Chapter 299: Harkonnen is doomed! A gift from the Space Guild!
Puff-!
Duke Leto pulled the dagger out of Dr. Yue's heart, and a stream of warm blood flowed out from the myocardium.

He put down Dr. Yue's body, wiped the dagger in his hand clean, and put it back into the sheath at his waist.

"Your Excellency the Duke, what should we do with this guy's body? Should we burn it?"

At this time, Hawat walked out from the corner of the corridor, accompanied by the Atreides family guards.

Everything that happened just now was under their surveillance. In order to prevent Dr. Yue and Duke Leto from completely falling out, they secretly aimed at each other with crossbows throughout the whole process.

Fortunately, Dr. Yue maintained the last bit of his dignity, accepted the punishment of death calmly, and was able to leave his body intact.

Otherwise, they have plenty of ways to torture the traitors who betrayed the Atreides family.

Leto sighed and gave the order: "Bury him as a family servant. Remember to invite his relatives and friends. We will pay for it."

Leto felt sorry for Dr. Yue, his close retainer, but as the head of the Atreides family, he had to kill the traitor.

Once a bad habit is started, it will attract others to follow suit.

Of course, when it comes to human touch, Leto also has to do his best.

He had to let his men know that he, Duke Leto, was a loyal and righteous master. Even when dealing with a traitor who betrayed him, he would take their past feelings into consideration and not only kill but also bury the person.

Hearing Leto's words, Hawat, a loyal retainer of Atreides, immediately realized that Leto was trying to take advantage of the opportunity to win people's hearts.

He quickly offered his assistance and said, "Your Excellency the Duke is so kind. I would like to thank you on behalf of Dr. Yue's family!"

The Duke's favor is endless, so you have to work hard for him. There is no good end for being a traitor.

Seeing that Hawat was able to keep up with his pace tacitly, Leto remained calm on the surface, but felt extremely comfortable in his heart.

Over the years, only Hawat could provide assists so smoothly, knowing his next decision and plans and cooperating with his intentions.

This is called a loyal minister!
Immediately, Hawat raised his head and looked at the starry sky. The twinkling starlight from outside the atmosphere had disappeared.

This meant that the interstellar war with a huge disparity in strength was nearing its end. The fighting had lasted less than an hour, and the troops of the two major families, Harkonnen and Colino, had almost finished fighting.

For some reason, seeing that the war had only lasted for an hour, Leto had to wonder if the Harkonnen and Colino royal families were too weak, which was why they performed so poorly.

"Those two bastards Padishah and Baron worked so hard to build up their army, but this is the level of theirs. I thought they could hold out until dawn."

Leto laughed at the combined forces of the two houses, but he knew that his own House Atreides was not that powerful.

The reason why this battle was able to end so quickly was thanks to the giant ships and cannons of the Universal Corporation. Otherwise, with the strength of the Atreides family itself, it would be absolutely impossible to defeat the opponent.

After all, if the Atreides had such a background, Leto would have rebelled long ago. There would be no need to set up a Lansgard Federation and play power struggle with that dog Emperor Saddam.

Wouldn't it be great to just seize the throne and become the emperor yourself?

It’s a pity that such a powerful giant enterprise army belongs to a man named "Le Ang", and even I can only be his vassal and obey his orders.

"It looks like it's almost over. That dog emperor is finished!"

Hawat on the side also raised his head, looking at the gradually dimming starlight, and a smile appeared involuntarily at the corner of his mouth.

At this moment, in the star field tens of thousands of kilometers away, there were shattered wreckage of spacecraft everywhere. There was no suspense at all in this one-sided massacre.

The global giant company only lost some AI drones, but these drones are almost equivalent to zero cost in the face of the giant company's powerful productivity, so there is no need to feel sorry for them at all.

On the contrary, it was the Harkonnen family and the Colino royal family who actually exhausted most of their troops.

Only a small number of remnants took the opportunity to escape.

Now, without a powerful army, the Harkonnen family will certainly not escape liquidation given its notoriety.

The Colino royal family, which sat firmly on the Golden Lion throne, was not far from extinction after losing the protection of the Sadoka Legion.

Everything is going according to the established plan!

"Now it is our turn to be proud."

Duke Leto laughed loudly. As the head of the Atreides, he had been working hard to plan the future of the Atreides since he took over the position of patriarch.

Now the power structure of the empire is about to change dramatically. As one of the first lucky ones to catch the trend, Atreides will officially take off under his leadership!
After this battle, the Atreides family was guaranteed to gain the status of a super-powerful family in the empire, standing tall above other families.

Even if I can only be a good dog for the giant corporation, I must be the only dog ​​and never let other families check and balance Atreides.

At this moment, Hawat suddenly thought of something. He moved closer to Duke Leto and asked in a low voice:
"Sir, should we contact the other families now and ask them to help arrest the members of the Harkonnen and Colino families?"

Now that the outcome has been decided, we should take advantage of the victory to capture all these remnants in one fell swoop and hand them over to the world giant as a gift for the enthronement of the Divine Emperor.

