Chapter 266 Dirty or plain talk, baby, I don't mind
Why not repair the earth?
Faced with the question, Yu Chen smiled with a mocking look on his face, shaking his head:
"Who do you think started the nuclear war? They are the same people. How could they spend money to save the land they damaged? That would be equivalent to forcing them to admit their mistakes."
"It is impossible for them to admit their mistakes. They will just move to another place to exploit and repeat the same mistakes. They will turn our country into the next Earth."
"Moreover, from the perspective of capital," he said calmly, looking at the blank wall, "the benefits of colonizing an entire galaxy are much greater than repairing a resource-depleted Earth. They have no reason to do a business at a loss. From the beginning of the plan, they planned to abandon the Earth."
Bai Ling turned his head away, as if he couldn't breathe smoothly, and lowered his eyes, "...but they still store their souls deep in the earth."
"That's to prevent accidents."
The air in the room was turbid, and Yu Chen turned on the ventilation system. He said casually, "Especially to prevent a nosy ruler like me."
Bai Ling raised his gray eyes and couldn't help but reach out and touch the back of his head. Although what he touched was not a long, fluffy curl, the bionic man still squinted his eyes out of habit, and the veins on his forehead relaxed slightly.
"When did you know about this?" Bai Ling asked him.
"Not long after I became emperor, the Earthlings sent nobles to contact me. I really thought it was ridiculous at the time," Yu Chen pursed his lips and gave an absurd smile, "The throne I had taken with so much effort turned out to be just a puppet position. I was also threatened by them that if I didn't obey, they would replace me, or even change the country's name, or even erase the empire from interstellar history."
One night two years ago, they came out of the Capital Star chop shop. Facing the cold sea breeze, the mermaid said, I don’t want to be a king who loses his country.
No wonder he's crazy.
"The people on Earth will not contact me directly. They will just keep sending various agents to hint at me. The palace servants, drivers, guards, and everyone you think is loyal to you will be bought by them."
"Ah, but I later found them one by one and killed them all. I replaced them with bionic people to serve them," Yu Chen said softly, holding Bai Ling's tense finger bones, rubbing them like a little doll, and kissing them on the lips:
"Very loyal to me."
Bai Ling suppressed the horror and did not pull his hand away from his palm.
He continued, "Sometimes you can feel that there is an invisible hand on the other side of the galaxy, hanging over your head at all times, manipulating your fate. But when you really look for it, there seems to be no trace."
"They hide very deeply, one behind another, layer upon layer. Even if we kill them all, we still can't find the real source."
Bai Ling thought silently, no wonder he would go crazy and control the entire country, wishing he could grow eyes on every street.
"Of course, I can just send Schlolan to blow up the earth."
"But that is bound to arouse worldwide indignation."
"Moreover," Yu Chen smiled and looked over, fingers together, like a hissing snake, going up into the sleeves of Bai Ling's military uniform, roughly stroking his rapidly beating pulse:
"If I had really done that, I would never have met you now, my dear baby."
If he was really a tyrant, Bai Ling would not even have the chance to be born if he had a single thought wrong.
Bai Ling imagined it and felt a chill down his spine. Fortunately, this guy still has some sense and will not blow up the planet, otherwise many innocent people would have died.
This is different from the situation in the Colosseum.
The accomplices in the Colosseum knew that they were serving the powerful and were directly involved in torturing the victims, which was a clear crime against humanity.
But the situation on Earth is more complicated.
At least as far as Bai Ling knew, in that underground city with a population of 600,000, 99.9% of the people were kept in the dark.
The education they received from elementary school to high school told them that they were a group of poor people who were forced to move underground because their spacecraft leaving the earth was stolen by aliens. They must unite as one, strive to survive, and protect the last of Earth's technology to prevent it from being stolen and slaughtered by aliens on the other side of the galaxy.
As for the supplies occasionally sent by the empire, they were nothing more than hypocritical charity.
It is too easy to control an isolated, closed city with scarce resources. They manage civilians the same way they manage a company, making sure everyone has a specific job.
In other words, the "Reconstruction Program Agency" is equivalent to the company's management, with different departments assigned to it, and everyone is an employee of the company.
