Chi Chu felt that he must be crazy to agree to such an endless gamble.

But Dawn seems to have a peculiar persuasive ability, which makes her feel that "it is a good choice to work under her even if she loses".

"…"

Chi Chu and Dongyang took a step back and shook their heads because of this idea that came up at the same time.

This idea is dangerous!

Gotta stop!

Can't think about it any longer!

What if he really surrendered to this little devil who was eating french fries and drinking Coke in front of him for no reason?

The emotion of resistance was so strong that Dongyang completely forgot her curiosity about the "wedge" in Dawn's mouth.

The first time I heard that something that can be planted in the spiritual sea doesn't sound like a good thing.

The meeting in Dawn's mouth came quickly.

The next day, Dawn got up early and put on the specially customized uniform of the Liberty Alliance.

The navy blue background with silver-white stripes is obviously the uniform color of the Interstellar Alliance, but wearing it on her seems to be tailor-made for her.

The navy blue background and the bottom of the eyes are connected together, with the depth of the sea, while the silver-white tone is close to the hair color, like stars dotted in the deep sea.

"I suggest you go to the arsenal to find a suitable set of mechas."

Before leaving with Lucas, Dawn told Dongyang like this.

"Why?" Dongyang didn't know why.

"If you want, you can let Jessica try to contact the friends in the interstellar worm and let Hoeven get acquainted with the equipment in the maintenance room."

Liming did not answer directly: "Trust me, after a while, everyone will become busy."

The fourth private unofficial meeting of the federal government and the Liberty Alliance was held somewhere in the asteroid belt between the capital star and the outer world.

It's not too far away, and it's relatively fair to both parties.

In the first three conversations, neither side gave an inch.

Joshua wanted Lucas to temporarily withdraw his troops, or even to part of the war zone, so that he would have the leverage to talk to the neutral parties in the House of Representatives, and find a way to find a way to cooperate to satisfy both parties.

However, Lucas only agreed to shrink the area beyond the reach of the whip. In this way, he could not only recover the limited force to stabilize the base camp, but also maintain the threat of the alliance.

He still believes that force is only a means of coercing policy.

Unless the federal government amends the bill to give tangible benefits to the non-human population and directly expand the seats of the non-human population, he will not withdraw troops in the Northeast Star Region.

"I said it all! To get those guys to relax, you have to give them a taste first!"

As soon as Joshua entered the door, he glared at Lucas, and didn't even sit down. That's what he said.

It's not so much a "meeting" as it is a "two-person quarrel club".

Just the surrounding walls do not know how much quarrel nonsense has been heard.

Lucas didn't know how many times he repeated his answer: "Remove the troops in the central star field, this is my bottom line."

"Fuck you! Just withdraw that number of troops! Your troops in the north are so fast that they are turned into a pot, and who are you fooling? At least you have to withdraw a gap, otherwise there is no talk!"

"...It's okay to leave a gap for you, but you have to give me a guarantee - the business road in the southeast, you open the southeast business road, reduce taxes for non-human races, and release them. If necessary, I can also provide some people for the garrison. ."

"You have a good abacus... Just wait until the trouble is over, steal the business road and build a wall in the east, right? Don't think I don't know your careful thoughts."

"…"

The two sat down for a round, the same round as the three previous negotiations—to no avail.

If there is any progress in the first three negotiations, the only progress is that the two sides have more and more differences on some more specific details.

very noisy.

Dawn yawned lazily.

The yawn succeeded in getting Joshua's attention.

Although both Joshua and Lucas are rightists who advocate peaceful cooperation, they unfortunately both look like five big three rough.

Joshua was born burly, and his appearance once made people think that he was from the military, and few people could associate him with wealthy businessmen. Lucas is naturally a little worse on the skeleton, but the scar on his face has given him a lot of points, and he doesn't look like a good stubble.

And Dawn, a Self-neutral person who is strictly a minor under the laws of any independent planet, seems too dazzling to be among such two burly adult men.

Joshua looked at Dawn, his exposed voice stuck in his throat: "I said... what do you think?"

"Such a negotiation even brought a child?"

It seems he doesn't know.

I don't know her identity or her past in Sanxingdui.

In other words, Joshua has nothing to do with Babel.

He is an outsider.

Liming lowered his eyes, his guess was confirmed again, he raised his head and smiled at Joshua: "I came here by pestering Uncle Tang, don't mind Mr. Qiao too much."

"Do you think this is a family drink for children?!" Joshua's beard was about to curl up.

Lucas stood up and smoothed the field: "Don't be so big... Anyway, she has no influence on us. I can guarantee that her mouth is stricter than yours."

"Humph!"

Joshua suspects that this kid is either Lucas' illegitimate son or a prostitute brought by Lucas at a high price.

After all, Mrs. Searle's beauty is well-known in the universe. There are also many high-ranking officials in the Federation who spend a lot of money just to have fun, and there are many of them who stay by their side all the time to show their affection.

There is only a fine line between licentiousness and observance of etiquette.

Joshua feels that he may need to re-evaluate whether Lucas is worth working with?

On second thought, I felt that the negotiation may have been delayed, so Lucas wanted to create this special image in front of him to achieve a certain purpose.

Joshua didn't understand for a while, so he didn't bother to bother too much, and waved his hand: "Forget it, I don't care what you want. Since you say it's credible...then you'd better care. Good to you people."

