Ding Yi's words can really be said to be speechless.

Everyone looked up at him in surprise.

The top brass of the expeditionary force around the strategic table fell silent

"The Blade of Judgment is a creation of the Human Alliance, and it was created to ensure the survival of humanity in the Age of Eternal Night." William, who is the captain of the fleet, reached out and clicked on the projection in front of him, enlarging it, "You now say that it is the culprit that killed everyone in this galaxy??" The Human Alliance shouldn't have gone crazy enough to slaughter its own people, right? ”

Ding Yi opened the model he had just built and showed everyone the results of his calculations, "I don't know what happened in it, but if you want to quietly let those people die, this is the only one that is most likely." The Anti-Spiritual Ability Field has been mentioned in the Knowledge Database of the Human Alliance, and large-scale Anti-Spirit Ability Fields are very few scientific and technological technologies that can affect subspace. They will suppress the chaotic Aetherstorm, minimize the impact of the Eternal Night Storm on the real universe, and even isolate the real from the subspace. ”

"But the anti-psychic ability field is not without its troubles, many intelligent races, including humans, have subspace projections, if you have studied the Empire's dissection report on psionic beings and related theoretical research, you will know. The strength of human projection in subspace determines whether or not a person qualifies as a psionic. The stronger the projection, the stronger the amount of psionic power that the person can leverage. Theoretically, as long as its soul and flesh can withstand the effects of its projection, it can be enhanced without limit, even to the extent that it is comparable to that of a god. ”

"But what if it's the other extreme? The projection is infinitely weakened, or even blocked, so what will happen to humanity? ”

In the projection screen that Ding Yi opened, the line representing the soul projection descended and approached zero infinitely.

"Weakened to a certain extent, will you become a soulless?" Zhang Han replied tentatively.

He didn't know much about the theoretical research.

Doing research is the business of those scholars.

"No, the Soulless is a special being." Ding Yi turned on another projection to show the theories and data related to the soulless, "The soulless have the same projection in the subspace, but their projection is completely different from the projection of a normal person. The projection of a normal person is luminous, and their projection is a black hole, a black hole that absorbs all light. That's why when people are near soulless, they feel uncomfortable and instinctively fearful. If you get close to the soulless, the light of a normal person's soul will be constantly absorbed, and that person will be weak. ”

"Mr. Xu Fu has published a number of theoretical books on human beings and subspace, and these books clearly mention that the flesh and blood body of human beings belongs to the real universe, and the soul of human beings belongs to subspace. The combination of the two is the real human being. ”

"The soul is no longer a mystical thing, and everyone here knows that the soul is real. Our flesh and blood bodies need to be fed and need to be replenished with external energy to be sustainable. And the soul also needs nourishment in order to live. What the soul needs is the energy of the subspace, and this energy nourishes us. ”

"If you absorb enough, then the person can become a psyker, if you absorb enough less, then the person's soul will languish, have no motivation, and even breed depression, depression, and the urge to commit suicide."

Without the nourishment of the subspace, the soul will weaken, and all life will gradually lose consciousness, enter a fugue state similar to Alzheimer's, and eventually suffer irreversible soul death. And those bodies do not die immediately, but wait for nutritional exhaustion before slowly dying. ”

"You're saying that the Blade of Judgment killed the souls of every living thing in this galaxy?" Zhang Han carefully examined the projection, and his tone was solemn, "That means that the Blade of Judgment may also cause harm to us?" ”

"This is ridiculous, didn't the designers of the Human Alliance have security measures in place? The Human Alliance should not be as stupid as we think. ”

William shook his head.

The explanation given by Ding Yi did not convince him.

In the Galactic Empire, there are many people who have great respect for the Human Alliance.

The Empire has inherited a lot of the legacy of the Human Alliance, and even the lighthouse was built by the Human Alliance.

It can be said that the empire is standing on the shoulders of those ancestors in order to achieve today's achievements.

Now they have been told that the designers of the Human Alliance did not set up insurance measures when designing celestial weapons capable of destroying the world.

How could such a low-level mistake come to a human alliance that is technologically advanced and advocates science and reason.

In the face of the doubts of William and others, Ding Yi couldn't come up with too much evidence.

Everything he just said was based on assumptions and calculations, and there was no real evidence to back them up.

But soon a communication came, confirming his suspicions.

