Based on the conversation between the three Melroy officers, I managed to gather at least two pieces of information. Firstly, the slave race that was brought to the Holy Kingdom had been used in some sort of "extraction" experiment, but I wasn't sure what it was, but I was certain that it was definitely inhumane. Secondly, Barrian had obtained some sort of power, and it was highly possible that he had cracked an important technology from the old Empire. I only hoped that it was not the activation key of my sister's Royal Fleet. I pondered over these two questions for more than ten minutes, but I couldn't find any clues, so I put them aside for the time being. Anyway, I reckoned that I would be able to crack one of the questions very soon: What were the slaves being done to?
After about an hour of regular sailing, the starship arrived at the "Holy Kingdom", which was more than ten light years away from Anu Lili's hometown, which was also the capital planet of the Melroy people. The natives of the slave donor planet might not be able to understand that the God they worshipped was just an alien creature from another planet more than ten light years away — and a bunch of chuunibyou aliens at that.
During the hour of sailing, Liliana had been trying her best to show off her shameless, cute, and pestering skills, trying to make me realize her charm as a sexy and mature Elven girl. Of course, most of the time, she was analyzing the chuunibyou behavior of the Melroy people and ridiculing them. As a true and experienced charlatan, Liliana despised the behavior of the Melroy people to no end. In her words, this bunch of people who pretended to be mysterious, enjoyed themselves, and didn't even understand what a "God" was. In her eyes, they were just a bunch of monkeys who put on clothes and put on a show. I felt that this evaluation was a little out of line, but if you really put the Melroy people and the Galacticus Gods on the same level, perhaps this comparison was not too far off …
"Boss, look, that's the Holy Kingdom!" Liliana observed the scenery outside through the little spy robot that had completely monitored the starship's system. The MDT in her hand projected a planet with a highly developed civilization. A large portion of the planet's surface was covered in traces of artificial modification. Alloy layers, energy shields, and various gigantic structures occupied nearly half of the planet's surface. The rest of the planet had very little natural scenery. It seemed that the Melovans had completely modified their homeworld, using various artificial ecological facilities to maintain the planet's biosphere. They probably had no nostalgia for the natural environment, a rare mentality in most civilizations. But when the Melovans' civilization was wiped out during the Old Empire era, and they were now essentially a spacefaring civilization, their lack of nostalgia for the natural environment could be explained.
"Put it away." I turned off Liliana's MDT. "Someone will be here soon."
"Oh, by the way, boss, if anything happens, you have to protect me." Liliana crawled up to him. "I'm a delicate and weak elven girl …"
"… You have the nerve to say that? Who was the one who was planning to spread a virus on the Melovan homeworld just now? "
Liliana pouted. "Pfft, I'm a walking, cute humanoid. A little blackening won't affect my cuteness."
My daily conversation with this girl had basically maintained this rhythm. It seemed like it would not change …
At that moment, footsteps came from outside the cabin door. Liliana and I quickly sat up straight, pretending to be country bumpkins entering the city. Almost at the same time, the cabin door opened silently, and two expressionless Melovan soldiers appeared at the door. They were no longer the three from before. The two soldiers looked at the situation in the cabin and waved at us as if we were animals. "Come here, come here. I'll bring you to broaden your horizons."
Liliana winked at us and said through the mental link, "Look, the show is over. I guess the infiltrators who were sent in in the past were executed soon after they left the spaceship. Hmm, I smell a murderous aura. "
Liliana and I chatted through the mental link as we quietly followed behind the two Melovan soldiers. The two of them left the spaceship in a zigzag manner and were quickly transferred to an atmospheric shuttle. I had originally planned to release two other detectors during the process, but in the end, I dismissed the idea. There was an extremely sensitive monitoring device nearby, and it was very likely that even a billionth of an abnormal psionic fluctuation would be detected. The security level of this homeworld was as strict as Sandora said. But I still took the time to look around. This place was located in the low-gravity zone above the atmosphere, and it was a stationary transit berthing platform. Small and medium-sized starships would dock here temporarily and exchange goods and personnel with the platform. Before I was urged to enter the atmospheric shuttle, I confirmed the distribution and structure of a few connecting bridges on the platform. I found that this was only a small and limited port. I was sure that a port of this size was not part of the regular army. Combined with the information obtained from Turazzo, I was sure that the "natives" who were transported back from the slave donor planet should have entered the Holy Kingdom through a separate channel from the regular army. The soldiers that I saw here should be Barrian's bodyguards and not the regular army. Barrian did not trust his own regular army, so I did not know what else he could trust.
