Ever since it was reactivated a thousand years ago, the man-manufacturing factories of the Gold Lion Sector had been functioning day and night, "creating" countless "congenital seeds" whose bloodlines and souls were determined. They constituted the main body of the Covenant Alliance's Ultimate Benevolence.
However, as time went by, due to the high-intensity usage and wear of the components, the productivity of the man-manufacturing factory was dropping, and the failure rate was rising. The cost to 'manufacture' every 'congenital seed' was rising to an unbearable level.
Therefore, in the past hundred years, the man-manufacturing factory here had been in a half-stagnant state, and the output was only one tenth of the peak.
But it did not mean that the Golden Lion Sector's position in the Covenant Alliance had dropped. A primeval relic that was connected to the man-manufacturing factory had been left in this place. It boasted another important facility, which enabled the place to maintain its status as the "recruit training base" in the rear of the Covenant Alliance.
It was the "Channeling Temple", which was designed to brainwash the people of the Holy League and activate their primeval genes and primitive cells so that they could awaken brand-new techniques.
Back in the primeval age, the Channeling Temple had been an indispensable public facility for the Pangu Alliance.
It was precisely because of the "telepathic magnetic field" provided by the Channeling Temple that the carbon-based intelligent life forms of different races could deeply understand each other's ideas and instantly transmit the orders of the higher-ups to the finest nerve endings of the Alliance.
Today, the temples everywhere in the Holy League and even on the starships were the most important tools for the Ultimate Benevolence Masters to control the "soldiers" and the "workers" at the bottom level.
The temple in the Gold Lion Sector, on the other hand, was not only the oldest and largest, but it also had the highest efficiency and reliability of brainwashing.
Both the soldiers and the civilians of the Imperium who had just been captured in the frontline and the "soldiers" and "workers" who were born and raised in the Holy League but suspected to be unsteady would be sent to the place for "deep purging". Their feelings, desires, and personalities would be erased. Then, the brilliance of the gods and the orders of the Ultimate Benevolence Masters would be injected into their blank heads. A brand-new, qualified person of the Holy League would be born!
Because the Holy League had just occupied the Thick Soil Sector and captured a lot of soldiers and civilians of the Imperium, a lot of carriers were traveling between the frontline and the Golden Lion Sector. Their light congregated into glittering rivers.
They shipped disobedient, infuriated people of the Imperium incessantly. After three to ten days of refinement, they would be transformed into docile and loyal people of the Covenant Alliance. If the strong soldiers had awakened certain primeval techniques, they would be shipped back to the frontline to crush more defense lines of the Imperium and plunder more people of the Imperium. It was essentially fighting the people of the Imperium with the people of the Imperium. However many people were killed, the foundation of the Covenant Alliance would not be hurt.
However, the trouble that the Puppet King had caused in the Golden Lion Sector was very likely to cause the efficient and stable 'brainwashing assembly line' to fall apart instantly.
Before they arrived at the Channeling Temple, the largest temple in the Holy League, Chu Zhixiao played a series of videos to the other members of the Yaksha Squad through the spider tank, Li Yao.
Those who appeared in the videos were mostly fully-armed soldiers and even Exos who were armed to the teeth.
But they had all been infected by the virus and turned … weird.
The first video was about a trench in the frontline.
Although the final battle between the Holy League and the Imperium hadn't broken out yet, conflicts were still happening in the Thick Soil Sector and the few Sectors nearby.
However, in the video, the three soldiers were not pointing their guns at the trench but at the cameraman, who should be their commander judging from their conversation.
The video was shaking, indicating that the two parties were confronting each other fiercely.
The cameraman demanded the three soldiers to put down their weapons in a harsh tone, but the three soldiers turned a deaf ear to him with pink brilliance in their eyes. Eventually, the three storm bolters were all pointed at the cameraman's head.
"Where is Jiang Xue?"
Deep sorrow beamed out of the first soldier's eyes. He squeezed out a tear, as if he were about to cry.
"Give Jiang Xue back to me."
The second soldier begged. He seemed to be kneeling before the cameraman.
"Jiang Xue, Jiang Xue …"
The confusion on the third soldier's face gradually turned into craziness, which then turned hideous. "Did you kill Jiang Xue? You must have! You must have! "
The cameraman had no idea what the three soldiers were talking about. He shouted, "Who is Jiang Xue? Soldiers, you are crazy. You have been invaded by extraterrestrial devils. Put down your weapons. Put down your weapons now! "
Hardly had he concluded his sentence when the three soldiers pulled the triggers at the same time. The picture was swallowed by crimson blood at first, before it fell into deep darkness.