Zhao Shang was the company commander of the Third Company of the Third Army.

His mission was to reconnoiter a satellite object orbiting the gas giant TF06.

In the low-Earth orbit of this satellite object, there are a large number of intelligent structures.

Looking at the building style and the insignia of the Alliance, they are all left by humans.

The reconnaissance ships of the third company were docked in low-earth orbit.

A balance was found in the gravitational pull of the moon and the gas giant.

Zhao Shang and others first landed on the space station in low earth orbit.

There are also a large number of corpses with no external injuries.

Zhao Shang and his companions examined the bodies.

He also tried to use his talent to track down the cause of death of these corpses.

Normally, a place where a large number of corpses gather would have spawned resentments or something else.

Emotions and memories such as joy and pain of the deceased reverberate in the subspace, leaving traces.

But Zhao Shang didn't find anything.

"Their souls were gone, and their shells were empty. Take a closer look around and see if there are any other clues. ”

Hearing Zhao Shang's words, the soldiers of the third company nodded and scattered.

Mullen, a soldier of the Third Company, took out a dagger and disemboweled a dried corpse.

"There's nothing in your stomach, are they all starving?"

Hearing this, Zhao Shang also took out his short sword and did the same thing as Ma Lun.

"It's true that there is nothing, but so many people are starving to death en masse, this is too weird!!"

If they were killing each other, Zhao Shang could still believe it.

It's so perverse that these people gather together and then starve themselves to death.

The space station has a separate ecosystem, and most of its functions are still available.

I really don't see a shortage of food.

Besides, so many people died here, didn't those hungry people have any thoughts about corpses!!

But after dissecting so many corpses, the stomach was empty.

There are no human bones or anything around.

The entire station was inspected by the three companies and did not find any enemies.

Zhao Shang compiled the relevant findings into a report and sent it to the top of the expeditionary force on the side of the Pride of the Empire.

"Let's go to the surface and have a look."

Zhao Shang, who had finished sending the report, stood at the edge of the space station, looked at the slowly rotating satellite, and gave an order.

Thin clouds swell with the air currents.

There is no green in sight on the ground, only desolate sand and dead cities.

The gunboats equipped with the hot-melt annihilation cannon and many warplanes formed a formation and sent Zhao Shang and others to the ground.

The formation passed through the Kármán Line and entered the atmosphere.

A moment later, the formation again cut through the thick clouds and landed towards the ground city.

In the cabin of the gunboat, twenty legionnaires were sitting in two rows.

The spherical drone retracted its guns and fixed itself in front of the legionnaires.

Ma Lun looked at the company commander who was not wearing a helmet - Zhao Shang.

"Company commander, your face doesn't look very good."

"It's a little hard to breathe, there's something here that is holding me back."

Zhao Shang could feel that there was some kind of invisible barrier around him.

Separate yourself from the Most High Heaven.

Now he invokes psionic energy, like a person being put on a plastic bag to breathe.

No matter how hard you try, you can't get enough oxygen.

The gunboat landed on a sufficiently large concrete clearing in the city.

The stout mechanical feet slowly descended, supporting the massive metal body.

With the hissing sound of the high-pressure gas being released, the ball drone whistled out of the open hatch.

They immediately activated a thermal and electromagnetic wave detection array, scanning everything in the vicinity for possible enemies.

Zhao Shang and the others walked out of the cabin, their eyes vigilant, and their weapons in their hands.

The city has fallen into complete silence.

Only the cold wind made a sound like a ghost crying as it passed through the tall buildings.

If it was really a ghost crying, Zhao Shang and the others would be able to accept it calmly.

The legion fought in the south and the north, and saw more things.

Ghosts, mutated flesh, strange creatures, evil gods, and more.

It is no secret that something that is completely contrary to science.

Zhao Shang has a lot of experience dealing with those things.

Even if a real ghost appears, he can destroy them with his powerful psionic energy.

The problem is that there are not even ghosts here.

No one knows what's wrong here.

The invisible enemy is the most terrifying.

They are being attacked, but they don't know where the attack is coming from.

"Go check out the buildings."

Zhao Shang led the team away from the landing site and walked towards the towering buildings in the distance.

The buildings were all dilapidated, and in some places there were rusty steel bars.

But even so, they have not been defeated by the power of time, and they still stand above the surface.

