When Lilina and I left this planet named after the gods but ruled by ice and death, thousands of butterflies had spread to the entire area within the Arctic Circle. Finding the remaining bases was easier than we expected, at least some of them were found: they were adjacent to the base we first arrived at, forming an intermittent ring in the Arctic Circle, and the butterflies with special powers Passing through the icy cold wind at supersonic speed, they have settled down in every populated place in the infected area in just half an hour. After fifteen minutes, most of them will start to transform into deadly virus clouds, And the remaining part will quietly split and head to other places on this planet. If Lilina's design works as usual, the first death case will appear in about three hours.
In the process, we also saw the tightness of these bases with the highest security level - there is a reason for Turazzo's several infiltration failures. Although I think a group of "natural" butterflies, which are completely normal inside and out, should not be paid attention to, but the butterfly colony was still intercepted by nearly a third when it invaded other places, and those bases obviously noticed these creatures, and blocked the invasion of the butterfly swarm with a high-temperature field. If the latter hadn't immediately changed its course and evolved camouflage skills, Lilina's butterfly swarm might have suffered a lot. I don't know how the Melova people suspected these butterflies: because Lilina specially scanned the surrounding environment when creating the butterfly swarm, she created this plague carrier by imitating a kind of polar butterfly nearby. It stands to reason They wouldn't have any anomalies that would have been noticed, but the Melovas activated the intercept anyway. It can only be said that this is their extreme caution in effect: no matter what it is, no matter whether it is abnormal or not, as long as it is not registered, all creatures are not allowed to enter the base, even flying insects and mice are no exception.
We were very cautious in the process of leaving the planet, so as not to show our feet. When I came here, I and Lilina were mixed in the slave transport ship, and passed most of the checkpoints safely by virtue of our disguise, but we didn’t have this advantage when we left. The escape experience, and I have every reason to believe that during this process, I and Lilina made at least 20 mistakes that were enough to be shot by an agent, such as bumping into a radar reflection zone or something. If it weren't for the fact that the two of them have hard skills, they could rely on various tricky skills (such as disguising as a piece of cosmic background radiation, which I am good at), and get away with it. If they were ordinary agents, they would have been exposed long ago.
It was nearly half a light-year after we left the kingdom of gods before we confirmed that we had left the highest security circle. After we reported the success of the mission to Sandora, we started the return journey. Soon, we returned to the seemingly peaceful slave supply. body planet.
Nothing here has changed, the small village is still living its own life in a leisurely way, the villagers with numb expressions are running around according to the program, the men have gone to work in the fields, the women are cooking and washing at home, and the children are drying at the door. Time spent in the sun, waiting to grow up to repeat their parents' lives—or to be sent to the kingdom of the gods to become a half-dead machine before this life reaches its end. In this advanced race that once ruled the entire universe, everyone is now insensitively living a life of covering their bodies and eating their food.
When we saw this small village for the first time, all we felt was surprise and confusion. Besides, we even felt that it was quite peaceful here. After a whole day of activities in the Kingdom of Gods, I saw the peaceful daily life here again. But I feel a chill from the bottom of my heart. The dark truth hidden under the peace and contentment is chilling. This is a ranch, a field, a crowded chicken coop, and worse, there is a cruel master.
Anuza's big house still looks the same as usual, but now the door is locked, and there are as many villagers passing by the house as in the past, and no one stops and turns to look at the empty house: except "God" Apart from the expressions they show, these natives will not show any extra emotion for anything. For them, Anuza and Anu Lili no longer exist, neither the past nor the future will exist. Even though one day ago, the siblings were their leaders and stayed with them day and night, but after one day, they were completely Completely forgot everything, maybe no one will even remember these two names: because redundant memory will occupy additional brain resources, which will bring higher costs for future "processing", so Melova people are I hope that the thinking of these aborigines is as simple as possible. If it is not to prevent their physical degeneration, maybe Barryan even hopes that these aborigines will not have any thinking activities at all and plant them in the ground like trees.
Soon there will be a new village head in this village, and then everything will continue—if we don't show up, this is the inevitable cycle, as it has been for the past thousand years.
After Lilina and I came back, we first took a look at the situation in this village, and just wanted to see what would happen after Anuza and Anulili left here, but I didn’t find anything I wanted here— In other words, we saw what we had already expected. In disappointment, we sent a transmission signal to the base of the earth, and soon joined the people who had been waiting there. Sandora, the Anuza brothers and sisters, and Turazzo had been waiting for a long time.
