Chapter Fifty-ninth Stonebreaker
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In San Anqiro, there is an inconspicuous tavern, a "bigao", just like its name, the small one is only a small wine storage cabinet that can hold more than 40 bottles of wine, two ordinary wooden tables, six chairs without backrests, and a dizzy and deaf and taciturn, which almost made the guests who have visited unbearable. When this old guest continued to increase the price of the drinks, everyone gradually avoided the tavern. Ordinary civilians would not be willing to spend a month's income just to buy a glass of spirits that were not particularly special. At this price, you can buy a few boxes of this spirits in San Anqiro, and you will not mix it with water.
As for the nobles, they will not come to places where they are self-depreciating. Unless you have too much money and have no place to spend it, or want to find an old guy who doesn't respond to the explosion, telling you about your own compassionate life experience, or venting your unspeakable secrets in your heart. This is a wonderful place, but unfortunately there are very few such people.
But today, the tavern was awakened by five female customers. Under Pamela's leadership, Bai Yu and his party rushed into the tavern. However, the old hospitality had no response to the arrival of the five female nobles. They just continued to hold a rag and wipe the wine glass that no one had used for a long time.
Lu Yisha walked straight around the bar and walked to the old hospitality. She touched a switch under the bar and pressed it. After the small wine storage cabinet was automatically moved away, it exposed the hidden passage behind. Lu Yisha smiled slightly at the old hospitality and led everyone in. The old hospitality, who was like a dead tree in the thousands of years, nodded silently, put down the work in her hand and walked out of the door, turned the sign hanging on the door, revealing the "closed business" behind it, and then locked the door and pulled the thick curtains.
He picked up a tray, put a bottle of wine, 12 cups, put it into the passage, and after exiting, he reset the small wine storage cabinet. As if he had accomplished some fate, he carried half a bottle of wine and a wine glass in his left hand, walked slowly to the table in the hall, found a corner opposite the door, sat down slowly, bit the bottle plug, poured himself two fingers high in spirits, squinted his eyes and took a sip, and gently placed it on the table with a black continuous shooting laser pistol, pointing at the door of the tavern.
"Where is this?" Bai Yu looked around. It was obvious that it was now underground in the bar. This secret room was several times larger than the bistro above. In addition to the stairs leading to the bistro upstairs, there were 6 doors arranged around it. There were a wide round table and a circle of chairs in the middle of the room. The ceiling was carved with the golden emma imperial badges that Bai Yu could see everywhere in the Queen's Palace. And Ora found that his scanning device could not scan the thickness of the wall, let alone explore the secrets behind these doors.
"My secret headquarters." Evelyn picked up the wine glass and took a sip, and said slowly.
"Secret Headquarters?" Bai Yu found that after he shouted, Pamela did not run into the tavern in a panic.
The Phantom snorted: "Well, it seems that it's important to be honest."
"Stay for a while, everyone is not here." Evelyn shook her head and said.
Bai Yu also understood that Evelyn was not as simple as taking her shopping, everything was planned.
"If I tour the palace with you today, would I end up here?" Bai Yu asked at Evelyn.
Evelyn nodded and pointed to a door next to her: "You will come in from here. I don't mean to hide it from you on purpose. There are really extremely important things that need your help."
"Let's talk about it first. You know that I am a short prince now, and I don't even have a warship. I can't help you too much. Besides, I'm here to take shelter and give you a free meal. Don't tell me you don't know." Bai Yu said without hesitation.
After hearing this, Lu Yisha suddenly covered her mouth and laughed. Evelyn also smiled: "Of course I understand, you never thought about why I sent the Royal Fleet to save you blatantly? At the risk of turning against the Federation, you must know that the military organization of the "Marine Commission" who is taking over the Federation is now. If they want to upgrade the Imperial Fleet's invasion of the Federation into a Patriotic War that diverts the people's attention, it would be too easy."
"Yes, everyone is talking about things apart, it's much more comfortable." Phantom picked up the wine glass and drank it all, then slapped the cup heavily on the table and said.
"Well, the happy vacation is over." Ora's mechanical arm flew behind Bai Yu, always preparing for Bai Yu's situation where he turned against him if he had a disagreement.
