Chapter 1,236 The Star of the Ruined King

To be honest, the old royal fleet controlled by Barian actually has quite a strong combat effectiveness. It can even be said that all the Merova regular armies we have destroyed so far are not as powerful as this ancient fleet. The Judgment Throne, which has weird protection and can rebound damage at any time, the glowing ring that can instantly kill anything in the material world once it takes effect, and the huge number of support warships, once these antiques from the old empire exert their full power, they are enough to fight with Our Royal Fleet confronts the Third Army: Barian's confidence and expansion are not groundless. If nothing else happens, he should indeed have this expanded capital.

However, the only surprise was that in order to control these starships, Barian added a control system with a fatal weakness to the latter. Although the thinking of the "host" formed by the human brain matrix has been imprisoned, it is still an excellent target for mind control for the Imperial Power of Eurasia. Barian obviously doesn't know much about things like mind control: this can be seen from the fact that he still relies on nerve agents and brainwashing education to maintain his rule. He knows almost nothing about mind control, so he would never expect that There is such a powerful unit that can control the entire royal fleet on the battlefield.

I even think that he still hasn’t figured out what happened to the rebellion on those slave planets. The rebellion of those slaves must be something that cannot be explained in his eyes.

The Imperial Power of Ulassis was completely unmoved in the face of the enemy ship's attack. The latter's attack power was actually very strong, but the defense of the Glory Starship itself was enough to withstand such an attack for a long time. This period of time is enough. Sandora has completed her mission. She differentiated countless psychic sparks, the number of which was almost equal to that of the enemy fleet. These psychic sparks rushed towards the royal starship controlled by Barian and merged with the latter. Those powerful rings of light and thrones of judgment had almost no chance of resistance. Their fragile control methods destined these ships to have zero resistance to the Soul Reavers. The spacecraft immediately fell silent after being fused with the spiritual spark. Weapon systems are offline. At the same time, it was incorporated into the identification system of the Imperial Army. Sandora quickly and efficiently plundered all of Barian's cards bit by bit in front of him. He looks like he is strolling around at ease. I feel like I don’t need to take action with these fleets: it seems that Sandora alone is enough to deal with all the enemies.

"I said, are you really just standing by and watching?" After a moment, there were no units on the battlefield that were hostile to the imperial army. Sandora finally had time to complain to me in the spiritual connection.

"Well, we can't help with this matter." I replied helplessly. My eyes fell on the exterior projection. The artillery fire over the Kingdom of God had subsided. The battlefield was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water. The royal battleships shrouded in a mysterious halo were arranged in a regular array, as if they were waiting for the Imperial Army to inspect. One moment they were arranged into chicken legs, another moment they were arranged into steamed buns, and another moment they were arranged into a row of large characters. : I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry, I want to eat, I want to eat...

Sandora completed the task and was bored. That's how she started playing.

The Kingdom of God planet looked peaceful and lifeless. I figured it should have at least some anti-aircraft gun emplacements on its surface, but in reality it had no response at all to the fleet in space. It seems like there are no enemies here except us.

"Barian's communication frequency cannot be found," the intelligence officer reported the scanning situation. "All communication channels on the target planet have been closed. There are signs of severe damage to the facilities on the planet's surface."

"Do you want to bomb it?" Sandora said in the mental connection, "Or I can go up and bump it down. Do you want to watch space billiards? I think I can knock this planet out by seventy or eighty astronomical units. Then no matter who is up there, no one will definitely die..."

As soon as Shandora finished speaking, the two 1.2-meter-tall spirit spirits beside me suddenly stood up...

"That would be too cheap, and it would also be cheap for the leaders of the radical faction," I twitched my lips and stood up, "These guys will never regret death, and there are always some accounts that need to be settled face to face to make people feel at ease... Pandora, don’t you want to shoot Barian ten thousand times? Come on, let’s shoot him ten thousand times!”

