The Imperial Dream is a world of armor and rock, a great creature that materializes killing and war through the power of technology, destined to bring countless deaths and make the stars burn in its presence.

Countless massive artillery emplacements and towering towers of weapons rose from the mountain-like buildings on its back, harbors dotted its surface, and a layer of atmosphere and engine smoke enveloped it under the protection of the force field device, and the magnificent buildings known as the city shimmered.

It is a masterpiece of the art of human destruction, an entity of human wrath, and the embodiment of the will of the God-Emperor.

Fueled by a huge engine, the massive Imperial Dream slowly sailed towards the inner ring of the galaxy, surrounded by the Astral Glow, the Heart of the Sun, and its sister ships, the Taiyin and the Sun.

There are some cracks in the void of the Noor system, and those monsters hidden in the depths of the subspace have squeezed from the illusory world to the real world with the help of these cracks, just like the dark and infinite void has grown a wriggling sarcoma.

Aware of the arrival of the Empire and the fate they were about to face, these monsters waved their tentacles and roared through the warped void in an attempt to stop the Imperial fleet led by the Emperor's Dream.

They don't want to be driven back to that cruel and twisted hell, they don't want to waste their eternal lives in the abyss of darkness and no light. They crave access to the real universe, to feast on the delicious souls and flesh, and humans are the villains who destroy their good life. They just want to be in reality, what's wrong with that? Why do these damn apes have to come and expel them!!

The only explanation is that these shameful apes greedily want to seize the power of the entire real universe, want to dominate the stars, and want to occupy the vast material realm alone.

The indignant monsters roared in ancient language, but the Imperial fleet ignored it and simply continued to fire, using the power of technology to drive the monsters back into the subspace and close the rift.

Survival is a cruel thing, there is no right or wrong in it, humans cannot coexist with other races, nor can they coexist with subspace creatures, there is only a cruel war between the two sides.

Those monsters are terrifying and powerful, but in the face of the caliber of the cannon and the firepower enough to destroy the world, even the immortal will be hated on the spot, and will be expelled back to the subspace to wait for the chance to be resurrected again.

As the void was illuminated by heavy cannon fire, the giant monsters were shattered one by one, becoming the slag floating in the void, and the vast fleet opened a path to its goal in a system full of desecration and corruption.

Above the bridge control room, there is a high-rise platform that overlooks the entire bridge. The perimeter of the platform is sealed off by special reinforced windows, which isolate the void outside, and maintain the air and temperature inside.

The platform has a good view, and you can see the entire Void battlefield, making it an excellent viewing point.

Qin Zheng stood on the edge of the platform, watching the situation of the entire Void Battlefield. At this time, his divine aura and scorching light had faded, there was no aura shining behind his head, and there was no light and flame flowing in his eyes, he maintained the appearance of an ordinary person, standing there, looking at those monsters crushed by the fleet, silent.

Saladin led the Praetorian guards behind the Emperor, and he remained silent at first, but curiosity prompted him to speak.

"I don't understand, my lord."

"Wonder why I didn't just use the extermination order? It's about letting the fleet into this corrupted place. ”

Qin Zheng didn't look back, there was no difference between the front and back for him, and when he reached his level, the directions of front and back, left and right, up and down, no longer meaningful, he could see everything. Even if Saladin was standing behind him, he could see it, and he could even know what the other party was thinking.

"Yes, my lord. The Imperial Dream is equipped with weapons that can destroy the star system, which has been completely polluted, and it is better to purify it and blow it into ruins, which will save time and reduce casualties. ”

Saladin's proposal is also the voice of many people, there is no need to save a corrupt galaxy without human survival, and it is better to destroy the entire galaxy directly, and you can also test new weapons.

For the current technology of the empire, it will not have any effect if the star is exploded, even if the star explodes, those materials will still remain in the galaxy, but they will exist in a different way, and the colony team can mine it better.

