The assistant was obviously stunned when he heard the order.

After cutting off the communication with Riley, Rhode turned his attention back to his assistant: "What's wrong? Did I not express it clearly enough?"

"no."

The assistant replied subconsciously, but hesitantly and hesitantly: "But... but if you directly push everything to those pirates like this, if they didn't do it, wouldn't it just anger them?"

It is not everyone who is well aware that Lucas is leading the war now.

But in case a big hat is directly slapped on his head, no one can guarantee that Lucas will do anything else.

I'm afraid I won't be able to eat and walk around.

And, most importantly...

"I'm just exposing the facts, sooner or later."

The assistant boldly asked the doubts in his heart: "Senator...Fernando...what's going on?"

As one of Rhodes' personal assistants, he was responsible for a lot of private matters, and there were countless political secrets, but he had never heard of Fernando's Zerg.

Could it be that this message was handled by another personal assistant before?

- You must know that for confidentiality and to prevent them from being poached or betrayed by other forces, the standard for senator's personal assistants is basically three upwards, and there are only a few more hawkish leaders like Rhodes. Aside from their allegiance, every aide knows that intelligence is an incomplete part.

But that's not right... Since it's not his responsibility, it shouldn't be handled by him. But it doesn't sound like a piece of news that just came out.

Even if the shadow of the Zerg participating in the war can be seen on the battlefield, the mainstream speculation given by the current staff is that the Zerg and the interstellar pirates are allied, and there is no further friendship. but-

How did the senator know that Fernando and the Star Pirates had a deeper secret?

And make sure that the secret can divert public attention—or even divert all criticism of the Federation to the interstellar pirates?

Rhode shook his head and chuckled, without answering his question.

He was obviously not much older than his assistant, but on his young face there was an old saying of a politician who had been fighting for a long time: "Go, it's okay. Besides, even if something happens, we still have Senator Joe."

In case Lucas reacts too aggressively or otherwise, Joshua, who has been in contact with him, will definitely try to stop him.

He doesn't like that the war has destroyed several of his important logistics and transportation routes, and he will definitely try his best to stabilize Lucas's emotions.

Taking a step back, if it was said that before the Sanxingdui accident, Rhodes would consider ceding some benefits to temporarily stabilize the situation; but if such a thing happened to Sanxingdui, wouldn’t it be an opportunity?

- Dawn's successful escape shows that such an operation is absolutely feasible. As long as the method data remains in Sanxingdui, hundreds of "Dawns" will be replicated over time.

Rhode suppressed the excitement in his heart and his face was calm as usual.

Humph.

war.

War is never the end.

War is but a means.

***

On the evening of March 26, 2874 in the Federation, a large-scale social human experiment scandal was exposed, which quickly fermented among the Star Network and various media, and was dubbed the "Digital Planet" incident by the public.

That night, with the Southwest Star Region as the key area, protest tours of inappropriate scale broke out in every Star Region of the universe. Demonstrations, and even some excited parents once blocked the air track to the university city galaxy, in order to ask the Ministry of Education to come forward to give an explanation.

Almy Star had to send a part of the garrison to maintain order, and in this case, in the early morning of the next day on the 27th, the Freedom Alliance launched the sixth frontal assault in the Northeast Star Region.

And this time, the federal military strength was partially swept away. Involvement, lack of time to pay attention, lost opportunities, leading to the rapid expansion of the scope of the war.

The Northeast Star Territory is about to fall for more than half, and now it is the 28th of the third day of the news fermentation.

Federation March 28, 2874, at 10:08:24 AM, an article titled "The Disappearing Fernando" was posted on StarNet.

It's an unobtrusive title, but it's been tagged #digitalplanet by the publisher.

In the first three minutes of its release, no one clicked on it, until after three minutes and five seconds, the number of clicks exceeded the zero seal mark.

Then, in just a few hours, "Fernando Disappeared" received hundreds of billions of retweets and quickly swept all social networks.

Clicking in and taking a look, it is not a lively and lively soft article, but an analysis post with pictures and texts. There is only one core question: where is the only Zerg queen who has become popular now?

The article starts from the analysis of the last time and place of the queen's appearance. It is found that although the Zerg also had a strange whereabouts, from time to time they would cause some troubles at the border due to their attempts to expand to show their sense of existence, but starting from a certain node, the Zerg seems to be Suddenly the world evaporated, dormant in the meteorite turbulence, without any movement.

After a long time, the Zerg appeared in the military force of the interstellar pirates and officially declared war on the federal government.

But even so, the Zerg Queen Fernando has never appeared in public to speak, and even did not speak out when the insect tide suffered a large number of massacres.

Whether it is from the consistent behavior logic or behavior of the Zerg, it is quite abnormal.

After the question was raised, about an hour later, another self-media that was somewhat well-known on Xingwang suddenly released an "anonymous contribution" recording, and gave it a rather literary name: "The White Shark Hidden in the Deep Sea" ".

White Shark is Lucas' pirate name.

It's a short paragraph, only a few minutes, but the dialogue inside is clear:

"...And we have also provided a new source of food for the nobles. Compared with the singleness of the mushroom robe, meat must be more delicious."

I don't know whose voice it is, but it sounds familiar.

"But that's not my child anymore!...I lost contact with them!" Everyone could hear Fernando's voice at once, with a unique sense of emptiness, the Zerg simulating human speech.

"No no no... they didn't die, they just... evolved."

Someone started to match this timbre in the public sound library on StarNet, but found that there was no such person.

"This is—stop it! I agree to borrow troops!"

"Mr. Luo doesn't want to have a strong princess."

Zilla—

The call came to an abrupt end here.

