"It's a trap!"
"Retreat! We have to jump out of this wretched space zone and the radiation range of the star!"
"Help! Help!"
"Base No. 4, do you hear me? Please guide us to a suitable jump point immediately. We —"
From the main-force warships of the four families that were as magnificent as mountains, panicked orders and even cries for help echoed.
But the cries came too late.
Before they realized that they had fallen into the black abyss, the solar storm had swept across all the support fleets, space fortresses, and planet bases at the periphery of the Empyreal Terminus Sector without discrimination, creating "mental plagues" there, too, transforming countless Immortal Cultivators who had been loyal to the four families into zombies of some sort. However, those zombies did not eat other people's brains but merely changed, assimilated, and infected them.
The fifth planet base that the four families' ace fleets had just left was also a scene of doom.
Countless people were running here and there with their deformed and expanded brains. While they were running, their brains would explode, and their blood would soar to the sky like a fountain. Some of them even ran out of the range of the artificial atmosphere and the gravity field, turning into bizarre-shaped statues in the cold vacuum before they turned black and vanished under the illumination of the sunlight.
Some people were also running out of the planet in starships, space shuttles, and even Crystal Suits, only to be shot down by the anti-air cannons of the soldiers who had been "awakened". They were like flies that were dragging a spiral tail.
The officers who were still loyal to the four families formed isolated islands and resisted the tide-like attacks of the bottom-level soldiers in vain. However, under the dual scourge of exhaustion and extreme fear, their brains were easily infected, too. It was often the case that "traitors" appeared among them while they were fighting. After a moment of daze, their eyes turned deep black, and they stabbed their own people in the back brutally.
Boom!
There was no telling whether it was the crazy soldiers or the desperate officers who detonated the largest arsenal on the fifth planet base, triggering the explosion of crystals. The deafening noises tore apart everybody's eardrums. Millions of tons of materials were thrown into the sky, and burning meteoroids splashed down like flowers, raising even greater damage.
The entire planet seemed to be on fire, ignited by the brilliance of the black sun.
Similar scenes could be seen everywhere in the outer regions that had been occupied by the four great families.
Almost none of the starships could perform a space jump and escape from the swamp of the black sun before they realized what was going on.
Although the Next Sun Plan had only been implemented by less than 20%, the ace fleets of the four families were already gone. The iron tides had been reduced to mud, and every starship had become an island of death. Every Immortal Cultivator was in the state of hypnosis, panic, or desperation, losing their combat ability!
The same scene was happening in the Imperial Guards and the Deep Sea Fleet of the reformists.
The Imperial Guards and the Deep Sea Fleet had long been prepared. Before the Next Sun Plan was activated, they had docked the starships inside the atmosphere and turned off most of the units. Also, with the protection of the atmosphere, they avoided the super radiation and the damage of the particles from the solar storm.
However, the public communication channel on their starships was completely open to Wuying Qi, allowing Wuying Qi's will to march in unstoppably and achieve a better brainwashing effect.
The soldiers and officers on the starships, who were wearing the black military uniforms of the early Imperium a thousand years ago, listened to the "teachings" of "His Majesty" in silence like neatly arranged statues. In the quietness and orderliness, they received unprecedented epiphanies. Hollow and mysterious smiles were all on their faces.
When they looked at the sea of stars again, their eyes were already different.
A moment ago, they were still worried about the disaster that was about to befall — the full attack of the ace fleets of the four families — but right now, they had no doubt about their victory and were rubbing their hands, ready to receive the collapsed ace fleets in a day or two.
They would be the first batch of members of the glorious "capital fleet".
They would be the heroes of the new Imperium, the ancestors of the new human beings, and the first batch of people to break out of the small universe.
Long live the Imperium! Long live His Majesty! Long live Blackstar the Great!
On the capital planet, the unparalleled power of the solar storm swept over this place too.
The capital planet was protected by a thick and dense atmosphere, which temporarily blocked more than 90% of the radiation, the super particles, and the low-frequency electromagnetic waves. As a result, the madness and destruction in this place wouldn't happen until twelve to twenty-four hours later than the space fleets.
Even so, the anomalies had already indicated the arrival of doom.
First of all, the most sensitive birds were the various types of birds. The organs in the brain that sensed magnetic fields were seriously disrupted. There were thousands of birds flying in the air, flying around like headless flies. There were even countless crows forming a mighty tide, rampaging between the skyscrapers, smashing the glass, crashing into the buildings, and flapping their wings.
When the crows flapped their wings and tried to hover in the narrow room, their heads were blown up in midair. Such a nightmarish picture was destined to be unforgettable for all the witnesses.
It was the same for the birds and the beasts on the ground. The residents near the forests and the mountains all witnessed unbelievable torrents made of snakes, insects, rats, ants, wolves, tigers, and leopards, who fled from their homes in a panic and ran toward the cities of human beings.
