At the same moment, another corner of Aslan Star City was in commotion.

The prime minister's mansion was brightly lit. Lauren's New Year's Eve banquet was always celebrated until dawn the next day. During the period, the entire courtyard was open, and the public could come and go as they pleased.

At this moment, crowds of people shouting and taking to the streets are flocking here one after another. Some of their faces are filled with anger, some with confusion, and some with hope... Obviously, they place their hope on the originalThe Prime Minister, who is kind and friendly to the people, longs for Lauren to be the master for them and show them the way.

Lauren wore a dark dress and stood on the high platform.

Dozens of guards guarded him with guns and shouted loudly, trying to calm everyone down.

"Your Excellency Lauren!" Someone yelled first.

"Your Excellency Lauren!!" More people were mobilized to shout.

Under the light, Lauren's eye sockets were reddish, and upon closer inspection, she could still find some moisture.His Excellency the Prime Minister walked up to the center of the high platform step by step with such a face full of tears, grief and indignation, and walked under the eyes of everyone.

He raised his hands and didn't say a word, but those commotions spontaneously quieted down like waves at ebb time.

"I already know things."

Lauren put her hand on her chest and lowered her brow deeply: "I have to admit, this is very regrettable and very sad news."

"I am fully aware of the pain in your hearts at this moment, but I... I dare not say that I can endure the same pain as you." He sighed on his back, "Because I have a rich life and a good status, if I say here, 'IAs miserable as a man whose expenditure is only five hundred points a month' is the most ridiculous hypocrisy in the world."

Lauren's voice echoed, the crowd looked up at him, and pairs of eyes of different colors reflected the same restless night.

A boy with a blue face squeezed to the front from the crowd, it was Kevin.

"—But at least, at this moment, I feel the same anger as you all."

Lauren raised her arms and shouted, her voice was passionate and her expression was mournful: "The inappropriateness of this matter does not lie in the denial of the bill itself, but in the results of blood and tears that you have fought so hard for, without open and transparent discussions, and without the emperor's approval.Your Majesty's vision just disappeared into the dark!"

After a hundred responses, the people below were ignited one after another, and several people raised their fists and waved towards the sky:

"right!"

"Yes, it's not fair!"

"This is oppressing us—!"

"But we shouldn't despair, everyone!" Lauren continued to shout, "Looking back at the history of the sixty-three years of glorious progress since the establishment of the new empire, I am more willing to believe that tonight is just a small turn astray. Since everyone knowsMistakes are made, and so are countries.”

"So, what are we going to do? Should we just give up and betray our motherland?"

"——No, giving up on yourself is never the solution to the problem. When mistakes happen, we should work together to correct them and get the empire back on the right track!"

People looked at each other and whispered.

"This……"

"yes."

"Your Excellency is sensible."

Gradually, more people nodded.At the same time, someone asked: "Then what should I do?"

Lauren waited until a short while after the noise subsided before speaking again.

This time he changed to a deeper voice, and pulled the audience's heart up: "Tomorrow is the New Year's Day, a festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. As everyone is familiar with, His Majesty the Emperor will go on a tour, traveling through the four districts of Aslan Star City."

"And I will take this opportunity to directly petition His Majesty the Emperor."

The audience was in an uproar, exclamations came from all directions, and the crowd began to roar like boiling water, with excitement accounting for 70%.

Lauren's eyes sparkled, and he continued in a loud voice: "Of course, I am alone. Fortunately, Bishop Margaret of Crystal Cult is kind-hearted. She will lead the congregation of the Splendid Cathedral to meet His Majesty with me..”

"At the same time, the church tonight will be completely open to the public. If you intend to go with me, then the brilliance of crystal particles will be with you!!—"

His high-pitched final note was completely drowned out by the echoing sound waves rolling up below.The crowd raised their hands and chanted the prime minister's name.

Kevin was pushed and shoved by the people around him, his clothes were wrinkled, the boy stumbled, and the light made him dizzy.

why……

It was too fast for him to react.

How did things become like this in the blink of an eye?

"Brother Kevin!"

Suddenly, Kevin heard someone calling him.He turned his head and saw some of his civilian friends in the military academy among the crowd.

The little fat man squeezed over and patted Kevin on the shoulder, filled with righteous indignation: "Kevin, we are all here. We have heard the cause and effect, let's go to petition together tomorrow!"

The girl with braids said in a low voice: "It would be great if Your Excellency the Prime Minister can become the emperor, then we will definitely... never be bullied again."

"Right, Brother Kevin...Brother Kevin?"

Kevin was absent-minded, and didn't come back to his senses until his partner called him twice.

