Chapter 954 Great changes in the People's Federation
There is no doubt that in the face of Zuo Si's naked threats and intimidation, these hell lords have no choice at all.
Either give up your independence and choose to surrender, or wait to be invaded by three Eldrazi Titans and eat up your energy bit by bit.
Although at the beginning there were a few arrogant guys trying to unite to resist.
But after witnessing with his own eyes how the other party destroyed Marduk Kurios through terrorist and violent means and merged the entire dimension he owned into his own domain, the last bit of luck was gone.
After all, every one of these hell lords is an out-and-out refined egoist, and they all possess wisdom far beyond that of ordinary people.
After realizing the dire consequences they would face if they continued to fight, they would naturally choose to lower their heads to preserve their strength, and then slowly look for opportunities to overthrow Zuo Si who was riding on their heads, and even replace him as the new Lord of Hell.
At least that's what the wily Mephisto planned.
In his opinion, such an attempt to annex all dimensions at once and subdue the hell lord is simply whimsical.
Even if the situation can be stabilized with strong power for a while, complex factions and forces of various sizes will inevitably form internally over time.
At that time, there will inevitably be intrigues between each other, and all kinds of conspiracies and plots will emerge in endlessly.
And this is what Mephisto does best.
He even had a complete plan in his mind, and used his own tactics to win over others bit by bit, and finally usurped power from Zuo Si and picked up what was ready-made.
That’s right!
This insidious and cunning guy wants to occupy the magpie's nest.
And he was the most active after taking the oath of allegiance, as if he wanted to be his favorite and second-in-command.
However, Mephisto doesn't seem to realize that the establishment of order in Zuo Si's words is not as simple as promulgating some laws and rules and then using violence to punish those who cross the line like in the mortal world.
The order Zuo Si wants to establish is a supreme rule that covers all dimensions like the infinite stones.
In other words, he planned to follow Asmodeus's example and first connect all hell dimensions through the cave tree of New Phyrexia, and then completely order them to form an indestructible complete system.
Except for myself as the Lord of Hell, who has the highest authority, everyone else will be strictly divided into different levels.
Among them, the original dimension demon can serve as the lord of each level and continue to control his original territory.
Although on the surface it seems that they have successfully retained their power and status without much loss, in fact as long as they agree and accept this, it is equivalent to giving up their original independence and "voluntarily" integrating into the new hell system.
This also means that Zuo Si has gained the authority to control or even deprive the opponent of his power and status.
Although this authority may be weak at first.
But with the passage of time, and the continuous improvement and strengthening of the rules, one day he will become the supreme master like Asmodeus, and no one can shake him again.
If I had to use one word to describe it, it would be boiling a frog in warm water.
The purpose of the coercion and inducement operations done before was to paralyze these hell lords and make them think that the wisest choice is to keep their heads down and conserve their strength and wait for the opportunity.
Little did they know that from the moment they chose to be patient, they fell into the trap carefully crafted by Zuo Si.
As for Mephisto's little thoughts, Zuo Si knew it from the beginning, but he did not reveal it, but instead used him to appease other hell lords.
In this way, with this cautious guy in the middle, even if there are one or two people who can't help but want to jump out and cause trouble, he will find a way to suppress them.
Right now, two people with different agendas were standing in a huge palace built from cave trees, looking down at the city built from Shimmering Oil and New Phyrexia's creations.
It took several minutes before Mephisto pretended to be excited and sighed: "I can't believe you actually connected all the hell dimensions together in this way.
From now on, hell will no longer be a chaotic concept, but a complete and unified whole.
And you are the supreme king here, the lord of all lords, and the only holder of the title of Satan.
Please allow me to pay you my highest respect.
From now on, you are the embodiment of evil in this universe and the source of all evil.
I just have a little problem.
Why can this thing called a cave tree ignore the barriers of space and teleport the target from one dimension to another?"
"Oh? Are you interested in the cave tree?"
Zuo Si turned around and stared at the other person with a half-smile.
"Who can not be interested in it? I bet that all the other lords, one by one, are now very eager to find out what the Cave Tree is and how it works."
Mephisto answered in the affirmative very calmly.
After all, this is the most important means to maintain the hell dimension after integration, and it is also a terrifying deterrent that prevents other lords from taking rash actions.
