Antarctica, Antarctica.


    The imperial capital.


    At the moment, the situation in the center of the star sea and the heart of the human empire is like the frozen river in early spring and February. Although the undercurrent has been surging under the ice for a long time, from the shore, it is still a dead silence surrounded by ice mist. All the fish and shrimp are firmly sealed in the ice, and there is no sign of ice melting.


    The rebels loyal to the reformers did not attack the imperial capital on a large scale, as the intelligence said. On the contrary, they played a trick to divert the tiger from the mountain and attack the west, and they went to the hinterland of the Li family on a large scale. The news of this incident was too big to hide from the other three.


    But the Guyu community is too sensitive after all. The Li family blocks all the news and claims to mobilize the elite to solve the rebellion by themselves. The other three families are not good either. They rush to the heart of the Li family to "help fight the rebellion" and can only stand on the sidelines.


    What''s more, the emergence and disappearance of the rebels and their vigorous and resolute actions have left a deep impression on the four families. The small-scale riots and various rumors in the imperial capital have never stopped. Who knows if this is the strategy of the rebels. Maybe when the four families relax their vigilance against the imperial capital, the rebels will make some big moves in the imperial capital.


    Therefore, the elite of the imperial family of the four general elections were still stationed in the imperial capital, and only the Li family transferred back some of the main forces.


    If you think about it in the dark, the other three families may not be laughing secretly. It''s better for the rebels to stir up trouble in the Li family''s internal organs. Even if the Li family wants them to help, they have to talk about the conditions first!


    After a long time, the paper will not hold the fire.


    However, within three to five days, the situation still maintained a delicate balance or even static.


    On the other hand, the Empire of human beings is so big that the consequences of any serious disturbance can hardly affect every corner in an instant.


    Empire is like a dinosaur hundreds of kilometers long. Even if the tail is on fire and the nerve endings send out pain signals, it still takes a long time to reach the brain. Even if the whole tail is burned out, every cell in the whole body may not be able to sense it.


    This is especially true for the bacteria and insects that live in the folds of Empire''s super dinosaur.


    No matter how earth shaking the upper class is, how intriguing, how renovating, how preaching Empire, victory, human civilization and so on, the most important problem for these bacteria and insects is still how to pay yesterday''s bills and find today''s food, so that they may still have their families, It''s hard to survive.


    The palace and the Senate are located in the main continent, black star continent, underground city, 36 districts.


    It''s true to use "folds" to describe the dark corners that the Empire could not shine on.


    Because these canyons torn by the fierce fighting between the emperor and the blood god in the past are long, narrow and deep, full of fish and dragons, and full of miasma. They are really like crisscross folds, hiding filth and filth, all over a giant beast.


    Each fold is a large area, with a section of several kilometers to 10000 meters from top to bottom. There are millions or even tens of millions of people living in it, more than a megacity in the outside world.


    During the day, these "folds" release thick smoke and steam to the ground, while at night, there are hazy and dim lights, like flashing smoke and dust.


    This is the only sign that the ant tribe living in the dark folds all day long shows that they exist and are still alive.


    Thirty six districts are close to the Imperial Palace and the Senate, belonging to the "best place", with relatively good public security and environment.


    The underground area of one or two hundred meters is still in the shallow area where "there is a chance to get sunshine at noon", which is regarded as "noble area" for the whole underground city system.


    There are mainly two types of people who are qualified and financially able to live in this area.


    One is the outstanding among the original people, often the foreman of the underground factory, a few lucky people who have successfully started a business, as well as the family members of the immortal cultivators or high-level dog legs.


    On the other hand, they are immortals - losers in real people, bankrupts who are desperate, and waste people who are seriously injured.


    In the world of cultivating immortals, which regards "the law of the jungle, the winner takes all" as the truth, the competition for survival is extremely cruel. This cruelty is not only reflected in the oppression of "real people" on "original people", but also in the fierce and merciless struggle among the cultivators.


    If you want to win, you have to cultivate to a higher level; Regardless of their own situation, crazy impact on a higher level, resulting in a very high risk of being possessed and the collapse of the Tao heart; Once there is a problem in self-cultivation, or in the cruel competition, failure, injury, serious illness, or even slow aging restricted by the laws of nature... Many reasons lead to the bottom of the realm and become waste. When there is no use value, the end is often miserable.


