"Did you know, Dad? What I have hated most since I was a kid is your face, as if the whole world has betrayed the Imperium and you are the only one who is fighting for the Imperium. I've … had enough of it!"
Lei Honghai changed the way he addressed his father from 'father' to 'father'. The mockery on his face and the rebellious smile on his face grew even more intense. "What a pity. No matter how righteous you are and how nice your words sound, you can't do anything right now.
"The Imperium is doing very well. It does not need you to save it at all. Besides, you can't even save yourself right now!
"Let me tell you what's going to happen next.
"It doesn't matter even if you insist on not making a public declaration. The special investigation committee can make the declaration for you. As for the soul signature, I am your son after all, and your blood flows in my veins. Our soul signatures are very similar. After some adjustments, I can issue orders in place of you with my soul signature.
"Of course, it may be seen through, but so what? The Council of Elders is already ready to attack the Thunder Fleet. Now that you are determined to do it the hard way, and your wretched subordinates are as smelly and stubborn as rocks in the toilet, we can only settle everything once and for all in a thunderous way!
"Don't blame me for being ruthless to my uncles. The Council of Elders has given them a chance, and they have given you a chance. I have no grudge against them. I only want to protect myself and so many people in the Lei family. Do you have any idea how much of a headache it is for so many people in the Lei family to meet a leader who threatens to 'destroy the family'?
"As for your personal safety … Don't worry. Although you, as a father, are inhumane and heartless to your son, and can only watch as your son dies without doing anything, I, as your son, will definitely not be as cold as you. I will still be filial to you.
"You will not die. It is also one of the terms that I negotiated with the special investigation committee. After I deal with the problem of the Thunder Fleet and the situation is stabilized, I will send you to a manor that is much larger than this one. You can live a peaceful life there while you watch how I govern the Thunder Fleet in a completely different way and expand the entire Lei family!
"This is what will happen next. Keep your eyes open and watch, Dad. I will prove to you that the beliefs that you have always believed in are all wrong. You are not as correct and important as you think. Without you, the Imperium will still function at a high speed, and the Lei family will rise a hundred times faster. Do you hear me?"
Lei Chenghu looked at his eldest son as if he were a skeleton in a grave.
Faced with his son's voice that was more and more excited and shrill, he was still unmoved. He listened in silence until his son was done. After a while, he finally said casually, "Got it. So, you've made up your mind to betray me in order to seize the command of the Astounding Thunder Fleet?"
"Betray …"
Although his father was a tiger that had been caged without teeth and claws, Lei Honghai still felt his heart palpitate when he heard the word "betray". Holding back the twitching of his eyes and lips, he said, "I never want to betray you, Father, but many people in the Lei family and even the Thunder Fleet want to live on. None of us want to be buried for a groundless, hilarious reason!"
"On the battlefield, the more cowardly a person is, the faster they will die. Only those who are willing to fight their way out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood will be able to fight their way out of the sea of blood and mountains of corpses. It's such a simple logic, yet none of you understand it after fighting with me for so many years?"
Lei Chenghu shook his head slowly, with confusion all over his face, as if he were wondering how he could have given birth to such an idiotic son. He stared at his eldest son deeply, as if he would never see him again in the next second. The voice that he spat out of his sharp lips was even more chilly than the wind that was mixed with ice on the ground. "Let me tell you what will happen next, silly boy.
"It's true that your plan might have worked out at the beginning. With your cooperation, the Council of Elders could've eliminated all the forces in the Thunder Fleet who were loyal to me more than easily. They could've even faked my orders with your soul marks and sent out the voice of 'Marquis Liaohai' to the entire frontline. That was your only value.
"Before your value was exploited, they might've appointed you as the commander of the Thunder Fleet, but the good times didn't last long. Before long, you would've found that the Thunder Fleet had been infiltrated and deformed, and you were nothing more than a puppet on the table.
"Without the consent of the elders, you wouldn't even be able to command a single boat.
"Don't think that you can play both sides among the four Kurfürsten. It's useless. The gap between your levels is too huge. You are no match for them at all.
"However, it's possible that you won't have such troubles, either.
"Because before that, the expedition army would've been disbanded and reorganized. The army groups that had been gathered together and kept highly alert and the highest combat ability would've all returned to their original organization and been dispersed to different places. In order to compete for the ownership and development rights of dozens of Sectors, they would've even fought each other and had serious internal conflicts.
