The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge.

Chapter 2189 Miraculous Operation (I)

2190: Miraculous Operation (I)

After arriving at Planet 5 of the Rafa System, Dr. Yaco-Vesti immediately led them to his research center and said, "If my guess is correct, the Mind Harp should be what the Saru people used to survive the catastrophe a hundred thousand years ago."

"But it looks like they have failed." The scientist leading the Dawn Principality's team was named Wang Tao. He looked out the window at the primitive people who were shouting at the spaceship in the sky and frowned, saying, "If your theory is correct, the Toka people are the degeneration of the Saru people, which means that they, like the Kilik Swarm, have degenerated into a primitive state in the catastrophe a hundred thousand years ago."

"If that's the case, the Mind Harp shouldn't still exist." Dr. Yako said, "There must be something else behind that catastrophe."

He walked all the way to a glass-domed room on the top floor of the institute, pointed to the distance and said, "Look, these are the remains of the Saru people on Planet Five."

Wang Tao and his companions looked from here, and sure enough, looking from the dome room, there was an endless plain over there, with more than a dozen extremely huge pyramids standing in the middle of the plain.

  Actually, it is not accurate to call them pyramids, because these buildings are not triangular, but square cone-shaped. And these pyramids are very high, at least several hundred meters, and the highest one in the center is even a kilometer high!

"These are the things... We still call them 'plastic pyramids' because they are made of very special materials that can block the scanning of almost every sensor we have. And even though they are at least 100,000 years old, these pyramids still remain mostly intact," said Dr. Yako.

"The pyramid where the Harp of the Soul is found is the tallest one," said Dr. Wang Tao, pointing ahead.

"Let's go and take a look. We have an all-terrain off-road vehicle here. If you are willing to help us pay for the fuel, I would be happy to take you there..." Dr. Yako was halfway through his words when he was picked up by the impatient Ghost Agent behind him.

"If you mention money to me again, I will break your neck right now." The Ghost Agent said coldly.

Dr. Yako said quickly, "Over there...over there, we have designed a scanner that can perform basic scanning on the special material of the plastic pyramid. Bring it...bring it."

In the end, they still took a spaceship because the shabby SUV was too small and could only carry four people.

The spaceship flew low around the pyramid. Dr. Yako activated the scanner, which looked very shabby and was almost full of wires and pipes. He only saw the structure of the pyramid projected in the holographic projection.

"This scanner can only penetrate the special material of the plastic pyramid to a thickness of about 5 meters. We conducted a comprehensive scan of this pyramid when we had sufficient budget. We originally thought that these pyramids were solid, but until we found this location." Dr. Yaco directed the pilot to drive the spacecraft to a place near the top of the pyramid.

"There is a gap here, and the cross section is very neat. Visually, it was caused by a laser weapon. But to be honest, I don't know what kind of laser weapon can cause such damage to the plastic pyramid." Dr. Yako said, "This pyramid is very strong, and most importantly, it is very heat-resistant. We can't melt this material even with a high-power laser. But fortunately, this gap allows us to detect something else."

He pointed at the holographic projection and said, "Look, the position of this gap allows our scanner to penetrate... Then we found that these pyramids are all hollow! Not only that, we found an energy transmission line in them! And this line leads directly underground! In other words, there is something under these pyramids, and there is a high probability that there is an energy supply!"

Wang Tao frowned and said, "It looks like it. This pyramid has a secret. Well, there should be an entrance and exit, right? Let's go in now."

Dr. Yako looked back at the ghost agent standing behind him with some fear, and said with a wry smile: "Of course I know we need to find a way to get in. I mean... can you... uh, support us with some money... Ah no no no! I mean equipment! Equipment!"

He saw the Ghost Agent approaching again, so he quickly waved his hands and shouted, "We really don't have the equipment or the funds! Otherwise, we would have dug this pyramid a long time ago!"

