Chapter 1,234 The Final Battle

I have never met the Merova leader named Barian. Except that the information extracted from Pandora's memory bank shows that he is an old man who looks as energetic as Turazzo. I have no idea about this historical figure. Little is known about the greatest traitor and bigot. No one knows his current psychological state, and no one knows how furious the traitor himself will be when faced with the rebellion: Now Barian has completely lived in seclusion, and intelligence shows that he has not left his palace since the imperial army appeared. He was hiding in a secret place from beginning to end, commanding this catastrophic war remotely. When slave rebellions across the world began to impact Merova's military-industrial base, he only issued three cold and brief measures to suppress it. Just an order. I guess that hiding himself in such a mysterious way may be that Barian is covering up his panic. He needs to use mysterious whereabouts and issuing short and direct orders from time to time to maintain his calm and undefeable image - but now I I’m curious, did Barian still remain calm after the weird plague broke out in the Kingdom of Gods?

This plague was bizarre and broke out without warning. The Merova people had no way of explaining the reason for its appearance and the way it spread, let alone the principles of this plague. Even in the eyes of more conventional medical experts, the infection that occurred in the Kingdom of God cannot be called a disease at all. It began to show symptoms on the third day of the slave uprising, and spread throughout the "Kingdom of Gods" planet within twenty-four hours. Merova medical experts speculated that this "disease" may already be on this planet. It had been lurking for several days, and might even have appeared together with the Imperial Army. Otherwise they cannot explain why a disease can appear in every corner of the planet at the same time. They call this "disease" "panic syndrome." People infected with the "disease" will not have any symptoms of fever or physical damage. The sick people's bodies show no signs of damage at all, but they become weaker day by day, begin to fall into various extreme emotions, suffer from nightmares, and are... Sights of Imperial fleet bombings and hallucinations of eternal torment after death overwhelmingly took over the bodies and minds of all "patients". People infected with the plague initially showed panic, easily frightened, and nervousness, and then began to develop severe persecutory delusions and extreme fear of being alone: ​​this prompted them to do everything possible to communicate with others. Only by staying with their own kind can they feel a little psychological security. Then the symptoms worsen, they are unable to rest, and have hallucinations. After forty-eight hours, the patient will be unable to distinguish the difference between reality and dreams.

At this time, depending on the strength of the infected person's willpower, the patient will gradually "recover" or be completely controlled by hallucinations, with the former wandering around in an uncontrollable state of depression and grief. Find someone to tell you about the terrible scenes you encountered in your hallucinations, nagging like an abandoned and resentful woman. But in the end they seemed to get rid of those hallucinations and gradually "recovered", and the latter began to draw their guns and shoot at their perceived enemies-if they had guns beside them. The enemies in those hallucinations include ferocious monsters, swooping imperial soldiers, twisted black shadows, or their elementary school teacher. The subdued people shouted the names of these enemies in hallucinations until they were scared to death.

This is the infection symptom of the "plague" that broke out in the Kingdom of God. It looks like an extreme mental illness, but it is contagious. Statistical reports and growth curves both show that this symptom is constantly contagious, and is transmitted from person to person. However, the medical scientists and psychiatrists in Melova racked their brains and could not find a way to prevent the infection: even they Most of them also began to show symptoms of infection. They hid under thick protective clothing, behind remote monitoring devices, and even simply read paper reports, but they were still infected - for every Merova in the Kingdom of God, this is simply a surprise. A nightmare. And what's even more nightmare is. While the Kingdom of God is in chaos, our Imperial fleet is marching swaggeringly towards all their large military nodes.

This is a mass collapse point close to the Merova capital galaxy. It was originally a large, isolated star system, but during the battle, the Merova people detonated a large space implosion bomb. The star system has been wiped out. Now all the matter here is being quickly sucked towards the center of the battlefield. It will probably not be long before a young black hole appears here. The Imperial Army was damaged by a suicide attack by the Merovans, but part of the spaceship was damaged, but overall it was still a pretty good victory. The Imperial Admiral and the Royal Fleet quietly hovered outside the battlefield for twenty-six light seconds. From a distance, he watched silently as the wreckage on the battlefield was sucked towards the mass collapse point invisible to the naked eye. The end of this battle means that 90% of the Merova regular army has been wiped out, and now this huge empire has basically come to a standstill.

But Barian has one more card up his sleeve - and I'm curious as to when exactly he plans to take action.

"Don't just be killed by Sandora's spiritual plague, right?" Qian Qian yawned and lay on the tactical projection device. In the battle just now, she used her own power to isolate the fleet from the Merova people's self-destruction attack. Outside, he seemed a little out of sorts now, "That thing looks like it's going against the rhythm of heaven..."

