Chapter 139 I really want to stroke the gray eyes, which are lit up by the night light...
After taking a shower, Bai Ling went to the living room to get some water to drink, and his eyes paused slightly when he glanced across the table.
I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but the kettle that I used to cover my hands and the storage disc that recorded the mermaid's screams were quietly placed together.
Bai Ling suddenly remembered Yu Chen's strange words - bring the kettle with you and make others jealous.
He didn't understand at the time and asked doubtfully, who should I make jealous?
Now it seems that the answer is clear... I guess he wants to make "Xiao Yi" who is sealed in the past jealous.
Show off to yourself. Superstitious.
Bai Ling sighed with a complicated feeling, turned back to the bedroom, and saw AI trying his best to ask Yu Chen to take medicine. He rubbed the kiss mark on his neck, curled his lips unconsciously, and began to convince himself in his heart:
Forget it, at least you should be considerate of the fact that he is sick, right?
But then he thought again, something was wrong: "Didn't I get an injection during the day? Why do I have to take medicine again?"
AI said with experience: "The master is too fierce, we need to increase the dosage."
Bai Ling: “…”
Fierce, haha. He thought of the mess from the bed to the bathroom, and his lower abdomen began to cramp and feel sore, and even his tailbone felt hot.
The activities before bed were too intense and he couldn't fall asleep.
Bai Ling simply took out the report and began to read it silently word by word for the umpteenth time. The Third Experimental Republic of Humankind, Government Internship Work Report, the report contains the following 7 major items, 21 key points... The first item is the allocation of educational resources for citizens...
In 12 hours, he will make a public report at the Interstellar Alliance summit. He was only given 15 minutes to speak, and his speech was measured by the second. He had to make sure not a single word was wrong and not a single word was nonsense.
It's just like a graduation defense.
So, it is impossible for him to say that he is not nervous.
"How did it come to this..." Bai Ling sank back into the soft mattress, muttering to himself.
He was a rebel who was hated by everyone in his previous life, but now he is going to become a regular leader. Wearing a badge to attend the meeting, he sat openly with those who had scolded him in the military court, and exchanged pleasantries with each other... It was a very strange feeling.
And after obtaining legal rights, they can also enjoy the welfare of the Interstellar Alliance countries.
In fact, the Interstellar Alliance is somewhat similar to the European Union on ancient Earth, and also has some of the mediation functions of the United Nations. It is a relatively close economic, political and diplomatic cooperation organization.
If they could join the Interstellar Alliance, they would not only be able to trade freely, but also apply for interest-free loans and obtain interstellar development aid. The other seven member states will also open their borders, allowing them to enter and exit easily and carry out close trade, cultural, and study abroad exchanges.
what does that mean?
This means that Bai Ling no longer has to hide on the borders of various countries like a space pirate. This means that a large amount of financial assistance can be obtained to build the infrastructure of Yexing.
It also means that he and his gloomy new country will be no longer illegal residents and will be accepted by the whole society, just like a person who gets an ID card from the police station.
If the tyrant dares to call them traitors again, he can call the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and scold them back.
In short,
I'm clean! I can’t bear it anymore!
When I thought about the future picture, all the frustrations from my previous life seemed to disappear in an instant. Bai Ling rolled around on the king-size bed holding the report.
"Are you happy?"
Yu Chen asked suddenly. Bai Ling froze for a moment, then sat up with a plop. His long, thin legs clamped the pillow tightly, his chin resting on it, his gray eyes lit up by the night light, and he said crisply:
"happy!"
At that moment, the little AI swore that it received the brain signal from its owner.
Yu Chen: I really want to pet a falcon.
Oh, but he had just been playing intensively for an hour.
AI: At this point, his arrogance as a guardian has been fully demonstrated.
Yu Chen glanced at the time and stood up: "I have to go to a meeting."
Bai Ling responded: "Oh."
That means we won’t sleep together tonight.
"Would you like to join us?" Yu Chen tilted his green eyes and slightly raised his thin lips.
"Hmm... Hmm?!" Bai Ling looked up suddenly, thinking he had heard wrongly.
He knew that the meeting Yu Chen was going to hold was his small cabinet meeting as emperor. Outsiders called Yu Chen the "devil", and his retainer organization was nicknamed the "Seventy-two Demon Pillars".
The Demon Pillars are composed of selected confidants. They have clear division of labor and their abilities cover energy, environment, health, finance and other aspects. They are like a miniature government. Of course, many of them were once outstanding cadres in various departments of the old empire, but with the change of dynasties, they were unwilling to stay and work for Octopus, so they followed Yu Chen and helped him manage the remaining industries.
