IRCDM Chapter 98

Chapter 98: Success, It’s Your Turn

Chapter 98: Success, It’s Your Turn

The speech prepared by the military was long and tedious. Li Yao glanced at it and threw it directly into the chip’s recycle bin. Seeing this scene, Xun Zan, who was standing next to him, looked even paler than usual. Yi Heng Bai lowered his voice and reminded him, “Li Yao, don’t act rashly.”

Li Yao looked at the crowded people in the council hall and said unhurriedly, “I am very happy to be back in the military today and see you all again. Of course, I am even happier that we have received human signals from outer space. Vice Marshal Chen An and some comrades from the Dawn Fleet are likely still alive and have been persistently sending us coordinates. Although these coordinates are not yet clear enough, it also means that humanity still has hope of breaking through the blockade.”

As soon as this was said, it caused an uproar in the entire council hall. Xun Zan clenched his fists and coughed. Yi Heng Bai reached out to support him and looked up at Li Yao.

This part was not included in Li Yao’s speech today. Originally, he should have introduced to everyone how the advance team heroically sacrificed themselves in space, how the comrades sacrificed themselves to entrust the signal receiver to him, and how he compromised himself for the sake of all mankind, shouldering the infamy, and successfully completed the mission with his life under the attack of advanced heteromorphs and conservatives, falling from double 3S+ to double D-. Finally, he would express his confidence in the military…

If he delivered his speech honestly, the public would definitely be moved. Under sympathy and admiration, it would be the best starting point for Dawn Star to return to the public eye.

Unfortunately, Li Yao didn’t mention any of this. Instead, he directly put the uncertain matter on the table.

He looked at these faces, some strange and some familiar, and said every word clearly and powerfully: “I hope everyone can work together to overcome the difficulties.”

The bright lights dimmed, and soft music started, the final cocktail party of the celebration finally began.

Li Yao unbuttoned a button, and then he heard Xun Zan say, “Next, you young people can move freely. I’m old and won’t participate in these things.”

His voice was not loud, but everyone still looked over in unison. Yi Yuan and Qi Mingjing, Wei Lotong, and several commanders came over together. Yi Yuan feigned concern and said, “Marshal Xun, you need to rest more. The military will still rely on your leadership in the future.”

Xun Zan shook his head and patted Li Yao on the shoulder: “I’m relieved that Li Yao is back. Although he is young, he is a student taught by Chen An himself. Xu Hong, Du She, you are all old subordinates of Chen An. He just came back and is not familiar with things, you should help him more.”

Xu Hong and Du She looked at each other. Du She smiled smoothly: “Marshal Xun, we watched Li Yao grow up, this is what we should do. Besides, you have spoken, we will definitely follow your orders.”

Xu Hong breathed a sigh of relief imperceptibly. The expressions of the people present were different. Xun Zan glanced at them and nodded: “Li Yao, you came from the Special Heteromorph Combat Department before, so it’s not suitable to go back now. If you ask me, you should stay in the Mecha Department.”

“Yes.” Li Yao nodded.

Xun Zan left with his men, and the council hall returned to its liveliness, but under the liveliness were undercurrents.

Xun Zan’s words first warned Chen An’s old subordinates, such as Du She and Xu Hong, obviously not wanting to see them leaning towards Li Yao. But after the slap, he gave a sweet date, letting Li Yao stay in the Mecha Department. Although the three branches of the Mecha Department each have a commander, they are essentially Xun Zan’s direct departments. Putting Li Yao here clearly tells everyone that he values him – Xun Zan and Chen An both rose from the Mecha Department. Chen An is Xun Zan’s close disciple, and Li Yao is Chen An’s student. This is a clear direct line.

Not to mention that Vice Marshal Yi Yuan is his uncle, and Yi Heng Bai is his cousin. More subtly, it seems that Yi Yuan was adopted by the Yi family, and Yi Heng Bai was also a child selected by Yi Yuan from an orphanage. In essence, Li Yao is the legitimate heir of the Yi family.

With the blessing of many parties, Li Yao’s identity can be described as very popular. Xun Zan almost explicitly told everyone that this is the crown prince who returned to the military.

Liang Huan sneered in the crowd: “Old thing.”

Zhu Ming was shocked to look at him: “Be careful someone hears you.”

Liang Huan looked at Li Yao, who was surrounded in the center. He was all too familiar with the methods used by this old fox, Xun Zan. Back then, in Northern Liang, he had treated the crown prince like this – first warning and deterring, then giving some sweets. He wanted to prevent the crown prince from forming cliques and developing thoughts that he shouldn’t have, but also to ensure the crown prince’s position in the court. When necessary, he would also use the crown prince as a scapegoat. If once wasn’t enough, he would do it several times, and the person would be roasted on the fire. The only one who could save him was the emperor, and in the end, he could only rely on imperial power and couldn’t have other thoughts.

He was very comfortable doing it, but it made him very uncomfortable to see it being used on Li Yao.

“It doesn’t matter.” Liang Huan picked up a glass of wine and handed it to Zhu Ming. “It’s your turn.”

At the same time, the top floor of the military building.

Due to the previous intrusion of a small mecha into the shield control room, after much discussion by the military, the patrol method was specially changed from an all-robot patrol team to a robot-human co-patrol.

From the outer corridor of the top control room, you can just see the central conference hall diagonally opposite.

