Star Wars: The Silver Pledge

There are no unprovoked miracles in the world.

This is a saying Xiao En often hears from his master. When people feel incredible about the various feats she has accomplished, they don’t know that what lies behind the miracles is actually a thorough analysis, insight, and persistent efforts.

Jedi Master Mostima was indeed placed under house arrest in the capital as a "captive" at first, and the Qiankun Group's house arrest was of course not for the convenience of her establishing influence from within. All her actions were accompanied by numerous restrictions, such as inspecting [Chasing Waves] will be closely guarded by [Black Wing] people.

So, under such circumstances, why did she turn against the customer? Are the high-level people of Qiankun Group enough brains?

Now it seems that the answer is clear at a glance: Xia Yi was moved by Mostima's words.

Sean wasn't surprised the two would have contact.

Xia Yi may not care about what happened to Qian Galaxy, but it is impossible for him not to care about the arrival of the Jedi Master. And Master will not miss the opportunity to talk with Xia Yi.

Xiao En was also not surprised. How could Master persuade Xia Yi? In the past many years of traveling, Xiao En had rarely met anyone whom Master could not persuade. And the higher the position and weight, the easier it is to be convinced by her.

Because the more powerful a person is, the stronger their selfishness and greed are. They want to live forever, to stay healthy, to have their children grow up, and to have their own political ideas forever... When their greed cannot be satisfied, they will Aim at every possibility with hunger and thirst, no matter how small; believe in every kind of metaphysics, no matter how absurd.

The Jedi and the Force are just synonymous with omnipotence in the eyes of many people.

Of course, the Jedi Master is not a true omnipotent wishing machine, but in a sense, she has almost omnipotent knowledge and insight.

As long as a person has selfish desires, it is tantamount to revealing a fatal flaw in front of the Jedi Master. Presumably, Mostima took advantage of Xia Yi's flaw to create the current situation.

A bet, or a proof, Mostima proved to Xia Yi how corrupt the Qiankun Group is.

The defense circle of the capital, which was supposed to be seamless, was easily infiltrated into the core area by civil organizations like the Silver Knights. Although the Jedi Master himself was involved in this, it is still enough to illustrate the seriousness of the problem.

A ruling group that controlled the entire galaxy and 170 billion living beings was unexpectedly raided all the way to the top of the sky by a mere few dozen armed civilians!

Obviously, this is not because the militants in the civil society have supernatural powers, but because the Qiankun Group itself has a big problem.

Take Xia Xi as an example, without his activeness, the Silver Knights would not be able to penetrate the defense circle of the capital and come to [Kun], let alone enter the sky dome through the [Zhubo] laboratory. But he was supposed to be the core elite of Qiankun Security and the confidant of the board of directors.

In addition, it is not difficult to find in the [Zhubo] laboratory that even those first-line researchers are quite critical of the [Xuanhuangxue] project, such as Xia Shan, a top researcher who is even holding his nose to promote the project, so deviant. , Naturally, it will be riddled with holes from being penetrated by Xia Xi.

The fact that Sean and his party can come here is indeed enough to prove too many things.

But the next question is, what does this certificate mean to Xia Yi?

As the most distinguished elder in the Qiankun galaxy, does he really need an outsider to prove to him the corruption of the Qiankun Group? Isn't the private garden where he is now the most direct proof?

With doubts, the Jedi apprentice looked at the old man on the hospital bed.

The old man said slowly: "I never thought that the Qiankun Group was dilapidated, but you have indeed proved your theory, but I have not been able to prove mine."

While speaking, the old man opened his eyes, and the cloudy eyeballs seemed to contain enough heat to burn everything.

"So, what do you want me to do, Jedi Master?"

Hearing this question, many people present couldn't help but hold their breath, and even Li Yu showed a playful expression and remained silent.

Because the next words may directly determine the future of the dry galaxy.

[Mysterious Yellow Blood] and Dragon Clan, Nan Wuyou and Nan Yujin, Silver Knights and [Wasteland]...

These questions may all be answered at this moment!

