I Persuade People With Reason

Auchan had absolutely no idea what was going on.

On the night when he thought he had reached a consensus with the third prince, he drank a little wine complacently. In a leisurely mood, he fell asleep, imagining how much he would get from the third prince soon ...

However, when he woke up again, he found that he seemed to be imprisoned in a dark and narrow box. Not only were his hands and feet wrapped in a ball of special metal, he could not move, but his face and mouth were also locked by something similar to a dog muzzle. It was so serious that he couldn't make a sound.

——Auchan, who has been to some gray trading places, knows that this is a means to imprison those slaves with certain strength and prevent them from breaking away and escaping.

"!" He blushed in shock and anger, and an indescribable humiliation poured out from the depths of his heart!

At the same time, there were bursts of fear that even he himself was ashamed to admit.

--what happened?? What exactly happened? Where exactly am I? Is it before going to bed? Is there something wrong with that glass of wine? Someone still sneaked into the house... ah! It's the third prince! Must be the hand of the third prince?! Must be him! Does he want to kill someone? ! !

— No, calm down, calm down. If the third prince really wanted to kill people, I would already be dead. He dare not kill an imperial lieutenant general openly! This must be just a warning he gave me... yes, that's it! He should just be trying to warn me to keep my mouth shut.

- Phew...that's fine. It's all my fault that I'm obsessed with my mind. I still want to get benefits from the third prince, but I forgot how ruthless this guy is? Spicy! Thought I could threaten the Empire with a single handle? Future heirs, before? Am I being carried away by greed? Fortunately, he didn't dare to do something so maddening as murder and silence on the Imperial Capital Star. That's it! Phew... Calm down, calm down, when you see him later, you must keep calm, bow your head and bow down for the first time...

In the dark and narrow box, Auchan's mood fluctuated rapidly, and after passing the initial fear and anxiety, he gradually regained his composure after thinking he had guessed the truth.

In his eyes, there was a wise color that saw through everything. In his heart, he counted the time silently, just waiting to be brought before the third prince. He knelt down and surrendered according to the rehearsal. He bowed his head and conceded defeat. this crisis.

After regaining his calm, he felt the current situation, and the anger of being humiliated gradually flooded his heart.

- The three princes? I remember this lesson. Now bow your head for a while, there will be a chance in the future... I want you to look good! At the beginning, Wu Heng was so beautiful, but now he has become a drowning dog? Empire? The heir is great? Let's wait and see, it's better to sit firmly as your heir, and don't show any flaws, then... I'll pay back the humiliation today!

The script in his heart has been rehearsed over and over again, and he even thought about the posture and tone of kneeling begging for mercy, but Auchan has yet to welcome the third prince he expected. As his patience gradually ran out, he even began to imagine the scene in which the third prince would step on and humiliate him in the future, and his situation remained unchanged.

The only thing that can be felt is that the black box that is blocking him seems to be moving smoothly, the outside world is silent, and there is no sound at all.

In the silent darkness, panic swept again.

Auchan began to lose confidence in his previous guesses. Could it be that... the third prince really wants his life, where is he going to be buried alive? Or... he guessed wrong from the beginning, and the person who shot him was not the third prince at all? ? ?

Compared with the former, the latter seems to be more terrifying. This means that everything is beyond his expectations and control.

Being locked in this dark and narrow box, I don't know when will we see the sky again, Auchan's mood is ups and downs like a roller coaster.

As time went on, this fear became deeper and deeper, and just when Auchan was almost desperate, there was finally a noisy and chaotic voice in the silent outside world.

"Didn't I just leave a batch of goods a few days ago? The new goods are here? This time so fast?"

"Old rules, don't ask questions that shouldn't be asked. The above has explained that the goods this time are very important and must not be lost. They must be delivered within the specified time. Otherwise, think about the things around everyone's necks!"

"Hey - the top is so important, it seems that this time is a big customer! Brothers can make a lot of money again!"

Amidst the noisy discussions, Auchan felt that his box was being transported downwards. From the surrounding conversations, he could hear that it was probably in a warehouse.

In his heart? He said it was not good.

If it were another person, I probably wouldn't understand what happened. But Auchan, who has experienced some underground transactions, has already guessed where he is - this is a shady smuggling ship. The so-called cargo is either population or arms.

On the frontline battlefield, there are many such things.

