40,000 Years of Cultivation

Li Yao understood the meaning of the Scarlet Heart Demon.

For a "quasi-bee colony civilization" like the Covenant League, cutting off an external limb, destroying a large-scale fleet of it, and even occupying dozens of large worlds in it does not harm its roots. His morale and will to resist will not be harmed at all, and he is truly able to "fight to one soldier and one soldier."

However, the greatest key to the bee colony civilization is its "Queen" or "Mastermind". As far as the Saint League is concerned, it currently appears to be the five mysterious and ubiquitous Supreme Masters.

Most of the holy ally people can’t think independently. They just mechanically execute the orders of the best guru. Then, if someone can tamper with the orders of the best guru or even erode and kill the best guru, it looks like a huge swarm of bees. It may disintegrate in an instant, disappear in smoke and disappear.

Li Yao invaded the Saint League for this purpose.

The threat of the "heresy" that has grown from within the Holy League is also reflected here.

In order to prevent attacks on the "Mastermind" and the spiritual network spreading from the Mastermind, the Heresy Interrogation Bureau has become one of the most important organs of the Holy League. Its status is even higher than the regular army of the Holy League, and the "God of the Imperial Army" has been entangled for thousands of years. Youjun" above.

Li Yao carefully searched for the information transmitted by the Scarlet Heart Demon.

"You said, this'God Punishment Fortress' is the lair of the Purifier and the Sweeper. I already know the Purifier. What is the Sweeper?"

Li Yao asked.

"The Purifier and the Sweeper are both one of the main combat units under the Heresy Interrogation Bureau, but the targets are different."

The Scarlet Heart Demon explained, "The Purifier is mainly aimed at'articles', just like what we saw in the Xinle City of the Black Castle, aimed at various commodities and artworks from the empire that contain strong human emotions and desires. , Divide these things into categories, purify, destroy or recycle them.

"The Sweeper’s goal is not ‘items’, but ‘people’, that is, those guys who have been eroded by monsters and become ‘devil’s’ or even ‘heretics’. They are all the objects that the Sweepers have to deal with.

"In terms of degree and means, the cleaner is more serious and harsher than the purifier. Just by listening to the names of the two, you can think of it. The words of the'purifier' indicate that there is still room for salvation. You only need to purify it. , It can be recycled; while the "sweeper" means that the enchantment is deep and hopeless, and can only be completely extinct. After being burned to ashes, it is "swept away" like garbage.

"So, the Sweeper is a special profession that is a hundred times more terrifying than the Purifier. Their daily work is to capture and destroy the demons, heretics, and the guys who run over from the empire, and the role of the Purifier that is equivalent to the garbage collector. It can’t be said that the Sweepers are truly elite troops, not only the Heretic Interrogation Bureau, but also the most powerful individual combat unit in the entire Holy League, and they are best at rapid response, team raids, reverse osmosis, and anti-assassination operations. ...It's like white blood cells in the blood, ruthlessly swallowing germs, it's almost like this!

"However, you don't have to worry too much. Now the energy of the Sweepers is attracted by the resurgence and growing power of heretics. Besides, they never expected that we would become such a strange life form and continue to be brave and lurking. Inside the Shengmeng-they thought we would have escaped a long time ago, so in the short term, the sweepers did not have a plan to capture us as the target, and we can still unconsciously under their eyes. Do a little activity."

"interesting."

Li Yao's soul stretched out its tentacles, greedily sucking the information of the Heresy Interrogation Bureau and the Sweeper like an octopus.

Although the Scarlet Heart Demon did not want to act rashly and did not conduct in-depth exploration of the core data of the "God Punishment Fortress", the surface data flowing in the Lingnet is enough for Li Yao to conduct the most elite investigation and destruction organization within the Shengmeng. initial understanding.

"The sweeper is the key."

Li Yao thought for a while, and said, "Since this organization is the most powerful combat unit under the Bureau of Heretic Interrogation, and is responsible for the sensitive work of arresting heretics, there must be a chance to contact the Supreme Master. If we can infiltrate Going inside the Sweeper Organization, isn't it possible to follow the vines, lock onto the Supreme Master, and even figure out the secrets hidden behind the scenes of the Holy League?

"By the way, I have a faint hunch that the heresy of the'resurrection, the demon flame is rising' is very valuable for research. Have you found the relevant information? Ah, the'God Heart Association', is this it?"

Li Yao's luck is very good.

His dormant master crystal brain remains from the large mobile laboratory of the "Magic Boy Project".

The original purpose of the "Magic Child Project" was to study the gene providers of Zhou Xiuyun and Chu Zhiyun, who was the "most evil heresy" and founder of "Shenxinhui" "Chu Zhiling" a hundred years ago. ".

