black queen hypothesis

Vilas hadn't seen this slightly eerie scene yet, but that didn't mean he didn't know anything about it.When the sex was over, as soon as he entered the study, he saw that his Minister of Defense had already complied with his request and waited.

"Your Majesty." Debicki saluted respectfully, and Vilas stopped him before he could say anything else. "That's enough. We have other more pressing matters."

Debicki blinked, following Vilas as he sat down.Compared to the outside world's belief that Fitz is Vilas' number one confidant, he clearly knows that he is on the young emperor's very short trust list, while Fitz is not.In order to be worthy of this trust, of course he had to think about what the "more important things" were earlier.

Neck aches, but Vilas ignores the clamor almost entirely. "Just as I guessed before, the Giants do have something to do with the interstellar pirates." He said, "It's just that it's not a simple exchange of economic interests and science and technology as we originally thought."

"Could it be that they have a personal relationship?" Debicki guessed it all at once.

Vilas shook his head slightly.The overused cervical spine screamed protest again, so much so that he stopped halfway through the shake. "The definition of personal friendship is not very accurate." He said calmly, "but I am afraid that the Giants may be the main reason for the rise of interstellar pirates."

Debicki frowned. "Are you implying that the Giants are behind the ever-growing interstellar pirates?"

Vilas didn't jump to conclusions right away. "It is true that the Giants did not send anyone to attend the ceremony, but I heard that Smitz has already arrived."

...The pirate leader actually went out in person?

They originally thought that the Giants and the interstellar pirates were using each other, and they were not particularly close.And now, Smits is at it again.From Capiter to Sils Maria, the pirate chiefs took personal risks one after another, totally out of the pirate style.And if someone forced Smitz to do it, it could only be Norma, because there was no one else.

Needless to say, Debicki was shocked.Besides, he didn't ask, and didn't intend to ask, where Vilas heard about—

The Giants don't come, but they don't let everyone who crosses paths with them come.As long as Vilas reads the mental image of those involved, he can get any information at his fingertips.In addition, because there are many sources, if it is fake news, Vilas will find it immediately.

"So," Debicki thought, "the Giants support pirates to harass the Federation? Why do they do this? Could it be..." He raised his eyes, more and more shocked——

Norma wants the Giant galaxy to be independent|independent from the empire, and he will definitely target the empire next; but now, there is news that Norma's ambition even includes the federation?

Reading the other party's thoughts, Vilas nodded. "Whether the Federation knew it or not, at least they didn't show it. And for us," he lowered his voice, "this is also not good news."

Debicki was thinking about the detour quickly and didn't answer for a while.They once thought that the Giants were easier to deal with than the pirates, but now this conclusion will be overturned...

"If my reasoning is correct, Your Majesty," he said his final judgment, "the Giants must have some tough methods that we don't know about. Only in this way can the pirates have to do what Norma said. "

"That's exactly what worries me," Villas replied, "but I take the 'we don't know yet' phrase with a grain of salt."

Debicki really frowned.He looked at Vilas, who was reclining on the back of a tall butternut chair covered in gold velvet, his brows so plain that no special expression could be seen. "Your Majesty, what do you mean..."

Vilas looked at him, and slowly leaned forward until his arms rested on the table. "There may be some things you need to know."

Debicki sniffs out secrets.He lowered his head halfway, "All ears, Your Majesty."

"The royal family of Fin-Del has always respected sentries, and my father is the best among them. Everyone knows it." Vilas stated, "When I first awakened as a guide, he...was not very happy."

Hearing this pause, coupled with his understanding of the late emperor's irritable temper, Debicki said nothing.

Vilas also has no intention of staying longer in this regard. "He wants me to be a sentry. For this expectation, I have to accept all the training of sentries, not guides." He paused again, his tone was flat, "But of course, it didn't work. So later, the mother persuaded him to change his mind ——Since the physical fitness of the guide can’t reach the level of the sentinel anyway, then use another method to eliminate the disadvantage in close confrontation with the sentinel.”

Debicki vaguely heard something.Disadvantages... "Start with pheromones?"

"That's right." Vilas nodded. "If the guide will not be affected by the sentinel's pheromone, it will not be mentally located or even bound by the sentinel; this is an advantage."

Of course it is an advantage, Debicki thought, how can a guide who can use all the sentries that enter the mental range as his own and "disadvantages"?

