Chapter 73
When the alarm sounded, everyone outside the meeting room was stunned for a moment.
While the secretariat was also a former mech corps, they were currently all civilian personnel. The mech fleet from the main garrison was responsible for the defense of this military council. Some mech corps members reacted quickly, rushing into the meeting room before the metal panels could close.
But more people were unable to react in time and were kept out of the meeting room, causing chaos.
Qiao Mingjin stood in the corner, suppressing his fluctuating emotions and watching coldly.
Xi Yue hinted that the truth of this world would soon come to light, so he was mentally prepared for any unexpected changes during the meeting, although the changes came too quickly - they happened just as the meeting began.
Moreover, Xiyue is the god of pollution.
So, what should he do outside the meeting room?
Several people beside him shouted anxiously, asking the people inside to turn off the space sealing device. No matter what level of pollution broke out in the conference room, the tens of thousands of mecha soldiers deployed inside and outside the building could easily deal with it.
This decision received an immediate response, and the people inside also responded quickly.
——I can't turn it off! I pressed the switch several times, but the metal plate didn't open at all!
The people outside were startled. Almost at the same time, a mecha soldier pointed at the wall and shouted, "The line, the line has been destroyed!"
"It must be the 33rd Legion. They must have someone infiltrated here!"
The noise and chaos suddenly stopped, and everyone froze at the same time, fearing that if they moved, they would be identified as members of the 33rd Legion lurking in to cause trouble.
The magnetic knife that emerged from Qiao Mingjin's sleeve degenerated into strange gold and disappeared quietly.
When the incident just started, many of the prepared things had not been used yet, and the metal plate that sealed the conference room could not be opened.
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"If the switch doesn't work, then we'll just charge!" a ruler in full mech gear yelled, "Everyone present is at least A-rank. Everyone fire their spiral cannons at the same point. No matter how thick the metal plate is, it won't withstand it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, many people urged their Qi Jin to form a spiral cannon. However, before they could agree on where to aim, a clear female voice pierced through the rolling gray fog and reached everyone's ears.
"There's not a single pollutant here, so what's there to be afraid of?"
This voice is Xiyue.
The tone was unpleasant, but it suddenly awakened the rulers: "Indeed, there is not even a blade of grass at the meeting site. As long as no one dies, there will be no pollution." With the advanced mental power of those present, even if the pollution concentration soars to the super-polluted zone, there is nothing to fear.
With armor protection and high enough anti-infection ability, no one will be affected by the pollution even if they stay in the contaminated area for a day and a night.
"Besides," Xiyue's voice sounded again, "The Supreme Ruler of the Interstellar World, the Commander-in-Chief, is already eighty years old. Even if you want to escape, you have to take him with you, right?"
Many people had actually forgotten about the commander-in-chief, and immediately felt guilty when they heard this question.
But Xiyue's tone suddenly changed: "Commander, what's wrong with you?!"
Something seems to be wrong with the commander!
The rulers immediately changed direction and rushed towards the source of the sound, while turning on the reconnaissance system and thermal imaging images appeared in their field of vision.
Those who were close or fast flew above the conference table in less than a second, but were suddenly attacked and knocked away by a figure.
The figure was incredibly fast and knocked many people away in just a blink of an eye.
What was even more incredible was that the person who was knocked away had a mecha as a defense and was not injured, but suddenly a crazy roar of the pollutant was heard near the round table!
There are many ups and downs, more than one!
Someone died!
Mutated into a pollutant!
The attack of pollutants arrived quickly, slithering along the ground, walls, and ceiling, striking the nearest living person. Some mutated organs pierced through the thick fog and struck the metal armor.
However, they were just a few pollutants that had just mutated, and the rulers still had an overwhelming military advantage. It was just that some of them couldn't help but put their minds back on their previous proposal.
Use the spiral cannon to concentrate attacks and break the closed space of pollution isolation.
At the round table.
Xi Yue was still sitting upright on the high-back chair, holding the calm Shi Hanyi in one hand, while Yuan Xu and the other two behind him also stood still.
However, the shock on Xipo's face never disappeared.
Xi Yue smiled as she looked at the mecha standing on the round table. There was a layer of gray fog between them, and the other party was covered with a metal mask, but she was very sure that the person in the mecha was Leng Chengzhou.
The moment the gray hole exploded, the pure space between her and the commander suddenly took shape, visible to the naked eye. Leng Chengzhou arrived at the same time and immediately shot the ruler who stayed at the table and did not go to the equipment room to get the mecha box.
Before they completely mutated, the astonishment and horror on their faces did not disappear.
The commander... is actually the God of Pollution?!
