In the observation of the naked eye, the shuttle was surrounded by a dark ocean. Only the tusks of the starships were glittering now and then. The space ripples when different starships jumped over would also collide and interfere with each other, releasing glittering illusions.
However, in the world of "information" and "data", in Li Yao's perception, the core of the Fuxi fleet was the most glamorous, brilliant, and busy scene.
It was almost like … every starship had turned into a firefly, and billions of fireflies were dancing crazily like headless flies. The information and data that they delivered were also like colorful halos, halos, rays, and waves that interweaved and overlapped with each other, swallowing and spurting out the hot porridge of the light of information.
It was also like … Li Yao had accidentally stumbled into a cave of glittering crystals. Every cluster of glittering crystals had thousands of sections, and every section contained the most beautiful patterns that could only have been formed after billions of years.
The intersection of all the data and information, the pivot of billions of overwhelming rivers, and the amalgamation of information that stored the data of the entire Holy League for a thousand years, was exactly "Ultimate Salvation" in front of them.
The shuttle was getting closer and closer to Ultimate Salvation. It was already possible to vaguely scan the general flagship of the Fuxi fleet.
The super enormous starship was even larger than "Black Swirl", the flagship of the Black Wind Fleet that Li Yao had seen before, or the Adamantine Super Arsenal Warship of the four Kurfürst families. It was almost as large as a space fortress. Also, the flames of light that were dancing around the starship indicated that it boasted a hundred times more maneuverability than a space fortress.
It was in the shape of a square rhombus, if not a cube, as if two pyramids were jumbled together from the bottom to the bottom.
There were not many facilities that resembled turrets on the surface of the starship, but countless metal rods protruded out and extended out countless branches that interweaved and connected with each other, establishing a maze-like framework outside of the shell of the starship.
It was not a warship with high firepower in the first place but a hybrid that was similar to a command warship, a communication warship, and a countermeasure warship. Li Yao estimated that the complicated framework that looked like a maze was its antennas and the enhancement system of the Spiritual Nexus specifically designed to increase the efficiency of information output and reception.
The entire starship was filled with the cold, indifferent, and emotionless style of the Pangu people. There was not the slightest superfluous decoration or pattern. There was not even the emblem of the Holy League. Instead, it gave the feeling of magnificence and magnificence as if it were a temple floating quietly in the sea of stars, an immortal celestial body made of the magnificent power of gods and devils. Everybody could not help but feel the urge to worship it.
This was just the feeling of the naked eye.
In the world of information and data, Ultimate Salvation had changed its appearance again.
It was the congregating point of countless glittering, surging torrents of data. The thousands of starships around regarded it as the destination of information. Infinite information was transmitted from the starships around from the rear of the Holy League billions of lightyears away and gathered in its depths every second.
The information collided, rotated, melted, split, filtered, copied, and pasted, making it no longer look like a cold iron and a machine but a certain living creature.
"Hey, don't you have a very strange feeling?"
The mental devil asked Li Yao in a low voice. "Do you feel that the torrents of information and data released by the entire Fuxi fleet, or at least so many starships, constitute something?"
"What is it?" Li Yao asked.
"A brain," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said, "Sense all the starships around. Do you not feel that every starship is like a bunch of glittering synapses that release nerve currents that carry infinite information? All the electric currents are gathered at the nerve center, or 'Ultimate Salvation'. The entire system constitutes a super brain that is too gargantuan to be described by words."
"Now that you mention it …"
Li Yao thought for a moment and said, "The star child from the Imperium of True Human Beings once hijacked Burning Prairie, the flagship of the six major sects of the Flying Star Sector, and modified the mainframe crystal processor of Burning Prairie into his virtual brain, which was known as the 'star brain'.
"Right now, the way the starships and the flagship of the Fuxi fleet communicate with each other is indeed similar to the way the 'star brain' does. It is a way that makes the best use of bionics and is more advanced and efficient than the Spiritual Nexus interaction protocol between the Imperium and the Federation. It is indeed similar to the thinking pattern of the human brain.
"No wonder the five Ultimate Benevolence Masters of the Holy League can command the entire 'bee civilization' with the advanced Spiritual Nexus interaction model. It must be the mysteries of the 'Fuxi system', one of the most important legacies of the Pangu civilizations' alliance, right?"
"I wonder if we have a chance to hack the 'Fuxi system'."
The mental devil rubbed its fists and said, "If we can hack and control the 'Fuxi system' like how 'Extraterrestrial Devil Mo Xuan hacked the super crystal processors and the war network of the Federation, wouldn't it be more than easy to settle the Holy League and end the war?"
