I would never have guessed that Pandora would use this method to "capture" the enemy alive.
Three thousand hammers that were hundreds of times harder than titanium alloy, moved at nearly a hundred times the speed of sound, and pursued the Queen of Blades by teleporting all the way. She had actually knocked out the famous Queen of Blades …
I admit that the Queen of Blades is powerful. Her head is even harder than the armor plate of a battleship. But to be hit by three thousand of these hammers over ten thousand times in a minute … Damn it, just thinking about it makes me feel bad for her! If Pandora had not held back, I reckon that Tawil would have had to slowly reconstruct Kerrigan's body from the cellular level …
This was the overwhelming victory that could be produced by an absolute advantage in strength! Nonsense! By the way, Pandora, what were you thinking at that time?!
Of course, the Queen of Blades fought back at first. In the face of such a nonsensical tactic, she was only stunned for less than a second before she began to fight back. A powerful psionic storm tore apart the dozens of heavy turrets that attacked her at first, and her amazing mobility caused many of the hammers to lose their aim. But with the astonishing number of three thousand and Pandora's almost monstrous fire control system, she was still hit in the head by the first hammer. Then came a symphony of banging and banging. Pandora had obviously taken this as a game. Every "hammer" that hit a target would immediately teleport back to Pandora's Dimensional Pocket to make room for the next "hammer". It was with this method that Pandora successfully "captured" the Queen of Blades alive.
And the Queen of Blades was knocked out by a little loli who was 1.2 meters tall, carried on her shoulder, and ran all the way back under the noses of billions of soldiers from the three races …
If I were Kerrigan, I would have shaved my head and become a nun as soon as I woke up. I could not afford to lose face like this!
"Strange, they've retreated."
After watching Pandora bring the Queen of Blades, who had fallen into a coma, back to the flagship through the surveillance equipment on the bridge, the elder sister looked up at the holographic projection on the edge of the battlefield, and could not help but cry out in surprise.
"They've retreated?" I was taken aback, then looked up.
Indeed, they had retreated. There was no need to look at the holographic projection on the edge of the battlefield. In the inner ring of the battlefield, where the battle with our assault fleet was the fiercest, the enemy had begun a large-scale retreat.
After the Queen of Blades was knocked out by Pandora, all the Zergs began to retreat on a large scale. It was a true rout. There was no command or overall planning at all. All the Zerg units turned around and ran away from the battlefield at the same time. When they turned around and left, they did not even care about the Schilling warships bombarding them from behind. They did not even know how to dodge when they were attacked. They were like primitive creatures that had no thinking ability and could only react to pain instinctively.
The retreat of the allied forces of the other two races was completely passive. After the Zerg army, which served as cannon fodder and meat shields, retreated, the human and Proteus fleets were completely exposed to the superior artillery fire of the Schilling warships. Even the craziest battle maniac knew what would happen to his army in such a situation. It was meaningless to continue to resist. The human and Proteus fleets began to plan a planned retreat. With the cover of the chaotic Zergs and the suicidal Viking fighters, they quickly moved away from our attack range. Visca had originally planned to pursue them. We were almost 100% sure that we could kill at least half of the defeated Zergs in the pursuit, but Sandora stopped the little one from acting rashly. Her keen sense of war seemed to have sensed something amiss, so she decisively chose to let go of the already crippled allied forces of the three races.
"Sandora, what's the matter?"
I looked at Sandora curiously. She had been frowning ever since we captured the Queen of Blades.
"The retreat of the Zergs. How could they retreat so easily?"
The blonde girl's face did not have the slightest hint of relief after victory. Instead, it was clouded with doubt.
"That should be easy to think of," I said hesitantly. "The Queen of Blades is the sole spiritual leader of the Zergs. Her loss of consciousness would naturally cause the Zergs to lose control as a whole. It's only natural that the Zergs, who only have survival instincts left, would choose to flee under our attack."
"It would be abnormal if they chose to flee like this." Sandora spread out her hands and explained to me. "As a dangerous race that can run amok in the galaxy, how could their social system be so fragile? Just because the Queen of Blades fainted, their entire race degenerated into ordinary Zergs? Smashing their ruler with a bunch of hammers would be enough to take care of the entire Zerg race. This process is too … "
As Sandora spoke, she had a strange look on her face. It was obvious that Pandora's tactics made even the calm and wise Her Majesty the Queen feel awkward.
"And as the leader of a race, risking her life to challenge the entire Empire's fleet —" The big sister also switched to think tank mode. "I think the Queen of Blades is courting death on her own."
"Where is she now?" I turned to Sives and asked.
"Locked in the Zero Point Cage. Three independent spatial barriers separate her from another dimension. Before she evolves the ability to smash the Laws with her biceps, there's no way she can escape."
