Chapter 358 Only Death and Taxes Are Inevitable

"Oh?"

"Something is wrong."

Li Zhongren looked at the special handcuffs on his hands. As the author of this book, he knew it very well. This thing is called the Forbidden Magic Handcuffs. For psychics whose strength has not reached a certain limit, once you are buckled, it will block your interaction with the subspace, and indirectly prevent you from using superpowers.

Of course, it cannot block the whispers of evil gods from the subspace.

Therefore, it cannot be used to prevent psychics from becoming a source of pollution.

This is a later story.

In short, normal selections will not allow psychic reserve to bring this thing.

But he was buckled, so there is only one conclusion, his golden talent attracted the attention of some people on the top of the nest.

In a closed room, there are all kinds of instruments, and there are also traditional psychic barriers. An instrument is placed in the middle of the barrier, and he is tied to the instrument.

In this regard, Li Zhongren did not speak, but just watched quietly.

He was very curious about what the top floor of this hive city could do.

However, he was observing his surroundings.

In a room, the governor of the hive city was also observing Li Zhongren.

"No."

This was his first reaction.

When ordinary people encounter this scene, they will be afraid, terrified, hysterical, and begging for mercy, but they will not watch the other party do whatever they want to them as if they were watching a show.

He could even see confidence in the other party's eyes.

I don't know where he got the confidence from.

"Is the test data out?"

"Yes, Governor, everything is normal. The other party's qualification is gold."

"This is based on the test data provided by His Majesty the Emperor. A small amount of inactivation of subspace pollution is injected into the other party's body. According to the feedback, it is proved that the other party has a strong resistance to or even offset of subspace pollution."

"What about the spiritual energy content in his body?"

"At present, it is in the range of ordinary people, and the current value is 34 spiritual energy."

"34"

Raphael put his hands behind his back.

The psychic energy range of ordinary people is between 1 and 50.

34 is a very popular number.

It proves that the other party had never used psychic energy before today.

Because as a psychic, the minimum psychic energy in the body is more than 10,000.

"So, why is he like this?"

"Have you investigated his past?"

This time, Raphael asked his secretary and housekeeper.

He has been with him for a long time, knows many of his secrets, and is absolutely loyal to him. He can't help but be loyal, because he is highly bound to his interests. In his opinion, any loyalty is not as good as loyalty to interests. People can betray anything, but they will not betray interests.

"Governor, it has been found out. From birth to now, all his data is there, there is no problem, no doubt, clean."

"What about his IQ?"

"It's also normal."

"So, what do you think?"

Raphael pointed to the screen and looked at Li Zhongren, who was tied to a chair with a calm face.

"This, Governor, I can't give a reasonable explanation."

The old man bowed with a dry smile.

"Let's go, I'll go and see for myself."

"Yes."

"Buzz"

The door of the laboratory slowly opened.

Raphael followed his butler in, and the surrounding experimenters saluted him respectfully.

Raphael nodded slightly and came to Li Zhongren.

"You, why are you not afraid?"

"Who are you?"

"I am the governor of this planet."

Raphael replied.

"So, answer my question, why are you not afraid? You don't have any trump cards, no backing, in such an environment, why are you not afraid?"

"Before that, I want to ask you a question, I am loyal to the Empire and the Hive, why do you want to tie me up?"

"Because I need your body."

After a moment of silence, Raphael briefly recounted what he was going to do.

"For the sake of the hive and the empire, I hope you can hand over your body, and I will erect a monument for you."

"Then, Governor, please forgive me for asking you a question."

"What question?"

Raphael felt more and more strange. When a normal person knows that he is going to die and his body is going to be plundered, he will definitely have emotions, but this person still has no emotions. It's just that things have come to this point and there is no room for retreat. If he fails, he will kill this person.

"After you take my body, then when you use my body to have sex with your wives, is it you who is having sex? Or am I? And, if you have offspring after this, isn't he my son?"

"You don't need to care about these things."

