The main ship of the Kunde tribe was imprisoned with a large number of civilians, and the ground was covered with simple bedding. One person sat or lying, you were next to my legs and I was pressing against your back. The scene was very crowded, just like a refugee camp.

brush--

The hatch opened and a group of service housekeeping robots walked in with trolleys loaded with buckets of pasty food.

"It's time to eat!"

The Imperial soldiers standing guard shouted, and the crowd suddenly became turbulent.

Since being imprisoned, these Kunde civilians have been in panic all day long and are afraid of their future destiny. However, in terms of material things, they have not been tortured. The empire distributes food on time and does not abuse prisoners. This has calmed the Kunde civilians a lot, and no one has taken unwise actions.

Housekeeping robots walked through the crowd and distributed food to everyone. The prisoners all sat up, swallowed with warm nutrition paste, whispered to each other, chatting in groups of three or three, and the atmosphere was quite stable.

In the crowd, two Kunde tribes, one big and one small, were crowded together. The younger one was obviously a kid from the Kunde tribe. He was eating nutritious paste in small bites, and the adult female Kunde tribe next to him poured half of the mush in the bowl to the child.

"Mom, don't you eat?" Seeing this, the child raised his head.

"You eat first, and I will eat when you are full."

The adult Kunde tribe looked at him gently, and the two were a mother and son.

"No, eat together." The child shook his head and muttered: "It would be great if Dad was there too, Mom, where did he go?"

Upon hearing this, his mother was silent. Seeing that the child was staring at him, she couldn't help but smile and said, "Your father may be on another spaceship and cannot come to see us. When we settle down, he will look for us."

"That's great, I miss him so much." The child became happy, "When will we settle down?"

“…It’s probably going to be soon.”

Her smile became more and more difficult. She had no confidence in her heart, but she had to pretend to be confident.

She forced herself to comfort the child a few words. Seeing that the child continued to bury her head and then quietly turned her face away and wiped away the tears that almost couldn't help but overflow.

She knew in her heart that her husband might have been killed...because she was the wife of an officer.

After the war started, she and her children were sent away as soldiers' families, and because of the empire's operations, they were sent back and became prisoners. Although the empire closed off external news, since the Kundes were defeated, it is not difficult for her to imagine the losses on the battlefield.

She was unable to communicate with the outside world. She didn't know whether her husband was dead or alive, and she still had the last faint hope. However, in front of her children, she had to forcibly endure her confusion, anxiety and anxiety, and could not show it, and she was under great pressure in her heart.

After the child fell asleep in the middle of the night, she was the kind of person who sobbed quietly with tears.

She didn't know how this civilization called the Red Empire would deal with them, so she could only deceive her children.

"Didi--"

At this moment, rows of virtual screens suddenly popped up around the shipyard, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

All screens flashed synchronously, and then a familiar figure appeared.

"It's the leader!"

The crowd immediately became turbulent, and many people stood up and stared at the screen.

The same scene was also staged in all Kunde prison ships. After the empire took over, the news was closed. Most people did not know the current detailed situation. This was the first time that external news had been received since they were detained and the first time they met the leader on TV.

The mother also hurriedly put down her food and pulled the child to stand beside the virtual screen to watch.

On the screen, the Kunde leader sat meticulously, facing the camera, and slowly spoke:

"Friends, I have a heavy news to announce - we have completely lost this war, about 70% of the military forces were annihilated, and the number of the dead and missing fleets is as follows..."

He started to read a long list of deaths, and the hearts of all the soldiers' families immediately raised, fearing that they would miss any number.

As the fleet numbers were read out, from time to time, people sat down to the ground with their hearts as if they were dead, and heart-wrenching cries kept ringing in the crowd.

The child was confused when he heard it. Suddenly, he felt his mother beside him shaking and almost pulled him down. He quickly turned around and grabbed his mother's hand.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"I...is okay."

The mother was trembling slightly. If she was a human, her face would be pale at this time. She finally held the child's shoulder and stood firm, forcibly keeping her tone calm, but she could not hide the trembling voice.

Just now, she heard the name of the fleet where her husband served from the Kunde leader. The last glimmer of hope was shattered, and her eyes turned black and she almost fainted on the spot.

Thinking that the child was still next to her, she forced herself to suppress her emotions. At this time, she couldn't even cry, and she was stunned and felt as if she was dead.

Crying sounds came one after another, and a sad atmosphere suddenly filled the room.

Finally finished reading the list of deaths, the leader of the Kunde tribe said in a deep voice: "I have to bear the main responsibility for the failure of the war. The failed decisions between me and the senior leaders have led to the evil consequences today.

In fact, this war can be avoided. It is not the enemy who takes the initiative to provoke the war, but me.

