From star abyss

Chapter 1057 273. Empire Line: Leading to the Ending of [Spirit Deer] (67)

As soon as the war started, Li Aoz realized that the Oshulia Empire had already failed.

The troops were like an avalanche, the borders were constantly disintegrating, and even the capital Tianming Castle was repeatedly attacked. The arable land of the entire country turned into wasteland, and the air was filled with light green light dust.

As the capital, the once prosperous metropolis has become a ruin. The high-rise buildings have become dilapidated ruins. The well-arranged garden buildings built by the royal family have been burned, and corpses are now floating in the clear inner lake.

Most people were suddenly attacked by the earthlings in their sleep. The high-energy radiation burned their bodies to only bones, and their clothes and fat were ignited. Once the attack occurred, they rushed into the river frantically. However, the damage of the radiation did not stop because of the flowing water, but spread the pollution into the water.

The rare fish and species that the empire received from tributary states now all floated on the water in misery, with burnt black bellies. The wild beasts raised in the hunting grounds also mutated, breaking out of the fences and walking on the streets, staring with scarlet eyes, salivating, and hunting for living people in the city.

The small teahouses, streets and citizen gardens that Fu Shen and his friends had visited had already turned into ashes under the initial nuclear attack. Now there are cold and dark snowflakes floating in the sky, dancing with the cold wind.

The awakened spirit warriors of the Zhenwu Party were the first to recover their combat effectiveness.

Within a few hours of the attack, the empire's parliament was in a state of collapse, and officials and governments in various places were paralyzed. After the awakened spirit warriors separated from the kingdom of God, they immediately took the Li Oz Oracle in their hands and rushed to all parts of the country.

Anyway, they were facing secrets, so they were too lazy to hide their identities and directly showed their porcelain skin to avoid the radiation damage.

Fortunately, Lioz did not use local elected officials, but instead appointed national civil servants from the central government to manage local affairs. Therefore, the empire did not fall into division all at once. As long as the new court officials and armed forces arrived in the disaster area, they could immediately re-establish their rule.

Although the government needed time to rebuild, Lioz's army did not station directly in the city. They would secretly build their own bases. Thanks to the confidentiality control, the imperial troops were not damaged in the large-scale attack on the city, at least far from being seriously injured?

So, what was the price?

Since the army, government, royal family and party were not hit by a fatal blow, it means that the blow was borne by the people.

There were no pedestrians or creatures on the streets, only withered trees and scattered garbage were blown by the wind, and dark gray volcanic rocks were everywhere. Before the war, Lioz had vigorously developed geothermal energy and established a series of excavations and ore sorting and smelting centers, but now their ruins were forgotten in this desolate land.

There are 1,819 cities like Destiny Castle. To put it bluntly, 90% of the territory in the entire empire has been reduced to a scorched earth.

If you look from above, the city is silent and dead except for the fire in the distance. Several deep pits can be seen on the ground, which are the consequences of the landing point of the nuclear bomb.

What's worse is that the depth of these pits has reached several thousand meters, and from the sewage at the bottom and the floating

Sparks flash from time to time in the air, as if the whole city is still experiencing a violent energy reaction, and those sparks are like mysterious magic elements, with a hint of abnormal breath, but unfortunately, the attack of the [Secret Society] is full of materialistic technology.

This is not magic, but a manifestation of civilization on Earth.

Destiny Castle, the entire Oshulia, fell into a stagnant state.

Even if time no longer moves forward, this land will never return to its previous state. This tragic city has become a microcosm of people's tragic fate after the nuclear explosion.

In this desolate land, it seems that nothing is still happening.

...?

After breaking through the Kingdom of Arthur, the secret meeting room was destroyed by the explosion, so Li Aoz and others had to return to the palace of Tianming Castle to discuss and negotiate various matters in the open.

This led to a large number of Oshulia ministers and troops watching a group of porcelain-skinned and jade-boned divine warriors swaggering into the empire with weapons.

"Those people look wrong, aren't they the gods who ascended the world later?"

"Look at their skin color, armor, and the accent when they speak."

"Are they... the Yuanyuan God Clan?"

"The descendants of those defeated soldiers? Or are they simply the bastards who fled to Xingyuan after being defeated outside the abyss?"