Children are employees’ family members and will become employees when they grow up. Employees are then paired with employees to produce new prefabricated little employees, babies.
Unequal distribution of resources can lead to rebellion, but underground cities won’t. It is like a huge social experiment base. All policies are planned by the top economists, sociologists, and anthropologists of the time, and closely and accurately predict the psychology of employees.
The ultimate goal is to ensure that every employee can have enough food to eat after hard work - just enough to have enough food to eat. This way, when they return home exhausted, they will have no energy to think about escaping from the center of the earth.
Of course, there is no management system in the world that can remain unchanged for four hundred years without making mistakes. Even though it was said that the Reconstruction Program Agency was truly controlled by highly intelligent AI and that its policies were adjusted every year, by the time of Bai Ling's mother, many people still raised doubts.
So, these people were "optimized".
No one knew where they went. Maybe dead, maybe in an incinerator, maybe exiled to a radiation zone outside.
There, death does not arouse much resonance because almost everyone agrees that food is limited and the fewer living people the better. If a son heard that his old mother had died and that he could inherit the remaining ten-year ration from her, he would be happy and grateful.
As for resistance, it is just a thought that flashes through the minds of most people and will not be actually implemented.
However, this control model is only suitable for small countries with a small population, and it cannot be achieved in the long term for a country with a vast territory like the empire.
Perhaps it is for this reason that the "Planning Agency" cleverly chose to control the empire by controlling puppets.
Thinking of this, Bai Ling felt something in his heart, and turned back to Yu Chen and said:
"You are a kind-hearted person. Even if I were not on Earth, you would never resort to such a cruel method as blowing up a planet."
Faced with his trust, Yu Chen's expression changed slightly. He raised his eyebrows meaningfully, and stepped closer, "What if I really did it?"
He used a hypothetical tone. After a brief silence, Bai Ling looked at him and answered cautiously:
"I will stop you."
meeting. Future tense.
His back relaxed, Yu Chen leaned back again and agreed gently, "No problem. As long as you are here and try to persuade me more, maybe I will do as you say."
Bai Ling stared at him again. Then she rolled off his lap, adjusted the IV twice, glanced at him and said teasingly:
"You still need me to coax you at such an old age."
Yu Chen: “…”
At this moment, the mermaid clearly heard a mocking voice in her consciousness, as if the young him had come to add insult to injury.
"Click", Bai Ling opened the bolt of the maintenance room and pursed her red lips, "But, it's not impossible to coax you, but you have to listen to me."
Xiao Yi:?
Lao Yi was visibly proud and raised his head 15 degrees. When he got close to the omega, he adopted a humble masculine attitude, "What kind of words, dirty or plain?"
This determines whether he should shield the smaller one.
Bai Ling: "...plain words, serious words!"
Yu Chen gestured seriously, "Please speak."
Bai Ling narrowed his eyes and felt that the fish's big tail was about to shake. He didn't know why he was so proud, it was inexplicable.
"According to what you said, the Reconstruction Program is most likely the culprit. I have a way to catch them all. Cen Yan, who kidnapped Kidd, is the only son of the head of the Reconstruction Program. He must know a lot of secrets. I plan to capture him -
Yu Chen raised his hand to interrupt him and asked the key question: "How are you going to catch it?"
Bai Ling put his right hand in his pocket, his expression and posture were very calm, "He has some grudges against me, he must want to see me in person. According to the habits of this group of people, they should have some information about my mother in their hands, and force me to surrender. Then I will pretend to betray him and go with him, find a deserted place, knock this scum unconscious, bring him back, and interrogate him."
Hearing the word "Cen Yan", Yu Chen raised his eyes slightly, then lowered them, pretending to carefully study an engineer axe on the shelf:
"Knock him out and carry him back, how tiring. Just chop off his head, put it in a plastic bag, bring it back and throw it to Zhuo Liangmu. He can copy his consciousness with just an electrode."
He described it in detail and in a horrifying way. During the process, he observed Bai Ling's expression several times, waiting for the other party to frown and disapprove.
Bai Ling was surprised: "Is this still possible? Will Doctor Zhuo have any objections?"