Bai Yu took off the lady's goggles on his face and sighed: "I have found something wrong long ago. Come and save me. There is no need to dispatch Titan warships to be so exaggerated. If it is just to shock the Federal Navy, the Emma Royal Fleet suddenly invaded the Federation with a large-scale invasion of the Federation is enough. Not only did you swagger and let the Titan warship jump into the Federation, but you also annihilated the elite naval fleet of the Federal Navy, including a Fearless Class warship. What I have never understood is that when the Federal Territory is so sensitive, what is your strong military provocation? If you want to start a war in the Federal Territory and attack the Federation in an all-round way, you will have unexpected gains, rather than leaving with a message-like touch. Emma will not get any benefits."
Before Evelyn could reply, she knocked on the door. Pamela opened one of the doors and walked in with Marshal Balk in casual clothes. After he came in, he did not salute like the queen respectfully as before, but said casually: "Sorry, it was inconvenient for so many people to change to substitutes at the ceremony, and it was really inconvenient to evacuate secretly, so it was too late." After that, he sat on the left hand side of the queen, and then several men and women walked into the secret room through different doors.
"Before the meeting begins, I will explain to our prince first." Evelyn looked at Bai Yu: "I don't want to trigger a war between the empire and the federation. The reason why I took such a big risk was to show it to the empire. And everything was because of you, my sister, Prince of Emma."
Bai Yu was about to say something, and Evelyn waved her hand to stop her: "Please listen to me first. As I said just now, the spiritual dominance of Emma's religion in the empire has reached its peak. For spiritual redemption, the people donated a lot of property to the Emma Church, but attributed the reasons for their own poverty to the empire. We believe that this is the result of Emma's instigation of believers to secretly incite the people. As you said just now, the easiest way is to 'destroy' them."
"What does it have to do with me? Just dispatch the army to clean up directly." Bai Yu said lightly.
Marshal Balk continued: "It's this problem. First of all, there are a large number of Emma believers hidden in the army. They are loyal to imperial power and theocracy. This is not a serious problem before. After all, officers can effectively suppress soldiers in various ways. The religious beliefs are not strong enough to fight against imperial power. However, when we find that the Emma religion is no longer under control and want to start...the cleaning, the problem suddenly worsens. We find that some senior officers have been absorbed by the Emma religion as secret 'apostles'. They secretly control the army, develop downlines, monitor the movements of the army, and even incite grassroots soldiers to dissatisfaction with the empire..."
"So you have no troops to adjust. Once you use the army, you will be destroyed first." The Phantom unceremoniously poked through Marshal Balk's scars.
"Yes, but after a long period of hard work, we have fully grasped their list. Once the operation begins, we can quickly cleanse the internal army and then use the army to eliminate the core members of the Emma Cult." Barke said.
Bai Yu glanced at Marshal Balk in a strange way and said deliberately: "It's still the same question, what does it have to do with me? If you just want to consult the Prince of the Empire, I agree completely, but I think it doesn't seem that I need to make the decision here."
Evelyn said: "Of course it has something to do with you. There is a most critical issue involved here. Do you remember the 'Divine Oath'?"
Bai Yu thought for a while and complained: "Remember, but you don't seem to care too much. At least everyone here must know my identity."
After hearing this, Evelyn slowly spoke: "I am Queen Emma and I only care about my subjects. After all, you will not pose any threat to me. But Emma is different. During my coup, in order to ensure the stability of the country, I issued a "sacred oath" to the Pope of Emma. The content is that as long as I am Queen Emma, then Emma is the state religion of the Emma Empire. I will fully support Emma teachings. In other words, I cannot let the army eliminate Emma religion. If Emma religion discloses that "sacred oath" at that time, all the troops can use the reason for breach of trust and obey my orders again. Emma religion can overthrow me and control the entire empire more easily. This is why they dare to blatantly use tricks. Their purpose is to eliminate the emma empire, eliminate the imperial power and establish a country ruled by religion."
"You want me to destroy the Emma Cult? What a joke? You won't want me to assassinate the Pope of the Emma Cult, do you?" Bai Yu pointed at Luysha and Pamela and said, "Don't you have a better candidate?"
"Of course we won't assassinate the Pope. The success rate is too low. He has a lot of clones. Even if he really dies, according to the Emma Cult, a new Pope will be selected soon. Moreover, the chance of the matter being exposed is too high. Even if it has nothing to do with me, the Emma Cult will put it on me. Not only can we not assassinate him, but we have to protect him. The only solution is to completely eliminate the Emma Cult through the army and suppress the Emma Cultists at the same time." Evelyn said.
