Chapter 84 Side Story: The Advantages of Interstellar Warfare 4
His body was shattered, but his soul would return to the Imperial Capital Star following the guidance of the binding device, and finally wake up in a spare body.
The speed at which souls return is even faster than that of spaceships. This is because one cannot travel outside in a soul form for an extended period of time. The protective device can only last for a month or two at most. Otherwise, warfare would have to be conducted in a different way.
His only headache was that his army had suffered heavy losses and it would cost a lot of money to rebuild two thousand warships.
Purchasing spare bodies for his subordinates to 'resurrect' would cost a large sum of star coins, so he didn't make any money this time; on the contrary, he lost a lot of money.
Even as General Luke's body shattered, he was still thinking about money. This loss pained him not only physically, but also spiritually...
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……Wait a moment.
How could his very soul feel the pain?
If what he felt before was merely the fear of witnessing the fleet's instant annihilation, now he was truly in despair; the light seemed to be inflicting damage directly on his soul...
It's like they're driving a tank, humming a tune, heading to a small village to rob some local specialties, only to find that those specialties are as terrifying as nuclear weapons.
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Of course, General Luke didn't die in the end; his soul was removed from the protective device and shaped into a ball by Zhu Qing'ai.
She casually tossed the ball to the dumbfounded policeman beside her and ordered confidently, "Interrogate this Luke alien thoroughly."
"Oh, right, remember to send someone to clean up the remaining trash," her tone remained gentle, showing no trace of the thunderous aura she had just displayed. The light emanating from the people around her was gradually dissipating. Standing amidst the shards of light, she casually straightened her sleeves. "Don't let it fall and dirty my clothes."
When she destroyed those warships, she avoided certain parts. What General Rook didn't expect was that those attacks were more effective on souls, while their effect on physical objects like metal was only so-so (although "only so-so" refers to turning the fleet into fireworks).
Now, if you fly a garbage-collecting spaceship into space to pick up trash, you might even find some good stuff.
I believe the kids who do scientific research will like it.
A profound silence fell, and even the breathing of those around them slowed down, as if afraid it was their imagination or that they had disturbed the spirit before them.
Zhu Qing'ai looked in the direction of the voice and found a college student with clear eyes and a slightly silly look. She covered her mouth with her sleeve and chuckled softly, while relaxing her control over her body and returning control to Lu Qian.
The ancient dress shattered on Lu Qian's body, as if an illusion had vanished. Her face contorted in shock, and they could all see clearly that Motherland had left, and this young student had returned.
Just as Lu Qian was about to say something, her legs went weak, her vision went black, and she fainted.
It was just acting, and there were no aftereffects. What looked like an aftereffect was added manually by Zhu Qing'ai, just to let Lu Qian get a good night's sleep.
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Interrogation Room
General Luke's soul returned to human form, and he would occasionally glance at the 'person' opposite him who was eating virtual potato chips, drinking soda, and watching a period drama.
This woman was the one who brought him to the human interrogation room. He looked down at the light band around his wrist, which was meant to prevent his soul from escaping, but he couldn't figure out how it was done. It didn't look like a scientific contraption.
The historical drama that Zhu Qing'ai was watching was a palace intrigue drama, set during the reign of King Zheng of Qin. However, the main characters were not King Zheng and his harem, but the Empress Dowager Zhao and her male favorite.
As someone who personally experienced that time, although the show is absurdly made and the characters are ridiculously eccentric, it's still really funny to watch.
As Zhu Qing'ai watched, she would occasionally burst into laughter. It was fortunate that Zhao Ji had died early and hadn't lived to see this day.
While the two professional interrogators were asking General Luke what his superiors wanted to know, they were also secretly glancing at Motherland sitting to the side.
This was an opportunity they had worked so hard to win; if only they could say a few words to their mother after the interrogation was over…
They also realized that their motherland was watching "The Legend of the Condor Heroes," which had a rating of 2.0 on the cloud. How could they explain it to their mother to believe that the public's aesthetic sense was not so strange and that they, the people of Qin, were not crazy at all!
While watching the TV series, Zhu Qing'ai packed a lot of things, planning to take them out and read them when she got bored in the ancient world.
Because of her presence, General Rook wisely shared all the common interstellar knowledge he could, and under duress and enticement, he vaguely revealed a lot of things he couldn't say.
He thought of his adjutant and his men who had turned to ashes, and his heart ached. When he opened his eyes and found that he was the only one there, he realized one thing: he was the only survivor left on the other side.
His two thousand warships each required approximately two thousand personnel, and the remaining three thousand were mostly combat personnel and some logistics staff. Now they are all gone, totaling tens of millions of people. This 'person' was killed without batting an eye.
Even in interstellar warfare, this is extremely cruel. Most importantly, they had already stopped attacking and submitted a diplomatic request, which is tantamount to surrender. Under these circumstances, her actions clearly violated interstellar rules.
But... no law enforcement teams came to this remote and impoverished place, otherwise they wouldn't dare to be so arrogant as to directly demand the immediate dissolution of all governments on the planet.
Once those people had obtained the information they wanted, General Rook would also have the opportunity to ask the 'people' watching TV dramas over there.
His expression was somber, and he mumbled something incoherently. Zhu Qing'ai, who had specially kept the translator, faithfully translated the meaning of his words.
