"Yes, I'm satisfied."
Li Yao said in a hurry, "So to speak, your situation is truly special. I might not be able to find your own kind even if I search the entire sea of stars, right?"
"My own kind?"
Long Yangjun smiled and said casually, "Maybe the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan who have entered the super-long hibernation state. But cases like mine are few and far between. I don't expect to run into my own kind.
"It doesn't matter. The universe is a vast place, and loneliness is the theme of the universe in the first place. Even if you have billions of your own kind around you, don't you still have to scheme and kill each other? How many of them can you truly trust without any reservation? Perhaps, it will be more peaceful if you don't have your own kind! "
Li Yao sensed the loneliness in Long Yangjun's words. Thinking of his unique identity as an 'earthling', he could rather understand Long Yangjun's feelings.
It was true that many things were not worth telling to outsiders, and one could only bear and pursue in silence. If Long Yangjun could not find her own kind, would he ever meet a second 'earthling' in his lifetime?
Thinking about their own concerns, the two of them moved downstream for a while. Then, it was Long Yangjun's turn to ask, "I've already answered such a personal question for you. Shouldn't you be frank with me and tell me honestly that this' mental devil 'is your last trump card?"
"Of course!"
Li Yao blurted out. "I am not the God of Gamblers. How can I have more than ten trump cards? The mental devil is my only and last trump card!"
Long Yangjun was suspicious. "Is that so?"
"Yes!"
Li Yao said resolutely, "I guarantee it with my integrity."
"Then, we're screwed."
Long Yangjun sighed and said, "It seems that you do have other weird things. I finally understand why you revealed the 'mental devil' to me so quickly. It was because you foresaw that I would not stop until I revealed your trump card. So, you intentionally played the 'mental devil' card just to satisfy my curiosity and win my trust. In fact, it was just a smokescreen. You must have deeper secrets and stronger trump cards!"
"Is it as exaggerated as you say?"
Li Yao braced himself and said, "Why do I seem to be very sinister in your description?"
"You have always been very insidious."
Long Yangjun said without looking back, "Although you always look silly and naïve, and you seem to be very gullible and gullible, but in the past hundred years, all the guys who believed that you were really silly and naïve, be they the generals or the schemers, have been killed by your saber no matter how smart they were, no matter how precise their schemes were, and no matter how flawless they were. If that is not cunning, what is cunning!"
Li Yao chuckled awkwardly and did not say anything despite Long Yangjun's mockery.
Very soon, the two of them were already more than thirteen thousand meters below the sea level. Their surroundings were as dark and sticky as a swamp.
On the east side of the fault, the traces of artificial excavation were very obvious. Of course, the 'people' were not human beings but Pangu or Nuwa Clan.
"This way."
Long Yangjun led Li Yao through a narrow, long crack and swam forward for one minute. The uneven rocks around turned into metal that was as smooth as a mirror. They had entered the tube of a certain artificial object.
"Shua!"
Behind the two of them, a circular gate slowly rotated and closed. The drainage holes nearby discharged the seawater nonstop. Hot wind blew over, and the tube that was filled with seawater a moment ago was immediately dry and warm.
"Hu!"
Li Yao was finally able to take off his helmet and take a deep breath. The air here was hot, dirty, and filled with the intense smell of metal. Thankfully, there were not too many impurities and toxins. It was not a problem for the experts in the Divinity Transformation Stage to breathe.
However, the smell of blood in the air was rather fresh, as if a gory massacre had just taken place.
Li Yao raised his eyebrow and looked at Long Yangjun warily.
"Don't be nervous."
Long Yangjun made a gesture, and the airtight gate up ahead was slowly opened. A few bodies that were riddled with holes and had been melted with the Crystal Suit immediately lunged out.
Frowning, Li Yao looked into the airtight gate, only to discover that it was almost a steaming slaughterhouse. At least dozens of bodies were lying on the ground or embedded into the cabin wall together with the Crystal Suit that looked like garbage. Everybody's eyes were wide open, as if they had died with everlasting regret.
"This starship is the last means of escape that Dongfang Wang prepared for himself."
Long Yangjun explained, "The one commanding in the undersea base right now is just a stand-in. The real person, Dongfang Wang, is trying to distract your main force with the undersea base as a bait so that he can slip away through the cracks in the deep sea on this starship.
"The shell of this starship has been specially refined. It can still rush forward even in the deep sea tens of thousands of meters deep. Also, the power units have all been silenced and will not release the slightest spiritual waves. It is very difficult to detect and capture them.