Duke Leto nodded, and he also felt that this made sense: "Well, at this moment, the forces of those two bastards, Barron and Padishah, are either dead or disabled. It's a good opportunity to take them all down."

"You arrange it."

"Yes!"

……

The Space Guild is on the high ship.

The tragic news of the defeat of the front-line troops finally reached Baron Barron. Seeing the family army being defeated, Barron, who was sitting behind the scenes, was completely panicked.

The selected pork belly on his body was oozing with hot sweat and trembling from time to time because of the extreme fear in his heart.

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

"How come both families sent out their best troops but couldn't even run into the Atreides fleet? How could this be possible?"

Barron's angry roar frightened the maids and guards below, who trembled in fear for fear that they would accidentally become tools for the other party to vent his anger.

After all, all the successive heads of the Harkonnen family were notorious tyrants, and their most prominent feature was their brutality and inhumanity.

Every time Baron Barron got angry, it would always affect a few maids or guards. It seemed that he could not calm down his inner anger unless some people died.

As for this kind of beastly boss, the maids had thought about giving Baron Barron the same "neck strangulation" treatment that Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty used, to cure Baron's bad habit of going crazy and chopping people.

But Barron also knew that his unethical behavior could easily cause rebellion among his subordinates, so he ordered all the maids of the Harkonnen family to wear only transparent clothes.

This way, you can avoid the possibility of the maid hiding weapons and assassinating you.

"Where did that old thief Leto get the warships from? Why can't our energy cannons penetrate their shields?!"

"Also, where did they get the money to build the ship, and where did they get the technology to develop it from?"

"The two families' armies joined forces, but we were the first to collapse. This doesn't make sense!"

Before the war, Baron Barron never thought that he would lose the war. He had already opened half of the champagne, but in the end, he was the loser.

The Colino royal family even bet their own coffin funds and the invincible Sadoka Legion, and still lost so miserably!
Not to mention defeating the warships of the Universal Corporation, they couldn't even overload the most basic shield device, and after all this trouble, they were the weakest side.

You know, the giant company's battleship array has not even taken the initiative to attack, but is simply doing a defensive counterattack, and even the main guns of the battleships have not been turned on.

If the giant company activates the main guns of various warships, what awaits the Harkonnen and Colino coalition forces will be star-destroying light spear strikes and terrifying distortion force fields that will instantly tear apart the "little flies" that rush up.

By then, the scene of this war will be even more terrifying!
Seeing Baron Barron’s red temperature break, even Peter, a key retainer of the Harkonnen family, could only remain silent for the time being and stand by without saying a word. After seeing that Barron had almost made a fuss, Peter spoke up and reminded Baron Barron:

"Lord Baron, I suggest you leave here as soon as possible. Our frontline troops are collapsing. Now we must let the Space Guild activate the high-class ships and get out of this dangerous place."

"Once we return to Harkonnen's base, Jedi Star, we will still have hope of making a comeback!"

The best way to persuade a furious person is to put him into a state of fear as quickly as possible, and death threats are a pretty good way to do that.

When Barron heard that if he continued to make such a fuss, he would be killed by the Atreides family, he suddenly came to his senses and realized that the current situation was very dangerous.

If we don’t slip out quickly, it will be too late!
"Quick, contact the Space Guild immediately and ask them to activate the high-class ship and leave here quickly!"

Barron gave the order decisively. Although he had a bad temper, he was not so crazy as to ignore death and continue to lose his temper.

"Yes."

Peter breathed a sigh of relief and immediately went to contact the head of the Space Guild.

Jedi is the home planet of the Harkonnen family. It has a strong industrial base and complete production areas. As long as Baron Barron escapes back and preserves the hope of spark, it may not be impossible for him to make a comeback.

Now that the situation of this interstellar war is already quite clear, the Harkonnen family and the Colino royal family will definitely have to stay in a low position for a while.

But after a series of analysis, Peter still believed that the Colino royal family would be destroyed sooner!
After all, the Colino family is different from the Harkonnen family. As the royal family, they control the ruling power of the entire Galactic Empire and have supreme power.

It is precisely because of this that a weak lion with its weaknesses exposed will be in an especially dangerous situation.

The invincible Sardauka Legion was almost defeated, which meant that the royal family's sharpest minions were all eliminated by Atreides.

All the major families will go crazy for the Golden Lion Throne. Ambitious people will smell the scent of power and will rush to it without hesitation.

When the order of the empire was disrupted, everyone wanted to be the one who controlled the order.

And in this chaotic situation, it may be a good opportunity for the Harkonnen family to fish in troubled waters, lick their wounds, and lie in wait.

Unless the Atreides family takes the initiative to cooperate with the Corino royal family, attack the Harkonnen family, and forcibly put an end to the chaos in the empire, the royal family will definitely be the first to be besieged.

But the probability of this happening is quite low.