"We can never rush." Qin Zheng's tone was calm, there was no excitement, no impatience, and his eyes were also looking outside from beginning to end, "In everything, we must be patient, more patient than our enemies. The final victory must belong to those who are patient, impatient and can't do anything. Follow my orders, just get close to the target, and the answer you want will be revealed soon. ”

Hearing the God Emperor's answer, Saladin still had a lot of doubts in his heart, but he still pressed it down. Since the lord said that there will be an answer soon, then he will wait patiently.

The enemies in the galaxy are not very strong, and it is not very difficult to destroy them. After leaving behind countless floating wreckage, the expeditionary fleet successfully reached the orbit of the planet Nur 02.

The revitalized space stations tried to put up their last resistance, but they were easily paralyzed by the power of the Empire, and the entire planet of Noor 02 fell into the hands of the giant man of the Imperial Expeditionary Force like a delicate and powerless survivor. How to cook and pose next is just a trivial matter.

The Imperial Dream conducted its first scan of the planet Noor 02, and to no surprise, the entire planet had been corrupted, and the surface was home to a large number of strange creatures, wriggling scarlet flesh and twisted monsters.

The entire planet was animated, and several faces of mountains, rivers, and giant monsters were embedded in the planet's surface, making it look like a head with seven or eight faces.

Even a veteran of a hundred battles would feel genuinely fearful and disgusted by that hateful appearance.

Each nest has been completely polluted and abandoned, and there is no trace of human industry or the existence of civilization.

"Is there anything in such a world that we can save?" Saladin, who remained silent, said silently in his heart, "Who can survive in such a world full of polluting evil things?? ”

At this time, a noisy sound came from the communication channel, as if it had been disturbed by an electric current, and after a while, the sound in the communication became clear.

Saladin glanced at the rune prompt and found that it was Zhao Xun, who was located under the platform and was sitting on the command throne.

"Your Majesty, we have detected a signal of human life on the planet Nur 02." Zhao Xun paused for a moment before he said the latter sentence in a suspicious and apprehensive tone, "There is a suspected survivor." ”

Zhao Xun's words made Saladin frown, "Captain of the fleet, are you sure you are not mistaken??" In such a place, there will still be living people?? And there is only one person. ”

"I don't know, but the Imperial Dream's detection array did pick up a life signal that it belonged to a human." Zhao Xun's tone was firm, "Either the machine is wrong, or there is really a person." ”

"There's no way machines can go wrong." The voice of Tymon, who served as the technical chief adviser of the expeditionary force, sounded in the communicator, "Captain of the fleet, I hope you can speak carefully. ”

"If machinery can't go wrong, there's a man down there." Zhao Xun did not argue with Taimon.

"Planet Noor 02 has been completely corrupted, how can a person survive in such a situation!! There should be a shelter that we couldn't find, and we did a deep scan. ”

Saladin had originally questioned this, but after looking up at the Emperor, he finally ordered the detection to continue.

If there was nothing else on Planet Noor 02, it would be nice to just shoot it outside, and try the Empire's latest superweapon, the Starfall.

This giant cannon, which claims to be the most powerful and capable of destroying the entire galaxy, has not yet been recorded.

The God Emperor wants an expeditionary fleet to enter the inner ring of the galaxy, is it possible that there are really survivors?

It's just that when scanning outside the galaxy, the entire galaxy has been completely polluted, and even the flow of time has been completely distorted, and the probability of human survival is very small.

A few moments later, a new scan came out.

"As Saladin had guessed, the surface is not as thoroughly polluted as we see, here."

The Director in charge of the Detection Array, Clide, turned on the projection of the planet Noor 02, and as he moved, the projection was magnified, revealing the landforms and buildings of the Noor system, marked red in an area of the nest, and the information was sent to the others along the communication.

"There is an energy reaction here, and under the interference of subspace, although it is chaotic, it can still scan a very weak signal."