——This was probably their last thought before they died. It was a pity that Leng Chengzhou did not give anyone a chance to spread the news while alive.
Of course, Zhen Xingchen was an exception. Although Xiyue couldn't see him, she was sure that the old dog that had lived for two thousand years was still breathing.
He is not the point.
Hearing the thud of metal colliding, Xiyue knew without even looking that Leng Chengzhou was driving away the rulers who were rushing towards her. Similarly, she knew without even thinking that once the pollutants had mutated, the rulers would want to escape.
Then she smiled and shouted again—
"Protect the commander!"
"With the commander-in-chief dead, no one can escape accountability!"
Leng Chengzhou's red electronic eyes suddenly lit up, appropriately expressing his anger towards Xi Yue.
He couldn't stop it.
Xi Yue's words "it's hard to escape accountability" hung the sword of Damocles over everyone's head. Moreover, they thought they didn't have to fear just a few pollutants, so no one thought about escaping the contaminated area.
In no time, they gathered their strength to clear out the pollutants. Then they swarmed forward, half of them flew onto the round table, while the other half rushed to the commander's side.
Then, both froze at the same time.
They saw the old man.
He was wearing a commander's uniform without any protection. His winding and fine wrinkles revealed a faint smile. His neck was slightly tilted as he looked intently in a certain direction.
That was the direction where Xiyue was.
One old, one young, both were surrounded by extremely high concentrations of polluted gas, without any protection.
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Inside the building, the mecha soldiers in charge of defense were arguing about whether forcibly breaking open the metal plates would accidentally injure people in the conference room.
Qiao Mingjin had already retreated to the tea room while no one was paying attention.
He turned on his computer and plugged in his headphones, just in time to hear Xi Yue's clear voice: "No one can escape accountability." However, the screen was filled with a thick gray fog, and he couldn't tell what exactly was happening.
He thought about it and called up an operation interface. From "Camera 1" to "Camera 10", each label can open the control panel of the corresponding camera.
Flying camera, recording video...this was the hint he got from Xiyue.
He took the opportunity to check the equipment and hid 10 cameras in the conference room. All of them were designed for detecting contaminated areas and had self-cleaning functions.
The dirty dust stains on the lens were quickly cleaned, and Qiao Mingjin controlled the two cameras to rise into the air, quietly flying towards the source of the sound waves along the ceiling.
The image that appeared on the computer screen made his eyes suddenly widen.
Sure enough, his guess was correct!
The commander is the god of pollution!
"Leng Chengzhou!" A male voice, filled with suppressed anger, suddenly rang out from the headset. "What are you still standing there for? Kill them!"
It’s Zhen Xingchen’s voice!
Is the mecha standing on the table Leng Chengzhou? Who did Zhen Xingchen ask him to kill? Could it be the rulers who discovered the commander's true identity?
"What are you barking about, old dog?" Xi Yue spoke again. "Are you worried about the commander, or are you worried about your identity as an awakener being made public? Ah, I get it. You also know that fooling others will backfire, right?"
She glanced around at the stagnant mechas. "You don't know yet, do you? The Heavenly Wolf Commander you've been trying so hard to curry favor with isn't a human being, but a two-thousand-year-old demon. Relying on his unbroken memories and his shameful, insidious experiments, he's enjoyed wealth and glory for generations, becoming the Heavenly Wolf Commander, second only to the emperor..."
"Xiyue!" Zhen Xingchen roared in anger, "You're just a program. Have you forgotten what you're supposed to do?!"
Leng Chengzhou moved at the same time, and the lightsaber and magnetic knife rushed towards Xi Yue at the same time, but the moment they came into contact with the pure space, they were stopped by the old voice.
Commander: "Chengzhou, withdraw."
Leng Chengzhou was hesitant.
Xi Yue ignored him and continued to talk to Zhen Xingchen: "Oh, let's just say I'm a program. Virus program - have you heard of it?"
The other rulers finally responded.
"What are they talking about? Isn't Xiyue a human? How can she be a program?"
"Could it be a clone? Is Xihai secretly conducting cloning experiments?"
"Didn't Xiyue say that the person conducting the experiment was the town commander? She also said that the town commander had lived for two thousand years and was not a human..."
"You, you guys...can you please focus on the main point? The commander is the god of pollution, and so is Xiyue!"
Xiyue cleared her throat: "Be quiet."
At this moment, her words were more effective than the commander's orders. Everyone immediately shut up and fell silent.
Xi Yue raised her head slightly: "Qiao Mingjin, Qiao Mingjin, can you hear me?"
Qiao Mingjin was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously said, "I can hear it."
Then she realized that he was not in the meeting room and Xiyue could not hear it at all.