However, considering that the expression and tone of his immediate boss did not seem to be talking about something related to himself, Debicki wisely chose not to comment, but continued the theme: "If you want to do what you want in an uncombined state What you said, the guide at least needs a perfect neutralizer." He suddenly thought of something, his eyes widened——

The Giants are the leaders in the study of neutralizing element!

Villars nodded again. "You're right. And how many Giants were there in the Imperial Academy of Sciences?"

This is obviously not a question, but a rhetorical question.Debicki followed the lead, remembering the key: "The perfect sentinel has always been the ultimate dream of some scientific madman."

Vilas glanced at him approvingly. "It is enough to build an invincible army as long as the possibility of mental anxiety and mental collapse of the sentinel is eliminated. And the so-called perfect sentinel also needs to eliminate the possibility of spontaneous combination fever and sudden combination fever." He paused, "Giant People may be able to find a solution."

"...So the Giant's tough method may be an army composed of dark sentries?" Debicki's eyes widened, and he began to feel a little worried: "This is not something easy to deal with."

Vilas thought so too. "At present, whether it is the Federation or the Empire, the Anubis Guard is closest to the level represented by this definition. But this is our elite, and there are only twelve people. However, if the Giants are successful, they must be in batches .”

"When they succeed, it's when they attack." Debicki reacted quickly, "Your Highness, I ask for your order—we must act in the shortest possible time, so that we can catch up before the Giants attack!"

"Very well, that's it." Vilas nodded in agreement. "Also," he tapped the middle finger of his right hand on the table, "I want you to prepare for the worst."

... Prepare for the worst?

Debicki immediately thought of Villars' neutralizer. "Didn't you say..." He rarely turned pale, "The Giants may use your pheromone to test whether the Sentinel's binding heat elimination is successful?"

"From the pheromone bomb|bomb to the reporter, I believe it may be very big." Vilas calmly said, "Also, Smitz knows that I have been trained as a sentinel since I was a child."

Debicki shuddered.The interstellar pirates have no reason to know the secrets of the royal family; and if the Giants told them, it would further confirm what Vilas said earlier that the two are not simply related. "I understand, Your Highness." He bowed and saluted with a serious expression, "I'll make arrangements right away."

After the Minister of Defense left, Vilas's back, which had been tense all day, relaxed.He unbuttons the gold buttons of his stand-up collar and leans back—and his shoulders fall into the hands of hands that shouldn't be there. "You're here." He whispered, not surprised.

Silvio firmly supported him into the back of the chair, slid his hands up his shoulders and neck, and pressed them gently. "I've been waiting for you," he said, in a low voice, "but I didn't expect that the first thing you would do when you came back would be to deal with the Giants."

"I didn't want to, but..." Vilas shrugged slightly, feeling the comfortable warmth and strength from the fingers of the people behind him through the fabric, "Who made them think so loudly at my coronation ceremony? "

Silvio did not comment on this.Because if it was him, when he got urgent new news, he would definitely take action as soon as possible.The empire's actions may be faster than the federation, after all, the mobilization of the imperial army does not require any congressional approval.

"Where did I make a mistake?" Vilas chuckled, "The federal president is actually envious of dictatorship?"

"Sometimes." Silvio replied calmly, his hands kept on, "I'll let them simplify the emergency plan when I go back."

Vilas chuckled again and didn't continue the topic. "Now that you know, then I have to suggest that we must sign a peace agreement as soon as possible."

"Because you're going to the Giant galaxy yourself?" Silvio came to this conclusion effortlessly.

Vilas nodded. "It started with me, and I have to fix it."

"And you are still the Emperor of the Empire." Silvio immediately answered, with a bit of disapproval in his tone, "If your pheromone can't affect those artificially modified Dark Sentinels, it will be very dangerous."

"Hey, I'm not the one with in-depth experience alone." Vilas' objection also came very quickly. "It's you, remember? More than once!"

This is a fact well known to both parties, and Silvio does not intend to refute it. "I'm glad you care," he said, leaning | down and kissing Vilas tenderly on the side of the cheek, "but have you ever heard of a Sentinel who would let his guide go on an adventure?"

A sentinel's instinct was to protect the guide, and Vilas knew that well. "Come on," he muttered, tilting his head for more kisses, "if I take the President of the Federation with me, I'll be hunted down by the entire Federation."

"This can only happen under one premise," Silvio met the other party's lips, and at the same time replied firmly, "If they know."