"It's good that you are fine. Promise me that you won't do such stupid things again, alright?"
Chu Zhixiao squatted before Li Yao and patted Li Yao's head softly. She smiled and said, "You idiot. I have the Crystal Suit and the spiritual shield. Even if the entire starship is blown up, I won't be killed. But you lunged at me like an idiot. It is very likely that you will be completely melted by the blast and the flames. Do you know that?"
"Yes!"
Li Yao nodded obediently and crouched next to Chu Zhixiao's feet. "But I'm worried about you, Major!"
Chu Zhixiao hugged the Spider Tank.
"I can't take it anymore."
Li Yao's soul said to the mental devil inside the Spider Tank. "I can't take it anymore. Do you have to be so disgusting? What kind of crappy interaction is this? This woman is a femme fatale who has been through life-and-death situations for decades. How can she be so naïve?"
"Hold it for a moment. For the Federation, for the Imperium, and for the peace of the universe!"
The mental devil said. "Hehehehe. Excuse me. I was distracted again and thought of something hilarious. Don't overthink it. It has absolutely nothing to do with what is happening right now. Hehe. Hehehehe."
"If you are like that again, I will go on a rampage and hurt someone!"
Li Yao gnashed his teeth. "Hey. Check the history records and see if the woman will do anything more outrageous to the Spider Tank. For example … take a bath with the Spider Tank. That is absolutely unacceptable. I do not want my hundred years of reputation to be ruined!"
"Well, I haven't noticed that she has such a weird fetish yet," the mental devil said.
"However, a lot of the memory chips of the Spider Tank were damaged in the explosion. Only less than 10% of the historical data is preserved. I don't know what clandestine stories there are between the major and the Spider Tank in the other 90% of the time that is missing."
Li Yao secretly cursed.
Pretending to be innocent and cute, he blinked his watery crystal cameras and looked at the major.
He did not have a mechanical tail. If he did, he would've been wagging his tail like a flower.
Fortunately, Chu Zhixiao hadn't thought of doing anything "outrageous" for the time being.
On one of her knees, she opened a metal cover on Li Yao's back with the identification of fingerprints, iris, and brainwaves. A 3D light beam was projected.
This was the debugging and control interface of the spider war chariot.
Chu Zhixiao's hands moved quickly as she checked the memory chips and the data of the interaction mode on the spider tank.
Li Yao's soul was lurking deep inside the crystal processor. Naturally, she would not notice it.
But after looking at him for a long time, she still let out a faint sigh. "Red Pig, you seem to have lost 90% of your memory in the big explosion two days ago."
Her expression was a little absent-minded. It didn't seem like she was just talking about the spider chariot, but more like she was talking about herself.
"Major" Chu Zhixiao, who was known as an "ultimate weapon" and a survivor of countless cruel experiments, had lost a lot of memories after being brainwashed again and again?
Did she really know nothing about her past?
Or could she vaguely feel that a certain fate that was entangling her like a boa was swallowing her nonstop?
"Come on. I'll grant you the same permissions as I have. I'll connect you to the mainframe crystal processor of the Inquisition and transmit all the files about the 'Puppet King' to you."
Pausing for a moment, Chu Zhixiao said again, "Right, there's also the files about Vulture Li Yao. Analyze the two files and see if you can find any similarities. Later, we'll have a new battle meeting with Black Dream, the Titan, and Seven Star.
"This time, we're very close to the Puppet King.
"Next time, we'll have to capture him!"
After synchronizing the permissions with Li Yao, Chu Zhixiao left the lounge and returned to the medical cabin. Her wounds hadn't completely recovered yet, and she had to go back to the medical cabin regularly for physical examinations.
Li Yao was more or less relieved. Then, he couldn't help but laugh.
Such humiliation did have its benefits. As a matter of fact, he had obtained the highest permissions to access the mainframe crystal processor of the Inquisition more than easily.
Although the mental devil could've cracked such permissions, it would've been a waste of time, and it would've been easy for him to leave traces behind. It was certainly not as easy as swaggering into the room right now.
"Puppet King. Puppet King. Who are you exactly? How dare you use the name of 'Vulture Li Yao' and force me to such a … shameless level?"
Li Yao's soul projected two giant hands, which he rubbed hard and mumbled, "Just let me rip off all your disguises!"
Shua! Shua! Shua!
Shua! Shua! In the main database of the Inquisition, all the data about the Puppet King and the Divine Heart Society, from the first time they reappeared to the world, to the series of unbelievable, destructive cases, to the case where they infected a priest of the Ultimate Benevolence and detonated a main-force warship, were all presented before Li Yao.
Li Yao had a deeper understanding of the Puppet King.
