Not long after the Eight Armies moved out to capture another batch of Miracle's high-ranking members, they all died. Ten days later, more than twenty Sectors in the League of Stars reported the outbreak.
If it was just one Sector, it could be understood as a normal outbreak. However, this time, more than twenty Sectors in the League of Stars were experiencing the outbreak at the same time. Furthermore, after the outbreak, the outbreak spread at an extremely fast rate. Currently, the number of deaths reported by the various Sectors was increasing rapidly.
Every Sector had its own active planets and its relatively inflexible ones. This time, most of the outbreak occurred on the transit planets of that Sector. Even if it wasn't a transit planet, it would still be a planet with a lot of human activity.
They were like a source of infection. The infected people would leave the planet in a hurry and bring the virus to another planet. Then, the vicious cycle would begin once more.
One Nightmare Tapir was all that was needed to destroy a planet. Right now, there were at least twenty Nightmare Tapirs scattered throughout the League of Stars. This included Sectors A, B, and C.
The epidemic had been detected in the areas under the jurisdiction of the Eight Great Armies. Although it was not a transit planet in that area, and it was not a planet that was particularly important, it was still a place under their jurisdiction. There were soldiers, warriors, and other personnel of their respective armies on the planet. At a time like this, they couldn't give up completely.
Morale couldn't be lowered. No one could give up at the start. Just like what the politicians were doing right now, they had to incite the people to fight back and take action. Once the soldiers felt despair at the start, all subsequent actions would deviate from the plans of the Eight Marshals.
After receiving the news, Silin contacted Eudy and asked him about the current situation of the Eleventh Squadron. Just as Silin had expected, because of Pango's presence, Ji Feng had ordered the Eleventh Squadron to follow them and stay away from important areas.
Not long ago, Ji Feng and Lan Hudie had worked together to wipe out one of Heaven's Birth's squads and assassinate a group of high-ranking members. Based on the information Silin had received from Wushe, Ji Feng and Lan Hudie were currently preparing to join forces and kill the leader of Heaven's Birth, Blumer. Most likely, Blumer wouldn't have imagined that at a time like this, Ji Feng and Lan Hudie would be preparing to kill him.
Ji Feng wasn't as honest as he looked. Silin knew that Ji Feng had a lot of tricks up his sleeves. Moreover, during the last assassination attempt, Silin suspected that Ji Feng had purposely made it look like he was heavily injured. Perhaps, at that time, Ji Feng had already made preparations.
Since Ji Feng was confident in his ability to kill Blumer, Silin wasn't interested in knowing whether or not Blumer would be killed. At a time like this, the Celestial Heaven's Birth would definitely split apart. Ji Feng and Lan Hudie were using the Nightmare Tapir as an excuse to remove the Celestial Heaven's Birth from the Four Great Alliances. While everyone was busy running for their lives, they were busy splitting the Four Great Clans into Three Great Clans. It was a good move to catch them off guard, and it saved them a lot of effort. The spies they planted in Heaven's Birth must have also contributed a lot, and there must have been external forces helping them as well.
As long as he knew that the Eleventh Squad was doing well, Silin didn't care about anything else. After his call with Eudy, Silin arrived at a meeting room next to Ci Jincheng's lab.
This meeting room was a little special. It wasn't like the other strict and formal meeting rooms. Here, everyone could choose their own seats, and there were all kinds of display boards hanging around the room. There was also exercise equipment.
By the time Silin arrived at the meeting room, everyone was already present. Knight and two other people were at the exercise equipment. Some were punching while others were running with weights. Kang Man was writing something on an electronic board, Pride was playing a game, and Yue Lou was studying an antique rifle …
"Sorry, I'm late." Silin pulled out a random chair and sat down.
Huimao was strolling around the meeting room. There weren't any strict rules for these people to attend a meeting here anyway, and there was even someone eating in the corner.
"It's fine, I just got here." Ci Jincheng pinched the space between his brows. The progress of his research still hadn't caught up to this matter, and this made Ci Jincheng very tired.
Ci Jincheng pressed a button on his controller, and a projection appeared at the center of the meeting room. It was a star map. Every Sector in the League of Stars was displayed in it.
"This is the image compiled from the latest information we've received. The planets marked in red are the planets where the Nightmare Tapir first appeared, and the planets marked in orange are the ones that are being reinfected. According to the information we have now, there are already 75 types of deadly viruses, and there are no absolute vaccines for them. It's still fine if they are discovered in time and injected with drugs to alleviate the symptoms. However, these viruses have all been mutated. Many vaccines and drugs created in the past are not very effective, not to mention that there are some new types of viruses — artificial viruses. "
Ci Jincheng sorted out the information he received and shared it with everyone. Knight, Pride and the others passed the new information to Ci Jincheng. They didn't know much about viruses, so it was fine to just know the general situation.
The eight corps were no longer fighting each other, and the few political families at Sector A had stopped their civil war as well. They were contacting the local governments to deal with this matter. Before this, they had come up with all kinds of countermeasures, and the League of Stars wasn't without cause. They had been making arrangements, and they were all busy right now. Shi Huajing had been busy ever since he contacted Silin briefly at the beginning. Silin knew about his situation, and did not disturb him after he received Shi Huajing's message.