"Then do you want me to command the army? Which officer will listen to a prince whose enclosure ceremony is not over yet?" Bai Yu felt that these guys were becoming increasingly unreliable.
Balk smiled: "Of course not, the army will only obey Her Majesty's decree, unless..."
"Unless I die, you ascend the throne as Queen Emma." Evelyn said in a shocking voice.
The Phantom stood up and said, "After a long time of circle, I finally understood what's going on. How long has your plan been planned? After the federal coup? Or when you met Bai Yu, Evelyn!" After that, the Phantom slapped the table heavily.
Bai Yu seemed to have figured it out, but before he could fully figure it out, two dull gunshots suddenly broke out in the room. Lu Yisha deserves to be a sharpshooter, sucking the gun, opening safety, locking the target, and shooting two shots in a row, and in less than a second, the two simple laser pistols hidden in the robot's hand instantly turned into scrap iron.
"Ola, you'd better not move around. My reaction speed is much faster than you." Luysha pointed the gun at Ola's robotic arm and said lightly.
Bai Yu then reacted and looked at the Aola's mechanical arm behind him. The two little fingers were completely melted by the laser pistol. It was emitting thick smoke. Balk stood up, took out a small fire extinguisher from under the table, sprayed it several times to ensure that the fire source and smoke no longer appeared, and then said: "I have been transformed and fully sealed. In order to ensure that Aola, you will not destroy our plan. Not to mention the signal port, I dare not even leave the air vent. I moved the air circulation system here from the warship."
"Hmphia, if you dare to say a little more, I will destroy the entire Emma Empire." Ora said viciously.
Evelyn nodded indifferently: "Although it's a bit exaggerated, you can still do it by destroying all the connected electronic devices of the Emma Empire and allowing the Emma Empire to completely return to the farming era. However, Bai Yu, do you hope this?"
Bai Yu shook his head: "No, of course not, but I hope you can explain clearly what's going on."
Evelyn looked at Ora nervously, and when she saw Ora's mechanical arm hanging down, everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief.
"Put the gun away, Luyisha, I think Ora has heard Bai Yu's order." Evelyn waved her hand, Luyisha quickly closed the security and inserted the pistol back into the holster hidden under her clothes.
Evelyn looked at Bai Yu and said slowly: "This is a very long story. I try to be brief. As early as 4368, I was 19 years old that year and was just named Princess Sophia. By chance, I encountered... A federal girl, we soon became good sisters. She was 21 years old. I considered her sister. When we talked about Emma's slavery, we all found that this was the root of disaster hidden in the empire and might also become the root of the chaos in the universe. Therefore, we must be eradicated. We actively contacted and planned, and I came forward to persuade enlightened nobles of all classes. In 4386, some nobles and I jointly submitted the Emma Emperor at that time, requesting the empire to abolish slavery.
However, after being strongly opposed by Emperor Emma and the old nobles, we found that the biggest obstacle to abolishing slavery was not the common people who enjoyed slavery, but Emperor Emma and the old nobles. My sister persuaded me that I should give up the moderate political strategy, and use my royal bloodline to completely eliminate Emperor Emma and the old nobles, ascend to the throne as queen, and then justify the abolition of slavery. So I began to form a noble group that was loyal to myself, and my sister secretly pulled up a large number of slave resistance troops. However, at the beginning of 4394, due to the fact that things were exposed in advance, they were suppressed by Emma's troops that had been prepared for a long time, and the uprising failed. The main participants,
The Stacomani tribe, a whole tribe was killed to serve as a warning. In order to ensure my safety, my sister deliberately exposed her identity and fled back to the Federation. In 4413, the Federation felt that Emma's continuous slave civil unrest caused the combat power to decline, so she mobilized almost the main fleet of the country to destroy the Emma Empire. Later, she was blocked by the Imperial Titan battleship and retreated in a hurry. Unexpectedly, my sister became the fleet commander of the Federal Fleet in charge of the rear of the palace. She miraculously fought and retreated. She was also in the federal border with an absolute disadvantage in a beautiful blocking and annihilation battle. Emperor Emma's most proud 10th, 11th, and 14th third royal fleet
The entire army was wiped out and the number was permanently cancelled. I knew my chance was coming again. I contacted my sister who was still in the Federation. She once again led her to launch a larger slave uprising. The scale of this uprising was so large that it almost spread across Emma. We succeeded. She led the Mimatal fleet to destroy most of the living forces of Emperor Emma, and commanded the royal fleet I had in control, and quickly dismantled the armed rebellion of the old nobles. The next year, in 4415, I ascended the throne as Queen Emma. At that time, we formulated the "God-Destroying Plan" to eradicate the last unstable factor in the country, but before the plan was implemented, my sister left..."
