“Long ago…around the era of the Old Empire, scientists discovered this horrifying truth.”
“No one dared to speak out, until now, with the establishment of the New Empire, and the Black Shark Base setting up its headquarters in the Far Star, researching crystal particles day after day. But this most fundamental truth, they still dare not make public.”
“Crystal particles are not the microscopic particles in the popular concept, they are a race in the universe, a life form completely different from the carbon-based life that originated from the old Blue Mother Star.”
“Each crystal particle is an individual entity, but they are also a community, because all crystal particles are conscious of each other. Yes, I finally found it, this is what I have been dreaming of…a life form where there is no mental division between individuals.”
After saying this, Laurent paused for a moment.
Completely overturning the knowledge of mankind for hundreds of years, contradicting all the education content on the surface…he knew what his words would be like for a person who had never touched the truth of the world.
Therefore, Bishop Laurent was willing to wait a bit considerately, giving the young man across from him – whom he sincerely admired – some buffer time.
Jiang Jianming was silent for a long time.
Above his head was the ceiling of the starship, where the electronic light tubes were steadily emitting light, making the face of this non crystal officer, which was already slightly pale, even paler, and his eyes even darker and deeper.
“I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand.”
After a long time, Jiang Jianming slowly spoke, at least his demeanor and voice were quite calm. “You mean to say…”
He raised his right hand, gazing at his palm as it opened and closed, “The crystal particles in my body, are they alive?”
Laurent raised his hands in surprise and said in a praising tone. “Yes, yes, you have understood.”
Jiang Jianming shook his head. “But for the crystal people, they manipulate crystal particles just like they manipulate their hands and feet.”
Laurent: “May I ask, would your hands lose control and strangle you, Your Excellency?”
“…..” Jiang Jianming fell silent again.
Laurent slowly paced, speaking in a coaxing tone as he walked, “But out-of-control crystal particles can cause crystal chaos in the human body. Obviously, the relationship between crystal particles and humans is not as harmonious as the public perceives.”
Jiang Jianming: “Do crystal particles have their own thought processes?”
Laurent laughed. “Of course, our Archbishop has been called by the crystal particles from the Crystal Nest, so he is the Archbishop. If you say that crystal particles are gods, then the Archbishop is the messenger of God walking among humans.”
Jiang Jianming felt a chill down his spine.
It was hard to describe this feeling, as if countless tiny bugs were crawling out of every pore of his body, then crawling back in, wriggling in his bone marrow.
He felt a twitch in his stomach and suddenly felt the urge to vomit.
To suppress this sense of collapse, Jiang Jianming chose to speak. “Even so, can you turn all humans into crystal particles?”
“You could say that.” Laurent suddenly turned his head, his eyes filled with madness and light, and even faint tears, like a pilgrim kneeling in worship.
“Our research has enough solid evidence to show that when a human who has fused with crystal particles dies due to crystal chaos, part of his consciousness will also be taken away by the consciousness of the crystal particles, flying to the universe, flying to that truly great unity paradise.”
“Your Highness the Crown Princess, do you remember the abandonment I talked about on the eve of the New Year?”
“I hope that every compatriot can equally enjoy happiness. But in today’s human society, I don’t see even a glimmer of hope.”
Laurent took two steps forward, fervently grabbing Jiang Jianming’s shoulders: “So, in order not to abandon any compatriot, my choice is——…”
“To harness the power of crystal particles.”
“To let humans, abandon the concept of ‘human’.”
****
As if in response to some call in the dark, at this very moment, in the far reaches of this starship, the city of Aslan Star in the midst of chaos was facing its final battle.
The night was lit up like daylight by the moonlight and firelight, but what was dropped from the high-altitude Crystal Cult armed starship this time was not alien creatures, but a large number of true crystal ores whose internal crystal particle activity had been stimulated.
Weapons more terrifying than nuclear bombs fell towards the smoke-filled Aslan Star City
At the top of the White Jade Palace, Empreror Lin Ge stood alone, her long shadow cast on the white tiles.
There was no ripple on her face, her red lips forming a line, as quiet as dead water.
“Sylph…” Until a certain moment, the female emperor murmured a name, that was the leader of the Black Shark Base who was not here.
“…Is it, this is what you said,”
Lin Ge looked up with her cold face, with the bloody wind blowing from behind her.
In her disheveled black hair, only that prosthetic eye was flashing a compelling red light, “Is it time for the horn to sound——”
In the next moment, a residual image rose from behind the female emperor. The moonlight illuminated the humanoid mecha, and the deep red hard wings stirred up a gust of wind.
The only two Super S-class mechas in the empire, besides the L-Crown of Golden Dawn sleeping in the Far Star, the other one, L-Iron Rose!
The cockpit of the mecha opened, and a light golden mental connection cord stretched out from inside the cockpit, it looked like mycelium, and also like soft tentacles.
Lin Ge raised her right hand and brutally grabbed it, those light gold slowly wrapped around her body, sending her into the cockpit, and the metal cabin door closed with a bang!