Right now, everyone had gathered the information they obtained from various channels and obtained the detailed military layout on the projection at the center of the meeting room. The information Silin brought out especially far exceeded Ci Jincheng and Knight's expectations. They never thought that Silin would be able to obtain so much secret and detailed information.
"When I formed this' Tapir Extermination 'squad, I told you that the place we're going to is definitely a disaster zone, and a disaster zone that's been half-abandoned."
"Then where are we going next?" Pride stared at the distribution of the markers on the star map and frowned. The eight corps and the big families were quite capable when they worked together. At the very least, the few planets that Pride had set his eyes on had been deployed a long time ago.
"I'm just curious why so many planets had slipped through the net during the strict cleansing earlier." Knight's expression was serious and murderous. Right now, he was venting this murderous intent directly on the punching cushion in front of him.
Everyone knew how destructive the Nightmare Tapir was when so many families of the Eight Great Military Legions worked together to annihilate the Nightmare Tapir, so why did so many of them slip through the net even though they knew how important they were? Not only that, they were all on very important planets. Even within the jurisdiction of the Eight Great Military Legions, there were Nightmare Tapirs in the political families of Sector A?
There was one possibility, and that was that the spies had not been completely eliminated. Moreover, the spies among them were all holding important positions. Even those with weak governing power could not have done this. This did not mean that all of these people were spies. It was possible that they still wanted to monopolize the 'Nightmare Tapir' for their own use. For example, the Sixth Legion was wavering. It was exactly because of this that some people took advantage of the situation to infiltrate.
If they had Si Fang's determination back then, would something like this still happen? Si Fang's military strength back then was far inferior to the current grand alliance, but that was the most successful operation that Knight knew of.
A bunch of old foxes!
The cushion broke with a "pop". Knight's punch force had exceeded the cushion's limit. It was obvious that Knight was still very angry about something like this.
It was exactly because he disliked those people's behavior that Knight and the others chose to work on their own. They had quarreled with their families many times already, but they would never look back on things that had already been decided.
The meeting room fell silent for a moment after Knight was done. Everyone knew that there was something fishy about this, but what could they do?
Crouching on the high platform at the side, Huimao looked down at the eighteen young people sitting in the meeting room. It knew that human minds were very complicated, and it was impossible for it to learn them. At most, it could learn some techniques from Czedow, but it still preferred a primitive and straightforward way of solving problems. Huimao was also secretly glad that it was not a human. Most people lived too sullen and tired lives, so it was better to be a cat. Folding its front legs and tucking its tail away, Huimao lay there with its eyes closed. It was starting to feel sleepy.
"Cough!" Ci Jincheng pulled everyone's attention back, "Regardless, this has already happened, and our abilities are limited. The only thing we can do is to try our best!"
He pointed at a region on the projection and zoomed in. It was Sector R of the League of Stars's lagging Sector. Silin had been there before.
Sector R was also known as the Red Sector because most of the planets there were red in color. The darker the red, the lower the habitability. Many inhabited planets only carried a faint red, not a bright red or a deeper red.
But on the other hand, the darker the red, the more minerals there would be on the planet. Logically speaking, with so many red planets and minerals, this Sector should be very rich. But that was not the case.
Due to the abnormal magnetic field and frequent stellar flare activity of many deep red planets in Sector R, a lot of technological applications could not be applied there. If the technology could not keep up, it would definitely fall behind a lot. This was also the main reason why Sector R was classified as a lagging Sector. The important factor of technology caused Sector R to inevitably fall behind many Sectors in many aspects.
Since technology was useless, some developers turned their attention to cheap labor. The backwater Star Zones had a lot of cheap labor. Therefore, just like the other backwater Star Zones, cheap labor was frequently traded in Sector R. Moreover, Hunters would often come to this area to do some missions due to the abundance of mineral resources. This area had always been active until now. This activity also caused the epidemic to spread much more seriously than other lagging Sectors after the appearance of the Nightmare Tapir.
The lagging Star Zones were definitely the secondary choice of the army and the large families. This time, the deployment was mainly in the trade Star Zones and the three upper Star Zones. This was also one of the reasons why the number of deaths in the lagging Star Zones was so much higher than in the trade Star Zones, and the number of deaths was still rising rapidly.
"Sector R?"
"Yes, my plan is here." Ci Jincheng pointed at one of the planets, "There are a few large pharmaceutical factories and R&D bases on this planet. However, their performance is not good, and a few of them are on the verge of bankruptcy. Of course, this is only on the surface. Also, I suspect that there will be a 'Miracle' encampment there. "
Some people became spirited when they heard Ci Jincheng's words. If 'Miracle's' secret encampment in Sector R was real, they might be able to discover a lot of secrets and find some ways to control the current situation if they could take down that encampment.
"Why do you suspect that place?" Knight asked.
