While Gao Kangda, a resistance warrior of Starlight, was waiting for the magnificent sacrifice anxiously, on a state-of-the-art, half-automatic mining starship in the Unsettled Space Zone, his hometown, dozens of Sectors away, his brother Gao Xiaojian, who he thought had been killed in the "Unsettled Riot" twenty years ago, was waving his eight enormous mechanical limbs and crawling into the "Loyalty Room" like a spider.
The Unsettled Space Zone and even Gao Xiaojian today were completely different from twenty years ago.
The Unsettled Space Zone was no longer as messy and broken as it had been during the riot years ago. Instead, it had become a "model mining area" that was quite famous in the few resource worlds nearby.
With the plummeting income of the sects caused by the riot, the malfunctioning of the fully-automatic spiritual puppets in the cosmic storm, and most importantly of all, the logistical pressure caused by the reduction of 95% of human miners, the "Unsettled Alliance" that governed the Unsettled Space Zone finally admitted that it was a terrible idea to replace human beings in mining or any production work purely with spiritual puppets.
Human beings were the supreme wisdom of all creatures. Even hominoids, the inferior products among human beings, could not be completely replaced by the silly spiritual puppets.
Therefore, after a few fully-automatic mining fields and mining starships that were completely unmanned and purely dependent on remote surveillance suffered major accidents one after another, the skilled miners such as Gao Xiaojian were introduced to the mining work again.
Of course, in order to make their work more efficient and to cooperate with the spiritual puppets more skillfully, their fleshly bodies had been significantly modified, too.
Basically, other than their brains that could think independently, their fragile and delicate bodies had all been removed and replaced with rebars and external components that could be freely selected and replaced. For example, the body that Gao Xiaoliang was using right now, which was similar to a mechanical spider, was the latest product of the Unsettled Alliance's technology.
The few human miners who had been highly modified could command the abundant automatic spiritual puppets to work on the spot. With both efficiency and reliability, it was the most perfect mining model.
Compared to his brother Gao Kangda, who was still not quenched after twenty years and was even more arrogant than before, Gao Xiaojian was very satisfied with and even deeply believed in his life right now.
He could not forget the scene when he was received by the leader of the Unsettled Alliance in person as the "representative of the excellent miners" last year. At that time, the leader of the Unsettled Alliance even patted his iron arm and said to him sincerely, "We made a great mistake in the past. How could we ignore the important role of 'human beings' in the mining work so easily? Experienced and excellent miners such as you will always be the most precious wealth of the Unsettled Alliance and the Imperium of True Human Beings! "
Did you hear that? The leader of the Unsettled Alliance, an almighty Immortal Cultivator, was praising them in person, saying that they were the precious wealth of the Imperium!
Had Gao Xiaojian's eyes not been replaced by four pairs of high-resolution crystal cameras that boasted thermal imaging and X-ray functions, he would've burst into tears at that time. He felt that his years of hard work had been completely rewarded, and he could not repay the Immortal Cultivators' understanding and support even if he were to be smashed into pieces.
Gao Xiaojian loved the Imperium deeply and believed in the true path of immortality. He believed that even the hominoids who were born at the bottom of the society and even had some "blemishes" would be discovered by the Immortal Cultivators one day as long as they worked hard without complaint and did not make a fuss. Then, they would receive the rewards that they deserved.
Didn't his own changes in the past ten years prove the point perfectly? Right now, he was in charge of more than eight hundred mining puppets!
Therefore, Gao Xiaojian never felt that the education in the "Loyalty Room" every week was boring. Instead, he looked forward to it from the bottom of his heart and could not wait to receive the education of patriotism in the "Loyalty Room" every day.
Today, Gao Xiaojian was stalled by a few seriously damaged mining puppets and came a bit late. When he crawled into the Loyalty Room, the spacious cabin was already crowded with bizarre-shaped metal monsters large and small. They were all the human miners who had been fully modified like him and the managers of the various worksites in the mining area.
All the modified humans were staring at the light beam attentively, soaked in the scorching and selfless atmosphere. Nobody noticed his arrival.
"The shameless, shameless people of the Holy League are not far away from their doom. They are about to be completely screwed!"
As the faces and images that represented the people of the Holy League popped up on the light beam like the walking dead, an earsplitting female voice that was full of fury and hatred echoed from the broadcast rune arrays nearby.
The voice was not only transmitted through the air but also exploded deep inside Gao Xiaojian's brain through his ancillary crystal processor, making him share the same enemy. His fury and hatred soared all of a sudden.