Everyone gathered in the core area of the earth core base. This is a very spacious room. It seems to be the place where Turazzo held meetings with other people from the resistance organization on weekdays. Everyone gathered around a big round table. Seeing me Appearing with Lilina, Sandora was the first to stand up: "How is the situation in the Kingdom of God? You have gone deep into Barrian's slave factory?"
"It's more like a slaughterhouse." When I think of the factories discovered by "Kingdom of Gods", I feel my blood surge, and after seeing Anuza and Anulili, I suddenly don't know whether to let them Seeing the audio-visual materials I brought back, my eyes finally fell on Turazzo—what happened in those bases was a masterpiece of the radicals, and should not be equated with the conservatives represented by Turazzo. But after all, they are all from Merova, so I couldn't help but look at him twice. When I noticed this look, Turazzo's face obviously changed slightly. It seems that he can guess that what happened in the Kingdom of God is absolutely nothing Things that can make the Merova people shine.
"Let's not talk about this, Anuza, how do you feel?" I waved my hand and sat down at the table. Anuza was sitting opposite him, sitting with his sister. This energetic young man, the last time he was seen was in the desolate and backward surface world, but now he is sitting in a high-tech shelter in the center of the earth, wearing the usual dark blue uniform in the shelter: It was probably the clothes that Anu Lili found for him temporarily. After all, Anuza is a licensed native, and he has no position here. Unlike the last time we met, Anuza's eyes are still lively, but they are much more restless and restrained. He looks around like a primitive man who has fallen into an alien base—well, this is not a metaphor at all. . It can be seen that this young man feels incredible about everything around him, and he dare not act rashly. His eyes fall on Anulili from time to time. Only his sister beside him can bring him a sense of familiarity and security.
This reminds me of the day when I entered elementary school. I, who had no father or mother, probably felt the same embarrassment when my sister brought me into the classroom: At that time, my sister was only a fifth grade pupil, but I felt that she was almost Omnipotent, sister, is really one of the most powerful creatures in this world.
"Uh, ah... It's okay, it's okay, it's very strange." Anuza was stunned for a moment before he realized it, and he stammered a little, more or less incoherent. He finally said that it was very strange, that's probably why he read it here Everything was strange, including the uniform that he was pulling around and seemed to be wearing very uncomfortable.
"It took me half a day to tell him about the base, and I gave him another day to understand the history," Anulili said with a bit of helplessness on her face, "just like all newcomers...he may not be able to understand all this at all, and needs to It's been a long time to accept this. The only good news is that he is my brother, at least he trusts everything I say. Ah, now I know what's going on with you, no wonder you were acting different from ordinary people... I didn't expect that at all."
I nodded and saw Anuza clenched his fists, sitting there stiffly, looking at a loss all the time, so I said: "Anuza, and Anu Lili, I think... I brought back these Things are not suitable for you to see."
Anulili's eyes widened all of a sudden: "What do you mean?" She might have thought of something.
Before I could speak, Anu Lili continued: "I guess... it should be a very bloody picture? They are killing humans? It's okay, I can accept it-I am also a fighter, and we have the right to know the truth. As for Anu Zha... he will know sooner or later."
Seeing the other party's resolute attitude, I couldn't say anything more, so I took out the data terminal: "This is something recorded after boarding the ship. What follows is what happened in the base. You should be mentally prepared."
The video material is very long. What happened in those factories is hard for ordinary people to imagine. Lilina and I recorded everything as much as possible, otherwise even Turazzo would not be able to believe that his former brother actually ordered the formation of such an institution. When two hours passed and the data was played, I threw the data terminal to Sandora: "There are still technical things in the back, we secretly connected to a counterfeit host, here is the scanned basic data, you see See if it is used to control the starship."
"Undoubtedly," Sandora quickly completed the search, "I didn't expect them to use this method to bypass the authority system... It's really the same as what I said casually at the beginning. They completely changed the original control system of the starship. They took it down and made a set of things with similar functions to install it...they didn't try to crack the locks at all, but took the whole door down."
I was very surprised: "The Starship operating system can be removed so easily? Isn't this a hidden danger?"
"Of course it shouldn't be removed so easily. The mainframe of the starship has a special connection sensor. If the mainframe is removed without authorization, the starship will directly self-destruct: this is to prevent the spacecraft from falling into the hands of the enemy. But May The Lowa people must have this dismantling authorization in their hands... They were the servants of the 15th sky zone back then. The emperor of the sky zone must have entrusted them with the maintenance of the starship. Simply dismantle the host and replace the standard module of the starship It's all very simple work, and ordinary races can do it after learning, so we often delegated this kind of maintenance work that would take up a lot of load on the starport to the most trusted servants. I didn't expect this to become Melova Human breakthrough. This is troublesome now, we really have to deal with a group of royal fleets... "
"Why... did Barryan do this to such an extent?"
