Chapter 169 026 Long Time No See, Have You Landed on the Moon? (Part 1)
Chapter 169 026. Long time no see, have you landed on the moon? (Part 1)
The kidnapping of the young master was soon discovered, and the guards drove the hovercraft to chase him closely. Fortunately, Barnum's driving skills were good. He drove for two hours, twisting and turning, and managed to get rid of the guards who followed him quietly.
The hovercraft stopped in an abandoned factory to avoid the search of near-earth satellites. Li Oz dragged the tied-up Malis out of the car and threw him to the rebels Bermudez who had been ambushing here for a long time.
"This is - the son of the Grand Duke, Malis!" A Bermudez soldier shouted excitedly: "You did a good job! Mr. Lioz, you are really our hero, you actually captured Malis."
"It's just a coincidence," Lioz said casually: "This guy is left to you to interrogate - Oh, by the way, don't kill him, he is a Beta-class, and the weapons you have can't hurt him. Also, there were many problems in today's battle..."
Lioz wanted to say a lot of critical words, but when he saw the Bermudez soldier with wounds sticking his head out from behind, he couldn't say anything.
In the final analysis, as a thug sent by Tianhuan, he himself has no qualifications and no responsibility to point fingers at a group of blind and enthusiastic rebels. At that time, he will be criticized. It is better to say nothing and do his own thing.
Although Lioz has limited intelligence, his emotional intelligence is still around the passing level. He pulled Barnum out of the car and handed him over to Bermudez's men, asking them to teach him how to shoot and fight, and to learn about the situation of this group of people. Compared with Li Oz's strong image, a weak man like Barnum who was powerless was more suitable to sneak in and inquire about the situation.
Malis was taken away, and he leaned against the car, holding a cigarette in his mouth, with a thoughtful look.
"... Really interesting."
In fact, the Yellow Azalea Blood Contract and [Judgment Officer] were just an urban legend easter egg for players in the previous life. Some plot parties dug out the stories behind them, and people knew that there were so many rich plots in the old times of Azure Star that had not been dug out, and the Principality of Gurant, which seemed to be as kind as Frost-plated Mother and Son, also had its own secrets.
Li Oz had originally prepared to enter the Surut Palace to rob people, and then ask about the whereabouts of [Judgment Officer]. Unexpectedly, Malis came in a hurry, and there were no bodyguards around him. It might also be that he was too confident in the city's martial law security force and his own Beta-level strength.
However, Malis and the Grand Duke are both spiritual Frost Platers. Although they are the rulers of the country, they don't care about the lives of the people. As the crown prince, Malis basically stays in the Gemini City of Frost Platers all year round. He spends 3 million derbies on dressing up every week, and only wears the same clothes twice. Moreover, he dislikes the national costumes of Granite.
As for his father, Grand Duke Gamos, he is obviously a strong man of the Gamma level, and he has been ruling the country since the old times.
But in order to get rid of the physical and spiritual pain, he basically obeys Frost Platers. He has been PUA by Frost Platers' presidents for a long time. In international occasions, he is basically a mad dog of Frost Platers, biting whoever he catches. Relying on his personal strength and Granite's geographical location (five Frost Platers' colonies and tributaries around him), he constantly sends Granite people to the front line to die for Frost Platers' old women.
The Grand Duke's brain has been in a state of hypoxia for a long time. It is absurd that he can govern the country well. He relies on the mother-son diplomacy of kneeling and licking Frost Plate, and exports a large amount of food and labor from Frost Plate to stabilize the domestic situation.
He doesn't care about the loss of talent in the country at all. For the Grand Duke and his son, what is Gurante? They only recognize Frost Plate as one of the four hegemonies from the bottom of their hearts.
It just so happens that Gurante's agriculture is too developed. It belongs to a super field that can produce 1,800 per mu in autumn if a grain of wheat falls on the ground. As long as people don't lack food, they can bear it and forget it. At most, they can try to make money. Such a bad policy has caused the whole country to lose the motivation to move forward. No one wants to be a middle school teacher. Many people have worked for a lifetime and found that the knowledge and skills they have mastered are not as profitable as setting up stalls. They are instantly broken and become unemployed vagrants, wandering around the streets.
After leaving Speyer, the security level of the whole country is not good. A large number of unemployed people fill the bridge holes. There are not enough jobs to help them. Instead, the prosthetic transformation technology from Frost Plating and the developed entertainment industry make them yearn for the developed four countries.
This leads to a very outrageous phenomenon: Frost Plating men want to run to a small place like Gulant, and Gulant people are desperately trying to go to Frost Plating, at least there are refugees from the outside world who can prevent them from being at the bottom of the discrimination chain.
This is also why the quality of the rebels is so uneven. The fertile land and the rotten monarch make the only way for the people to unite is to run away or raise guns to resist the country.
It sounds a bit ridiculous, but in fact, it feels sad when you think about it carefully. After the sadness, Li Aoz saw that this group of people had no way to deal with Malis, and he really didn't know what to say.
In short, such a smooth kidnapping is a pleasant surprise, but Li Aoz did not take it lightly.
