Chapter 303 Pandora’s Box! Ancient AI! Activate the Mantle!

“Jessica can be returned to you, but Paul, that evil creature, must die. As for the warships of the Atreides family, your sisterhood can only use them under the supervision of the royal family.”

Emperor Saddam responded in a gloomy voice.

As the emperor of the Galactic Empire, Saddam had seen too many cases of sons avenging their fathers. If the roots are not eradicated, the evil will grow again when the spring breeze blows. How could he allow Paul to survive alone?

Since the Atreides family is a rebellious clan, of course the whole family must go on the journey together so that they can have peace.

As for the mysterious super battleship array, it must be strictly controlled under the supervision of the royal family. The sisterhood can only participate in its use but cannot use it directly.

“You are the great Galactic Emperor, ruling over all the people in the empire. Why would you care about the son of a dying man?”

Virgin Helen closed her eyes and shook her head. She still insisted on her principles. The sisterhood must save Paul’s life.

“We want Paul alive because he has Jessica’s blood flowing in his body. In other words, Paul is the property of our sisterhood.”

“When the war is over, we will keep a close watch on Paul and will never let him appear in your sight.”

Helen had done her utmost to please Emperor Saddam by saying this. Anyway, she had decided on Paul, and no one else could stop her.

As for the Atreides family’s super battleship fleet, as long as the sisterhood has the right to participate, Helen will have plenty of ways to seize the battleships.

“No, Paul, this evil beast must die!”

Emperor Saddam roared with gnashing teeth, he would not tolerate any sand in his eyes.

He hated the Atreides family, from Duke Leto to everyone in the Atreides family, and Shaddam wanted to tear them into pieces.

After the war, Saddam will certainly settle accounts with all the major families in the empire, and the Atreides family will be his first target.

How can the authority of the royal family be demonstrated if the entire Atreides clan is not exterminated? How can other clans be intimidated if the Atreides clan is not destroyed?

Seeing that Saddam refused to give in, Helen’s expression began to change. It was already this late and Saddam was still acting like a child, refusing to compromise at all.

If he is not warned at this time, Saddam will still really think that he is still the high and mighty emperor as before, instead of a prisoner who is about to die!
“Emperor, you are in great need of the sisterhood’s support right now, but our sisterhood may not necessarily need you. I hope you will consider it carefully and not lose the big picture for the small.”

Helen’s words were a blatant threat to Emperor Saddam. He had to either accept her conditions or wait for Leto to lead the Atreides’ troops to attack.

Seeing this, Saddam fell silent. He could feel Helen’s determination from her expression and tone. His tough appearance but weak heart was completely useless in front of the sisterhood.

The royal family with the Sadoka Legion was indeed the most powerful family in the empire, but not anymore!

Just as Helen said, the Colino family now really needs the help of the sisterhood to win this difficult battle.

But the Sisterhood did not need Colino’s favors.

The Sisterhood is an organization spread throughout the Galactic Empire. They can break up into small groups or remain dormant. It is not easy for the Atreides to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Emperor Saddam knew that he had to make concessions, otherwise no one would help him defeat the Atreides.

“Okay, I can give you Jessica and Paul, but Leto and the rest of the Atreides must all be killed!”

Saddam’s tone softened a little. He knew that now was not the time to fall out with the Sisterhood. He should bow his head. When the entire Atreides family was captured, it would be his turn to have the final say.

Thinking of this, Saddam took a deep breath. The Corino royal family had ruled the Galactic Empire for tens of thousands of years, and had accumulated countless resources and technologies.

As long as you are not defeated instantly by your opponent, there is still a chance to make a comeback, and with the help of the sisterhood, this process can be shortened significantly.

After the royal family has caught their breath, Saddam vows to wipe out the Atreides family from the history of the empire!
“Since the emperor has agreed to our insignificant request, the sisterhood will certainly do its best to assist the royal family, eliminate those rebels, and maintain the royal empire.”

Under the mysterious black veil, a smile finally appeared on Helen’s old face.

It is not easy to make Emperor Saddam make concessions. Of course, Helen will also be on guard against the other party not keeping his word. After abducting Paul and Jessica, she will arrange a retreat as soon as possible.

By then, even if Saddam wanted to kill Paul, he would not have the chance.

“Helen, tell me, what can your sisterhood do for me? Do you think I can expect you to fight on the battlefield? I don’t think you have the ability to do that.”

Saddam frowned. He had made too many concessions, but Our Lady Helen had not given a practical solution until now.

If the purpose is to assassinate core members like Leto or Hawat, who should the sisterhood send, what methods should be used, and how should they kill them?

Saddam knew nothing about these details, which made him feel that he had been cheated and that the sisterhood was simply writing him a blank check.

“We will mediate on behalf of the royal family and prevent the Atreides from forming a galactic rebel alliance.”

Helen spoke calmly. She raised her head and looked at Saddam calmly, her voice full of confidence.

Prior to this, Duke Leto had command over the many families of the Lansgard Union, because House Atreides was weak and needed to unite with the other families in order to protect itself.

