"Wow!"
Li Yao said, "Why do I feel that the difficulty of the mission has been increased by multiple times after you put it that way? It was already difficult enough to achieve a 'balance of terror' between the Imperium and the Holy League. Now that Lu Qingchen, the Puppet King, has been involved, wouldn't it be even more difficult? "
"That's exactly the case!"
The mental devil said. "Your goal is to achieve a balance between the Imperium and the Holy League. Naturally, you are treading on thin ice in fear. You are like an old mother who is being bullied by two ferocious tigers. Not to mention failing the mission, even if the mission succeeds, chances are that somebody will accuse you of weakness and compromise!
"But Lu Qingchen is different. His goal is to instigate the contradiction between the Holy League and the Imperium and make sure that the strategic final battle between the two parties will be carried out as scheduled. The fire of war will burn more and more fiercely until the last drop of blood on the two parties is burnt up.
"All in all, he will sabotage and slow down the party that is stronger. Whenever the party seems to be collapsing, he will help in secret and pour oil on the fire. He will beat the center of the cosmos into the most miserable ruins!
"Sabotage is always easier than balance. Lu Qingchen's mission is much easier than yours. As long as the two parties are exhausted and have no soldiers left, it is very possible that he will control the remaining forces of the Holy League, swallow the loose soldiers of the Imperium, set up a trap for the expedition army of the Federation that is coming from afar, and swallow the elites of the Federation!
"Or rather, he will announce his real identity to the entire Xing Yao Federation without any scheme at all. So what? He will destroy the two hegemonic powers at the center of the cosmos and turn the Imperium and the Holy League into a mess. He will give the Federation the only opportunity to rise, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that even you, the dominator of three Sectors and the founding father of the Federation, cannot provide! Could it be that the people of the Federation would not join hands with him to clean up the mess and establish the Federation's hegemony in the universe? Instead, they would fight him to the bitter end?
"Of course, Lu Qingchen must've grasped the expertise of speaking the truth. At that time, he would never force the people of the Federation to accept the idea of 'virtualization of all mankind'. The best he could do was to run experiments on the territory of the Holy League that he controlled and show the advantages of his system to the people of the Federation. Then, he would've modified the Federation subtly in a hundred years. I believe that he has the patience for that.
"All in all, as long as he succeeds in controlling the Holy League, he will have a lot of cards to play. He will not be as desperate and crazy as he was when he was in the Federation. By then, even if he has an open competition of beliefs, you may not necessarily be a match for him!"
Li Yao secretly spat, "Treacherous!"
"Please don't state such an obvious fact every time, alright? It will only show that you are too infuriated to do anything other than wasting your saliva," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "So to speak, the purpose of Lu Qingchen's trap is obvious. He was not lying. 'Major' Chu Zhixiao, the captain of the yakshas, is indeed a target of paramount importance and an indispensable part of Lu Qingchen's entire plan.
"That's because Chu Zhixiao is the most perfect experiment subject of the 'Devil Child Project'. It is safe to say that he represents the best product of the Holy League's brainwashing technology. As long as Chu Zhixiao's soul is completely analyzed, it will be possible to grasp the fatal flaws of the Holy League's brainwashing technology and even find the loopholes in the mental defense of the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters!
"You also know that the battle against the Holy League is different from the battle against the Imperium. The number of starships and troops to be destroyed is not the key. The key is the 'queen bee', or the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters! Even if not a single starship is destroyed, as long as the mastermind is destroyed and the queen bee is controlled, the entire Holy League will be controlled!
"It is exactly because of Chu Zhixiao's great value that Lu Qingchen is trying to persuade Chu Zhixiao with himself as bait.
"I think that he is probably creating a brain virus that specifically targets the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters. As long as he can persuade Chu Zhixiao to open his soul and let him study the structure of the soul of the 'Goddess of Slaughter' and the traces that the Ultimate Benevolence Masters left in Chu Zhixiao's soul, he will be able to complete the modification of the new brain virus and corrupt the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters!"
While Li Yao and the mental devil's souls were having an intense collision, Chu Zhixiao was obsessed with the bewitchment of Lu Qingchen, the King of Puppets.
If souls could sweat, Li Yao's soul would've turned into a fountain right now.
In the emergency, he had no time to bother about whether or not he was exposed. Activating his soul, he lunged at Chu Zhixiao.
"Major!"
Li Yao shrieked, "I … I'm here to save you. Don't trust the big bad guy who is going from one extreme to the other!"
"Huh?"
The fat clown was slightly dazed. His arm that looked like cotton candy immediately turned into a long black whip and slashed at Li Yao brutally.
