On the first day of treatment, too much energy had been consumed in training and meetings. Even an expert such as Chu Zhixiao fell asleep in the deep sleep cabin.
Li Yao, however, could not calm himself down for a long time.
The social situation of the Alliance of the Holy Covenant was truly an eye-opener for him. Every time, every time he thought that he had recognized the limits of the evilness of the Covenant Alliance, the fragile 'limits' would be broken instantly and replaced by evilness, darkness, and indescribable colors.
Compared to regular brainwashing, everything in the Holy Light Academy was naturally extremely evil.
However, compared to the laboratory of humanity, the Doomsday Project, the Eternal Light Project, and the Devil's Child Project of the Holy Light Academy were nothing at all.
More importantly, Li Yao did not know what the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters were up to. The Holy League did not have abundant resources in the first place, and they had wasted tremendous manpower and resources to build hundreds of experimental starships and test humanity over hundreds of years. Why?
Li Yao vaguely felt that the "laboratory of humanity" was the key behind the Holy League.
As long as he figured out the mystery of why so many laboratories of humanity were established, he would be able to figure out the origins of the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters and what they were up to exactly.
On second thought, Li Yao thought of the Puppet King and his mental drugs and brain viruses.
Wasn't what the Puppet King was doing a "experiment of humanity" on a different level too?
Did the guy know about the existence of the "laboratory of humanity"? Did he want to dig out the secrets behind the "laboratory of humanity" through his actions?
"I've found something very interesting."
While Li Yao was deep in thought, the mental devil suddenly said, "I found some data pieces deep inside the memory chips of the spider tank. After restoring them, I discovered that the conversation just now had been repeated many times in the past.
"Chu Zhixiao often carried out the most dangerous missions with the Spider Tank. The Spider Tank did not boast as tough a defense as she did. Therefore, in ten missions, the Spider Tank would fall apart seven to eight times. Data would be lost, and the Spider Tank would return to its original, blank state. She would need to reconfigure it.
"And almost every time, Spider Chariot would ask her the same question, and she would patiently use the example of the Ship of Eternity to convince Spider Chariot. That's why your probing didn't arouse her suspicion."
"I see."
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "Why did she do that and explain everything to a lifeless, cold machine?"
"Idiot. The mainframe crystal processor of Spider Tank is different from that of Xiaoming, Wenwen, and A Boxing Champion. It only 'appears' to be intelligent. In fact, its interface and thinking database are all predetermined by Chu Zhixiao himself. In other words, Chu Zhixiao wants Spider Tank to raise the question time and time again in order for Spider Tank to do so."
"Don't you understand?" the mental devil said. "Didn't I say earlier that 'Red Pig' is the projection of the other side of Chu Zhixiao's personality? She was not answering Spider Tank's question but answering her own confusion. She was convincing herself that the pain she suffered and the twisted order of the Holy League were necessary by persuading Spider Tank."
"That's to say —"
Li Yao was greatly enlightened. "It's more or less' self-deception ', isn't it?"
"That's right. If she truly believes in her own pain and the order of the Covenant Alliance, there is no need for her to tell herself again and again, just like a man doesn't tell himself solemnly in the mirror that he is a man every morning. You will know it when you pee on the guy!"
The mental devil said, "The more guilty you are, the more suspicious you are, and the more you have to 'self-deceive' yourself by explaining and hypnotizing yourself time and time again."
"So, under her seemingly cold and determined appearance, there is actually some normal human nature hidden within her?"
Looking at the woman who was still frowning in pain while soaking in the soothing drugs in the sleeping cabin, Li Yao secretly made up his mind. "We don't have to believe in the Ultimate Benevolence Masters and the gods. There are a lot of things that we can believe in. We can believe in hope, the future, and … ourselves.
"I'll certainly wake you up and turn you into a normal person!"
"Don't be so presumptuous as to say that she is abnormal. But you don't know that you are the most abnormal one in the eyes of many people!"
The mental devil said again, "While the experiment on 'Eternal Brilliance' was biased, the Xing Yao Federation is not necessarily universal as a model for a country of Cultivators. Think about it. The Xing Yao Federation is what it is today because of you. If you, a 'universal virus', had not been transmigrated to the Federation at all, the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector would have been destroyed in a war where both sides suffered heavy losses. The extraterrestrial devils of the Flying Star Sector might still be on a rampage, the Uranian Ring Sector might still be under the oppression of the Heavenly Light, and the Ancient Sages Sector might still be struggling in the seal. Eventually, all the Sectors at the edge of the cosmos would've been drowned by the aggressive Black Wind Fleet.
"Such a war-torn, hopeless country of Cultivators does not seem to be much more attractive than the order and system of the Holy League right now!"
