black queen hypothesis

A suffocating pure white.

I don't know how many times he woke up from his stupor, but Vilas Quinn still saw this unchanging scene.His eyelids were heavy and his limbs were weak. Lying there, it was difficult for him to sigh.

Not that he was seriously injured.On the contrary, given the intensity of the war between the Federation and the Empire, the Federation only gave him, the former Marshal of the Empire, a high-concentration guide ability inhibitor, and then locked him in a circular cell located extremely deep underground. This is quite a degree. preferential treatment.

Although he was captured on purpose.

In any case, it has become a fact, and Vilas is not willing to analyze whether this choice is correct or not.After realizing that he couldn't fall asleep again for a while, he moved his body lazily and sat up.

By convict standards, his life was comfortable.The specially-made walls are as soft as the bed, the monitors are well hidden, the sound of the ventilation vents is too soft to be heard, and most of the time no one disturbs him—even the robots who take care of his daily life are cold.

The wristband partially implanted in the vein suddenly beeped.There was very little movement, but the room was so quiet that only his own breathing could be heard, so that the senses were amplified many times.

Vilas subconsciously stroked the soft-touch ring device.It was just a back-up measure, and there was a certain amount of guiding ability inhibitors in it, in order to prevent any accidents during the fixed injection interval, or to ensure that he could still inject the medicine regularly when he needed to leave the cell for a short time.

Whether it's inhibitors, monitors, robots, or solitary confinement, it all shows that they really fear him, or fear his name as the first interstellar guide.

But Vilas just wanted to sneer.Why bother?

The Empire is falling like a mountain, and a fully suppressed guide is as easy to deal with as a newly hatched chicken.He didn't know the meaning of the federal waste and strict surveillance on him, just like he didn't know why his death sentence was delayed.

Damn Federation, Damn Democracy, Damn... Alva.

In three months, if he had been in the empire, he would have turned into loess long ago.

An enemy that is 100% compatible with your own pheromones, if you don't kill it, can you keep it and continue to block yourself?

Silvio Alva did not know that he was being cursed through gnashing of teeth.Although he was indeed thinking about Vilas now, it was more based on the sensitive identity of the other party and the death sentence that the person concerned himself was thinking about.

There is no other reason for the delay in judgment.Because so far, the post-war committee has not been able to reach a consensus on the handling of the former imperial marshal.This is a difficult problem, so that it was overwhelmed by many complicated affairs after the war, and it has been put on hold until now that it can no longer be delayed.

"Crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, crimes against humanity... no matter which one it is, isn't it enough to send Quinn to death? Even if he is so stingy that he only has a rope?"

Heathcote, the four-star general and commander of special operations forces, said gruffly.He has short gray hair and a well-trimmed mustache that trembles with the words, not lacking in anger.

In this regard, the other people on the long table were not surprised.

The Special Operations Forces are the elite of the Confederate Army's elite, all sentinel guides.This elite team is almost invincible and invincible——

Yes, Veras Quinn was the one who made the "almost" the "almost" in the sentence.

This guide lived up to his reputation as number one in the interstellar world; in the decisive battle between the Federation and the Empire, he brought incalculable losses to the Federation Special Operations Forces, especially the final battle——

At that time the empire was over.Outside the palace of Sils Maria, the capital of the empire, federal special forces surrounded the remnants of the Imperial Guard; if the Imperial Guard resisted, they were ready to wipe it out.

After all, there are only a hundred people in the remnant of the guard, but they have thousands of people.Ten to one, no matter in any war, it is an absolute advantage ratio, and the battle damage of the dominant side is close to zero; not to mention that all the guides in the guard are dead.

But the fact is that the desperate fight of the Imperial Guard caused three or four times as many casualties to the Federal Special Forces as the Guards themselves.The number of casualties would have been even greater if it hadn't been for Sivio, who was the federal marshal at the time, to turn the tide.

No one thought it was possible until this thing actually happened.After this incident actually happened, people all over the planet realized that just as they couldn't find a Sentinel stronger than Silvio Alva, they couldn't find a Sentinel stronger than Vilas Quinn either. wizard.

A guide can command hundreds of sentries at the same time, and make them work together to produce unimaginable lethality-more than doubled-what does it mean?

If they are not at an absolute disadvantage, no one can find this guide; and if they cannot get close to this guide, they cannot subdue him.Not to mention, this guide can also turn most of the people who approach him into self-defense!

