The word 'we' made all the prisoners feel that their hearts were pounding.
Were people like them qualified to be called 'we' together with the mysterious and strong Cultivator in front of them?
"It is the boundless sea of stars outside. Countless warships of the Immortal Cultivators are fighting fiercely. Leaving those people aside, more reinforcements of the Immortal Cultivators will certainly arrive in half a month at most. If you stay here all the time, there will be no way out for you!"
Li Yao continued roaring, "No matter how you beg and beg for the Immortal Cultivators' forgiveness, your fate will still be the same as before. You will continue to be tortured inhumanly in the sunless prisons and laboratories until you die without a sound!
"There is only one way to survive!
"While 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' is most empty, attack the core of the space fortress together with me, kill all the Immortal Cultivators, and occupy the place completely!
"There are abundant reserves of assets here. There are astronomical crystals, fuel, and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. A lot of civil carriers are also docked in the spaceports at the periphery. As long as they carry enough fuel and food, some of them will have a chance to escape. As long as they persist until the moment of the space jump, it will be a success!
"But the premise of everything is to occupy 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' first and completely grasp the defense system of the space fortress in our hands!
"Otherwise, even if we can seize a few civil carriers, it will be impossible for us to sail out of the spaceports. Even if we can sail out of the spaceports, we will be shot down by the defense system of the space fortress in less than half a minute!
"Yes. This is an extremely dangerous operation with a slim chance of survival. Most of you will die here. Nobody can guarantee that you will survive.
"But I can absolutely guarantee that for every one of your sacrifices, ten or even a hundred Immortal Cultivators will die with you!
"That's all I want to say. If there is still the slightest courage deep inside your veins, if you do not want to die an obscure death like ants and cockroaches, if you have had enough of the Immortal Cultivators' contempt and mockery, if you want to avenge your deceased family, if you want to fight for the slim chance of survival, come with me. I will fight side by side with you. The resistors and the avengers will blow up 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' and take back what belongs to us!"
Li Yao declared resolutely. Without wasting any time, the black wings on the back of the Crystal Suit were unfolded to the maximum. Redness beamed out of the ends of the wings again, raising overwhelming flames of fury as they rushed toward the main area of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky".
The prisoners in the pits and valleys looked at each other, some of them lost in thought.
It was unknown who was the first to take the lead and roar. Very soon, roars filled with anger and unwillingness resounded throughout the entire beehive prison.
"Freedom!"
The furiously burning iron torrents were condensed. Under the guidance of Li Yao, they congregated into an invincible, destructive tide that charged at the most vulnerable abdomen of the Immortal Cultivators!
…
In the central control room at the center of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky", Wuying Lan, the owner of the space fortress, was still ignorant about the superstorm that had already taken shape right next to him.
His casually smiling face was covered by the colorful, flashing numbers and charts on the thousands of light beams. He seemed to be quite confident about his victory.
The coalition fleet of Starlight in space had been stalled by the fleet of the Imperium led by Li Lingfeng in person. The crystal suit groups that looked like a swarm of bees had blocked every gap through which the Cultivators could escape.
Although it would take some effort, it was only a matter of time before the coalition fleet of Starlight was destroyed.
The underground branch of Starlight on the Land of Sins that they had specifically raised for fishing was also on the verge of collapse. It seemed that they might even surrender without doing anything.
Everything was going on according to the script that he and Li Lingfeng had carefully planned. Everybody was their chess piece and their marionette.
The ecstasy of having everything under control made Wuying Lan narrow his eyes and shiver softly. His nerve endings were numb and refreshed as if they had been stimulated by electric currents.
On the other hand, on a more important level …
The special program on the slaughter stream platform of the Heavenly Eye Group, the massive epic quest "Dying Light", had already taken the lead in the ratings and far surpassed the other programs of the same genre of the major groups. It was even higher than the sum of the programs from the second place to the tenth place. To some extent, it had completely monopolized the attention of all the people in the entire Imperium.
The breaths, heartbeats, secretions of adrenaline, and even brainwaves of the audience that were fed back from the few sample surveys indicated that the audience had been deeply attracted by their program and were completely immersed in the world and ideas that they had constructed.
Wuying Lan and Li Lingfeng would both appear on the program glamorously in the next episode. Their influence in the entire Imperium would be expanded to the maximum.
For a moment, an absurd idea even popped up in Wuying Lan's head that was boiling in excitement.