"At that time, the main-force fleets of the Alliance of the Holy Covenant would've marched out of unexpected places and crushed the fleet of the Imperium that had been disorganized. The entire Imperium would've been caught in panic and chaos.
"By then, the four Kurfürst families who were dumbfounded and at a loss would've remembered me again and asked me to command the remaining defeated soldiers to resist the army of the Holy Covenant, just like the battle line of the Black Wind Fleet collapsed a hundred years ago.
"There's one thing that you're wrong about, son.
"I'm indeed the pillar of the Imperium. Perhaps I'm the only one who can save the Imperium. Without me, the Imperium cannot function normally and may even completely collapse.
"It's also the reason why the Council of Elders did not dare to kill me, not because of the 'terms' that you proposed.
"I don't blame you for choosing to betray me today, but I do feel that it's a shame. I thought that you would at least be smarter than your subordinate. After learning the lesson of using starships for personal gains last time, you wouldn't overestimate your wisdom and abilities and do stupid things such as' lunging at Jin Dan recklessly and getting mentally deranged '.
"I didn't know that you were even more stupid than him. Ten thousand times more stupid.
"Remember my words, son. You can betray me today, but you will regret it one day. I hope that when the day comes, you can hold your chest high and face the consequences of your betrayal like a man. Die for the Imperium valiantly!"
Lei Honghai's lips trembled for a long time.
He was about to argue, but after thinking for a long time, he held it back. He simply sneered and bowed deeply at Lei Chenghu. "Take a good rest, father. Everything will be over in a few days."
"Maybe."
Lei Chenghu's eyes passed through his son and the wall to somewhere else. "Maybe, everything … is over."
…
The dazzling halo triggered by the anti-gravity rune arrays of the carrier "New Birth 2" gradually disappeared into the ice fog. Very soon, even the outline of the starship was gone with the wind.
As the nine gates that were more than ten meters thick were slowly closed, the biting coldness in the snowy world was blocked on the outside and could not penetrate in at all.
The Godly Might Prison became an airtight, impenetrable, and impenetrable environment again.
The five hundred frozen prisoners, guarded by a thousand jailors and even more spiritual puppets, were going through the first test to verify their identity.
While controlling his every muscle and every cell precisely, Li Yao continued to pretend that he was a living dead in deep hibernation, while he steered Neltharion carefully into the stealth mode and patrolled around the underground spaceport.
Neltharion scanned the low-altitude assault warships that were docked in the spaceport to avoid the snowy weather.
It also saw thousands of spiritual puppets and the highly-alert jailors who were armed to the teeth.
It was needless to mention the surveillance cameras that filled the entire spaceport and every pathway, which would make anyone suffer from trypophobia after they saw them, as well as the crisscrossing firing points and the secret fortresses deeply embedded into the rocks.
The more one looked at it, the more sorrowful they were.
Thankfully, he had the help of spies, or Li Yao would never have snuck into such a wretched place.
A few jailors led a team of spiritual puppets to Li Yao and opened the hibernation cabin that he was in.
Li Yao hurried to move the blood gel that Li Linghai had prepared earlier to the place where the enemy was going to collect it.
Perhaps some of the jailors who were responsible for the identity test of the prisoners were from the reformists, too. He did not run into any trouble in the test. After only the blood and the skin samples were tested, the test magical equipment in the enemy's hands emitted gentle green brilliance.
The jailors put on a new identity bracelet for Li Yao and waved their hands to let him go, indicating that the "Godly Might Prison" had accepted the prisoner and would begin the next "unfreezing" procedure.
The first test has been successfully passed!
Li Yao was more or less relieved in his heart. In the next moment, I will have to kill a jailor and replace him with my tough personal abilities. Then, I will make full use of my agile and unpredictable body movements to dodge the sentry posts, surveillance cameras, and rays before I sneak into General Lei Chenghu's side without alarming anyone. What a super difficult challenge. However, I vaguely have a feeling that I seem to be quite lucky today, and I will certainly accomplish the task without any mishaps!
There's still more than half an hour before Li Linghai and the rest of them launch their attack. As long as I can survive the half hour peacefully, I will be 99% successful!
The mental devil: "Well …"
Hardly had the thought spread out in Li Yao's brain when he sensed the most intense quakes below his feet, which were vaguely mixed with deafening explosions.
Earsplitting hums echoed everywhere. The entire Godly Might Prison was immediately enshrouded in redness. All the jailors, battle puppets, secret fortresses, and firing points were activated and entered the most urgent combat state. Desperate roars were echoing from the broadcast rune arrays everywhere.
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