Union Minister of Security and Defense Union glanced nonchalantly at the general and his fellow generals, and then at the still expressionless face of the former president. "I agree with Heathcote. Quinn is a powerful humanoid weapon with the tip pointing towards us. As for the danger..." He stopped talking, raised his right hand, and made a short but powerful slash .

The murderous intent was coming, the long table was silent for a while, and several people were staring at the documents in front of them.After a while, the Vice President quietly gave the Speaker of the House of Representatives a wink, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives conveyed the wink to the Chief Federal Officer.

As an A-level guide, the military officer Ilia easily understood the meaning of the two ordinary people. "I'm still proposing a public trial." She said—she received four stares as expected, but she pretended not to notice—"We are not talking about one person now. You know, Veras Quinn is not just the former Marshal of the Empire," she paused, "he is also the only son of Empress Neferti, the last member of the royal family of Fin-Del."

There was a small commotion.Things are so troublesome - it's not easy when the imperial family is involved.Because under normal circumstances, members of the royal family enjoy immunity that ordinary people do not have.Although the Empire was defeated, it did not mean that all the planets under the Empire belonged to the Federation, and Veras Quinn was still the legal heir of the Empire.From a fair point of view, Ilea's proposal is very correct.

Yet Heathcote objected almost immediately. "I disagree," he said, his voice rougher. "It is true that Quinn is indeed the Queen's son, from his name and face. But 'the last of the royal family of Fin-Del'?" He uttered a curt Sneered, "I'm afraid the emperor himself doesn't think so?"

The long table was suddenly silent again.Because we all know that the empress was already pregnant when she married the emperor, and...

"Veras Quinn was sent away from Sils Maria at the age of six, spent seven years incognito, and entered Capitol's White Tower for training under the alias of Aleister Quinn. Consider Since Capitol is the capital of our federation, many people think that no matter how cruel the emperor is, it is impossible for him to treat his own son like this."

Intelligence Minister Bacall broke the silence unhurriedly.

"You are too cautious." Heathcote snorted, "Obviously everyone!"

Bacall did not pick up on this. "Normal people need a seven-year course, but Quinn completed it in only three years. I have to mention that he pretended to be a sentry at that time, but no one noticed. After graduation, he chose between the mercenary guild and the federal army. The former. Because of his joining, the original B-level Valenska Rose Corps became an S-level mercenary group, and he himself also won the title of 'Black Queen'."

These words sounded like they were praising Quinn for being strong, and both Heathcote and Union raised their brows with worried expressions. "Thank you so much, Bacall, repeat what we all know."

Bacall didn't seem to catch the irony in the words. "Looking at it now, Quinn is undoubtedly an extremely talented guide, possessing unparalleled mental power and pheromone compatibility range. Only in this way can he use his ability to influence the people around him, causing them all to produce He was a sentinel's misjudgment. In other words, at the risk of sudden fusion fever, Quinn still wants to enter the White Tower in order to exercise his ability in this area."

This is very objective.Spontaneous binding heat usually has a fixed period, which is easy to prevent; in addition, the sentinel guide with higher pheromone compatibility is more likely to cause sudden binding heat; and the wider the range of pheromone compatibility, it means that it will cause sudden binding heat The greater the chance of heat.

"If it wasn't for the last sentence, I would have thought you fell in love with Quinn." Union commented, with a stronger sarcasm.

Silvio, who had been unresponsive, glanced at him.This is too unconvincing, because not only Bacall is the sentinel, but also Union himself.

Bacall smiled slightly, showing a bit of innocence.He was about the same age as Silvio, and was the youngest of the two present. "I don't think I mind if you don't mention love."

No one expected him to admit it like this, and there was an uproar.

"...So what do you mean by these words?" Ilea couldn't help leaning forward.She had a premonition of danger, but she just didn't want to think about it.

Bacall didn't answer, but turned his head to look up at the person sitting upright with his hands crossed on the table.

"You want to recruit him." Sylvio finally spoke in a calm tone.

"That's right." Before the wide-eyed Heathcote could say anything, Bacall jumped ahead. "Compared to taking over all the star fields of the empire, it is more realistic and easier for Quinn to cooperate. With him, we have the biggest trump card to control the empire!"

To be clear, Veras Quinn has the symbolic meaning of the royal family, which means that ordinary prisoners of war cannot reach the use value.

"Are you saying..." Heathcote quickly calmed down from his anger, realizing that "soliciting" was a polite way of saying it.What Bacall meant was more like using a sentry to bind Quinn for his own use, even if the sentry was himself, it didn't matter.

Union also read the meaning. "...Bound Quinn?" He said in disbelief, "Are you crazy?"