Under the White Jade Palace.
The leader of the Black Shark Base and five or six core researchers of the base stand in the center, looking up at the humanoid mecha flying towards the moonlit night.
“All mecha data is normal.”
“The mental control system is operating normally.”
“All indicators are consistent with the experiment, the frequency is stable!”
A researcher said in a low voice with cold sweat, “Chief, although we have done many experiments, mental control has to be directly connected with the central nervous system of the brain, once there is a mistake…”
Wrapped in black clothes and black armor, Sylph calmly manipulated her electronic synthetic voice and said, “It’s okay.”
The base members were crying without tears, “But, but! But that’s Her Majesty the Emperor!”
Sylph: “It’s okay, this emperor should be used for this kind of thing.”
Base members: “??”
In the field of mental control of mechas, the Old Empire had already achieved quite solid results. It was only later, when the defeated old nobles went mad and destroyed the archives and bombed the research institute, that there was a heartbreaking loss of technology.
Now, the mental control system temporarily installed on Iron Rose was a brand new system independently researched by the Black Shark Base.
Who would have thought that the first time the new system was put into war, it would be at the time of the survival of the imperial capital.
At the top of the palace, Iron Rose’s left arm was bent back, right arm was stretched forward, both hands were spread out separately, and in an instant, a line of bright light converged into the shape of a laser spear!
For humanoid mechas, mental control was always the best way to control.
Inside the cockpit, Lin Ge’s phoenix eyes were angry, and she shouted.
In the blink of an eye, Iron Rose rose into the sky, the spear in her hand cut through the night, and went straight to the sky.
The enemy starships fire together, the rain of cannons fell like meteors, illuminating Iron Rose’s alloy armor and drawing a red robe of war for her.
****
At the end of the winter of the 64th year of the New Imperial Calendar, the high-dimensional blockade barrier of the empire was broken, and the long-hidden heretics of the Crystal Cult launched a large-scale offensive, with Aslan Star City bearing the brunt.
The Crystal Cult first released a large number of alien creatures, and then activated tons of real crystal ores. Hundreds of non-crystal people erupted in crystal chaos, dying on the streets. Thanks to the reinforcements of the Black Shark Base that jumped from the Far Star, almost all the tranquilizers that could be collected were paid, which prevented the worst situation from happening.
In less than an hour, the imperial army fought to the death, the emperor personally drove the Super S-class mecha on top, and the star city was not breached in the end.
Soon, under the full deployment of Commander in Chief Chen, the reinforcements from all the major star cities finally arrived.
The Crystal Cult starships reluctantly retreated into the universe, leaving behind smoke and blood rivers, leaving behind ruins full of scars and overlapping corpses.
Aslan First District.
In front of that underground air defense building.
The yellow sand rolled up, and what one could see was broken walls and ruins, and the wreckage of the mecha M-Split Wind 09 everywhere.
Originally, there were twenty-seven people who held on here, and later more than forty Golden Sun Wheel soldiers came to help, but now there were only single digits left standing.
Zheng Yue was panting, manipulating the mechanical arm of the mecha, prying open a steel plate from the stacked rubble, and dragging out the cockpit inside.
Bang!
The cockpit door opened, and Bei Man’er laid there with a bloody face, gasping for breath in exhaustion. “Major Zheng, have we won…won…?”
“Not yet,” Zheng Yue hoarsely said, “The fleet of the Crystal Cult has not withdrawn from the territory of the Empire, so it can’t be considered a victory.”
He helped Bei Man’er stand up, and also turned his head, what caught his eye was the dim sky.
Zheng Yue said word by word, “The tough battle to come will be fought in the universe.”
****
Outside the Star City, within the territory of the Empire.
In this quiet universe, the stationed fleet of the Golden Sun Wheel Space Station had been pulling and tugging with the Crystal Cult for a long time.
The enemy fleet was about a thousand ships, and the Golden Sun Wheel fleet stationed at the space station was five thousand. And the space station itself provided the imperial army with strong armament and material support, at first glance it had an absolute advantage.
The disadvantage lies in the fact that the technological level of the Crystal Cult’s warships was clearly higher than that of the Empire, plus the two high-risk weapons of intelligent alien creatures and real crystal ore.
Inside the flagship of the Empire, Admiral Celine stared at the star map with a gloomy face. “These rebels, when did they gather such a strong armament…”
“Reporting to Admiral Celine!”
A soldier ran over, stood at attention and saluted. “His Highness Ryann has arrived.”
Celine’s eyebrows twitched, she was silent for two seconds, and stood up. “Let him come in quickly.”
****
On the mecha runway of the starship, a regular mecha was driving at a steady speed.
Inside the cockpit, the crown prince looked indifferent, he tilted his head slightly, and a conversation was coming through the earpiece.
[So, in order not to abandon any compatriot, my choice is——…]
Laurent’s fanatical voice echoed. [With the power of crystal particles. Let humans, abandon the concept of ‘human’.]