“The celebration of Dawn Star looks really lively.” A soldier sighed, “It’s a pity we don’t have the opportunity to participate.”

The partner next to him smiled: “If we do a good job, we will have many opportunities to see Dawn Star in the future.”

The soldier turned to look at him: “That’s right, but Hang Yue, you finally got a chance to take a vacation, why did you come over again today?”

“There’s no one at home anyway. It’s better to be with you than to be alone.” The soldier named Hang Yue replied with a smile. He was tall and handsome. As one of the most recent batch of recruits, he had been sent to do the most boring patrol work less than a month after joining the military, but he had no complaints and was very capable of leading, making him popular among the new recruits.

“But the patrol work is too boring. The East District base has the best shield technology. In so many years, it only had a malfunction a while ago, and it was repaired in one day. I really don’t understand what there is to see.” The soldier sighed.

Hang Yue walked behind him and looked at the heavily guarded control room at the corner: “There won’t be too many problems with robots.”

“That’s right—” Before the soldier could finish his words, he was suddenly strangled by the neck. He widened his eyes in shock, and just as he was about to press the emergency button, an unknown liquid was injected into his neck, and he instantly softened and fainted.

‘Hang Yue’ quickly dragged the person into the toilet next to him and clicked on the headset: “Monitoring shielded successfully. Pei Zhong, how is your side?”

In the technology department, a trainee in a white coat glanced at the chip and stood up: “Teacher, my work is done. I’m leaving work first.”

The older person who was working overtime waved his hand without even raising his head.

The sound of footsteps gradually faded away, and with the closing of the door, the entire technology department’s office instantly fell into darkness. High-intensity gas spread from the trainee’s work station. After tens of seconds, the lights turned on again, and the dozen or so people who were originally working overtime were all lying on the table, as if they were just too tired and fell asleep.

“Success.” Pei Zhong took off his gloves, revealing two intact hands. “Start the operation.”

Near midnight, the shield above the base emitted a fluorescent blue light. Outside the shield were the devastated city and the terrifying zombies and heteromorphs, the mutated plants and animals and the increasingly depleted resources under the excessive radiation value. Inside the shield were the technologically advanced high-rise buildings and the humans who slept peacefully. Other districts cut off electricity and water early, and the East Third District across the street had already fallen into darkness, while the air fountains and ornamental lights in the East 1 Rich District were still working overnight.

The military building was brightly lit.

The mental power displayed on Li Yao’s wristband had dropped to the lowest level of the warning line. He had drunk a lot of wine tonight, and he didn’t really taste anything, but the intoxication was real. This made Dawn Star feel a little wronged. He refused several people who came up to drink, and perfunctorily dealt with them gently.

“Nice to meet you, Colonel Li Yao.” Ye Zhen led several people from I Department to toast. “I am Ye Zhen, the deputy minister of Mecha I Department. We have met in videos before.”

As for whose video it was, both of them knew it well.

“Nice to meet you.” Li Yao originally planned to put down the wine glass, but he raised it again. After all, this was Liang Huan’s subordinate, which could be regarded as his family, so he had to give him face.

The wristband vibrated slightly, sending out a warning.

Ye Zhen smiled and blocked his wine, leaned closer to him and whispered: “Recently, the signal tower transceivers of each Mecha Department have been borrowed and uniformly taken over by Zhu Li, who has just joined the Technology Department. I heard that they are studying some signal receiver stripping and solidification technology.”

He raised his head and smiled: “Colonel Li Yao’s body has just recovered, so let’s replace wine with tea.”

After speaking, he left with his men, as if he had just come to say hello simply.

Li Yao drank the remaining half cup of tea as if nothing had happened. After staying in the council hall for a while, he turned and walked out the door. Soon, two more figures followed closely behind him.

The mental power value on the wristband began to fluctuate violently, dropping to E- at an incredible speed. The micro-metal detection reaction was about to drop to the lowest value. Li Yao glanced at it and quickened his pace.

There was no problem with the wine, and there was no problem with the tea. In addition to these, he cautiously did not eat anything, and the mental power protection device on his body was still running… So how did this Zhu Li succeed?

Tsk.

He quickly walked into the toilet next to him, reached out and took out a bottle of mental power enhancer, ready to swallow a bottle to save himself in an emergency. A hand suddenly stretched out from the darkness and grabbed his wrist, dragging him and the medicine into the cubicle.

The lights in the toilet went out instantly, and the dark blue pills fell all over the floor with a crackling sound. Li Yao exchanged a dozen moves with him out of thin air, but obviously the other party had some scruples and did not use his full strength, but only tried to subdue him. Li Yao was already in a bad mood. At the moment when his arm was restrained, he suddenly bent over, and the other party let go when his shoulder was almost dislocated.

He unhesitatingly slammed a knee up, which was blocked by the other party’s palm. The narrow space was not good for movement. Li Yao decisively turned over, stepped on the toilet and did a back spin kick, kicking the decorative glass fake flowers and crystal partitions to pieces, directly kicking towards the other party’s neck. Unfortunately, the other party reacted extremely quickly, raised his hand to block it, and grabbed his ankle. Li Yao supported the wall with one hand and leaped up, his knee about to hit the other party’s face—

But the other party unexpectedly supported his thigh and buckled his belt with the other hand, and yanked him forward with force.

So he successfully clamped the other party’s waist in a weird posture.

“Fuck?!” Li Yao cursed in shock.