"Maybe you're right, but I'm here now, aren't I?"
Li Yao's soul was as firm as a frozen ocean. "Since I can change the Federation and the Imperium, I can certainly change the Holy League and the entire Pangu universe. Even if I am a burning butterfly, I can always illuminate a small area of brightness wherever I fly. Don't consider so many messy, complicated things. All in all, I'm just going to do it while I'm still alive, and I'm going to die. It's as simple as that!"
"… Can I give you a suggestion?"
The mental devil asked after a brief silence.
"What do you want now?"
Li Yao raised his wariness.
"Nothing," the mental devil said. "I appreciate your passion and courage, as well as the fearlessness of a Cultivator. However, can you not compare yourself to a butterfly when you make an analogy next time?
The mental devil said, "You know, as a man, I feel … weird comparing myself to a butterfly all the time."
"Huh?" Li Yao exclaimed.
The mental devil said, "Also, don't talk like that. Are you too absorbed in your role? You are even speaking in the tone of a primary school student when you are talking to me."
"Huh …" Li Yao sighed.
…
Chu Zhixiao slept for only two and a half hours before she was woken up by hasty alarms. At this moment, Li Yao was crawling next to her anxiously, integrating and analyzing the tremendous data that had just been transmitted from the mainframe crystal processor of the Heresy Inquisition.
The Puppet King had shown up again.
Also, this time, he had released a brand-new brain virus that was entirely different from the Disillusionment Virus, the Glory Virus, and the Taotie Virus!
It was truly a disaster.
Did the guy not need to eat, sleep, and rest? Only a couple of days ago, he had a close-range confrontation with the yakshas and detonated a main-force warship of the Holy League. Now, he was planning a new round of rampant attacks so quickly!
However, on second thought, it did make sense. The Puppet King did not have much time left, just like Li Yao did.
Whatever schemes and plans they had, they had to be implemented before the final battle between the Holy League and the Imperium. At the very least, the final preparations before the implementation had to be completed.
If the army of the Holy League crushed the main force of the Imperium, they would be able to spare tremendous computational ability, resources, and soldiers to besiege the Puppet King's Divine Heart Society. Even though the Puppet King was ten times better at creating viruses, he would still be doomed!
Everybody in the Heresy Inquisition understood the urgency of the situation, too. They gave the green light to the yakshas. After only one hour, the yakshas broke the barrier of the four-dimensional space on a high-speed shuttle with the best equipment and jumped to a certain space zone in the heartland of the Holy League.
The moment Li Yao passed through the four-dimensional space, he hacked the mainframe crystal processor of the shuttle and read the information about the destination of the jump. He learned that they had come to a place named "Gold Lion Sector".
This place was in the rear of the Holy League and at the edge of the cosmos where resources were scarce. It was one of the few worlds that boasted rare metals. Although it did not have any habitable planets, it was almost a treasury of special metals. The resources in this place were indispensable for the production of armor-piercing bullets, Crystal Suits, Colossi, and strengthened shells of starships.
More importantly, Li Yao had seen the files of this world in the memories of "Wuying Qi 3.0".
The Gold Lion Sector was one of the few worlds where Wuying Qi snuck to the edge of the cosmos with the mission of the Blood God more than a thousand years ago, trying to activate the "man-manufacturing factory".
In other words, a man-manufacturing factory from hundreds of thousands of years ago had been left in a certain planet or a certain space fortress. This was where the earliest members of the Holy League were born and eventually went out of control.
Li Yao estimated that this place should be a "recruit manufacturing and training base" or a "munitions factory" of the Holy League.
That was indeed the case.
Hardly had he jumped to the Gold Lion Sector when he saw a splendid scene through the crystal cameras of the shuttle.
A resource planet of a medium-sized size had almost been dug out by mining starships that looked like ants. A visible dent was revealed, making it look like a gray apple that had been bitten hard.
The minerals that were dug out, on the other hand, were absorbed into the space fortresses nearby like hundreds of gray rivers. After being smelted and cast, they were turned into indestructible armor-piercing bullets or indestructible reactive armor. Then, they were shipped to the frontline through countless carriers, where thousands of main-force warships of the Holy League were armed to the teeth for slaughter, destruction, and "eternal peace".
It was not the first resource planet that had been dug out.
As far as one's eyes could see, countless planets had been riddled with holes and were struggling to survive in orbit like rotten apple cores. Some of them even crashed into each other and turned into broken stone belts that looked like the graveyard of planets.
It was not the first time that Li Yao had seen the preparations for a space war.
But it was the first time that he realized the destructive consequences of the collision of behemoths as massive as the Holy League and the Imperium!
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