But now, the Atreides family is rising rapidly, and it is not certain that other families will continue to support Duke Leto as they did before.

After all, what they supported was only the Atreides family who were fighting for power resources for themselves, not Atreides who was about to become the new emperor.

Few people can calmly accept that others live better than themselves. This is human nature. Helen believes that most families would rather let the Colino royal family continue to exist as long as they are given benefits.

What Helen has to do next is to move among the major families, promise benefits to win them over, and form an alliance to fight against the Atreides family.

“In addition, we will also persuade the people of the Space Guild to reduce their efficiency and slack off when helping other families transport troops.”

Helen knew that the Space Guild was full of fence-sitters, so it would not be difficult to do this, and she was very confident about it.

“Just by doing these two things, the pressure that the royal family is facing now can be greatly alleviated.”

Helen smiled, and then continued: “Of course, there are many more places where we can serve the royal family.”

“The assassins I have planted on Arrakis are ready. This assassination operation can kill at least two high-ranking members of the Atreides family.”

“If I’m lucky, I can even bring Duke Leto’s head back to you.”

“By then, all crises facing the royal family will be resolved, and your authority will remain unshakable!”

After listening to the big picture Helen painted, Saddam narrowed his eyes slightly. He had to admit that the blueprint Helen designed for him was quite tempting.

If these three policies can be truly implemented, the Colino royal family can still hold on, especially the last one, which is to assassinate Duke Leto.

If the sisterhood assassins arranged by Helen could really kill the core leaders of the Atreides family, then no matter who died, a crisis and civil strife would inevitably break out within the Atreides.

This will also buy the royal family precious time. What Saddam lacks most now is not the army, but time to adjust resources from all parties.

Although the Colino royal family lost the powerful Sadoka Legion, the Sadoka Legion’s home planet is still there, and there are still many Sadoka reserve troops there.

As long as Saddam gives the order, a new Sadoka Legion can be formed at any time and continue to rush to the battlefield.

In addition, Corino ruled the Galactic Empire for tens of thousands of years, and the political alliance he left behind was no worse than Atreides’s Lansgard Federation.

If Saddam is given a little more time to conduct negotiations with all parties, he will definitely be confident that he can organize a large counterattack alliance to fight against the Atreides family, which seems to have the upper hand.

“interesting……!”

Emperor Shaddam showed a faint smile at the corner of his mouth. In fact, these deployments were only the most basic step, and his real killer move was still to come. As we all know, the Galactic Empire in the Dune universe strictly prohibits AI artificial intelligence, but rules are only a tool to restrict the weak and ensure the interests of the strong.

The Colino royal family ostensibly prohibits the development of AI technology, but secretly, the royal family has been sealing up the original AI from ten thousand years ago.

Everyone is well aware of the benefits of AI, but due to the authority of the royal family, no one dares to use it.

The royal family would not easily activate and use it unless it was absolutely necessary.

After all, AI is like Pandora’s box. Once it is opened and used, it will cause AI artificial intelligence to spread again throughout the empire.

But now the Atreides family has used some unknown power to build such a terrifying warship. If Saddam wants to catch up with them, he must turn on AI artificial intelligence.

As long as the AI ​​is given a little bit of time and fed with a large amount of data, it will be able to reverse-analyze the Atreides family’s shield technology and even battleship construction technology in a short period of time!
By then, the royal family only needs to build an array of battleships that is comparable to the Atreides Fleet, and they will surely be able to turn the disadvantage around and regain control of the Galactic Empire.

Saddam had enough confidence in this because he had seen how terrifying the AI ​​artificial intelligence was ten thousand years ago in the video footage sealed by the royal family.

Those AI life forms control advanced weapons. They are cunning and deadly, and have strong research and development capabilities. Even Saddam doesn’t know how the ancestors defeated these AIs.

In short, what the Colino royal family needs most now is time. As long as Saddam is given more time and those ancient AIs are released, the royal family will be able to rapidly develop technology.

Now with the sisterhood acting as troublemakers, Saddam believed they could delay time for a year or so, stir up suspicion and conflicts among the major families, and assassinate the top leaders of the major families.

Then, they could try to win over and divide them, and order the Space Guild to slow down their work. With these combined efforts, if they were lucky, they could even buy the royal family several years.

After all, the Galactic Empire has a vast territory and a strategic depth of tens of thousands of light years, which is enough for Emperor Saddam to deploy layers of military defenses.

“Helen, you always bring me some unexpected surprises. It seems that my position will be stable for a while.”

Saddam laughed heartily. With these plans against the Atreides, his worries were alleviated a lot.

After two or three years, the revived ancient AI will surely lead the Corino royal family to rise again and have a decisive battle with Atreides.

……

Just as Emperor Shaddam and Mother Helen reached a political alliance and took a series of countermeasures against the Atreides family.

Far in front of Star Gate No. 005 of the headquarters of the Wanjie Base, a super-giant battleship spanning hundreds of kilometers was slowly passing by.

Yes, that battleship is the USS Harold, which was excavated from the 004 “Halo” universe. According to the original expectations, it would take at least two or three years for this battleship to be restarted.