"Does she go to protect the Gardari rebels from the federal pursuit?" Bai Yu asked suddenly, and the Phantom clenched his fists nervously after hearing this.
Evelyn nodded: "Yes, she is such a person. When the rebellion of Gardari was a foregone conclusion and the people of Gardari defected and were threatened by their lives, she begged me to give her a fleet to help them. How could I not agree? She succeeded again, successfully blocked the pursuit of the Federal Fleet, and successfully convinced most of the consortiums in Gardari and the defected local fleet commanders to reorganize the two fleets into an amazing number of armed forces, constantly raiding the federal logistics supply line, and raiding the vanguard of the Federal Fleet. When the Federation knew who the commander of this mixed fleet of Aiga was, it was defeated, and the federal government also announced that it was defeated. She was the God of War of the Federation. Who would have the courage to fight her? Hahaha."
Bai Yu finally knew who Evelyn’s sister was: “Helend, your sister is Helend, the savior.”
"Yes, that's what the Mimatal people call her. They shaped statues of her and worshiped her. The Mimatal people may not know what the concept of country is, nor may they understand the true meaning of freedom, but no one does not know who Helende is. Every action of her is an oracle worthy of deep speculation. Every word of her is a beacon that illuminates the future path of Mimatal." Evelyn sighed with tears in her eyes: "I have to admit that even as the noble Queen Emma, she is also an object of jealousy that I cannot reach, because all rights and wealth are not what she pursues. Her dream is to eliminate war and let all sentient beings in the universe live together peacefully, without war, famine, plague and death. How great is it
Big ideals, such an unrealistic dream. People often say that the broader the mind, the bigger the world is. I only have one country in my heart, but she accommodates the entire universe. What the Mimatars said is right, she is indeed the savior. But later she changed, and she absurdly believed that the four years of war were all caused by her, and countless lives were passed by her, and she was the root cause of the war in the entire universe. She began to give up on herself and spent every day in painful self-blame. In the end, she actually chose to give up everything and completely disappear from this world. Bai Yu, do you remember the first time we met, and I told you that I was looking for a friend? That was looking for her, because she was the most important part of the 'God Destruction Plan'."
"Oh my God, I understand. You will give the 'Holy Vow' to get the support of the Emma Cult. After you ascend the throne, you will use her prestige in the army to give way to her, and she will command the army to completely eradicate the Emma Cult!" Bai Yu finally figured it out.
"Yes, but I couldn't find her, but I met you. Your hair is really similar to her. Since then, I have slightly revised the plan. When the federal coup, I knew that fate favored me again, so I deliberately dispatched a huge fleet to rescue you, so that everyone in the country knows how important you are to me, lied that you are my sister, made up a lot of blood proofs for you, letting you become the prince, and then, I will pretend to die in an assassination of the old nobles, and you, my biological sister, the only inheritor of the royal bloodline, will take over me as the throne and become the new Queen Emma. You are not bound by the "Sacred Oath". With the help of Barke and others, it is easy to destroy the Emma Church." Evelyn told the whole plan and Bai Yu was shocked to express his words.
"Hmph, when 'your army' bloody suppression of the Emma civilians, you will become the public enemy of the empire, and this Queen of Hagia Sophia will be 'resurrect' again and completely trampled you under your feet." The Phantom walked behind Bai Yu and patted her shoulder heavily and said.
After a long time, Evelyn did not deny the Phantom's speculation. She just looked at Bai Yu. Suddenly she pursed her lips tightly, as if she had made up her mind, and spoke again and said quickly: "Yes, Bai Yu, this is a plan you made more than 200 years ago, my sister..."
Chapter completed!