Chapter 60 You are blackmailing!
A month later, when the Federation's warships arrived at the anchor point in the star field closest to Volk in a protective posture, the mysterious "communication interference" rumored to be coming from the surrounding star fields on Volk finally ended.
Musk, a congressman specializing in cutting-edge military technology, was very happy to ask Shengxia about the relevant technical details, but Shengxia replied evasively, "Have you confirmed the order?"
Mask: ...
"Why don't we talk about the price?" Before Shengxia could finish her words, she was interrupted by Musk:
"If you could provide us with more detailed parameters, I think we might trust you. After all, as an outlying state within the Federation, Planet Volker has always been extremely technologically backward, if I may be frank."
Shengxia didn't seem to be moved at all after hearing this. She just repeated the question, "Are you sure you want to place the order?"
Musk: ...Hasn't the Federation's communications been restored yet? How could this conversation be reset to the previous sentence?!
Of course, during this period, in addition to contacting Shengxia, the Federation was also actively contacting other government officials on the planet Volk. You know, under normal circumstances, if these officials received their inquiries, they would be very respectful and would be willing to give away everything they had.
Although most people were still respectful, the Federation's contacts strangely felt they were hiding something. However, thanks to these people, they learned a few rather shocking things:
Firstly, as the newly appointed planetary commander, Sheng Xia's tenure was not smooth, and he actually fired a gun and threatened the corresponding personnel on the planet Volk;
Secondly, the two most important power institutions on the planet Volker: the heads of the Government Affairs Hall and the Federal Security Bureau were both directly supported by Shengxia, and both of them have no background. One is named Wei Jie and the other is named Fu Qianshen.
Through checking the files, the contact person on the Federation side also learned that the past resumes of the two men were really... unremarkable. Wei Jie was relatively good, having been responsible for the succession of the Federation planetary commander. Fu Qianshen was basically a slacker, a typical pawn who would take the blame for the previous leader.
Two people with no background were able to be supported to become the heads of important departments. At the same time, the Federation has not received any letters of protest or suggestions. This is enough to show that Shengxia now controls the entire planet of Volk. Even the forces in the surrounding star fields are unable to do anything to her. They can only try to curb her development by cutting off her contact from time to time during the cold winter or constantly "provoking" the Federation.
This is very scary.
You should know that there were at least 20 or 30 planetary commanders who died on Volk Planet, and many of them were replaced. However, that planet was like an abyss, and it even had a resounding name "the burial place of planetary commanders". Over time, the Federation also tacitly accepted that the place was difficult to govern, and began to discuss whether to continue to keep the planet.
But now Shengxia suddenly "jumped out", indicating that the Volk planet is not only not difficult to govern, but also has a lot of potential. In this very short period of time, he completed the "mechanical dog fission" military artifact that even the Federal Design Institute cannot complete.
Looking at Shengxia's resume, it was unremarkable. According to the school's description of her, she was a mediocre person and not very worldly-wise in the past, so her boss sent her directly to the planetary commander position.
Although this decision is cruel, who would care about a person who has no value in himself?
"Nightmare, this must be a nightmare specifically for me."
In response to this, Shengxia's former boss has taken leave and gone home for a long time. I heard that he suffered from insomnia for a whole week. On the first day back at work, when he learned that Shengxia had supported two people with no background to become the heads of the Government Affairs Hall and the Federal Security Agency, he took three antihypertensive drugs and hurriedly took leave to go home. He has not recovered until now.
On the planet Volk,
During this period, both the top officials of the Government Affairs Hall and the Federal Security Bureau were subjected to almost non-stop "information bombardment" from the Federal Headquarters.
Fu Qianshen was so stressed that he went straight to Wei Jie. Wei Jie listened to Fu Qianshen's rambling while working: "These invitations are even more than the invitations to the dances that my boss has attended in the past."
"Oh, were your previous dance invitations also so threatening?" Wei Jie continued to sign the documents calmly while asking Fu Qianshen,
Fu Qianshen looked up at him and found his current state incredible. "How do you stay so calm? I guess the Federation has already thoroughly investigated our resumes."
