by <unknown>
It was true that Wuying Qi did not wash away the bald experts' normal logic thinking.
What he needed was the elite soldiers who were loyal but could make decisions on their own, instead of puppets made of flesh and blood with empty minds. Logical thinking abilities were necessary things that could not be entirely washed off.
However, he had brought the minds of those experts into his pace by way of "enlightenment" before, only allowing them to think according to the patterns he set. Naturally, they would reach the conclusion to surrender to him however they considered.
Now, his pace had been disrupted by Li Yao, and the patterns he set earlier were broken by Li Yao's shameless and contemptible trick too!
The bald experts who were qualified to be chosen by Wuying Qi were at least above the peak of the Core Formation Stage. Their abilities in logical thinking were unquestionable. When they jumped out of the framework that Wuying Qi set for themselves and reviewed the situation on their own, they immediately discovered a natural contradiction.
Was it possible for a scrupulous commander and an almighty god to have overlooked the enemy's tricks?
Even the "righthand bodyguards" that had been brainwashed by Wuying Qi for a long time began to have doubt, not to mention the Immortal Cultivators of the four families who had just been brainwashed and whose stance was not steady yet.
Speaking of which, those Immortal Cultivators of the four families were quite poor. They suffered heavy losses during the rampage of the solar storm first. Then, some of them went mad, and many of their brains exploded during the massive brainwashing. After that, many more were killed in their self-brutalization. Now, they were finally pacified and ready to listen to His Majesty's tutelage, but all of a sudden, their heads were filled with such stimulating, violent, and filthy stuff!
Their brains that had just been scourged were tormented again, and their hearts that had just taken a 180-degree turn took yet another 180-degree turn, except that the second turn was a vertical one. All in all, the Immortal Cultivators' minds were too twisted, and their admiration and belief in Wuying Qi had been too severely blasphemed for them to return to the previous state.
"Eyes! My eyes!"
Countless Immortal Cultivators screamed while covering their eyes, with thick blood darting out of the gaps of their fingers.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Even the lunatics whose minds had just collapsed were also wailing and writhing on the ground while holding their heads.
"This is—"
Many senior commanders, brainwashed by Wuying Qi, just ordered their starships to kill their fellow starships who were too obstinate to change five minutes ago as a gesture of their loyalty, only to watch Wuying Qi's alluring bed battles.
After being stunned for a long time, their darkened eyes gradually turned normal, and they took out the storm bolters on their waists in disbelief. Putting it into their mouths, they cursed vaguely and pulled the triggers.
The four families' ace fleets that were extremely chaotic in the first place became even more chaotic.
The same thing was happening in every asteroid base, the Deep Sea Fleet, every troop of the Imperial Guards, and the hundreds of cities on the surface of the capital planet. There had never been such a ludicrous folly in the history of the Imperium—no, in the history of mankind!
None of the words that human beings had ever used could describe what Wuying Qi was feeling.
The surprise, shock, fear, and fury of the billions of souls were fed back to his soul clearly, turning into twisted ripples on the surface of the black sun.
The magnificent "Next Sun Plan" was suffering an avalanche of failures.
His "mental plague" encountered an even more powerful "mental plague". His splendid plan had been overpowered by primitive instincts!
After Wuying Qi finally held back his urge of vomiting blood and calmed himself down, the first thing he attempted to do was to stop the Gold Crystal Pyramid from further sending the twisted waves to the sun.
However, things were too tricky for him to get back under control.
First of all, the enemy's mysterious force that hacked the mainframe crystal processor of the Gold Crystal Pyramid was too powerful, and it even had the vague scent of extraterrestrial devils that were of the same origins as himself.
This meant that their compatibility with the control system was very high. It was exactly so that the enemy simulated his waves and obtained the control permissions of the Gold Crystal Pyramid.
It was difficult for him to take back the Gold Crystal Pyramid in ten minutes.