Even Li Aoz didn't expect that after thousands of years, the people of Jingyuan still don't like the Yuanyuan God Clan. Many ministers saw that Fu Shen and others entered the palace to attend court, and still participated in political affairs as a party. They felt humiliated and refused to enter the palace at the same time.

But this is not a big deal. For Li Aoz, there will be more and more gods in the country in the future.

He walked into the palace, put the holy sword beside the throne, threw off his cloak, sat on the throne with his legs crossed, and said to the officials and generals below the stage:

"So, how bad has the situation deteriorated?"

"Your Majesty."

The one who spoke was the Prime Minister of the Empire and the leader of the Conservative Party - Messerway Duquesne. This old man with a beer belly pushed his monocle and said:

"To put it mildly, in a country with the traditional meaning of Jingyuan, Oshuria has already perished."

"Forty percent of the country's population has been lost, and 60% of the land has been destroyed. A large number of unidentified troops are taking over our land and cities. In their hands, the wasteland is just a flash of white light, and it is immediately covered with factories and buildings. Only the best [architects] can barely match this speed of infrastructure construction.”

"The situation in the capital is already very good. The protective measures for Destiny Castle are still in place. There are still 2 million people surviving, but production has stopped. Plus those defeated soldiers - I mean Yuanyuan warriors are constantly dispatched. Many people feeling scared."

"We don't know who the enemy is, we don't know how to attack. Our civilization has been destroyed in all directions. They slaughter us like scribbling on a map. Even a narrative civilization is nothing more than that."

"Drinking water, food, a safe environment, clean land...I am afraid that these things cannot even be guaranteed in the palace. There is still some luggage stored in the army, but it is for the army. If it is used for disaster relief, I am afraid that by then If the population is not preserved, the army will eventually be unhappy..."

Shen Shen stood with his hands behind his back, next to Li Aozi. Listening to the reports, he couldn't help but clenched his fists and whispered:

"Secretly, they are stronger than before."

"They are so strong."

Li Ozi said lightly.

"But they were not like this in Haines. They couldn't even gather a large-scale army at that time..."

"That's because I have locked the upper limit of Haynes's combat power. Strong men above a certain level will either be killed by me, or they will be forcibly expelled by Haynes using the power of the planet."

Li Ozi raised his face, narrowed his eyes, and explained:

"The weaknesses of professionals in the secret system are that it is difficult to grow, they have extremely high qualification requirements, and they need rare and powerful magical creatures during the re-forging process - in Star Abyss, these problems are not a problem."

"When it comes to later-stage professionals, especially those at the level of MPs and Speakers, they are not much worse than our gods, and are even much stronger than you. Although they do not have a kingdom of gods, they are better at using and twisting the power of rules."

"During the Haynes period, I continued to promote the secularization of local civilization, and used the advancement of science and technology and industrialization to gradually get rid of the civilization's dependence on mysterious power, so that hidden professionals could be exploited before they had grown up. Kill with musket and sword."

"As for the destruction of the civilizations of the Dragon Clan, Titans, and Tecnic Saint Clan, it is not only to destroy the Destroyers, but also to prevent the secrets from obtaining excellent reforging materials from these powerful creatures, so as to advance to the ninth reforging and even the final exist."

"I see."

Chen Shen nodded:

"Many people were exiled because of this... Now it seems that what you did was right, and the secret was almost destroyed."

"It cannot be destroyed."

Li Ozi said coldly:

"When this happened, it was much better than I imagined. I have been working hard to catch up, trying to industrialize the environment in Jingyuan. Thirty-seven years have passed, and I have just touched the threshold - the people on earth only use four They did it in just one hour, and their four hours were more than I had achieved in forty years.”

Shen Shen was sad, and after a moment of silence, he said:

"Did you plan to fight these monsters from the beginning? Even if you knew you were no match for them?"

"If you don't experience it for yourself, there will still be people who are skeptical about the Earth's war, and even think that the people on Earth are not bastards and demons. They want to stay out of it, but they don't know where the empire's land comes from. Whether it's Austrian The desert of Xiulia is still a barren land, and there is no inch of the empire that is not watered with blood. "

Li Ozi closed his eyes:

"Even now, there are still people who question this war."

Shen Shen was dumbfounded: "How is this possible? Everyone on earth is knocking on the door. With this kind of formation, the secret council members must have gathered a large army and will not stop until they kill us all. How can anyone think that peace can be achieved-"

boom!