So he controlled a flying camera to fly over.
The picture suddenly went dark and the flying camera stopped working.
Shot down.
Xi Yue looked at the small device that fell on the table, then looked at Leng Chengzhou wrapped in the mecha, and said, "Qiao Mingjin, there can't be only one, right?"
Before he finished speaking, a buzzing sound came from all directions.
All flying cameras turned on their maximum flight speed and rushed towards Xiyue.
Leng Chengzhou's hands turned into gun barrels at the same time, but he only shot down six. There were still three flying cameras that were taken into the pure space by Xiyue and were difficult to shoot down.
Xi Yue was slightly surprised: "What a generous gesture, Qiao Mingjin."
Calling out his name openly left Qiao Mingjin with no way out. But Qiao Mingjin's heart calmed down instead. Xi Yue's move was simply telling him that it didn't matter.
Why doesn’t it matter?
Qiao Mingjin immediately figured out the reason: it was probably related to what Bo Yucheng said before his death.
Even if you die, you can start over again.
"I remember that forum posts also have a live broadcast function." Xi Yue smiled at the camera, "Qiao Mingjin, help me turn it on."
Zhen Xingchen growled again: "Xiyue!"
This made Leng Chengzhou take two steps back. Judging from his posture, it seemed that he wanted to impact the pure space.
This time, the commander's dry lips moved, but he did not stop.
With his super S-class mental power and top-tier mecha, Leng Chengzhou's strength was unimaginably great, knocking Xiyue out with a bang. However, Xiyue sat steadily in the high-back chair, enveloping three adults and a child in a pure space, seemingly unaffected by any interference.
The pure space hit the metal wall and stopped.
Leng Chengzhou didn't follow. The two had just clashed yesterday, and he knew attacking Xiyue in the contaminated area was futile. He quickly reassembled two purification guns, and a surge of dazzling mental power gushed out from the barrels.
Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, and at the same time they realized that they had made a fool of themselves.
Why were they running away in the first place? Wouldn't it be better to just kill the pollutants and clean up the area directly?
The ruler who had been in a high position for a long time had been away from the front line of the battlefield for too long, and when the incident happened suddenly, he even forgot such a simple thing.
With the protection of a mecha mask, the strong light will not blind people. When the light shrinks, the entire conference room becomes clear.
Leng Chengzhou pounced on Xi Yue again, but was blocked by an invisible barrier.
The other party opened another gray hole. Even if it was only a fist-sized level five pollution, it was enough to maintain a pure space and was indestructible.
Xiyue seemed oblivious to this, watching a camera flutter up and down several times, as if Qiao Mingjin was nodding. She smiled faintly at Leng Chengzhou, "You continue, I'll take care of mine."
He turned around so that the camera could capture both himself and the large round table a few meters away.
She lowered her head, and when she raised it again, her face was filled with extreme fear. "I'm Xiyue. I've discovered a shocking secret. Because of this secret, General Leng Chengzhou, Deputy Director of the Central Star Region Secretariat and the current Commander-in-Chief, is hunting me down!"
The picture just happened to capture Leng Chengzhou's helpless and furious attack.
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Qiao Mingjin decided to go all out and not only turned on live broadcast for all three cameras, but also posted two of the live broadcast images on the two largest forums in the universe.
Word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. A few minutes later, all interstellar citizens with optical computers put down what they were doing. For the first time in more than two thousand years, the interstellar space was shut down.
Everyone was watching the woman in the picture who claimed to be Xiyue going crazy.
"This world is fake!"
"All pollution is created by the supreme ruler of the galaxy, the Commander-in-Chief. The Commander-in-Chief is the God of Pollution!"
"You, me, all of us, have been reincarnated endlessly in this world for who knows how many years!"
"Before we became digital beings, we were all living people. To save resources, the government dug out our brains and uploaded our consciousness to the cloud!"
"They describe the clouds as paradise, but they hide it from everyone, allowing us to continue experiencing the pain brought by pollution!"
"I know you don't believe it, many people don't believe it, but I also know that there will be people who do! Because among you, there are more or less awakened people who have recovered their memories!"
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It's pure nonsense.
In a medical laboratory in the Central Star Region, Doctor Duan was holding a pipette, with a drop of pure liquid medicine teetering on the end.
She looked at the screen displayed by her colleague and muttered unconsciously to herself: "Miss Xi... is indeed sicker than General Yuan..."
In the Admiral's Mansion of Star Sector No. 33, Butler Ai and Xizi looked at the light screen projected by Xiyao in silence with complicated expressions.
Until the screen goes dark, the three live broadcasts are terminated at the same time.