The wreckage of those hovercars and various anti-gravity devices still sit quietly at the place where they crashed.

There are traces of skirmishes in some areas.

Deep in the city, there are also cases where plasma energy reactors are overloaded and explode due to the loss of maintenance and the aging of important superconducting components.

Apart from these, no trace of the catastrophe can be found.

There is nothing living in the city.

Not even trees, vines.

It's as if all life has been killed.

The microbes are all dead.

In the city's administrative building, Zhao Shang and the others found the dead Human Alliance official.

They just fell on the table or fell to the ground.

The corpse was kept like this.

It didn't decay, it didn't decompose, it was just lost by the wind, and it became a dry corpse.

"What the hell is going on here?"

Zhao Shang flipped through those dried corpses, and the confusion in his heart became more and more.

What kind of power can make a creature of a galaxy die without resistance?

Not only him, but almost everyone sent out to scout had the same confusion.

It's all so perverse.

At this moment, inside the Judgment Blade, which was quietly suspended in the void, a standby main console shimmered.

In the pitch-black control room, it was illuminated by a lit screen.

Text appeared on the screen.

[Abnormal psionic fluctuations are detected, and the anti-psychic ability field wave is activated according to standard procedure 10210]

Some mechanical sounds could be heard from the silent war bodies.

In the shape of the tip of the knife, there is a slight glimmer of light.

Then an invisible wave spreads out around the tip of the knife.

The first to be affected were the Imperial personnel of the reconnaissance ship.

When invisible fluctuations swept over those people, they felt tired and weak like never before.

Many people involuntarily feel misanthropic and suicidal.

And the most influential are the psykers.

Zhao Shang, who was inspecting the corpse, suddenly fell to his knees.

His face flushed, as if an invisible hand had grabbed his throat.

This scene almost frightened the accompanying Malen and the others.

They scanned the surroundings with their weapons raised, wary of unseen enemies.

"Are you alright?" Calis got down on one knee and checked on the company commander.

Zhao Shang's eyes widened, like a fish starved of oxygen.

He could not answer Calis's question.

But the pain on his face had given everyone the answer.

"Dress, can you lock our coordinates?" Realizing that something was wrong, Mullen called in the company's exclusive air power.

"Yes, you've always been in our sights." There was also a hint of pain in the tone on the other side of the communication.

"We need to evacuate."

"Understood, it is expected to arrive at the target location within three minutes, please be patient."

After the call, Ma Lun also crouched next to Zhao Shang.

The two fighting brothers, who were responsible for medical duties, conducted a comprehensive examination of Zhao Shang and found no problems.

But Zhao Shang's pain was by no means faked.

Everything here is weird.

Mullen would rather face the pollution of the world caused by a rift in a subspace or the rain of bullets from an alien race than face such a situation.

Powerful force also became useless at this moment.

They could only watch the company commander suffer and could not do anything.

They simply don't know where the attack is coming from.

A few minutes later, the roar of the anti-gravity engine was mixed with the whistling of the fighter jet tearing through the air.

The gunboat landed slowly, opening the hatch with a hissing sound.

Ma Lun and the others helped Zhao Shang onto the gunboat and returned to the reconnaissance ship in low-earth orbit.

Many people on the scout ship had painful expressions.

Their eyes are dazed, and negative emotions such as sadness and despair appear in their hearts for no reason.

"Inform the corps commander of all information and request to evacuate."

Mullen immediately realized that something was wrong.

This thing is weird.

They had to get out as soon as possible.

The same situation arose with other reconnaissance ships and reconnaissance units.

The bridge of the Pride of the Empire.

Zhang Han ordered all the reconnaissance troops to withdraw, and he could not take the lives of those people as a child's play.

"A slight energy fluctuation in the Blade of Judgment has been detected." The officer in charge of detecting the array shouted, "It unleashed an invisible wave that spread at the speed of light. After data comparison, where the fluctuations arrived, there were various abnormalities in our soldiers. ”

"Anti-psionic fluctuations." Ding Yi shouted, "This is the anti-psionic energy fluctuation, which is unconsciously releasing anti-psionic energy fluctuations, and this fluctuation kills the life forms of the entire star system. ”

"Is it true that the Human Alliance has not set up insurance measures?"

