Alessio imagined many beginnings.
Maybe the other party will act coquettishly to please him and try to get away with it; or he may pretend that nothing happened before and continue to play along with him as if nothing has happened... Of course, the most likely thing is that he will complain in turn that his invitation is not sincere. , and rake it down confidently.
No matter which one it is, Alessio will not be surprised and has already thought of countermeasures in advance.
But this kind of...
To be honest, Alessio really didn't expect it.
The older military female choked slightly. Although there was no clue on her face, she actually paused for a long time before she collected her subtle emotions and looked helplessly at the male opposite.
The latter opened his bright blue cat eyes and looked back innocently.
After being exposed by Yilin, he broke the pot and finally revealed his true nature?
The fact that Alessio's spiritual sea is on the verge of bursting is not a rare secret in the empire.
The higher the genetic level of the female insect, the broader the spiritual sea, and the easier it is to cause mental sea disorder after a battle. If accumulated over many years, local disorder will evolve into an overall mental riot.
This is like explosives of different sizes in the same container.
The lower female insect's mental sea is only that big in total, so even if her mental riot occurs, it will not lead to death.
This is not the case with higher female insects.
The bigger the spiritual sea is, the more violent the spiritual riots will be. Without the pheromones of the higher male insects to soothe them, the spiritual sea that once helped the higher female insects to overwhelm the lower female insects would only become their life-threatening talisman due to increasingly ferocious mental riots every time, until they were completely dead.
However, Alessio, as a high-level female insect, is over a hundred years old and still unmarried. Anyone with a clear eye knows that it will only be a matter of time before the Imperial Marshal dies from a mental riot.
Even if the military department deliberately conceals such a common sense issue, it cannot hide it.
certainly.
Knowing the knowledge does not mean that any insect dares to mention this openly in front of the imperial marshal. The other party is the head of the military department. Even if the mission is not long ago, it does not affect his ability to kill and seize his insects. At this time, if he gets into trouble, he is not living impatiently. Yet?
If another insect mentioned this matter to him today, Alessio would promise to let him die before his mental riot, but Tang Jiu...
He raised his eyes slightly and looked at the male insect in front of him.
The young male's expression remained the same, as if he didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said at all - when Alessio looked over, he remained silent, tilted his head, and asked strangely: "Why don't you speak? Could it be that I guess wrong?"
...?
Is this okay to ask?
Alessio didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Perhaps it is because during this period of time, he has deeply experienced how off-line the male insect in front of him is in some aspects. Regarding the male insect's thundering behavior, Alessio is actually in a good mood and even has the intention to follow it. The other person’s topic is a joke:
"Yes, I am about to die. How about Sir Tang Jiu think of a way to show me a way to survive?"
Tang Jiu was pragmatic: "To be honest, it's quite difficult for you, a worm, to survive."
When he said this, he sat up straight, stopped eating the dessert in his hand, and the expression on his face changed from the relaxed one before, with a serious face, as if Alessio had asked a difficult question. , and he was thinking hard about this problem.
Alessio looked at it with great interest: "How do you say it?"
Tang Jiu raised his fingers and counted for him: "Look, you are over a hundred years old this year, and your spiritual sea has reached a point where even A-level males cannot solve it. To solve your symptoms, you must not only be an S-level Males also need the pheromones naturally secreted by S-class males when they combine with you when they really like you. This..."
He blinked: "I am sure that I can evolve into an S-class male after my second awakening, but are you sure that I will fall in love with you?"
Alessio couldn't help but laugh now. He held the side of his face with his left hand and said funnyly: "You put on such a posture, aren't you here to negotiate with me?"
Tang Jiu didn't understand why: "Yes."
Alessio raised his eyebrows, raised the corners of his mouth, and chuckled: "Since it is a negotiation, shouldn't it be you who promises me that you will work hard to make yourself fall in love with me and solve the problem of my spiritual sea? How to become Let me find a way to make you fall in love with me?"
"Theoretically, this is correct."
The male worm frowned, thought about this question seriously, and answered: "But if I promise like this, will you really believe it?"
Alessio paused slightly and turned his head to look at Tang Jiu.
"The premise of exchange of interests is exchange of equal value."
When Tang Jiu said this, his expression was rare and serious. He asked, "I don't even know if I will fall in love with you, so how can I use such uncertainty as a bargaining chip in exchange? The Al I know Theo, you won’t do this kind of loss-making business.”
At first glance, he and Alessio seem to be a good fit.
