Chapter 373: Fire, Torches, and the Man Holding the Torch
Chapter 373 Fire, Torches and People Holding Torches
Author: Back to business
Chapter 373 Fire, Torches and People Holding Torches
The Sherman family made White Ghost the commander of the expeditionary force for several months, and finally gave White Ghost enough dignity.
Flowers, applause, honors, live broadcast simultaneously on official channels across the country;
The one who presented the commendation order written by the emperor was the imperial singer, Princess Daphne, who was wearing an elegant evening dress;
Witnessing the investiture ceremony were the Imperial Prince Kinov and the Supreme Commander of the Military;
Yang Ming received an 'Imperial Peace Medal', as well as the rank of major general without active duty from the military department, and received a 'preparatory duke' promise from the Presbytery, which meant that Yang Ming only had to wait for an honorary duke to die naturally.
You will be automatically promoted to the honorary Duke of the Empire.
Of course, the real imperial princes have absolute say in a certain field.
For people like Yang Ming, titles and honors are more important than actual meaning.
What's more, the four words "White Ghost" no longer need the blessing of other titles in the empire.
Yang Ming took advantage of the situation and delivered a brief speech.
He felt that he was indeed thicker-skinned now, and he could say some high-sounding words without hesitation, and his expression could still be extremely sincere.
"The war has not yet ended and I will be forced to leave the front line. This is indeed not good news for me.
"Now that the war has entered a stable period, and the main fleet of the New Federation has been paralyzed, the empire can continue to teach this political system that has committed many crimes against the empire in the past hundred years, continuous and profound lessons.
"The award I received today, I think, is not an award received on behalf of the military as a whole. Those martyrs who died for the war deserve more respect, and their families deserve more condolences.
"The material rewards given by the empire, as well as all the proceeds from my past live broadcasts, including all the proceeds from the genuine White Ghost peripherals, I will use it to set up a special fund for open operation to care for the families of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country.
, when you encounter difficulties, troubles, or are too sad, you can find my fan support club in various ways.
"Some people say that war is a disaster for human civilization.
"Some people say that war is an extension of politics and a means to seek benefits for politicians or the privileged class.
"But here, in this war to defend the interests of the empire and maintain the dignity of the empire, our soldiers are not sacrificing for politicians or the privileged class. We will make all sacrifices valuable, and when someone tries to swallow these values
, I will stand in front of you and fight them to the end.
"Next, I will go to other battlefields. Now I can gloriously declare that those noble gentlemen in the empire who have done no good things are back."
Yang Ming ended the performance with a threatening sneer.
There was warm applause from all around.
Obviously, none of the nobles present felt that they would be targeted by White Ghost. In fact, in order to alleviate conflicts, the empire had continuously carried out noble rectification campaigns, but the results were not as obvious as when White Ghost led the team.
When Yang Ming was transferred back this time, he also focused on this area.
Originally, Yang Ming thought the live broadcast was going to end here.
Daphne held the commendation order in front of Yang Ming. She leaned forward slightly and took the initiative to give Yang Ming a kiss.
Yang Ming immediately took half a step back, covering his cheek, showing an expression as if he had been bullied by Daphne.
Daphne reacted very quickly, smiled elegantly at Yang Ming, then bowed slightly and said to Yang Ming:
"Mr. White Ghost, I heard that you are single now. I wonder if I have the opportunity to be your partner on your life journey. I can accept it temporarily or long-term."
Yang Ming nodded with a smile: "Sorry, Your Highness, I don't have any plans to fall in love yet."
Daphne immediately said: "Is it because you were broken up by Captain Catherine before? Are you still traumatized in your heart?"
Yang Ming stared at Daphne, who just smiled and blinked gently.
"Yes," Yang Ming sighed, "I think I will not consider having another relationship in the short term. I will continue to work hard for the promises I have made and fulfill my obligations to the people of the empire who trust me.
Promise made.”
"That's a shame," Daphne sighed softly.
Yang Ming stepped forward with a smile, gave Daphne a hug, patted her on the shoulder four times, then turned around and left the scene gracefully.
