Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“That’s good. Promise me that you won’t do such stupid things again, okay?”

Chu Zhixiao squatted in front of Li Yao. He patted Li Yao’s head and said with a smile, “Idiot, I have a crystal suit and a spiritual shield. Even if the entire starship is blown up, it will not be able to kill me. But if you lunge at me, you might be melted by the blast and the flames. Do you understand?”

“alright!”

Li Yao nodded obediently and lay beside Chu Zhixiao’s feet. “But I’m worried about the major!”

Chu Zhixiao and the spider tank hugged each other.

Ican’t.

Inside the spider tank, Li Yao’s soul spoke to the mental devil. “I can’t hold it any longer. Can the dialogue be any less disgusting? What kind of lousy interactive mode is this? This woman is a female fiend who has been through life and death for decades. How can she be so childish?”

“Bear with it for a while. For the federation, for the imperium, and for universal peace!”

The mental devil replied, “Hehehehe. Sorry. I was distracted again and thought of something funny. Don’t worry. It has nothing to do with what is happening right now. Hehe. Hehehehe.”

“If you keep doing that, I’m going to hurt you!”

Li Yao gnashed his teeth. “Hey, check the history books and see if the woman will do anything worse to the Spider Tank. For example… take a shower with the Spider Tank. That’s absolutely unacceptable. I don’t want my hundred-year-old reputation to be ruined!”

“Well, I didn’t know that she had such a weird hobby.

“However,” the mental devil said, “a lot of the memory chips of the spider tank were damaged in the big explosion, and only less than 10% of the historical data was left. I don’t know what unspeakable stories the major and the spider tank had in the remaining 90% of the time.”

Li Yao cursed silently.

Then, she blinked her watery crystal eyes innocently and looked at the major.

He did not have a mechanical tail. If he did, he would be shaking like a flower right now.

Thankfully, Chu Zhixiao had not thought of doing anything outrageous yet.

Kneeling on one of her knees, she lifted a metal cover on Li Yao’s back and projected a 3D light beam with her fingerprints, iris, and brainwave recognition.

It was the debugging and control interface of the Spider Tank.

Chu Zhixiao’s hands were flying as he examined the memory chip and the interactive mode data of the spider tank.

Li Yao’s soul was lurking deep inside the crystal processor. Naturally, he was not discovered by her.

But after reading for a long time, she still sighed. “Red Pig, you seem to have lost 90% of your memories in the big explosion two days ago.

The expression on her face was somewhat absent-minded. It was more like she was talking about herself than the spider tank.

‘Major’ Chu Zhixiao was the ultimate weapon. Didn’t the survivors of countless cruel experiments lose a lot of memories after being brainwashed time and time again?

Did she really know nothing about her past?

Or was it that she could vaguely feel that a certain fate that was as tightly entangled as a python was constantly swallowing her?

“Come on. I’ll give you the same clearance as I do. I’ll connect you to the mainframe crystal processor of the Heresy Interrogation Bureau and transmit all the files about the ‘Puppet King’ to you.

Chu Zhixiao paused for a moment and continued, “Right. There’s also ‘Vulture Li Yao’s’ files. Analyze them and see if you can find anything in common. In a moment, a new meeting will be held with Black Dream, Titan, and Seven Star.

“This time, we are very close to the puppet king.

“Next time, we must capture him!”

After synchronizing with Li Yao, Chu Zhixiao left the relaxation room and returned to the med bay. Her wounds had not fully recovered yet, and she had to return to the med bay to check her body status regularly.

Li Yao was somewhat relieved, but then he couldn’t help but laugh.

‘There were benefits to enduring humiliation like this. As it tuned out, he had the highest clearance to access the mainframe crystal processor of the Heresy Interrogation Bureau easily.

Although the mental devil could crack such permissions, it was too time-consuming and easy to leave traces. It was not as easy as it was right now to walk into the room openly.

“Puppet King, puppet king, what are you exactly? How dare you use my name, ‘Vulture Li Yao’, and force me to be so… shameless?”

Li Yao’s soul extended two giant hands and rubbed them hard. He mumbled, “Let me rip off all your disguises!”

Shua! Shua! Shua! Shua!

In the main database of the Heresy Interrogation Bureau, all the data regarding the puppet king and the God’s Heart Association, from their reappearance in front of the world for the first time to the unbelievable, destructive cases, to the case where a priest of the Kindest Clan was infected and a main

warship was detonated, were presented to Li Yao.

Li Yao had a better understanding about the puppet king now.

He discovered that the mental devil was right. The enemy of an enemy might not be a friend, but an even more evil enemy.

