Outside of the storm area, under the sky that was also dark, in the middle of the roaring wind, almost thirty all-terrain small assault starships were docked. They were the little monsters that had been installed with special units and could carry out ferocious attacks in the vacuum environment without gravity as well as on the surface of a planet with high gravity.
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Those little monsters had already torn apart the large starships that Li Lingfeng had brought over, which were enormous but clumsy and were in a dilemma in the high-gravity environment on the surface of the planet.
At this moment, the queen's subordinates were cleaning the battlefield, moving the units, assets, and fuel that were still valuable on the large starships to their own assault starships. They were also checking the corpses on the ground one by one to make sure that none of them had escaped.
When they dismantled a large starship, they would install crystal bombs inside and outside the starship, blowing it into a pile of melted garbage without leaving the slightest trace.
Brutal, decisive, well-trained, and definitely an elite troop that had been through hundreds of battles. That was Li Yao's first impression of the "Deep Sea Fleet", the queen's secret armed force.
The unique shape and the vintage style of the small assault starships also slightly surprised Li Yao as a refiner.
With the help of Di Feiwen, the deputy commander of the Black Wind Fleet, Li Yao had a deep understanding of the data on the level, configuration, appearance, and other aspects of the starships in service in the Imperium.
The Imperium of True Human Beings was different from the Xing Yao Federation. The Federation had discovered the primeval treasures on Kunlun a hundred years ago, which opened an era of technological leaps. The warships of the Federation a hundred years ago and a hundred years later were two entirely different concepts.
However, the Imperium had been developing for a thousand years and was gradually falling into a technological bottleneck. Although the Black Wind Fleet had left the homeland of the Imperium for a hundred years, the Imperium had not made much progress in the production of starships.
Therefore, Li Yao discovered after he came to the Martial Meritocrats Sector that the starships in service in the Imperium were essentially no different from the starships that the Black Wind Fleet brought out a hundred years ago, except that certain details had been upgraded and optimized at best.
However, the queen's "Deep Sea Fleet" was different from the starships of the Imperium that Li Yao saw in the Martial Meritocrats Sector.
After removing the messy external components that were used to disguise themselves as' Cultivators', the main body part that was revealed was still the 'Flying Leopard' -level all-terrain assault warship in service in the Imperium.
However, the anti-gravity units and the power units that were installed had the features of the Star Ocean Imperium ten thousand years ago.
For example, the carving of rune arrays and the structure of the multiple layers of armor had a sense of noise, glamour, complexity, and even tedium.
It was completely different from the Imperium's current style of starships, which strived for simplicity, smoothness, darkness, and gloominess. It would be best if there were no traces of artificial carvings on the surface.
While Li Yao observed the Deep Sea Fleet, the Immortal Cultivators of the Deep Sea Fleet noticed them too.
"Your Highness!"
A team of fully-armed Exos flew close and fell on one of their knees, bowing deeply to Li Linghai.
They all opened their helmets. Their leader was a hideous, muscular man with four interconnected scars on his face that formed the shape of a well.
Because the scars involved his facial organs, his eyes protruded particularly abruptly, like certain fish in the deep sea, giving both a hilarious and creepy feeling.
Li Yao thought of something and sensed the formidability of the hideous, muscular man. He was at least a terrifying expert in the Yuanying Stage.
However, he did not quite understand why the muscular man had left four hideous scars on his face. After advancing to the Yuanying Stage, it was not difficult for him to stimulate the cells and repair the simple wounds. If it did not work, the medical and plastic technology of the Imperium should have been able to deal with a few scars, right?
The hideous, muscular man was slightly dazed when he saw the two strangers behind Li Linghai, too.
However, he knew that the queen had too many secrets and had too many extraordinary experts under her command. Therefore, he simply abided by his duty as a subordinate and did not ask any questions.
Li Linghai was very satisfied with the hideous, muscular man's performance. Narrowing his eyes, he glanced around the battlefield and said with a smile, "None of them were left alive. Taken care of? Well done, General Tu."
Then, he turned around and explained to Li Yao and Li Jialing, "This is General Tu Zhengdao, the deputy commander of the 'Deep Sea Legion' under the Deep Sea Fleet and the captain of the First Assault Team. General Tu used to be one of the youngest major generals in the Imperium. He was best at sneak attacks and sabotage in the enemy's rear. You can get to know him better if you have a chance."
Tu Zhengdao, the hideous, muscular man, slightly frowned and said solemnly, "Let's not talk about the military rank in the fake Imperium. Right now, I am only loyal to Your Highness. I am only the deputy commander of the Deep Sea Legion under the Deep Sea Fleet and the captain of the First Assault Team!"
"General Tu, rest assured."
Li Linghai said with a smile, "One day, the real Imperium will march back to the capital of the Imperium, and you will be a general of the Imperium of True Human Beings again. A real Imperium, a real Imperium, and a real general!"
