219: Chapter 218 All People Are Soldiers

The 'face project' had been implemented since his grandfather's time.

To prevent people on other planets from seeing the poverty and incompetence of Beixing Star, he allocated funds from the national treasury every year to build some high-rise buildings.

These included hotels, shopping malls, and residential buildings.

However, they were all shoddy construction projects that were completely unusable or had serious safety hazards.

The purpose was merely to have a bright and clean appearance, so that the alien delegations would not look down on Beixing Star from the bottom of their hearts.

However, as time went by, these had long since become an open secret.

Alien envoys who came to visit often showed meaningful smiles when looking at those 'face projects'.

All of this made President Shi En feel as if he were sitting on pins and needles, grinding his teeth in hatred.

And now, the Resistance Army Grand Commander Lin Han had even exposed his scars in public.

How could President Shi En not be gnashing his teeth with rage?

But he also knew that none of the people who had come this time were targets he could lash out at.

So he could only swallow his teeth along with his blood.

He desperately squeezed out a smile that was uglier than crying and changed the subject: "As long as... as long as there aren't too many casualties, it will be fine."

"So... you all know now, although those rioters are all from our Beixing Star, the weapons are certainly not from here."

"But as long as we can find the culprit, our government will definitely cooperate with all our strength!"

Hearing the other party say this, the people from the Xingyang Civilization found it inconvenient to say anything more.

So, after exchanging a few pleasantries, they headed back to the shuttle they had arrived in.

Everyone squeezed into the narrow cabin.

Wei Wei looked up and asked: "So, this riot has absolutely nothing to do with the Beixing Star government? They are so poor, how could they possibly have such advanced weapons!"

Yu Lan looked around at everyone with a smile on her face, and finally asked with a slightly divine air: "What do you think?"

Lin Han was the first to speak: "I only saw one thing from President Shi En's tone and expression!"

"That is... he is not being honest!"

Xiliu nodded repeatedly, clearly agreeing with the words of the Resistance Army Grand Commander.

Yu Lan also immediately responded with a smile: "Haha, great minds think alike!"

"Even a fool knows that Beixing Star is an extremely closed planet, and the public is managed extremely strictly."

"So, how could those people have any way to obtain such advanced weapons!"

"It is only by relying on the divine Matter Conversion that they have been able to live a life with enough food and clothing."

"How could they still wish to leave this place! The life here now, without worries about food or clothing, is a dream life they wouldn't have dared to imagine for generations!"

Hearing this, Hope immediately summarized: "So, this riot is a terrorist activity with government backing and organization!"

"Then... what is President Shi En's purpose? Making such a big scene, but in the end, showing nothing, it's too strange."

Everyone remained silent, unable to figure out the reason for a while.

After a long while, Lin Han wore an angry expression and said word by word: "No matter what the purpose is, this time it has caused such heavy casualties to our Resistance Army."

"It is also the time with the highest number of sacrifices since we began maintaining internal security in the Milky Way Galaxy!"

"So no matter what, once I catch hold of President Shi En's handle, I will definitely make him pay with blood!"

Yu Lan immediately gave instructions: "Xiliu, Hope, you hack into the Beixing Star network system and pay attention to all the movements here!"

"Report immediately once you find any clues or if there is any disturbance!"

The little girl Hope and Xiliu looked at each other, then murmured: "One person is enough to monitor the network. The Beixing Star network is very special!"

Xiliu also explained from the side: "That's right, it's called a global network, but in fact, it can only be considered the Shi Family's home network."

"Ordinary civilians cannot connect to the interstellar network; after all, if they were allowed to see the outside world, the Shi Family's rule would be unstable!"

Yu Lan was speechless for a moment, thinking that the Shi Family was too good at manipulating people's hearts.

She immediately changed the order: "Then Xiliu, you alone monitor the network. Hope, you are responsible for observing the ground movements of their army!"

Lin Han also nodded from the side: "And I will also be at the base closest to Beixing Star."

"No matter what, I will not leave here until I catch the mastermind behind this riot."

Everyone had a clear division of labor, and at the same time, they became more vigilant about this Beixing Star, especially the Shi Family that ruled Beixing Star.