Especially when the Empire is at war with the Covenant, there are often arms dealers who cross the border to smuggle arms for huge profits, and some people take the opportunity to sell the captured prisoners to some places with special gray transactions. For example, the "Black Shark" of the Star Thief Group has a long-term trading relationship with such underground venues, and even has a chain.

The universe is vast, but not everyone has super navigation like System 999. In order not to get lost in the starry sky, or hit a storm, the safe routes that have been explored will be marked on the star map.

For example, there are only a few fixed routes from the desolate star field to the empire's territory. Even smuggling arms dealers, unless they are dying, generally can only take those few paths.

These routes are naturally patrolled by the imperial army for a long time.

The smuggled arms dealers and "Black Sharks" can freely enter and exit the Empire and the Desolate Star Territory.

As long as they tacitly let go of the gate and relax a little while patrolling, they can quietly let people pass.

As a senior military officer, Auchan has also participated in several times. The favor fee given to him by the arms dealer alone is worth the income of several years of hard work on the battlefield.

This has been the tacit gray income of many officers. Several special corps with special backgrounds, with the support of the royal family and the great nobles, even participated in the trafficking of prisoners of war. Compared with the "Black Shark", which has no taboos, the prisoners of war in the imperial army are all natural persons caught in the war.

——The Empire's hatred of the Covenant is far beyond imagination. The new humans have never regarded natural people as their own race, and these untouchables who are inferior to them dare to rebel against the empire's rule, which is even more sinful. It's just that freedom, equality, and human rights must be promoted on the surface, so the trafficking of prisoners of war must never be made public, and can only be carried out in secret.

In some underground trading venues, there are quite a few perverts who want to buy natural persons to torture; there must be not a few private research institutes that attempt to secretly conduct banned genetic modification experiments on natural persons.

And they believe that there must be similar behaviors on the Covenant side, such as catching new humans to do experiments, etc.

The empire has been around for too long, and too many places have started to decay. Before Wu Heng took office as commander-in-chief, the military opened the back door privately to allow more circulation of arms dealers; until after he became the commander-in-chief and rectified military discipline, such things gradually decreased, not disappeared. , but into a more secretive state.

After all, some things are beyond the reach of Wu Heng, a commoner.

At the beginning, Auchan was once punished by Wu Hengxiao for "not paying attention to the inspection". Even if he was later promoted and trusted because of his merits in battle, he still felt uneasy in his heart. In addition, the strictness of Wuheng makes many unspoken rules no longer count, and I don't know how many people's financial paths have been cut off. This is why? Auchan chose to betray, and one of the reasons why so many people fell into trouble.

Now, when Auchan found out that he had become one of the goods transported by the arms dealer and was about to be taken out of the realm of the Empire without knowing it, he finally panicked.

He really knows all too well the virtues of those guys at the border, because that's what he used to do. Especially now that there is no Wuheng who strictly controls military discipline.

How much Auchan hated Wu Heng for being too harsh and cut off his fortune, how much he hopes for his own? Colleagues can abide by military discipline and stop this airship!

Regrettably, his colleagues were apparently no better than him in conduct, and the journey was uneventful and nothing happened. This smuggling airship just swaggered out of the empire's territory, carrying a lieutenant general of the empire.

Auchan, who had been silently calculating the time, was completely desperate after estimating how far the airship had gone.

He had already determined that the mastermind behind this matter was definitely not the third prince, and all the plans and calculations in his heart were all in vain, leaving only a sense of emptiness that he didn't know where he was going, and that his life and death were unpredictable. This kind of life and death is completely controlled by human hands, and the feeling of being out of your control is really frightening!

But soon, he didn't even have any thoughts of fear - because he was going to starve to death.

Although the physique of the new humans is strong, generally speaking, ten days can be sustained without eating or drinking, but half a month has passed since Auchan was arrested until he was sent to Black Whale Island. Clearly beyond the general case.

The intense consumption of energy in the body made Auchan feel dizzy with hunger, his stomach cramped, and even his thinking was somewhat stagnant. There is no time to care about those outsiders? What are people talking about?

Just when he felt that he was about to starve to death, the black box that closed him suddenly hit the ground hard.

With a "bang", the dark and narrow box fell to the ground, and the black metal on the surface suddenly surged like flowing water, quickly unfolded and deformed, and spread along the long shackles on Auchan's limbs.

And Auchan, who was like a dead dog, appeared unobstructed. Now it's not in front of you! He was still wearing the same single shirt as when he was caught, his hair was disheveled, he was bony, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken.

Wasn't it because a question mark appeared on his forehead: "?"