Therefore, in this fragmented crystal brain wreck, there is stored a lot of information about the "Shenxin Society" and other heretical associations. Li Yao doesn't even have to risk infiltrating the nearby Lingwang and Crystal Brains, just read the information in the wreckage. Information provides a general understanding of the origin of heresy, as well as the rise, destruction, and re-emergence of the Divine Heart Society.

In the past thousand years, since the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi activated the "man-making factory" that has been sealed in the dust for hundreds of thousands of years on the Xinghai Sea, the covenant alliance, a deformed country, has proliferated and exploded at an incredible rate, and soon occupied the barren and barren border star regions. Hundreds of worlds.

For ordinary human beings, the unbearable desolate, hard and boring environment is like a fish in water for the Saint League people.

Because they don't care about the environment at all, and they don't have any enjoyment. Life is simple to the limit, and every drop of resources is efficiently absorbed.

The habitable planet does not make much sense to them. The vast majority of the holy ally people live, no, they live on starships. The degree of starship and networking is deeper than that of the Federation and the Empire.

The way of survival of the typical holy ally is very simple. They build synthetic farms on a habitable planet on a large scale. Because they don’t need to consider the taste of food, they can use a lot of hormones unscrupulously. The farm’s unit yield is very high, even if the environment is poor and barren. The planet can also support a large number of people.

And these people have plunged into the depths of the planet to dig out metal veins and spar raw materials, and unearth the ruins hundreds of thousands of years ago.

All the metal and spar raw materials excavated are refined into new starships with the technology in the prehistoric ruins. When a new fleet of starships is formed, they will be put into the new world, repeat this process.

There is no entertainment, no art, no desire and no internal friction. When needed, they can work without expression for ten days and ten nights, injecting a branch of hormones and stimulants into the almost dry blood vessels until they are drained. The last drop of life fell crookedly in the mine, and would never make even a single complaint like his colleagues in the empire.

And when they don’t need to work, they will sit in the lounge, which is not much bigger than the coffin, to minimize their heartbeat, breathing, and pulse, and reduce energy consumption.

Sometimes, when a resource planet is completely hollowed out and the resources needed to transfer local workers are too much to compare with the value they can create in the future, these "worker bees" will be ruthlessly abandoned until the resource planet Under the artificial sky, when the last trace of oxygen is exhausted, they will not be half-feared about the death that is about to drown themselves.

The Covenant League is relying on such a cold and efficient social organization system, as well as the "worker bees" and "soldier bees" who have no complaints and no complaints, to be able to occupy the barren world in a corner of the star sea and dominate the center of the star sea, with abundant resources and endless strong ones. The true human empire was divided against courtesy, and even faintly gained the upper hand.

However, if a small country is used to conquer a large country, if it cannot be won quickly, no matter how gorgeous the initial victory is, it will always face the shadow of defeat.

The "God of War" Lei Chenghu of the true human empire once analyzed that the two most fatal problems of the Covenant Alliance are that their basic disk is too small and too weak to be durable; and more importantly, as a " Quasi-swarm civilization" lacks sufficient creativity. The vast majority of holy allies have no subjective initiative and creativity at all. They only know to obey the instructions of the supreme master. What about the birth of new technologies?

They can only continue to excavate the remains of the ancient civilization hundreds of thousands of years ago to make up for the lack of technological progress.

But there are always limits to the excavation of ruins. If all the problems can be solved by relying on the ruins of the wild, it is also in the real human empire in the middle of the star sea, and more ruins can be excavated!

After thousands of years of confrontation, today's Covenant Alliance has come to the end of its development. On the one hand, all the resources of the Xinghai Beach have been raided by them to build a powerful and invincible fleet to reach the peak of combat effectiveness; on the other hand, , The continuous development capacity of almost all habitable planets and resource planets has dropped to zero, and it must be recuperated for hundreds of years before the next resource harvest can be carried out.

In other words, the Shengmeng put all the chips on the gambling table, going all-in-one.

The strategic contraction of the Saint Allies in the "Empire Strikes Back" was precisely for this purpose-to engage in a strategic decisive battle with the Empire.

This was the judgment made by the "God of War" Lei Chenghu a few years ago, and it coincided with the intelligence Li Yao obtained today. Li Yao couldn't help but marvel at Lei Chenghu's strategic vision.

Of course, the information collected by Li Yao does not have intelligence on the movements of the main force of the Saint League, but just looking at the sudden outbreak of more than a hundred years ago and the endless large-scale heretical activities, one can imagine that the high level of the Saint League at that time would have these "soldiers". The degree of oppression of the "bee" and "worker bee" is such that even these flesh and blood machines can't stand it, and they awaken and resist!