Fei Qi gritted his teeth so hard that they were cracking. Gloomy fire beamed out of his eyes as he said, "After discovering that the strike was of an unusual scale and was about to sweep across the entire planet, we immediately sent a 'medical team' from the Uranian Ring to treat them."
Long Yangjun raised her hand. "Wait. Treatment?"
"Yes. Treatment for their 'strike disorder'," Fei Qi explained solemnly.
"In the knowledge of the Uranian Ring civilization, the strike is defined as a highly contagious mental disease caused by the combination of the Earthly Brute's nature of laziness and depravity, as well as the disobedience and the desire for destruction hidden deep inside their genes.
"It is a disease that only the Earthly Brute is contagious. The Heavenly Light loves work more than anything else. We never go on strike.
"Strike Syndrome is highly explosive and destructive. Once they are infected with such a mental disease, the members of the Earthly Brute who were diligent, hardworking, and dedicated will turn into lunatics and monsters who are greedy, insatiable, and know nothing but destruction!
"The disease is highly contagious. In a large underground mine, as long as one miner is infected with the 'Strike Syndrome', the disease will often spread quickly in a short period of time. Ten, a hundred, a thousand … In a chain reaction, the number of infected people will increase exponentially!"
"Not only will the strike disorder cause serious damage to the Earthly Brute and turn the perfectly good workers into cripples, it will also corrupt our entire civilization and destroy the Uranian Ring civilization if left unchecked! Therefore, the moment it is discovered, it must be treated immediately! "
"Oh?"
Long Yangjun asked. "Then, how can the strike disorder be treated?"
"The strike disorder can be classified into different levels," Fei Qi said. "Generally speaking, the treatment of the 'Water of Happiness' with different concentrations will be enough. However, if the patients are diagnosed as severe strike disorder by the specialists of mental diseases, there will be no cure. They can only be sent to the hospital in the forsaken mines in the deepest part of the underground world for lifelong isolation, or they can be forced to work on a regular basis. There is still a slim chance that the genes of diligence and dedication inside their body will be awakened, transforming them from saboteurs and takers into people who are useful to society and our civilization.
"Because the intensity and intensity of this strike are unprecedented, the scale of the medical team we sent out is also quite large. Also, the situation is critical, and the strike sickness is spreading among the people quickly. Our civilization is in danger, so we have to take some drastic medical measures."
"Those ignorant members of the Earthly Brute did not know that we were saving them. They resisted when we performed the 'compulsory treatment' and even killed our 'doctors'!"
"Just like that, the strike turned into a riot!"
"We were not scared of the riot of the Earthly Brute at the beginning because most of the magical equipment was under the control of the Heavenly Light. Also, the members of the Heavenly Light had been trained in elegant and graceful battle skills since we were born. How could the members of the Earthly Brute, who only had brute strength, be a match for us?
"Wait!"
'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng said solemnly, "Don't you need a lot of mining magical equipment to excavate the mother lodes of crystals? Vibration pickaxes, blast drills, crystal explosives, and all kinds of large-scale mining magical equipment. Any one of them could be used as a weapon. Since even the hardest mountain could be excavated, would a human skull be harder than a rock? How could they be 'unarmed'? "
"You may not know this, senior," Fei Qi said, "but the Uranian Ring Planet was a military base of the Star Ocean Imperium ten thousand years ago. The mother lodes in the shallow underground that were suitable for large-scale mining were all exploited ten thousand years ago.
"Right now, if we want to mine, we can only march deeper into the underground world.
"The environment there is harsh, the air is dirty, and the tunnels are narrow and rugged. There are also all kinds of apocalyptic beasts that can sabotage the large-scale mining magical equipment. The mother lodes are mostly barren and low-quality minerals that are full of impurities. It is impossible to mine them on a large scale. We can only excavate the mother lodes bit by bit with manual labor.
"Therefore, large-scale mining magical equipment is never used in our underground mines. Even the small mining magical equipment such as blast drills and vibration pickaxes are not often used, either.
"Most of the time, it is the members of the Earthly Brute who mine with their bare hands and brute strength.
"The members of the Earthly Brute are simple-minded guys with more brawn than brains in the first place. The scholars and doctors of the Heavenly Light have spent thousands of years strengthening their bodies. Through the modulation and polishing of all kinds of secret arts, they have all been transformed into beings who are as tough as iron and boast infinite strength.
"We have also optimized and improved certain fundamental Cultivation arts, such as the 'Iron Body Art', the 'Iron Arm Art', and the 'Eagle Claw', and asked the members of the Earthly Brute to practice them from a young age. As a result, their arms and hands have mutated and can replace the mining magical equipment such as blast drills and vibration pickaxes. The mining efficiency is higher, and the cost is lower, too.
"After thousands of years of underground mining day after day, their bodies are getting stronger and stronger, and their hands are getting more and more powerful. Deep inside the mother lodes, during the radiation of crystals and the scourge of apocalyptic beasts, some highly dangerous, unstable members have popped up among them. Some of them are high-risk carriers of the 'strike syndrome' virus!
"If that is all, everything is still under our control.