Meanwhile, in the presidential palace on this planet, President Shi En watched the shuttle soaring into the clouds, and only then did he reveal the ferocious expression he had been suppressing all along.

He roared angrily at the sky: "What are you things, daring to boss me around here! I am the emperor of this planet!"

"I am the god of this planet, you are just a bunch of beasts that bring bad luck!"

He became angrier the more he cursed, and then he directly overturned the table that had been used to receive everyone.

Just at this moment, a voice full of eeriness suddenly came from the reception hall.

"Calm down! My President Shi En! Our plan has only just begun!"

Immediately afterwards, two strange-looking intelligent beings walked over slowly.

One was the Great Commander of the Manghui Civilization, General Xiang, who had long antennae.

This civilization was more like a warlord than a civilization. The whole nation was martial and even more advocated violence.

They followed every instruction of the Great Commander with absolute obedience.

Their development and application of weapons had also reached the extreme.

Such a civilization was naturally rated as a D-level civilization by the Xingyang Civilization.

The Great Commander General Xiang obviously had not obtained a ticket to leave this universe.

The other one was the main brain of the Ate Civilization, Sha Han.

Although their civilization was rated as C-level, its special feature was that Ate was a collective civilization. It was highly socialized.

All individuals were given corresponding duties from birth, just like screws on a huge machine.

No one could change them.

Those responsible for defense were always soldiers, and those responsible for construction were workers for their whole lives.

Those responsible for reproduction became machines for giving birth to children.

All individuals were busy in an orderly manner, maintaining the operation of the Ate Civilization.

That was why Sha Han was extremely dissatisfied with the selection method of the Kindling Project.

Those individuals who were selected would not be able to survive after leaving the civilization, even if they arrived in another universe.

And if they chose to join the Ate Civilization in the parallel world, they would immediately be absorbed into that civilization.

All information about her own civilization would vanish with this universe.

This was what Sha Han did not want to see. She felt that her civilization was a whole and should be sent to the parallel world in its entirety.

However, this proposal was naturally rejected by Tu Kulei.

The three people who had many complaints about the Xingyang Civilization naturally came together.

The demands of General Xiang and President Shi En were the same: to have the Xingyang Civilization send them and their families away from this universe that was about to be destroyed.

Sha Han's request was a bit excessive; she needed the cross-universe migration of the entire civilization.

However, Sha Han's individuals could become extremely small under certain circumstances.

So the space required was only five or six spaceships, which did not reach an alarming level.

General Xiang and President Shi En discussed it, and naturally, they took her along.

At this time, the three of them sat together, discussing the next plan.

President Shi En said with a hint of complaint: "Wasn't the weapon you provided too excessive? The Resistance Army suffered nearly a thousand casualties this time; how could they let it go!"

"And the hateful Xingyang Civilization, now that we've made such a scene."

"You two are hiding in the back safe and sound, but I must have been targeted."

"Sigh, now I dare not move at all!"

General Xiang gave a "humph" and showed a look of disdain: "Look at your cowardly appearance! I even regret not bringing out the strongest weapons."

"What does it matter if a few Resistance Army members die? There is still more than a year left; if you and I can't escape, we will both die here!"

"If great people like us can die, can't they die?"

President Shi En did not dare to say anything after hearing the scolding from the opposite side.

He just put on a miserable look.

Actually, his family was secondary; he wanted to escape to safety himself more.

If possible, he could use all forty million people on his planet, plus all his relatives, to exchange for a ticket to the parallel world.

But all this was just his own "beautiful" wishful thinking.

The screening work for the Kindling Project's list, especially for D-level civilizations like Beixing Star, was quite strict.

So President Shi En could only ask weakly: "Then what should we do next?"

"The path of hijacking hostages in exchange for tickets now seems unfeasible!"

General Xiang thought for a moment and decided to go all the way.

He asked President Shi En coldly: "If you mobilize the whole nation here, how big an army can you organize?"

President Shi En was stunned, but soon answered honestly: "There are only forty million people here, excluding the old, weak, sick, and disabled, as well as children and the like."

"If we mobilize the whole nation, we can organize fifteen million combatants with fighting capability."