"No, the spiritual plague targets 80% of ordinary Merova people, and those 20% of high-level elites should be able to resist the infection... But I agree with one thing, this thing is really a bunker. "

I thought of Sandora's introduction to her carefully crafted spiritual plague, and I felt a little goosebumps - it was impossible for the Merova people to find a way to stop the infection, even if they knew that the original source of infection was the two "deserters" "Even if they know the general infection channel, it is impossible to prevent this kind of thing.

The spiritual plague is spread through all forms of thinking activities, and the direct bridge to infection is information exchange.

Any type of thinking activity, as long as it meets the identification standards set by Sandora, will become the seedbed of the spiritual plague. It produces destructive power through your thinking itself. All negative emotions and hallucinations caused by the spiritual plague come from being The infected person's own memory and subconscious, which makes it without any extensive and effective treatment methods. And the way it spreads covers almost all ways of communication between people: eye contact. Conversations, rumors, videos, audio recordings, and even biographies written on paper. Sandora's power in the form of glory can distort the laws of the world, so that her spiritual plague can spread through these unreasonable ways. . As long as you have access to personal information related to a superior infected person, and it is possible to understand the psychology and personality of the infected person through this information, then be careful, the seeds of darkness have already taken root in your heart - it is such a scary thing.

certainly. When spread through channels with "weak information correlation", such as remote cameras and recordings, the effect of the spiritual plague will be weakened. The more jumps, the more serious the weakening will be. This should be considered such a terrible thing. "Disease" is the only weakness.

The plague that broke out in the Kingdom of God spread rapidly through these channels. The more advanced the technology, the simpler the communication between people, let alone the level of civilization in Merova. The staff responsible for investigating the status of the infected became the first victims after having direct conversations with the source of the contamination. Then there are their superiors and colleagues, family members. Friends, and even any passerby who had made eye contact or greeted them on the roadside began to be infected, and then the infection spread to other places through video materials. Reports and audio-visual materials about the disease were placed on the walls of the Merowa people. Publicly disseminated in the database, every Melova medical worker and psychiatrist who read those words spread the contamination to a wider range. Up to now, the spiritual plague has strengthened to its design limit: in the Kingdom of God This place with the strongest pollution atmosphere, if you know the words "spiritual plague", and you happen to be a Merova. So congratulations, you won the bid - it uses words and thinking ability to put the introduction of madness into the mind of the victim.

However, it needs to be pointed out that the contamination of the spiritual plague is only limited to radicals. Sandora has set a "switch" in the spiritual plague, that is, the horrific nightmare it causes must have the empire as the biggest imaginary enemy, while conservatives The biggest imaginary enemy has long been Barian. Therefore, the conservative Merovans are the only survivors of this plague: of course, they are also very smart. In order to prevent exposure, the conservative Merovans in the infected area are now pretending to be crazy.

But it's a pity. The spiritual plague may be able to destroy an ordinary race, but it cannot fundamentally destroy the Merova people. Twenty percent of them are completely immune to this level of erosion, and there are a considerable number of individuals among the remaining people who even fall into Negative emotions can also control one's behavior. The plague plunged them into chaos, but for a race beaten by the old empire, this chaos was not a catastrophe.

"Look, there are slave riots everywhere in the thirteen universes. The Merova regular army has been defeated by the empire. They are still entangled with the slaves by admonishing the police." I looked at the report in front of me. This is what Turazzo sent, "The plague is still spreading in the capital world. Barian is really calm."

"It's not that he can stay calm," the eldest lady shrugged. "He is riding a tiger and is unable to dismount. The slave armed forces have held back his police force and administrative system. In fact, I can see that Barian no longer pays attention to the slave rebellion at all. , he was overwhelmed by the infection of his tribe and the advance of the Imperial Army, but his government agencies were trapped in the vast ocean of the People's War - what a miserable man!"

Barian is indeed a hard worker, but he brought it upon himself. No one cares what this tyrant is thinking. The Imperial Army is still advancing at an alarming speed. In addition to the capital world, the war zones in the other twelve worlds are gradually returning to peace. : Our army simply destroyed every place where rebels were stationed, leaving no one alive in any battle. The squadrons are now finishing the work in the local theater. Most of the main forces have returned to this universe to join the Royal Fleet and the flagship of the Third Army. A small number of fleets have spread out on the spot, sending small groups of troops to assist the revolting slaves. They eliminated the remaining local Merova policemen. The latter are really miserable now: although they were threatened by the Imperial Army when they set out, at least they still looked majestic and the scenery was the same as before, but now the admonishers are huddled in small troop ships and outposts. , with ammunition and food exhausted and energy scarce, most of them have given up asking for help from their superiors: because their superiors are also asking for help from higher authorities, or simply no longer exist. The furious slaves used their lives to pile up the ammunition of these admonishers. Then began to harvest these vicious rulers. This situation is actually on the verge of getting out of control. The out-of-control slave civilians and slave fleets are full of anger, but they only have a limited number of enemies to pour out. They may be destroyed by their own rage before they find a new racial development goal. The current slave race is even a bit similar to the Merova people who just defected back then - they suddenly lost their shackles and found that they could really smash the old master's home wantonly, so the entire race fell into a grand carnival - so if there is still Without guidance, I fear these slave races will become another disaster.