"So there really are survivors." Saladin frowned slightly, "How can there be survivors in an area where the flow of time is disordered and heavily corrupted. ”

"Maybe it has something to do with the scientists of the Human Alliance, they have a lot of strange things in their hands." Timon made his guess heard. Without a doubt, this guess is the most likely.

No one knows how much the Human Alliance did to perpetuate civilization at that time, and although it failed to prevent the Eternal Night Crisis, it also left behind artifacts such as lighthouses and second-generation warships to deal with the crisis.

"There's no point in speculating, finding a way to connect with the survivors of the planet Noor 02 is the most important thing. How is the pollution assessment going!! Zhao Xun looked at several officials on the side, their uniforms all had the marks of the Psionic Affairs Bureau.

"At present, the preliminary estimate is light hazard level - yellow." "It's manageable." ”

Over the years, the Empire has established a hierarchy to distinguish between different levels of corruption.

Minor disasters are also referred to as green events and usually do not result in casualties.

Minor hazard - yellow event with a small number of casualties, but still possible with confidence.

Catastrophic - Pale Red Event, the limit of what the regional government can handle, needs to be notified to the Imperial institutions in the Sector and above.

Catastrophe - A Scarlet event that requires the full assistance of the Empire, and various departments need to be mobilized.

Extinction-Black Event, the Empire will exhaust its national strength, and all troops need to be prepared to die.

This is the Imperial Psionic Bureau's classification of corruption events, as well as the classification of corrupted regions.

Some local agencies or local governments will establish additional hierarchical names according to their original habits, but these five grades are used in the official documents of the Empire, and it is their business for the people to call them according to their local customs, and the Empire does not enforce these things.

The classification of event levels will vary depending on the power of the empire, and in the early days of the empire, planetary corruption will usually be classified as a Crimson event.

After the empire is strong, the corruption of planet Noor 02 will only be classified as light disaster or harmless, because after the empire confirms that there are no human beings, it usually uses artillery and anti-psionic devices to wash the ground, so as to perfectly purify the entire planet, so that the galaxy can return to normal, and there will be basically no casualties.

"We'll take care of that." Brad, who had been silent from the beginning, spoke as the Legion Leader of the Holy Sword Legion.

After the second expansion of the Empire's legions, veterans and grassroots backbones were drawn from the three major legions to form a new legion, thereby expanding the scale of the Galactic Expeditionary Force, speeding up the unification of the galaxy, and preparing for the upcoming Astral Invasion.

In order to reduce the contradictions, the Imperial Council abandoned the direct use of the Fourth Legion, the Fifth Legion, etc., and let the major legion commanders choose their favorite names.

The Sacred Sword was composed of the elite drawn from the three major legions, and the seventh company commander of the first legion, Braid, served as the commander of the legion, and joined the expeditionary force led by the God Emperor himself.

"Saladin, you go to the surface with the legionnaires of the Holy Sword, you are responsible for bringing that person back, and Breed is responsible for going to that base to get back the relevant data information."

Qin Zheng, who had been silent from the beginning of the argument, said to Saladin. His words instantly silenced the communication channel of the controversy, there was no argument, no questioning, only supreme authority and will.

Saladin bowed, "I will live up to the emperor's command," and with that, he turned and left the viewing platform, and hurried to the tarmac with a few of his brothers and Brad.

As the chief of the Praetorian Guard, he will never disobey any orders of the Lord, whether the other party is a human or has been transformed into a monster, he will take it down and send it to the God Emperor.

More than a dozen transports and several black ships used to restrain subspace creatures took off from the Imperial Dream's tarmac and rushed to the surface of the planet Nur 02.

On the surface of the planet Nur 02, in this chaotic world, the base where Saji lives is already the last pure land. He is the only safe zone on the entire planet that cannot be disturbed by those monsters, and he is also the only living person on the planet.

According to the base's intelligent AI, Hummingbird, it was due to a technology called the Geller Force Field that saved the base from being destroyed by those monsters.

