Chapter 394 Opening
So far, they have successfully rescued Sadie's Finance Minister and fought off the sneak attack by the Black Box Society. Although the situation is unclear now, it seems to be going well for now.
Although only the Minister of Finance was left of the Saddi diplomatic mission, the most important witness of the Saddi side was left alive anyway.
When the prince calmed down and looked around, he realized how urgent the situation in Xiyiqi had become. Xiaozhen remembered the scene when she first arrived on this planet. At that time, the orange light of the star reflected the Xiyiqi-style hexagonal buildings, and the beautiful city scenery was like a fairy tale world in a dream. But now, the buildings on this street in front of him have all been razed to the ground, with rubble scattered all over the ground. Several smokes are rising from all over the city. Flames can be vaguely seen in the distance, and noisy gunshots and explosions can be heard from time to time, as well as people's uneasy screams.
Linaru's eyes widened in disbelief. Not long ago, he dressed up to attend a diplomatic event. This should have been an ordinary social feast that showed the elegant etiquette of the two races. But in the blink of an eye, everything that happened now seemed like a lifetime ago to him.
Shark Tooth's expression was even more indifferent. He looked around and said, "Tsk, Black Box has put in a lot of effort."
Xiao Zhen could feel the cries and roars coming from all directions, like a sudden tsunami and a violent noise, too many voices, too many people's fear, overlapping and almost shaking him. He tried to concentrate, and the strongest consciousness among them was the hatred between the Xiyiqi and the Saidi people, which was too sticky and too fierce, spreading like a germ that spread to everyone.
"Ungrateful Xiyiqi bug! Return the lives of our compatriots!"
With a chirping cry, a loud noise came from above their heads, and glittering fragments from the high buildings fell like a rainstorm.
"I saw someone on the news saying this was the revenge of the Sadis..." Linalu shouted in panic.
"Ignore the conflicting information caused by poor communication," the prince interrupted him. "The defense teams and anti-explosion police that should be dispatched should have been dispatched by now. They are suppressing the riot, but the Black Box will only further escalate the situation and create more chaos."
"Is this really what the Black Box Society did?" Linaru still had doubts in his mind. In his mind, the Black Box Society was like an unattainable urban legend .
"Look at that puppet. Its goal is to kill all members of the Saddi diplomatic corps," the prince said. "Are you trying to say that this was done by the Siyiqi?"
Linaru was speechless for a moment.
The Saddi Finance Minister said, "My compatriots just died tragically in front of my eyes. If I hadn't seen that monster with my own eyes, and if I hadn't been rescued by you, Prince, I would have directed my hatred towards the Xiyiqi people." She looked at the prince, "But the Saddi military on the track doesn't know, and the Xiyiqi people don't know either. Someone must tell them."
"Yes, that 's what we are going to do right now," replied the prince.
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The Prime Minister grinned at Prince Alsiel. In the eyes of the prince at this moment, he was a tall man with a noble face. He wore a metal optical instrument in his left eye, and his loose silver hair exuded a wise light. His handsome appearance was enough to shame many male stars on Earth. But if the adapter was removed, his true form was a strange insect with multiple sets of symmetrical limbs. The image of beautiful silver hair was simulated from his light silver ceramic shell. When he gracefully propped up his slender hands, he was actually just swinging his multiple sets of limbs.
"Your Highness Prince Alsiel, you are saying that all this is not a conspiracy of the Sadis."
"Exactly."
When the prince said this, a slight smell wave appeared on the long curved table.
There were nine people in power sitting around the long curved table. When they gathered together, they formed the highest authority under Queen Siyichi. They included the Prime Minister, the Supreme Minister of the Interior, the Chief Justice, the Attorney General, the Prime Minister of Military Affairs, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. Their words were final and they were in charge of Siyichi's life and death.
At the moment, the prince and the highest authorities of Xiyiqi are in the Eternal Palace, the central heart of the Xiyiqi insect swarm. Rather than calling it a palace, it is more appropriate to regard it as a fortress. Even though Xiyiqi has fallen into a quagmire of chaos, this fortress is still in order. With layers of incredible security procedures and complicated confidentiality procedures, the security here is beyond imagination.
