"Red Pig …"
Chu Zhixiao was about to say something else, but Li Yao had already pulled his' thoughts' away from the guy's soul.
It was about time. If he continued, his own soul would have goosebumps.
Li Yao only wanted to give Chu Zhixiao a nudge and plant a seed of suspicion and resistance in the soul of the Heavenly Lady of Slaughter, but he did not want to hypnotize her and force her to act according to his will.
If he did strengthen the hypnosis and bewilderment, it might be possible to turn Chu Zhixiao into a rebel, but would it be any different from the brainwashing of the Ultimate Benevolence Masters and the King of Puppets?
That was all he could do. Whether or not Chu Zhixiao could take the first step of resistance would depend on herself. Li Yao could not interfere with her.
Besides, the space jump was about to be over. The colorful kaleidoscopes around were all shivering and overlapping each other.
They had crossed the four-dimensional universe and reached the heartland of the Imperium after billions of lightyears.
Of course, before he got rid of the four-dimensional state, Li Yao did not forget to leave a vague, barely detectable mark in the brains of the four members of the yaksha squad and the King of Puppets.
It was like a coordinate that could penetrate the blockage of all the armor and shields, allowing him to locate the five of them immediately.
The jump was over.
It was like a bungee jumper who had fallen to the bottom of a valley only to be pulled by the safety rope around his waist and bounced up.
Everybody felt that their internal organs had been twisted brutally, and they felt that the world was swirling and that they were vomiting. Then, the kaleidoscopes that were swirling around quickly condensed and regrouped into definite entities in the three-dimensional world again.
Everybody looked at each other in a trance as if they had just woken up from a dream.
Chu Zhixiao was even more suspicious as she stared at Li Yao on the spider tank in a daze.
She gently rubbed her temples. She wasn't sure what was going on with the "dream" that seemed both real and illusory.
Li Yao lay next to her obediently and even retracted his six limbs to his abdomen, as if he had entered the hibernation state.
Chu Zhixiao looked at Li Yao, then at the Puppet King. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't come to a conclusion.
However, the pain and hesitation in her eyes showed that the seed of doubt and resistance had taken root and sprouted in her heart. The vines and branches that grew out gradually entangled her soul and shaped it into a new shape.
Chu Zhixiao took a deep breath, stood up, and looked out through the virtual porthole.
Li Yao also took the opportunity to release 'Telepathic Touch' and hacked the mainframe crystal processor, navigation system, and the sensors all over the shuttle, collecting the data that was flooding in like a tide.
This was a star field that was completely dark and sunless.
In many virtual entertainment works and thrilling games, space travel was often carried out in a dazzling sea of stars. No matter where one jumped, there would be countless stars, planets, moons, and asteroid belts as battlefields. At the worst, there would be endless starlight as the background.
As a matter of fact, 'planets' were rarely-seen in the universe in the first place.
Planets, whether they were stars, planets, moons, or even floating asteroids, were distributed in the universe like a handful of sand that was sprayed to a vast square. On average, there was less than one grain of sand in every cubic meter. It was as sparse as that.
Therefore, most of the time, there was nothing in the universe. There was no light, heat, matter, or waves. There was only infinite darkness, coldness, and desperation.
It was exactly the same in this space zone.
Li Yao could barely find a celestial body as a reference with the sensors of the shuttle. He could only tell from the coordinates provided by the navigation system that this place was indeed near the Empyreal Terminus Sector, which was about three to five lightyears away from the resource-rich area of the Empyreal Terminus Sector.
It was indeed 'close'. Three to five lightyears was decades of travel at the regular speed. No wonder Xiaoming and Wenwen did not detect the Fuxi fleet, the main force of the Holy League.
Yes. Although there were no celestial bodies in the universe, the destructive killing machines built by human beings and their ancestors, who were known as' gods', tore apart the coldness and ignited the darkness and showed up in this place.
The exhaust flames of countless starships and the space ripples caused by their jump congregated into an overwhelming torrent.
"How … how many starships are there exactly?"
Li Yao mumbled to himself, feeling that his blood was freezing.
The Fuxi fleet was still gathering. Starships were jumping out of the void nonstop, like sharks rising from the deep ocean.
To ensure the safety of the space jump, most of the starships were far away from each other, to the point that it was impossible for the naked eye and the regular crystal cameras to recognize them.
However, the shuttle still received the data from the core of the Fuxi fleet, which guided them to a sailing route and let them know exactly how many silent space behemoths were lurking in the darkness around them.
