IBO – Chapter 75 The Interstellar Empire

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【Marshal Mang launches a surprise attack on Squid Star…】

【Shocking! The former leaders of interstellar society and numerous high-ranking officials once demanded that Marshal Mang accept Squid Star’s surrender with a compensation of only 10 million credit points…】

【Shocking! Many former high-ranking officials of interstellar society have stepped down, with some even ending up behind bars…】

【The Interstellar Empire’s Executive Officer introduces new regulations—new laws concerning beastformers…】

【Executive Officer of the Interstellar Empire—Mang. Let us step into her legendary life…】

【Leader of the Interstellar Empire—Kasei. Leader Kasei once said in an interview…】

【The Executive Officer introduces new regulations: the Empire’s leader is to be replaced every 100 years and may not serve consecutive terms.】

……

Song Yiran finished reading all the news reports, his mood becoming extremely complicated.

He had merely slept for a while—how had the world changed into this when he woke up?

Based on the news reports, Song Yiran pieced together the entire sequence of events.

First, it all began last night.

Last night, the Squid Star people launched a surprise attack on Rose Star, and Rose Star suffered a crushing defeat.

The interstellar people on Rose Star surrendered, but the Squid Star people refused to accept it.

They demanded that the interstellar people hand over the usage rights of ten small planets; otherwise, they would kill all interstellar people on Rose Star and formally declare war on them.

The interstellar side dispatched many troops to support Rose Star, but none of them returned. All were captured by the Squid Star people.

It was not until 3 a.m. the next morning that General Mang led her Radiance Legion to Rose Star for reinforcement, finally turning the tide of the battle.

General Mang and her legion achieved a stunning comeback, and all the Squid Star people were taken prisoner.

As a result, General Mang was promoted to Marshal.

After that, the Squid Star people surrendered and proposed a compensation of 10 million credit points.

This compensation was utterly insincere—it was not even enough to rebuild the residential areas of Rose Star.

However, the leaders of interstellar society and most of the high-ranking officials demanded that Marshal Mang accept the surrender.

Marshal Mang did not blindly follow them.

She boarded a small starship with her adjutant, Kasei, and they went straight to Squid Star’s main planet, launching a surprise attack on the royal palace.

The Squid King was beheaded beneath his throne, and all of Squid Star’s top officials were wiped out.

With its core leadership gone, Squid Star lost its backbone. Both the main planet and its affiliated planets were incorporated into the territory of interstellar society.

Afterward, Marshal Mang and Adjutant Kasei returned to the main planet of interstellar society, and the Radiance Legion also returned from Rose Star.

Under Marshal Mang’s leadership, they launched a coup.

Following that, the main planet of interstellar society and all its affiliated planets were placed under martial law.

During this period, Marshal Mang purged the upper echelons of interstellar society. The former leader and many high-ranking officials who had been corrupt and embezzled funds were all thrown into prison.

In the end, only a small number of upright officials remained in their original positions.

Interstellar society was dissolved, and Marshal Mang established the Interstellar Empire. Her adjutant, Kasei, became the new leader of the Interstellar Empire.

Marshal Mang herself became the Executive Officer of the Interstellar Empire.

Afterward, as the Empire’s Executive Officer, Mang introduced a series of new regulations.

Among them was that the Empire’s leader would be selected by the Executive Officer, and the leader would serve a term of 100 years, with no consecutive terms allowed.

This length of time was not particularly long, after all—the average lifespan of interstellar people had already reached 400 years, with some even living to 500.

Another regulation stated that the Executive Officer’s authority stood above that of the Empire’s leader. The Executive Officer held veto power over the leader’s decisions.

No one was allowed to alter the regulations or decisions issued by the Executive Officer of the Empire—not even the Empire’s leader had such authority.

If the Executive Officer deemed that the Empire’s leader lacked the ability to govern the Empire, the Executive Officer had the right to replace them.

Song Yiran substituted the concept in his mind—the Executive Officer was essentially equivalent to a regent in ancient Blue Star history.

Most of the remaining regulations concerned beastformers.

These included the regulations Song Yiran had previously heard from Jiuli regarding underage beastformers.

From this day onward, all beastformers would enjoy equal civic rights, including medical benefits, educational benefits, and elderly care benefits.

The Empire would begin a thorough investigation into guardians who had abandoned beastformers. All guardians who had ever abandoned a beastformer would be imprisoned.

All abandoned underage beastformers would be sent to local beastformer welfare institutions.

Under the Empire’s new regulations, every region was required to have beastformer welfare institutions and beastformer schools.

The Empire allocated funds to all regions for the construction of dedicated beastformer welfare institutions and beastformer schools.

And from this day onward, no one was permitted to discriminate against beastformers.

Whether in speech or in action, once discriminatory behavior was discovered, fines would be imposed immediately; in serious cases, detention would follow.

All past statements discriminating against beastformers on the StarNet were deleted by the authorities, and an official announcement was issued:

【From this day onward, no interstellar citizen may post discriminatory remarks against beastformers on the StarNet. Violators will be fined; in serious cases, accounts will be permanently banned, and offenders will be imprisoned.】

At the same time, the authorities stepped in to rectify the unfair treatment of beast-formers in employment.

Beast-formers are equal interstellar citizens. In terms of salary, they must receive equal pay for equal work with other interstellar citizens, and wages must not be maliciously withheld.

No industry may discriminate against beast-formers, nor may they maliciously suppress them.

The authorities dispatched professionals to conduct irregular undercover inspections. Once any company is found to have discriminated against beast-formers, it will be ordered to suspend operations for rectification.

……

This series of regulations was all aimed at securing the rightful civil rights of beast-formers.