Barian and his most loyal henchmen of the radical faction must receive a harsher punishment than other traitors, and a mere death cannot erase the crimes of these bastards. Now that all his resistance has been dismantled, we have decided to arrest the remaining war criminals in the "Kingdom of Gods". Originally, this kind of thing should be left to the imperial soldiers, but after thinking about it, I think it is more appropriate for us to do it ourselves. As mentioned just now, some accounts must be settled face to face - Pandora has been waiting for this moment for a long time. She would definitely prefer to hold Barian down with her own hands and then shoot him for fifteen minutes.

"Actually, I can use my spiritual power to wash away the entire planet..." Sandora said casually when we were about to set off, "But it seems that little Pandora prefers a more hateful method, so you go ahead. But you still have to pay attention. Oh, God knows if that Barian has any tricks up his sleeve, I’m not afraid of how strong he is in resisting, I’m just worried that he can escape cunningly.”

"Don't worry, if Barian can still run away in this situation, we can just kill ourselves to thank the world." I waved my hand, "Just help use a mental scan to determine where Barian is hiding."

Sandora's psychic power is really convenient to use. In addition to being able to fight directly, it can also be used as a radar that is almost incomprehensible to intelligent creatures. Under her clairvoyant-like mental scan, the coordinates of Barian's hiding place were quickly revealed. Just be exposed. Except for the eldest lady, who was not good at direct combat, who stayed on the spaceship, Qianqian, Lilina and Pandora sisters and I all boarded the planet which had been completely controlled. As for Sandora, who had completed the mission, she hummed a strange tune and jumped to the asteroid belt. As everyone had already thought, Sandora, who had been hungry for half a month... decided to become a Pac-Doll. Now that she is alive, she needs to eat more while she is bigger now...

...Let us forget this scene. Her Majesty the Queen who fainted from hunger is simply a black history maker.

I still remember the scene I saw the last time I came to the Kingdom of God. Although this lifeless planet looks lifeless, at least it has a magnificent appearance. It is covered with a layer of exaggerated and luxurious metal decoration. , there are golden totem poles and magnificent city buildings everywhere. But this time. What we saw was completely different.

They led a group of heavily armed soldiers. A city directly landed near the south pole of the planet through space projection. This city is very large and should have been as gorgeous as other places. But now we only see city streets and buildings that are destroyed and riddled with holes. The urban high-altitude bridge paved with alloy may have suffered an explosion attack. The barrier was broken in half, and the originally wide and smooth city avenue was full of potholes, as if it had been bombarded by something. The large buildings around them would all have collapsed or cracked to a certain extent, if not for the fact that they were made of interstellar alloy with astonishing strength. These things must have completely collapsed into ruins. All city facilities were destroyed, gray-black embers could be seen everywhere, and the air was filled with a choking burning smell. Not long after walking on the city streets, we discovered the bodies of Merova people.

They were a dozen heavily armed Merova soldiers. The circumstances of their death were very strange: they seemed to have died in a crazy and close-range shooting at each other. Everyone gathered in a circle, with their weapons pointed at the people opposite, and the high-energy ghosts The can rifle caused half of the deceased's body to be blown away, and the remaining half of the body was crystallized and solidified at the scene. So they kept the death scene very well. There were no traces of other attackers around, and all of them died at the hands of their own people. The energy gauges of these soldiers' guns are still almost full. This shows that they did not "waste" firepower elsewhere, and all the firepower was used to kill their comrades.

We also found a focused psionic crystal bomb in the hands of a soldier that had just been retrieved and had not yet been activated. The soldier seemed to have planned to throw the bomb at a nearby building before he died, but he failed to complete this With his movements, he turned into a crystal death sculpture with only half his body.

Soon we found more remains nearby. These dead Merovans, semi-crystallized corpses, solidified scenes of mutual killing, bombs that have been found but not yet thrown out - of course, looking at the current situation of the city, I have every reason to believe that there will be more bombs. Exploded—scenes like this filled the city, and I believe it filled the entire planet. This place has experienced a carnival-like hell, with traces of the rulers of the "Kingdom of Gods" killing each other and destroying themselves everywhere. This city was bombed by the Merovans themselves, and it must have been the same elsewhere.