The old princess glanced at Daphne, with a bit of suspicion in her eyes.
This paragraph is somewhat inconsistent with what they had agreed upon before.
After the live broadcast ended, the major portals in the empire were quickly occupied by the article "The Imperial Diva's Failed Expression of Love", which can be considered to have slowed down various public sentiments.
Inside the ship's lounge.
The old princess found Daphne who was taking off her makeup, frowned and said:
"Daphne, why did you suddenly use such a radical strategy just now? Kissing a man directly would give people the impression that our royal women are frivolous and disrespectful of etiquette, and you already knew that he was somewhat resistant to the power behind you.
"This is not a very sensible thing to do."
"Aunt, I'm sorry, I couldn't hold it back at the time," Daphne whispered, "I at least want to announce to the public that this is my Daphne's man, and let other women she wants to take advantage of him stay away from him.
."
The old princess whispered: "You mentioned Captain Catherine."
Daphne smiled and said: "Yes, aunt, she is Hanton's ex-girlfriend."
"What kind of woman is that? Is she very charming?"
"Warrior, one of the Empire's most powerful transformation warriors."
"Wow, then I really have to worry about your weak little body. That's right, they are transforming people. Oh, I haven't tried transforming people yet."
Daphne:......
It's okay, my aunt didn't delve too deeply into these issues.
Her aunt's attention was obviously on more exciting things.
Half an hour later.
Inside the No. 4 lounge of this venue, which is specially used to receive princes and nobles.
Daphne opened the door to the lounge and saw a warmly decorated living room and two rows of hangers filled with military uniforms.
She took two tentative steps forward and asked softly: "Hanton?"
Click.
The door of the lounge closed by itself, and Yang Ming's voice came from behind the door:
"My beautiful Highness, you seem to have received some news."
Daphne immediately turned around and put on a tight-fitting tube top dress. With her soft body curves and fair skin like a porcelain doll, she interpreted the beauty and sexiness of the imperial aristocracy.
She followed Yang Ming's example and crossed her arms: "My partner, your reaction was too slow. Something happened to your ex-girlfriend."
"Yeah?"
Yang Ming curled his lips slightly: "I am in the army, I have no source of information, and I know nothing about these things."
Daphne said:
"Of course, it's just a suspicion now. My intelligence sources show that the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau only captured Catherine's appearance on the impoverished planet where the rebel leader was hiding. This is not direct evidence. The Super-Changer organization is currently conducting a self-examination. The Military Intelligence Bureau can do so at any time.
will intervene.
"Your loyal partner, Captain Gris, has led the secret troops of Skywrath Fortress to find Catherine.
"However, the most suspicious thing now is that Captain Catherine suddenly disappeared six galaxies ago; she has a chip from the Super Modifier organization in her brain, which can display her location in real time. She seems to have realized that she has been exposed
fact."
Yang Ming laughed secretly in his heart.
The Super Modifiers organization now all have the surname Bly, and Bly is known as the little black perverted ghost.
Yang Ming frowned tightly: "Catherine, with the rebel leader? Are you sure?"
"Of course," Daphne raised her head slightly, "This is the woman you have been obsessed with before. If my guess is correct, you will have some troubles and need to cooperate with the investigation. In the empire, rebellion is the first felony."
Yang Ming wondered: "Super reformers need to be ideologically imprinted."
"Ideological imprints can be cracked," Daphne said. "For example, if the ideological imprint restricts their allegiance to the empire and the emperor, then they can use self-suggestion and strong hypnosis to tell themselves that the emperor has been eliminated and the empire is in control.
We are on the wrong path, and we must correct the chaos in order to save the empire... This kind of thing has happened before, and now the entire super-modifier organization is checking itself."
Yang Ming rubbed his eyebrows and lowered his head in thought.
"I still don't understand..."
"That has nothing to do with you, Hanton, look at me."
Daphne took the initiative and held Yang Ming's cheeks with her hands.
"We are partners. I have put all my resources on you. Don't leave me with nothing, okay?"
