In the capital city of the Xing Yao Federation, the capital city of the Tian Yuan Realm …
In the building of the Ministry of Equality and Development of the Federation …
Jin Xinyue observed from the window and happened to see the magnificent ocean of clouds in the sky.
The setting sun was illuminating the sky, and the angry clouds were surging. Two armies seemed to be fighting, one gold and the other red. Heads were rolling, and blood was flowing like a river, until they were swallowed by the darkness in the end.
The scene reminded her of more than a hundred years ago.
She remembered that there was such a bloody ocean of clouds above the Eye of Blood Demon in the Blood Demon Sector more than a hundred years ago. She had been listening to her father unravel the truth of the Red Tide Plan in silence on the bloody cloud. She had gradually understood what kind of person her father was and what he was doing.
A hundred years had passed. It was her turn now.
"Okay. Go on."
She was still wearing a black suit and high heels, but her waterfall-like hair had been tied up with a hairpin in the style of the Rising Dragon of the Nine Stars of the Federation. She looked clean, neat, and aggressive.
Under the dim sunlight, her face was as cold as ice, and her voice was colder than the wind and snow on the Arctic Ocean. Even her anger was frozen. She listened attentively to the voice coming from afar, and from time to time she calmly responded with a sentence or two.
"The rebellion of the Immortal Cultivators failed. Cui Lingfeng and Tang Dingyuan knew everything a long time ago. There was also a … Team Red Lotus who took care of everything neatly?
"Hehe. As expected of the Star Ocean Republic. As the saying goes, even a broken ship has three nails. Is it strange that such an ancient country with thousands of years of history has prepared certain ultimate plans and ambushed one or two secret troops made of old monsters?
"So to speak, it was also this' Team Red Lotus' who rescued Tang Xiaoxing before us in Fish Dragon City a few days ago and made her fall into the hands of the secret police, right?
"Lin Jiu? Alright. I'll remember the name.
"What? Cheng Xuansu is dead, but Ding Zhengyang is not?
"… Of course, it is very serious.
"Ding Zhengyang knows too much. The people of the government-in-exile seem to have keener noses than we imagined. Right now, we are in the middle of the election for the Speaker. Should the enemy trace back to us and expose the whole thing to the public, it will definitely be a great scandal that cannot be covered. The public will not accept us treating our 'allies' in such a way. The Patriots Front will certainly not let go of the matter.
"Forget it. With everything coming to this point, you don't need to worry about the rest. I'll take care of it. Just take care of your own business!"
Jin Xinyue cut off the communication. Holding her arms, she continued appreciating the sunset's last struggle.
Looking at the dim red swamp gradually sinking into the darkness of the night, a smile gradually appeared on his originally cold and stern face.
"The first phase of the Dim Moon Plan.
She turned around and smiled at the old, rusty archivist in the archive room. "I didn't know that the government-in-exile boasted a rather elite secret troop that suppressed the rebellion of the Immortal Cultivators on their own initiative. The Great White Fleet was not needed at all. Even Ding Zhengyang was captured alive by Team Red Lotus, one of their own.
"They must've grown suspicious of me. The first phase was more successful than I expected!"
While talking, Jin Xinyue walked over and helped the archivist finish the work that he was halfway done but was interrupted by the spiritual crane messenger.
The archivist was sitting on a special metal chair. Many components of the artificial body were connected to the magical equipment units on the chair. Dozens of translucent tubes were tied to his body, as if they were filling him with spiritual energy, nurturing his soul, and lubricating the rusty components. But they were slightly different from the maintenance of regular spectral Cultivators.
Jin Xinyue walked to the back of the archivist and fixed the guy's metal head with a bracket. Then, she unraveled the sealing rune arrays on the guy's skull carefully and took off an arc-shaped metal cover that was made of a living person's skull. Inside the cover was a clear, round container carved out of crystal.
Soaked in the crystal container and nurtured by bright green nutrition liquids, it was … a brain!
Judging from the wriggling, the brain was still alive. The artificial nerves made of a lot of biochemical materials spread all the way down and controlled every part of the artificial body.
Therefore, the Archivist was not a spectral cultivator who only had a remnant soul, but a human being, a living human being. However, most of his body parts had been replaced by artificial organs. Compared to those who had lost their limbs and replaced them with artificial ones, the only difference was the ratio of the replacement. In essence, there was no difference!
Jin Xinyue covered the top of the chair with an enormous crystal cover. After killing all the germs inside the crystal cover with mystic rays, she extended her hands into the crystal cover through a rubber cover on one side of the crystal cover and connected a syringe to the hole next to the crystal skull of the archivist. Then, she slowly injected a tube of dark gold liquids.