"Psychic plague..." Qian Qian muttered, while jumping nimbly up and down the bumpy road, "No wonder there is almost no resistance on the planet. In the end, this battle ended just like the game... Sandora's mind Is the plague so powerful?"

I didn't answer, but I was secretly a little stunned when I saw the scene in front of me. Although I had imagined what it would be like after the spiritual plague broke out, I didn't expect it to be so exciting. This plague has obviously destroyed the capital star of Melova, which has been in operation for thousands of years. There is more or less an explanation for Barian's last weird behavior: 80% of his people have gone crazy, and the remaining 100% Being besieged by so many lunatics, it was unknown how long he could survive. In this desperate situation, it was impossible for Barian to make any decent resistance. Since the outbreak of the spiritual plague, the resistance we face has suddenly weakened several times, and the closer we get to the Kingdom of God, the more chaotic the resistance becomes, and the behavior of those fleets becomes more bizarre - I think these deadly psychic powers have already As the Kingdom of God's external communications spread, the Merova fleets we encountered on the periphery of the galaxy, even if they are not as miserable as those directly infected by the Kingdom of God, are definitely not much better. Barian, who was already suspicious to the point of paranoia and paranoia, faced such a situation where his subordinates were killing each other... Is his mental state still normal now?

The Imperial soldiers guarding us held their weapons tightly, but did not encounter any enemies worthy of their shots. This planet is now truly lifeless, and the spiritual plague has almost caused the residents here to exterminate themselves. After discovering that we couldn't find anything valuable, we accelerated our march. Following the navigation provided by Sandora, we arrived at an open area.

"There is a bunker underground. It is said that there are underground bases everywhere on this planet. If it weren't for Sandora's navigation, I really don't know where Barian is hiding... After the atmosphere was blocked, he had no choice but to burrow into the ground," I He looked at the navigation screen floating beside him and said, then touched his chin, "Yeah. I think we should have some kind of XX operation. Let's make an invasion plan first..."

I was just halfway through. Pandora had already taken out her precious Pimple Cannon, adjusted it to the planetary mode, and fired one shot directly into the open space in front of her.

"Boom!!!" The violent explosion flew up the ground, blasting out a diameter of a hundred meters. Coming out of a large pit that was tens of meters deep, the remaining blue light of psionic energy was swimming like water in the pit. Viska threw two bombs into it with quick hands and feet, triggering a larger explosion. The pit turned into a sinkhole, revealing the dark cave below and the faint light underneath.

"Brother, what?" Pandora and Viska asked in unison while holding their baby Pimple Cannon.

I:"……"

Forget it, with these two short winter melons present, any action plan will inevitably be reduced to the step of "set up the cannon and blast his mother" in the end, so I won't waste my time. With a wave of their hands, everyone entered the bunker hidden deep underground.

I have every reason to believe that the two rounds of blasting by Pandora and Viska just now have attracted the attention of the personnel stationed in this bunker - if there are still personnel stationed here. In fact, we should have attracted each other's attention when we were strutting around the city, but we were not worried that someone could escape. Everything here is locked by radar, and no material flow can escape the surveillance of those sharp-eyed little devils, not to mention that in space we also have a psychic clairvoyance hanger and a prophet prophecy hanger (although the first hanger now gets most of the attention Put all of this into squatting in the asteroid belt and eating rocks), this should be a pleasant trip to catch turtles in an urn, without any surprises.

The structure of the underground bunker was very complex, but the accompanying imperial agents quickly cracked the place's surveillance system and obtained a detailed route map. The bunker has a main road west of the center. This wide corridor made of interstellar alloy extends downwards, with several space zoom areas in the middle. Therefore, not far along the corridor, we have crossed thousands of kilometers of real space distance. , directly entering the mantle part. Here, it is equivalent to crossing the outer protective circle of the bunker and reaching its personnel area.

Along the way, we saw more than once the same Merova soldiers who died of cannibalism or self-mutilation as on the surface. Their bodies were left exposed, and they even blocked the branch routes of the corridor in some places, but no one cleared them away. Those corpses - Barian's last hiding place was in such an environment. Thinking about the natives who were forced to hide in the core of the earth to survive, this tyrant and his followers really deserved their punishment now.