"So this is why you hide here with me and don't show up at the FSB?" Wei Jie pressed a stamp with a bang without even raising his head.
Fu Qianshen: …
After a few seconds of silence, Wei Jie felt something strange and looked up at Fu Qianshen, only to find that Fu Qianshen's expression when he looked at him was not only full of bitterness and hatred, but also a bit of inquiry.
After thinking for a moment, Wei Jie stretched out his hand to signal him to come closer, and then whispered Sheng Xia's original words in his ear as he leaned in: "Listen to the voice of the people. Sometimes the answers you want exist among the people. The future is not in our hands, but in theirs."
After hearing this, Fu Qianshen raised an eyebrow and looked at him. He raised his eyebrow in the same playful way. Fu Qianshen instantly felt a strong sense of frustration: "You have a good relationship with the planet commander now."
Wei Jie smiled but said nothing.
"Tsk, go away, annoying."
After closing the door, the smile on Wei Jie's lips gradually disappeared. He flipped through his inquiry records. Although he responded to most of them with "unstable signal contact", it was obvious that the Federal Bureau would not contact only him. How would others respond? After all, that was the Federal Bureau. When the temptation was great enough, human nature could not withstand the test.
But during this period, Shengxia was not even in the melting cave, but ran outside to the ice and snow to supervise the road repair project.
It's really unpredictable and worrying.
Meanwhile, Shengxia, sitting on the icebreaker police ship, finally received a response from Federal Security Agency Senator Mask and the head of the Federal Security Agency's weapons procurement department: "We can order your robot dogs. Let's start with a small team."
A team of three mechanical dogs, thinking that this number is not too many but definitely not too few, should be enough for the planet Volk. After all, they are family, so...
"Sorry, we have a minimum order of one squadron. Of course, if you have three squadrons, or 300 mechanical dogs, we can give you a 10% discount."
"Are you a robber?!"
At first they thought that they were family after all and they couldn't afford to lose face, but then Shengxia taught them a hard lesson: if you want to cheat, you have to cheat your own family.
Shengxia, however, remained calm. "If you don't want them, I'll open them up to the surrounding star regions. I've even applied for patents for these technologies. Someone else contacted me, saying they want to buy out the sales area for the mechanical dogs. As you know, those who are willing to pay a monopoly price will generally pay a very high price."
Before Shengxia could finish, Federal Bureau Councillor Mask interrupted her hastily: "We'll review and approve, you decide on the quantity and price."
"I must remind you, Ms. Shengxia, that you are a planetary commander affiliated with the Federal Bureau, and therefore you naturally owe them the same loyalty." Perhaps because they felt Musk's attitude had changed too hastily, a person from the purchasing department beside him couldn't help but frown and interrupt Musk. Before he could finish his words, Shengxia continued calmly, saying:
"As you know, Planet Volker is incredibly poor right now. So poor that they're willing to sell everything."
Federal Councillor Mask: ...
The head of the Federal Security Service's weapons procurement department: ...
Damn, they were totally unable to refute what she said.
The awkward atmosphere lingered between the two sides for who knows how long. Finally, Musk coughed and brought the awkward topic back to the topic. He immediately calmed his colleagues and made the final decision: "Then let's discuss the specific price."
Shengxia then added another insult: "Shipping is not included."
"I'll make you poor as hell." This time even Musk was furious.
But look at Shengxia’s expression... just like the frost during the ice age on the planet Volk, she is truly calm.
At this time, the personnel outside the icebreaker police ship seemed to have discovered something incredible, so they ran into the icebreaker police ship where Shengxia was and called out to her, "Planet Commander."
Seeing this, Shengxia cut off contact with the Federal Bureau, stood up, and first signaled the other party to calm down with his eyes, and then asked what happened.
"Come out and see."