The shuttle quickly entered the atmosphere and steadily headed towards the North Pole, which should be the direction of Barrian's palace. In the process, Liliana and I were thrown into the rear cabin. No Melovans appeared in front of us to perform God's mercy and mercy. I silently looked at the scene outside the porthole. I looked at the luxurious, grand, but cold and dead planet. The golden decorations and huge, gorgeous buildings covered the ground. The artificial atmospheric control tower replaced all the plants on the planet. The entire planet was a magnificent divine throne. The Melovans had wiped out all the living beings on the throne except for themselves. I wondered if this meant that they thought that they were so noble that they could not live on the same planet as any other lowly beings.
"Boss, if you go all out, you should be able to destroy this homeworld, right?" Liliana was fiddling with something at the side. Her hands were glowing with green light as she spoke to me. "At the very least, it shouldn't be a problem for us to get rid of Barrian now."
"Indeed," I was tempted by what he said, but I didn't have the brainpower to go out and start a massacre. "But it is very likely that Barrian isn't on this planet, because Turazzo said that he is more cunning and cautious than you can imagine. Also, even if we destroy this homeworld, it won't have much of an effect. The Melovans might be thrown into confusion for a moment. After that, they would react and cause even more damage. A fully functioning Empire wouldn't be destroyed just because its capital was destroyed. Everything in the game is a lie. Even if this place is destroyed, their ruling machine will definitely have a backup system that can quickly take over … Err, we've been talking for a long time. What are you doing? "
I noticed that Liliana had already created two green cocoons of light the size of a human in front of us. The cocoons of light were pulsing rhythmically as she continuously infused her divine power into them, as though they were two beating hearts. Although I didn't know what the power of life was, these things were indeed brimming with … the aura of life. This lass had been fiddling for a long time just to create these two toys. I really didn't know what she was thinking.
"Scapegoat No. 1 and Scapegoat No. 2." Liliana snapped her fingers, and the two cocoons of light cracked open. Two … people crawled out from within. One was Anuza, and the other was Anu Lili.
Their appearances were exactly the same as the original, even their expressions were the same. Liliana had replicated the Anuza siblings in just a few short minutes! I couldn't help but be surprised. "You intend to let them replace us?"
"Yes, then Boss and I will follow them invisibly." Liliana pinched the stomachs of her two new creations, as though she was evaluating the quality of the meat. "The Melovans should be starting their 'project' soon. I don't know what they are going to do. What if they are going to kill us on the spot? If that happens, we might give ourselves away. Why don't we create two puppets, and we can watch from the side? "
Liliana's words made a lot of sense. This lass usually looked crazy, but she was actually quite meticulous. She was even more mature than I was. Her three lifetimes of experience were no joke.
"Right, Boss, why don't you come and pinch it?" Halfway through my exclamation, Liliana pushed Anu Lili's clone puppet over. She even tore open the clothes in front of the puppet's chest — there was nothing inside. "This is a rare opportunity. Anu Lili is quite beautiful, right? Hurry up and touch her. I guarantee that this one is 100% the same as the original. I won't tell Big Sis Sandora and the others … Right, if we have time, I can stand guard for you. You can still …"
I quickly retracted my sigh and pinched Lina's cheeks, pulling them apart with all my strength …
At that moment, the shuttle arrived at the station.
I ended my messing around with Liliana, and the two of us entered the highest level of stealth in time. We watched as two Melovan soldiers led the two dumbfounded clone puppets out. It seemed that at this point, the Melovans no longer cared whether the slaves they brought were normal or not. This probably meant that the latter really didn't have much time left to live. Liliana and I hurriedly followed behind. We realized that we had already arrived at the interior of a base. This was probably a place similar to a research department because the soldiers we saw along the way were mostly guards. The personnel walking around the base were almost all researchers dressed in white. The Melovans followed the uniform style of the Schilling technician in the old Empire.
Liliana was holding a small black cube in her hand. She fiddled with it as she followed the escort team in front of her. I looked at her curiously. "What is this?"
"A controller." Liliana didn't even turn her head. "I just made the puppet, and I haven't had the time to install a system yet. I can only use a controller to control it. Fortunately, I trained my hand speed when I was intergalactic with Bubble. Otherwise, if my APM wasn't up to standard, I really wouldn't be able to control this thing … Hey, Boss, are you playing? Anu can use Black Dragon Wave when she punches forward and backward, and Anu Lili can use Phoenix Heavenly Tyrant Slash when she punches backward and forward … "
"…" I was speechless. I thought that the main reason why you were so busy was because you installed too many useless functions on the puppet!
The escort team would never have imagined that there would be two strange and dangerous stalkers following behind them. Just like that, they handed over "Anu" and "Anu Lili" to a few people who looked like researchers right in front of us. We followed closely behind them and watched as the two cloned puppets were brought into a spacious laboratory. Under Liliana's control, the two cloned puppets cooperated with us in a dazed and surprised manner. (Err, speaking of which, Liliana's APM is quite high … But can't she use a better method to control them?)