The liquids dripped into the crystal skull along the tube and turned into dark gold balls in the green nutrition liquids.
An unbelievable scene took place!
Some 'synapses' that looked like flagella or nerve bundles popped out of the living brain. The synapses pierced into the dark gold balls as quickly as lightning and swallowed all the liquids in the blink of an eye!
The brain immediately emitted dark gold brilliance. A moment later, it was back to normal.
"How do you feel? Do you feel better?"
After everything was done, Jin Xinyue helped the archivist cover the metal skull that was used as a disguise. At first glance, he was no different from a regular spectral Cultivator.
The archivist nodded slowly and struggled to move his metal limbs.
"But I don't feel that you are in a good mood."
Inside Jin Xinyue's eyes, the fire named 'ambition' was burning nonstop. It was almost surging out like magma and swallowing her completely. "The Dim Moon Plan is being pushed forward smoothly. Everything is within my calculation and control. After a hundred years, the Red Tide Plan will come to a perfect end, and our race will rise again! Are you not proud of me at all? "
"Of course I am proud of you."
Perhaps it was the effect of the dark golden solution, but the speed of the archivist's speech was slightly faster than before. However, the smell of rust that had been sealed for a long time was still there. "However, I'll give you a piece of advice. No one can calculate and control everything. I can't, and neither can you.
…
At the edge of the Dragon Snake Space Zone, on Firefly …
A secret meeting regarding Ding Zhengyang's confession, the strategy of the expedition army of the Imperium, the Immortal Cultivators within the Federation, and the future plans of the 'rightful government' was being held.
Other than Tang Dingyuan and Cui Lingfeng, and Li Yao, as the 'commander of the Speaker's guards', a lot of key people on Firefly, as well as the president of 'Star Ocean University' on board, were involved in the meeting.
After the meeting, the participants would establish a new 'Election Observation Delegation' or 'Accession Negotiation Delegation'. They would go to the heartland of the Xing Yao Federation and negotiate with the government of the Federation about the formal merger of the two parties, or at least the deep cooperation in the military, and the establishment of a unified 'Joint Headquarters'.
"The Black Wind Fleet is already here. Based on both Ding Zhengyang's confession and the statements of the captives of the Imperium in the battle ten years ago, the conclusion is the same! With the movements of the Black Wind Fleet ten years ago and their technological capabilities, it is entirely possible that they will reach the vicinity of the Xing Yao Federation in ten years! "
Tang Dingyuan was the captain and the chief military officer. Naturally, everything about the Black Wind Fleet would be explained by him.
Behind him, or rather, above the entire ball-shaped conference room, was a splendid, splendid star map, which was the detailed operation and navigation maps of the hundred galaxies near the Xing Yao Federation.
It was the result of the Federation's continuous exploration and mapping in the 'Heavenly Road Plan' that had been implemented in the past hundred years.
Together with all the galaxies, space zones, and Sectors that Firefly had detected during its escape from the Empyreal Terminus Sector to the edge of the cosmos in the past thousand years, they had, in fact, grasped a very detailed sailing route from the Federation to the center of the Imperium.
The sailing route could basically be regarded as the marching route of the Black Wind Fleet of the expedition army of the Imperium.
Pointing at the edge of the brilliant star map, Tang Dingyuan said, "There are at least a hundred relatively stable galaxies within a hundred lightyears of the Xing Yao Federation. Right now, it is very possible that the Black Wind Fleet is lurking in one of the galaxies, waking up the warriors who have hibernated for a hundred years and repairing the damage of the starship after a long journey. If they are lucky, they will be able to acquire some basic resources from the galaxies for supplies so that they can prepare themselves and attack the most vulnerable part of the Federation when the time comes!
"The Black Wind Fleet, which is a main-force fleet of the Imperium of True Human Beings that includes the troops of almost five Sectors, is like a gigantic dinosaur in space. Their cruising speed can't be very high.
"It takes months to prepare for a space jump, and the process of the jump can last a few days to a week, too. It is needless to mention the regular cruising. It is barely possible for the fleet to reach one tenth of the speed of light while keeping the battle formation intact!
"Let's say that it is one tenth of the speed of light. What does it mean? It means that, even if they are based in the nearest galaxy outside of the Xing Yao Federation and march here in the regular way, it will take them at least decades to reach this place!
"Obviously, it is impossible for them to march in such a way. Decades of regular cruising, the consumption of fuel, the damage of the starship, and the unpredictable harassment of the Federation are all unbearable for the Black Wind Fleet!
"In the past hundred years, the Black Wind Fleet has been 'leapfrogging' all the way to the edge of the cosmos through short-distance space jumps. In the final battle, they had no choice but to directly 'jump' to the edge of the Federation or to the center!
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