"75% of the surface of the capital planet is covered by seawater. The ocean is so vast that it is indeed possible for him to avoid your search as long as he is lucky enough to hide in the deep sea.
"It is a pity that his' trusted subordinates' did not seem willing to be trapped alive in the deep sea together with him and be buried together with the 'former prime minister'. They conspired to tie up Dongfang Wang and deliver him to your queen in exchange for their lives and future. But I did not want to deal with Li Linghai. As a result, this is what you see.
"It did not take me much effort to finish off those guys, but the starship was seriously damaged and stranded here, too. It was not enough for me to repair and activate it on my own. Dongfang Wang, on the other hand, was so infuriated that he vomited blood crazily after his' trusted subordinates' all betrayed him. He was about to die!"
Li Yao had a lot of mixed feelings. The mind of human beings was indeed the most uncertain thing in the universe. Even though Dongfang Wang had calculated everything and carefully arranged the last escape, he still could not guarantee that his subordinates would not betray him.
Human beings were not machines after all, and they were not as reliable as machines!
After passing through the bloody corridor and opening the two cabin doors, Li Yao met Dongfang Wang, the former prime minister of the Imperium, in a corner of the cockpit.
Although Long Yangjun had forewarned him in advance, Li Yao was still deeply surprised by the appearance of the "prime minister of iron and blood" at this moment.
He had seen Dongfang Wang's appearance in all kinds of videos and photos more than once. His body was tall and even slightly fat, and he was as unshakable as a giant bell. He was full of exuberant energy and intimidating charisma.
But at this moment, Dongfang Wang couldn't have been thinner and more haggard. The fat and muscles all over his body seemed to have been gnawed away by weird worms, leaving only a loose bag of skin on his face and body. There were also black spots all over his skin. Black air was popping up from the black spots and dispersing into the air, emitting the stink of rotting corpses. Everybody couldn't help but cover their mouth and nose when they smelled it.
If there was one organ on his body that still maintained the vigor of a living person or even a Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator, it was his eyes.
Dongfang Wang's entire face was dangling like a melted mask, but his two eyeballs bulged high and protruded forward, occupying almost half of his face. He did not look like a human being.
With his hands that looked like eagle claws, he hugged a long, long package hard. His eyes were filled with the exhilaration of a dying person. He stared at a 3D star map in a frenzy, which was the entire territory of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
The map of the Imperium was rotating slowly. The Sectors and the resource planets were emitting colorful, glamorous brilliance that was projected into Dongfang Wang's eyes, making his two eyeballs look like burning glass balls.
"Hehe. Hehehehe!"
Dongfang Wang did not notice the arrival of Li Yao and Long Yangjun at all. He continued staring at the map in fascination and chuckled in a low voice. Now and then, he extended his hands that were shivering like sticks to touch the "newly recovered area" on the map of the Imperium, as if he were holding the entire sea of stars in his palm.
Long Yangjun coughed softly.
Dongfang Wang's bones shrank, and the empty skin around him was propped up by his last breath. Like a large and thin balloon, he hurried to hold the map of the Imperium in his arms and roared with brutality in his eyes, "Who is it? Who is it? Nobody is going to take the entire sea of stars away from me. It's mine. It's all mine!
"It was I who led the Imperium to win the unprecedented counterattack of the Imperium! It was I who planned, controlled, and defended the dignity of the civilization of mankind! I am the one who revived the empire and controlled all the stars in the heavens in my hands, controlled them in my hands!
"I am the well-deserved first prime minister of the Imperium of True Human Beings. I am the greatest contributor to the revival of the Imperium. Nobody can oust me. You shameless, ungrateful guys, don't even think about it!
"Isn't it just training by swallowing a few living people? What's the big deal? What's the big deal compared to the great contributions that I've made? If I hadn't swallowed those guys to maintain my peak computational ability, how could I have mobilized the resources and troops of hundreds of Sectors and ten thousand planets to wage a full-scale war on a vast battlefield spanning millions of lightyears? Nobody could've done it!
"Sacrifice one to save a hundred. If the Imperium's counterattack is won, countless human beings will be saved! For victory, everybody is sacrificing. Even I have drained my flesh and soul. What's the big deal if a few more people are sacrificed? What's the big deal?
"I didn't do anything wrong. My conscience is clear. What you did was a scheme and a shameless betrayal. Nobody is qualified to judge me, especially the hypocritical and cowardly traitors like you. The Imperium will remember me forever and give me justice. Imperium! Haha. Hahahaha! "
"His brain is burning like this —"
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