From the other side came a voice that sounded as if it had taken all the energy out of it. Turazzo was almost forgotten by us, and now we refocused on him when he made a sound. The former leader of Melova now looks extremely old, and his three-quarter burly body is curled up on the chair. He holds his head in his hands and keeps repeating a sentence: "He can do it to this extent?"
"You didn't know anything about this before?" Sandora's voice was cold, and I could hear the faint anger.
"I don't know at all!" Turazzo raised his head suddenly, "long before he started all this, the entire conservative faction had been completely wiped out by him...otherwise he couldn't have started all this, because the conservative faction would never Let him do that..."
"If you let me know that you and your conservatives have the slightest connection with these things—" Sandora looked into Turazzo's eyes, "You will not live longer than Barryan!"
"I can swear on my soul!" Turazzo stood up suddenly and said loudly, then sat down slumped, "At first I still had a little affection for 'them', after all, the Radicals are also my compatriots, but... they are no longer We have personally ruined the "loyalty" of the Melova people, and now Barryan has destroyed the "martial arts" of our race. The Merova race is over, and there is nothing left to be proud of before. God There are only thugs in the country... Please do it, I have no ability to correct any wrongs, let it fall in the flames of the old master... "
"Yes, and soon," Sandora glanced at Turazzo, "Now you can't work, go back and rest, I hope you can adjust when the general attack begins."
Turazzo nodded and left silently.
Anu Lili and Anuza didn't react until now. I don't know if the latter understands what I saw enough, but Anu Lili obviously has the knowledge to understand these pictures. Her face is very ugly. But eventually she adjusted: as she put it herself, she was more or less a fighter.
"I learned about you from my mentor. To be honest, it was not only unexpected, but also a lot of things I hadn't heard of. I don't really understand what the Xiling Empire is about." Anulili stood up and looked at Shan and me. Dora's eyes were solemn and decisive, "But the mentor promised that you will end everything. I trust him, so I am willing to trust you too... If there is anything we can do, please feel free to ask, although we have nothing left , but if you want people... there are still some!"
"Well, of course, you will be used, but not on the frontal battlefield." Sandora seemed to have plans for the race of Anu Lili, "You can lead Anuza to rest first, it seems that he is here today The amount of information received is a bit large.”
Anu Lili nodded, and took Anuza, who was still a little confused, to leave, but before turning her head and leaving, she still looked us up and down, and then smiled slightly: "Speaking of... so this is What do you really look like? Very...beautiful~"
After everyone else had left and we were the only ones left here, Lin Xue turned to Sandora: "The general attack is about to start, how do you plan to deal with those royal fleets?"
"If possible, it's best to avoid head-to-head combat," I added next to it, "The regular army of Melova is enough to cause headaches, plus a Royal Fleet from the Empire..."
"After Lin Xue made the prophecy that Barryan had controlled the Royal Fleet, I have a plan," Sandora's lips curled up, "Maybe this time I will be active... Since the Royal Fleet uses human brains and human souls Driven, then each of them can be regarded as a separate intelligent body, in this case, the mind control that was originally ineffective on battleships has become a winning weapon."
Qianqian was surprised immediately: "You want one person to mentally control the entire fleet? Eh, so powerful? By the way, don't you want to help suppress the brainwashing state of other slave races? Can you come here?"
"This state is definitely not possible now, so I can only use the glory form," Sandora exhaled, "My glory form itself is a relatively rare type used for direct combat, and it is used on the battlefield Land. I just didn’t expect that the Merova people could let the empire use this kind of power... Well, they will die without regrets like this.”
I was very surprised, and then I felt that things suddenly made people excited: Sandora decided to use her glory form. This war can really bring people all kinds of surprises. I have only seen Sandora's glory form once-this fighting posture is not often used by the apostles of Xiling-but at that time, the supreme power of Ulasses still impressed me deeply. Now, this incomparably powerful starship is about to appear again, Melovas...you really can die without regret.
Next, we contacted the fleet at the border of the Melova Empire to confirm that the blockade was over and everything was ready to go. After agreeing on the rest of the details of the general attack, Sandora set the attack time for the next morning (empire time) —The rising sun will tear apart the endless night that the Merova rebels weaved here. RS