Secondly, the so-called "massive enlightenment" was a highly-dangerous endeavor that was as risky as possession in the first place. When new storms were raised in the heads of more and more people, the power of the storms was also corrupting his soul and making him suffer incessant blows.
In the end, Li Yao! The wretched Li Yao was like an unkillable rat that had leaned close to his soul shamelessly again!
When Wuying Qi mobilized his mental power to deal with Li Yao, his control over the Gold Crystal Pyramid unavoidably went loose, and the enemy's infiltration into the Gold Crystal Pyramid went deeper. It was even trying to sneak into the central database of the Gold Crystal Pyramid to completely stop the facility!
The Gold Crystal Pyramid naturally had its own personnel and crystal processor specialists.
However, it was a pity that those personnel and crystal processor specialists were in the state of enlightenment a moment ago and shared the messy information that Li Yao spread out. At this moment, they were holding their heads and doubting their lives with their eyes bulged and their faces pale!
Therefore, Wuying Qi could only multitask on his own. He had to compete for control over the Gold Crystal Pyramid with the mental devil while he tried to destroy the goddamn Li Yao.
For an expert in the Divinity Branching Stage in a normal state, multitasking was the most fundamental technique.
However, Wuying Qi at this moment was far from "normal".
On the mental battlefield, the black sun shrank like a balloon whose air was leaking, while the red star was expanding nonstop until it was like the sun at midday.
As one party shrank and the other party grew, the gap between them was rapidly shortened, until they were almost on the same level.
BOOM!
Two suns, one red and the other black, collided brutally. Each sun was waving hundreds of tentacles of fire, and every tentacle contained countless thoughts of Li Yao and Wuying Qi, while they tied each other, mauling, melting, and swallowing the enemy.
From that point of view, their souls were not like two stars, but like the leukocytes and the invading bacteria.
However, it was still too soon to say which of them was the leukocytes and which were the bacteria that would be devoured eventually.
Chapter 2636: A Jacka*s Like You! |
"Li Yao, you dare betray me!"
A fiery tentacle of the black sun, raising bolts of lightning of millions of kilometers, whipped the surface of the red star brutally and caused a tide tens of hundreds of kilometers high. It was exactly an amalgamation of Wuying Qi's furious thoughts. "In such a wicked way!"
"Like I said, you forced me to do this. It was all because you were both bad and stupid!"
The thousands of tides raised by the red star also turned into countless tentacles that pierced into the black sun deeply, trying to affect Wuying Qi's beliefs further with Li Yao's will. "A gentleman like me would never have used such a shameless trick because my own honor and reputation would've been destroyed even if I defeated you in the end!
"However, what are personal honor and reputation compared to the civilization of mankind?
"I have sacrificed the glorious image that I established after a hundred years of hard work. How could I have been brainwashed by you easily? Embrace your fiasco, Wuying Qi!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
As Li Yao roared, crimson fireballs expl
oded on the surface of the black sun, leaving bumps and dents there and making it look like a gigantic, abnormal tumor!
"Why?"
Due to the immense shock, Wuying Qi's soul could barely resist Li Yao's bombardment. Like an octopus that was tied up by an electric eel, he waved his tentacles crazily and sent even stronger mental power to Li Yao, trying to brainwash Li Yao again. "If you are truly considering for the civilization of mankind, you will only have even fewer reasons to betray me. I am your only savior. Only my 'Next Sun Plan' can rescue the Imperium and everybody in it!"
"Cut the crap! The fact is obvious that you have been completely screwed, and you are still trying to enchant me with such ridiculous, self-revealing lies? In your dream!"
Li Yao scorned. The red star emitted the most dazzling brilliance that contained his most indestructible willpower. "Like I said before, to convince me of your Next Sun Plan, you will have to prove two points. The first point is that you are meticulous and invincible, and the second point is that the technology of massive brainwashing is mature, steady, and minimally costly.
"However, from what I can see, neither of the two points is valid!