The arms dealer who was in charge of transporting the people was also stunned for a moment, then suddenly, he slapped his forehead and said, "It seems like I'm hungry. These guys really don't know how to work around! This person is not arms, but he needs to be fed regularly. "

However, at the beginning, it was not intended to be human, nor did it say that all people were required to have all the tails, so that's okay?

Why not? I glanced at this person and knew what they wanted, so I said lightly: "Since everyone has shown sincerity, I am not a dishonest person. Please wait for a day and stay with me. It's arranged, tomorrow? Let's have a good talk with you about the important things that we really want to cooperate with?"

The others were satisfied with the news. As a matter of fact, they still have some problems coming back.

Unexpectedly, the power of the common people has actually become a major event. Shengsheng captured a lieutenant general from the most heavily defended imperial capital star in the empire and returned!

Don't look at these people who are calling for wind and rain in the desolate star field, they seem to be big bosses, but in the face of the real big forces such as the Empire and the Star Alliance, they are actually just younger brothers. Even anti-government groups like White Dawn.

Now that the division of labor and cooperation between the various forces has actually caused the empire to suffer losses, how can this not shock them inexplicably?

Are you so powerful? In other words, is the power of the entire Desolate Star Region united so powerfully? No, to be precise, is the Lord of the Sea of ​​Stars who played an important role in contributing to this matter? Is it so powerful?

For a time, many people had vaguely indescribable thoughts. As if unconsciously, the unbreakable impression of the Empire seemed to be shaken. And the figure of the other person seems to be more and more unfathomable.

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Auchan was dying of starvation, only to feel that he was going to die in the next moment, becoming the most ridiculous and most embarrassed imperial lieutenant general to die in history. At this moment, a very familiar voice faintly sounded in his ear.

"...First? Take him down and lock him up."

He heard such a light command from the voice he had heard countless times, which contained no emotion, as if the other party was still the commander-in-chief of the high-ranking empire, too lazy to bother with such an inconspicuous little character. Not even the hatred of being betrayed.

The brain, which was too lazy to operate because it was too lacking in energy, hadn't reacted to how a crippled person seemed to be making a comeback, and Auchan was suddenly pulled up and moved forward very roughly? Drag it away.

He heard another voice asking: "Don't you hate him? As long as you speak, we have a hundred and eighty ways to entertain such a traitor, so let him be an eye-opener."

"It's just an idiot who is being used, why should you care. If I hadn't found the gene comparison done by the third prince on the star network, I never thought that I would be able to climb up with the third prince." That made Auchan extremely familiar. His voice was indifferent, with a bit of arrogance and arrogance that made him more familiar, "You don't need to touch him, just keep it like this, in the future, it will also be a witness to expose the third prince. He thinks that my big brother is blocking him. Road, I really want to try what it's like to cut off his road completely."

Three princes? claim kinship? ? Gene alignment? ! big brother? ! !

"!" Ouchan, who was on the verge of death, was awakened by shock.

... There is a lot of information, he seems to know something amazing? ? ?

Seeing that Auchan's eyelids trembled a few times, he was clearly awake and heard everything clearly, but he was taken away by pretending to be in a coma. 】

Yuan Buwei raised his eyelids: "What?"

【...Did you deliberately say those words for him to listen to? 】

"You actually see it coming?"

Unexpected tone was very surprised.

System 999 felt that his IQ seemed to be despised, and immediately tried his best to prove his power: [Of course. With the character of your host, how could you waste time and go all the way to capture someone and keep them well, just to make him a witness in the future? This is very wrong. 】

What it didn't say was that: with the host's character, it is clear that the tool man should be squeezed to death. As for identifying the three princes? Stop teasing, does this host seem like someone who cares about his reputation and what other people think? Casually? Making a piece of evidence and throwing dirty water directly is his style. There must be something wrong with it being so euphemistic.

Although System 999 didn't say anything, why didn't he know what was in his heart? He was scolding himself, and he suddenly smiled: "999, you really have become smarter, it seems that now you can take on more important responsibilities."

System 999 feels bad.

Sure enough, I heard my host continue to say: "As a high-level intelligent life body that can travel through the heavens, it turned out that it was on a par with the star network in this world, and it was faintly inferior to the dark network of the star network. You can't even get in. I know you've always been ashamed at 999. It's better now, the smart system must know that it should take on more important responsibilities and study hard to improve itself, are you right?"

System 999: […]

...Sure enough, even the system is not spared, this is the real style of the host. Well, it's very hostile.