Chapter 79 Chapter 79 (Part 2)
When Sijialanxing sent the sixth communication request, Rong Heng finally answered the call.
He put on the pure white smiling mask and wore a white military uniform without a single wrinkle. He sat in a wide swivel chair, his long legs crossed, his hands placed in front of him in a tower shape, his body slightly leaning forward, looking at the communication camera.
He already knew why Star Sigaran was so eager to contact Star Balem.
But Star Sjaran obviously doesn't know the current situation of Star Balem.
After Rong Heng's virtual image appeared, his strange attire made the people in the base very suspicious for a while. Finally, the base commander asked, "Who are you? Let Manson Belloc come out for a conversation."
"Manson Belloc?" Rong Heng turned his head, clapped his hands, and said to the robot on duty: "This gentleman wants to see Manson Belloc, go and bring him over."
A moment later, Manson Belloc, who was locked in the warehouse and looked disheveled, was brought up.
He is the person in charge of the ground control center and has the highest authority in the entire control center; but now, he is just a prisoner.
Although Rong Heng did not abuse or harm the prisoners, being detained in the warehouse for several days was enough to make the person in charge, who was used to giving orders, depressed.
Seeing the other side's situation, Sjaran finally understood what might have happened to Balem. Based on the other side's strange dress and impolite words, they immediately thought of rampant interstellar pirates.
These bandits wandering around the universe are not polite to anyone.
But the mermaids never suffer humiliation. The chief, Harman, raised his hand to stop the commander from speaking, walked forward, stared at Rong Heng, and asked, "Did you intercept the neutron beam near the Balem star?"
"That's right." Rong Heng supported his chin with one hand, speaking in a nonchalant tone.
He had been displeased with Harman for a long time. Although the other party was very powerful, he was arrogant and conceited, and was a veritable supporter of racism.
In the past, the four ancient clans had to maintain a friendly appearance in name only. Although Rong Heng disliked many of his ways, he just turned a blind eye. Now that he has the identity of an interstellar pirate, it is natural that he will be as rude as possible.
"You are just interstellar pirates. You probably don't even know who you have offended, right?" Harman said coldly with a solemn expression: "Sika——"
"Of course I know." Rong Heng raised his hand to interrupt him without any politeness: "The seafood from Sijialan Star, even if it is countless light years away, I can still smell the pungent smell of the sea."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and fanned his nose, as if he was really being smoked.
"You!" Harman had never been humiliated like this before. His face turned from green to red, and his elegant face twisted slightly: "Since you know this, you still dare to do this... Do you want to declare war on the Sijialan Star?"
Rong Heng sneered, leaned closer to the armchair, and said in the same casual tone: "If you want to fight, then let's fight."
Obviously, he did not take the Blue Star of Scarlett Johansson seriously.
The communication was cut off without warning, and the other party was obviously very angry.
Rong Heng was refreshed. He signaled the robot to lock Manson Belloc back in the warehouse. He took off his mask and said to the others, "Given Harman's temper, he must be preparing for a second attack."
But they no longer care about it. The Dyson sphere uses stars as its energy supply, and they also have a whole resource star as a backup. If the two sides go head-to-head, the only one who will suffer is the Sjarlan star that wants to secretly destroy the evidence.
He smiled softly and woke Noah up: "Turn on defense mode, lock onto the Sijialan star, and prepare for the first attack."
The second launch of the star Skylan took place four days later.
Two neutron beams carrying huge kinetic energy came one after another and separated in the Barham star field, one beam rushed towards the more distant B3024 star, and the other beam went straight to the Barham star.
But Rong Heng had been prepared. Three neutron beams were fired simultaneously. Two of them intercepted the neutron beams of the Sijialan Star and exploded in the uninhabited star field, while one beam rushed towards the Sijialan Star as a super beam.
The defense system of the planet Sgarlan is quite powerful. The neutron beams that traveled millions of light years certainly would not threaten the stability of the planet, but they were more of a humiliation than an attack.
Rong Heng could even imagine Harman jumping up and down in anger.
Three hours later, the main control room received news that the neutron beam had hit the target.
Five hours later, news appeared on the holographic network that the planet Sjarlan was suddenly attacked by a neutron beam, causing the planet to shake and trigger several tsunamis.
Although the tsunami did not pose much of a threat to the mermaids living in the sea, the attack on the planet Sjaran was unprecedented big news!
Not only the people on Star Sijialan were shocked, but everyone on the holographic network was discussing this matter for a while, guessing where the neutron beam that attacked Star Sijialan was emitted from.
The mermaid chief, who had known the truth for a long time, was so angry that he smashed the table.
A mere star thief dares to be so arrogant! He is really disrespectful to others!
But this is not the end, it is just a beginning.
What set off the entire holographic network was a live broadcast.
On a certain inconspicuous live broadcast platform, a group of interstellar pirates wearing strange masks, calling themselves the "Eastern Alliance", claimed responsibility for the attack on the planet Sjarlan.
But in the past two days, many people have claimed that they were the ones who launched neutron beams to attack the Sijialan planet, and this has become nothing new on the holographic network.
What really attracted attention and made the live broadcast the focus of everyone's attention was the video released by these star thieves.
In the video, the insect swarm is everywhere, but in the midst of the insect swarm, the iconic building of the energy center is still eye-catching and unmistakable.
