Chapter 445 Eat Me and Spit It Out
But what did your Excellency Ambassador do? Not only did he have good intentions to be a donkey on the spot, but he beat him up and accused him of deceit and fraud, guarding himself and stealing himself, which is tolerable or unbearable!
Temple Griffin has always been a serious person, but also a quick temper.
He decided to have a good theory with Eisenhower, and he didn't hesitate to go to court for this, and go to tmd international relations! Go tmd diplomatic friendship!
Eisenhower felt that he had done nothing wrong, and Temple also believed that he had done nothing wrong. In fact, neither of them was wrong. What was wrong was the data.
Data don't just lie, they play with the times.
As Eisenhower saw, the cargo shuttle is indeed an illusion, and Temple's so-called data is nothing but false information fabricated by Emma to confuse the lieutenant general.
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"Tang Fang", Grant, and Aros quarreled in the administrative division for a long time, and they didn't return angrily until the tax office closed.
The next day, after breakfast, "Tang Fang" took the two of them out of the villa again, and continued to mess around with the tax department.
To those tax collectors, Grant was like a piece of brown sugar, and he couldn't take it off if he got it on his body. Aros was good at cold eyebrows and overwhelming people with power. As for Captain Tang, he was "Morning Star" after all. He sat in the reception area all day drinking tea and reading newspapers. He was as quiet as a passer-by. He moved a little, and pointed at Grant nonchalantly, meaning: "If you have anything to say, talk to my subordinates."
Obviously it was the three of them who came to the tax office to make trouble for no reason, but it was like asking a teacher to ask a crime.
The tax officials dared not speak out, and the director looked sullen as if his own mother had died, but they couldn't get angry again, because Grant was studying Star Alliance tax laws as a foreign businessman, and applied for administrative reconsideration along the way. And several media outlets expressed concern about the matter.
At any rate, he still has two "Brave" medals in his hand, and they are even "cast by Morning Star" by a billionaire with a net worth of hundreds of billions. The Star Alliance is not an imperial country, even if the superstructure does not deal with him. They also dare not use power to bully others, let alone this is "Babylon", and if there is any scandal, it can't be covered up.
Although Tang Fang and the other three were very annoying, the tax officials still felt very lucky, because the media didn't pay too much attention here, because there were more explosive news that caught their attention.
Immortals worth 190 billion are stolen; a rare and bizarre epidemic breaks out on the "Karno" space station; Eisenhower accuses Covenant Navy Vice Admiral Temple of falsification.
Negligence of duty, assisting terrorists to rob "Karno"; mysterious organization reappeared, and demonstrated superhuman technology, warp speed interception equipment did nothing in front of their spaceship; mysterious organization stood on the cusp again, and the Silver Eagle Group joined the accountability faction, the Phoenix Empire puts pressure on the "Babylonian" government.
The "responsibility scandal" that was temporarily suppressed because of the auction has once again become the focus of public attention after this terrorist attack. Under the deliberate instigation of people with intentions, public opinion began to tilt in a direction that is not good for the Star Alliance. In the face of "evidence", more and more people began to wonder whether the Covenant government is the backstage boss of the mysterious organization. Just like the old guys in the parliament supported the Pirates to contain the stronghold forces, will this mysterious organization with an obviously anti-human nature be used by the Star Alliance government to beat the rest of the "Babylon" star system and carry out many secret operations. A tool for the benefit of the authorities?
Of course, only a small number of "smart people" think so, and more civilians choose to believe in the government. After all, all forces have lived in peace in "Babylon" for so many years. Become the public enemy of all countries, not to mention that Temple still holds the "evidence" that the cargo shuttle broke through the warp speed interception net.
In this regard, the "Babylonian" government's high-level heads are like a fight, and the pressure exerted by various countries is like a mountain on their shoulders, and they hold frequent press conferences. And summoned the ambassadors of various countries for talks, to explain and declare. And strongly condemn the atrocities of the mysterious organization. They have no time to care about Tang Fang's "rich and willful" behavior in the tax bureau. I don't even have the energy to manage.
In the official words of the Star Alliance, this is a conspiracy that was premeditated to provoke the relationship between the countries and try to mess up the current situation in "Babylon".
The rest of the countries are not fools. Eisenhower’s words are true, and the Star Alliance’s explanation is also reasonable. In fact, this is simply a case of saying that the mother is right, and the public is right. It’s just that there is a word in this world , It's called "using a problem to play".
Because of the existence of the "Babylon" free market, it has created huge wealth for the Star Alliance government over the years, and the national economy has also grown rapidly. Whether it is the Silver Eagle Group, the Phoenix Empire, or the inland countries, who is not jealous? Who is not jealous?
As time goes by, these emotions are like fine wine in a cellar, becoming more and more fragrant and mellow. Now there is an opportunity to kick the ass of the Star Alliance government.
Ever since, no matter how the Star Alliance government explained or shirked, the representatives of the countries all turned a blind eye and condemned and negotiated with various reasons.
Of course, most of the consuls are thinking about how to take advantage of the Covenant government and take advantage of the opportunity to make a fortune. As for the loss of the Monya Empire and the grievances between Eisenhower and Temple, they have no interest at all.
