This voyage took quite a while. During this period, some other officers from the Ninth War Legion secretly came to visit Fang Zhiyi, but Fang Zhiyi just closed his eyes and rested.
It wasn't until the spaceship landed on a huge planet.
"He's a hero. If it weren't for him, we'd have become the laughingstock of the Starfield Army," Hu Lie lit another cigarette. "Who knows, we might have ended up like the Twelfth War Legion, being branded as cowards and exiled to the border."
Another officer beside him forced a smile. "So what? He's the Starfield Governor, and an opportunistic one at that. Entering the war zone without permission and murdering the war legion commander are facts that no one can cover up."
Hu Lie's eyes turned sinister. "I'll accompany him to the end if need be! Everyone knows that the former commander was just there to gain some prestige. All he thought about was getting promoted and making a fortune. He never cared about our lives. He got so many people killed for a human traitor. Tell me, what crime did Fang Zhiyi commit? He just did the right thing!"
Everyone understood the truth, but no one could change the situation. The main planet of the empire was full of guard troops. Trying to launch a rebellion here was no different from seeking death.
The Templar Knights escorting Fang Zhiyi had set off. Fang Zhiyi was sitting in the prison van. His eyes swept over the on - looking civilians, and he curiously looked around. This city was really shabby. High - rise buildings made of cement and steel were everywhere, and the air was shrouded in a layer of black fog. Taking a few deep breaths made his lungs ache.
When passing by an empty square, Fang Zhiyi stopped in his tracks. He saw a huge sculpture, a rather crude giant mech statue that looked like a handicraft made by a child.
"Hey, Little Hei."
Little Hei nodded. "It looks familiar."
"It's strange. I seem to have seen this thing somewhere..."
Suddenly, Little Hei slapped his head. "Isn't this the mech you asked Old Ghost to drive before?"
Fang Zhiyi stared at Little Hei with wide eyes.
Little Hei was also stunned. "Wait, wait. I'll immediately send a message to the bureau to check it out!"
Fang Zhiyi was almost directly escorted to the tribunal. Looking at the judges sitting in the main seats and then at those so - called noble council members, Fang Zhiyi inexplicably felt a bit sarcastic.
Had the parliamentary system he established back then ultimately failed to avoid being corrupted?
"Got the news. The headquarters confirmed that this is the world you once stayed in... The current time is... the 1100th year since the establishment of the empire."
Fang Zhiyi sighed. "It's been a thousand years..."
"The currently accessible information shows that... they were attacked by a swarm of insects during their first expansion. They managed to stabilize the situation only with the technological support from the Emperor..."
"The Emperor?" Fang Zhiyi was a bit confused. He remembered that he had abolished the imperial throne back then.
Little Hei nodded. "Indeed. Moreover... according to the original owner's account, apart from the parliament, no one has ever seen the Emperor in person. Most people regard the Emperor as a legend, and they even joke that the empire's most elite imperial guards are protecting an empty palace. According to the empire's historical records, there are only rumors about the Emperor until the 500th year, and there has been no record since then."
Fang Zhiyi murmured. "The only one who could live for 500 years... is probably that guy."
Little Hei nodded. "It's also a miracle. I remember that he initially wanted to take over your body, and unexpectedly, he grew powerful."
Fang Zhiyi looked up. The personal guard of the war legion commander was testifying about what had happened at that time. They described it in great detail, including the posture in which the war legion commander died on the ground.
"Little Hei, I suddenly don't want to submit the mission anymore."
"Understood." Little Hei nodded.
The officers of the Ninth War Legion led by Hu Lie had already discussed the matter of retracting their statements in court, but to their surprise, Fang Zhiyi pleaded guilty!
He pleaded guilty even before they could speak! He fully admitted to every charge.
The rule of the tribunal is to conduct a second verification. Even for a serious criminal like Fang Zhiyi, this process is required. However, since he fully confessed to the crimes, the supervision was a bit more relaxed, and his request for a visit was even approved.
The tribunal simply thought that he wanted to leave his last words.
When Hu Lie came to visit him, he was frowning and pondering something.
"Sir, why did you plead guilty?"
"What they said is the truth," Fang Zhiyi's words left Hu Lie speechless.
"But, but it was clearly that playboy who was in the wrong first. The war legion commander made poor decisions, resulting in a large number of civilian and soldier casualties..." Hu Lie said anxiously. In his opinion, if it weren't for Fang Zhiyi's actions, the Ninth War Legion would not only have borne the name of a defeated army but also lost more people.
Fang Zhiyi shook his head. "You're good at fighting, but you don't understand politics. They know all these things you mentioned. What they don't allow is someone challenging their rules."
"Sir, if you need... " The words "break out of prison" hadn't been spoken yet.
Fang Zhiyi suddenly leaned closer. "There is really something I need your help with. If I hadn't pleaded guilty, you probably wouldn't have been able to visit me, and that would have been troublesome."
Hu Lie looked at the governor in front of him with a suspicious look at his sly expression.
Patriarch Gu was waiting for information from his subordinates. He had mobilized troops from other war legions nearby to search for the whereabouts of his youngest son, but he still hadn't found any trace of him, which made him a bit anxious. Being doting on his son, he had initially agreed to his son's request to let him return to the empire as a peace ambassador and then use his own influence to push him into the parliament.
The most important thing was that Gu Yuan said there were minerals they needed on the home planet of the blue - skinned aliens. Compared with these benefits, the deaths of some civilians and troops were nothing to mention. However, the sudden action of this crazy governor messed up their plan.
"Councilman, the officer who visited the criminal has come out."
"Okay, where did he go?"
As the head of the Gu family, Patriarch Gu naturally knew all kinds of things happening in the imperial capital. This was to prevent unexpected situations and to monitor the other families.
"He, he went to the palace."
Patriarch Gu was stunned. The palace? The empty palace guarded by the imperial guards?
He was a bit puzzled.
According to the records passed down from generation to generation in the family, the Emperor still appeared in the palace 500 years ago, but since then, the Emperor had never shown up again. All matters were decided by the parliament, that is, their noble class.
It wasn't that no one had ever wanted to explore the palace, but the imperial guards standing there were so cold - blooded that they didn't seem human, and no one could get close to the palace. Over time, people just gave up.
Even if the Emperor was still alive, the empire was no longer under his control now. At most, he was just a figurehead.
Thinking of this, Patriarch Gu shook his head self - mockingly. He was overthinking. No human could live for a thousand years.
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