Yang Ming laughed, swept her palm away casually, and said slowly: "Then do I still want to thank you? Your Highness Princess."
Daphne felt an unknown fire in her heart.
Just as she was about to speak, Yang Ming suddenly reached out and raised her right hand high. A force pulled her, causing her to spin face to face with the man in front of her, with her back pressed against the door of the lounge.
Yang Ming put his other hand next to Daphne's face and looked down at Daphne.
Daphne became inexplicably nervous.
She looked up at Yang Ming, her breathing becoming a little confused, her snow-white skin trembling slightly, her shallow lips opening slightly as Yang Ming came closer, and her long eyelashes also closing slightly.
Sudden.
"Don't you like women?"
Yang Ming's voice came from a few meters away.
Daphne opened her eyes and found Yang Ming already sitting on the sofa, with a playful look on his face.
"You are so ungentlemanly!"
Daphne snorted, feeling a little sore in her wrist. She lowered her head and walked to sit opposite Yang Ming.
Her posture still maintains the elegance of a royal princess.
"Next, I will follow you. The original plan was for you to arrest the nobles for rectification and take a position in the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau. But now that Captain Catherine has happened, it is unknown what the follow-up arrangements will be.
"However, I will try my best to help you control the impact."
"Don't worry," Yang Ming closed his eyes and leaned on the sofa to take a nap, "Katherine is just my girlfriend, not my wife. I can explain that she approached me before to try to get me to betray the empire, and I am determined
stand on the side of the empire."
"You have changed a lot suddenly," Daphne said softly.
Yang Ming smiled: "Nothing changes, I am who I am, I just want to understand some things. I have a message for you, this is my motto."
"What?"
"Give up your illusions and prepare to fight."
Daphne shook her head, unable to understand the meaning of this sentence.
…
At the same time, somewhere in the empire, there is an abandoned underground fortress on a poverty-stricken planet with a population of 200 million.
Catherine, who was wearing a combat uniform, was standing in front of several simple military solid-state screens with a frown, staring at the data that was constantly flashing across the screen.
She asked softly: "Have they all been evacuated?"
"Boss, all the brothers have withdrawn. How did they get exposed this time?"
"Someone has betrayed our intelligence, the organization we have contacted before," Catherine said with a cold expression on her face, "Don't worry about it, I have already sent people to eliminate those so-called revolutionary troops who are colluding with the imperial authorities. They
Having existed for such a long time, it really has its own way of survival.”
"Those bastards!"
"Boss, why not launch a direct attack on the empire now!"
"Yes, boss, other resistance groups dare not show up, but we are super reformers. We have the force to assassinate high-ranking officials and capture warships. Not to mention we have a killer weapon!"
"Notify all contact points to destroy all intelligence data and enter a fully silent passive acceptance mode."
Catherine said:
"We have worked hard for so long, and all we need to do now is wait.
"Yes, we do have the basic conditions for an uprising now, but now that the empire is caught in a war with other powerful countries, domestic conflicts are bound to intensify, and we still have the opportunity to unite more resistance organizations.
"To overthrow the empire, what is needed is not millions of machines, nor millions of soldiers, but the spirit of resistance of hundreds of billions of people. What we want to ignite is this flame.
"Other than that, all other sacrifices are meaningless, do you understand?"
"yes!"
"I'm going to take a rest. If anything happens, wake me up immediately."
Catherine nodded slightly, turned and walked to the side passage. The men and women looked at each other, and their expressions became much more relieved.
The leaders all went to bed, which meant that they were very confident that they could avoid this storm.
In the lounge, Catherine turned on the shielding device, pursed her lips tightly, and her expression became more solemn.
She walked behind the simple desk, turned on her communicator, thought quietly for a few minutes, and finally found the special contact person and sent a message.
[Thanks for the reminder, otherwise we may have lost at least half of our core members. 】
The other party immediately replied: [You're welcome, these are just instructions from my boss. Captain Catherine, my boss may want to announce some opinions that I have broken up with you a long time ago. I hope you can understand.]
Catherine sighed and continued typing:
[Now I just feel that he is letting me play nonsense and cooperating with me to play an uprising game.