Judging from the current situation, no matter how much this matter escalates, no matter how much it ferments, it will stay at the level of a war of words at most. At most, the Star Alliance government will be soft, apologize, pay some money, and settle the dispute.
From this point of view, Captain Tang not only earned 190 billion in vain by snatching back the Immortals, but also caused the Star Alliance government to stumble so badly, which can be regarded as revenge.
But...would he feel satisfied and let it go?
The answer is: no!
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When the controversy over the "Karno" terrorist attack was still in full swing, a military shuttle was ushered in a warp speed interception network outside the orbit of the twelfth planet in the "Babylon" star system.
On it are the soldiers returning from vacation to the "Sky Garden" and the logistics technicians. The back cabin is piled with gifts of all sizes purchased in the commercial area.
The semi-annual vacation is hard-won, but fortunately this is "Babylon", the living conditions and social environment are much better than other star systems.
They have always been very satisfied, and they are very fortunate to be assigned here to be on duty. Only this time they were not very happy, because the "Ankalim" space station and the "Karno" space station were successively attacked by terrorists, and the warp speed interception network of the frontier defense was also broken by ships of unknown origin. As a result, the Star Alliance government not only raised the alert level of "Babylon", but also recalled the officers and soldiers who were on vacation. Used to deal with situations that are getting a little tense at hand.
Under the control of the driver, the shuttle machine used the laser docking equipment to slowly park into the hangar. The soldiers unfastened their seat belts one after another, found their own backpacks in the back cabin, and filed down towards the quarantine area.
The last person to get off the plane was the nearly fifty-year-old pilot. In addition to the small gifts purchased in the "Sky Garden", he also purchased a box of fresh sea fish at the request of the chief cook.
The soldiers who had disembarked previously had passed through the quarantine area safely, and they were registering at the workstation connected to the entrance of the channel. This made the driver very unhappy. He wondered why young people are like this today. They don’t have any concept of respecting the old and loving the young. Let him carry the big box of sea fish in front of him alone?
"No, I must make it up from the chief cook later."
The driver stretched his waist, pulled out the box of sea fish from the cargo hold, carried it on his shoulders, and put a cushion on it, exhaled a breath of stale air in his lungs, and sighed: "I'm old. My bones are a bit useless..." Turn around and walk towards the quarantine area step by step.
After playing with the shuttle for so many years, he knows every part and every steel nail on the ship like the back of his hand. However, today he overlooked a situation, the reflected light of the cockpit instrument panel is somewhat uneven.
Of course, even if he saw it, he probably wouldn't care about it. It's quite normal for a person of such an age to fiddle with these electronic devices every day.
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About 5 minutes later, the shuttle was pushed to the second floor by the elevator, and the lights in the hangar gradually dimmed. The medical equipment in the quarantine station was offline, and the security door was slowly closed.
At this moment. There was a flash of light in the corner of the hangar, and a man wearing a devil mask appeared in the shadow of the crane.
"Emma. How is it?"
"Commander, the building model has been drawn, and I will upload the information to the navigation system of the harsh environment protective suit."
Tang Fang stopped talking, flashed out of the shadows, entered the stealth mode again, and climbed up to the mechanical control platform on the second floor with his agility, uploading the computer virus to the node server.
The hangar where he is located is the command center of a section of the warp interception network on the edge of the "Babylon" star system. In addition to being responsible for the control, maintenance, and repair of this section of warp interception equipment, it is also the radiation effect area of the warp interception equipment. A garrison base for a garrison.
The attack on "Karno" caused the Star Alliance to be blamed. The current situation in "Babylon" is like a pot of hot oil. , this is not enough, his target is not just the Star Alliance who was put on the frying pan, the people watching the excitement are also within the scope of his plan.
Therefore, in addition to the hot oil, he also needs a basin of water, and then splashes it vigorously. In addition, he has another secondary goal...
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Everything in the control center of the space station was normal, and it was almost time to change the guard. The soldiers were somewhat slack, so that they didn't notice that the screen of the closed-circuit monitoring system shook slightly.
It wasn't distortion, it wasn't an electrical fault, and it wasn't signal interference. In fact, it was a surveillance image forged by a virus program.
Therefore, the soldiers didn't know that the p22 hangar had fallen, let alone that the control nodes in some areas of the space station had fully fallen under Emma's control.
There is another situation that they don't know, a team of 40 masked men has quietly killed the guards near the hangar, and quickly moved towards the control center.
With Emma coordinating the overall situation, creating convenient conditions for the raid, and secretly helping, the 40-member team did not encounter strong resistance at all, and easily invaded the core area of the space station.
It wasn't until a burst of gunfire from an unknown source came from the corridor outside that the staff in the control center reacted and rushed to fight.
It is true that there are only 40 masked people, which is far behind the number of the space station garrison, but they have helpers. Emma has changed the core of a batch of armed robots and directed them to join the attack sequence on the space station garrison.