William had a decadence of broken faith, and the Human Alliance was once perfect in the hearts of these people.

They follow the way of science and technology, are rational, and know how to sacrifice for future generations and make various arrangements, just so that human beings can have a glimmer of vitality.

But now such a low-level mistake would be made.

"Designers and users are often not the same people." Ding Yi was silent for a while before he said faintly, "Actually, many times, I have seen you mistakenly use various technological creations, and I can feel my blood pressure soaring. The designer may have designed enough redundancy, but the user is useless. ”

"That's a child's play." William said.

"Isn't this unusual? Is there less repair due to your messing around? Ding Yi gave William a roll of his eyes and let him experience it for himself.

"Alright, now that you know this, let's go solve the problem of the Blade of Judgment first, and then go find the lighthouse and activate it. Then we continued to pursue the remnants of the Covenant. ”

Zhang Han interrupted the conversation between the two.

Got it and what the problem is!!

Things are easy to solve.

A group of psionic legionnaires, led by a company commander, Julius, were selected, and after setting their targets, they flew straight to the Blade of Judgment.

Three hours later, they landed on the Judgment Blade War Object.

There are also many dead in this massive war body.

They should be the first victims.

Passing the dead, the legionnaires headed straight for the control room.

The database of the Human Alliance inherited by the Empire from the dungeon is of the highest level.

All human creations can be found in them with corresponding records and structural diagrams.

The Judgment Blade also has corresponding data.

All they need to do is enter the control room and undo their predecessors' actions to successfully gain control of the Judgment Blade.

There are a number of low-level robots within the Judgment Blade that are still standby.

When someone invades, they are activated to deliver devastating blows to the enemy.

But they were no match for the Legionnaires.

In a matter of minutes, the robots were turning into sparkling sparks of electricity and oil-soaked metal.

【Please do biometric verification】

When approaching the control room, the door is activated.

Following the method left by the dungeon database, Julius removed the armor from his hand and slit his palm, and slapped it on the detection screen.

At the end of the Human Alliance, many people have realized that human civilization will not be able to resist the destruction of the Eternal Night Storm.

In order to leave behind the hope of a resurgence, all Human Alliance creations have forcibly implanted a program.

When civilization is destroyed, the light of technology and reason ceases to exist.

Human descendants who re-enter the starry sky can use their blood, DNA, and soul tests to enter any void structure that has lost its owner.

[Human genetic data is detected, comparisons are being made, verification is being sent to the highest authority, verification is being sent to the higher-level system, and verification is being sent to supervisors.] 】

[There is no response from the highest authority, no response from the higher-level system, no response from the supervisor-level person, and the scan results confirm that the alliance of a community with a shared future for mankind has been destroyed. Start the (Human Catastrophe, Civilization Restart) program, identity check passed, and you're welcome back. 】

Accompanied by hoarseness, like the mechanical sound of iron scraping.

The heavy metal hatch slowly opened, revealing the scene inside the control room.

There are no living people, and there are no dried corpses.

There was only one console that shimmered.

"Hello." Accompanied by an unpleasant mechanical sound, electrostatic beams flickered in the air, finally outlining the appearance of a little girl.

The little girl has short soft light blue hair, is dressed very cutely, and has a rune paper with subspace runes engraved on the door of her head.

There is no doubt that the design of this image definitely came from the designers of the Judgment Blade.

Is that the designer of the Human Alliance so fond of cute things??

"I am the intelligent control AI of the Judgment Blade, you can call me Seventy-Seven, according to the provisions of the Human Supremacy Act launched by the Human Alliance to deal with the crisis of civilization destruction, the human civilization in the Tianfu Galaxy has been completely destroyed, and you will become the master of the Judgment Blade."

The projection calls itself Qiqi.

Julius stared at the projection that emerged.

The Galactic Empire does not allow the creation of new strong intelligence AI.

However, it has shown an inclusive attitude towards the strong intelligent AI left over from the Human Alliance.

They are allowed to continue to live in human societies and have the status of subjects of the Empire.

Qiqi is a subject of the empire, so to speak.

"Shut down the anti-spirit ability field immediately." Julius said.

Qiqi's projection revealed a bitter gourd face, "This can only be turned off by the descendants of the Creator, Qiqi doesn't have enough permissions." I can only help you activate the main control system. ”

"Then activate the main control system." Julius walked over to the console.

