Chapter 300 Power! It Belongs to the Capable! Otherwise, There Will Be Backlash!

"Sir, I was forced to do this."

Peter seemed to feel guilty and reluctant on the surface, but there was no emotional fluctuation in his heart. To him, betraying his old master for the sake of survival was nothing.

"Your fate is death anyway. Please let me send you to Duke Leto and let me live!"

Seeing that Peter could feel at ease and say such nonsense, Baron Barron was immediately furious. He pointed at Peter and cursed:

"Damn beast! You are my Mentat. Do you think you can survive by sending me out? A treacherous retainer will never have a good end."

"The old man Leto will never let you go!"

Barron knew that he was a complete bad person and that he had offended many people by his behavior and actions. Therefore, he knew very well that the retainers who followed him would definitely not have a good end once they were caught by the enemies.

There was no way. The Harkonnen family had offended too many forces, and the bad things were done by a large group of people. It was not realistic to let him come out alone to take the blame.

From Leto's perspective, Barron would have to kill the Harkonnen family to put an end to it.

However, Peter was unmoved and was still determined to tie Barron up in front of the Atreides family.

"As long as there is a chance, I will not give up."

In fact, Peter understood the truth of what Barron said, but he had to do this to have a chance.

Opportunities are earned by oneself. Even if he failed to get the forgiveness of Duke Leto, he had tried his best, which was better than sitting and waiting to die.

Seeing that Peter was not moved by soft or hard words, the desperate Baron Barron shouted to the guards around him, hoping that someone would kill this damn traitor and save him.

But the next second, Peter uttered a creepy sneer. He turned his head to look at the corpse at the end of the corridor, then looked at his bloody shoes, and said with a smile:

"Baron, you don't need to shout anymore, we are the only ones here."

"Not long ago, your few guards were taken away by your good nephew, and the remaining guards loyal to you were also killed by me."

"No one can come to save you now."

"Oh, by the way..."

Speaking of this, Peter smiled with a murderous look on his face and said: "Your good nephew Laban didn't escape far before he was discovered by the people of the Space Guild and was blown to death by them."

"Not even a dregs were left."

It turned out that when Baron Barron ordered Peter to go down and prepare the escape ship as soon as possible, Peter let Laban take the guards away, and then deliberately used the hands of the Space Guild to kill Laban and those guards.

Grosu Laban is the nephew of Baron Baron. He has a rough and wild appearance and a very cruel temperament, so he is also called the beast Laban.

As the captain of Baron's security team, Laban is quite loyal to Baron. Although this nephew has caused trouble for the family, Baron still keeps him by his side for a long time.

When he learned that even Laban was killed by Peter, Barron gnashed his teeth at the venomous snake and roared hysterically:

"You beast, you have been planning to betray me just now. Wait and see, you will never have a good end!"

Barron's defense was broken and out of control, but Peter did not feel the slightest bit of nervousness and fear. He slowly stepped back two steps and said:

"Baron, don't be angry. Duke Leto has always been kind to others. Maybe he will let you go. It's hard to say."

After the voice fell, Peter turned and walked towards the corridor, ignoring Barron's angry curses behind him. Next, he and the Space Guild will give Barron as a token of loyalty to the Atreides Family!

...

At this moment, a large number of ship wreckages were floating on the space battlefield. These fragmented metals with electric arcs meant that the interstellar battle just now had come to an end.

The expeditionary fleet array of the Universal Corporation still stood as steady as a mountain in the dark space. The coalition forces of the Harkonnen and Corino families did not cause any effective blow to them.

The forces of Harkonnen and Corino's own legions had long been defeated. Some fled and some died in battle. The remaining military forces were no longer able to organize the next round of offensive.

Most of the defeated troops chose to flee back to their home planets, returning to where they came from.

Before escaping, the troops of the Harkonnen and Corino families even fought each other for the navigator used for navigation, and another round of conflict and fighting broke out.

Such civil unrest also accelerated the collapse of the Harkonnen and Royal Coalition, and everyone crashed into a ball in a panic.

The original Harkonnen army was one of the best family armed forces in the Galactic Empire, second only to the Corino royal family.

But now, they only have less than 10,000 scattered soldiers, and these remnants are even fighting each other. In this empty space battlefield, despair and fear permeate the hearts of all the Harkonnens.

At this moment, the fleet commanders of the Universal Enterprise have actually known the situation of the Harkonnens, but they have not made any decisions for the next step.

They neither sent out carrier-based aircraft units to kill them all in one go, nor chose to recruit these Harkonnens, but just watched them fight and kill each other silently.

Only a small part of the Sadoka Legion continued to charge the Giant Enterprise fleet fearlessly.

But their suicide attack was destined to be in vain. Before they could get close to the fleet in front of them, they were shot down one by one by close-in defense artillery.

In fact, these soldiers of the Sadoka Legion did not launch attacks on giant companies to complete their missions, but to demonstrate their loyalty and bravery.