Because no one knows how dangerous things Zuo Si will stuff into his own dimension through the cave tree if anyone dares to resist.
For example, those Eldrazi that feed on energy, and those terrifying things called shimmering oil.
As a master of conspiracy who is determined to seize power and replace Zuo Si, Mephisto must of course understand the Cave Tree, otherwise even if he succeeds in usurping the throne, he will never be able to make other lords surrender to him.
“You can simply understand it as a bridge that ignores spatial distance.
When the branches of the cave tree pass through the void and enter a certain dimension, a stable connection will be established between the two.
In addition, cave trees have many other uses.
But it's not convenient for me to show it to you now. I'll talk about it later when I have the opportunity.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! We have plenty of time anyway, don’t we?”
After saying that, Zuo Si stared at Mephisto with a slightly scrutinizing gaze.
The latter seemed to have noticed something, and quickly lowered his head and bowed respectfully: "Of course! You are the supreme Lord of Hell, the holder of the great title of Satan, and your will is our order."
"Haha, very good. Compared to those reluctant lords, I prefer smart people like you. Behave well, and when the time is right, I will promote you to be my deputy."
Zuo Si raised his arm and patted the other party's shoulder lightly and began to draw a pie.
This kind of thing is already familiar to him, and he doesn't need to make any preparation at all. He just comes out of his mouth.
After all, he had no intention of actually fulfilling his promise.
"It's my pleasure."
An imperceptible joy flashed in Mephisto's eyes, and a flattering smile quickly appeared on his face.
Zuo Si also perfected his acting skills and pretended to be satisfied, nodding his head: "This is the attitude a subordinate should have.
Now I entrust you with the sole responsibility of monitoring every move of all other lords.
As long as they have the intention to break away or dare to launch a rebellion, you can take first steps to stop them, or even directly launch a war.
In addition, I will appoint you as the Speaker of the Lords Council soon, responsible for directing and coordinating the internal affairs of hell.
Remember, my friend, only by uniting can we spread evil ideas to every corner of the universe and make those mortals intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves."
"Understood! Please rest assured that I will never disappoint you."
Mephisto grinned with an energetic expression.
Because this kind of trust and power is what he desperately wants.
After all, every hell lord desires to defeat other competitors to become the only lord of hell - Satan.
In the past, because there were so many mountains, no one could do anything about it, so they could only dominate their own one-third of an acre of land.
But now, Zuo Si has already set an example, and even the template is ready.
The next thing to do is to usurp power, overthrow Zuo Si's rule and seize this complete hell.
This difficulty is much easier than defeating all the hell lords before.
At least that's what it looks like in Mephisto.
"I look forward to seeing the results of your work."
After saying that, Zuo Si showed an enigmatic smile, and then turned into a shadow and disappeared without a trace.
As soon as he left, Satanish appeared out of thin air and asked in an uncertain tone: "He left?"
"Well, let's go.
But you should call him the Great Satan or the Supreme Lord of Hell.
Don't forget, we all swore an oath of allegiance.
The most important thing is that we must always be respectful to truly win his trust.
This is critical to the first step of planning."
Mephisto pursed his lips and warned his ally in a meaningful tone.
"The Great Satan?
The supreme lord of hell?
ha!
He just temporarily subdued us with his powerful power.
I bet that except for Olivier who was frightened, none of the other lords were truly convinced."
Satanish smiled contemptuously.
Although everyone, including him, bowed their heads in front of Zuo Si and behaved like a respectful and obedient person, at heart they were all young men waiting for an opportunity to rebel.
loyalty?
Excuse me!
This word is not in their dictionary.
But Mephisto smiled and shook his head: "No, you don't understand what a groundbreaking feat it is for Soth to integrate all hell dimensions.
He gave us a demonstration.
It turns out that the scattered and trivial dimensions of hell can be completely integrated into one.
For this reason alone we should maintain the minimum respect for him.
Because after the rule of Soth is overthrown, whoever sits in that position will be equivalent to inheriting his legacy."
Upon hearing these words, Satanish immediately showed a thoughtful expression: "Well, maybe you are right.
After all, as the cave tree connects all dimensions together, it is no longer possible to return to the relatively independent state of the past.
No matter how much we hate each other, we can only appear as one.
I suggest that we establish a Demon King's Council in private.