"Understood, activate the main control system immediately."

Qiqi let out a cheering sound.

The Judgment Blade entered a state of low-power operation after the destruction of the civilization of the Tianfu Galaxy.

She has been trapped in the main control room.

To be honest, even if it's an AI, being trapped for so long, has a terrible sense of loneliness.

Now that the Judgment Blade is reactivated, she'll be able to run around.

The designer of Qiqi is very influential, and Qiqi is not involved in the Zhiji Rebellion.

She survived the Great Purge.

But she, like the surviving AI, has lost most of her power and can no longer make any decisions past humans.

Even if humanity dies and goes to destruction, they will not allow it to interfere.

If the Legionnaire hadn't come, she would have been able to watch the Judgment Blade complete its mission according to the established procedures, and she would not be able to do anything.

A rumbling sound came from underground, and the long-dormant energy stack began to operate again.

The energy is flowing down the pipes, into the massive machinery, and it is up and running again.

The lumen lights in the hallways were lit one by one.

The war object has regained its vitality.

The main consoles in the control room are also all activated, emitting mechanical and electromagnetic sounds.

The indicator light is lit.

Projections flickered, revealing complex curves and a lot of data.

A window of information appeared in front of Julius.

[Do you want to close the anti-spirit ability field?] 】

[Hint: This is a dangerous operation, and the subspace wave will likely engulf the entire Tianfu Galaxy, causing a large number of casualties.] If you insist on confirming the closure, please follow the standard procedure. 】

Julius confirms that it is closed, then follows the prompts to the console and verifies his biological data once more, allowing the scanner to scan his soul projections, genetic data, and brain neural activity to confirm that the behavior is a decision made by a human autonomously, without any interference or coercion.

[The test has passed, and the anti-spirit ability field is closing.] Countdown: Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Off. 】

With the sound of the prompt, the oppressive feeling that shrouded the air disappeared in an instant, giving people a sense of relief.

The anti-spirit ability field was lifted, and many people returned to normal.

Zhao Shang also recovered from that feeling of suffocation, like a fish being thrown back into the water, and became relaxed again.

After confirming that the crisis was resolved, the Imperial fleet led by the Pride of the Empire poured into the inner ring of the Tianfu system and approached the Blade of Judgment.

The Judgment Blade is a war object left behind by the Human Alliance.

If it can be applied to the battlefield and targeted against the enemy, it will be absolutely devastating for the Covenant and the Precursors.

Zhang Han, Ding Yi and the others all landed on the Judgment Blade and went to the control room.

In addition to using the Judgment Blade as a weapon of war, they also have to ask the intelligent AI about the reason for the destruction of the civilization in the Tianfu system and the location of another lighthouse.

As a result of the transfer of control, the Empire became the de facto owner of AI-Seven.

Regarding the questions of Zhang Han and others, Qiqi did not hide anything.

"According to my stored memory, in the year 50048 of the new calendar, after the outbreak of the second round of subspace storm tides, three members of the Supreme Council of the Alliance for a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind died unexpectedly, causing unprecedented chaos. The Judgment Blade and the Seventh Alliance Fleet, under the command of the military commander Zhu Hu, entered the Tianfu galaxy to carry out the guard mission to ensure that the Tianfu galaxy would not be invaded by the subspace wave and establish a human fortress. When the news broke, many people rushed to the Tianfu Galaxy to seek refuge, but it also brought some cultists of evil gods and some human traitors with bad intentions. A group of human traitors called the Hermit Order has prepared a mass sacrifice in the Tianfu system, begging their angels to come down. ”

"The ritual caused the death of a total of 3.12 million Alliance people, and the souls were swallowed by the subspace, which caused a huge panic and caused an endless stream of strange events. At the critical juncture, the Supreme Military Commander - Zhu Hu ordered a crackdown and activated a high-intensity anti-spiritual ability field to suppress the phenomenon of the flood of spiritual energy. ”

"Then why did it cause the death of the souls of the entire Tianfu Galaxy??" Zhang Han asked the most crucial question.

The first chapter came out at twelve o'clock, which was not bad.

Start Chapter 2 right away.

The Third Expeditionary Force will receive the Judgment Blade War Object.

There are also some elite ships left over from the Alliance's Seventh Fleet, all of which are good.

(End of chapter)