There were many chairs placed side by side in the laboratory. Around the chairs were a large number of identical crystal cubes of unknown functions. These crystal cubes gave me a very bad feeling — it was as if I was looking at a murder weapon. I could feel the resentment of death lingering around me. A few seemingly gentle researchers had "Anu" and "Anu Lili" sit on two chairs that had already been activated. As the puppets made confused noises under Liliana's control, one of the researchers smiled and said, "Children, don't worry. This is something that God has blessed you with. It might be a little painful at first, but soon, you will be able to share God's power and obtain God's power and happiness. Activate the system and begin extraction!"
The low hum of the equipment began to echo in the laboratory. The sound caused by the increase in energy was getting louder and louder. The crystal cubes surrounding the chairs lit up one by one and gradually floated into the air, sealing off the space where the two puppets were located. Then, I saw crystallized data cables that were specially used for high-speed data transmission appear behind the chairs. I could recognize these crystallized data cables at first glance because they were 100% original Empire technology. As these equipment were activated, the two puppets on the chairs also began to tremble violently. This was not because of Liliana's control, but because their body tissues were instinctively reacting under the stimulation of the powerful energy. Even though they were just empty shells, their body structure was still complete, and so they had the same nervous reflexes as a normal person.
However, other than that, the researchers at the scene did not obtain anything that they wanted. After a series of equipment alarms, the two sets of chairs stopped at the same time. The crystal cubes dimmed and slowly returned to their original positions. The few Mellowa researchers had been watching all this with smiles on their faces since the beginning. Now that the smiles had disappeared, they began to look at each other in dismay and anger.
"Tch — I told you that these natives who are not devout enough will have a strong resistance. The extraction rate is almost fifty percent! Those fellows don't understand science at all. They don't know how slow these crystals take to grow. Luckily, they didn't burn this time. "
"Don't worry about your crystals! There's an abnormal record here! "
One of the researchers exclaimed as he looked at the information display in front of him. There was a bunch of messy graphics and data that he could not understand. I could only recognize that the two figures in the middle represented "Anu Lili" and "Anu Lili" who were sitting on the chairs. All the researchers gathered around and exclaimed in surprise, "The soul extraction rate is zero? The extraction process was stopped the first second it was activated? Is there a problem with the equipment? "
"It's hard to say. These crystals have already failed once the last time we used them. There might be some unknown fault that we did not discover." The researcher who gave the warning earlier frowned and shook his head in distress. "Looks like these crystals can't be used anymore … Hmm, it must be a problem with the crystals. There can't be people without souls, right?"
One of the researchers walked up to the chair that "Anurili" was sitting on and examined the dim crystal cubes. Of course, he could not find any faults, so he quickly became extremely angry. In the end, he kicked the puppet. "Motherf * cker! These bastards! He was completely useless, a complete and utter piece of trash! And they even wasted two sets of crystals! "
A researcher in a slightly different uniform, who seemed to be the person in charge of the laboratory, immediately waved his hand to stop the angry fellow. "Alright, don't damage them. Even if the software can't be used, there's still the hardware. Team 2 still needs these materials."
"That's true," the researcher who had violently injured the "human" muttered as he retreated. He sized up the two "experimental samples" who were sitting on the chairs. "Looks like their spirits have been completely destroyed. I hope that their brains haven't been burned. I'll call some people. It looks like we'll have to use something to transport them over. Today is really unlucky. I hope that the next batch of natives that are sent over are processed natives and not these low-quality raw materials. There's a huge shortage of new units. "
The researcher connected to the outside and called a group of soldiers over. He had them use two carts to transport the two experimental bodies whose spirits had been "burned" to another area. Liliana and I hurriedly followed behind. With the previous failed extraction as a cover, Liliana no longer had to be distracted controlling the two puppets. She seemed rather happy, and I also had the time to discuss the situation earlier with her. "It seems that they are extracting the souls of these slave races. I didn't expect them to have the guts to do that."
"I didn't expect them to do that." Liliana had a different opinion. "Extracting souls is a highly advanced technology. They probably learned it from the Old Empire. However, they obviously didn't learn it well. The success rate is too low, and the tolerance is also too low. No wonder they brainwashed the entire Anurili race. The souls of fools are the easiest to extract, and it's easy to encode them after extraction. "
I didn't know much about souls, but there was one thing that I knew: except for a few powerful races (such as the Gods and the Shiring Apostles), once the souls of most creatures were controlled by another intelligent being and could be interfered with by external devices, the soul would be forever, completely, and without any way out. It would be like a database that had all its passwords cracked and could be used at will. Without a doubt, that was what the Merovans were doing — they wouldn't leave the slightest bit of freedom for the souls that had been extracted. But what were they going to do with these souls?
The soul was a set of data that had its own calculation rules. After appropriate adjustments, it could also be used as a "software." However, other than this kind of innately complicated calculation rules, the soul itself didn't have much power, not to mention the souls of these natives. What … were they planning to do?
With such questions in mind, Liliana and I followed the Merovan soldiers to another area of the experimental base.
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