The content of the loyalty education every week was basically the same. At first, a few pieces of news about the rapid development of production and construction in the major worlds within the Imperium, the peaceful lives of the people, and the harmonious lives of the Immortal Cultivators and the hominoids would be broadcasted. Then, the terrifying pictures about how the people of the Holy League were shameless and inhuman, and the reasons why the Imperium was bound to win and the Holy League was bound to fail would be explained. Sometimes, the stories about how Blackstar the Great established the Imperium with the many martyrs under his lead would be told.
Although the tone was the same, the content would be updated every week, making these human miners relish in reading it.
However, today, after berating the shamelessness of the Holy League, the high-pitched female voice added, "However, a lot of accomplices and lackeys of the Alliance of the Holy Covenant are still lurking inside the great Imperium. They are the wretched Cultivators!"
"Cultivators?"
Gao Xiaojian was slightly dazed.
Of course, he knew what the Cultivators were. However, with the fierce battle between the Imperium and the Holy League on the head-on battlefield, it had been a long time since he heard the name 'Cultivators' in the loyalty education.
However, now that the high-pitched female voice mentioned the Cultivators, a certain switch in Gao Xiaojian's head seemed to have been triggered. His fury and hatred toward the Cultivators immediately burst out like a flood that had just broken the dam.
"The Cultivators, who used to be high and mighty in the past but were actually thieves and prostitutes, have completely degenerated into the lackeys and lackeys of the Covenant Alliance after a thousand years of hiding and struggling to catch their last breath!"
The high-pitched female voice went on. "In order to save their humble and sordid lives, and even hoping to make a comeback one day and continue their sanctimonious and decadent life, the Cultivators have abandoned all their dignity and boundaries as human beings and surrendered to the puppets of the Holy League. They have become the puppets of puppets!
"Right now, the great army of the Imperium is marching forward unstoppably in the frontline and securing the most glorious victory in the past hundreds of years. The enemy has resorted to all the insane approaches, but they are still unable to stop the thunderous might of our army. In their desperation, they have to activate their accomplices and lackeys that are lurking inside the Imperium!
"Right now, a handful of Cultivators who are still determined to stir up trouble after receiving the orders of their masters in our heartland!
"It's a pity that their tricks have long been seen through by the brave and fearless Immortal Cultivators of our great Imperium!"
As the female voice became louder and louder, the images of the people of the Holy League who were as emotionless as zombies and the Cultivators who were smiling obsequiously appeared on the light beam. In a dark and cold palace that looked like an operating room, the people of the Holy League and the Cultivators tied a few men, women, and children of the Imperium to the operating table together and covered their heads with tools that looked like metal funnels.
As the magical equipment was activated, the men, women, and children on the operating table were all twisted in pain. Their eyes were rolling, and they were foaming at the mouth. Their faces gradually turned dull and numb, as if their feelings and souls had been taken away.
"Are you willing to let the enemy's scheme succeed?"
The high-pitched female voice shrieked. "Are you willing to let your wives and children be drained of their feelings and souls and turn into walking corpses?"
"No!"
Gao Xiaojian was completely focused. He was the first to roar.
"No! No!"
All of the modified miners were hitting their metal limbs with all their might. The Loyalty Room was filled with the sound of "Bang Bang Bang Bang".
"Are you willing to let the great and glorious Imperium be polluted by the inhumane people of the Holy League and the shameless Cultivators?"
The high-pitched female voice shouted again.
"No! No!"
The miners shouted crazily.
"Who is the most shameless and dangerous enemy of the civilization of mankind?"
The high-pitched female voice asked again.
"The people of the Holy League and the Cultivators!"
Illuminated by the rapidly flashing, erratic light beam, the miners answered at the same time as if they had been hypnotized.
"Who is the greatest guardian of the civilization of mankind?"
The female voice asked again.
"The Immortal Cultivators. The great Immortal Cultivators. The Imperium. The sacred Imperium of True Human Beings!"
The miners roared. Some were shrieking, and some were crying.
"Long live the Imperium of True Human Beings! Long live the sacred civilization of mankind! Long live feelings and free will! Kill all the people of the Holy League! Kill all the Cultivators! Kill! Kill! Kill! We will fight whoever dares to go against the great Imperium and the great civilization of mankind to the end! "
Gao Xiaojian waved his eight mechanical limbs, wishing he could jump into the air and explode himself as he roared those words.
"Starting tomorrow, a special loyalty education that lasts one week will be held. With a living example, we will dissect a shameless, pitiful, and pathetic underground organization of Cultivators and how their masters, the people of the Holy League, are marching to their destined doom step by step!"
The high-pitched female voice shouted.
"A special loyalty education that lasts one week?"
Gao Xiaojian's crystal eyes glittered. He was so excited that his driving joints were almost melting. He vaguely felt that he would certainly be able to appreciate the ugliness of the lackeys, minions, and wretches tomorrow.
"Tomorrow. What will I see tomorrow?"
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