Just when we thought there was no other living person in this underground bunker except Barian, faint human voices suddenly came from the front.

"Concealed action." The accompanying imperial agent immediately ordered in a low voice. His soldiers instantly entered the hiding state. We opened the camouflage protection together and followed these professional agents slowly forward. After turning around a crossing, everyone entered An open space.

There is a large group of surviving Merovas here!

We approached these people under the protection of the camouflage device. They were hiding in the empty hall at the end of the corridor. They looked nervous. Some even had symptoms of mental illness: they were neurotic and frequently raised their guns and aimed at the entrances and exits of the hall, even if they did not hear anything. Any sound is like discovering an enemy. Everyone was in a desperate mood, and the entire space was filled with a depressing atmosphere.

I compared the clothes of these people with the information provided by Turazzo and confirmed that these were the senior cadres of the Melova radical faction - they were indeed alive and hiding here with Barian.

A senior officer put his gun into his holster for the fourth time and nervously asked the people next to him: "Did you hear the explosion just now?"

Another officer touched the weapon on his waist: "I don't know, I don't believe what I saw - are you Tobias?"

"I am, but were you the one asking the question just now?"

"Be careful not to confirm each other too often," the third officer said, "Illusions are all hallucinations, don't believe in anything. The battle in space should still be continuing. Emperor Barian has 'their' trump card battleship in his hands. In the end, victory in this battle belongs to us. Don’t say anything casually now. After the battle is over, we will have time to slowly consider how to treat this disease."

"Yes, the Great Emperor will win, the Great Emperor will definitely win... But I don't understand, the Great Emperor has such a powerful power, why did he wait until now to use it? We have already destroyed almost all the colonies by 'them', and this loss is huge. Big, we should have seized the opportunity before the main army was completely wiped out..."

"Tobias! Don't question the emperor's decision," the fourth officer clasped his hands together and said seriously, "The emperor once said personally that he needs to purify some people, and those who eventually become true gods can only be the most loyal. Followers, the flames before that were just for 'them' to help burn some rubbish. The Emperor left this most glorious position to us, you have to be grateful...ah, I think I heard someone approaching!"

"Hallucinations, Cole, hallucinations, we will not fail," the first officer drew his weapon, but quickly put it down, "Hallucinations, remember, they are all hallucinations, Tobias, you did not pull out your gun, you are ?"

"Yes, my weapon is holstered."

"Good, good, don't let the hallucination control you...but wait, how can I be sure that I really heard your answer? Sid, you didn't pull out the gun, did you? I need to make sure that I really heard you. instead of the answer I imagined... Damn, I'm starting to have a headache... Cole, you didn't put a gun to my head, did you?"

"Yes, my gun is holstered...wait, Tobias, you didn't pull out your gun, did you?"

"Yes, my gun is in the holster... oh, oh, oh, oh, I feel like you're all putting a gun to my head..."

The fourth officer smiled: "Yes, Tobias, we put a gun to your head. Congratulations. Finally you got rid of the hallucination. Goodbye."

There was a gunshot.

The officer named Tobias fell in a pool of blood.

"Hallucination, hallucination, Tobias, return to your place, we have to wait for the emperor to summon you." The fifth officer helped Tobias' body that had begun to crystallize, "Oh, wait, I almost fell into Hallucination... Yes, that's it, Cole, Tobias was controlled by hallucination just now. I shouldn't look at his body. This almost made me infected... Wait, I saw many people appearing in front of me, Cole, is this an illusion?”

We took off our disguises, and a group of imperial leaders, as well as dozens of elite imperial soldiers and agents armed to the teeth, stood openly and openly in front of the last surviving senior Merova officers.

An officer with a mustache and a luxurious silver-white uniform pointed at us and exclaimed.

Another officer raised his weapon and aimed at us for a long time. Others followed suit. After confirming this for a few seconds, the officer named Cole put down the gun with certainty.

"Well, it's a hallucination. Tobias, I hope I didn't kill you just because of a hallucination. It seems that the symptoms are getting worse..."

Us: "..." (To be continued.)