Although there are “seventy-two” demon kings, it is not always crowded.
Sometimes there are more people than there are, and sometimes there are absences. Among them, some died accidentally, and there were also cases of cleaning out traitors, such as a certain jellyfish mixture that was kicked out of the organization.
But before this, Bai Ling had never come into contact with the Demon Pillar.
At work, he and Yu Chen have always maintained a sense of boundaries tacitly. When Yu Chen was in a meeting, Bai Ling never disturbed him and would take the initiative to avoid him when passing by.
The reason for doing this is that Bai Ling himself has a lot of things to do.
Second, they have a clear division of labor, Bai Ling is in charge of external affairs, and Yu Chen is in charge of internal affairs.
This time, Yu Chen took the initiative to let him contact the Demon Pillar. What was his plan?
Bai Ling was thinking when he came to the study room. He felt that the lights around him dimmed a little, and the shadow of the holographic image spread inch by inch from the four corners of the room, clinging to the entire space like a shady ivy.
This type of holographic online conference system has been developed very maturely, and the seating pattern is generally fixed.
But the layout that Bai Ling saw was different from the previous ones. It seemed that it was specially designed.
Looking up, I can see that it does not adopt the common round table format, but is similar to the model of the choir house in the main church, that is, one seat per person, one table per seat. The neatly arranged chair backs are decorated with sharp black Gothic-style carvings. In the middle, surrounded by stars, there is a square open space inlaid with lifelike classical tiles. And in the center of these tiles stands the monarch's podium.
On the facade of the podium is a small sculpture of a scepter and a law.
Bai Ling felt that they looked familiar and recalled that when Yu Chen signed the guardianship contract with him, he seemed to have held these two things.
However, the mermaid at that time did not hold a golden scepter, but pulled out an iron stick from the garden.
A little informal.
But Bai Ling didn't care. After all, it was just a guardianship contract, a formality.
All the members of the Demon Pillar have arrived. Under the cover of the signal technology, only black silhouettes can be seen on the seats. When they habitually looked towards the podium, they were all shocked, because standing there was not only the silhouette of the monarch, but also an extremely clear, toned figure, which was so abrupt that it looked like a color picture inserted out of thin air in a black-and-white movie.
"Bai Ling? Why is he here?"
"It seems that the monarch has recognized him..."
Everyone was whispering to each other, and their voices revealed some profound meaning.
For a long time, this group of old confidants had an ambiguous attitude towards Bai Ling. On the one hand, they felt that Bai Ling was too young. Compared with them, he was just a kid who was enterprising but lacked experience, so they thought he should be observed for a while.
On the other hand, they more or less guessed that there was an ambiguous relationship between Bai Ling and the monarch.
Of course, they have no right to interfere in the monarch's private life. However, in this case, Bai Ling's positioning of them is very awkward——
You mean spouse? Not registered.
You say they are partners? No contract was signed.
Said heir...
etc! Since the monarch can bring him here, does he really want to choose Bai Ling as his heir?
The old confidants were deeply shocked. They have been working here for nearly half a century and are very familiar with the monarch's style. The monarch values loyalty. Not only will he not let in anyone who is truly loyal to him, let alone bring him to the podium personally. This is clearly intended to send them a message:
"You two meet, and we'll work together in the future."
How much weight does this understatement carry?
Let's put it this way - as the apparent heir to the empire and the head of the new empire, Cade has never been allowed by Isuparaiso to enter the Demon Pillar.
The appearance of Bai Ling may mean one thing——
The monarch had no children and had never appointed a crown prince. Now, he is very likely to train Bai Ling as the crown prince.
As for the monarch and the crown prince having a close relationship…
Everyone shuddered, not daring to think about it any further. This kind of relationship was too advanced for them...but considering that this was Isuparaiso, it was not surprising at all.
After all, monarchs value loyalty and have flexible moral bottom lines.
If his omega successor needed an alpha for spiritual and physical communication, he would definitely do it himself to ensure the process was done properly.
Everyone felt strange and felt that the monarch was being too hasty this time. Are you going to announce the successor so soon? To be honest, they were a little dissatisfied.
But the monarch said: "You all know that Bai Ling is going to join the Interstellar Alliance. You are experienced, so you can act as the review team and show him the process."
...They are actually asked to be responsible for teaching!
But on second thought, isn't this just being a teacher to the Crown Prince? The demon kings were suddenly cheered up, feeling that their years of accumulation had finally come in handy.