Li Yao had never seen such an enormous fleet before.
In the 'Federation's counterattack' of the Xing Yao Federation, the 'battle of a million starships' in the Seven Seas Space Zone, and the 'battle of the capital' in the Empyreal Terminus Sector, the total number of starships on both sides was not as enormous and terrifying as the Fuxi fleet before his eyes!
It was because in both the Imperium and the Federation, the rulers and the people were all living human beings with feelings and desires.
Even under the most extreme circumstances, it was impossible to concentrate all the starships in one place and abandon other places.
Most of the troops were still guarding the strategic locations in various Sectors, maintaining the supply lines and the rear defense lines. At the very least, they had to suppress the possible riots in the local areas.
Under such circumstances, it was already the best that the Federation and the Imperium could devote one third of their mobile troops to a strategic battle.
Rather than saying that this was the limit of technology and resource allocation, it was better to say that it was the limit of human nature.
However, the people of the Holy League were a bunch of inhumane guys.
Therefore, Li Yao suspected that the Holy League had truly exploited the last bit of resources and soldiers of every Sector under its banner and sent them to the frontline without caring about anything.
As for the logistics and the order in the rear, they did not consider it at all. They were simply betting everything on the battle. They did not accept any possibility other than victory.
"The people of the Holy League are truly … crazy. They are betting all their assets just like that. Did the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters not consider the possibility of failure or the stalemate lasting ten years?"
Li Yao found it hard to understand the strategy of the Holy League.
He even had a weird feeling that such a 'one-versus-one' battle was not like a war in reality but more like a super-large crystal processor game.
"It seems that Lei Chenghu's judgment was correct. There is indeed a huge problem inside the Holy League. Or rather, their system has been rigid since the very beginning without any creativity or motivation at all."
The mental devil said, "A thousand years of development is already the limit. They have reached the most vulnerable peak. If the stalemate continues, more and more 'Puppet Kings', 'Infected', and 'Awakened' will appear, which will make the system collapse from the inside.
"That's why the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters are determined to finish the Imperium before it collapses without caring about anything else!
"As for whether or not the worlds in the rear will fall into chaos and collapse because they do not have enough soldiers to maintain order, it is absolutely not within the consideration of the Ultimate Benevolence Masters. After all, however many people there are, they are just 'soldiers' and 'workers', and it doesn't matter if they are all dead. As long as the resourceful area at the center of the cosmos is occupied, more 'soldiers' and 'workers' will naturally be obtained."
"That's indeed the case."
Li Yao mumbled, "The Holy League pretended to attack the newly-recovered areas of the Imperium first and separated the expedition army from the homeland of the Imperium, partly to strike the morale of the Imperium's people, and partly to confuse them so that the Imperium would not expect them to be so crazy as to deploy them to such a dark space zone where there are no resources at all."
It was an extremely risky move to deploy the magnificent fleet that had gathered all the soldiers of the Imperium to such a dark space zone where there were no celestial bodies or spiritual energy.
Of course, this place was not far away from the capital, and it was not easy to be scanned by the Imperium's security forces because of the darkness.
However, the attackers would not be able to get any supplies on the spot. All the supplies would have to be delivered from the rear through space jumps. The cost would be astronomical!
It was as absurd as stationing 'eight hundred thousand soldiers' in a desert on an ancient battlefield. Every serving of food and water would have to be delivered from the rear, and ten servings of food would be consumed on the way. If the war was not started as soon as possible, they would be dragged to their deaths.
Therefore, neither the military academies of the Federation nor the Imperium considered such a dark space zone where there were no resources as a gathering point when they were teaching commanding strategies, even though such places were very close to the strategic locations of the enemy.
The insane Black Wind Fleet had also searched for a space zone where brown dwarfs existed when they attacked the Federation. A lot of fuel could be saved just by taking advantage of the gravity of the brown dwarfs.
Any commander of the Imperium or the Federation who was bold enough to propose such an illogical plan as setting the dark space zone as a gathering point would certainly be sent to the hospital by all the generals and advisors under his command for a check on his head.
However, the madness of the Holy League was beyond everyone's expectations.
As the shuttle cruised in the darkness, they could vaguely sense the exhaust flames of countless starships glittering around them like the glittering tusks of space behemoths.
They were like a small fish that had accidentally entered the feast of sharks.
It was not until they reached the center of the 'sharks' that they heard the call that was getting clearer and clearer.
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