"Huh? Hmm...um." The young man lowered his head in a daze.

He quietly clenched his hand, which was just held by His Excellency Lance.

He has just realized with his own eyes that Lord Lance, who was originally known as the leader of the aristocratic faction, is not a villain; he just felt that there may not be any "high walls" that are really difficult to overthrow in the world...

Kevin looked blankly at the boiling crowd. Just a few hours ago, the world was still running peacefully and stably. Why did it become like this in a blink of an eye?

Inside the Jinrilun Building, the elevators kept going up and down.The officers walked back and forth with heavy faces, and a subtle sense of uneasiness was wafting from the darkness.

The atmosphere was not what it was just a moment ago.

Although the leak of the imperial policy is indeed weird, but in such a short period of time, there will not be any big troubles.Those who were so excited that they took to the streets to smash up had only one or two violent tempers, and ordinary patrol police were enough to deal with it.

Until a large number of people flowed in the same direction in a planned way.

"Lieutenant General, it seems that more and more people are gathering in the direction of the Splendid Cathedral. His Majesty inspects Star City at dawn. According to the route of previous years, he would pass the gate of the cathedral. Look..."

A young officer wiped the cold sweat from his brow, and reported to Lieutenant General Luther at a loss.

"I heard that His Excellency Lauren called for them to gather. He said that he would petition His Majesty directly. This..."

Lieutenant General Luther's face darkened. He frowned for a while, then got up and said, "Oh! How could Your Excellency do such a foolish thing?"

Several senior military officers around had anxious faces.One of them couldn't bear his temper and said, "Lieutenant General, should we ask His Majesty to change the route during the inspection?" The one who made the sound was immediately poked by the side: "Fart! Please show your size! Do you want to talk to the emperor?"Did your majesty say that we were frightened by a group of ordinary people? Where did the crowd gather, and even your majesty had to avoid it?"

Lieutenant General Luther remained silent, turned his head and looked in another direction——

Jiang Jianming was dressed in a platinum military uniform. He had just rushed over, but he did not participate in the discussion. Instead, he sat alone in a quiet corner, gazing at the layout of Aslan Star City in deep thought.

The old general shook his head secretly, thinking that although this young master is smart and courageous, he is young after all.It is powerful to face the enemy, but in the face of this situation of internal fighting among the people of the family, I am afraid that I am at a loss.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Luther put away the idea of asking the other party's opinion, and he stood up: "Forget it, lead the way, I will go and see the situation myself."

The lieutenant general went out quickly, and the other surrounding officers also hurriedly dispersed.

Jiang Jianming was still sitting where he was, and when he looked closely, he could find the headset connected to the wrist phone hanging under the black hair.

There was no heavy emotion on his face, but he seemed to be waiting for something.

Until his wrist phone rang.

Jiang Jianming glanced at the displayed caller unexpectedly. This was not the person he was waiting for, but he still picked up the communication immediately.

"……ginger!"

Kevin's trembling voice came from the other end, he swallowed nervously, and lowered his voice: "Can you hear me, we are... we are... the Splendid Cathedral..."

The young man said tremblingly: "They said that at dawn, we should petition His Majesty the Emperor together, but..."

"I don't know, I don't know how it became like this, it's so wrong. First, a few people spoke violently, which drove more people to go crazy, and they became more and more out of control."

"Someone took... a knife, and he said... that if His Majesty refuses to make decisions for them, he will cut his own neck."

Jiang Jianming: "Calm down, Kevin, calm down."

Kevin choked up for a moment, and said helplessly, "I think...I want His Excellency Lauren to persuade everyone, but I can't find...I can't find him."

"Jiang!" The young man's voice turned into tears. No matter how stubborn he is usually, he is still just an ordinary child of fifteen or sixteen years old.

Kevin whispered tremblingly, "Where are you...will you come?"

"Yes. Listen to me, stop calling, and don't be conspicuous in your words and deeds."

Jiang Jianming glanced around and said in a deep voice, "I'll go there, wait for me."

After hanging up the communication, Jiang Jianming sighed softly.It was very late at night, and the light painted his lonely shadow on the white wall.

Jiang Jianming's eyes on the map of Star City became deeper invisibly.

By now, he was actually able to outline the enemy's plot in his mind.

At dawn, the emperor will pass by the church.At that time, if a large number of people rushed to the emperor's driving out of control, the guards would inevitably stop them, and conflicts would inevitably occur.

But this is only the first level of crisis, and the real point is not here.

The key to everything actually lies in the batch of stolen true crystal mines whose whereabouts are still unknown.

These appear to be two unrelated incidents.