It can be said that they are dying to make their ambition clear.

Nearly half an hour later, these Sadoka warriors were all killed in battle, and the last iron army of the Colino royal family disappeared into the dark sky.

Immediately afterwards, the AI ​​reconnaissance plane of the giant company in the world also found the high battleship of the Astronautical Guild to the north of the satellite of Arrakis.

The members of the Astronautical Guild on the high battleship took the initiative to contact the Atreides family and claimed that they had trapped Baron Barron and could deliver this brutal guy to Leto at any time.

Faced with the atrocious behavior of the Aerospace Guild, Hawat, who was in charge of this space battle, although he despised this group of people, he still had to express his acceptance of the other party's surrender.

After all, both Duke Leto and the giant CEO of the world, Li Ang, want to end this battle as soon as possible.

However, considering the possibility of a desperate fight by the Astronautical Guild, Leto did not rush to send any senior personnel to the high-class ship. He only sent some family guards and Spartan warriors to take over the control of the high-class ship.

This war was not over until all the navigators in the high battleship and the Harkonnens, including Peter and Baron Baron, were captured.

…

Not long after, Leto and Hawat walked side by side in the corridor leading to the high-class battleship's central control room, accompanied by Song Zhaomei, the director of the giant enterprise expeditionary force.

Song Zhaomei blinked her red-glow prosthetic eyes, and she transmitted the first-person view here back to the Wanjie Base headquarters in real time.

So that Li Ang can understand the situation here at the first time.

At this moment, Li Ang, who was sitting at the headquarters of the Wanjie Base, was watching Song Zhaomei and his party gradually walk into the central control room of the high battleship through the holographic screen in front of him.

There were no surprises in the outcome of this interstellar war. The defeat of Harkonnen and the Corinor royal family basically declared that the overall situation of the "Dune" universe was decided, and all that was left to do was to redistribute benefits.

[Song Zhaomei, keep an eye on the situation here. Keep Barron and Peter alive for the time being. Don’t let them kill them. 】

Li Ang used the communication device to issue orders to Song Zhaomei.

Of course he knows that Barron and Peter are full-fledged villains and out-and-out bad guys, but Leon doesn't care.

There are differences between good and bad. In fact, from the perspective of the Harkonnen family, Baron Barron's inappropriate behavior over the years has indeed made the family stronger.

Even if it follows the original plot line, if the sisterhood hadn't interfered and given the protagonist Paul the investment to raise an army, the Harkonnen family would have really been able to move towards a great revival.

But unfortunately, destiny is not on Harkonnen's side.

In addition, for Li Ang, he will not choose anyone based on simple good or bad. The only people who can be killed by his order are unruly fools.

Therefore, whether Barron and Peter can survive next depends on whether these two people can react quickly enough and realize the good signals of joining a giant company.

"yes."

Song Zhaomei responded in a low voice, and then continued to follow Leto to the central control room of the high-ranking ship.

While walking, Hawat had an uncontrollable smile on his face, "This battle will end much faster than we thought!"

"It is truly an expeditionary legion of one of the world's giants. Those Harkonnens and Sadoka warriors have all become cannon fodder. It makes me feel bad for Barron and Padisha."

Hawat was praising the fleet of the giant company along the way, complimenting Song Zhaomei with the utmost flattery. He also wanted to get a few such warships to enrich the Atreides family's naval power.

If it weren't for the fact that Song Zhaomei was here, Hawat would have laughed out loud.

The Atreides and Harkonnen families have a feud. Originally, the strength of the two families was evenly matched, but with the emergence of the Lansgard Federation, Atreides' political influence became higher than that of the Harkonnens.

In order to balance the situation between the two families, the royal family decided to hand over the mining rights of Arrakis to the Harkonnen family for monopoly.

Relying on the spice monopoly business for nearly a century, the Harkonnen family has risen rapidly, and its strength alone has surpassed that of the Atreides family.

Facing this evil tiger-like Harkonnen family, Atreides could only focus on defense and constantly use the Lansgard Federation to mediate.

If it hadn't been for the emergence of the world's giants, the current Atreides family might have been destroyed by the joint efforts of the Harkonnen and Colino families!

Now that the Harkonnen family's army was completely wiped out, Laban, who was expected to succeed Harkonnen as Baron, also died on the way to escape.

Although the guards of the Atreides have not yet set foot on the Jedi planet, Harkonnen is already in name only, waiting to be taken over.

"What do other families say? Are they willing to cooperate with our actions?"

At this moment, Duke Leto was very calm. He knew that this battle had nothing to do with the Atreides family, and he just won by lying down.

Hawat smiled and responded: "Of course, everyone will push the wall down. Without the Sadoka Army, all those families will come out to plunder the royal family's territory."

"There is no need for us to call them. This group of people will bring their own family guards to help us attack the positions of the royal family and the Harkonnen family."

Thanks to Emperor Padishah, Baron Barron's habit of not being a good person has offended many people. Naturally, no one dares to provoke such a big bad guy when he is strong.