Song Yiran felt a surge of mixed emotions.

At last… beast-formers had finally obtained equal rights…

And all of this had happened within just a single day.

No—no, that wasn’t right… This was the result of many years of effort by countless beast-formers.

Mang herself had once climbed step by step from a low-ranking soldier to the position of general.

Everyone in her Radiance Legion was a beast-former. In a society that discriminated against beast-formers, it had been anything but easy for them to make it this far.

Song Yiran let out a long breath. This society had finally—no, it should be called an empire now.

This empire had finally become what he had always envisioned.

Meanwhile, StarNet suddenly exploded with a massive number of posts, most of them apology posts.

【I’m sorry! I repent! I shouldn’t have discriminated against beast-formers! I apologize for my past inappropriate remarks!】

【I was wrong! I was young and ignorant and posted some inappropriate comments!】

【My apologies. I lacked the ability to tell right from wrong and once followed the crowd in making improper remarks…】

Song Yiran found the post he had browsed before falling asleep in the dorm.

All the discriminatory comments against beast-formers in that post had been deleted by the authorities.

And the person who had claimed to be a gambler back then was now being watched by countless netizens.

【Prophet! Your sixth sense was insanely accurate! Photo for the record!】

【Tell us—did you know some insider info? You guessed everything right!】

【Hey, where’s that troll? I remember there was a troll in this post before. Their mouth was filthy, and they kept discriminating against beast-formers. Where did that troll go?】

【That guy? He went to prison.】

【Huh?】

【For real?】

【Yeah. His mouth was too filthy, and he posted a lot of discriminatory remarks against beast-formers. The circumstances were serious, so he’s already been jailed.】

【How do you know so much? Are you their neighbor?】

【He’s my brother—well, to be precise, my biological brother.】

【Judging by your tone, there’s a story there. Care to share? If it’s inconvenient, just ignore me.】

【There’s nothing I can’t say. He’s my brother by blood. But I’m a beast-former. I was thrown away the moment I was born. Luckily, I had strong vitality and managed to survive by scavenging through trash. That guy used to bully me all the time. He thought I had sullied their family’s so-called noble bloodline. Now that guy has finally gone to prison—serves him right! And the parent who abandoned me back then has also gone to prison! I’ve obtained citizenship now, and my salary has finally returned to a normal level! I feel like everything is getting better!

Thank you to the Imperial Governor, thank you to the Empire’s leaders!】

【…Sending you a hug.】

【Hug.】

【I’m a beast-former too. I used to be afraid to post on StarNet, scared people would chase me down just to curse at me. At work, that idiot boss always picked on me. I did the same work as everyone else, but could only get a meager salary… Sigh… the more I talk about it, the sadder it gets…】

【Sigh… same here. I used to be discriminated against everywhere I went. Thankfully, things are getting better now. Thanks to the Governor and the leaders!】

……

Song Yiran continued browsing StarNet when suddenly an image caught his attention.

The title of the image was—【Imperial Governor, Mang】.

The news Song Yiran had seen before also included photos of Mang, but most were of her back or her profile.

This image, however, showed Mang’s face head-on.

Song Yiran stared at it again and again in disbelief. The face in the image was unmistakably Guang’s face!

What was going on? Why did Guang and Mang look exactly the same?

Could the two of them be the same person?

No—Song Yiran finally noticed the difference between them.

Guang’s eyes were violet, while Mang’s eyes were ice blue.

Could Guang and Mang be twin sisters?

Guang and Mang…

Guang… Mang…

Mang’s legion was called the Radiance Legion—was there some connection between the two?

Song Yiran suddenly recalled a memory he had forgotten.

Mang!

No wonder the name had sounded so familiar before! He finally remembered!

Wasn’t Mang the name of the founding monarch of the Interstellar Empire?!

And now, Mang had reestablished the Interstellar Empire. It all connected—everything connected!

Mang must be the reincarnation of that founding monarch!

Song Yiran rubbed his temples. No—wait, he’d gone off track. That wasn’t the point.

What exactly was the relationship between Guang and Mang? Were they the same person, or sisters?

Or did they simply happen to look alike?

Song Yiran wanted to ask Xiao Zhong’er, but then he remembered that Xiao Zhong’er didn’t have the memories from that time.

So asking would be pointless.

Song Yiran shook his head and gently turned his gaze to the two eggs resting in the incubators before him.

Forget it—what did any of that have to do with him? He should just focus on raising the kids.

The two eggs lay quietly in their respective incubators.

And in Song Yiran’s eyes, those two eggs were nothing less than two adorable little angels.

One was a pink egg, the other a blue egg.

With a tone full of anticipation, Song Yiran asked Xiao Zhong’er, “Xiao Zhong’er, what do you think will hatch out of the eggs?”

Xiao Zhong’er’s tiny bean-like eyes filled with great confusion.

“Has your memory really deteriorated to this extent? Haven’t we already raised them once before?”

“These two eggs will obviously—”

Song Yiran quickly covered Xiao Zhong’er’s mouth with his hand.

“You don’t get it—this is called a sense of ceremony! This is my beautiful anticipation for the babies!”

Xiao Zhong’er was so creeped out by Song Yiran’s tone that goosebumps broke out all over.

“…Your tone is way too greasy! And why are you calling them ‘babies’ again?”

“Because they’re still just two eggs! The babies haven’t even broken their shells yet—of course they’re adorable little babies!”

Song Yiran smiled gently at the two eggs inside the incubators.

Xiao Zhong’er’s verdict: I can’t look, I really can’t look.

Song Yiran’s soul had already been completely stolen by those two eggs!