Before he finished speaking, the door was suddenly knocked open, and an imperial warrior immediately knelt down and reported:

"Your Majesty, a large number of mobs are approaching the palace! They are armed with weapons and Molotov cocktails, and they are menacing. They have also looted the military camp and the security hall, loaded with live ammunition, and fully armed."

"This is nothing, it doesn't need to be reported."

Prime Minister Meservy waved his hand:

"It's just a mob. The situation is really not good right now. Just ask the palace manager to give them some food and resources and send them away."

"Your Majesty, Prime Minister."

The warrior hesitated and said:

"Those mobs, something is not right. They asked you to come forward in person, named you to negotiate with you, and also said some treacherous words. This..."

"It doesn't matter if you say so." Meservy said dissatisfiedly: "This is His Majesty's palace. Allowing you to come in means that you can truthfully report to the emperor."

"Yes, Prime Minister."

The warrior looked at Li Aozi, lowered his head and said:

"The mob said, 'It was the emperor who started this war,' and 'Those who killed his biological brother are indeed equally cruel to the people,' and what else, 'Sure enough, Li Ozi is not orthodox. If The real heirs of the Dawnbreaker family, we will never fall to this point, 'I don't care who the emperor is, I just want my three meals a day', 'Abolish the emperor, abolish the government', 'No matter who Oshuria is with In war, I only lead the way for the enemies of the empire'..."

"Bastard thing!"

The Prime Minister yelled:

"This bunch of unscrupulous people, have they forgotten who owned the land they cultivate? Without His Majesty, these people are still working as tenants for landlords and long-term workers without even having pensions. How dare they question His Majesty's rights? ?”

Li Ozi disagreed. He looked at the warrior and said:

"How many people came?"

"It is roughly estimated that there are more than 5,000 people, and there are still tens of thousands of people rushing to the road. The final number is expected to be more than 4 to 50,000 people..."

Li Ozi continued to ask:

"Have you found out who incited the mob?"

The warrior was silent for a moment and said:

"No, no one encouraged it."

Li Ozi nodded:

"Are you saying that these terrorists acted spontaneously?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, they spontaneously rushed to the streets and armed themselves. Most of them are small citizens, workers, farmers and small nobles, as well as dozens of small capitalists." The warrior hesitated and said: "And... …Civil servants, nobles, soldiers, the whole city was overthrown by them. They asked Your Majesty to abdicate and declare surrender to the enemy.”

"I understand, I will deal with these traitors."

Li Aozi stood up, and Shen Shen followed and said:

"Sir Leos, the behavior of these people is a bit strange. It's better not to provoke them. There is no flesh and blood in the country now. They may have some political demands. Of course, there must be someone behind them inciting..."

"I know, Shen Shen, I will handle it gently."

Li Ozi glanced at Imperial Prime Minister Meservy and said:

"Let the Dragon Knight Legion take off."

The army general quickly said:

"Your Majesty, if you want to suppress the mob, just let the army do it..."

"I didn't say it was repression."

As Li Ozi said that, he walked into the screen. After a while, the attendant put him into the emperor's military uniform. His loose hair was cut short, and his facial muscles and bones were adjusted. He suddenly returned to the player's eyes, the NPC who made all the changes back then. Li Ozi's image.

Seeing this scene, Shen Shen was stunned:

"Mr. Leos, you are like this..."

"There is no need to hide it anymore. Today's incident is destined to spread. Rather than being caught by others in the future, it is better to directly identify the identity. After all, 'Lee Ozi' is not a good person in everyone's eyes."

Li Ozi smiled slightly and put on his big-brimmed hat. Only then did Chen Shen notice that the Empire's cap badge was not the Haines characteristic of red, black and white.

The national emblem of Osholia is a black dragon with outstretched wings, with a red five-pointed star wrapped around its body.

Dragon clan? That’s not in Haynes’ element.

Before Shen Shen could figure out the reason, Li Aozi had already pushed open the door, and the huge crowd roared like an overwhelming force, silencing the voices of Shen Shen and others.

The mob's torches grew into a long dragon in the night sky, extending from the city streets to the mountains. It was endless and crowded with people. The masked men, women, and children in the front row danced their thin bodies and roared with harsh voices, as if to shout to the entire crowd. World challenges.

