Chapter 237 I Am Legend
"... Khan, the time is almost here."
In the office, Eagle-eyed Khan, who was reviewing documents, heard a voice in the shadows, and immediately stopped his movements.
Continuous days of high-intensity work had exhausted him mentally. After the crisis of "The Unexpected Enemy" ended, he, the person who gave the final blow, naturally received a lot of attention, and he was dealing with these matters during this time.
But thinking of the "sweat election day" not long after, he cheered up again, took the stimulant drugs to relieve fatigue, and walked out of the office.
The place of work is a highly automated modern building, and the working environment of some interstellar civilization leaders is not even as good as his.
The so-called "Khan" and "Nomadic civilization" do not represent their primitiveness and backwardness, but a unique naming due to differences in thoughts and customs.
Outside the office building, there are no electronic prairie and cyber camps, but CD markets with different functions.
Countless high-speed aircraft come in and out of it, and there are also "ladders" that go directly to space from certain cities to the looming "orbit ring world" in the sky.
This is the "Star Tent", a grassland planet with a high degree of development under the management of Hawkeye Khan.
In the "Great Khan Trial" stage, all participants will be assigned a livable planet according to tradition, and they will use everything they have obtained in the previous trials to develop this planet, strengthen themselves, and Among them all-powerful.
Hawkeye felt that he had done a good job. From the time he made up his mind to participate in the trial as a khan, he did the best in every stage. No khan could compare to him.
Every opportunity is used by him as much as possible, and he does not hesitate to take risks himself in order to achieve his goal. Even the "Virtual Realm Mentor" has become his help.
He has never slacked off. On the day he became Khan, he gave up all entertainment and devoted all his spare time to hard work. He will personally attend almost every "Galaxy Community" meeting in order to achieve the fastest possible result. Stay on top of galactic events.
He thought that the position of "Great Khan" was already in his pocket, but the unknown "Lone Wolf Khan" suddenly appeared from the corner, making all his efforts seem to be in vain.
He found that he was inferior to Lone Wolf in everything, whether it was background or assistance, even the "Star Tent" he had run for half his life, was not as good as a certain "Gaia Planet" run by Lone Wolf according to his information.
At the last moment of the galaxy crisis, he who was supposed to show off in the schedule was replaced by the lone wolf who came to rescue as the "Lost Empire".
Now, the "Great Khan Trial" is coming to an end, the winner will get everything from the loser, while the loser will lose even his life.
He knows that he is no match for the Lone Wolf, but he is not willing to give up all of this. He hasn't lost yet, and he still has one last chance.
Eventually, he boarded a spaceship bound for a hidden galaxy.
There is an elders council composed of well-known elders from various predator tribes, and the selection of trials will start there.
What Hawkeye wants to do is very simple. He wants to assassinate his biggest competitor while he is closest to the lone wolf.
Time passed quietly.
In a blink of an eye, the spaceship came to that hidden galaxy.
In order to be able to get here one step ahead of others and make preparations in advance, he even installed an experimental jump engine on the spaceship that would turn into scrap iron after one use.
In addition, the fleet under his command is also equipped with these engines and ambushed outside, waiting for the moment when the lone wolf car appears, it will come here and destroy the lone wolf car with lightning speed.
Luck seemed to be on his side at this moment. When he came, the lone wolf hadn't come yet, which gave him sufficient preparations to prepare for the assassination round after round.
So after everything was prepared, he patiently waited for the time to come, his eagle-like eyes controlling the overall situation of this galaxy.
However, time passed day by day, and seeing that the deadline was approaching, Lone Wolf still remained silent, not even a single report to the elders.
Until the end of the trial, only one of Lone Wolf's subordinates brought the sentence "Dove".
Hawkeye was a little unbelievable, because according to the custom, those who failed to participate in the final selection stage were deemed to have abstained. In other words, the coveted position of "Great Khan" belonged to him.
But things were not that simple. Soon there was news from the Presbyterian Church announcing that the selection would be postponed until the lone wolf came to participate.
Obviously, the Elders also value the power of the Lone Wolf, believing that he will be able to bring all the tribes to the peak, so they will not hesitate to break the custom.
This feeling of being confronted made Hawkeye extremely uncomfortable. Even the ambush had a slight flaw. When the lone wolf and the **** fleet suddenly arrived, it was too late for him to launch an assassination.