It doesn't matter who the person talking to the queen is, because as soon as the word "borrowing soldiers" came out, everyone knew that he must belong to the interstellar pirates.

The important thing is not the person, but the dialogue inside.

"His Royal Highness?" Someone quickly left a message, "The Queen is dead?"

"Fuck such a big conspiracy?"

"So now it is the interstellar pirates who have changed the Zerg dynasty. Is the pirate dictatorship?"

"It's been 4782 years in the Federation, and I can still see such an ancient court's **** plan!"

"Are you here to be funny? Is there anyone who is as curious as I am about what made the Queen lose control of the Zerg?"

"No, what I'm curious about is how this was recorded secretly. It's too exciting, isn't it?"

However, this question was soon covered by other priorities that more people were concerned about, and not even a wave was made.

"Friends in front of you, you are not alone! I'm also curious! What does evolution mean! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh why only a little secretly recorded?"

When the war started, the Federation blocked the signal tower in the war zone, and what happened inside could only be heard from the mouths of those who had been exiled from the war zone.

Even the videos and pictures brought out by human flesh cannot be displayed because the shooting time and location are located in the war zone.

Therefore, other people's understanding of the war is limited to official and pirate reports - the news from these two channels is often the opposite, summed up as nonsense, but they have to listen.

"Wait, wouldn't the Zerg be a mess without the Queen's control? Maybe the Queen is not dead? Don't open your minds so big!"

"Didn't you say you controlled the princess?"

"The princess will also have the natural inheritance of the Zerg. How can she obediently give up her power to be used by others? Is there any common sense of the universe in the front!"

Two things that can be said to be unrelated and closely related are about to overwhelm the public opinion provoked by the digital planet. Some people began to be unable to hold back and urged everyone not to be led astray - after all, what about the Zerg is also a Zerg thing, no more It can even be said that there is one less confidant in human beings, but human experiments can be said to be closely related to the interests of everyone, and in comparison, more people will pay attention.

However, five hours later, the account that published "Gone Fernando" published a second article with passion: "Invisible Hands".

It begins with a confession:

"...I originally just had a brain hole, but I didn't expect...you, no one, connect the control of the Zerg with human experiments?"

Then started the crazy brain-opening mode: starting from the analysis of the 13 planets that exploded, brainstorming to find out what they may have in common, a list of keywords, and found that "control" and "assimilation" cannot be avoided by going around. ", "spirit network", "consistency" and such words.

It was even suggested that in this audio, the queen obviously paused before borrowing soldiers, and she should have recognized something.

Loss of contact and transfer of control can be somewhat synonymous.

Coupled with the battle report of the large-scale attack of the interstellar pirates in the Northeast Star Region yesterday - and this, whether it is the Federation or the pirates' reports, is the same, so it is worth believing.

The article chained together the front and back logic and made a bold hypothesis: it's all! It's all a pirate conspiracy!

How could a federation, which has been democratic and equal since its inception, carry out such a long social experiment? ! Even if you say there is something wrong with the current government, how can you deny the founding fathers who sacrificed for justice and human rights in the early days of the federation? !

What's more, the audio also proves that the pirates now have the ability to control the Zerg - since they can control the Zerg, why can't we doubt how their "control" technology came from?

Maybe it's a little bit of summary from these human trials! Those leaked materials are not marked with the federal logo, saying that anyone can be established, why is it recognized as a federal because of its large scale?

As soon as such an argument is put forward, it is obviously more effective than the previous news broadcast on the evening news.

The most important thing is that in the war of words, many public accounts who used to criticize the government for making money have jumped out to express their opinions. Of course there are people who don’t believe it, but in general, the majority of people believe in the government.

As the saying goes, it's scary.

That's what public opinion is, it doesn't matter what the truth is, what matters is how many people believe it.

— at least on the surface, it seems.

What's more, most of the people who can connect to the Star Network are ordinary citizens.

Ordinary meaning means neither rich nor homeless; neither access to high-end places nor roaming the black market of Xingwang.

Many people are very ordinary, and ordinary means that this is the mainstream.

The disappearing Fernando, the white shark hiding in the deep sea, and the invisible hands.

Three pieces of "evidence" turned things around in one day.

"Senator, there are still some noises in the Southwest Star Region expressing doubts, we..."

"Increased publicity."

In the study, Rhodes heard the latest report, squatted down, and picked up the four knives standing still beside his legs.

The decorative candles on the side were swayed slightly by the subtle airflow.

"Don't care about the others?"

Rhode raised the four knives to the top of his head, Fat Orange felt a little uncomfortable, stretched out his minions that had not been trimmed for a long time, stared at Rhodes and screamed in dissatisfaction.

Slightly heavy breathing made the candlelight beside it go out suddenly.

"Let them go." Rhode cut off the communication.

Discordant sounds are like candle flames, as long as all the oxygen is sucked out, they will go out on their own and suffocate to death.

You don't even have to stretch your paws.

Rhode took the four knives in his arms and sucked hard, sighed leisurely, and said to himself: "The rabble."

But guiding the rabble is also a very time-consuming and labor-intensive thing.

Four knives showed their claws and faltered in front of Rhodes - fortunately, he avoided fast, slow down, and there were three more cat claw marks on the bridge of his nose!

The auto-sensing candle holder senses that the candle is extinguished, stretches out its decorative mechanical arm, ignites a little fire, and ignites the extinguished wick.

"When will you be domesticated?"

He stared into Si Dao's eyes, his expression dimmed by the flickering candlelight.

The author has something to say: Thank you An Huan mine x1 (my input method remembers you 23333)

Synopsis: The full dialogue is in Chapter 72.