With the hardness of Li Yao's soul, he could've easily resisted the attack if he triggered all his strength.
However, he was only pretending to be a regular spider tank. Even though it boasted a certain degree of artificial intelligence, it was absolutely no match for the King of Puppets.
Li Yao had no choice but to take the mental blast head-on. He was smashed into pieces and was on the verge of collapse.
"Hehe …"
The King of Puppets — Lu Qingchen did not seem to have expected that his old enemy, who had beaten him into a broken soul, would end up like this. He was not suspicious at all. Too lazy to waste his computational ability on Li Yao, he glanced at Chu Zhixiao and asked, "How about it, Major Chu? Have you realized your mistake?"
"Red Pig!"
Chu Zhixiao, however, could not bear to see Li Yao wounded and broken. The bloodshot streaks in her eyes that were about to break immediately dispersed. She roared, "Don't hurt my Red Pig, you jerk! You are no different from other people. You just want to manipulate me! Even if I do awaken, I don't necessarily have to be your slave! "
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! The bloody streaks and the mist around her just now all exploded. Her soul blossomed in the noises of the explosion, shooting out countless sabers of flames and slashing the illusion into pieces. The hilarious clown vanished into the mist in cold laughter, too.
"Red Pig —"
Breaking the illusion seemed to have consumed all of Chu Zhixiao's mental and physical strength. Her legs were so weak that she almost fell to her knees.
But her concern for the spider tank made her grit her teeth and hold on. She staggered to Li Yao. "Are you alright?"
"I … I'm fine. It was so scary just now. My database seemed to have been seriously attacked, and I was almost completely controlled by the big bad guy. Thankfully, you were awakened in time, Major!"
Li Yao's voice was shivering and moving back and forth in excitement, without the slightest sign of pretense. "What you said just now was great, Major. You should not be anybody's slave. You are you. You are the unique 'Major'!"
"Is that so?"
Confirming that she had indeed returned to reality, Chu Zhixiao took a long breath in relief. But after the sigh, she put on a bitter smile.
The Heavenly Lady of Slaughter's eyes were full of confusion.
She did not seem to know what to do or where to go next.
Yes, she was the Heavenly Lady of Slaughter, who was known as an ultimate weapon.
However, there were too many problems in the world that could not be solved by killing.
The furious roars of the citizens of Light outside were still going on.
There was no telling where the black mist came from, but it grew denser and denser, gradually enshrouding every inch of the forsaken building.
Chu Zhixiao's pupils constricted violently. She heard footsteps that sounded like dry leaves falling on the ground behind her.
Li Yao and the mental devil's souls were spreading out subtle ripples, too. They sensed the approach of a powerful vitality field, too.
"Black Dream" Yun Haixin appeared silently from the black fog. Like a zombie who had lost all hope in life, he stared at "Major" Chu Zhixiao in a daze.
Yun Haixin and Chu Zhixiao, Black Dream and the Major, the two most mysterious' aliens' in the Yaksha Squad of the Heresy Inquisition, confronted each other coldly in the black mist.
"You're not telling me that you've been the Puppet King's accomplice as an undercover agent in the Yaksha Squad, are you?"
Chu Zhixiao immediately regained the calmness of a 'major'. Her eyes that were as sharp as blades cut apart the black mist and locked onto Yun Haixin's hands, legs, and every muscle on her body that could exert strength.
"No. Until a moment ago, I never contacted the Puppet King in private, nor did I talk to him."
Yun Haixin shook his head and said bitterly.
He was filled with the air of a dead heart from head to toe. Li Yao even had the illusion that he was nothing but an empty shell, and the real Yun Haixin had died a long time ago.
"Then, where did you go exactly when you went missing?"
Chu Zhixiao asked. "Why have you shown up now? Are you trying to kill me?"
"I don't want to kill you, and maybe I can't," Yun Haixin said.
"I only want to persuade you. I want to help the Puppet King persuade you."
"That's rather strange," Chu Zhixiao said.
Chu Zhixiao said, "Before today, you've never contacted the Puppet King in private, and you just disappeared for about ten minutes. I don't think you've been brainwashed. You're the kind of person who's the hardest to brainwash. Then, how did the Puppet King subdue you and make you work for him?"
The question made Yun Haixin's eyes, which had been covered in the black mist, even more mysterious and profound.
"Haven't you always been curious about the reason why I'm willing to stay in the Holy League and 'help the villain' without being brainwashed?"
Yun Haixin suddenly said something completely irrelevant. "Now, do you still want to know?"
"Is the reason why you're staying in the Holy League so that the Puppet King can convince you with a single sentence?"
Chu Zhixiao said, "If that's the case, why don't you tell us?"
"It's actually very simple."
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