So the assassination stage in space ended in such a vague way, and the center of gravity of the assassination also shifted to the interior of the planet.
The Elders tried to break the custom of "Ten Days of Mind Cultivation" once again, and held a selection ceremony for Hawkeye and Lone Wolf in advance. They were obviously aware of Hawkeye's behavior, and wanted to directly determine the location of Lone Wolf in order to prevent long nights and dreams.
So Hawkeye's assassination plan once again gained room to perform.
After analyzing the daily schedule of the lone wolf, his killer hides in the dark and will use a special weapon to directly kill the lone wolf from a long distance.
Until the day when the assassination began, he anxiously stood by the communication device, praying for good news from the killer.
The waiting process was not easy. The moment the communication rang, he connected to the communication as if he had been prepared for a long time.
However, the first sentence on the opposite side of the communication made his whole body soften.
"The assassination failed, but..."
Hearing that the killer seemed to have something to say, he tried his best to listen.
"...I shot three times in total. The first time, his alloy chair leg broke suddenly, and he fell off the chair without warning, making my attack miss."
"The second time, my weapon calibrator was inexplicably deviated, and my attack was not even within ten meters of the target. I checked the weapon afterwards, but there was nothing wrong with it. At that time, I suspected that I might have been exposed .”
"As for the third time..." The killer paused, hesitant to speak, as if he couldn't believe it, but he had to continue.
“The third attack, the metal block that suddenly appeared on the path made the attack ineffective halfway. At that time, a smoking aircraft passed by in the sky. I think the falling parts happened to block the attack…”
What the killer said was like a fairy tale, no one would believe it if it were anyone else, but Hawkeye felt that it was unexpectedly normal for these things to happen to the lone wolf.
After reporting the assassination situation, the assassin should cut off the communication.
However, the assassin seemed to feel that he had done a poor job, so he told Hawkeye what he discovered during the assassination:
"In addition, I found that Lone Wolf Khan seemed to hate his identity very much, and wanted to escape several times, but was brought back by the guards..."
Until this time, the killer completely cut off the communication.
But this kind of "good news" unexpectedly did not make Hawkeye happy. Instead, he changed from his previous decadence and became angry.
He didn't understand that the Council of Elders would make an exception so many times for such a person who was not willing to shoulder the position of "Great Khan" at all, and tried to ask him to come here with a straight face.
He even felt that these people who could give up everything for the benefit, including dignity and tradition, were not worth working for.
At this moment, he thought of those people in the final battle against the "Accidental Enemy", who were able to fill in the gap without caring, and let him take the final blow just because he said "more efficient".
He felt that it was good to integrate into this group of people. After the "retirement" of the Tinder Alliance, the civilization he represented was even about to take the position of "council civilization".
So after a little thought, he decided to go it alone. He didn't care about the "Khan's honor" anymore. The only thing he wanted to do was to let himself keep up with the pace of the Milky Way.
After all, he still has the support of the "Virtual Realm Mentor". The development of civilization has a foundation, and it is not so easy to let civilization go to destruction.
As soon as the decision was made, he directly led people away from the hidden galaxy, which meant that he voluntarily gave up the competition, and would become the "rebel party" that the "Great Khan" would definitely eliminate in the future.
However, the good times for the predator tribe did not come, and the lone wolf suddenly "disappeared mysteriously".
So the last khans of this "Great Khan Trial" all ran away, leaving only the predator tribes who were waiting for the "new king" to take them to plunder the galaxy, but now fell into chaos.
The stars are twinkling, and the Milky Way is as it always has been.
Lone Wolf hums a ditty, drives his precious "love boat", sails among the stars, and writes his diary.
"I am a lone wolf, today is... In short, I have run to the other side of the galaxy, and the group of predators will never find me."
"In order to make another competitor give up, I really took great pains. I used the psionic power I just mastered to create a series of accidents, and finally succeeded in making him 'recognize the gap between us'."
"What kind of **** Khan, even a dog, wants to bring trouble to the Galaxy?"
"But those believers will still find me... When my spiritual power is stronger, they probably won't be able to find me."
"Compared to dealing with those irritating political affairs, space adventure is more interesting!"
His diary ended here, and then he remembered something, took out another diary, and prepared to rearrange his life experience and record it in it.
This is one of his dreams, to publish a book of his own, after thinking about it, he thinks his experience is quite suitable.
"What should the name be called... Why not call it, "I Am Legend"."
(end of this chapter)