Huo Yushen said coldly, "So, General Zhuo means that if the Rebels offer enough benefits, Zhuo Wangying would work for them? - Good, that dispels my doubts. I am not as wise and decisive as His Majesty the Emperor."
"Men! Take Zhuo Keyi away, and seal everything here. Zhuo Keyi knows too many secrets of the Military's high command and must go to the Special Security Bureau for brain decryption processing." Huo Yushen waved his hand.
Zhuo Keyi's face turned even uglier.
He said with a stern face but a weak heart, "How dare you treat me like this?! My military rank is not lower than yours. What you're doing is insubordination!"
Huo Yushen said coldly, "Insubordination? - This is His Majesty the Emperor's decree. The Zhuo Clan is stripped of its nobility. Viscount Zhuo, Zhuo Keyi, is to be taken away by the Special Security Bureau for investigation and strict interrogation. If you don't believe it, see for yourself."
Zhuo Keyi's eyes were about to burst, his head buzzed, and all the blood in his body seemed to rush to his brain.
He roared sharply, "I want to appeal to His Majesty the Emperor! Our Zhuo Clan ancestors also followed the first Beichen Emperor to start the uprising! His Majesty the Emperor must have listened to slander!"
"I am one of the five chiefs of staff of the Military's High Command Joint Conference! Without the dual permission of the Military and the Cabinet, how dare you arrest me with just the Emperor's decree?!"
Huo Yushen didn't even look at him, his gaze turned to the desk in front of Zhuo Keyi, and he said coldly, "I am here on His Majesty the Emperor's decree to arrest Viscount Zhuo Keyi. As for your Military position, what does that have to do with me?"
Zhuo Keyi glared at him, and after a long while, he came back to his senses and said sharply, "Huo Yushen! You are abusing your power for personal revenge! You are holding a grudge for transferring me away from the front-line troops back then!"
Huo Yushen then raised his eyelids and glanced at him, still calmly and indifferently saying, "Viscount Zhuo, you think too highly of yourself."
Saying that, he turned around, only leaving behind a sentence, "Take him away."
Just as he turned around, Zhuo Keyi's hand finally reached into the drawer and took out a gun.
One of Huo Yushen's guards rushed over to block behind him and said, "Marshal Huo, be careful! Zhuo Keyi has a gun!"
Huo Yushen suddenly turned around, lightning-fast raised his Qu Zhong 110 Handgun, and aimed it at Zhuo Keyi.
But Zhuo Keyi was already pointing the gun at his own head, grinning hideously, "No one can judge me!"
Then, with a bang, Zhuo Keyi committed suicide.
The power of that handgun was extremely great, and his head was blasted apart in his own office, like a shattered watermelon.
Huo Yushen put away his handgun and said sternly, "Zhuo Keyi committed suicide to resist arrest. On His Majesty the Emperor's decree, take away his body to close the case."
Kang Shanxing had seen many such scenes and said indifferently, "This Zhuo Keyi was planning to let the Military put pressure on His Majesty the Emperor. As long as he dies, he will protect many people on the Military's side. These people will definitely intercede for the Zhuo Clan with His Majesty the Emperor. Maybe his title can even be passed down."
Huo Yushen said lightly, "The Zhuo Clan may be preserved, but the title will never be preserved."
He took Zhuo Keyi's body back to the Imperial Palace in the Beichen Star Imperial City to report on this operation to His Majesty the Emperor.
His expression was as always, cold and detached: "Your Majesty, Zhuo Keyi resisted arrest and committed suicide, so there is no way to conduct a strict interrogation."
Emperor Tantai Hongyuan was so angry that he almost jumped up, and said irritably, "I ordered him to be investigated, and he actually dared to use death to challenge me!"
"The rotating chief of staff of the Military's High Command Joint Conference, who is also in charge of equipment, is quite something... He is betting that after his death, he will protect that group of people in the Military, and I will not dare to touch his Zhuo Clan?! - Bah!"
"Dare to go against me! I want the entire Empire to know who has the final say in this country!"
"Pass on my decree that Zhuo Keyi committed suicide to resist arrest, the evidence is conclusive, the Zhuo Clan will not only be stripped of their nobility but also face Extermination of the Clan!"
Huo Yushen reminded, "Your Majesty, Extermination of the Clan requires the joint permission of the Cabinet, the Military, and the Senate..."
The Emperor became even more angry, raged in the hall for a while, and came up with an idea, saying, "Then pass on my decree that all Zhuo Clan males over the age of eighteen will be executed!"
"Zhuo Clan males under the age of eighteen and all female relatives will only be demoted to commoners. All Zhuo Clan members serving in the Cabinet and the Military will be dismissed. Within three generations, the Zhuo Clan cannot enter the Cabinet and the Military!"
After speaking, he looked at Huo Yushen triumphantly and said, "This doesn't count as Extermination of the Clan, right?"
Huo Yushen: "...Your Majesty, this requires you to draft an edict."
As he spoke, the Emperor's scribe attendant was about to kneel down to Huo Yushen.
He didn't even dare to look at him, and directly prepared the table for drafting the edict, and the content was already written, waiting only for His Majesty the Emperor to sign and stamp the Imperial Seal.