When midsummer arrived, although the cold outside had been insulated by the icebreaker's built-in heating layer, perhaps because the weather was still good and the moon was sparse, the warships and reconnaissance ships of the surrounding star regions that were crossing the sky above Volk planet appeared particularly large, particularly close, and particularly clear.
The feeling of space being compressed made everyone panic, and they inexplicably felt a sense of fear that a war was about to begin. In addition, the warships in the sky were like behemoths that stretched as far as the eye could see. If they suddenly fell, they could even smash all the icebreakers in their formation into the ground, making it impossible to pull them out.
As a result, everyone became nervous unconsciously.
Unexpectedly, after coming out, Shengxia looked up at the starship in the sky, and then turned to teach the federal security team members about astronomy. By the way, he also tested their knowledge of long-distance starships. Some people could answer, but most people could only lower their heads quietly.
"This place is quite nice. At least when we look up like this, the sight of a warship suspended in the planet's orbit is quite impressive, isn't it?"
"Huh?!" When the team members were confused, they heard Shengxia bluntly say that a new subject about starships would be added to the adult education school. At that time, all the team members present were welcome to study it. In the future, this place might also become the incubator of the Volk Planet Aerospace Academy.
Just as everyone was feeling surprised, Sheng Xia reassured them, "After you've finished watching, go back and do what you need to do. These warships are wandering here just for reconnaissance, and they can't do anything else."
Everyone thought the same and turned to look at the long light strips. A sense of pride and honor arose in their hearts. In the past, they could only huddle in dirty and broken melt caves, but now, they are fighting the cold winter together with the planet commander.
And their achievements are so "shining" right before their eyes, how can they not be excited.
At the same time, the high-ranking officials of the surrounding star regions and the people who came here to investigate before receiving the order were all extremely surprised.
The winter on the planet Volk is lit up.
This beautifully divided area into standard rectangular blocks, as well as the areas where the city's outline could be clearly seen, were now all illuminated. Even more terrifying was that when their starship approached the maximum distance from the planet, they could even see icebreakers and engineering vehicles paving the way within these beautiful rectangles.
Paving the road in the cold winter, you have to know that it is 50 to 60 degrees below zero. If the planet commander has a little bit of brains and a sense of saving, he will not be so extravagant in building roads.
But Shengxia seemed to have no idea what was going on, and he just built one road after another.
What is even more confusing to the people on the starships that were investigating the surrounding starfields is that it would be fine if the planetary commander was the only one crazy, but the engineering vehicles and icebreaking police ships are operating around the clock, which means that there must be people working inside around the clock.
They knew the workers of Volk were exceptionally hardworking, but to use the icebreakers, supposedly for defense, as road-paving machines—was Volk's planetary commander truly fearless and extravagant? Wasn't she worried about a rebellion among the exploited workers?!
"In short, all of this indicates that Planet Volker is currently undergoing drastic changes. Given the recent sudden shift in attitude from the Federal Administration, I believe the Federal Administration may have different ideas about Planet Volker this year."
It was another familiar video conference of high-level officials from the surrounding star regions, but this time the focus of the meeting had successfully shifted from the planet Volk itself to the possible strategic intentions of the Federation.
"Indeed, in previous winters, weren't the untouchables of Volk forced to hide in melt caves? Now they're all coming out, one by one. And this planetary commander, despite her young age, is so cunning and shrewd. It's hard not to think she's a hidden threat sent by the Federal Bureau."
"What about Agent Sellers' intelligence? Is there any new information?"
"Although we've already contacted the personnel in the hot springs area of Planet Volker, unfortunately, the information they've gathered is of little intelligence value. Agent Searles suggests it would be better to start with the Federation."
Just when everyone in the meeting was thinking about their own things, suddenly a piece of news that made them very excited came. Agent Sells intercepted a top-secret data file from the planet Volk from the Federal Bureau. A professor inside the planet Volk privately sent the Federal Bureau the detailed data of the "mechanical dog fission" part he was responsible for, and it has now been stolen.
"Very good, then let's use this as a breakthrough point and come up with something new to do with this matter."
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