After a moment's silence, Butler Ai suddenly found a contact on his laptop, typed a few words and then deleted them, then simply dialed the number.
"Hello, Doctor Duan, it's me, Ai Si. Um, I know someone who has a problem, and I'd like to make an appointment with you..."
The call was hung up by Xiaozai.
Xiaozi muttered, "It's true. The Admiral and I are both Awakened."
Butler Ai opened his eyes wide, only to hear Xi Yao say in a bewildered voice, "So... Eldest Sister wasn't my eldest sister before, and Brother wasn't my brother before, and Dad... wasn't my dad before?"
Butler Ai thought that there might be something wrong with his brain.
And the military council meeting place.
Leng Chengzhou has stopped and even actively avoided the camera.
Zhen Xingchen's expression also changed from manic and restless to a mocking and teasing smile.
No one could have imagined that Xiyue would behave like this during the live broadcast. It was simply crazy talk, coupled with exaggerated expressions and tone, who would believe it?
If you want to gain people's trust, you should at least be calm, but she was not calm at all from beginning to end.
The small gray hole had exploded, and the level five pollution gray fog spread out. The concentration was limited, and it only made the lights in the conference room slightly dimmer, but did not affect visibility.
The camera floating in front of Xiyue suddenly fell down. Qiao Mingjin's message was very clear: the live broadcast was interrupted and the camera had lost its function.
It doesn't matter why it's interrupted.
Xiyue patted her face to relax her overly active facial muscles, then slowly tidied up her long hair and skirt before meeting Zhen Xingchen's gaze.
At this moment, among the rulers in the conference room, only Zhen Xingchen has not put on the mecha, and his facial expression is easy to distinguish.
It's a mockery.
"I'm sorry," she said with an apologetic smile. "This is my first time performing on stage, so my acting is bound to be a little exaggerated. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you all."
Zhen Xingchen frowned unconsciously.
From Xiyue's changing expression, he sensed something unusual.
"Do you think anyone will believe you?" He asked, forcing a scornful laugh. "Everyone will just think that Xihai's death was such a huge blow to you that it drove you insane."
His judgment was not groundless; even through the layers of metal, he could smell the suspicion emanating from the rulers.
Xi Yue disagreed: "Whether to believe it or not is not up to you, an old dog."
Zhen Xingchen: "Do you have the final say?!"
"Of course..." Xi Yue smiled, "Not really. You can ask the commander-in-chief who has the final say."
But the old man remained indifferent, just looking at her, as if everything that had happened in the previous half hour had nothing to do with him. If his eyes were not still open and his chest was still rising and falling slightly, I am afraid that others would think he had accidentally died of old age.
Xi Yue was a little helpless. "See, the commander doesn't even want to talk to an old dog like you. I've always liked animals, so I'll be merciful and answer your questions."
Zhen Xingchen was numb from being scolded, staring at her with gloomy eyes.
Xiyue just pointed at the ceiling and said, "The cloud system has the final say."
"Do you know where the level one pollution I just detonated came from? The system gave me special instructions to clean up these awakened ones."
Xi Yue glanced at Yuan Xu and Xiang Jia.
"Do you know what instructions I have received now?"
Zhen Xingchen's expression suddenly changed.
Xi Yue smiled with satisfaction: "You guessed it right, it's still a special order, and the level of the contaminated area is - super."
"So I said, after all, someone believes it, right?" She stared at Zhen Xingchen, who couldn't help but stand up, and said word by word, "Zhen, old, dog?"
Before he finished speaking, Zhen Xingchen suddenly rushed towards the equipment room.
At the same time, the pollution alarm sounded dully through the thick metal walls.
Bang!
The huge metal knocking sound hurt the eardrums, and a terrifying bulge appeared on the silver wall.
Zhen Xingchen suddenly stopped.
Then, there was another sound - bang!
The metal was so strong that it required the combined strength of all mechas to penetrate it, but it was smashed through in just two hits. As luck would have it, the figure rushing in bumped into Zhen Xingchen and pushed him away at lightning speed.
When the weight is too heavy and the speed is too fast, the human body will not make any sound of bones and flesh breaking.
A smear of mosquito blood appeared on the metal wall opposite. Fragments of blood and flesh shot out from it, covering almost the entire wall.
About two or three meters away from the wall, a person was floating.
He faced Xiyue.
After a fleeting moment of surprise, Xi Yue smiled in understanding: "Are you the older brother or the younger brother?"
These words brought the rulers back to their senses from the sudden death of Zhen Xingchen, and they immediately recognized the man's back.
"Cold, cold Chengzhou!"
In addition to Leng Chengzhou who has been in the conference room, another Leng Chengzhou appeared!
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