The prince could remember the guards and small robots moving around when he entered the Eternal Palace . They protected the core of Xiyiqi in various ways. In the current emergency situation where the entire Xiyiqi network communication is invalid, the Eternal Palace can still communicate internally in a way that is not interfered with. The powerful energy shield here is enough to withstand any powerful missiles from orbit. The difficulty of destroying the Eternal Palace is almost equivalent to destroying the entire planet.
This means that Xiyiqi's highest authority can still operate smoothly, the only problem is the direction in which they operate.
The Admiral stood up. In contrast to the other attendees, who were dressed in gorgeous Siyiqi robes, she was wearing a military uniform with only a gold chain as decoration. Her humanoid simulation looked like a girl with white skin, black hair and light eyes, but the mature smell she exuded showed that her age was far beyond her appearance. "Your Highness? Are you serious?"
I am not serious what am I standing here for. "Our current enemy is not the Sadis."
"Your Highness!" The Admiral almost roared, raising her hand and pointing to the sky outside the window, "Look up! Do you hear the sound of artillery fire? The Sadis are firing at us! Every moment that passes now means innocent Siyiqi are dying! You actually said that the enemy is not that group of fathead fish?" At the end of her words, her breath was a little broken. She stared at the prince angrily, and then sat down heavily.
"Our people are dying." The Military Prime Minister stood up and said, "What Xiyiqi has to do now is to fight back against the shameless behavior of the Sadis. Now is not the time to talk about the Black Box Conference. Your Highness, the banquet hall you were in just now was hit by the Sadis' orbital bombardment. People all over the city have witnessed this. Do you know how many Xiyiqi people were killed by this disaster?"
Your anger is just playing into the hands of the Black Box Society. "In this regard, I have brought an important witness from that time." The prince took a step back and motioned for Sadie's finance minister to come forward.
When the muscular and rounded Sadie Finance Minister formally stood in front of the podium, the people in power at the scene all gave off a booing vibe. The Xiyiqi people hated the killer whale-shaped Sadie people, and they never concealed their gazes. Since the Sadie Finance Minister entered the Eternal Palace, there has been no shortage of such contemptuous and hostile gazes. Seeing that she actually had the nerve to speak on the stage, everyone now booed even more emotionally.
The Sadie Finance Minister's expression remained unchanged. She said in a loud voice, "It's not only the innocent Xiyichi who died. We suddenly lost our Minister of Trade at the banquet just now. The orbital bombardment was aimed at the Xiyichi as well as hundreds of our diplomatic representatives. Among them were officials committed to peaceful cooperation with Xiyichi, business representatives of companies that wanted to expand the trade of rejuvenation agents to save mutant patients, and many experts who came to aid Xiyichi. The bombardment just now also took their lives. Dear Xiyichi, do you think that we Sadiechi are deliberately killing our compatriots? Avoiding war, stopping attacks, and exercising restraint are what we should do now."
After this loud speech, there was some light discussion in the meeting hall, and the prince noticed that the originally fierce hostility had eased a little.
"So what are your troops in orbit doing?" the Navy Commander roared. "The last communication we received showed that the Saddi military in orbit took the lead in launching an artillery attack."
"Because the black box behind the scenes sent them the wrong information." Saidi Finance Minister said, "They mistakenly thought that the Xiyiqi people attacked our diplomatic delegation first. This may be their misunderstanding."
"Misunderstanding? The current situation shows that you have destroyed at least one of our airports. Now you are firing at our troops from orbit."
"The Queen's Siyiqi is inviolable!" the Military Prime Minister roared, "It is you who are provoking the war."
"It is the black box that is manipulating us to fight each other," said Sadie's finance minister. "If we continue to argue about who fired first, the war will only escalate further."
The Home Secretary suddenly spoke up. He was the most gorgeously decorated minister among the powerful people present. In the eyes of the prince, he was a blond and brown beauty, with sparkling and dazzling jewelry on his neck, arms, and head, but the most beautiful thing was his gloomy and cold face. He raised his eyes slightly, "You talk about the black box meeting, but there is no evidence so far."