Bermudez's soldiers finally reached a decision and excitedly took the prince to the dungeon, but they did not have the ability to execute or disarm him. Lioz had to use gravity to break his hands and feet before he dared to hand him over to Bermudez.
Killing someone directly is definitely not an option, as it would cause a lot of public opinion. Li Aoz noticed that this guy had white frost on his body, and it was very likely that he had been possessed by a ghost.
"Considering that the Grand Duke himself is a [Shaman], it should be normal to leave a ghost monitoring hand for his child."
If Malish was killed directly, Gamos might have noticed it immediately. Li Aoz had to use his little knowledge of the supernatural to add some runes near the dungeon to trap the ghost inside and prevent it from getting out.
The [Shaman] profession is quite outrageous. Not only is it a serious spell tank, but it can also control souls and walk into the spirit world, temporarily ignoring the rules of physics. It is extremely versatile and is especially good at dealing with young people like [Warriors].
However, the operating threshold of [Shaman] is very high, and the soul will also be eroded during the battle. If you are not careful, you may get a comedy effect of "I kill myself".
In this regard, [mediums] are much better. They communicate with spirits and use the power of psychology rather than directly integrate into the body, but the price is that they take shape very slowly and are weak.
Li Aoz's [gravity] does not work on spirit creatures, but [spontaneous irritation] is effective. However, facing the Gamma-level [shaman], he is much better at faking death and resurrecting, and borrowing corpses to revive the soul than the professor who is a [biochemist].
Of course, there is also good news.
Li Aoz got an interesting point from Malish: Grand Duke Gamos is in very poor health. He did not get the life support device customized by Frost Plating for the Gamma-level. His overly powerful body cannot be supported by the environment of Azure Star.
This situation is essentially the same as nuclear weapons. It is not enough to just develop them. If there is no ability to store them for a long time, it is still a question whether they can explode in the end.
The same is true for fighting. Without strong logistics, professional guidance, high morale, calm judgment, and quick thinking, you only have a stinky skin, which is nothing more than a little more protein than others. It will be burned by a fire.
However, although the difficulty of the task "Roar of Freedom" is only B, there is still a problem that cannot be ignored if you want to complete it successfully.
Li Aoz looked at the members of the Bermudez group: After a day of fighting, these people all withdrew from the city. Basically, everyone was injured and their morale was low. Although Li Aoz captured the son of the Grand Duke, he could not actually play a decisive role in overthrowing the regime.
Even if the Grand Duke is killed, Frost Plating will airdrop a governor and cannot get rid of colonial rule.
Unless the influence of some international forces is used - but that is too slow.
The best solution is to kill the Grand Duke, dissolve the government of the Principality of Gurant, reorganize the government in less than a day, and attend the GTB summit as a country - Li Aoz believes that Tianhuan will definitely recognize its legal status. Whether the following things will trigger a war, Li Aoz does not know.
But now according to Bermudez's situation, there are all kinds of people here. You are a young officer, I am a citizen armed, and he is a religious leader. The composition is as complicated as manganese nodules. It is really difficult to expect them to elect a leader who can obey the people.
Even if the elected leader comes to power, what will happen? The terrain of Gulante is basically a fertile plain covered with volcanic ash, with occasional river valleys. The mobile armor of Frost Plating is like a torrent. Theoretically, it can advance 1,000 kilometers a day and cannot be resisted at all.
They can only choose to maintain stability with Frost Plating and seek off-site assistance, such as Tianhuan.
Tianhuan has never signed an arms embargo. If a fight really breaks out, Frost Plating may not be able to quickly raid and occupy Gulante.
Li Oz basically gave up the way to unite this group of people. On the one hand, he is not a Gulante. Although he has a good reputation, reputation cannot bring bullets and tanks after all.
The fate of the Gulante people can only be decided by the Gulante people.
Li Aoz knew that this sentence might not be so easy, and the fate of a weak country was not controlled by itself.
Neither he nor Tianhuan intended to leave a full granary for Shuangdu. If they wanted to cause trauma to a big country like Shuangdu, it would not be solved by simple independence.
For this reason, getting the [Judgment Officer] was the safest choice for Li Aoz.
After communicating with Bermudez's people for a while, Li Aoz gave up the idea of acting with them after learning that this group of people planned to mobilize troops and attack the capital Speyer again.
In his opinion, the decapitation plan was still the best means, nothing else, but he needed a little help.
Li Aoz gave Barnum a coordinate, and the two drove straight to the suburban K area of Speyer, which was a blocked abandoned industrial park. Li Aoz could see a huge cement coffin, which was used to seal the nuclear power plant that leaked in the old era.
"Isn't this a wasteland? The Alkiah Nuclear Power Plant is a relic of the old times. It is said that 300 years ago, a nuclear leak caused a fire covering tens of thousands of hectares. The pilots flew fighter jets and threw sandbags on the ground. It took a week to put out the fire."
Barnum also recognized the landmark buildings here, and his face was strange:
"Are you sure your 'fiancée' is here?"
"This is where we came." Li Oz said.
Barnum was skeptical and turned on the counter to detect radiation dose.
Crack, crack, snap, hiss, crack, crack...