict royal family and lose her freedom. On the eve of the wedding, the young general took his beloved princess and ran away together...

Although the news provided very little information, just one sentence, it didn't stop the public from automatically conjuring up a tragic and long love story for Ryan.

Even online, numerous fanfictions have sprung up, with netizens enthusiastically shipping couples...

But for Prince Reinhardt, every piece of news, every article, even a fabricated novel, was an insult.

For many years, it was an open secret in aristocratic circles and high society that Alice would become a princess.

Therefore, even though Alice was incredibly beautiful and had the powerful Charles family as her backer, no one ever considered proposing marriage to her, because even a blind man would know that Princess Alice had already been "predestined".

But no one expected that the day before his wedding, Prince Reinhardt would be publicly humiliated by being hung up in front of the entire nation.

Although no one said it aloud, some people's private glances at Prince Reinhardt were rather amusing.

Reinhardt wasn't blind. He was a stubborn, arrogant, and vindictive person. How could he possibly swallow this insult? How could he possibly tolerate these stares?

Therefore, Helenburg could no longer stay; he had to leave! He would make those who looked down on him pay a hundredfold, a thousandfold price!

Against this backdrop, the situation in Adelaide suddenly tightened, and even ordinary citizens felt an increasingly dangerous atmosphere. People either chose to travel far away with their families or go to stay with relatives on other planets, trying every means to temporarily leave the capital planet to avoid the storm.

However, despite the exodus of countless people, Adelaide's population has actually increased.

Because more people are leaving, even more are coming in. Adelaide's security is deteriorating, and the crime rate is increasing exponentially.

Hundreds of crimes such as vandalism, theft, arson, fighting, and robbery occur every day, but these crimes are not serious enough to warrant the death penalty. Most are detained for a period of time or even just five or ten days of administrative detention before being released.

However, these people had barely left the police station when they were brought back in for crimes such as theft, robbery, and fighting.

The consequence of this was that the police detention centers were overcrowded, and more and more police officers were transferred back to support the work, which resulted in the police encirclement of Helenburg becoming weaker and weaker.

Marquis Ferlinan has ordered the police force to transfer officers from other planets to support Adelaide's security efforts, but Reinhardt is doing the same thing. It's a vicious cycle of "adding flour to water when there's too much water, and adding water to flour when there's too much flour." Gangs from all over Ryan are gathering in Adelaide.

Adelaide has implemented a curfew, and by 7 p.m., the normally bustling and crowded commercial streets are dark and deserted, resembling a ghost town.

At midnight, all sorts of people, as if by prior arrangement, emerged from the darkness, gathering and marching, shouting, yelling, and whistling...

In fact, no ordinary citizens walk on Adelaide Avenue at night anymore. In other words, those who still walk on Adelaide Avenue at night are not ordinary people.

Adelaide is like a giant powder keg right now; even the slightest spark could trigger a violent chain reaction.

At this moment, on a military transport ship bound for Benghazi, Zhang Fan was leisurely drinking coffee in the bridge, looking at the starry sky outside the porthole.

This resupply mission involves 10 large transport ships, responsible for replenishing supplies to the combined fleets of Muli, Haige, and Anlin.

Battles in the "Chaotic Lands" are very frequent, and supplies are consumed very quickly. Local resources are far from sufficient to meet the fleet's operational needs. Supply missions like this occur almost every month.

"Reporting, Captain! Our fleet has reached the designated jump position. Please give instructions!" A lieutenant saluted and reported to Zhang Fan.

"The jump will begin in ten minutes," Zhang Fan said, putting down his coffee.

"yes!"

One last jump and we'll reach the Benghazi airspace. The journey has been relatively smooth so far; after all, Prince Reinhardt or Marquis Charles's abilities shouldn't be enough to intercept or search an entire Ryan Nation space fleet, not even a transport ship.

"I'm warning you!" a girl's voice rang out next to Zhang Fan, "I'm only following you to clear my head, don't get any ulterior motives!"

“What improper thoughts could I possibly have?” Zhang Fan smiled helplessly. “How about I send you back? The whole of Adelaide is in chaos right now, Prince Reinhardt is looking for you like crazy.”

"No way!" Alice glared at him. "Since you brought me out, you have to take responsibility! I'll go back by myself when I'm done playing outside!"

"When will the princess have had enough fun?" Zhang Fan asked again.

"Well..." Alice thought for a moment, "I'll tell you when the time comes! Don't ask!"

"Okay, okay, I won't ask." Zhang Fan fastened his seatbelt. "Hurry back to your seat, it'll be a little bumpy later."

The broadcast system on the transport ship has already started playing.

"Attention all personnel, this ship will begin warp in 30 seconds. All personnel, please return to your posts..."

30, 29, 28...0.

The transport fleet flashed by and disappeared into the wormhole.

At this moment, three elderly people are having tea together in the Royal Palace in Adelaide.

“I told you, this is just his style.” Erwin took a sip of tea, the most relaxed of the three. “You chose this path yourselves, so you’ll get used to it.”

Grand Duke Ryan and Marshal Zhu Yifu stared blankly at their teacups.

“He’s really offended Reinhardt this time.” Grand Duke Reinhardt finally laughed. “If we ignore the methods and only talk about the results, he’s done a truly excellent job, hahaha—”

“Indeed,” Zhu Yifu said with a smile. “Even outsiders know that there is no possibility of cooperation between him and Prince Reinhardt, let alone Marquis Ferlinan.”

"I was thinking of giving him a pass, even if it was risky, but it seems I was overthinking it," Grand Duke Ryan chuckled. "By the way, how's the situation in Milan?"

“I’ve already called Andrei and told him to tighten his defenses and leave a few gaps.” Zhu Yifu drew a few lines on the coffee table with his finger dipped in water and said, “Of course, to make things seem more realistic, these gaps are not undefended. The Fashan army will have to pay a considerable price to get through them.”

“I’ve already sent a personal letter to Qingyi.” Zhu Yifu looked up, frowning as he looked at his two companions. “What I’m worried about now is that, given Qingyi’s personality, it’ll be difficult for him to play the role of a traitor…”

“No problem.” Erwin waved his hand. “I’ve already asked that kid to add more scenes for me. He’s good at playing villains.”

Zhu Yifu: "..."

“To be absolutely sure, we also need to cooperate on our side,” said Grand Duke Ryan.

“Yes.” Elf nodded in agreement.

"How do we cooperate?" Zhu Yifu asked, then he noticed his two old companions looking at him strangely. He immediately sensed something was wrong; he hadn't been looked at like that by his companions in decades. "Wh...what's wrong?"

"I'll just have to make do with you as a supporting character."

Grand Duke Ryan and Erwin spoke at the same time.