In other places, since there is no Geller force field, even if Saji kills those monsters completely, there will be a steady stream of new monsters born to re-pollute those areas.

Saji didn't know what was going on on the planet Nur 02, and when he woke up from the sleeping pod, the world had turned into hell. The prosperous nest has become a nest of monsters, and those innocent people have either died tragically or been assimilated into monsters, and he is the only living person left in the entire vast world.

Saji is not a native of the Noor system, he is a member of the Special Emergency Response Force formed at the end of the Human Alliance, the Destruction Task Force, which is part of the High Council of the Human Alliance, does not follow the orders of the local government, and is mainly tasked with cleaning up the Galaxy's monsters and corrupted humans.

This special forces team played an important role in the end of the Human Alliance, carrying out many missions against strange creatures and corrupted creatures, and was an experienced and highly decorated team until it was betrayed by its boss, Olivia.

For the sake of her immortal appearance and life, the vicious woman chose to collude with the cult, causing the Doom Special Combat Team to fall into an ambush circle, and only Saji survived.

In order to avenge his teammates, Sage joins an experimental project launched by the Human Alliance to enhance humanity and fight the crisis, and follows the scientific research team to the Noor system.

At that time, there were many such projects in the Human Alliance, and the success rate was pitiful, and the slightest carelessness would cause the experimenters to die miserably, or even suffer corruption, coupled with the obstruction and destruction of those cult organizations, participating in such projects was tantamount to looking for death.

Saji, who was desperate for revenge, didn't think much about it, he just wanted to get the power to kill Olivia, the human traitor.

Olivia sold them for a good price, not only regained their youth, but also gained great power, becoming a natural disaster-like existence, which is not at all something that Saji can fight against as an ordinary person, only by participating in those crazy projects, it is possible to gain the power to fight against Olivia.

Saji's last memory is of entering the lab, lying on the operating table, and then falling into a coma, and by the time he woke up, he was already lying in the base's sleeping pod.

He struggled to open the sleeping pod, and found that all around him were the nutrition pods containing corpses, and all the soldiers who participated in the experiment with Saji were dead, and only Saji survived.

When he came to his senses and walked out of the laboratory, he found that the once bright and tidy base had become dilapidated, with wriggling flesh and fanged gates that made the entire base feel like purgatory.

Maybe the experiment was successful, Saji gained the power to fight those strange creatures, and found the weapons that those scientists had made in the first place. Those weapons give humans the ability to harm strange creatures, and they can also draw power from them to never get tired.

Saji, who got the weapon, also found the base AI-Hummingbird, which was still running at low power, in a control room of the base.

Under the guidance of the hummingbird, Sage turned into a monster butcher, killing and killing all the way, restarting the base's energy stack and Geller force field device, activating the Geller force field to keep those monsters out, and creating a safe zone for himself.

Saji tries to ask the hummingbird what happened after he fell asleep, but the hummingbird doesn't know much.

Since the emergence of the intelligent machine crisis, humans have become wary of AI and are unwilling to let them control important information and industrial production.

The hummingbird was only a backup for the base, and it had no access to the classified information, and was not even allowed to read the original experiment logs.

Even the AI doesn't know what happened at the beginning, and Saji naturally can't find the answer, and he doesn't know what happened in this world!!

He was trapped here, and his only job and pastime was to slaughter those monsters day in and day out, and then drag them into the machines that scientists had built to extract a special essence and enchant his weapons.

The base has a complete life cycle system, plus Sage scavenges for some usable things from time to time when hunting monsters, his life is quite passable, but he seems very lonely.

After a humble meal, Saji put on his green armor, checked his weapons and ammunition, and began his work for the day.

The scope of the base was so large that Saji had to take a hovercar he named Thursday to the gates of the base.

The vehicles, guns, and even the defensive turrets in the base were named after Saji, after all, he was the only one here, and he could only talk to these inanimate things, so he named them.

The Geller force field envelops the entire base, and the plasma reactor functions left over by the Human Alliance, as well as routine maintenance and upkeep, are all done by functional robots controlled by Hummingbird.