No, they are declaring war on the entire world.

"The Dog Emperor abdicates! No one can rule us!"

"I only want three meals a day, not imperial hegemony!"

"Get out of this land, the usurping tyrant!"

"Cruel oppressor, war maniac Li Ozi, your name will be spurned forever!"

Their faces were filled with anger and dissatisfaction, making them look extremely ugly. After several attacks, their clothes were in tatters and their bodies were filled with a pungent stench.

Their eyes were spitting fire, and hatred and indignation turned into sharp swords that almost pierced Li Ozi's body. When they united, an invisible force instantly overwhelmed the crowd such as Shen Shen, and their voices echoed in the sky. The whole world was torn apart by the roar.

Although the attack only took place five hours ago, it seemed like decades had passed. People had forgotten that they had cheered for Li Ozi at the festival before.

The rioters shouted slogans and burned down street shops. In the raging fire, neighborhoods were burned to ashes, and people's homes looked like the miserable scene after their childhood toys had been destroyed. The residents who were lucky enough to escape the fire were displaced, lamenting that their once happy lives had been destroyed by the flames.

Without the empire's army and police to maintain order, the mob's destruction and destruction would be uncontrollable. They had completely turned into an invisible monster, and it was always difficult to know when it would appear again.

"Kill all the officials!"

Poof!

The officials of the empire immediately fell to their knees.

"What is this? The advanced spiritual art of the [Redemption] Path? How could a group of ordinary people have such power!"

"No, it's not just the spirit of speech. There is a force interfering with us. Can you hear the whisper?"

"Destroy the monarch, destroy the dictatorship, return power to the people - God, they are corrupting our will."

"I knew the people were doing well, but it turned out to be like this, all because of the enemy's corruption!"

Shen Shen tried hard to raise his hand, but other soldiers and generals couldn't even open their mouths to speak. The weak civil servants even fell to the ground and had difficulty breathing.

"This is not a simple mob... There is a force affecting their thinking, Mr. Leoz, they are victims."

Shen Shen covered his neck and said with difficulty:

"Sir Leos, you have to go, there is something wrong with these people."

"I know, Shen Shen, you don't have to worry."

"Calm down, Li Aozi, don't be impulsive, these people are just bewitched..."

"I have a solution."

Li Ozi walked up to the city wall calmly, looked down at the mob on the ground, and said:

"I am the Emperor of the Empire, Li Ozi. Do you have anything to ask me about?"

What responded to him was a Molotov cocktail, which landed accurately on the city wall in front of Li Aozi, and a huge fireball instantly rose up.

Then, a few intellectual-looking young people walked out of the crowd. They carried detailed petitions and picked up the loudspeaker:

"Tyrant Leos, we are a voluntary group that represents the most ardent interests of the people. You have ignored the people's cries for a long time. Now, the people are giving you an ultimatum. If you do not meet our conditions, we will-"

"It seems that you are no longer willing to talk to me."

In the flames, Li Aozi's face was continuously distorted. He refused to listen to the people's calls and just nodded and said:

"Dragoon Legion, kill them all."

Before the people making trouble could react, bursts of harsh sonic booms were heard in the sky, and the dark night sky was instantly illuminated. In an instant, eye-catching dragon breaths filled the entire sky like a brilliance.

Frost, fire, shadow, acid erosion, thunder, dimension erasure, decay ray - cold disasters fall from the sky, impacting the crowd, mercilessly erasing them from the world.

Shen Shen and others were dumbfounded.

After they clearly informed Leos that these people were victims and innocent civilians, Leos still chose the simplest, crudest, and coldest approach:

massacre.

The dragon knights fulfilled Li Ozi's will perfectly. They used dragon breath to continuously cut the battlefield. With a single sweep of the ten-meter-long giant sword in their hands, they could cut hundreds of people in half.

Even this massacre efficiency was not enough for Li Aozi. He knocked on the bricks of the city wall and said slowly in a strange and high-pitched language:

"(Dragon language) Insect swarm, eating, ocean."

The next moment, the elements in the air were constantly stirred, and the harsh chirping made people's hearts go crazy. In the blink of an eye, an endless wave of insect sea surged up, attacking from all directions, gnawing away the living things in full view of everyone. Human bodies, some of the mob were still running, entangled in the sea of ​​insects. After a while, only a skeleton was left behind.