But as long as the conflict between the military and civilians breaks out, and the enemy secretly releases the crystal particles inside the true crystal mine, tragedy will happen, and the sky of Aslan is destined to be stained with blood.

Because crystal disorder is contagious, the direct frequency of crystal particles is conductive.The chaos of one person may cause the chaos of ten people, and the chaos of ten people will cause the chaos of a hundred people.

And causing crystal chaos at a place where crowds gather is no less than a cruel indiscriminate massacre.

At that time, neither the people who petitioned nor the soldiers who tried to maintain order could not escape the fate of tragic death on the spot.

However... At this moment, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people are only superficial, at best they are a second-tier crisis.

"..."

Jiang Jianming sighed sadly.He felt cold, and stretched out his hand to tug at the military overcoat he was wearing, feeling a little scared at the same time.

Of course he will not forget that the problem of the theft of the real crystal mine was discovered only after he accidentally rescued Major Zheng Yue who was about to be assassinated.

What would this night have been like if we hadn't been able to track it down?

The chaos and the night will become fog, and no one will be able to immediately realize what happened at the moment when the tragedy of Crystal Chaos happened.

The fear of the unknown will overwhelm everything. When watching his companions bleeding and dying tragically, the human instinct will turn their eyes of horror and hatred to the group standing opposite them——

And then thought, oh god, they did it.

At that time, in the eyes of the military, this group of petitioners will be traitors who use unknown weapons to murder the emperor;

In the eyes of the petitioners, the high-level empire is a brutal regime that uses unknown weapons to massacre civilians.

Just how long does it take to divide a thriving country?

A few hours from one night to the next morning, is it enough?

"Beep"

The wrist phone rang again, and Jiang Jianming came back to his senses.

This time he picked it up without any surprise, and couldn't help laughing before saying anything: "Your Highness, are you okay?"

There was silence on the other side, and then came the sound of taking a deep breath, as if trying to restrain the emotions that were about to break the embankment.

"...something that pushes its limits."

As soon as the cold and annoyed voice came out, Jiang Jianming could easily imagine Garcia grinding his teeth with reddish eyes to bear the anger, so the smile on the corner of his lips deepened.

... He wasn't surprised that he could still laugh. He knew a long time ago that no matter how horrible the conspiracy, no matter how dark the struggle, it is impossible to cast a haze on his heart.

For his lost and found light is here.

...

At the same time, the outer space of Aslan Star City.

The starship that brought Jiang Jianming and Garcia to the empire, the starship belonging to the Black Shark Base is still hovering in the Yu Region outside the Star City.

Just 20 minutes ago, His Royal Highness piloted the mech Zhan Comet into the starship and asked to meet the leader of the Black Shark Base.

The core members of the Black Shark base who witnessed this scene were all amazed.

Everyone knows that His Highness Garcia doesn't like Black Shark Base, and he hates the leader so much that he can't avoid it.His Highness actually came to visit on his own initiative, which was simply a first-of-its-kind miracle.

On the bridge of the starship, two figures stood.

Garcia leaned against the porthole, and the built-in light screen of the starship and the starry sky illuminated that half of the stern and graceful eyebrows.

"...I want to warn you, Jiang Jianming."

His Royal Highness had thin tendons throbbing in his forehead, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I will help you with no bottom line... only this time, the last time."

After all, Garcia closed his eyes bitterly.

——Yes, at the moment when Jiang Jianming hugged him with a smile in the night and fire, he admitted that he was obsessed with ghosts, and felt that he could sacrifice his life for this person.

But Jiang Jianming said calmly: "Ah, really? Then please run for me and contact the leader of the Black Shark base."

When ..., the feeling of obsession came to an abrupt end.

The leader in the black robe and black mask stood beside her. She stood upright, and the synthesized electronic sound came out from under the mask in good time.

"Your Highness, I personally think it's better to give yourself some leeway when you speak."

——At this time, the emotionless electronic synthesis voice has a more mocking effect.

Garcia turned his head away in an evasive manner. He pressed his fingers against his temples and said bitterly, "Shut up."

The leader said: "Your Highness, it seems that the time spent with this person has made you a lot more docile and lovely. This is a good thing."

Garcia: "..."

"Okay, then."

The leader took a step forward. The high-tech mask was obviously not obstructing the user's field of vision. She came to the communication projection.

"I have a rough idea of the situation. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. I haven't seen Your Majesty for many years, and I want to spend a good holiday with His Majesty to catch up..."

The leader said slowly: "If you need to use the power of the base to clear the civil strife and rebels, please do not hesitate to order."

Author has something to say: Garcia: Last time...wait, why are you all laughing?