Li Yao thought quickly and realized that it seemed that the contradiction between Li Linghai and the nobles of the Imperium had been so intense that they did not even think that the guy was qualified to represent the "rightful" anymore.
For the Federation, it was not necessarily a bad thing.
"Li Lingfeng is such a smart pig. He is more than capable of accomplishing anything. Cooperating with him might not be able to push forward our plan, but if we don't cooperate with him, he is absolutely capable of ruining all of our dreams and hopes."
Li Linghai said casually, "Therefore, I have been secretly making plans to eliminate him since ten years ago. Those two fellow Cultivators were specially raised by me for the purpose of executing Li Lingfeng. Today, we have finally accomplished our mission and executed the villain. The two of them can now surface and officially join the Deep Sea Fleet."
"Li Lingfeng is dead?"
Tu Zhengdao beamed in delight. He then glanced at Li Yao and Li Jialing warily and asked, "Was it done by those two fellow Cultivators?"
"Yes. His name is' Vulture Li Yao ', and his name is Huang Feng."
Li Linghai paused for a moment and said, "They will stay by my side for now and join my guardhouse as my secretaries and personal guards. Their faces are relatively unfamiliar, and they are not as deeply connected to the 'old Imperium' as you are. They will have more freedom to come and go in the capital. Perhaps, they can carry out certain missions that you are not suitable for."
"Secretaries and personal guards?"
Including Tu Zhengdao, all the Immortal Cultivators in the First Assault Team of the Deep Sea Legion were greatly surprised.
As Li Linghai's secret private soldiers, they naturally knew how many appalling secrets and ambitions the seemingly weak queen had been hiding.
As the queen's secretaries and guards, they would certainly learn a lot of the queen's secrets. If their "great plan" really worked out, their future would be limitless.
Who were the two of them exactly? What made them so trusted and valued by the queen?
The First Assault Team of the Deep Sea Legion was the best of the best. In the past, the guards and bodyguards in the queen's guardhouse were mostly veterans of the First Assault Team who had been through hundreds of battles. It was safe to say that they were the queen's closest subordinates.
Otherwise, such a life-threatening mission like "executing Li Lingfeng" wouldn't have been entrusted to them.
There were too many tough, disobedient guys among the Immortal Cultivators. Immediately, dozens of malicious eyes glanced at Li Yao and Li Jialing.
Li Linghai smiled and said, "Since the two of them were able to execute Li Lingfeng together with me, they are certainly extraordinary in their own ways. If you are interested, you can get to know each other better. You will know better when you fight side by side in the future if you have a deep understanding of each other."
It was obvious that he did not object to it and even encouraged the warriors of the First Assault Team to come out and test the two of them.
Immediately, a few brawny, arrogant warriors stepped forward. One of them, an Immortal Cultivator who was more than 2.5 meters tall and as muscular as an iron tower, stared at the yellow hair on Li Jialing's body and chuckled. "Are you a body fundamentalist, or … do you have the bloodline of demons?"
This was an ill-intentioned question.
The Imperium of True Human Beings considered itself the absolute orthodoxy of the civilization of mankind. Naturally, it was not very fond of "demons".
After almost ten thousand years of hunting and slaughtering, there were barely any demons living in the Imperium on a large scale right now. The few demons were also slaves who were even lower in level than "hominoids".
At the very least, it was theoretically possible for hominoids to awaken their spiritual roots and become Immortal Cultivators. However, however strong the demons were, the odds of them making a comeback were slim.
In the Imperium, slandering someone as a demon was even more serious than calling them a "b * stard".
Of course, on many occasions, the body fundamentalists who had trained their bodies into magical equipment and awakened the primeval cells would have the features of primeval beasts, too. It was not easy to distinguish them from the demons. They were the same thing in the first place. The demons were the ancient body fundamentalists raised by the Nuwa civilization during the primeval war.
It was a well-acknowledged fact in the Xing Yao Federation.
However, in the politically correct environment of the Imperium of True Human Beings where "pure human beings were supreme", it was obviously not going to be acknowledged.
The question of this burly man with the back of a tiger and the waist of a bear was naturally full of provocation.
Li Yao looked at Li Jialing.
Li Jialing smiled. Suddenly, he turned into a streak of dark gold brilliance and dashed out.
Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!
Sharp claws popped out of his fleshy hands, triggering almost a hundred golden arcs that enshrouded the brawny man tightly. Very soon, his skin was bleeding.
The warrior of the First Assault Team did not expect that Li Jialing would be so agile and brutal. He had lost the initiative because of his carelessness, and he could not take it back at all.
After all, Li Jialing had received dual refinements from Wuying Lan and Li Lingfeng, which gave him a body of a ferocious beast that was even more perfect than Wuying Lan's. Also, he had nowhere to vent his fury today. He was so frustrated that he was about to explode.
In front of Li Yao and Li Linghai, he did not have the ability to fight back at all. However, it was still more than easy for him to deal with a common warrior of the assault team.
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