Chapter 2785 Heresy Rises!
Li Yao understood what the bloody demon meant.
For a "quasi-hive civilization" like the Covenant Alliance, cutting off one of its external limbs, destroying a huge fleet of it, or even occupying dozens of its vast worlds is not going to hurt the fundamentals. Their morale and will to resist will not be damaged in the slightest, and they can truly "fight to the last."
However, the biggest crux of the bee colony civilization is its "queen bee" or "mastermind". As far as the Holy League is concerned, it seems to be the five mysterious and ubiquitous supreme masters.
The vast majority of members of the Holy League are unable to think independently, and only mechanically execute the orders of the Supreme Master. Then, if someone can tamper with the orders of the Supreme Master, or even corrode and kill the Supreme Master, the seemingly huge bee colony, It is possible to disintegrate in an instant, disappear into ashes, and disappear without a trace.
It was for this purpose that Li Yao invaded the Holy League.
The threat of the "heresy" bred within the Holy League is also reflected here.
In order to prevent the "mastermind" and the psychic network spread by the mastermind from being attacked, the Bureau of Heresy Interrogation has become one of the most important organs of the Holy League, and its status is even higher than that of the regular army of the Holy League. Youjun".
Li Yao carefully retrieved the information transmitted by the bloody demon.
"You said, this 'God's Punishment Fortress' is the lair of purifiers and sweepers. I already know the purifiers, but what are the sweepers?"
Li Yao asked.
"The Purifier and the Sweeper are both one of the main combat units under the Bureau of Inquisition, but the targets are different."
The Scarlet Demon explained, "The purifiers are mainly aimed at 'items', just like what we saw in Xinle City on Blackcastle, targeting all kinds of goods and artworks from the empire that contain strong human emotions and desires , Separate these things into categories, purify, destroy or recycle them.
"The target of the sweepers is not 'items', but 'people', that is, those guys who have been corrupted by monsters and become 'devils' or even 'heretics', all of which are the targets of the sweepers.
"And in terms of degree and method, the sweeper is more serious and ruthless than the purifier. Just by listening to the names of the two, one can think of the word 'purifier', which means there is still room for salvation, just need to purify , it can be recycled; and the "sweeper" means that the demon has been deeply possessed and there is no cure. It can only be completely exterminated. After being burned to ashes, it can be "swept" away like garbage.
"So, the sweeper is a special profession that is a hundred times more terrifying than the purifier. Their daily job is to capture and destroy demons, heretics, and guys who come from the empire. It is absolutely different from the role of the purifier, which is equivalent to a garbage collector. It's not the same. The Sweeper is a real elite unit. Not only is the Bureau of Inquisition, but also the single combat unit with the strongest combat effectiveness in the entire Holy League. ...It's like white blood cells in the blood, ruthlessly devouring germs, that's what it means!
"However, you don't have to worry too much. Now the energy of the sweepers is attracted by the resurgent and increasingly powerful heretical associations. Besides, they didn't expect us to become such a strange life form and continue to lurk boldly. Inside the Holy League—they thought we had escaped long ago, so, in the short term, the sweepers have no plan to capture us, and we can still be under their noses, without anyone noticing, little Have a little activity."
"interesting."
Li Yao's spirit stretched out its tentacles, like an octopus greedily sucking the information from the Inquisition Bureau and the Sweeper.
Although the Scarlet Heart Demon didn't want to act rashly and didn't dig deep into the core data of the "God's Punishment Fortress", the superficial data flowing in the spiritual network alone was enough for Li Yao to investigate and destroy the most elite organization within the Holy League. initial understanding.
"Sweepers are key."
Li Yao thought for a while, and said, "Since this organization is the most powerful combat unit under the Bureau of Heresy Interrogation, and it is responsible for the sensitive work of arresting heretics, there must be a chance to get in touch with Master Supreme Good. If we can infiltrate Wouldn't it be possible to follow the vines and find out the secrets hidden behind the scenes of the Holy League if you go to the inside of the Sweeper organization?
"By the way, I have a vague premonition that the heresy association of 'Resurrecting, Demonic Flames' is very valuable for research. Have you found any relevant information? Ah, 'Shenxinhui', is this it?"
Li Yao's luck is very good.
The remains of his dormant master crystal brain come from the large mobile laboratory of the "Magic Boy Project".