He discovered that the mental devil was right. The enemy of an enemy was not necessarily a friend. There could be enemies that were even eviler.
Of course, the Holy League was already the evilest organization in the world. It was barely possible to find anything eviler than the Holy League. Rather, it was more accurate to say that the Puppet King's behavior was exactly the same as the leadership of the Holy League. They both regarded human beings as some sort of … 'experiment subjects' that they could play and ravage at will.
The guy was probably a Meditation Healer or something similar. He was very good at hacking the brains of human beings and had invented all kinds of mental drugs based on human nature in a very 'genius' way.
Once the mental drugs took effect, a certain aspect of human beings' feelings would be triggered to the maximum. They would be the opposite of the people of the Holy League.
Sloth, greed, arrogance, gluttony … All the weaknesses of human nature would be magnified to the maximum in unbelievable ways, to the extent that they were enough to destroy themselves and other people.
The first mental drug that the Puppet King developed was named 'Disillusionment'.
Once one was infected by the 'Disillusionment Virus', the factor of 'sloth' deep inside the soul of human beings would be automatically activated and magnified to the maximum. Their behavior patterns would be completely controlled, making them feel like doing nothing except eating and sleeping. They would simply lie on their back comfortably or lean against the cabin wall and stare at the light on the dome in a daze.
In the places where the Disillusionment Virus spread out on a large scale, there was indeed an entire mine or the bottom-level cabin of a starship. All the bottom-level people of the Holy League, including the 'soldiers' and the 'workers', had stopped their work and were staring at the ceiling in a daze.
At first, the leadership of the Holy League did not know the existence of the Disillusionment Virus, the Puppet King, and the Divine Heart Society. They thought that something went wrong during the brainwashing of the bottom-level people of the Holy League.
However, as large-scale slacking and even complete work stoppage occurred on different planets and starships in different directions, it naturally attracted the attention of the leadership of the Holy League, who discovered the existence of the Disillusionment Virus.
Naturally, it was something that would shake the foundation of the Holy League.
But no matter how they brainwashed the infected people with 'holy light' or forced them to resume work with violence, the infected people simply lay on the ground lazily like a pile of snot or mud, unable to get up at all.
In the end, despite all the efforts and the consumption of countless resources, the cure rate of the Disillusionment Virus was only seventy percent. Also, after the patients were cured, the efficiency of the 'soldiers' and the 'workers' would plummet, too. Thirty percent of the patients could not be cured at all.
The Disillusionment Virus greatly diminished the capability of the Holy League. It also pushed the Puppet King and his Divine Heart Society to the center of the stage the moment they showed up, becoming a great problem for the Holy League.
Li Yao found it hard to comment on the function of the Disillusionment Virus.
Of course, the exploitation of the ordinary people in the Holy League was ten times crueler than in the Imperium. At least in the Imperium, people still had the ability to resist, or at least the idea of resistance. But in the Holy League, even the idea of resistance had been completely deprived and erased.
Therefore, it was certainly not a bad thing if the bottom-level people of the Holy League could resist by slacking off and going on strike.
However, using the Disillusionment Virus to turn a person into a cripple who had no desire or motivation, who was unwilling to do any work, and who refused to work even under the threat of being whipped and death, was still too horrifying.
Li Yao found it hard to imagine that the Disillusionment Virus would spread to the Imperium and the Federation on a large scale.
If everybody did not work, how could a civilization make progress or even exist?
More importantly, the Holy League was not a merciful place. Those who could not work because of the Disillusionment Virus were all 'purged' mercilessly in the end. It was the result that the Puppet King foresaw a long time ago.
"This guy has really trampled on humanity since the very beginning!"
Li Yao commented coldly and continued reading.
The second mental drug that the Puppet King developed was named 'Glory'.
Compared to the simple and violent 'Disillusionment Virus' and the 'Taotie Virus', the 'Glory Virus' was much more inconspicuous and deceptive.
"The people of the Holy League in the past did not have feelings and self-awareness. They only obeyed in a daze and were too rigid and rigid. That's why we failed to defeat the Imperium of True Human Beings, the devilish kingdom on the surface of the earth, for a thousand years.
"Although we are loyal to the gods, our loyalty is far from enough. We have to increase our loyalty by ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, and ten thousand times until we reach the most fanatical level!
"We have to learn to think independently and figure out how to serve the gods in a better way. We have to learn to love our leader, the Ultimate Benevolence Masters. We also have to learn to hate the extraterrestrial devils, our most wretched enemy!"
That was the awareness that the 'Glory Virus' brought to the infected people.
The people of the Holy League in the past were simple tools that knew neither love nor hate. They were merely machines that carried out orders.
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