"(Dragon Language) Storm, thunder, spikes."

"(Dragon language) Plague, clouds, waves."

"(Dragon language) Frost, spiral, bacteria."

…………………………

Shen Shen could no longer remember exactly how many dragon language spells Li Ozi chanted, and how many times those dragon knights and dragon tribes landed to rest, then took off after preparations were completed, and continued to kill many times.

The only thing that is known is that Li Aozi carried out an unprecedented massacre in Jingyuan.

For these mobs, he never thought about suppressing the riots and driving them away.

The only outcome for resisting the empire is destruction.

As for the reason?

Shen Shen watched in silence as Li Aozi carried out a full 92 hours of brutal killing from night to day, and then from day to night.

When the corpses almost filled the entire Destiny Castle, Li Ozi finally stopped the killing.

It wasn't because he had woken up, but because there was no longer a living mob in Destiny Castle.

Li Ozi was sitting on the throne, his military uniform was soaked in the blood of your people. He didn't even bother to wipe it off. Instead, he sat on the throne casually and lazily and asked the imperial prime minister:

"What's the situation now?"

"The enemy's troops have stopped attacking."

Faced with the emperor's cruelty, Prime Minister Meservy was very calm and calmly told the emperor:

"It seemed that they realized that the infiltration mission into the capital had failed, and the mobs in many places calmed down. It seems that that kind of weapon is not easy to use."

"No, if we were a narrative civilization, we would be finished by now."

Li Ozi crossed his legs and said coldly:

"This kind of weapon is aimed at transforming and corrupting the consciousness field of civilized creatures - or simply the beliefs. Strengthening individuals and destroying their belief in grand narratives is what [society] likes to do most."

"Is narrative civilization irresistible?" asked Shen Shen.

"Narrative civilization cannot fight against this kind of weapon, because they dare not attack civilians. The bottom layer of grand narrative is based on the common consciousness of the people - there is nothing that can be done, who makes them too progressive."

As he spoke, he leaned on the back of the throne and said to Shen Shen:

"Fortunately, we are feudal and backward enough."

Chen Shen lowered his head. His previous understanding and respect for Mr. Leoz were now a little shaken.

Perhaps, Leos has always been the usurping tyrant...

No, this may just be His way.

But can cooperation with such people really lead Xingyuan to a better life? A tyrant was driven away, and a new one came...

"I know what you think. You think my methods are too rough, too cruel, and have a bad impact."

Li Ozi saw through his thoughts, hesitated for a moment, and nodded.

“It’s hard not to be scary.”

"You don't have to be afraid of this."

Li Ozi held his cheek and said casually:

"Only 820,000 people died, which is not a lot."

"But, these are your people. A month ago, you swore in the ceremony that you were their emperor and their guardian..."

"Soak deep."

Li Ozi said coldly:

"If you can't afford hundreds of thousands of people to die, then don't even think about overthrowing Le'andin."

"……What does it mean?"

"Do you think that in this abyss, in the territory of the four major narrative complexes, with so many old narrative civilizations, they are watching us being invaded by the [Secret Society]?"

Chen Shen's pupils shrank:

"You mean, they have an agenda?"

"The narrative coalition is considering it. They can end at any time if they want. It is not the arrival of the complete [society] body. They can still deal with a few councilors, but if they do not end, it means one thing: from the perspective of interests, It’s not worth taking action for Osholia.”

Li Ozi turned his head and looked forward:

“This country can’t take it anymore, and neither can the people.”

"In the past few decades, Oshulia has continued to expand, and it has infinitely approached the level of narrative. As long as Oshulia continues to exist, the coalition will not go to war against the secrets. They want to take the opportunity to get rid of us."

"Now, Osholia is gone. Then we can get away."

"But it took you forty years to build all of this! This is the hometown of so many people-"

"It's just a small price to pay."

Li Ozi said calmly:

"In Xingyuan, the least valuable thing is human life. The most important thing is human life. For the grand narrative, there must be enough population to contribute to prosperity. For the grand narrative, countless talented elites must sacrifice for it."

He said, stood up and slowly walked down the stairs.

"Xing Shen, if you want to defeat [Society], you must be more like a beast than [Society]."