Saji rushed straight out of the protective range of the Geller force field, and with a single foot of the throttle, the hovercar roared, and swept through the wriggling and flesh-wriggling buildings at breakneck speed.

The monsters near the base were killed by him two days ago, and now they are gone, and it will take a long time for those guys to refill the area, and he can only go farther away to find monsters.

When he arrived at a huge square, he saw the monsters hovering in the square, set the flight mode, put on his gray helmet, and jumped from it.

"Fun time." Saji in mid-air made an excited sound through the helmet's speaker, attracting the attention of those monsters.

A scrawny, woman-like monster howled and rushed over, sharp fangs growing inside her mouth like knives, two hands with sharp claws, and a black mist enveloping her twisted body.

Saji unhurriedly pulled out the chainsaw sword behind his back that looked like a chainsaw, a weapon also made of unknown metal by those scientists, capable of easily slicing the bodies of those monsters and making them irreversible.

When the monster rushed up, the chainsaw sword in Saji's hand activated, and the sawtooth spun at high speed, and the sword slashed at the opponent's head, cutting through the position of the skull, and breaking the opponent.

"+1" Saji felt the heat surging in his body, and every time he killed these monsters, he enjoyed it extraordinarily, and more monsters in the distance also ran towards Saji, their bodies twisted, each head was terrifying, disgusting and terrifying.

With a huge double-barreled haze shotgun in one hand and a chainsaw sword in the other, Saji directly smashed into the monster group and turned into a monster butcher, killing like that.

In the square, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the piercing screams and roars were mixed, and just when Saji thought that today was another hearty massacre, a dozen gunboats and small black spaceships suddenly appeared in the sky, accompanied by the roar of guns, and the monsters in the entire square were wiped out except for the monsters near him.

After shoving the haze gun into the mouth of the last monster and pulling the trigger to blow the opponent's head open, Saji looked up at the roaring gunboats.

Seeing humanity again made him feel like he was dreaming. I once wondered if I was bewitched by a monster to see such an illusion.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but clench the weapon in his hand and prepare for battle.

A gunboat hovered in the air, and a deep voice was heard.

[We are the advance team of the Empire, please exercise restraint, compatriots, we will not harm you, and please do not attack us. 】

The gunboat slowly landed as it shouted, and the huge bracket slowly fell with the neighing of the hydraulic device, supporting the huge hull.

The hatch opened, and Saji saw several warriors in golden armor, who came out in the correct formation like a machine, and came to a stop five meters away from Saji.

The size difference between the two is like that of a child and an adult.

Are these behemoths really human!! Saji frowned slightly, and he raised his weapon, aiming the muzzle of the gun at these guys who didn't know where they came from.

He has been separated from human society for a long time, so he naturally wants to return to human society, but he has to guard against people, and he doesn't want to be dissected as a test subject.

Hell knows what these people have in mind, he's seen many times of those disgusting political dogs and capital magnates murdering others in order to keep secrets and get what they want.

The man at the head removed his helmet, revealing a face carved like marble, flawless.

"I'm the Imperial Emperor's Praetorian Chief-Saladin."

"Imperial God-Emperor?" Saji didn't let down his vigilance, but instead pointed his gun at Saladin's head, "I'm a member of the Human Alliance's Destruction Special Combat Team - Saji, what is the empire and the god emperor in your mouth, I have never seen it in any information. ”

"The era of the Human Alliance is over, and our emperor has rebuilt civilization from the ruins and named it the Galactic Empire. Forgive our presumptuousness, but the Emperor is overjoyed to learn that there are still humans alive in this place, and please leave this place with us. ”

"What did you say?" Saji shouted out in excitement, "The era of the Human Alliance is over?? ”

"Yes, the era of the Human Alliance has been destroyed for more than 10,000 years." Saladin patiently explained, taking out a data tablet from his belongings and handing it over, "Here is information about the Empire, as well as some takeaways from historians archaeological remains of the Human Alliance, you can take a look." ”

"Put it on the ground and stand back." Saji remained vigilant, and instead of stimulating his thoughts, Saladin placed the data board on the ground and stepped back a few meters.