One of them is about to evolve into an S-class male, and the other is in desperate need of the pheromones secreted by an S-class male when they are truly united. So as long as Tang Jiu awakens for the second time and falls in love with Alessio, won't everything be solved?
But Tang Jiu knew that was not the case.
As a high-level male insect, no matter how much Tang Jiu doesn't understand love or despise the existence of love, he should know that an individual's emotions can never be controlled by oneself. The wind that blows through me has to do as it pleases.
Since there is no certainty, it is naturally not suitable to use it as a bargaining chip.
Using such empty words to deceive the other party's real commitments and interests, isn't this a liar?
He said that Alessio was his prey, but in fact, Tang Jiu had never underestimated the Imperial Marshal. From beginning to end, he showed his true self in front of Alessio. Even if he was acting on occasion, he was pretending based on mutual understanding.
Playing tricks in front of such a cunning and powerful military woman?
Tang Jiu is not crazy yet!
The most appropriate way to deal with Alessio is to make all the calculations obvious, rather than treating such a high-ranking military woman as a fool, and her cleverness will be mistaken for her.
Alessio's heart moved slightly.
He lowered his eyes and looked at the male opposite, his eyelashes lowered, but the corners of his mouth slightly raised, raising a barely visible chuckle: "Your Excellency, you are sincere."
"of course."
Tang Jiu smiled unceremoniously: "Sincerity is the eternal last resort... Wait a minute, don't change the subject. Do you still want to listen to my directions? Don't blame me for not reminding you, Tang Mr. Jiu teaches in person, but not everyone has the opportunity to listen."
Speaking of which, Alessio was really interested in Tang Jiu's next topic.
He mentioned the riots in his mental sea, but he did not intend to use his mental sea disorder as a bargaining chip like the males he met in the past, and fool him by saying that he would fall in love with him after evolving into an S-class male insect and cure him. he……
What exactly does the other party want to do?
To be precise——
What does the other party want to give, and what does the other party want to get from him?
As if he had seen through the doubts in Alessio's heart, Tang Jiu did not hide his intention and said straightforwardly: "You have no chance of survival, but what about the other bugs in the military who have been following you all these years?"
Alessio's expression did not change.
He raised his eyebrows slightly, crossed his hands to support his chin, and the sunlight cast half a shadow on his side face. He maintained an upright sitting posture, his golden eyes stared at the male insect with a smile, and his tone was filled with emotion. Mild interest:
"continue."
Another insect might have retreated before the Imperial Marshal's momentum.
But Tang Jiu is not afraid of him!
The young male raised his eyebrows and spoke provocatively: "You are so smart, you must have known that Tariq had had different intentions for a long time, right? Then you know that he is colluding with the conservative Howard, and he will just wait for you to die due to the dispersion of the spirit sea. Are you taking the military headquarters to surrender to the House of Representatives?"
"He will cooperate with Howard to block the ascending channel for low-level military females that you finally pried open. There will still be a huge chasm between low-level females and higher-level females. There will no longer be any military females from the Frontier Star branch. Those with illustrious military exploits or outstanding combat qualities are transferred to the headquarters for further training, and the entire military headquarters will become a military force that ensures they will always be at the top.”
"Of course, not all military females will follow Tariq and choose the old nobility. Those military females who follow you will not succumb to the rule of conservatives. The empire that has been peaceful for hundreds of years will start a civil war again. All those who once followed you and held the All the military females with the same stupid ideas as you will die in the war, leaving only the noble bugs."
"Even so, do you think it's okay?"
Tang Jiu is not alarmist.
What he said was not his personal delusion, but the real future after the death of the original Alessio.
In the original work, after Alessio's death, the military was leaderless, and the senior military officers were left to their own devices.
The protagonist is a fledgling under the influence of Tariq. In order to further control the military and become the biggest winner of Alessio's death, he chose to rely on external forces - the conservative second-in-command, the Howard family. But he didn't expect Howard to also have the intention of using him to get involved in the military.
Since then, the empire has entered a three-year civil war. Various forces fought fiercely to compete for the "legacy" left behind by Alessio's death, resulting in numerous casualties.
Alessio said nothing.
He remembered the examination report given by the military doctor during his last physical examination.
According to the military doctor, due to the increasingly violent mental turmoil, Alessio now has less than a year left to live. The military doctor was his old friend. At that time, he couldn't help but sigh and asked him, is it worth pursuing such a goal that harms the insect but does not benefit oneself?
Alessio just laughed and didn't say whether it was worth it or not.