Chen Shen lowered his head, his eyes were filled with confusion. He clenched his fists, not knowing what to do.

"What should we do next? If you have to abandon the Oshuria Empire, then everything you have done in the past forty years will be in vain. Those hidden people are still within the inherent time domain, and we have no chance at all. Don’t go in.”

Shen Shen said bitterly:

"I never thought that the secret would become so powerful. In the form of civilization, there is no way to fight against the secret."

"Then use [social] form."

Li Ozi dragged up the holy sword from the throne and looked at the people around him:

"The Oshuria Empire is declared destroyed from today on. Everyone can disband. Those who are willing to follow me or want to leave, please leave quickly. It will be beneficial to me if you spread out. Lest we have to be hunted down by then. "

After hearing these words, the ministers and generals turned around and left without being polite.

Qing Shen glanced at these people in surprise:

"Are they... too obedient to you?"

"Of course you have to obey."

Li Ozi put his hands on his hips and said casually:

"They are all my children."

Deeply shocking:

"What did you say?"

"Zhi Xiang and I have tens of millions of descendants, and I borrowed hundreds of thousands from her before to serve as my ministers and officers and generals. As long as I give an order, these children will return to me immediately, Continue to serve me, plus a little bit of my personal bloodline ability...that is to say - I can replace the entire empire at any time if I want."

Li Ozi said:

"Let's go, Shen Shen. The first Oshuria Empire has been destroyed. We have to hurry up and prepare to establish the second empire."

"...But what about the people who died?"

Shen Shen murmured:

"If you had done this earlier, disbanded the country, they could have avoided dying. Or even never had to face the secret—"

"They will die sooner or later anyway, why not die for our cause."

Li Ozi said lightly:

"Besides, this is the most efficient way."

"The ruined empire, the unpopular king, and the government-in-exile can completely resolve the sense of crisis in other narrative civilizations, and even spies will not be sent. In this way, on the basis that I can restore the country at any time, it can help us stay safe Get away."

"Tens of tens of millions of people are dead now, and at most 100 million people will bear the weight of the sky. But if our cause fails, it will be a disaster for the entire Xingyuan."

"Yes, I have killed tens of millions of people and massacred 820,000 people, but I think it is a good deal to exchange the lives of tens of millions of people for the victory of Xingyuan. If necessary, I will That will be one of the costs."

He glanced at Shen Shen and said easily:

"Now you understand how I blocked Gaia, right? My cruelty and coldness are more than Gaia's. She is afraid of me, she has a way out, she has companions and assets - so she doesn't dare to fight with me, and I’m always fighting for my life.”

"No one is an individual. Everyone must fight for Xingyuan. Everyone must sacrifice. We are all consumables and cannon fodder. We have no time to die. We can only win. There is no other choice."

"You must also have this kind of ideological consciousness. If I die, you will succeed me. After Chen Shen dies, Elavent, Gio Skua, Silverston - until the last Star Abyssal man falls ”

"In this war that engulfs the abyss and the earth, each of us is a line of text, a word, and a number in this story."

"Do you understand?"

Fu Shen was silent for a long time.

Until a message popped up in Li Aozi's message bar:

[Your powerful charm has influenced other people's worldview. Through sincere communication, you have successfully changed the thinking of one of your camp members, 'Long Yuqiong'. ]

['Long Yuqiong's' ideological form: Traditionalist - changed to - Chauvinist]

[Chauvinist: Output rate permanently increased by 30%, and the upper limit of the leadership unit increased by 10%; Chauvinists will ignore the 'war criminal' type trial skills. ]

[Firmly support: various types of colonization, expansion of territory, recovery of lost territory, large-scale military expansion, and alliance with powerful empires. ]

[Don't care: economic and political issues. ]

[Firmly oppose: reducing the army, reducing defense spending, and backward military technology. ]

[Since 'Long Yuqiong' is a senior leader in the camp, his ideological change will cause more people to tend to change to similar ideas: social Darwinism, populism, authoritarianism, imperialism, ethnic nationalism, etc. 】

My health has not been very good recently, and the doctor asked me to rest for a while. I don't want to leave you with regrets, so I will seriously put an end to this book, but it will take a little longer. Thank you for your continued companionship. Thank you very much.

I will definitely update the next book for you when I am strong and healthy.