Their eyes had all turned into black whirlpools.
Their lives, their will, and even their souls were all absorbed by the swirls, turning them into some sort of … frenzied zombies.
Even their cerebral cortex had qualitative changes. The old brain cells were dying nonstop, and the new brain cells constituted weird sulci and glia in a completely different way, imprinting indestructible thoughts on their souls.
Those people who were addicted to the black will and couldn't free themselves were completely melted into the overwhelming net of soul resonance. They boosted their mental power without bothering anything and released brainwaves that contained black venom incessantly, affecting more people around.
It was like the spread of a virus.
Wuying Qi was not hypnotizing everybody on his own. Instead, he was spreading it on a large scale, starting from the low-level Immortal Cultivators who were the weakest, weakest, and most unstable. After their brains were broken, he would develop them into his black chess pieces. One chess piece would infect another chess piece. After the few low-level chess pieces resonated with their souls, they would infect the high-level chess pieces.
Just like that, a large-scale "mental plague" swept across all the starships in the ace fleets of the four families with the ubiquitous and ever-changing solar storm. Not a single brain was spared!
Half an hour after the large-scale brainwashing began, the first batch of Immortal Cultivators who had been completely brainwashed gradually woke up from their trance.
At first glance, they were no different from half an hour ago. At best, they had a weird smile on their lips and gloomy black brilliance flashing in their eyes.
But deep down in their hearts, they had already realized the truth of the universe and the ultimate direction of the civilization of mankind.
They communicated with each other thoughtfully and immediately understood each other's identities and positions. Then, they looked around and sensed the people whose brainwaves were vibrating at a completely different frequency from theirs.
Most of the Immortal Cultivators were still in a trance after the brainwashing. They were in a mental conflict, and it was not their target.
However, there were always a few people who were determined and loyal to the four families, or who were the vested interests of the leadership of the families themselves. It was impossible for them to be brainwashed.
Those people were mostly the commanders or the advisors of the starships. They were at least middle-level officers.
They also realized that the entire fleet was in the middle of some sort of highly-dangerous mental attack. They hurried among the pathways in a hurry, trying to wake up their subordinates.
"What's going on exactly? What's wrong with you? Wake up! Wake up!"
"Raise the spiritual shield. Raise the most advanced anti-radiation and anti-high-energy particle shields!"
"Release the sedative gas of the highest intensity into the pathways of the starships. No, no, no. Directly release the powerful anesthetic gas. I'd rather let all the crew members fall asleep than keep them in such a wretched state!"
"Carry out the order. Is there anybody carrying out the order?"
Holding back their headaches and the shock in their minds, the of the officers were jumping up and down like desperate gorillas.
In the harmonious of the souls of the soldiers of the soldiers, the soldiers who had been deeply brainwashed Immortal Cultivators.
Immortal Immortal Cultivators, Immortal Immortal, Immortal Immortal Immortal, Immortal, of Immortal Immortal Immortal …
"What are you doing? Who allowed you to come here? Stop! Stop right there, or I'll shoot!"
"Are you out of your mind? Do you know who I am and who you are?"
BAM! BAM!
The officers who were still sober waved their storm bolters and blew the heads of the few brainwashed soldiers in the lead into broken watermelons, but it did not discourage the rest of the soldiers from charging forward at all. Very soon, the few officers who were still sober were surrounded by countless soldiers whose eyes were deep and completely drowned in their frenzy, vanishing.
Of course, for many starships, the radiation and the high-energy particles had been exhausted after penetrating through the shields and plate armor because of the well-prepared defense measures or the large scale of the starships themselves. Therefore, 100% brainwashing was not achieved.
However, even if only twenty to thirty percent of the bottom-level soldiers were brainwashed and the other twenty to thirty percent had a mental breakdown and turned into bloodthirsty human-shaped monsters, it would still be an unbearable strike for the starships.
The places such as the engine compartments and the arsenals were often guarded by the bottom-level soldiers, which were the most affected areas of brainwashing. Therefore, as long as twenty to thirty percent of the soldiers obeyed Wuying Qi's will, it would be a great trouble for the starships.
The first thing they did after they were "awakened" was to sabotage the engine compartments. Then, they retrieved tremendous crystals from the arsenals and modified them into crystal bombs. Then, they strode to the bridge hand in hand, insisting that the commander listen to their "reasoning".