Raphael's face was a little unhappy. He knew all the problems Li Zhongren mentioned. In fact, the solution is also very simple. Just keep the genetic factors in advance. As for the others, he will undergo cosmetic surgery to transform his body after the body is changed. Others can't see the external image.

As for his wife.

Well, the Raphael family has no women, and the core of it is for this illusory immortality.

The Raphael family, all of them, are produced through artificial reproduction.

"Begin the transfer ceremony."

After a moment, Raphael gave the order.

As the saying goes, the longer the night, the more dreams there are. The golden psychic reserve is extremely popular in the entire galaxy.

Whether you are training or simply using it for experiments, it is the same.

So, according to reason, he should burn incense and bathe to concentrate.

But the reality is that in order to prevent accidents, he must be prepared for the transfer now.

Fortunately, the Raphael family has never forgotten this matter, so the ceremony is prepared. As long as there are golden reserves, they can be converted on the spot.

"Buzz~~"

With Raphael's order, another test bench rose in the room.

Raphael personally lay on it. Two test benches were placed side by side. Under each test bench, there were dense patterns. This was a special barrier from the psychic.

Its function is to ensure that during the conversion, the barrier will not be disturbed by the sea of ​​psychic energy.

"Buzz~~"

There was another sound of mechanical gears turning, and the mechanical hand injected the potion into Raphael's body. These potions also played an auxiliary role, used to strengthen Raphael's spiritual power.

"Soul out of body."

Yes, this is the special ability of the Raphael family. They can make their souls temporarily leave the body, and it is also the core of their occupation of other people's bodies.

At this moment, under the stimulation of the potion and the completely unsparing squeeze of the blood, Raphael's soul seemed to be a physical entity, and then he slowly floated in front of Li Zhongren and drilled into his body with a whoosh.

Fire, a blazing volcano!

Raphael was desperate and screamed

Looking at the volcano in front of him.

He finally knew where the confidence of this pariah on the third floor of the nest city was.

In the world of his spiritual projection, it turned out to be a huge furnace like a volcano

The next moment, an attraction that he could not resist sucked Raphael's soul into the furnace

Li Zhongren slowly opened his eyes.

On the side, stood the housekeeper, Li Deof.

"Governor, are you okay?"

Li Zhongren looked around. He was the only one in the room. On the side, Raphael's corpse had turned into dust.

It can only be said that this guy was too anxious, but his anxiety was reasonable. After all, in his setting, the golden psychic was close to the emperor, and he couldn't help but be tempted.

In a sense, this is like Tang Seng's meat. The monsters in Journey to the West don't eat it because Sun Wukong didn't solve it and didn't dare to eat it. In this world, there are no such restrictions. Once caught, you have to digest it. This is the unspoken rule.

"It's a pity that your governor is gone."

"This"

The old man was stunned for a moment, then spoke.

"No, you are Governor Raphael, aren't you?"

"Hehe"

Hearing this, Li Zhongren smiled lightly.

No mistakes in one song, one post, one content, one content, one book, one bar, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar, one look!

"Then, the matter is up to you."

He was not surprised by this result. As Raphael's butler, the old man had a relationship with Raphael that was a win-win situation. In a sense, it was like the relationship between the emperor and the eunuch. All his power came from the governor. If the governor died, who would care about him?

"I absorbed his soul and knew all his memories, so everything went according to plan."

"Yes, Your Excellency the Governor."

——

Your destiny requires your own efforts.

But sometimes, the choice of the goddess of fate is more important.

Just like him, yesterday, he was still a civilian in the third nest.

Today, he became the governor.

Where can he go to reason?

At present, according to the plan, he has completed the transformation of his appearance.

In addition to the memory obtained through the flame furnace, he is Raphael, and today is the emperor himself, he is also Raphael.

Standing on the top floor of the nest, looking at the world outside the nest.

Li Zhongren turned around.

"Li Deof."

"Governor, what do you want?"

Li Deof no longer had any contempt for this mysterious young man. In fact, in his mind, the other party was Raphael.