After all, no one would stop halfway in a rebellion. It would not be pleasant to take off your pants and only shit halfway.

Any normal person would want to wipe out the Colino royal family in one fell swoop to make it easier for themselves to ascend to the throne and become the emperor.

However, before Peter could contact the Space Guild responsible for operating the high-class ships through the communication device, Harkonnen's guards ran over and reported to the baron:
"My Lord! Those bastards of the Guild refuse to set sail!"

When these words were spoken, Peter and Baron Baron were both stunned. They did not react immediately to what the Space Association meant.

The Harkonnen family is a major buyer of the Space Guild and they usually place orders with them. Now that they want these people to set sail and leave, do they have to pay extra money?
"What did you say?!"

Barron was stunned for a moment, then roared angrily again: "If we don't leave now, we will all die. Are all the people in the Space Guild blind and unable to see the situation on the front line?!"

"Tell those bastards that if they want us to pay more to set sail, then they can set sail at whatever price they want, and I, Barron, will pay for it."

"But if I die, they won't get a penny, including the rent owed by our Harkonnen family!"

At this point, Barron had no choice but to accept the blatant extortion from the Astronautical Guild. He knew the difference between money and life.

But after hearing what the guard said, Peter's face turned pale, the corners of his mouth twitched uncontrollably, and he muttered to himself in a low voice: "It's over, we're done..."

Peter had already thought of the worst outcome, which was that the Space Guild had no intention of taking advantage of the situation and extorting money from the Harkonnen family.

Seeing Peter's terrified expression, Baron Barron turned his head and glared at him fiercely, as if he wanted to eat Peter alive.

"What's over? Explain yourself clearly!"

Peter swallowed and responded tremblingly, "Sir, the Space Guild is not trying to take advantage of our misfortune and ask us for money. They are planning to hand us over to the Atreides Family."

As soon as he finished speaking, Peter began to tremble uncontrollably. He was already thinking about the torture he usually used on other people, and how it was backfiring on him now.

"The Guild is going to sell us out?!"

Baron Baron showed a look of shock and anger. He clenched his fists, and with the help of the floating chair, his fat body quickly flew in front of Peter.

He stared at Peter and asked in a very unwilling tone, "Why do they dare to do this? Do they even dare to give the Emperor Padishah to that old Leto?"

But the next second, the guard responsible for reporting the news continued: "The high-class ships escorting the emperor have already set sail, only ours has not moved."

"Baron, we have been abandoned...!"

Hearing this, Barron felt as if struck by a bolt from the blue. The sudden tinnitus made his head buzz.

He knew that the Space Guild was a bunch of opportunistic bastards, and in order to avoid offending the royal family who might make a comeback and the rising Atreides family, they were going to send them away as a gift!
But for Baron Barron, this was even more painful than killing himself.

And at this moment, Barron finally understood why Peter said it was over.

A fence-sitter like the Space Guild will of course help whoever wins. Now that Harkonnen is finished, they will of course rush to make friends with and curry favor with old Leto again!
As it happens, the Harkonnens and the Atreides are sworn enemies, so Leto will certainly be very pleased with the Guild's "gift".

If the Atreides family sits on the Golden Lion Throne, then the Space Guild may be able to continue doing its own business in the Galactic Empire because of this flattery.

Even if it's the worst, there's still hope for a lighter sentence!
"No, we can't just sit there and wait for death!"

The fat on Barron's face was trembling. He knew what a disgraceful and miserable end he would suffer if he fell into Leto's hands.

He had to escape. Only by escaping, returning to the family camp and avoiding being caught by Leto could he continue to maintain his current treatment as a baron.

At this time, Peter, who had regained his composure, nodded and spoke to calm Barron's nervousness: "Yes, sir, I will arrange an escape ship for you right away."

……

Half an hour later, Peter stood alone outside the heavy iron gate, looking calmly at Baron Barron inside, speaking in an angry and frightened voice.

"Peter! What the hell are you doing? Didn't you agree to help me arrange my escape? Why are you doing this now?!"

It turned out that the escape that Peter promised to Barron did not happen. He chose the same self-rescue plan as the Space Guild, which was to betray Baron Barron and find a way to survive.

It is better for one person to die than for a group of people to die.

In such desperate moments, it should be useful to use the leader to take the blame.

"I'm so sorry, Baron."

Peter stood outside the gate, listening calmly to the noisy sounds inside. Complex emotions such as fear and guilt made his expression a little distorted and weird at the moment.

Peter's expression perfectly reflects his appearance.

For the Harkonnen family, as a staff member and mentat, Peter has always enjoyed the welfare benefits of a vested beneficiary.

Under normal circumstances, Peter would never have betrayed Baron Barron, but now the Harkonnen family is doomed, and there are fierce enemies everywhere, staring at this old beast Barron.

Peter didn't want to die with the Harkonnen family, nor did he want to sacrifice his life for Barron.

He was just trying to make a living in the Harkonnen family, and there was really no need for him to risk his life for it.

(End of this chapter)