It was needless to say that the human-shaped monsters who had lost their sanity and whose heads and strength had been abnormally swollen were still dashing in the dark, deep pathways, killing everybody they saw and sabotaging everything that they saw. It was an indescribable nightmare.
Even if the soldiers who were still sober tried their best to extinguish the nightmarish civil strife, the starships were often riddled with holes and completely lost their impetus. If the engine compartment, the fuel warehouse, and the ammunition warehouse all exploded at the same time, even the largest starship would be seriously damaged. It would be impossible for the starships to cruise in the sea of stars again without being towed to the docks for a couple of months of major maintenance.
In the first hour of the solar storm, riots large and small took place on almost every starship of the four families' ace fleets.
In the second and third hours, after the riots were finally settled on some of the starships, something even more dreadful happened.
On some other starships, a lot of commanders, advisors, and fire control officers had already been "enlightened" by Wuying Qi. They realized the truth of evolution and recognized the highest commander of the Imperium and the only true god, becoming Wuying Qi's most loyal subordinates.
Black brilliance was burning gloomily in the eyes of those commanders and fire control officers.
The emptiness of great enlightenment also appeared on their faces, and their lips curled into a vague, weird smile.
Through the intermittent, seriously jammed communication channels, they sent messages to the neighboring starships and communicated with the commanders nearby.
"The Imperium is welcoming a new life."
Those commanders said to the commanders of the neighboring starships, "The supreme commander is back. The savior of the civilization of mankind has finally arrived!"
Some of the commanders of the starships, after receiving such messages, would reply, "Long live Blackstar the Great! Long live the Imperium of True Human Beings!"
In such a way, they would mark each other's starships as black in the identification system, which was the color of their allies.
But some of the commanders of the starships would roar in panic and fury, "What the hell? What the hell are you talking about? Hey, hey, hey, hey!"
Those commanders of the starships who had been enlightened would cut off the communication quickly and mark the starships as white, which was the color of the enemy.
Then, they would open fire and launch suicidal attacks without caring about their own defense and the gap between their starships. BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! Almost instantly, dazzling ribbons of light and abnormally expanded light balls were glittering in the iron tide made of more than a hundred thousand starships.
Countless starships that were close to each other bit each other like relentless hyenas. Both the spiritual shields and the composite armor were torn apart as if they were pieces of paper.
Tremendous materials, enshrouded in the flames of spiritual energy, were spurted out like arterial blood and sprayed to the shields of other starships, raising colorful ripples.
The starships that were "contaminated" were mostly the rapid attack starships and the arsenal starships that were relatively small in scale. The spiritual shields and the composite armor of those starships were not solid enough, and the commanders who were piloting the starships were not of a high level, either. Naturally, they were the first batch of Wuying Qi's loyal believers.
Including the highest commander, a lot of leaders were gathered on the enormous, thick-armored war motherships and the comprehensive supply starships. They had not lost control of the starships yet.
However, the gap in scale and firepower did not stop the rapid attack starships and the arsenal starships from launching the most violent firepower while accelerating to the highest speed, directly crashing into their own command starships, motherships, and comprehensive supply starships. After the earthshaking explosions, they blew themselves into smithereens and left shocking holes on the command starships and the motherships.
Before the black brilliance of the sun, none of the commanders could've foreseen such an unbelievable situation. Therefore, they were still in the densest battle formation, with barely any room for maneuvering.
After the solar storm swept across the entire fleet, the power units and even the fire-control systems and the mainframe crystal processors of a lot of starships were paralyzed. A lot of bottom-level soldiers were brainwashed by Wuying Qi and turned into monsters or zombies, making them lose effective control of the starships.
It was often the case that they could only watch their own arsenal starships crashing into the enemy head-on and turning into crazy fireballs, but there was nothing they could do.
It was a mess. The overwhelming space fleet was completely disrupted.
Some starships tried to escape, only to be dragged back into the vortex of destruction by the debris and the fire.
Some starships intended to go on a rampage and take control of the situation with the advantage of their sturdy starships. However, before long, a fatal "mental plague" would break out inside those starships. A lot of soldiers with deep eyes would march into the bridge and surround the commanders and the fire-control officers, gnawing them from their skin to their bones.
The spiritual shields and exhaust flames of some starships gradually dimmed, and they completely lost their momentum. They were like cold iron coffins. It was impossible to imagine what was inside them — or at all.
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