Nothing else, the contact in the past few days has proved that the other party has far more vision and knowledge than an ordinary young man in the nest city.

This is not something that can be obtained by simply devouring Raphael's memory, otherwise the ruler of this world should be an artificial intelligence computer, not a human.

"I want to reform the nest city."

Li Zhongren said.

"Reform?"

"Yes."

Li Zhongren nodded. The construction of the nest city is still a copy of the Warhammer series.

But the Warhammer series, after all, is the fantasy of Europeans and Americans, and many things in it are the way of thinking of Europeans and Americans.

To put it simply.

Some things that seem unreasonable to Orientals are indeed commonplace to Europeans and Americans.

Before he traveled through time, the East and the West had a historic meeting on an APP called Red Book.

The two sides exchanged their lives, daily routines.

Then, both sides were surprised by each other.

Europeans and Americans say that the East knows SHZY giant babies, while the East says that Europeans and Americans have a will of steel.

It means working sixty hours a week and selling blood twice to make a living.

Using 7% of the population, they provide 70% of the world's blood supply.

It is simply appalling.

Naturally, the Warhammer worldview based on such a set of capitalist logic is actually full of irrationality.

At least it is irrational in the eyes of Orientals.

For example, the construction of the hive city, the order of the hive city, and so on.

It is full of capitalist lazy politics.

It has obviously entered the interstellar era, and humans have already walked towards the sea of ​​stars, but it still gives people a sense of space opera.

Playing house.

Small family.

It is also because of this that the hive city he depicted based on this setting is also full of many irrationalities.

Of course, in this real world, behind these irrationalities are many interest groups.

And the governor has the highest power on such a planet. He has the final say in politics, military advisors, and economy.

No one can resist him.

So, if he wants to reform, he will definitely be able to reform.

"But."

After a moment of silence, Li Deof spoke.

"Will your reform affect taxation?"

Taxation, this is another weird setting.

In the interstellar era, the operation of the empire actually requires all planets to provide taxes, that is, money, to the main planet.

This is actually still an idea under the capitalist worldview.

But in reality, such a sum of money, or resources, across a long and slow road, to the main planet, I am afraid that it is not even enough for the toll.

So, he modified this point at the beginning.

An administrative planet needs to pay taxes to the main planet in exchange for a high degree of autonomy, but the taxes paid are not useless things like money, nor are they various mineral products.

What they pay is psychic energy.

Yes, psychic energy.

Only in this way is it the most reasonable.

Psychic energy is the hard currency of the entire galaxy and the core of maintaining the burning of the star torch.

Basically, except for the emperor's own star torch, which has unlimited MP, other star torches need to provide enough psychic energy to burn, and these psychic energies are projected from the real world through the main star torch, that is, the emperor's star torch.

In other words, their taxes are used to maintain the existence of the entire Star Torch network.

As for why the emperor does not directly extract the almost infinite psychic energy of the subspace to maintain the Star Torch network?

It is not that he cannot, but that he does not want to.

Ordinary Star Torches cannot withstand the torrent of the subspace, not to mention the will of the evil gods.

Therefore, only clean psychic energy can be used without side effects.

Then, the last point.

Where does psychic energy come from?

Psychic energy naturally comes from the hive city.

In fact, the entire hive city, in addition to being used to maintain construction, mining, and expansion, has another function, which is to absorb the fluctuations emitted from the human soul. These fluctuations converge into psychic energy, which is used to pay taxes.

However, there is one thing.

In order for the hive city to complete this ritual, the cooperation of psychics is required.

As time goes by, these psychics have become the ruling class of the hive city. Even though their status is below the governor, without their cooperation, the governor cannot absorb the psychic energy of the entire hive city alone to pay taxes.

If you don't pay taxes, the price is to be conquered by the empire, and then a new governor will be replaced.

The second-tier ruling class will not have any problems, they just changed the boss, that's all.

So, his old butler asked this question.

After all, this is the last bottom line of the empire, only death and taxes are inevitable.