"After they practice the 'Iron Body Art', the 'Iron Arm Art', and other elementary techniques, how can the abnormal claws that they have evolved be a match for our Crystal Suit and warships?
"In the past, the large-scale outbreaks and even riots of the 'strike syndrome' were all 'cured' by us easily.
"But we did not expect that it was not a spontaneous riot but the bewilderment of the most dangerous she-devil from the Xing Yao Federation!
"Ding Ling Dong, the she-devil, has long snuck into the depths of the underground mines and hid among the members of the Earthly Brute who are ignorant and gullible.
"She claims to have brought dignity and hope to the Earthly Brute. With the bizarre theories of the Xing Yao Federation, she fanned the flames among the members of the Earthly Brute and raised the desire for destruction and self-destruction deep inside the bloodline of the Earthly Brute!
"What — what's more — what's more terrifying is that she has brought brand-new training techniques to the Earthly Brute. They are techniques that can unleash immense damage without the use of any magical equipment. They belong to the 'body fundamentalists'!
"Body fundamentalists!"
Heiye Lan, who had been holding her breath and listening, could not help but exclaim in shock.
Body fundamentalists were a concept that only came into being in the modern Cultivation civilization. Meng Chixin, Qi Zhongdao, and the other Cultivators of the Ancient Sages Sector did not know what a 'body fundamentalist' was.
But Heiye Lan, who was born in the Imperium of True Human Beings, naturally knew the horror of such a Cultivator.
Think about it. The body fundamentalists who were so proud that they did not bother to use any magical equipment or weapons and dared to compete with all their enemies with their bare hands and their tough bodies. What a terrifying being they were!
"Nobody expected that the techniques of the Earthly Brute and the body fundamentalists would be such a perfect match!" Fei Qi said in desperation. "Inside their bloodline, after thousands of years of strengthening and radiation, terrifying, destructive strength has long been stored. They just did not know how to trigger it before.
"Ding Ling Dong brought a whole set of training techniques and systems of the body fundamentalists to the public maliciously. In only a few years, they spread to every corner of the Uranian Ring Planet like wildfire!
"In less than five years, more than a hundred thousand body fundamentalists who grasped extraordinary martial arts and trained their hands into unparalleled weapons emerged in the Earthly Brute!
"Those body fundamentalists formed a resistance group in secret. Ding Ling Dong was the leader of the resistance group. When we were 'treating' the riot, we did not expect to be assaulted by thousands of body fundamentalists at all. They seized almost a hundred shuttles that were traveling between the Uranian Ring Planet and the ground of the planet and launched attacks at the Uranian Ring Planet, the symbol of our civilization!"
All the Yuanying Cultivators and Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators were fascinated.
'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng, who had once killed an official and rebelled, was even more interested. He slapped his thigh and laughed next to everyone's ears through the technique of private talk. "Good job. What a she-devil Ding Ling Dong. That woman is indeed a tough man!"
Li Yao swallowed and asked calmly, "Did Ding Ling Dong succeed in attacking the Uranian Ring Planet with tens of thousands of body fundamentalists?"
"Not at first."
Fei Qi shook his head and said, "The Heavenly Light has lived on the Uranian Ring for thousands of years. We have modified the Uranian Ring into an impenetrable place. Also, a lot of Crystal Suits and starships were stationed there. It was not something that could be conquered by tens of thousands of beginner body fundamentalists. They only occupied a certain section of the ring cabin on the Uranian Ring Planet for ten days before they were annihilated by our government!
"However, to this moment, we still did not realize that Ding Ling Dong was a malicious Cultivator of the Federation from an extraterrestrial domain.
"In the Earthly Brute, there were a lot of rumors about Ding Ling Dong. Many of them described her as a marvelous being with three heads and six arms. Naturally, we did not believe them easily. We thought that she was also a native of the Earthly Brute who was lucky enough to excavate the heritage of the body fundamentalists below the ground!
"What we did not expect was that she led the tens of thousands of body fundamentalists to attack the Uranian Ring Planet not because she wanted to occupy the Uranian Ring Planet but because she wanted to steal the enormous antenna array on the Uranian Ring Planet so that she could send the precise coordinates of the Uranian Ring Planet to the Xing Yao Federation and guide the direction for the arrival of the first fleet of the Federation!
"When the riot on the ground was about to be completely 'cured', the first fleet of the Federation appeared at the periphery of the Uranian Ring Planet out of our expectation. We — we were truly caught unprepared!
"The five-year war between the Xing Yao Federation and the Uranian Ring Sector broke out!
"Speaking of starships, the Uranian Ring Planet was a large dock of the Star Ocean Imperium in the first place. Our starship technology was not bad, either. Although we did not have the time to launch a space voyage across Sectors, it was more than enough for us to defend the local space zone of the Uranian Ring Planet.
"However, our enemy was not just the fleets of the Federation that jumped over incessantly from the extraterrestrial domain but also the riots and rebellions of the Earthly Brute on the ground that were getting worse and worse!
"The fleets of the Federation were bombarding the space. All the mines and resource transportation on the ground were sabotaged by the mobs. More and more mines changed owners and delivered resources to the enemy … We were attacked from both sides!
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