If their Heavenly Eye Group continued developing in such a way, would Li Lingfeng really become the leader of the Li family and one of the four Kurfürsten of the Imperium one day, and he, an abnormal member of the royal family who was born in a collateral branch in the past, would have a chance to claim the supreme throne?
The idea only flashed in his head for a moment before it was completely erased by him.
Wuying Lan was amused by his own arrogance and stupidity.
His backers were Li Lingfeng and the Li family, but the emperor right now had been pushed into power by the Li family. The Li family had also arranged Li Linghai, the empress, for the emperor.
Then, according to the tacit agreement that the "four Kurfürst families" reached hundreds of years ago, the Li family, which had reaped enough benefits, would certainly make some concessions regarding the next emperor. It was impossible for them to elect two emperors who were more inclined to the Li family in a row.
Besides, it was no longer the Imperium in the age of Blackstar the Great a thousand years ago. The so-called emperor was just a puppet of the four Kurfürst families. Even if he did become the emperor, what was the point? He would still be an extra-large puppet.
The Heavenly Eye Group was his "Imperium". As long as he could completely control the Heavenly Eye Group and extend the tentacles of the slaughter stream platform to every corner of the Imperium so that everybody could hear his voice, see his perfect image, and dance according to his will, it would be enough.
In such a way, he would be the uncrowned king of the entire universe!
"Hehe …"
Looking at the soaring numbers and the faces of the "chess pieces" that were either panicked, desperate, or furious, Wuying Lan chuckled in satisfaction.
At this moment, from a place far above his head, there was the sound of a slight explosion and tremor.
Wuying Lan's smile was immediately frozen.
As if somebody had punched the tip of his nose hard, the dominator of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" couldn't have looked more awful.
Narrowing his eyes, he stared at the cup of water on the console coldly.
Bo … Bo … Bo …
The control center should've been absolutely still, but ripples were still spreading out of the cup, as if a dinosaur-like beast was bashing his fortress heavily.
"Damn it. What's wrong? None of the starships of Starlight can approach us. All their attacks have been blocked by our defense shield!"
His face gloomy, Wuying Lan stared at the ceiling. His cold eyes seemed to be piercing through the overlapping cabin walls and searching for the source of the explosions and quakes.
"My lord, the beehive prison has been assaulted!"
The deputy commander of the "Heavenly Eye Legion", the private armed force of the Heavenly Eye Group, and the captain of the guards responsible for "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky", staggered close. His teeth were clattering as he stammered next to his ear.
"Shua!"
Wuying Lan's face was so pale that the blood all over his body seemed to be frozen. Grabbing the collar of the captain of the guards, he gnashed his teeth. "What do you mean by assaulted? Who attacked us? In what way?"
"We don't know yet!"
The captain of the guards replied gloomily, "We only know that the energy relay station of the beehive prison has been completely sabotaged, and the great array of the 'Dragnet' has been wasted. The stability of our main energy core has also been affected. We have completely lost contact with the prison. I estimate that everything is out of control now!"
"How is it possible?"
Wuying Lan burst into fury. "The energy relay station of the beehive prison has a protective shell made of seven layers of super alloys outside of it, which equals the defense ability of the explosion-proof armor on the front of a main-force warship. Unless the garbage of Starlight directly crashed the starships into the deepest part of the beehive prison and bombarded the protective shell brutally! Tell me, how many starships and how many troops did the enemy mobilize to cause such damage? And where are the enemy's starships exactly? Where are the troops exactly? "
"I —"
The captain of the guards was at a loss himself. He could not figure out how the unexpected attack was launched at all.
Taking a deep breath, Wuying Lan changed from fury to indifference. He said, one word after another, "Why didn't we notice such massive damage just now?"
"Our Spiritual Nexus was hacked by the enemy," the captain said.
"The enemy sent fake data streams to our alert system in a very ingenious way that fooled our system and made us think that the beehive prison had been peaceful all the time."
"What?"
The veins on Wuying Lan's forehead were bulging crazily. "It can't be the garbage of Starlight that boasted such hacking abilities. What about now?"
"Right now, we are in the middle of emergency repair and tracking. Ah. All the surveillance cameras from the beehive prison to the depths of the City in the Sky have been controlled again!"
The captain of the guards operated quickly on his portable crystal processor for a while and triggered more than ten delicate light beams.
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