The question is simply why she went so far as to kill so many people—over ten million!
Zhu Qing'ai understood, and she nodded matter-of-factly, saying, "Aliens certainly have human rights, but do fireworks delivered to our door have human rights? Have you ever heard of that?"
The two staff members in charge of the interrogation quickly shook their heads in cooperation, one of them saying, "International law of war does not stipulate that fireworks have human rights."
General Rook: ?
Seeing that General Luke was still staring blankly at her, Zhu Qing'ai frowned and pondered for a moment, then sighed and conjured a red envelope: "Although it's not the New Year, your fireworks display was very beautiful, so this is for you as a New Year's gift."
Interrogators x2: Staring at the image (jpg) · Envious of the image (jpg) ·
General Rook: ...
He reached out his soul's hand and took the red, rectangular piece of paper.
He clumsily opened the package and saw a beam of light pop out. General Luke was shocked and instinctively crawled under the interrogation table.
He almost shouted himself hoarse: "I've said everything I can say, what more do you want?!"
"...I'm just returning the two devices bound to your soul to you, don't you want them?"
General Luke then crawled out from under the table and quickly took his equipment back. As a soldier, he shouldn't have acted like that, but people are just terrified.
He didn't dare say she was stingy for giving him his own things.
Seeing that General Luke had put away the device, Zhu Qing'ai smiled slightly and turned to the two interrogators, saying, "Let's go, I want to see the current chairman."
"Mother, Chairman Yu is already waiting in the outer office, right here."
Zhu Qing'ai adapted well to this form of address, nodding slightly as she followed the two people ahead of her.
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Those outside didn't know what the people and countries discussed in the office, only that after the chairman came out, he immediately ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to negotiate with the other countries on the planet, demanding that they merge into China within three days, and at the same time, the planet would be renamed Qin Star.
There are only about thirty countries on the planet, and China already occupies most of the land and ocean. The remaining thirty-odd countries combined only occupy a small portion of the land.
Once the spirit awakens this time, even this small portion will be gone.
I escaped the aliens' demand to dissolve the government, but I couldn't escape my local neighbors' demands. I'm so moved.
Zhu Qing'ai was only responsible for making the requests; how to implement them was not her concern. While keeping a portion of her consciousness on Qin Xing, she followed General Luke to Luke Star.
This is also why she asked to release this person earlier; how could she have so easily found the coordinates of the capital star of the Luke people without someone to guide her?
As soon as General Luke activated his backup body on the capital planet and climbed out of the nutrient tank, Zhu Qing'ai copied and packaged the usable technological data.
"General, what's wrong...?"
The general's soul being teleported back after his death to activate his backup body was a major event. Almost as soon as the nutrient tank was opened, a group of high-ranking Luke people walked in.
"Koss, didn't you say you discovered an intelligent human race with uncontaminated genes? How come you've returned from the dead?"
Zhu Qing'ai then realized that the Luke man's name was Kos. She hid herself and watched the conversation with great interest.
Originally, as a system, she had all sorts of limitations, but by using the concept of 'Qin', she roamed the universe unchallenged, and even the main system had to say that she did a great job.
As a conceptual entity, she is not in the same dimension as reality. To her, the high-tech detection technology of Luke Star is just a pile of scrap metal, completely useless.
Of course, they couldn't realize that someone was standing right next to them, openly eavesdropping.
Kos rolled his eyes: "My army is all dead. Anyway, I'm not going to that damn Earth. Whoever wants to go can go."
Zhu Qing'ai adjusted the translator, and the translation, well, it's quite down-to-earth...
The man who had just mocked Koss immediately retorted, "Heh, just a bunch of country bumpkins. Koss, you're so scared? You're a piece of trash. If I went, they'd all become me..."
His words came to an abrupt halt, and Zhu Qing'ai calmly drew the sword from her hand.
As the authentic Qin woman, she naturally held the Qin state sword in her hand; she didn't use the Zhao sword, but her own.
Koss looked horrified as he watched his colleague fall to the ground dead, but his soul did not float away. The spare bodies of their superiors were all here, and Rue's spare body was even lying in the nutrient tank next to him.
He shouted, "She's here! She's here!"
Someone frowned: "What's the panic? I don't believe I can die just by saying a few words. I'm going to invade Earth, so what?"
Kos stared wide-eyed as the second person fell...
What is the advantage in interstellar warfare? It lies in the fact that we know the enemy's cosmic coordinates, while the enemy does not know our coordinates.
If two equally matched sides know each other's coordinates, then the contest is based on raw strength. However, if one side can win by overwhelming force, then the consequences of knowing each other's coordinates are terrifying.
Originally, the Luke aliens were the ones who were crushing the enemy, but now they have become the ones being crushed.
"Who are you? Would you like to come out and discuss this further?"
After waiting for a long time without receiving any reply, the Rook man who had made the invitation turned to Kos and said, "Explain yourself."
Koss gave a rambling account of his observations on Earth, focusing on the mythical spirit of the Qin people.
"..."
The empty space was silent, then someone whispered, "The coordinates have been leaked, let's go with that one."
“This was our fault, Kos. If you don’t want to go to a military court, take our gifts from the Luke people and go back to make peace with the national spirits there.”
Koss: Huh?
Wait a minute, he barely escaped death, don't you want to listen to what you're saying?
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