Ever since. This small force of only 40 people pressed down on the garrison all the way and fought fiercely. With a little effort, they captured the central control room and successfully occupied the core area.
at the same time. Another 10-person team sneaked into the area where the energy system is located through the ventilation duct, and cooperated with them to eliminate the garrison soldiers. Take control of the system.
When the order to lose the control center and the energy system reached the ears of Colonel Zheng Hongxuan, the head of the space station's fleet, the expression of this somewhat Confucian Asian man suddenly changed. He suddenly thought of a possibility that would cause Potential for serious consequences.
"Order all soldiers to abandon the attack and quickly evacuate the space station."
It's true that doing so would mean getting cold feet and being more likely to be court-martialed, but he couldn't take a whole reinforced division. The lives of tens of thousands of people are just a joke. You must know that the leadership strategy of the Star Alliance is not like those imperial countries, which can tolerate the general's indifference to the deaths and injuries of subordinates.
In addition to being shocked, he was also puzzled why these terrorists were so rampant. They made a fuss in "Ankalim", turned "Karno" upside down, and caused "Babylon" to be in turmoil. Danger, this is not enough. Now it's up to the Covenant Navy again.
It's really too arrogant, too arrogant, too ignorant...
Zheng Hongxuan frowned. He felt that the description of "I don't know the heights of the heavens and the depths of the earth" is a bit inappropriate. This group of masked people with mysterious origins are very self-aware, and it is because of their self-knowledge that they dared to launch this terrorist attack.
Following the "Ankalim" suicide attack and the "Karno" germ warfare, a blitzkrieg was carried out on the naval base, and the defense facilities of the space station were paralyzed by unknown means, and the armed robots who fought against the battle took over the central control room and the energy system. .
Although this time they used conventional intrusion methods, however. The ruthless style of overloading the fusion reactor and trying to blow up the entire space station is in line with the previous two attacks.
"Where did these guys come from!"
Zheng Hongxuan felt a headache. The space station garrison is evacuating quickly according to his instructions.
On the other side, Tang Fang came to the energy storage warehouse of the space station alone. As the navy's logistics supply base here, zero element reserves are naturally indispensable.
Because the soldiers were busy fleeing for their lives, the defense force of the warehouse had disappeared. He entered the warehouse with ease, borrowed Emma's ability to crack the security system, and then used the worker bees to mutate into multiple extraction fields to step up the collection of gas resources.
The Star Alliance government withdrew 40 billion from his account, and he will always get it back, right? It's not enough to just make trouble, but also to slash it and bleed it.
Ten minutes later, Emma heard a notification that the resource collection was complete.
In fact, she didn't need to remind him, the moment the extraction field stopped wriggling, he knew that the resource collection work had been completed.
Turning my attention to the system space, I have experienced the "Karno" surprise attack, and robbed the zero element reserve of the Star Alliance front base. Today's resource value has reached 13,344,825, 360,934, and the gas has increased by nearly 150,000.
150,000 gas, which is 150 tons if converted into zero elements. According to the market conditions of the "sky garden", the price of zero elements has climbed to 150,000 star coins per kg under the environment of soaring values of cesium-containing minerals and iridium-containing minerals.
In the Mongya Empire, the price of zero element dealers buying zero element from civilians is 50,000 myd/kg. According to the exchange rate between Monya coins and star coins, 50,000 myd is almost equivalent to 20,000 star coins. The zero element sold to the outside world is generally sold at 3-6 times the price---that is, 60,000-120,000 star coins/kg.
But this is "Babylon". According to the usual market conditions, the price of zero vegetables should be much lower, but now it is 150,000 star coins/kg, which is four times higher than the highest price of zero vegetable dealers in the Monya Empire. One can imagine the current chaotic situation in the mineral resources market.
The Star Alliance is rich, and it is the richest among the three countries in the Tiannest Star Region. It is even richer than sovereign countries like the Mengya Empire and the Sulu Empire. The Star Alliance can afford this financial war!
In fact, suppressing Tang Fang and hindering the completion of the "Morning Star Foundry" are just incidental goals. The main purpose of the Star Alliance is to engage in financial games with other countries.
In recent months, the war between the Monya Empire and the Charles Federation in the Gampna theater has become more and more serious. Even the Sulu Empire, an ally of the Monya Empire, and the Dolanx Republic, an ally of the Charles Federation, have been dragged into the water.
Under such an international situation, how could "Babylon", as the most important free trade market in the Hillenbel region, be calm? Those big capitalists, and even the governments of various countries, who doesn't want to get some benefits from this? The so-called people do not get rich without windfall, and horses do not get fat without weeds. Making war fortunes has always been a shortcut to sudden wealth—whether it is for individuals or for the country.
According to the current market price, 150 tons of Lingsu is equivalent to 22.5 billion star coins, which is 17.5 billion less than the 40 billion star coins allocated by the Star Alliance government.
"What if we add this space station?" Tang Fang narrowed his eyes, with a sneer on his face.
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The flames spread upwards from the bottom of the space station, the lights of the portholes quickly went out, and then turned on again like a rising tide. The violent shock wave tore apart the steel structure, throwing a large number of metal fragments and mechanical wreckage into the surrounding void. (to be continued)