"Actually, it is just one of my suspects. When I sent people to survey that planet, someone stopped me. Although the results were normal, it was so normal that it aroused my suspicions. However, I didn't have the time to carry out any official survey operation later on. "
As he spoke, Ci Jincheng displayed some information. There were a lot of things wrong in the information displayed on the projection. Those who didn't understand could not see anything, but those who knew a little about medicine could see that something was wrong. What's more, Ci Jincheng had purposely made a note at the side so that everyone could understand it.
"The water quality of a medicine of this level isn't recorded at all?" Pride said in surprise. Based on the level of equipment shown on the information, how could these pharmaceutical factories produce pollution-free emissions?
"Also, the medicine production and export quantity don't match." Another person said.
"Yes. Other than that, I've also compared some other investigation data in the past fifty years. There are some things wrong with them, so I suspect that even if there isn't a 'Miracle' research lab there, they may have provided 'Miracle' with some basic medicine support." Many investigations Ci Jincheng had done showed that there was something wrong with this planet.
"But why didn't anyone discover it during the cleanup operation? Even if it's a lagging Sector and an unimportant planet, some basic surveys should be able to be carried out, shouldn't they? "
"Someone did something to it. There are many differences between the people I sent in the name of the Sector's local government and the people I found in secret. There are a few comparisons you can see here. Some of the medicines had different names on the bottles, but they contained different medicines that looked similar but were completely different from the medicines they had seen before. Most of these medicines are the same type of medicine we discovered in the Sixth Legion's underground laboratory. "
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's depart and destroy as many as we can. Those 'Miracle' people are crazy!" Pride stood up and said while flexing his fingers.
"Let's depart first. We'll talk about the rest on the way. There's nothing we can do here anyway. "Knight said.
"Alright then, let's depart first." Ci Jincheng had the same thought. He pressed a button on the controller in his hand, and the walls of the meeting room opened to reveal a warehouse filled with equipment. "Let's tidy up the equipment first. Lung is waiting for us outside Sector C."
When the others walked into the warehouse, Silin paused where he was and made a gesture to Czedow imperceptibly.
"What are you thinking about, Silin?" Ci Jincheng walked over and asked after turning off the projector in the meeting room.
"Nothing, let's go."
Czedow and Huimao were the only ones who knew what Silin's gesture meant just now.
Cillin had set up an underground defense network on Planet Brown Earth, and he had already activated the program implanted into the satellite array of Planet Brown Earth. Right now, the entire planet was enveloped by the satellite array's defense network. Outsiders could not enter, and the people inside would not want to leave either.
Planet Brown Earth was not an active planet, nor was it rich. In fact, it could be considered poor. The few planets around it were similar to it. They were poor and their neighbors were poor. This nature had saved them instead. This was because the planet where the Nightmare Tapir appeared was a little far away from them, and it would not reach them for the time being. Moreover, after the planet's satellite defense network was forcefully activated, the planet had been quarantined. The underground network was also being activated at the impoverished old residential area. It would protect that area and the residents there, and eliminate all foreign infected people.
At least, this was the only thing they could do before they found a way to deal with the Nightmare Tapir.
After receiving Silin's signal, Czedow had activated the implanted program on the other side through remote control. Moreover, it was upgraded to the highest level according to Silin's will.
The eighteen people in the base quickly gathered their equipment. On the spaceplane, Ci Jincheng had already prepared everything they needed and was waiting for them to board.
"Be careful." Prisa said to them.
Prisa was rushing to Sector S, so she could not travel with Silin and the others.
"Alright. You be careful too."
The two spaceplanes took off one after another and left Sector C.
After Silin and the others met up with Lung at Sector H, they headed to Sector R together.
Perhaps it was because of the Nightmare Tapir, but young master Lung was a lot more serious than usual. He was not laughing. Meanwhile, on a certain planet, inside a castle-like building of the Andriera Family, Lung's grandfather, old Mr Andriera Phocos was clutching a letter to tell his grandfather in his hand. He was so angry that he blew up the entire study. It was because he heard that young master Lung had gone missing early in the morning and left behind this bullshit letter.
"Where are Silin and Ci Jincheng?" After sitting quietly for a while, young master Lung got up and moved around. He asked when he did not see Silin and Ci Jincheng.
"The lab. They are both busy people." Knight answered with his eyes closed.
"Is there really no progress?" Lung scratched his chin and frowned.
"It can't be helped. Even those so-called senior researchers couldn't come up with any good ideas. The two of them can only try their best."
In reality, Silin had a sudden inspiration when he was sleeping just now. In order to seize this inspiration, he hurriedly crawled into the lab on the spaceplane and never came out again.
This time, Czedow did not go to help Ci Jincheng. Everyone, including Huimao, had been assigned tasks by Silin.
"Are we really going to do this?" Huimao looked reluctant.
"It's always good to try. We don't have any good ideas right now anyway." Silin patted Huimao's head.
"Alright." Huimao sighed. Looking at the tasks Silin had assigned, Huimao had a feeling that he would not have time to rest for a long time. However, Silin's idea …
"How confident are you?" Czedow asked.
"Thirty percent. Right now it's just a preliminary plan. We'll know later." Silin answered.
On the screen in front of Silin, an image very similar to the Nightmare Tapir was taking shape.
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