"First of all, you are far from taking everybody and everything into your control. At the very least, you failed to foresee my shamelessness… no, my extraordinary smartness and creativeness!
"Secondly, your technology of massive brainwashing is fundamentally flawed. Not only is the Gold Crystal Pyramid susceptible to the invasion of external viruses, but it also cannot inculcate two opposite ideas at the same time. Otherwise, those who are brainwashed are likely to collapse. Even you, as the performer of the operation, will suffer a severe recoil, and your mind is on the brink of collapse too!
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. You have taken out such an immature technology as your life-savior. Are you kidding me, Your Majesty?
"Therefore, do you understand my logic now? The fact that I have betrayed you is the very reason why I should and must betray you! As long as the idea occurs to me that I have to betray you, the idea will grow under certain self-stimulations. It will expand and consolidate until it becomes an indestructible armor that can resist all your brainwashing!
"If everything you said were true, I couldn't have betrayed you at all.
"However, I have already betrayed you, and my soul is jumping up and down before your soul, which means that you were lying and your words were bulls*it.
"If you absolutely believed in your ideology and your methodology, and if this were where your faith lies, then the 'mistake' that is me should've collapsed your beliefs when I showed up.
"However, you still managed to pull yourself back together. Could it be that you knew that your ideology and methodology were not 100% correct and reliable? That is to say, you are just as hypocritical and two-faced as the 'false Immortal Cultivators' of the four families, aren't you?"
Whipped by the fiery tentacles from the red star, the black sun was shaking and almost collapsing from the mental battlefield.
Their souls were still connected to the mental network that covered the whole Empyreal Terminus Sector. The ripples of the competition of their minds crawled into the heads of hundreds of thousands of people, raising a chain reaction and slowly unfreezing their frozen thinking abilities.
Inside many people's darkened eyes, feeble sparks were popping up again.
Wuying Qi was both angry and anxious. He intended to get the situation back under control, but he was at a loss about what to do now that Li Yao had taken the initiative.
Li Yao further attacked. Thousands of glittering thoughts were launched out.
"I've seen too many hypocritical and shameless jacka*ses like you!"
Li Yao roared, "You always do the same thing—at first, you set up a great and sacred goal, and you highlight the insignificance of individuals by the magnificence of the goal. Then, you describe the seemingly bright, perfect prospect of the future to the individuals who are already ashamed of their insignificance, further enchanting them. After that, you disguise yourselves into commanders, gods, saviors, and things as such, as if the civilization of mankind couldn't survive without you. In the end, you will be able to cover your ambitions with the grandeur goal and sacrifice anybody but yourselves under full justification, creating a utopia that only belongs to yourselves!
"Perhaps your ideas are not wrong, the future you presented is not wrong, and even the blood-shedding and sacrifices are not wrong either. You are wrong because you are too impatient and too selfish. First of all, you set an infinitely high goal without caring about the actual circumstances, dreaming to accomplish the evolution that should've been completed in hundreds, thousands, or millions of years in only decades. Also, you subconsciously expand the meaning of 'sacrifice'. When ten soldiers die to protect a hundred civilians, that's sacrifice; but if ten soldiers slaughter a hundred civilians, even feeding on their corpses, for their own survival, you are shameless enough to call that 'sacrifice'?! Lastly, however convincing and brilliantly you may talk about your cause, you never dare to accept objections. You don't even have the courage to present your ideas for public discussion so that the wisdom of the people can be absorbed to modify and optimize them. You are only good at stealthy, sneaky tricks, even resorting to shameless brainwashing to promote your ideas!
"I've seen more than a couple of jacka*ses like you, and I've killed just as many. Let me tell you, of all the jackasses, you are the worst. So, go to hell! Die! Die! Die!"
Li Yao was so excited that he burned his life to the maximum without caring about the exhaustion of his own soul. He released billions of mental blades that stabbed into the black sun deeply, churning the inside of Wuying Qi's soul into an utter mess.
"How is it possible?"
Wuying Qi's soul spread out waves of disbelief.