The Red Empire came from afar and explored the unknown. They were actually a peace-loving civilization, but arrogance and hostility blinded my heart. I was used by a third party to be hostile to the Red Empire. I was born to put it on the enemy's position and wanted to take the initiative first, so I arranged an attack, which aroused the anger of the empire.

We had the opportunity to live in peace, without war, without blood, and only cultural integration. Unfortunately, because of my mistake, we missed this future.

My arrogance cut off the bridge of peaceful contact between the two sides. Everything is my responsibility now, and my decision-making mistakes have sent the entire civilization into the abyss."

As he said that, he retrieved a document, which arranged the internal confidential information of the first phantom bomb trap, as well as the casualties statistics of the Empire Exploration Team, to prove that he did not speak nonsense.

Then, the leader of the Kunde tribe stood up and gave a deep gift to the camera.

"I have personally ruined your past lives. Countless families have been broken by this war. I'm sorry."

After hearing this, everyone understood that this was the edict of guilt and explained to the people the reason for this war.

Looking at this scene, many people were angry.

sorry?

Is it useful to have you made the entire race like this?!

If you hadn't provoked a war, those soldiers would not have been killed. We are still living normally, so how could we become prisoners!

It’s all because of you, our civilization has encountered a crisis of life and death, and all of this can be obviously avoided!

Just say sorry?!

After the Kunde leader apologized, he returned to his seat, expressionless and continued:

"I know, you are very concerned about how the Red Empire will deal with us. Please rest assured that the Red Empire is a civilization higher than us. They will not massacre civilians, nor will they castrate IQs. They decided to let us go, place us in another galaxy, restore us to freedom, and help us build a new home..."

Upon hearing this, everyone's tense nerves relaxed, which was their most concerned issue.

It was a blessing to be able to save a life, but the other party was willing to let them go and return their freedom to these prisoners of war.

It seems that the Red Empire is indeed a peace-loving civilization... This idea comes to mind some people.

When our side provoked a war, the disadvantages were first, the empire treated the prisoners well, and the benevolence and righteousness were later. Compared with the two, the hatred of the empire was slightly weakened.

Of course, rationality and objectivity do not exist on this issue. Even as the party that provoked the war, most of the Kunde people still have more or less hatred for the empire, among which the families of the fallen soldiers hated the most.

However, because of this explanation, their anger was more directed towards the leaders of the Kunde tribe.

At this time, the leader of the Kunde tribe brought up another document, which contained Han Xiao's brief life history, which was the information provided by the empire.

"Our new home is the territory of a great man in the Red Empire. His name is Black Star, which will provide us with shelter. This is a respectable person. It is his statement that has made the Empire determined to give us freedom."

Everyone looked at Han Xiao's image on the document and secretly remembered the person who spoke for them.

On the other side, in the office of Lighthouse Star, Han Xiao's projection was watching the speech of the Kunde leader with Tarrokov. Seeing this, he glanced at Tarrokov with amused glance.

"You are really helping me thoroughly. Not only do you give me the Kunde population resources, but you also help me establish an image for free."

"You are welcome."

Tarrokov took a sip of the plant health drink and smiled faintly.

The speech continued. The Kunde leaders introduced the situation of the new home and looked forward to the future misleadingly. They never mentioned cultural transformation and closed interstellar networks, and then changed the topic:

"The decision-making mistakes lead to the current results. The senior management has to shoulder huge responsibilities. All the senior management involved will be executed. I will learn from it, reflect on the lessons learned this time, and continue to lead the ethnic group in a more rational way and build our new home."

boom--

As soon as this statement was spoken, the crowd was in an instant and exploded!

"Why should he continue to lead us if he made such a big mistake?"

"It's too hypocritical to execute all the senior officials, but I don't have any punishment at all!"

"He wants to seize the leader's position and die, right?"

Almost everyone was angry.

You have made the tribe like this, why do you continue to be the leader?!

Have we agreed?!

Other senior officials have been executed, but your explanation to us is just a light saying "I'm sorry"?!

What's the point?!

Even if you don’t die, at least you have to step down!

Keeping your leader with a thick face is not your desire for power!

The clan has been defeated, but you are fine, and you are still sitting in this position. Why?!

It seems that he is blaming himself, but in fact he has thrown all the blame to other senior executives, which is simply disgusting!

At this time, the leader of the Kunde tribe stood up and showed a formulaic smile, "I will go to every spaceship to express condolences to you and encourage you, hoping to bring you the courage to start over. Failure is not scary, I... can make the Kunde tribe great again."

This sentence should have been inspiring, but at this moment, almost everyone stared at the Kunde leader on the screen in anger.
To be continued...