Mostima said frankly: "I hope you can abolish [Xuanhuangxue] immediately; correct the unequal treatment suffered by the Nan family; rectify the Qiankun Group and restore it to its due clarity, so as to eliminate the social contradictions in the Qian galaxy. "

After Xia Yi heard it, he nodded: "Since we first met, Master has made this idea, but unfortunately, I can't do anything about it."

Before the words fell, Nan Wuyou couldn't hold back his anger.

"Powerless? Mr. Xia Yi, you have the ability to build such a dark and damp garden under the dome, but you say you are powerless against the natural justice? With your power..."

Hearing this, the old man couldn't help laughing out loud.

His laughter was soft and quivering, echoing like the void in his chest.

"Power? That's right. Although I don't hold a real position in the group, I have the greatest power in the galaxy... But, what is power, do you really know?"

As he said that, Xia Yi suddenly sat up and stretched out his hand to the side: "Little girl, can I trouble you to pass me the water glass over there?"

Nan Wuyou bit her lip, but still handed him the water glass on the table.

"Thank you." The old man took the water glass, but did not drink the water, but continued, "Little girl, kneel down."

Nan Wuyou was instantly enraged, but before she got angry, Xia Yi let out a long sigh.

"Now, do you understand? The so-called power is the interaction between you and me just now. I can ask you to help me hold the water glass, but I can't ask you to kneel down."

Nan Wuyou was suddenly in a trance and wanted to argue, but for a while he didn't know how to defend.

Xia Yi explained to her: "The essence of power is the balance of interests. If I want you to hold a water glass, it will basically do no harm to you. There are potential gains for you, so you don't mind suppressing a little unhappiness inside. But kneeling will greatly damage your self-esteem, and you are not sure whether kneeling will get you what you want The transaction becomes uneconomical, so you rejected me."

Xia Yi sighed: "Similarly, the only thing I can ask the board of directors of the group to do is to take a water glass. If they want to give up the huge benefits brought by [Xuanhuangxue], I need to take out an equal bargaining chip, but you Do you think, what chips can I have in my hand?"

Nan Wuyou only felt that the old man seemed to be making excuses, but he couldn't find a flaw for a while.

At this time, it was the Jedi apprentice who couldn't listen anymore and opened his mouth to refute.

"When you are only willing to deal with vested interest groups, you have already made your own choice. Isn't it self-deception to emphasize your powerlessness at this time?"

Xia Yi said, "I am the biggest vested interest representative in the entire galaxy. If I don't trade with vested interest groups, who can I trade with? I just asked Nan Wuyou to fetch water for me, and she still listened to me, but I If I asked that young man over there to fetch me water, what would he say?"

Li Yu was watched by Xia Yi, and he smiled and said a dirty word that made Xia Yi frown.

But the old man quickly raised his brows and sighed: "So, all I can do is continue to deal with interest groups. I admit that I am not innocent, and the crimes I committed are heinous. But... "

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Li Yu.

"Of course you don't want me to bring you water for no reason, but if you are willing to kneel down and beg me, I can't think about it. So, when you categorically assert that you can't make a deal with me, you are actually covering your own pockets tightly." , when you refused to give an extra Qiankun coin. And it is you group of vested interests who find all kinds of excuses and refuse to pay a little more, and the Qiankun Group will rot into what it is now."

Xia Yi said: "You are right, it is precisely because of the greed of the Qiankun Group that tragedies are brewed one after another, [Mysterious Yellow Blood], [Desolate Area]... However, the greed of the human heart is like the greed of the stars. The light is generally unchanging. You will never let the intelligent creatures in this world become saints overnight, not only the Qiankun Group, but even your Silver Knights, for example, three years ago..."

Li Yu took the topic generously: "For example, three years ago, in order to refit the Silver, I directly took out the cargo hold of Beihe Heavy Industry, causing hundreds of poor migrant workers to be held accountable by the Heavy Industry Group and lose their jobs?"

"For another example, two years ago, the Gungan man next to me completed an outstanding fraud, earning millions of Qiankun coins?"

"Or is it that the water dispenser was used as a student, and the poison was accidentally spread on campus, causing a tragedy? Hehe, the Silver Knights are indeed a bunch of rotten people, so what? Do you want to say that rotten people have no qualifications to criticize?"