"Don't worry, no one here can be more..."

Halfway through his words, Lucas suddenly felt the ground shake violently.

bang.

Huge explosions sounded from all directions.

The heat and dust were twisted into a gray rope, twisting wildly, squeezing the retina and eardrum frantically from the outside in. The scorching stones hit the ankles and all other exposed skin, making Dawn feel like he was being peeled off.

Attack!

This was Joshua's first reaction.

Dawn grabbed the hem of Lucas' clothes a second before the explosion, and the two of them ducked to the corner of the table. dodged the attack.

Isabella, who was hiding in Dawn's pocket, suddenly raised her head and neighed, and countless workers who had been lurking for a long time quickly rushed to the vicinity.

"There was an ambush of about two squads."

Isabella said to Dawn.

"It is divided into inside and outside, the outside has been solved by the children, and the remaining team I dare not let them get too close, otherwise they will touch the pheromones on you and go crazy."

Dawn: "That's enough."

She rolled over, the shield shattered to help her resist the attack, dust and clods shook through the transparent membrane onto her back, and now fell to the ground following the act of getting up.

"Lucas! The man you said about your—"

"Don't be in a hurry now, what if someone leaks the secret?"

Lucas cut off his questioning, he drew his gun from his holster, clasped it between his hands, and used the table as a shield: "Who else knows about this besides you?"

Not to be outdone, Joshua took out his side weapon and held it in his hand: "No one!"

"Where's Rhodes?"

Dawn suddenly asked, "Does Rhode really not know?"

Her voice was soft, without much power, even so unreal in the vacuum created by such a blast.

Joshua thought he had auditory hallucinations, but the voice in his heart told him that he heard Rhode's name.

The two giants meet in an attempt to end the war.

But does the other giant in the main battle really not know?

Joshua fell silent.

The dust finally dissipated, and they could vaguely see the soldiers swooping in with guns.

Wearing the clothes of the Southeast New Army.

"Senator Joe! Are you all right!"

The leader of the team was still covered in blood, and it seemed from his clothes that he had just gone through a fierce battle.

"...Are you from... Rhodes?"

Joshua instinctively sensed something was wrong.

He hesitated, not knowing whether to move forward to the "safe zone".

"Senator Luo monitored the expansion march route of the Liberty Alliance this morning, but I just arrived at your mansion and found that your forefoot had left on a private starship... It happened to be the expansion route of the Liberty Alliance. Senator Luo was worried about your safety, so he dispatched We secretly protected you, and we detected that the interstellar pirates had located you and launched an assassination operation as soon as we arrived, and it was too late to assassinate one by one, so we had to take extreme measures..."

The answer seemed to be rehearsed countless times, with little pause.

The captain said, and the conversation changed: "Are you alright!?"

Joshua said he was almost scared to death by you guys.

And Rhodes...

Why not go back and have a follow-up battle with him.

The team members aimed their guns at Lucas and Dawn beside him. Because both of them turned their backs to the soldiers, the soldiers did not see their faces clearly, and the crisp sound of bullets sounded: "You are being captured by pirates. Hijacked? Is this your companion or—?"

Joshua stood up for a while, keenly aware that something was wrong.

He had so many dealings with Lucas.

Long before four meetings, he had many contacts with Lucas. He would not even do such a thing. Killing him, the dove leader, would not do any good for Lucas's demands.

And even if Lucas had murderous intentions, he wouldn't have used such a stupid method.

But Lucas brought this child again today, and his behavior was indeed different from usual.

At first he thought that the child was a prostitute or something, but the "Rod" that Mrs. Sayre asked just now was inexplicably matched with the current situation.

Joshua would never believe it was a coincidence.

"If you don't want to die, just listen to me-"

The voice of dawn resounded in Lucas' mind.

"Don't look at me, don't be suspicious, convince them that we are friends."

This voice was as low as sea water. Although it was still the tone of a child, it was not known whether it was a spiritual transmission or not. There was an indescribable emptiness.

Deep, empty, and grim.

As if she knew everything.

Convincing.

Dawn's mental power recovered very slowly. It was a laborious task to assimilate an adult, not to mention Joshua's mental threshold was quite high.

Information sharing cannot be achieved, and we can only settle for the next best thing.

Joshua knew, no matter how confused, that he was now in a dilemma.

Lucas is unlikely to hurt him, but Lucas is his enemy.

The new army is from Rhodes, and it stands to reason that it is impossible to harm the people of the Federation, but this strange Mrs. Sear obviously doesn't think so.

...are the star pirates under siege real?

The doubt crossed Joshua's mind.

"Senator? Are you all right?"

The captain's voice brought Joshua back to reality.

"Ah...it's fine."

He came back to his senses, "These people are my friends, put down your guns."

The soldiers were unmoved.

It still doesn't seem to work.

Dawn sighed and said to Isabella, "Let them in, the carnage won't take much anymore."

"Put the gun down." Joshua realized that something was wrong, and his voice sank, "Didn't you hear it!"

"Senator, sorry."

The captain moved his gun to Joshua: "Our order is to **** you to your destination safely, and then let you rest in peace here."

The air froze instantly.

"Hey, seriously, give me the business way." Lucas didn't look at him, as if he had asked for a trivial candy from his companion, he said easily.

Time is infinitely stretched at this moment.

Thousands of bullets fired.

The author has something to say: Thank you for the tiger's mouth escape mine x1