Of course, the Sanctuary Alliance itself was already extremely evil. It was very difficult to find an existence that was even more evil than the Sanctuary Alliance. It would be better to say that the puppet king’s way of doing things was exactly the same as the leadership of the Sanctuary Alliance. They

regarded human beings as some kind of… experimental subjects and played with and savaged them at their will.

The guy was probably a Meditation Healer or something similar. He was very good at invading the brains of human beings and invented all kinds of mental drugs based on human nature.

Once the mental drugs took effect, they would trigger certain aspects of human beings’ emotions and desires to the extreme, which was the polar opposite of the people of the Sanctuary Alliance.

Laziness, greed, arrogance, gluttony… All the weaknesses of human nature would be magnified by him in unbelievable ways.

The first mental drug developed by the puppet king was named ‘Disillusionment.

Once infected with the ‘Disillusionment Virus’, the factor of ‘sloth’ deep inside the soul of a human being would be automatically activated, and it would be magnified to the maximum so that the victim’s behavior would be completely controlled. The victim would feel like doing nothing except eating and

sleeping. They would either lie down comfortably or lean against the cabin wall, staring at the lights on the dome in a daze.

Ina place where the Disillusionment Virus was spreading on a large scale, if there was an entire mine or a cabin on the bottom floor of a starship, all the residents of the bottom floor of the Alliance, including the ‘soldiers’ and the ‘workers’, would stop working and simply stare at the sky.

At first, the leadership of the Sanctuary Alliance did not know the existence of the ‘Disillusionment Virus’, the puppet king, or the God’s Heart Association. They thought that there was something wrong with the brainwashing of the low-level members of the Sanctuary Alliance.

However, with the large-scale laziness or even total discontinuation of work on different planets and starships, it naturally attracted the attention of the leadership of the Star Glory Federation, who discovered the existence of the ‘Disillusionment Virus’.

It was naturally meant to shake the foundation of the Sanctuary.

However, no matter how they brainwashed the infected with ‘Holy Light’ or forced them to work again, the victims of the virus simply lay on the ground lazily, unable to get up.

In the end, after exhausting countless resources, the cure rate of the Illusion Virus was only 70%. Besides, after the treatment, the efficiency of the ‘soldier bees’ and the ‘worker bees’ would be greatly undermined, too. 30% of the patients could not be cured at all.

The Disillusionment Virus had seriously consumed the capability of the Star Glory Federation and put the puppet king and his organization into the center of the stage the moment they showed up. They had become a major headache for the Star Glory Federation.

Li Yao found it hard to comment on the function of the ‘Disillusionment Virus’.

Of course, the Sanctuary Alliance exploited ordinary people ten times more cruelly than the Star Ocean Imperium did. At least in the Star Ocean Imperium, people still had the ability to fight back. But in the Sanctuary Alliance, even the idea of fighting back had been deprived and obliterated.

Therefore, it would not be a bad thing if the bottom-level members of the Sanctuary Alliance rebelled by slacking and striking.

However, a cripple who did not have any desire or motivation to work, who refused to work under the threat of whipping and death, was still too terrifying.

Li Yao found it hard to imagine that the Disillusionment Virus had spread to the imperium and the federation on a large scale.

If everyone was not working, how could civilization progress? How could it even exist?

More importantly, the Sanctuary Alliance was not a place of mercy. Those who were unable to work because of the Disillusionment Virus were ‘purified’ mercilessly in the end. It was an outcome that the puppet king had foreseen.

“The guy has indeed stomped on human nature since the very beginning!”

Li Yao commented coldly and continued reading.

The second drug developed by the puppet king was named ‘glory.

Compared to the simple and crude ‘Disillusionment Virus’ and the ‘Taotie Virus’, the ‘Glory Virus’ was much more inconspicuous and deceptive.

“In the past, the people of the Sanctuary Alliance did not have emotions or self-awareness. They only knew how to obey blindly. They were too rigid and inflexible. It was also the reason why we failed to defeat the Imperium of True Human Beings, the Devil Kingdom on Earth, for thousands of years.

“Although we are loyal to the gods, our loyalty is far from enough. We must increase our loyalty by ten times, a hundred times, a thousand times, ten thousand times, to the level of fanaticism!

“We must learn to think independently and think about how to be loyal to the gods in a better way. We must learn to ‘love’ and to love our leader, the greatest master of kindness. We must also learn to hate our most wretched enemy—the extraterrestrial devils!

It was the enlightenment that the ‘Glory Virus’ would bring to the infected.

In the past, the people of the Star Glory Federation were nothing but simple tools. They knew neither love nor hate. They simply carried out orders mechanically.

But right now, the people who had been infected by the ‘Glory Virus’ had ‘awakened’. They loved their leaders, hated their enemies, and worshipped the gods crazily.. They had become the most passionate ‘fanatics!