We had no time to spare, so the work was left to Turazzo and those disciplined resistance groups with whom he was widely connected, who were best suited for the job. After all, they have unprecedented influence among the tribesmen who are on the verge of carnival. In this special war, our powerful imperial warships that appeared out of nowhere do not have as much say as those rustic resistance leaders.

As the Imperial Army continues to advance, we have also been in contact with the conservatives in Turazzo. Most of them have now been registered in the Imperial Army's identification system. In fact, we were already able to help these conservatives. brought out, yet they offered to stay around the radicals - which was dangerous, because in this war. Conservatives have been actively assisting the slaves who staged riots, and have repeatedly blocked the military operations of the radicals. Once they are exposed, Barian will definitely eliminate every "traitor" found out. However, both conservative representatives and Barian expressed their willingness to take this risk. They believe that their withdrawal now means that a lot of follow-up work cannot be carried out, and If the radicals remain around, they can continue to obstruct Barian.

I think they should have the mentality of atonement. It is possible that the conservatives hope to get a higher evaluation as much as possible before the end of the war, so as to reduce their punishment in the military trial after the war. I don’t agree with this idea. Don’t comment too much either. There will definitely be military trials after the war. The specific verdict against them is a matter for the Supreme Court of the Empire. Personally speaking, the current actions of the conservatives are indeed very satisfactory: with their activity, they have Countless slave races have reduced unnecessary casualties. Now every innocent life they save is a small bargaining chip for them to reduce their guilt in military courts. Then let them continue to work hard like this.

A few days later, the war was coming to an end.

The "Kingdom of Gods" is right in front of us, now only one jump away from our main fleet. Twelve of the thirteen worlds ruled by Barian have been completely occupied. Imperial starships full of angry warriors have bulldozed all the military nodes of those worlds in the past nearly half a month. Of course they were met with fierce resistance. And suffered a certain degree of damage in the process, but fortunately there is a mass production bubble in half of the basketball court, and the damaged grassroots units can always be continuously replenished. The Merova race is crumbling under the storm-like offensive of the empire. EOP-03 and the flash of the galaxy have almost wiped out 90% of their population. Now the last bit of Barian's army is entrenched in the sky above the Kingdom of God.

The final battle broke out at noon, Imperial Standard Time. The Imperial Army first launched a round of hyperspace firepower to destroy the gravity well device of the star system where the Kingdom of God was located. After that, the entire army forcibly jumped into the star system. , and before that, the special warfare echelon of the Third Fleet had blocked all material transmission outside the star system to ensure that no fish would slip through the net.

The cold metal planet of the Kingdom of Gods is as shining as the last time I saw it, with a golden glow, but it is lifeless. The last time Lilina and I went deep into this place alone, we saw Barian's greatest atrocities, and This time we come with thousands of troops and horses to end the rule of that tyrant.

There is already a Merova fleet waiting in the high orbit of the planet. It is really hard to believe that they persisted to the end in such a catastrophic war and are still able to organize resistance today: this is probably the only chief family member of the old empire today. A commendable place. But these fleets look weak at first sight. There are only a handful of general-class aircraft carriers, and the vast majority of them on the defense line are auxiliary ships, one-third of which don't even have regular army markings - these are not Barian's regular army.

All his regular armies have been defeated a long time ago, and now the only ones left here are the planetary defense fleet and the finally gathered "police force". Moreover, due to the spread of the spiritual plague, even these remaining forces have been greatly reduced. Barian Now there are almost no ordinary soldiers available. The only ones who can maintain themselves under the plague are the high-ranking officers of Melova in the past. These false gods who were once aloof and accepted worship by believers in the "temple" now have to put down their bodies and control the reactions with their own hands. They even equipped themselves with weapons and charged into battle. Sandora's spiritual plague was almost draining their last effort: there was no doubt that what they relied on to support them was a paper line of defense.

"The first echelon fires freely to attack! The second echelon ignores these obstacles and bombs the planet directly!" Sivis simply issued the order to destroy the planet. Anyway, Turazo's conservatives have moved to a safe place according to the instructions. , we can launch attacks unscrupulously, she drew out her command knife and released her power, "Leave no one alive, victory belongs to the emperor!"

However, the moment our attack just started, a large group of black shadows suddenly appeared on the battlefield! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)