Ugh … Speaking of which, where did the calm and rigid female officer learn all these lame tone particles from?
The Queen of Blades, or Kerrigan, was just as Sives had said. She was locked in a cell with the highest level of confidentiality. Her location did not belong to any dimension, not even a spatial crevice. It was the intersection of the psionic well of the Admiral of the Empire and the Prime Material Plane. As it was close to the Void, it was in a state where matter, energy, time, space, and concepts intersected. All eleven dimensions were negated there, and the existence of matter in that place was more like a string of data on a hard disk. It looked vivid on the screen, but in reality, it was just a series of abstract descriptions.
Other than the Schilling's prison, this kind of "space" would only appear in one situation: the moment when the universe was born, not one femtosecond ahead or one femtosecond behind. It was a theoretically infinite point of time. Only after the Schilling's stole the concepts of time and space at the edge of the Void could they replicate such an insane prison.
It was impossible for normal life forms to survive in such a godforsaken "place", not even ordinary Shiring Apostles. Therefore, entering and exiting this prison had to undergo a phase shift. Only when you were in a different phase from the current world could you safely stay in the "Zero Point Cage". The anti-phase frequency of each cage was different and changed from time to time. The entrance and exit would only appear after you found the correct frequency.
Such an insane and annoying prison was several times tighter than the Space Cages we had seen before. The Queen of Blades had once been imprisoned by the Schilling's Wardens as the most dangerous creature in the universe. It was her great fortune to be able to enjoy such an "honor" as a carbon-based life form …
Sandora, the others, and Uncle Reynolds, who had been forcefully dragged over, arrived at the verification space of the "Zero Point Cage". Just like the other Space Cages, this place was filled with white fog. After we completed the verification, the white fog suddenly dissipated, revealing a huge circular hall.
A dazzling white ball of light quietly floated in the center of the hall. Looking at the familiar scene in the hall, I suddenly remembered that annoying prison's main control computer in Azeroth.
"Hello everyone, I am …"
"If you dare call yourself a Main God, I'll tear you apart right now!"
As soon as I heard the other party's opening words, I was absolutely certain that this was the computer that had read too many endless novels! These words had almost become a habit to it!
After being rebuked by me, the white ball of light in the center of the hall seemed to flash awkwardly for a moment before it calmed down and said slowly, "Hello everyone, I am the Main God 2.0 …"
* Bang! * * Bang! *
It was exactly the same scene. Pandora flew forward and kicked the ball of light to the side. But unlike in Azeroth, this time, there was Visca on the other side, who seemed to have a tacit understanding with him …
So, when the prison warden came to check on the mainframe after we left, he was shocked to find a gourd floating in the center of the hall …
Kerrigan was still unconscious, bound by several energy chains. I could see that these chains were twice as many as the ones used to deal with Varimasas. I wondered how much pain the warden would be in if these prisons were left empty …
Under my command, a strong signal was directly sent into the Queen of Blades' mind. Her mental power was very strong anyway, so we didn't have to worry that such a violent awakening would cause any harm to her.
"Kerrigan, this should be our first meeting."
As the Queen of Blades gradually regained consciousness, I said calmly.
Yep, as I seriously studied the carapace-like substance on her body, I really wanted to know just how heavy Renault and the other doujinshi would have to be in order to accept a girl covered in cuticles …
"But this is not the first time I've seen you, the infamous Emperor of Invaders," the Queen of Blades said with a slight sneer, as if she did not care about her current situation at all. Her voice had a strange resonance, as if the sound was not transmitted through vocal cords, but through a series of pipe organs. "Your army has destroyed countless of my planets … Hmm, just as I thought, that hateful thing has finally disappeared from my mind here."
Sandora and I looked at each other, the same thought appearing in our minds at the same time.
"You mean that revelation?!"
"Yep, it seems that you know everything. Zeratul has finally done something good." The Queen of Blades twisted her body slightly. Although the energy chains had no mass, they still made people feel a little uncomfortable psychologically. "That thing has been entrenched in my mind for too long. Here, that annoying thing has finally calmed down … No wonder 'it' is so afraid of you, even though you have the power to control the minds of the three major races."
The Queen of Blades' opening words made me suspicious. But it was my elder sister who raised the question first. "If you say that you are also trapped by that revelation … A Proteus can get rid of this mentality after just one deep meditation. Could it be that your mental power is inferior to that of an ordinary Dark Templar?"
Now that she said it, it was true! According to Zeratul, a race with strong mental power like the Proteus could get rid of the interference of the "revelation" with just one deep meditation. As the individual with the strongest mental power in the entire Sector, how could the Queen of Blades be affected instead? How could it be so serious that she was controlled even though she was fully aware of it?!