Baby, no problem.
Yu Chen smiled warmly, "How could that be? He always does this."
"That's right," Bai Ling nodded, "He followed you in his early years and did all kinds of dirty work. Now he's miserable and has to go along with the two of us."
Yu Chen loved the word "go with the flow" very much and was ready to lower his head to rub his baby's forehead, which was cooling down, to express his happiness.
Suddenly, the alarm above my head sounded, "Beep! Beep! Beep--!" Two short and one long beeps, followed by Seibu's anxious voice, "Commander-in-chief, please come to the command room!"
This is the highest level alarm for the main ship, and it has never been sounded before. Bai Ling immediately took action, pulled out the injection needle, held the cotton ball and opened the door. As the light from the corridor poured in, he quickly grabbed the collar of the android and pulled it back, pressed down the other's head and took the initiative to stick close to him, "Okay, I have to go."
"I'll follow you." I was originally planning to let it go, but with the bird sticking to me like that, I couldn't bear it and absolutely couldn't leave.
"Why are you following me? If they see us pulling and tugging, they will think I'm looking for Xiaowu." Bai Ling shouted while running back.
"Xiaowu is Xiaowu, who can blame the queen for being so generous?" Yu Chen strode forward in a dashing manner.
Dafang, why wouldn't he believe it? Bai Ling cursed inwardly, but when he walked into the command room he still left the door open for him to follow in. Facing Xiwu Si's originally nervous face that turned into a question mark when he turned to the android, Bai Ling coughed lightly and explained:
"This is the male caregiver I found."
Seibuji: “I understand.”
Bai Ling: "...It's not what you think. Never mind, what happened?"
The atmosphere suddenly changed, and the air in the captain's room became a little chilly. Saibu said briefly:
"Cen Yan just contacted the horn eagle and asked for you."
Bai Ling frowned, looked up and exchanged a glance with Yu Chen, and saw the same meaning in the other's eyes - what is meant to come will come.
The horned eagle was there too. She took out the terminal and showed it to Bai Ling. There was only one sentence on it: [I can let the seagull go, as long as Bai Ling comes over instead]
Bai Ling's expression darkened. The classic method of exchanging hostages for hostages was often used by interstellar kidnappers in the past. It mainly uses psychological oppression, but it always feels like something is missing.
"Is that all? No other conditions?"
"At present, there is only——"
Before the horn eagle could finish his words, the operator in charge of patrol observation suddenly shouted, "Sir! Look at the star network!"
Seibuji rushed to the command desk, switched to the external network, and opened the Star Network live broadcast. The first thing that catches your eye is the exponentially growing number of viewers on the right, and the rapidly refreshing comment barrage.
Then, the sight turned to the middle, where in the dim room, a half-naked person was wearing only a pair of shorts, with his back to the camera and his forehead resting against the corner. The environment he was in seemed to be very cold, his skin was pale, his body was slightly heaving, and it seemed that he was breathing in more than out.
Because he kept his head down, people couldn't see his face, so they kept refreshing their screens: "Who is this?" "Is this a preview of a new skit?" "So exciting! I want to see his face."
There must be someone outside the camera controlling it, and he quickly responded to the barrage. Suddenly, a basin of water was poured down in the upper right corner of the picture, right onto the man's shivering body.
He was like a bird drenched by a storm. He curled up his ankles, trembled, turned his face to the side, and subconsciously looked at the camera.
That glance instantly made the barrage boil:
"Seagull!"
"traitor!"
"Traitor to the Revolutionary Army!"
"Punish him!"
…
Bai Ling's pupils suddenly shrank and he almost gritted his teeth, wishing he could rush in and tear Cen Yan apart. But the other party still didn't stop, and turned the camera with interest, aiming it at a device that looked like a small alarm clock.
Suddenly, all four superiors present took a breath.
The device seemed strange and unfamiliar to ordinary people, but it was very familiar to them. Because it is a standard launcher for an antimatter nuclear bomb.
The clock strikes 6 o'clock.
This means that in 24 hours, it will blow up into the sky, carrying Kidd and the land within a radius of 500 kilometers.
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