But once a flaw is exposed, everyone will gather around and attack fiercely, complaining and taking revenge.

Especially the Colino royal family, which has been oppressing various families for a long time!

"Yes, it just saves us the time to liquidate the royal family."

Leto nodded, and then walked into a heavily guarded room, where they saw Baron Barron tied up.

"Your Majesty the Duke."

The guard responsible for guarding the room stepped forward and saluted, and said in a deep voice: "We have searched Baron Barron in all directions. He does not carry any weapons. You can interrogate him with confidence."

Leto nodded and waved to the other party to go out and wait.

Since it has been searched, it means that every part of Barron from his teeth to his anus has been inspected. Unless Barron has control of his voice, Barron does not pose any threat at this moment.

But Song Zhaomei has a voice control shielding device on her body that can ignore anyone's voice control, so Leto doesn't need to worry about Barron escaping with his voice control.

Immediately, Leto and Song Zhaomei walked in and communicated face to face with Barron.

"Barron, you didn't expect us to meet here, did you? You look a lot fatter. Aren't you afraid that your greed will push you to death?"

Duke Leto locked his eyes on Barron, looking at the other person's white and tender pork belly, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Oh, it's just success and failure. If I win, they will say that I am enterprising. If I lose, I will become greedy in your mouth."

Barron did not accept Leto's ridicule at all. He raised his head and looked at the other person. At this point, Barron also looked away a lot.

"Where did that fleet outside come from? I don't believe that the Aerospace Guild can help you build such a battleship, nor do I believe that you can rely on your own research to build such a behemoth."

After a series of reviews, Barron realized that all his steps were correct, except that he missed the opponent's battleship.

He really couldn't understand why the Atreides family could build such a powerful fleet under the eyes of the royal family and the Harkonnen family. This was completely unreasonable.

"We didn't build those battleships."

Leto did not hide the truth. He frankly explained Baron's doubts and informed him of the existence of the giant company in the world.

From the emergence of the giant company to the fact that Leon, the executive of the giant company in the world, wanted to be the emperor and support the Atreides family, he told Barron everything.

After listening to Leto's fantasy-like story and looking at Song Zhaomei standing next to Leto, Barron's head was buzzing.

Powerful civilizations from other universes...!

"How is this possible?"

Barron felt that his head was a little dizzy. What conspirators are best at is calculation and laying out all controllable points, so what they are afraid of are uncontrollable factors.

It's like two armies confronting each other. They were fighting well, but suddenly a rain of meteorites fell from the sky, knocking one of them to their knees while the other side reaped the benefits.

If the outcome depends entirely on destiny, then do conspirators like them still need to plan?

"I'm already dying, is there any point in saying this?"

Baron Baron obviously couldn't believe Leto's words. He couldn't help but laugh when he heard the beginning of such a story to tease a little kid.

In his opinion, this was a complete insult to his own intelligence.

Seeing that Barron did not believe what he said, Leto just smiled and said: "Since you don't believe it, then who else do you think can build such a battleship in the Galactic Empire?"

As soon as these words came out, Barron immediately fell silent.

Indeed, unless we get the help of other powerful civilizations, the Atreides family will never be able to build this fleet with its little wealth.

Although the truth is difficult to believe, this is the most realistic answer.

"So, we didn't lose to the Atreides family, but to the giant company of the universe, a super civilization that spans multiple universes...!"

Baron Barron leaned weakly on the chair. His face seemed to have aged for decades, becoming sad and listless.

"I don't understand why the world's giants would choose your Atreides family instead of the Collino royal family or the Harkonnen family."

When he said this, Barron turned his head and looked at Song Zhaomei, hoping to get the reason from her.

After all, they are all working as dogs for giant companies, so why should they let the Atreides family do it? It is clear that the Harkonnen family can also support giant companies and can be a good dog!

Song Zhaomei did not give a reason for this, but looked at Leto, as if to indicate to him to answer Barron's question.

Leto was very calm and told Barron directly: "Because my Atreides family is more valuable, I am the leader of the Lansgard Federation, and most families will listen to me."

"And you, the Harkonnen family, usually do many evil things and are greedy. Most of the families want the Harkonnens to die."

"If it were me, I would also choose the Atreides family. This will make it easier to manage the Galactic Empire and make the integration easier."

Leto has a very clear understanding of his position. He knows that he can only be a dog in front of the world's giants, but at the same time, he also knows that there are more benefits to being a dog than to being an emperor.

Being a seemingly powerful emperor in the Galactic Empire will lead to hatred, jealousy and resentment from the families below, with high risks and low returns.

But being a dog in the camp of the world giants can not only make you the head of each family, but also ensure that you can make money by following the world trade circle of the giants.

False titles are far less valuable than real benefits, and Duke Leto knows this very well.

Power is always held by the capable, otherwise it will be backlashed and fall into a place of no return.

The fate of the Corino royal family today is the best proof.