The tone of the finance minister Saidi finally became a little unstable at this time, "My colleagues are all dead. If it wasn't the Black Box Society, could it be you Xiyiqi people who did it?"
This sentence was like a drop of hot oil, which drew angry boos from the crowd. The prince stepped forward and said, "I can testify that when we closed down the Common Happiness Society, we had already discovered that the Black Box Society was behind it. Director Da Xi can provide clear evidence of this, and Her Majesty the Queen is already aware of this. This is just a further extension of the Black Box Society's conspiracy. Every time we quarrel now, we are sliding into the quagmire of war, and we are dancing according to the Black Box Society's script. Seeing the real enemy is the first priority now."
When the attendees heard Her Majesty the Queen, they were finally moved. The Prime Minister asked, "Does Her Majesty also think there is a black box?"
"yes."
The Prime Minister pressed a button and asked, "Can I contact your Majesty now?"
"No. The communications outside are still in chaos, and we still can't contact Guido II."
The Prime Minister raised his head and said, "We cannot verify this with Her Majesty the Queen now, but the fact is that the Sadis are breaking the treaty and attacking us."
"I have another witness," said the prince.
Linaru walked to the podium and began his testimony in a rhythmic tone, "I witnessed the tragic killing of a large number of Sadie diplomatic delegations. I also witnessed an unknown puppet attacking this Sadie lady. At the same time, this puppet also tried to kill our first prince. I stopped it in time." When he mentioned that he saved the first prince, Alsiel, he emphasized it twice.
The corners of the prince's mouth twitched.
"I don't think this is a performance by the Sadis. As we all know, the Sadis diplomatic delegation includes many Sadis elites and pride. It is too unbelievable for them to kill their own people first and then use this excuse to attack us. If this Sadis lady had not survived, I am afraid the truth would have been buried in blood forever. Similarly, we Xiyiqi people would never do such a thing as killing our allies. So, I think there must be something else going on."
"Do you think this is something a black box would do?" the Prime Minister asked him.
Linaru hesitated for a moment, and then he answered honestly: "I don't know. I don't know whether the black box that Prince Alsiel mentioned is true or false, but at the moment I don't think it is the Sadis who are instigating trouble."
The participants discussed in low voices for a few more sentences, and the Attorney General stood up and asked, "Dear Saidi Finance Minister, if we Xiyiqi follow your idea and remain restrained, and only defend against the Saidi people without fighting back, then once the situation gets out of control, we Xiyiqi will fall into an irreversible crisis of genocide."
The Saddi Finance Minister immediately said: "I will do my best to contact the Saddi military in orbit and call on them to exercise restraint as well. As soon as communications can be restored, I will make a public broadcast asking all Saddi citizens to remain calm. I believe that by working together, we will be able to minimize the damage caused by the conflict and avoid this tragic war."
So far, everything that needs to be said has been said.
Then came the moment of decision.
The prince silently watched the participants take turns to express their positions on whether to go to war with the Saddi military. The military prime minister stood on the side of supporting the war, and the naval commander agreed to exercise restraint after a few seconds of silence. The prince used his seat to increase the weight of the restraint faction. When it was the prime minister's turn to express his attitude, everyone's eyes were on him.
The prince looked at the prime minister, and then he saw the emblem on the prime minister's clothes. The pattern was the emblem of the Heavy Feather Tribe, he thought. A subtle feeling surged in his heart. At this time, the prime minister spoke: "I agree with the prince's point of view. We should exercise restraint and urge a ceasefire."
So everything is set. Xi Yiqi will use his actions to stop the war with the highest authority as the center.
Suddenly the door was pushed open.
Chief Dal-hee staggers in, shouting in agony, “Our queen, our queen…”
"What's wrong?" the Prime Minister asked loudly.
"Our queen was killed, killed by the Sadis ..." The smell of her despair melted into uncontrollable sobs.
The world collapsed at that moment. The prince seemed to hear the malicious laughter of the Black Box. He remembered the gradually blurred sad face yesterday, "Wait for me to come back, Alsiel..."
The script of the Black Box Conference may just be beginning here, and everything is madly heading in an irreversible direction.