"At first, I thought I had gotten rid of it," said the Queen of Blades with a look of resentment on her face. "But I didn't expect that damn thing to be so cunning. It bypassed my will through an ordinary Zerg telepathic thread. By the time I realized it, my mind no longer belonged to me … And what's worse, it seemed to be targeting me. I was not bewitched, but controlled! But that thing seems to be very afraid of you. Now it seems that my risk was right. "
"In order to get rid of the thoughts that have penetrated deep into your mind, you chose to take the risk and walk into a trap — knowing that our original goal here was to destroy the Zerg," Sandora looked at the Queen of Blades coldly, and the latter returned a stiff stare without showing any sign of weakness. "Do you think we are all fools?"
Sandora's question did not cause the Queen of Blades to show the slightest panic. Her voice was still calm. "Your purpose here is indeed to destroy the Zerg, but now, perhaps we have a common enemy — the existence that manipulates three races to deal with you. It is undoubtedly our common enemy now. I know that you are very powerful, and no one can stop the power of that planetary battleship, but … if the only goal of the mastermind is to weaken or divert your attention, it will definitely achieve its goal. Before that, why can't you and I work together?"
"You think it is right to work with us?" I shook my head noncommittally. "Compared to the Xiling Empire that came to destroy the Zerg, isn't it more suitable to form an alliance with another force that, although it has used you, is at least helping you destroy the enemy?"
"No, that force has no intention of helping us. I was lucky enough to get a glimpse of its essence, but what I saw was the destruction of the entire Kepru Sector. In the face of such a strange thing, I think it is more reliable to rely on 'people' like you, who can come into contact with it."
In fact, if things had gone in the other direction, we would have also destroyed this sector.
We did not immediately answer the Queen of Blades' question, but a heated discussion had already begun in the mental connection.
"Can she be trusted?"
This was Sandora's voice. She had limited knowledge of the so-called 'original' plot, and was not too interested in understanding it, so she evaluated Kerrigan from a completely unfamiliar perspective.
"Not when she is the Queen of Blades," the elder sister replied. "The Queen of Blades is best at betrayal. Every choice she makes is for her own goal, and as long as she is still a Zerg, she will be our enemy. However, working with her now is the best choice. She obviously knows a lot of things, so we will not continue to be trapped in the quagmire of war in this sector. If there really is a mastermind behind the scenes who wants to deal with us, we need to get out of this premeditated war as soon as possible. As for the Queen of Blades' betrayal, it won't take us long to find a way to turn her back into a human. Right now, her personality has only changed because part of the Zerg is affecting her thinking."
"Alright, I've decided to trust you for now, but you have to be clear about one thing: this is not cooperation, nor is it an alliance. You are only a valuable source of information that can help you survive temporarily. I hope that the information you bring will allow us to see the value in pardoning you. Of course, even if you are pardoned, we will still destroy the Zerg. This dangerous species is quite harmful to other life forms in the universe. You don't have to work too hard on this point."
In the end, I chose this compromise, or rather, a rather disadvantageous plan for the Queen of Blades. I could not place too much trust in Kerrigan, who was still in the Queen of Blades state. However, some of the secrets she knew might be the key to solving the current mystery. Before Tawil reverse-converted this Beetle lady into a human, I could only let her remain in this awkward position. Fortunately, I believed that with Tawil's ability, it would not take him long to find the reverse conversion method.
Unexpectedly, the Queen of Blades did not object to my harsh conditions. Instead, she nodded calmly. "This is indeed the best choice at the moment. You don't trust me, and to be honest, I don't trust you Imperial Army that suddenly appeared either. So, let us maintain this distrust between us. It will be good for both of us."
Liliana had maintained a cold attitude from the beginning. This had always been her role and mission. As a professional in psychology, she needed to use her own methods to find the loopholes in the language of everyone we talked to. Now, as our conversation came to an end, the fake Loli Priestess voiced out her biggest doubt. "Then, there is only one question that you still need to clarify. Are the Zerg still under your control?"
Liliana's words reminded me. According to the social structure of the Zerg, all the Zerg units, including the commanders such as the Cerebrate, should be under the mental control of the Queen of Blades. But could the Queen of Blades still control them?
Look at the outrageous security measures around us! If it was normal mental power, how powerful would you have to be to connect the thoughts in your mind to the outside world?!
If the entire Zerg race was completely out of control, then the value of the Queen of Blades to the Shiring Apostles would be very limited. Of course, this was probably Kerrigan's own idea.
"They are still under my control." This was not the first time the Queen of Blades had said something unexpected. "When that thing first appeared in the void and began to invade the minds of every intelligent creature in the Kepru Sector, I had already started this plan …"
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