Unlike those higher-level female insects who were born at the pinnacle of power, Alessio's female father was only a B-level, and was only the female slave of a B-level lord. With such an ordinary background, Alessio, of course, was not happy at first. Only B grade.
It was only because he was born smart and had good luck that his female father had focused on cultivating him since he was a child. This allowed him to naturally enter Class A after his coming-of-age ceremony.
Later, it was because of his intelligence and tactical literacy, as well as his life-threatening madness on the battlefield, that he was appreciated by the reformist officers.
Fifty years of grassroots battles allowed him to win the trust and recognition of countless low-level military women, and the reformers deliberately cultivated him. In the end, with his illustrious military exploits, Alessio broke through his own limits in a near-death accident. After being promoted to S-class, he was pushed to the throne of Imperial Marshal.
And he has been in control of the military for fifty years.
Alessio knows that he is not a good insect, but he is seeking his position. Since he is now the leading insect of the reformists, of course he has the obligation to seek the interests of the low-level military women who pushed him to the top. In this strict hierarchy, The cold and oppressive empire, where the weak and the strong prey on the strong, has to fight for a way out for the low-level military female who regards him as a god.
Alessio is not afraid of death -
Ever since the House of Representatives had strictly guarded against him and the higher-level males fifty years ago, he had been mentally prepared to die due to the dispersion of the spiritual sea.
His life has been wonderful enough, and now looking back on the past, he has no regrets.
If anything, Alessio is more worried that after his death, everything he has worked so hard for will be destroyed. The military females who have followed him crazily for many years will become pawns of the nobles, and the low-level military females will lead to the upper class. The passage was once again completely blocked and cut off.
Alessio knew that what Tang Jiu said was true.
It's true that Tariq has a different heart, and it's probably true that he secretly colluded with Howard.
but--
He smiled: "What about you?"
Tang Jiu: "...What?"
"If I remember correctly, Fleming is the boss of the conservatives, right? Do you want to guess, if Howard and Tariq join forces to gather the military, how will Howard, the former second-in-command, treat those who once suppressed him? Fleming on their head?”
In just a few words and a change of thought, the older military female understood the whole leopard at a glance, and easily saw another truth that the male had deliberately concealed and avoided mentioning.
He laughed softly and spoke again slowly.
"Let me think about it."
"Howard will take advantage of the opportunity to wear the skin of a reformist, and in the name of inheriting my last wish, he will point the finger at my old enemy-that is, your female father. Although Tariq and Howard are not evenly distributed, he should be They will have a common language with him, and they will temporarily put aside their conflicts, take the lead in devouring Fleming, and kick out the powerful nobles in the House of Lords."
"You and your male father are male insects, so maybe nothing will happen. At most, your quality of life will be reduced and your daily consumption will be downgraded. But your female father, Viscas Fleming, and your female insect brothers... "
Alessio said calmly: "I will die."
Tang Jiu:!
The little male worm pursed his lips and said nothing.
Tang Jiu didn't expect that he only mentioned Tariq's collusion with Howard, and based on this, Alessio deduced the entire future in the original work that he had not mentioned, and even used it as a bargaining chip. In turn, he overpowered him and regained the upper hand in the negotiations.
Thinking of the ending of the female father and brothers in the original work, the little male insect instinctively turned red at the corners of his eyes, clenched his hand unconsciously under the table, and was speechless for a moment.
Alessio was originally going to continue talking.
Negotiation, of course, is about taking advantage of the victory, especially when the other party is emotionally unstable and exposes flaws, which is the best time to seek benefits.
However, when Alessio's eyes fell on the reddish corners of the little male's eyes, he finally softened.
never mind.
No matter how cunning and shrewd the other party is, he is just a little rose who grew up under the loving care of his relatives. Why is he talking to him about such boring and dirty politics?
well.
Alessio sighed and took the initiative to make concessions: "Tell me about your reasons for coming here. What do you want from me, and what can you bring me?"
The little rose drooped its petals and still said nothing.
Her beautiful blue eyes were filled with a faint mist of water, which was about to make her eyelids wet.
Done!
Isn't he trying to make the little male insect cry?
Alessio's heart skipped a beat, and he didn't know where to put his hands for a moment. The whole insect felt like it was facing a formidable enemy. However, this "enemy insect" was not the aristocratic female insect he used to compete with at the negotiation table, but a real insect. A delicate male insect that cannot be touched. Thinking of this, the military female's usually calm face showed a rare hint of weakness. She could only soften her voice and coax her:
"Okay, it's all my fault. It's all my fault. I shouldn't have said those words. You...don't cry."
