GLOBAL GAME: TEN BILLION SPIRIT ENERGY COINS FROM THE START

Chapter 729: 726, Skru Star Public Opinion_1

As one of the two largest countries on Skru Star, the Raging Sun Empire has extraordinary cultural influence and opinion-shaping power!

It can be said that a mere flutter of a butterfly’s wings in the Empire will likely set off a tornado in small countries all over the world.

“The Voice of the Sun” ranks among the top five mainstream media outlets in the Raging Sun Empire.

Thus, when Lan Bo’s interview was broadcasted, it immediately attracted worldwide attention.

In the show, Lan Bo’s upper body was riddled with horrific scars. Ordinary Skru soldiers were covered in blood, missing arms and legs – this delivered a massive visual impact to Skru civilians!

(When the Blue Star humans returned the Skru soldiers, they were all healthy. To fabricate an image of “Blue Star humans are bloody and brutal,” the expeditionary forces deliberately injured this group of healthy soldiers in order to produce “evidence,” and later paid them hush money.)

This matter was quickly sensationalized to the forefront of public conversation and ranked high on the hot search lists of major websites.

Not only online, in the real world on Skru Star, citizens from major cities in the Raging Sun Empire spontaneously took to the streets for demonstrations, calling for His Majesty the Emperor to take retaliatory actions against Blue Star humans;

In the Lun Kete Alliance, millions of locals also spontaneously organized and took to the streets.

Additionally, someone dug up Su Yu’s old crime of causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians on his first visit to Treyna City.

With the two incidents stacking up, public opinion in the Lun Kete Alliance surged, itching to wage war on the Blue Star immediately!

The popular support for the governments of both G2 countries reached a historic high.

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Under this quickly escalating public opinion, the Blue Star humans were actually not the ones under the most pressure.

The Blue Star humans didn’t even know what the Skru people were discussing. They were still rejoicing over the recently acquired 1,100 tons of gold.

The ones truly under tremendous pressure were Cindy Doppler’s Beak Country and Elder Zhu’s Makadun Kingdom.

This wave of public opinion swept in, with everyone online and in reality clamoring to eradicate the Blue Star human species. Their promoted rhetoric of “peaceful coexistence” was greatly suppressed.

Some even openly said – their own people had been bullied to this extent; anyone who didn’t support the “annihilation of the Blue Star human species” was a traitor to the planet!

This put them in a defensive stance.

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In the royal palace of Makadun Kingdom, Elder Zhu Yuanzhang was lying sideways on his throne, staring fixedly at the interview footage of Lan Bo on “The Voice of the Sun”.

He has been initially disinterested in this matter.

But it has escalated so much that he had no choice but to understand what had happened.

Four concubines were serving him at his side, intermittently handing him fruits that he reluctantly accepted.

The four concubines tried their best to exude charm, hoping to win the king’s favor.

However, Elder Zhu did not even glance at them. According to his aesthetic standards, these “green-skinned females” were too ugly. He focused his entire attention on the interview program.

In the interview, Lan Bo, with a vacant expression, answered the host’s various questions according to the script, describing his hellish experience on the Blue Star.

If he were an ordinary Skru civilian, he might feel very sorry for Lan Bo.

What kind of ordeal did this once robust sixth-order warrior undergo that rendered him so vacant? He must have been subjected to inhumane torture!

However, Elder Zhu just shook his head.

He had previously heard about “Lan Bo cuckolding the Raging Sun Emperor”. His intelligence agents had thoroughly investigated and it was clear that this so-named “Lan Bo” was quite a tough character.

Also, when Zhong Feng was around, he had mentioned a plan about “Blue Star humans treating prisoners well in hopes that prisoners would advocate for humans after returning to Skru Star”, which showed that there shouldn’t exist such abuse.

Furthermore, this “Lan Bo” was a sixth-tier fighter, his tough physique far exceeding the strength of diamond. Given the Blue Star’s current methods of extracting confession, it was unlikely to have caused him so many scars.

Considering these three points, Elder Zhu concluded that Lan Bo was lying, and it must have been an intentional ploy by the coalition government.

Since Lan Bo was lying, his scars implied something intriguing.

Elder Zhu vaguely felt there might lie a way to retaliate against this wave of public opinion.

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Seeing King Zhu shaking his head constantly, a bright light flashed in the eyes of one of his concubines who quickly rushed over: “Your Majesty, are you feeling uncomfortable in your neck? Do you want me to massage it for you?”

Hearing this concubine’s words, the other concubines showed annoyed faces, seemingly regretting not having thought of this idea first and being upstaged.

Elder Zhu glanced at this concubine expressionlessly, clapped her on the shoulder, and said, “Emma, notify the leader of ‘Ti Qi’, Edmund, to come over. Remember, be quick!”

“Ti Qi” was an intelligence department moulded by Elder Zhu himself after his ascension to the throne.

The term “Ti Qi” was originally a synonym for the imperial guards. When he established the imperial guards on Blue Star, he carried the name over here as well.

He wasn’t worried about the name “Ti Qi” causing trouble even if the Skru people knew about it.

After all, Blue Star people, even those from Huaxia Nation, knew little about the term, let alone the Skru people. There was little chance they could deduce his identity just because of this.

This concubine named Emma was taken aback.

She just wanted to get closer to King His Majesty, but ended up being assigned the task of running errands.

However, she didn’t dare defy the King’s orders.

She bowed to Elder Zhu and left the palace with a dark face under the mocking stares of the other three concubines.

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Twenty minutes later, Edmund, the leader of “Ti Qi” dressed in black, arrived in the palace. He kneeled down before Elder Zhu lying on the throne, “Your Majesty, what is the matter you wish to discuss with me?”

“Edmund, I ask you, do you know about the matter of ‘Lan Bo participating in The Voice of the Sun interview’?”

“Of course, I do,” replied Edmund gravely.

“Then do you know how many prisoners of war were ransomed back in total?”

“Your Majesty, there were 18,624 people in total.”

“Very good!” Elder Zhu sat up straight, looking at him, “Now I will assign you a task.”

Hearing the king say this, Edmund lifted his head, with a slightly wary look at the four queens beside Zhu.

If the King was going to assign him a task, shouldn’t these four queens leave to avoid suspicion?

The four queens caught on the meaning of Edmund’s gaze.

Indeed, they were not suitable for involving themselves in this matter, so they prepared to leave after paying respects to Elder Zhu.

However, Elder Zhu waved his hand broadly, “You four don’t need to leave, just stay here and listen.”

Then, he looked at Edmund, “Edmund, you take your men and contact these 18,000 prisoners. Find out if they were really tortured on the Blue Star.

Also, collect evidence whether they were tortured or not. The more irrefutable the evidence, the better!”

“Yes, Your Majesty, I will not let you down!” Edmund replied immediately.

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