The original purpose of implementing the "Devil Boy Project" was to study the gene provider of Zhou Xiuyun and Chu Zhiyun, that is, the "most evil heretic" a hundred years ago, the founder of "Shenxinhui" "Chu Zhiling" ".
Therefore, a large amount of information about the "Shenxinhui" and other heretical associations are stored in this fragmented crystal brain wreck. Information, you have a general understanding of the origin of heresy, as well as the rise, destruction and re-emergence of the Shenxin Society.
In the past thousand years, ever since the Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi activated the "man-made factory" that had been dusty for hundreds of thousands of years in the star sea, the covenant alliance, a deformed country, has proliferated and exploded at an incredible speed, and soon occupied the barren and barren border star field. Hundreds of Great Thousand Worlds.
For ordinary human beings, the unbearable desolation, hardship and boring environment are like ducks in water for the members of the Holy League.
Because they don't care about the environment at all, and they don't have any enjoyment. Their lives are extremely simple, and every drop of resources is efficiently absorbed.
Habitable planets don't mean much to them. Most of the Holy League people live, no, they live on starships. The degree of starshipization and networking is deeper than that of Federation and Empire.
The typical way of life of the Holy League is very simple. They build large-scale synthetic farms on habitable planets. Because there is no need to consider the taste of food, and because they can use a large amount of hormones unscrupulously, the unit yield of the farm is very high, even if the environment is harsh and barren. The planet can also support a large number of people.
And these populations have plunged into the depths of the planet one after another to dig out metal veins and spar raw materials, and unearth the remains of the prehistoric times hundreds of thousands of years ago.
All the metals and spar raw materials excavated are refined into new starships with the technology in the ruins of the prehistoric ruins. When the starships form a new fleet, they are released into the new world, and this process is repeated. process.
There is no entertainment, no art, no desire and no internal friction. When necessary, they can work continuously for ten days and nights with no expression on their faces, injecting one after another hormones and stimulants into the almost dry blood vessels until they are drained. The last drop of life fell crookedly in the mine pit, and it would never make a single complaint like the counterparts in the empire.
And when they don't need to work, they will sit in a lounge that is not much bigger than the coffin, keeping their heartbeat, breathing and pulse to a minimum and reducing 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 have the slightest fear of the death that will drown them.
The Covenant Alliance relies on such a cold and efficient social organization system, as well as the "worker bees" and "soldier bees" who have no complaints and no regrets, and are able to control the barren world in a corner of the star sea and occupy the center of the star sea. The real human empires are divided into battles, and even faintly have the upper hand.
However, if a small country defeats a big country, if it cannot win a quick battle, no matter how magnificent the initial victory is, it will always face the shadow of failure.
Lei Chenghu, the "God of War" of the True Human Empire, once analyzed the two most fatal problems of the Covenant Alliance. The first is that their base is too small and too weak, so they will not last long; The quasi-bee colony civilization” lacks sufficient creativity. The vast majority of members of the Holy League have no subjective initiative and creativity at all. They only know how to follow the rules and obey the instructions of the supreme master. How can we talk about the birth of new technologies?
They can only continue to excavate the remains of the prehistoric civilization hundreds of thousands of years ago to make up for the lack of technological progress.
But there is always a limit to the excavation of the relics. If all problems can be solved by relying on the relics of the prehistoric sea, it is also in the territory of the real human empire in the middle of the star sea, and more relics 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, they have looted all the resources on the frontier of the Star Sea and used them to build an invincible armada to reach the peak of combat effectiveness; , the continuous development capabilities of almost all habitable planets and resource planets have dropped to zero, and they must recuperate for hundreds of years before the next resource harvest can be carried out.
In other words, the members of the Holy League have put all their chips on the table and are going to put all their eggs in one basket.
And the strategic contraction of the Holy League in the "Empire Strikes Back" is precisely for this purpose-to conduct a strategic decisive battle with the Empire.
This is the judgment of "God of War" Lei Chenghu a few years ago, which coincides with the information Li Yao obtained today, which made Li Yao marvel at Lei Chenghu's strategic vision.
The information collected by Li Yao, of course, does not have information on the movement of the Holy League's main fleet, but just looking at the large-scale heresy that broke out suddenly more than a hundred years ago, one can imagine that the high-level members of the Holy League at that time sent these "soldiers" To what extent are the "bees" and "worker bees" oppressed, so that even these flesh and blood machines can't stand it, wake up and resist!