Sha Han, who had been silent, suddenly teased: "You still have the old, weak, sick, and disabled here?"

"I heard that those individuals on your Beixing Star who have no productivity are quickly abandoned and left to die!"

President Shi En rolled his eyes at her: "That was in the past, it's not like that now."

"Besides, the Xingyang God has transformed so many materials that those useless people won't starve to death even if they lie on the ground!"

"It's really too good for those freeloaders!"

General Xiang was calculating seriously there: "You have fifteen million soldiers here, and I have twenty million elite fighters there!"

"Plus the Ate Civilization, I think we can forcibly seize a passage and then go to the parallel universe!"

The other two were shocked to hear this.

Sha Han said with a terrified face: "Are you crazy? The one guarding the passage is the Xingyang Civilization!"

"Have you not seen, or are you pretending not to see, the vast divine power of the Xingyang God!"

"That is the god who repelled the entire Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, that cosmic structure with a diameter of up to ten billion light-years."

"What kind of madness have you caught? You think that having a large number of people means you can fight against a god!"

President Shi En also shook his head frantically: "Exactly, I won't do such a thing!"

"Dying in a year and a half versus dying now, I still know how to choose!"

General Xiang looked at the two cowering people, showing a look of hating iron for not becoming steel: "Victory or defeat depends on this one move; if you don't go all-in now, when are you going to wait?"

"I tell you, in the whole Milky Way Galaxy, we are not the only ones with this kind of idea!"

"If we don't act now, others will definitely take action before us."

"By then, regardless of whether they succeed or not, the defenses of those four passages will be strengthened!"

"By then, it will be even more impossible for us to try to force our way through."

President Shi En and Sha Han were stunned by what he said.

But both of them still showed expressions of difficulty.

"We understand everything you say, but that is the Xingyang Civilization."

"The great Xingyang God, how can we mortals fight against him!"

General Xiang raised his head and said confidently: "Oh, don't worry! The god only appeared when fighting the Zhangyang God; when has he ever appeared in the pile of mortals in the Milky Way Galaxy!"

"That is a god; naturally, he will look for an opponent equal to himself. Why would he care about the struggles of bacteria!"

President Shi En and Sha Han looked at each other, feeling that General Xiang's words seemed to have some truth.

Most importantly, time was imminent, and there was no room for further hesitation.

Sha Han finally made up her mind: "Okay, then I will also go back to organize my own army, and then the others will shrink and enter three spaceships."

"Mixed in the warships, we will break through the parallel passage in one fell swoop!"

General Xiang nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "During this time, I will step up the training of the 15 million soldiers on Beixing Star."

"They will serve as the vanguard when the time comes!"

President Shi En nodded indifferently.

He had never taken the lives of his people seriously.

Serving as cannon fodder was nothing big.

As long as the spaceship carrying himself and his family could pass through the parallel passage, it would be fine.

The three of them hit it off.

Each went back to prepare for the various matters of armed seizure of the passage.

A few days later, the spaceships of the Manghui Civilization loaded with weapons arrived on Beixing Star one after another.

The scene was very grand, mighty, and overwhelming.

Of course, to cover up the eyes and ears, all weapon unloading was carried out in huge warehouses.

From the sky, one certainly couldn't tell what was being transported inside.

But Hope, who was responsible for surveillance, had long seen the clues from the personnel on the ships.

Many instructors from the Manghui Civilization were on board, and their main job was to train the new recruits.

So Hope immediately reported this sudden situation through the network.

"A large number of transport planes from the Manghui Civilization have entered Beixing Star."

"Although I don't know what is inside, judging from the fact that a large number of instructors have come and not left, it's likely various weapons!"

Soon Xiliu also sent a message: "I'm sure it's weapons; those instructors couldn't stand Beixing Star having no interstellar network, so they also brought base stations."

"From the sporadic call information, I can conclude that the Alliance Member has provided a large amount of advanced weapons to Beixing Star!"

"At the same time, tens of thousands of instructors have been dispatched to train new recruits here!"

Hearing this number, Yu Lan and Lin Han immediately looked alert.

It seemed that a potential crisis within the Milky Way Galaxy was about to break out.

Yu Lan roared: "We must strike first; we must not let this fuse burn!"