"The Zerg have invaded the entire Galaxy Empire star field. Perhaps even as you are watching this live broadcast, some distant planets have been quietly swallowed up by the Zerg. The source of all this is the planet Sjarlan. They colluded with the Zerg, transported a batch of dormant Zerg back from the Melches region, and allowed the Zerg to leave, opening up a passage for the Zerg from the frontline region's defense line to the rear of the Empire. Now, these Zerg have begun to invade the Empire star field, and the B3024 planet that was attacked may be the first planet, but it will definitely not be the last."
At the end of the video, a man wearing a mask with a pure white smile said in a deep voice: "The era of peace has come to an end, and war is about to begin."
The number of people watching the live broadcast online is rising steadily. Some are questioning, some are cursing, and some are feeling panic. The live broadcast interface is covered by dense subtitles.
However, this group of masked people did not give any explanation, simply cut off the live broadcast and then went offline.
Some people complained that the live broadcast was maliciously creating panic and chaos, so the live video was removed from the Internet, and only the audience's recording was still being broadcast on the holographic network.
The "Eastern Alliance" and the planet Sijia Lan have become new hot topics on the Internet, with countless people participating in the discussion, but few people really pay attention to Rong Heng's warning.
Everyone looked as if it had nothing to do with them.
The soldiers in the frontline area kept the Zerg outside the defense line. The rear of the empire has been peaceful for too long. Everyone has forgotten the fierce battle between their ancestors and the Zerg, and also forgotten the belief of the various planets of the empire to unite to fight against foreign enemies.
No one feels that the flames of war will spread to them, and they have become accustomed to turning a blind eye to the suffering of others.
Until someone asked for help on the holographic network.
He was a young Bis man in his early twenties. He used a neuron-connected helmet to enter the holographic world and shouted for help in the news section where the crowd gathered.
His mental state was extremely unstable. He knelt on the ground, crying and begging for help to save Lenka Star and save him.
And showed everyone the current situation of Lenka - overwhelming Zerg, destroyed buildings, defeated armies, and corpses all over the ground.
"Save us, please save us." The young man's spirit body became distorted, and finally disappeared as if it had never appeared. The last words he left were: "They have blocked Lenka and will not allow us to leave."
No one who enters the holographic world will fail to understand what it means when the spiritual body is distorted and disappears in the holographic world - this means that the other person's physical body in reality has died.
Perhaps the extremely unstable spirit they saw was just a remnant of consciousness left after the other person's body died after entering the holographic world.
The tragedy that happened before their eyes finally made some people feel that the invasion of the Zerg was real.
What happened on Lenka was soon confirmed.
At 5:43 p.m. on March 26, the Sikkim Daily published a mourning article - the planet Lenka in the Caesarea region suffered a devastating blow due to a leak in a giant tokamak reactor, which detonated the energy station and caused a chain explosion. No one survived.
The Sikkim Daily reported the incident in an entire page, but made no mention of the young Bis from Lenka who had called for help on the holographic network.
Such exaggerated reports finally aroused public anger.
Someone remembered what the star pirates had said during the live broadcast: "Perhaps while you are watching this live broadcast, some distant planets have been quietly swallowed up by the Zerg."
Some people once treated it as a joke.
In this interstellar age where holographic networks are common, no one believes that a planet will disappear silently.
But now the ending of Lenka Star has slapped everyone in the face.
Lenka did not disappear quietly, but its ending was more horrifying than disappearing quietly.
The Zerg invasion is real, but the Empire will not save the invaded planets. Instead, it will block the entire planet and let it disappear "reasonably".
This time it was a reactor leak. What high-sounding excuse will be given the next time it's your planet's turn?
Everyone shuddered.
The urgent sense of crisis and the anger of being fooled led many people to spontaneously denounce the Imperial government on the holographic network and demand the disclosure of the truth about the destruction of Lenka.
Even in front of the Parka Palace, people began to march and demonstrate, demanding the truth.
After two days of public outrage, the current Emperor Si Yan held a press conference to reveal the truth about the destruction of Lenka.
He publicly admitted that Lenka was invaded by Zerg, and because the local government failed to respond in time and had weak armed defense, they suffered a devastating invasion less than 24 hours after sending out a distress message. However, the superior officials who received Lenka's distress message did not pass it on to the central government, but intercepted it privately and sent the message secretly to Sijialan.
The so-called reactor explosion detonated the entire energy station, resulting in the destruction of Lenka, but Sjaran used it to cover up the pretense of using planetary weapons to attack Lenka.
"Before I ascended the throne, I knew that the Empire was divided by racism. But I never expected that when facing the Zerg, some of our compatriots would choose to wield the sword against their own people. As the Emperor of the Empire, this is my failure."
The elegant and handsome emperor stood in front of the stage with a sincere look and earnest words. He even took off his crown and bowed deeply.
A reporter asked: "Then how will Your Majesty deal with the Sijialan Star?"
Si Yan stood up straight, his apologetic expression turned cold: "I will declare war on Sijialan Star for treason! The Governor of Sijialan Star, Haman, will be tried in the military court!"
On that day, the front page of the Sikkim Daily had words like "Sikalan Star is committing treason" and "Sikalan Star Governor will be tried" written in bold font.
Si Yan's declaration also completely ignited the anger of all those who were concerned about the Lenka incident.