After overthrowing Soth, they will vote to elect someone to be Satan, the Lord of Hell.
What do you think?"
"Sounds good. By the way, I asked you to test the lord. Is there any progress?"
Mephisto suddenly changed the topic, obviously not wanting to discuss too much about who will take over this huge hell dimension in the end.
On the one hand, it is pointless to discuss this before overthrowing Zuo Si;
On the other hand, he had already developed the intention to imitate the former. How could he tolerate some bullshit Demon King's Council to take away the power that should belong to him?
Satanish obviously didn't know what Mephisto was thinking, so he started talking about the results of the temptation.
After all, considering that every one of the Hell Lords is capricious and extremely selfish.
Therefore, you must not be too explicit when testing. Otherwise, once you are caught and reported, you will be in trouble, and you can only hint in a very subtle way.
The result was as expected by the two, with most of the lords showing strong interest.
However, whether these guys are trustworthy still needs to be observed and tested.
Just when Mephisto and Satanish were plotting to overthrow Zuo Si's rule, the earth had already recovered from the earth-shattering horrific war.
Due to the successful seizure of the Infinity Gauntlet and the six Infinity Stones, not only all the dead have been resurrected after a snap of the fingers, but even the destroyed space fleet has once again appeared around the Earth-Moon orbit.
But what is interesting is that the alien fleets that were also destroyed were not resurrected.
Even their representatives had their memories tampered with and completely forgot what happened, so they took the small spacecraft provided by the People's Federation and returned to the areas where their own civilizations were located.
After these aliens were sent away, a post-war high-level emergency meeting was held as scheduled.
As a result, it started with the collective resignation of the top decision-makers except Grant Ward.
This undoubtedly triggered a violent shock in the entire political system of the People's League.
Many officials who were not high-level officials were stunned and had no idea which song was being sung.
It is as outrageous as in the United Nations era when four of the five permanent members suddenly announced their withdrawal.
But before they could recover from the shock, the Lord of Mankind occupying Grant Ward's body stood up and walked straight to the podium in front of countless cameras and the audience sitting in front of mobile phones, TVs, tablets, and projectors.
, said in a deep magnetic voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, all fellow human beings on earth!
I am very honored to announce it to you here!
After paying a heavy price and the sacrifice of countless heroes, we finally won this terrible war.
We did not let a madman like Thanos control the fate of mankind.
This is not only a victory for the People's Federation, but also a victory for all mankind.
Because we control our own destiny.
But similarly, we also exposed many flaws and problems in this war.
The most obvious of these are inefficient government agencies and bureaucracies, as well as countless useless politicians who came to power through vote-based politics and have no idea what actions should be taken in emergencies.
As humans continue to move towards wider space, the backward systems of the past are no longer suitable for us.
I believe that after this crisis, everyone should feel how dangerous this universe is.
In order to ensure that the fire of our civilization will not be extinguished under the threat of powerful foreign enemies!
It is for all human beings to obtain better security!
It's time to establish a strong and professional centralized government to manage everything.
Only in this way can we go further and respond as quickly as possible when facing a crisis, instead of listening to stupid politicians shirking responsibilities and wrangling each other.
Likewise, it is time to end capital’s two-hundred-year rule and dominance over the entire human society and establish a more equitable distribution system.”
"What? Are you crazy! I object! You are trampling on freedom and democracy! You are trying to be dictatorial!"
A spokesman for a big capital company immediately jumped up and shouted crazily.
As a traditional politician from Europe and the United States, he obviously did not notice anything was wrong with the atmosphere at the scene. Instead, he felt that he had found an opportunity to rise to power and tried to build himself into a democracy that was not afraid of power and bravely declared war on dictators.
Freedom Defender.
And it can also win the goodwill of those big capitals, and then get more funding and media support in the next election.
Similar money and power trading games have continued for hundreds of years since the emergence of modern vote politics, and have even been completely deified and become unshakable political correctness.
If anyone dares to subvert this kind of vote-based politics, he is undemocratic and unfree. He is a dictator who tries to deprive people of their participation in politics and everyone calls for beatings.
After all, what leader who is elected by one person and one vote of the people has more legitimacy and legitimacy?
And even if the top leader does nothing after coming to power and frantically provides a series of conveniences, from legal to government financial subsidies, to the capital forces that support his campaign, the responsibility can still be passed on to the victimized people.