    It is the so-called "one will accomplish ten thousand bones wither". When a cultivator soars to the sky, maybe ninety-nine cultivators fall into the abyss, especially for the fighting cultivators who lick blood with the knife edge.


    Because of their professional characteristics, they are many times more likely to be seriously injured and possessed than other immortals. Moreover, fighting all day long will inevitably leave many hidden dangers to their bodies, and they may form many enemies who will never die.


    At the peak of spring and autumn, when there is a flourishing blood and energy, and when cultivation is at its peak, it is natural for people to be drunk, domineering and domineering. However, Wan Yisheng is sick, injured, old or possessed. If he does not train a few powerful successors and has no savings, he will easily fall from the peak to the bottom of the valley and fall to pieces.


    It is almost the only way for them to live in the underground world.


    It''s not uncommon for the once powerful to become the lowest class gladiator in thugs, mercenaries, killers and underground arenas when they were poor and desperate.


    They overdraw their lives, burned their spirits, and drained their last drop of blood and sweat in exchange for a few imperial crystal coins, which were immediately converted into ultra-high strength medical and analgesic drugs, or even stimulants with strong paralytic and hallucinogenic effects. They could not wait to be injected into the abnormally inflated blood vessels, and then fell on the dark and humid corner, dreaming of their comeback in the strange dream, The body is slowly cold and stiff - this is a sad and inevitable ending for many immortals.


    In a way, these immortals are even worse than ordinary people.


    Ordinary people can go to sweatshops to work, as long as there is a little bit of synthetic food that tastes like chewing wax, they can survive. If the porridge can be added with a few slices of "ham slices" made by pressing oil, it will be considered as a delicacy.


    But those who cultivate immortals, even those who are old and weak and have internal injuries, are absolutely unable to work with the "original people" and become ordinary components on the assembly line.


    What''s more, the work in exchange for that little money is not enough to fill their bottomless intestines, let alone the astronomical medical expenses.


    To cultivate immortals once is to set foot on the road full of thorns and never return. You can only go forward bravely until you are destroyed, but you can never turn back and become an ordinary person.


    The thirty-six districts are full of these down and out immortals who are neither human nor ghost. There is no waste that sects, forces, groups or families are willing to accept.


    In the last six months, the amount of such waste has increased tenfold, making the already crowded underground world more noisy and chaotic.


    These new losers are the officers at all levels who have been eliminated from the expeditionary army, mainly the officers at the general and school level who have been seriously injured, their accomplishments have plummeted and their troops have been wiped out.


    Thirty years ago, the Empire was determined to launch the largest strategic counterattack in nearly five hundred years, so it implemented the unprecedented national mobilization to greatly expand the army. Even if it was not allowed to have too strong a fleet in the past, it was promised by the central government, and it expanded as if it had blown enough air.


    In order to tempt these villains to work hard for the Empire - or to get chestnuts for the four general election families, besides all kinds of military aid, military ranks, serial numbers, medals and titles are flying all over the world. They want to spend as much money as they want.


    In the early hundreds of years, the Empire was still very strict in the evaluation of military ranks and titles. In the absence of large-scale war for hundreds of years, it was true that Yuanying''s strong men had been mixed up all their lives, and only when they were old did they become major generals and generals.


    But this time, it can be said that "all the stones and mud, all the dogs and chickens will rise to the sky". As long as any one of the strong elites in the outside world can pull up a team, even the semi armed transport fleet refitted from civilian transport ships can also wear majestic hats like "major general, commander of war, Lord of Empire", regardless of whether his head is that big or not.


    This kind of people are called "general zahao" in the upper class of the imperial capital. They are not worth mentioning.


    But there are a lot of inexperienced practitioners in the outer world, or ambitious people who want to put all their eggs in one basket and fight for great wealth. Wearing such hats as "Colonel, chief of staff, major general and commander in chief of war", they rush forward with their hometown''s sons.


    How can these simple minded guys with well-developed limbs be the opponents of the crafty generation of the four election emperors and Marquises? They are not easily played with applause and become the pieces and cannon fodder of others.


    I''m sorry, but the right of final explanation is firmly held in the hands of the four families behind your majesty.