[I am now afraid that when I most likely fail in the uprising, he will catch me by his side and tell me - look, you have tried it, and you will stay by my side from now on.
[After thinking about it recently, I discovered that he is too powerful.
[Under the eyes of the empire, such a huge power has been secretly developed, and the super-modifier organization has been controlled, and it has the appeal and popular prestige that can lightly challenge the royal family. ]
The other party sent a smiley face charm and continued to reply: [Didn’t you notice? Your future rebel army is also a semi-direct force in my boss’s power territory.]
Catherine was stunned for a moment: [Did he plan this a long time ago?]
[No, my boss just respects your choice, but your development route has been in my calculation before. 】
【You? Who exactly are you?】
[Me? I am the boss’s assistant, the boss’s most trusted assistant. You can call me, Law.]
"Law?" Catherine whispered.
Texts kept popping up on the projection screen in front of her:
[I can tell you right now that if you want to overthrow the empire, the existing resistance forces alone will not be able to accomplish one percent of it. However, the existence of the resistance forces, the rebel army, and the revolutionary army has a very high symbolic significance. You are the torch.
, and this torch is responsible for lighting up the darkness before dawn.
[I hope that you can continue to be my boss’s support in the future, a comrade and partner that transcends personal feelings.
[The power controlled by the boss is actually far beyond your imagination, and the enemy is also far more powerful than you imagine.]
Catherine raised her hand to cover her forehead: [Can you briefly describe it? 】
[Do you think that the modular design of the Emperor Star and the ability to absorb the energy of an entire star as an energy reserve are simply used to showcase the Empire's technology?
[In the empire’s dimension-enhancement plan, the Emperor Star is the core of the dimension-enhancement. Of course, I haven’t been able to find the core data in it.
[But don’t worry, that’s not an enemy you need to worry about.
[Please become a fire, illuminate the darkness of the empire, and burn the shackles of the people.]
Catherine replied: [I can only be a pioneer holding a torch. The real fire is not me, but us.]
[You are becoming more and more like a rebel leader.]
Catherine smiled and shook her head, ending the chat in a relatively happy mood.
…
Half a day later.
Imperial frontier.
In a transport ship that had just returned to the empire, Yang Ming sat quietly in the corner holding a professional military book.
Daphne hurried over, sat in front of Yang Ming, and whispered: "Things are a little troublesome."
Yang Ming asked without raising his head: "What's wrong?"
"Neither the super-modifier organization nor the Military Intelligence Bureau could find the whereabouts of Catherine. Forty-two super-modifiers disappeared together. It has been confirmed that there may be some kind of organization between them, and this organization has been revealed before.
We had some clues, but we didn’t pay attention to them.”
clatter.
Yang Ming closed the book and looked up at Daphne, who was a little anxious.
"Would you be so upset over something like this?"
"Of course not," Daphne snorted, "Uncle Ino was furious. Those are all important experimental materials for him, especially Catherine...Uncle complained before that he had not collected valuable materials for a long time.
Data, the super-modifier organization has been asked to provide a group of powerful super-modifiers before, and Catherine is on the list... This may not be a coincidence."
Yang Ming nodded slightly.
Sorry, this is just a coincidence. Catherine had been preparing for the uprising for more than a day or two. This time it was just accidentally exposed.
But this can be considered as avoiding a bigger crisis.
Daphne said: "Can you find where she is?"
"Sorry, I can't get in touch either," Yang Ming put the special watch in front of Daphne. Naturally, all the data in it had been altered by Lu, and all chat records were forged. "You can make sure for yourself."
Daphne hesitated, then grabbed her watch and searched carefully for a while.
Soon, she handed the watch back.
"Don't say anything next, and don't care about this matter. I will settle it for you."
Boss Yang smiled and nodded.
"Are we going to MI next?"
"Well, you first need to gain some real power. Major General Atro from the Military Intelligence Bureau has a good relationship with you and just happened to become your subordinate."
Ah, it seems that it's not bad to have soft rice occasionally. At least it's quite worry-free.