The beasts, who were supposed to be natural enemies, no longer cared about each other or where they were going. Most of the time, they would just circle around the city in circles, even biting their own tails as they circled around and around until they finally died of exhaustion.
A lot of rats gathered into an overwhelming army and ran all the way to the wilderness until they reached a cliff hundreds of meters above the coast. Then, they jumped off the cliff without any hesitation and disappeared into the dark tide below.
After accepting the sacrifices of these living beings, the tide became more and more violent, more and more berserk.
On the Silver Moon Ocean, an unprecedentedly powerful level-twelve tornado took shape. Like an enormous tube connecting the sky to the ground, it was about to suck all the seawater out of the atmosphere.
On the Tranquility Ocean, the super tornado that had never happened on the capital planet in the past ten thousand years slowly unfolded its tentacles and bared the most hideous tusks at the human cities on the coast. Even without the probe magical equipment of the weather bureau, it was possible to see that half of the sky in the coastal cities had turned into a shocking blackness, as if an enormous black spot was swallowing the three-dimensional space and about to swallow the entire planet.
Such an anomaly should have caused everyone to be extremely frightened, mentally deranged, and completely collapsed.
However, the residents on the capital planet seemed to have heard the summoning of a mysterious voice.
The voice calmed them down and made them realize a certain grand mission beyond their insignificant lives, gradually turning them into ants in the literal sense. As long as the grand mission could be accomplished, their insignificant lives could be sacrificed at any moment, for the Imperium, for the ant colony!
Countless people staggered out of their rooms and shelters. Raising their heads to look at the sun that was full of black spots, they accepted the baptism of the black waves without blinking. Even though their retina was completely burnt, they were still happy to endure it.
Almost all the Immortal Cultivators and their high-level lackeys living in the cities on the surface of the planet were covered by Wuying Qi's will. They either turned into abnormal monsters, patients suffering from radiation, or mental zombies.
The "hominoids" who lived two to three hundred meters below the ground, on the other hand, were in a better situation.
The atmosphere was the first layer of protection, and the thick rocks were the second layer of protection. Even the most intense radiation and particles could barely penetrate through the crust that was almost ten thousand meters thick. Even if they did, they would've been seriously damaged.
Therefore, when the unparalleled experts, super experts, and experts' lackeys in the entire Empyreal Terminus Sector were caught in the mental plague, the most "humble" underground hominoids were still able to enjoy a moment of lucidity.
The Next Sun Plan could only work with the brilliance of the sun, but thanks to the Immortal Cultivators' "benevolence", 90% of the hominoids had never seen real sunlight in their entire lives. Naturally, they were barely corrupted by the Next Sun Plan. It was almost ironic that everybody knew that they were sober.
Of course, Wuying Qi did not take the hominoids into consideration in his original plan.
After all, they were weeds and ants who could not change or influence anything.
Whether they were sober or crazy, they were destined to die in the coming natural disasters and the shortage of resources. Even if they were the fuel for the civilization, they would not be able to raise a single spark.
Below the ground of the capital planet, inside the Gold Crystal Pyramid …
"I am the universe."
Wuying Qi's soul was boosted to the maximum and spread to almost the entire Empyreal Terminus Sector with the power of the star. Under the reverberation of the souls of billions of people, he had an unprecedented epiphany. He had never believed it so clearly before. He was the sun, he was the universe, his victory was the victory of the civilization of mankind, and his future was the future of mankind. He was the highest will of mankind. No, he was the civilization of mankind itself!
"Hehehehe! Hehehehe!"
Sensing the submission and reverence that billions of people fed back to him, Wuying Qi couldn't have been prouder. The pictures and the violent streams of information that he inculcated to billions of people were also inculcating and hypnotizing himself, making him believe in his existence and destiny without any doubt.
The Next Sun Plan had been more than 30% developed, and the most difficult part had been passed.
The ace fleets of the four families were in chaos and couldn't be reorganized in a couple of days. The four families did not, nor did they dare to, send reinforcements to the Empyreal Terminus Sector that was covered in the black sun.
The Imperial Guards and the Deep Sea Fleet were also "awakening" in an orderly way. Very soon, their loyalty would be raised to a new level, and they would be able to receive the ace fleets of the four families.
Even though Lei Chenghu was disloyal, it would take at least half a month to clean up the mess in the Seven Seas Space Zone. By then, whether or not the Thunder Fleet jumped over, the brand-new "Imperium Fleet" would rise in the sea of stars under his personal command!
There was no longer any power that could stop him.
Nothing could stop the renaissance of the civilization of mankind!
Wuying Qi was dwelling in the reverberation of billions of people's souls. He was soaked in the worship of countless people who pledged loyalty to him. He was soaked in the splendid and magnificent movement.
However …
In this magnificent movement, from the ancient times to the future, there seemed to be two small noises mixed in.
The movement was so smooth and harmonious that the two noises were particularly ear-splitting, as if they were mocking him.
"Huh?"
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