However, the research department of the giant enterprise discovered a way to quickly restart the Mantle of the World in the pioneer think tank. By inputting code instructions, the battleship was able to quickly see the light of day.

Now, the Mantle is under the control of Captain Andrew and heading to the 005 “Dune” universe!
In the past few months, the Universal Corporation first supported the Atreides family in the Dune universe as its agent, and then defeated the royal coalition forces in the low-Earth orbit of Arrakis.

In the following period of time, the world’s giant companies will no longer have any worries. They just need to bring people over to take over the assets and become their younger brothers.

Although the Colino royal family will certainly find ways to reorganize the remaining military forces to resist, this little trouble is not worth mentioning for the giant enterprise.

It is foreseeable that in the next period of time, there will most likely be some intensive small-scale battles breaking out in the Dune universe, which will give the giant companies a chance to eliminate the trouble once and for all.

Since Leon wanted to ascend the throne as the Divine Emperor here and establish his own universal empire, he had to get all the ambitious people out first so that he wouldn’t have to deal with them one by one.

At this moment, at the headquarters of the Wanjie Base, on the center console.

With his hands behind his back, Li Ang watched through the holographic projection as the star gate in front of him slowly opened, and the vortex-shaped mirror slowly engulfed the Yibo battleship.

The employees of the giant companies nearby looked up and watched in surprise and astonishment as the Yi Bo entered the star gate. This kind of warship that blocked out the sky and the sun was worthy of the title of God-Emperor of their boss Le Ang.

“Boss, oh no, it’s the Divine Emperor. With this huge ship as your coronation gift, I’m sure the humans in Universe 005 will have no objection.”

Song Zhaomei on the side said with a smile that she believed that the arrival of the Yibo would be enough to shock the major families of the empire.

After all, such a huge monster, coupled with its star-destroying strike capability, is no different from an alien demon to the humans in the Dune universe.

Listening to Song Zhaomei’s compliments, Li Ang acted indifferent and just responded calmly: “Thank you for your hard work during this period.”

During this nearly half year, Li Ang remained in hiding and handed over all the affairs of the 005 “Dune” universe to Song Zhaomei.

Song Zhaomei did not disappoint everyone’s expectations and made almost no mistakes. All the decisions that needed to be implemented were implemented, and the progress of integrating the “Dune” universe is also being completed rapidly.

This also gave Leon a lot of time and effort to deal with the troubles in other universes, as well as to prepare the manpower and material resources to go to the next universe.

“It’s all thanks to the boss’s wise arrangement, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to complete the work so quickly.”

Song Zhaomei responded with her usual high emotional intelligence, but what she said was indeed the truth. If Li Ang had not explained it in the meeting beforehand, they would really know nothing about the situation in the 005 “Dune” universe.

If you want to figure out this new universe without knowing anything, it will take at least half a year to understand the local customs and history.

Add to that the overall planning of these miscellaneous tasks, and it will take at least a year and a half.

“By the way, prepare for the coronation as soon as possible. We can prepare in Universe 005 and invite members of other civilizations in the Universal Trade Circle to come along.”

“The functions of departments and positions within the giant company remain unchanged. It is enough for me to show up in person.”

As for his ascension to the throne of the Divine Emperor, Li Ang’s idea was very simple, that is, he would go to the 005 “Dune” universe, wear a crown, appear at a meeting and give a speech on his ascension to the throne.

After finishing the work, he would just be a hands-off boss, assign new tasks to the major families, send them to transport goods in the universal trade circle, and then arrange for a new interstellar governor to take charge of the government on his behalf.

The honorable title of “God-Emperor” is only used in the 005 “Dune” universe. In other universes, the original giant enterprise system is still followed.

The reason is simple. If you have already written a working code, don’t tinker with it. If the existing political system is just right, don’t change it easily.

What’s more, in other universes, the status of Leon the executive is exactly the same as that of the God-Emperor, the only difference is the title.

If the functions and powers of various departments of a giant enterprise were changed just to fit the fictitious title of “Divine Emperor”, that would be completely a waste of time.

“Since you’ve done a good job here, keep doing it so I can prepare for a new universe conquest.”

Leon knew that the development of the 005 “Dune” universe had come to an end, and the day when the next universe would open was getting closer and closer.

According to previous practice, whoever performs best in the new universe conquest operation will have the hope of becoming the interstellar governor of that universe.

This time, the “Dune” universe integration mission is almost entirely handled by Song Zhaomei, which means that she has the greatest hope of becoming the first female interstellar governor of the universal giant company!

Although Li Ang did not say it directly, Song Zhaomei could tell that he meant it, so she quickly responded:

“Yes, boss, don’t worry, I will arrange everything here.”

Seeing that Song Zhaomei quickly understood what he meant, Li Ang nodded and chuckled.

In fact, he was planning to replace them with a new group of trusted senior officials to serve as interstellar governors so that V could be transferred back to the front line.

Because Leon has a strong premonition that the next universe will never be that simple, and it may even be a tough battle that is no less than 004 “Halo”!

So he had to make personnel adjustments in advance and free up the strongest lineup in case of emergency.

(End of this chapter)