In fact, a few meters is meaningless, for Saladin, to kill the other party, it only takes a blink of an eye. Even if the other party can survive in this ghost place, it will never be the opponent of the Praetorian Guard.

Saji put the chainsaw sword away, and then went to pick up the datapad, holding a gun in one hand and a datapad in the other to check the situation, in addition to the information about the Empire, there are also audio and video recordings and videos left over from the time of the Human Alliance, including Winston, one of the former supreme leaders. Video of Leonard's speech (obtained by the Tianfu Galaxy).

The evidence of the other party all showed that the human alliance to which he was once loyal had become the dust of history, and this truth made Saji feel difficult to breathe for a while.

For a long time, he preferred to believe that he or even the entire planet had been abandoned by unconscionable politicians than that the Human Alliance had been destroyed.

However, now, these evidences have shredded what he has always believed in, the human alliance that once ruled the entire galaxy has been swept into the dustbin of history, and those powerful people and families who were once high have become a thing of the past.

"We have no animosity towards you, Saji. We only came down after checking that there were still living people on this planet, otherwise we would have directly purified this world instead of wasting time here. Come with us, although the human alliance has collapsed, humanity still survives tenaciously, and you can still return to the embrace of human civilization. ”

"Are you worthy of my trust?" Saji thought of his secret, that he could survive the Corruption, and that if he had been placed in the era of the Human Alliance, he would have been torn to pieces by those crazy corporations and magnates.

He couldn't believe that this so-called empire was even more brutal and corrupt, and his fate would be even darker after he left here.

"Don't worry about us hurting, the secrets on your body are not attractive to the Empire, we have our own ways to fight the demons."

Saladin saw Saji's concerns, and with a wave of his hand, he motioned for an accompanying witcher to come over and show him his demon-slaying abilities, and an innocent monster was captured, then stabbed to death by the witcher in a scream.

The whole process is simpler than killing chickens, and Saji was stunned for a while.

"We have a lot of means to fight against subspace, don't worry about us dissecting you, it's more cost-effective for the empire to let you live well than to let you die."

These words moved Saji, and after making sure that the other party did not pose a threat to him, Saji nodded and agreed to board the gunboat.

The gunboat team separated, Bred went to the base to retrieve the data left behind by the Human Alliance, and Saladin took Saji back to the Imperial Dream to meet the Emperor.

The gunboats rose all the way into the air, eventually crossing the Kármán Line and into outer space, where Saji saw a large number of warships and supply ships hovering in orbit.

He was taken by those gold-armored warriors to the flagship that those battleships were guarding, a celestial-class battleship comparable to a planet.

This scene made him sigh lightly, it seemed that this Galactic Empire had really replaced the Human Alliance.

Celestial-class warships were controlled in the era of the Human Alliance, and only served the Navy of the Human Alliance, and could not be owned by any local power, otherwise it would be a crime of betrayal of humanity.

The gunboat landed on the tarmac, and Saji stepped out of the hatch just in time to see a group of Anglican priests passing by, chanting prayers and singing praises to the God-Emperor, and mechanical cherubs hovering in the air with incense burners in their hands, and smoke filled the air.

If it was just that, Saji would have accepted it, and then he saw a few engineers with mechanical prosthetics on their bodies, holding engine oil in their hands, shaking their heads like magic sticks, and chanting words.

"God Emperor bless, God Emperor bless, don't come out of bUG again, normal operation, normal operation. Machine spirits, don't be angry, don't be angry. ”

Hearing the words of those engineers, Sage suddenly had a black line in his head, this Galactic Empire always felt that something was wrong!!

Half past five, 8,300 words, another leap forward, in good shape.

(End of chapter)