Xia Yi said: "On the contrary, rotten people are of course qualified to criticize, but equally, rotten people are also qualified to be rulers. Because no one can become a saint, and no one can ask others to become a saint. Greed, jealousy, Violence...is an inseparable part just like the eyeballs and heart of a person."

"The same is true for the ruling group. I will never let the members of the board of directors spend all their wealth to support the [Desolate Area], and it is impossible to stop the production chain of [Black and Yellow Blood]. Even if I ask and order at all costs, It will only be regarded as crazy by the council of elders and put under house arrest. Perhaps as the Jedi master proved, I am a rotten person, and the Qiankun Group is also a corrupt group, but neither you nor I can make it better. "

Li Yu sneered and said, "That's not necessarily the case."

Xia Yi said: "I know you can kill people. Experts remind me every year what kind of monsters the Nan family is raising. According to their speculation, the upper limit of the destructive power of the Silver Knights is enough to knock down the dome of the sky, making the four major families The head of state is half off. So, of course, you can kill the rotten people you don’t like one by one. For example, if you kill me, the bloody living sacrifice will end... But, you are sure that the living sacrifice ceremony is terminated, which is what you want result?"

"How do you know if you don't try?"

Xia Yi said: "Then before you try, you might as well listen to your assistant's opinion."

Li Yu was a little surprised, and glanced aside.

His robot assistant, Bai, was standing quietly behind him, but he obviously wanted to say something.

"Say it."

Bai said: "Behind this small building, there is a separate courtyard where 13 dragon people live, and they should all be sacrifices from the past..."

"If you had come a few days earlier, you should have seen 14 of them. One of them suffered a sudden illness yesterday, and the treatment was ineffective. I am very sorry." Xia Yi said, "Those 'living sacrifices' were all done in [Chasing the Waves]. Some of the experimental products that survived were infected with incurable diseases due to the side effects of drug experiments, and some were destined to die young due to birth defects. In the laboratory environment, even Xia Shan could not openly waste his budget to support these defective products , so, why not let me, an old guy who is not limited by the budget, help him deal with the aftermath."

"In fact, I never want any 'living sacrifice'. A group of researchers with the highest salaries in the entire galaxy can't come up with a proper life extension plan. How can a few mysterious sticks do it? Besides, the smell of raw blood is really It’s terrible, every time I finish drinking it, it makes me sick to my stomach. Just because I don’t believe in living sacrifices, it doesn’t mean that other people don’t believe in it. If I don’t take up this resource, it will be the turn of the truly ruthless people.”

After these words, the room was silent for a while.

Even Zhuang Yuanying couldn't help frowning, because this reversal was so unexpected.

In the end it was Li Yu who broke the tranquility.

"Two years ago, [Desolate Area] welcomed a large number of refugees. Their homes on the outskirts of the city were forcibly demolished by the local construction group, causing heavy casualties. I took in these refugees and regarded the most promising little ones as successors to foster, and promise to avenge his parents."

Speaking of this, Bai Jin Jiuqian silently bowed his head to Li Yu.

Li Yu continued: "Later, I investigated all the way, found the master and killed him. But when I searched his inheritance, I found that he would send a huge amount of money to an orphanage every year, and in that orphanage, the orphanage It is about children who have lost their homes due to forced demolitions in the past few years. Well, you guessed it right, a very standard 'wicked people have their own difficulties' story."

"If you kill him, the children in the orphanage will lose their funding, and he will be replaced by an even worse and greedy villain. Everything seems to be getting worse. But in reality? After the orphanage lost its personal funding, the embarrassment was reported by the media After leaving, the follow-up operations will be undertaken by the welfare department of the local group branch. The situation is neither good nor bad. The villain who succeeded the deceased, although greedy and shameless, is deeply afraid of the death of his predecessor. At least on the demolition level, he didn't dare to do anything wrong."

After speaking, Li Yu looked at Xia Yi with a leisurely smile.

"So, if you don't try, how will you know whether the situation will get better or worse if you are killed?"