"Ah …"
Li Yao said, "Why do I feel scared every time I hear the words' more than easy '?"
While the two of them were talking to themselves, the shuttle slowly sailed into the antenna maze outside of Ultimate Salvation.
"Zi, zi, zi, zi!"
Zi! Zi! The mainframe crystal processor of the shuttle and the units on board, including the portable crystal processors of all the crew members and even the spider tanks, were all scanned in the most rigorous way.
Li Yao knew that it was the safety inspection before they entered Ultimate Salvation.
Naturally, he would not be reckless enough to challenge the firewalls of the general flagship of the Fuxi fleet right now. Instead, he lurked deep inside the crystal processor and compressed his computational ability and soul waves to the minimum, making them look like a set of plain, regular data.
Very soon, the scan was completed. A long and narrow gap appeared on the seemingly smooth and flawless shell of Ultimate Salvation. An inexplicable suction force was generated and sucked the shuttle in.
Right now, they had truly snuck into the enemy's heart and were ready to kill him one step at a time.
Li Yao did not dare to be careless at all. After the shuttle stopped, he followed Chu Zhixiao dutifully and pushed the medical cabin of the King of Puppets out.
The first feeling that Ultimate Salvation gave him was not that of a starship but more like an ancient tomb or a mysterious cave.
As far as his eyes could see, there was nothing but wriggling gray fog. He could not see the dome or the cabin walls. The only thing that could guide them were the runes and marks that were vaguely flashing inside the gray fog.
If Li Yao's senses were correct, the gray fog should be made of countless inert gases, which boasted the functions of blocking soul waves, preventing the enemy from prying, and preventing combustion and explosion.
Of course, it also added to the creepiness and mysteriousness of the place.
The warriors and priests who occasionally came out of the gray fog were all wearing mirror helmets and tight armors. Some of them even wore a layer of rough gray robes over their armors. They looked like ascetic monks, giving people a sense of oppression and suffocation.
The four members of the yaksha squad and Li Yao escorted the medical cabin of the King of Puppets. Under their guidance, they traveled for a long time in the gray fog, so long that Li Yao even wondered if he had been hit by a mental attack. How could there be such a long, straight pathway in the starship? Finally, vague shadows appeared in front of them. They were countless priests and warriors whose faces he could not see clearly. They hinted for them to stop.
"Major, your mission has been accomplished."
One of the priests and warriors stepped forward and said coldly, "Next, we will escort the King of Puppets to meet the Ultimate Benevolence Masters, and you will be fully examined, treated, and purged. After everything is done, you will meet the Ultimate Benevolence Masters and receive the glory that you deserve.
"Now, please follow them to receive your treatment!"
A large batch of priests and warriors surrounded Chu Zhixiao and the rest of them. The atmosphere was immediately heated.
If it were in the Federation or the Imperium, such undisguised hostility might've raised a rebellion.
However, in the Holy League, Chu Zhixiao, Yuan Kou, and Guan Qixing had all been "treated" and "purged" countless times. The shackles that had been implanted into their souls and the habits that they had been used to for a long time made them unable to raise the determination to resist. Even Yuan Kou, who was the most bad-tempered of all, merely shivered and mumbled something. He did not intend to struggle at all.
"Black Dream" Yun Haixin, on the other hand, did not know whether his wife and children were alive or not. He did not move at all, like a walking corpse, at the mercy of the enemy.
Besides, it was a dark space without any resources or light outside. Even if they resisted, where could they run to?
Chu Zhixiao simply asked in a low voice, "What about our spider tank?"
"The spider tank will be sent for full scanning and examination, too," the priest said.
"If it's confirmed that there's no problem, it will be returned to you, Major."
It seemed that there was nothing else they could do.
Chu Zhixiao bent and tapped Li Yao's shell softly.
There were thousands of words in her eyes. She seemed to have a lot of questions that she wanted to ask Li Yao.
But she did not ask in the end. Together with the other three members, she was taken away by a team of priests and soldiers. Very soon, they disappeared into the gray fog.
One of the priests quickly clicked on his portable crystal processor and sent an order to Li Yao on the spider tank.
Li Yao knew that it was an order to put the spider tank into hibernation. Therefore, he pretended to be in hibernation, turned off all the indicator lights around him, and curled his six limbs like a metal egg.
Of course, his "thoughts" were like hungry vipers that could jump up at any moment and invade the Crystal Suit and even the brains of the priests and soldiers nearby. Then, with their Crystal Suit and brains as platforms, he could jump to the vaster ocean of information, the Spiritual Nexus, and even the depths of the "Fuxi system".
However, there was no need to take risks for now.
"Lu Qingchen, King of Puppets, are you really … asleep?"
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