It was not because Li Yao had caused heavy wounds to his soul, but because he found it hard to believe that Li Yao, a minor "cockroach", "rat", "earthworm", or even "dust", had the strength, the willpower, and the courage to launch such a fierce attack at him, the only commander, god, and savior of mankind!
"I am the nation. I am the sun. How dare you—"
"Enough. You are just a piece of crap, an a*shole who tries to hypnotize other people after you hypnotize yourself!"
Li Yao disrupted Wuying Qi's inculcation quickly. "Wake up and look at yourself. You are neither the sun nor a god, and nobody is ever qualified to be the sun and the god for the whole civilization of mankind. You are just like me and billions of other people. We are all human beings, the most ordinary human beings!
"Even though we can train with spiritual energy and even absorb tenebrum energy, and even though we can cut rocks and fly into the sky, our strength and our wisdom are limited after all!
"Perhaps we can proudly declare that we are at the 'Divinity Transformation Stage' or 'Divinity Branching Stage' in front of the ordinary people, but faced with a society, a country, or a civilization that is made of billions of ordinary people, the computational ability in the Divinity Transformation Stage or the Divinity Branching Stage that we are so proud of is as insignificant as the tip of a needle. We can't be always right, we can't predict the future of the civilization ten thousand years later, we can't think on behalf of the billions of people in the whole civilization, and we certainly cannot deprive them of their thinking abilities and their free will just so that we can be their so-called 'one true god'!
"You think that the failure of your plan is an accident, and it is because you are unlucky to encounter a freak like me? If so, you will be mistaken. Terribly mistaken!
"Your failure is inevitable because no matter how many glorious and righteous banners you carry and how fancy and glorious you disguise yourself to be, you are a mere mortal if we get to the bottom of it. Your strength is limited, your wisdom is limited, and your imagination is limited. You cannot calculate all the information in the entire civilization that is changing all the time. You cannot control everyone's thoughts. Unexpected factors w
ill always show up. Some crazy people would emerge sooner or later even if I were never here and disrupt your plan in more ways other than… treating the whole Sector to a live-action movie. Your plan seems flawless, but its error-tolerant rate is simply too low. As long as one point goes wrong, it will inevitably lead to a total collapse!
"You are claiming that I am too stubborn to change, but in fact, you are the one who is too obsessed with your own thoughts! Wuying Qi, ever since you made the first wrong step, your ending has been inevitable! You are destined to fail!"
Chapter 2637: True Meaning of Civilization! |
"I… will never fail!"
From the depths of the black sun, Wuying Qi's roars of fury and embarrassment came over, which turned into overwhelming tides and extinguished quite a lot of flames on the red star, even contaminating the red star with appalling black spots. Inside every black spot was Wuying Qi's aggressive will. "Division and chaos is the greatest enemy of mankind. Only by combining everybody's thoughts and uniting all the human beings can we walk further in the dark universe. This is exactly my belief. Whoever dares to stop me will be an enemy of the Imperium, an enemy of the civilization, and an enemy of mankind!"
"Damn you!"
Li Yao virtualized a cluster of scorching magma with the red star and spat it at Wuying Qi's soul brutally. "Open all the knowledge and information, make sure that everybody has the ability to consider for themselves and the future of the civilization independently, listen to the voices of the majority, understand their demands, and retrieve the greatest common divisor of everybody's feelings and demands. That is how you should 'combine everybody's thoughts'. What you are doing right now, on the other hand, is to replace everybody's thoughts with your own thoughts and to play the role of trillions of brains with your own brain!
"However huge your head may be, how can it compare to the wisdom of trillions of brains? No matter how you deny your difference with the Covenant Alliance, how can the serious trauma on the brains not affect logic thinking abilities or twist their feelings? Now, you have already created a batch of Imperial Guards who are destroying their hometown and killing their wives and children willingly. Are they any different from the people of the Covenant Alliance? This is the pot calling the kettle black!