The second video seemed to be in the middle of the complicated tubes on a certain starship.
A man was jumping up and down like an animal, evading the traces of his pursuers while he ran and roared, "Jiang Xue, Jiang Xue, where are you? Where are you exactly?"
That sorrowful voice sounded as if it wanted to turn his heart into blood and spurt it out from his throat.
He ran further and further away until he was caught in a dead end. In front of him was an emergency airtight door for maintenance.
Behind this door, after passing through a long and narrow tunnel and two other airtight doors, it was the cold universe.
Without wearing a protective suit or a Crystal Suit, even a powerhouse who had condensed Jin Dan would not dare to stay in the vacuum of the universe for long.
However, this affectionate beast seemed to have seen an illusion. Without hesitation, he opened the airtight door and muttered, "Jiang Xue, I'm here to save you. Don't be afraid, Jiang Xue, I'm here to save you!"
He entered the airtight door, slammed the door, and disappeared into the darkness.
Half a minute later, an ear-piercing alarm came from outside the picture. It was the sound of someone forcibly opening the outermost airtight door, leaving the starship and entering the vacuum of the universe.
Other than a maintenance poncho, this person did not have any protective equipment on him.
His fate could be imagined.
Sure enough, the scene flashed. Half an hour later, he saw some people in gray protective suits dragging his body back from the vacuum. He had been frozen into a statue, but his face was still clearly branded with obsessive longing.
The third video was like an interrogation record.
Looking at the time at the bottom, it was freshly made half a day ago.
The one who was tied up and chained to the metal chair was a white-haired priest who looked like a saint.
However, the priest who was at least two hundred years old not only had the ravines of emotions on his face but also the persistence and obsession that were unique to young people, which formed a very weird feeling of contradiction.
"Jiang Xue … Jiang Xue …"
The priest struggled hard, allowing the shackles to pierce into his flesh and blood. He did not even care that his bones were scraping. He simply glared and shouted, "Give Jiang Xue back to me. You devils, give Jiang Xue back to me!"
The interrogators sitting opposite him were two Purgers and Cleaners from the ordinary troops.
"We can give Jiang Xue back to you."
They looked at each other, and the Purger said expressionlessly, "But you have to tell us first — who is Jiang Xue exactly?"
"Jiang Xue …"
The priest whose hair and beard were all white blushed as he smiled in a daze. "She's my wife."
"Oh?"
Confusion flashed in the eyes of the Purger and the Cleaners. Pondering for a moment, the Purger asked again, "Jiang Xue is your wife. Then, who are you?"
"I am —"
This should be a simple and clear question, and the priest was about to blurt it out in an instant. But just as he was about to reveal his identity, a sharp pain suddenly attacked his brain, causing his whole body to twitch. His eyes were like spring water, overflowing with a strong sense of confusion.
He narrowed his eyes as if he were drunk.
"I am …"
Tilting his head, he thought carefully for a long time. In the end, he put on a smile and said, "I am Gao Huan."
"Gao Huan?"
The Cleaners continued asking, "Who are you exactly? Where are you from? What's your job? Why are you here?"
"I don't know."
The priest grinned. "What are you talking about? I don't know. I can't remember. I only know that my name is Gao Huan, and I am Jiang Xue's husband. Jiang Xue is not dead yet. We can finally … be together again."
The two interrogators pressed further, but the priest kept repeating the same words. He only remembered that his name was Gao Huan, and Jiang Xue was his most beloved wife. He had nothing else to ask for except to be reunited with his wife. No matter how he was tortured or hypnotized, he would repeat the same words.
The video ended there.
There were dozens of videos with similar content. They were all about the people of the Holy League of different identities, ages, and professions who were crazy about a woman named 'Jiang Xue' and committed all kinds of deviant and even insane acts.
They left their posts, shot their superiors, became fugitives, and even pestered the female members of the Holy League, asking if they were Jiang Xue.
"What is clear now is that, in the past seventy-two hours, a large number of people of the Holy League scattered on different starships and planets were activated at the same time by a certain virus in their brains, which aroused intense … love."
Chu Zhixiao frowned hard and said, "From the video just now, you must've seen that the outbreak of the virus is different from that of the Disillusionment Virus, the Glory Virus, and the Taotie Virus. It will tamper with the memories of the victims and make them mistakenly believe that they are a person named 'Gao Huan' who is deeply in love with another daughter named 'Jiang Xue'. His only purpose of life is to find Jiang Xue and rescue her from somewhere.
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