The reason is also very simple.
This is what you voted for. If you want to blame it, you can only blame yourself. It has nothing to do with the capital that profited from it.
In the eyes of this congressman who jumped out, not only did he not have any risks in doing so, but he could also gain unimaginable huge benefits from it.
You must know that with the collective resignation of the top leaders of the People's Federation, those high-ranking chairs have been vacated.
Whoever can seize the opportunity at this time will be able to enter the highest decision-making level.
At present, human beings no longer only have the earth as their mother planet, but are regional overlords with dozens of colonial planets and hundreds of vassal alien civilizations.
Unfortunately, this congressman did not know that what he was facing was not Grant Ward at all, but the decisive and murderous master of mankind from another universe.
When he unified Holy Terra and launched the Great Crusade in the 30th Millennium, many of the upper ruling class were purged by this man.
Especially when those dirty thoughts in his heart were read, a cold light flashed in the eyes of the Lord of Humanity, and he directly chose to make a list without even saying nonsense.
He just winked at a Hydra member, who immediately understood and put the prepared information on the big public screen.
moment!
All the secrets including the meetings, conversations, transactions, and even drug taking, multi-player sports, and playing with underage boys and girls together between this congressman and his backer are published on the Internet for everyone to enjoy.
It’s not just him, but more than two-thirds of the politicians within the entire People’s Federation have hidden secrets.
Even the real masters behind the big capital and military-industrial complex, which were previously untouchable and whoever touched them would die, have all been exposed.
Even down to every family member, descendant and stakeholder.
In the face of mountains of evidence, any explanation or sophistry is futile.
Some of them are even real "ogres".
The people who had been kept in the dark before exploded on the spot.
There is no doubt that this was a naked and undisguised public declaration of war and execution.
The Lord of Mankind wants to use this method of pricking thick sores to arouse the anger in the hearts of most people, completely smash the capitalism that has ruled the world for two hundred years, and then concentrate all power in his own hands.
This is a naked conspiracy, and it is a revolution that will lead to rivers of blood.
Only by cleaning up all these insects can mankind sail into the sea of stars with ease.
After all, in the Warhammer universe, one of the reasons why the human empire fell into darkness was that the corrupt and backward nobles and slave owners were not purged during the Great Crusade.
This time the Lord of Mankind has obviously learned the lessons from before and plans to start from the inside from the very beginning.
Anyway, this universe has no subspace influence, and the Hell Lords who pose the greatest threat have been dealt with by allies. He can reform the interior in an orderly manner, and then gradually advance his plan to dominate the galaxy.
"Crazy...crazy! Grant Ward! You're a fucking lunatic! What the hell do you want to do?"
"Quick! Turn off the screen! Delete those materials from the Internet!"
"Where's SHIELD? Are you guys eating shit? You actually let these things be transmitted to the network server!"
"Someone! Get Grant Ward!"
…
Suddenly, the entire venue was in complete chaos.
Countless congressmen who are usually personable, humble and courteous have now revealed their true colors.
Others even rushed forward to physically cut off the power supply, or break the cameras that captured the scene.
But unfortunately, these actions ultimately failed without exception.
How could the master of mankind, who had arranged everything in advance, give these insects any chance.
Hydra agents who had been waiting outside the door swarmed in and directly used stun guns to knock down the blacklisted congressmen and take them away.
What awaits them is not just death, but first a public trial to discredit them, and then execution to arouse the anger of the people.
Of course, it was not only these dirty and shameless politicians who were arrested, but also the sponsors and big capital behind them.
In less than an hour, the Legion of Astartes and the elite Hydra team, which had completely surrendered to the Lord of Mankind, attacked from all directions and captured hundreds of thousands of people.
During this process, there were still people who tried to resist with the meager force they had. In the end, without exception, they were all shot to death on the spot, and their family power was uprooted.
Obviously, in the face of real power, so-called capital is nothing more than pigs being fattened to be slaughtered.
This is why capital always touts the mythical free economy, small government, and vote-based politics, and constantly creates gender, racial, and cultural antagonisms in order to blur and downplay class antagonisms.
Because once a strong power emerges, they will no longer be able to control politics, and they will not even be able to protect their property and personal safety.