But their questions are usually very tricky and harsh. If this little white bird has a weak psychological defense, it might be broken by them, which would be embarrassing...
Bai Ling stood in front holding the report and asked expectantly, "Shall we start now?"
Just kidding, if you have the opportunity to have a mock defense, of course you should cherish it.
Rather than just staying in bed and memorizing things by rote, asking questions from the review team could help him clarify his thoughts and find shortcomings that he had not noticed, thus achieving significant results.
However, the guardian behind him was more demanding.
Yu Chen knocked his knuckles on the table and ordered mercilessly: "Put down the book and finish the manuscript."
Bai Ling silently threw down the report and gritted his teeth: Devil.
Yu Chen glanced at his tense shoulders and neck: "Stand forward, relax your shoulders, and raise your head."
Bai Ling glanced back and saw the old man sitting on the chair, his long legs crossed and stretched out, his arms loosely crossed, looking like a stern parent supervising his child's pre-exam tutoring.
Damn it…
The little AI that came to serve tea accidentally read the brain waves of the mechanical bird. After being decoded by the program, it translated it into:
[feeling wronged, want to clap]
Since the monarch had given instructions, the Demon Pillar people would of course try to find the answers to their questions in a very tricky way. They are not the hosts who can smooth things over on variety shows. They are to play the roles of jackals and tigers of the Interstellar Alliance. Each of them wants to find Bai Ling's flaws and beat him down by skinning him and drawing his blood.
Yu Chen watched Bai Ling go from being dazed at first, to being flustered, to hurriedly stabilizing his speaking speed, and then gradually keeping up with the pace of the questions.
He smiled and lowered his eyes to turn over a page of materials.
The material in his hand was exactly the vote count by AI. Although the proceedings will not start until 11 hours later, according to convention, all countries have already made their choices in advance based on the conference agenda.
There is no need to feel strange, because this has been part of the political game throughout history - collecting intelligence in advance and deciding the outcome through consultation among multiple parties before things develop.
This kind of political preemption involves canvassing for votes, suppressing opponents, or more directly, bribery, threats, and collusion. Generally, things like inquiring about voting opinions are done by diplomats, so many diplomatic envoys in history also served as intelligence specialists.
When it comes to analyzing intelligence, Yu Chen prefers to do it himself.
The reason was simple: he enjoyed the process of data flow, but he also wanted to know how big a stir this move of his would cause in the Interstellar Alliance.
The AI reported: "The voting results can be divided into 'yes', 'no' and 'abstention'. According to the analysis results, the number of countries and regions that will vote in favor should exceed 55%, which is a normal probability."
Then he changed the subject, "But there are also complicated situations."
Yu Chen raised his eyebrows slightly: "How complicated is it?"
The AI said frankly: "As you know, the living habits of the mammal world are different from ours. In the Federation and its affiliated countries, the status of omegas is relatively low, and they are not optimistic about an omega leader taking office. So they are still waiting and watching."
Wait and see Bai Ling's position.
After all, no alpha would want the omega in his family to be like Commander Bai - abandoning the kitchen chores, throwing away the apron, and going out to drive a mecha.
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The meeting lasted until four in the morning. Bai Ling was so tired that he didn't even go to bed. He just found a sofa and fell asleep.
Yu Chen carried him into the bedroom and came out with the almost torn report under his arm. He turned on the light and read through it word by word, making the final revisions.
During this period, he asked for the opinions of the old ministers.
Dear bosses of the Demon King Pillar: "Little White Bird is humble and hardworking, and deserves to be called a teachable child!"
Yu Chen laughed softly. I don't know when the name became Little White Bird, but it's okay this way, it will be much more convenient to work with him in the future.
After the meeting, the old ministers also discussed it privately.
It seems that the little white bird is destined to become their other master.
Since they are all old people, they must be more or less arrogant. Besides, to be honest, the time they spent with The One was more than ten or even dozens of times longer than Bai Ling. If the monarch really wants to put a playboy on the throne, they can just wave their sleeves and leave.
However, they were unexpectedly satisfied with this contact.
The monarch asked them to guide the little white bird, and the meaning was very clear - he is the master, but also a student. He will respect you, but you also have to give in to him.
With this level of respect, they will feel much better psychologically, and they will naturally treat Bai Ling with all their heart and soul.
While praising the "Crown Prince" for his seriousness, they also marveled at the monarch's good intentions.
It's really hard to find a reliable heir these days.
I hope this little white bird can take over the monarch's scepter and do a good job.
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