Emperor Tantai Hongyuan was in a fit of anger, signed the edict without hesitation, and stamped the Imperial Seal, then threw it to Huo Yushen.
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At the same time, Meng Guanghui and his nine subordinates were frantically collecting the minerals on that Miniature Planet.
Their own drills were not very powerful, but thanks to the Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years later, who helped them repair their mechas, now they were wearing upgraded mechas, making mining very convenient!
"Boss, who would have thought that the most abundant mineral here is Mystic Light Soft Stone! This thing is light and can be compressed and folded, so it doesn't take up any space at all!" A subordinate desperately stuffed Mystic Light Soft Stone into his special bag.
Around the huge pit on the ground, multi-colored ores were scattered all over the place.
The most abundant were Exotic Metal Mystic Light Soft Stone, which was the material that Mechanical Intelligence used to repair their mechs.
"That's right! Everyone, pack more Mystic Light Soft Stone! When we get back, let Master Su help us upgrade the mechs in the bureau!"
"There's also a lot of Quantum Black Iron here, but it's too heavy. How dense is this... Before, it was okay to just melt it directly. Now, I think carrying just this fist-sized piece of Quantum Black Iron is my limit."
"I only recognize these two things. Over there, there's a metal similar to titanium, called Mithril Titanium. It looks fake, and I don't know how to collect it. Look, when the mechanical arm reaches out, it goes right through like a phantom, can't touch it at all!"
"There's a lot of gold here, no, not gold. It looks like gold, but there's a layer of cyan flame on the outside. I don't know what it is..."
"What's that?! Look at what I found..."
As he spoke, the man raised a blue-purple iron block above his head.
The next second, a deafening thunderbolt struck from the sky. If it weren't for the upgraded mech's defense, this man would have been split in half from head to toe! Meng Guanghui reluctantly gave up and waved his hand, "Forget it, don't take what you can't take. Just collect the metals that are easy to carry. This place is full of Exotic Metals, but unfortunately, there are also many Remnant Species monsters. Let's leave early."
Although everyone was reluctant, they understood that Meng Guanghui was right.
No matter how good the Exotic Metal is, it's meaningless if you don't have the life to take it away.
So they were all picking up the Exotic Metals that they could take and were easy to carry, desperately stuffing them into the prepared bags.
At the same time, some Remnant Species monsters that had not been killed by the previous Mechanical Intelligence came to try to hunt them down.
Fortunately, their modified mechs had excellent performance, and even the performance of the weapons they fired had improved by many levels! In short, before, they could not kill a Remnant Species monster even after using up most of their ammunition.
But now, one bullet takes away one Remnant Species, it's so pleasing to the eye! But before long, they discovered that from the blue-black ocean over there, it seemed that there were bigger guys coming up again...
This thing's Mental Strength attack is too powerful, they can't resist it at all.
The forty teammates who sacrificed before were all Rank A peak Mental Strength experts, but after their mechs were damaged, their movements were severely restricted, and they couldn't withstand the opponent's Mental Strength attack, bleeding to death from all seven orifices.
The remaining ten people all have Mental Strength levels above Rank S, so they can withstand it for a longer time.
But they all knew that if it weren't for the appearance of that Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years later, they would only have a dead end.
This planet is so small, they don't know where those huge Remnant Species came from, they are simply endless, and they can't be killed.
Meng Guanghui immediately ordered: "Everyone! Enter the Wormhole in three minutes!"
As he spoke, he opened the small Wormhole opener.
The small Wormhole opener, which had been repaired by the Mechanical Intelligence, changed from silver-white to black.
Moreover, once it was opened, it formed black halos, layered on top of each other outside the instrument, like layers of armor.
Meng Guanghui felt that even if the big guy in the sky came to make trouble again, it would not be possible to damage this instrument like before! It takes time for a small Wormhole to open, locate, and stabilize.
In the past, this Wormhole needed thirty minutes to fully open.
But after this upgrade, they found that the opening time was greatly shortened.
In just three minutes, the small Wormhole can complete the energy storage process from opening, positioning to stable transmission.
Meng Guanghui had just tried it, but as soon as the small Wormhole took shape, they discovered those precious Exotic Metal mineral deposits, so they turned off the small Wormhole opener and went directly to mining.
Now that they are opening it again, they are not only full of confidence, but also plan to keep this upgraded small Wormhole opener in their department forever!
But this time, they seemed to have used up all their good luck.
They couldn't even wait for the three-minute energy storage time. Hundreds of huge tentacles had already broken out of the deep pit in front of them, like steel vines, sweeping towards the Special Security Bureau elites mining on the edge of the pit with a whistling sound!
Meng Guanghui and the others immediately rose into the air, flying into the mid-air to avoid the mountain-splitting blow! When they flew into the mid-air, they realized that black water was slowly seeping out from the bottom of the deep pit, gradually spreading from the bottom up.
In the blink of an eye, this was no longer a deep pit, but a large lake, or rather, a sea.
The lake water was churning, and various protrusions were constantly emerging from the bottom of the lake, as if more huge monsters were about to break out of the bottom.
At the same time, powerful Mental Strength attacks also gathered from all directions.
Large birds with Scales descended from the sky, and even bloated behemoths like brains wriggled to the surface.
It was like a towering brain mountain appeared in front of them, at least one hundred meters high! This is the second update, there will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
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