Wang Tao sighed, pointed at his nose and said, "You should know that we are from the Principality of Dawn, right? In other words, we have captured you and asked you to reveal the scientific research projects of the Galactic Empire. We must be spies of the enemy country, right? Have you ever seen someone asking for money from a spy of the enemy country?"

Dr. Yaco shook his head and said, "I haven't seen it."

Seeing that the Ghost Agent was going to take action this time, he quickly shrank his neck and said loudly; "But there is nothing we can do! We are so poor! Our project only has 10 Imperial Credit Points of funding per year... After deducting the cost of food, drink, defecation, urination and sleep, we don't even have enough fuel for the off-road vehicle! Flying a spaceship is a luxury that only happens once every two years!"

Wang Tao was at a loss, so he said to the ghost agent, "Contact the rear, and try to satisfy them if they want anything..."

Agent Ghost was silent for a moment, then pointed at Dr. Yako and said, "This operation is over. I must kill this guy!"

……

At the same time, in the unknown star field, the planet Ciara.

This planet, which had been dead and silent for hundreds of years, was now filled with the sound of gunfire and the flames of war.

The core of the battle is around the super signal repeater built on a mountain about 3000 meters above sea level! This super signal repeater is a huge tower nearly 2000 meters high, and there are thousands of steel beams and steel bars around it to support the stability of the tower.

And at the foot of the mountain is a dark shadow that looks like an ocean.

  These dark shadows are all people!

And they were all mummies! What was chilling was that these mummies were covered with brown mud, which seemed to be alive and kept wriggling, controlling these mummies to rush madly towards the mountain.

How many mummies are there? It's impossible to count them! Because the vast space at the foot of the mountain is almost full of people standing side by side! Even in the withered jungle, there are also shadows, and I don't know how many people are hiding in it! Countless mummies rushed up and even blocked the mountain road. There is no doubt that these are all the mummies of the Ciara people controlled by Mnggal-Mnggal!

According to the research of Vishal the Korok, Mnggal-Mnggal prefers to attach itself to living things, and if they want to move alone in the form of mud, their mobility and flexibility will be greatly reduced. Therefore, these bodies of the Siara people that have been devoured are still controlled by Mnggal-Mnggal, and they keep rushing upwards!

Their purpose is clear - rush up! And then tear all the people still alive on the top of the mountain into pieces!

But when they were a few hundred meters away from the top of the mountain, they stopped instantly as if they had suddenly hit a wall.

  A wall of fire!

Da da da da! Swish, swish, swish, swish! Countless laser beams, hypermatter accelerated bullets, and blaster beams poured down from the mountain crazily, and there was no need to aim at all! The dense firepower destroyed the mummies controlled by Mnggal-Mnggal in large numbers. In the face of the powerful firepower, the silt was dispersed and the mummies were smashed to pieces.

Although such firepower could not really destroy Mnggal-Mnggal, if the mummy was broken into pieces, the mud would only slowly crawl up.

But the living mud didn't crawl for long before it was swallowed up by bloody mouths. It was Lugubula! The fighting creature raised by the Korok people!

These creatures looked like a cross between a salamander and a leech, disgusting yet powerful and agile, devouring Mnggal-Mnggal with their abyssal, toothy mouths and spewing the remains from cavities near their hind legs.

The most peculiar thing is that the living mud is still wriggling while being swallowed, but after being swallowed and excreted, it becomes brown dust, losing all its activity. These Lugubulas use their slender hands with suction cups to grab the mud and swallow it. Their skin is so slippery that the pervasive Mnggal-Mnggal mud cannot penetrate their bodies through the epidermis!

The key reason why the Korok people were able to remain uncontrolled despite being surrounded by Mnggal-Mnggal for hundreds and thousands of years was because of these Lugubulas that could devour the silt.

There were many Lugubulas, at least several thousand of them. They kept devouring the Mnggal-Mnggal that surged up in the mud, allowing the people on the mountain to concentrate on dealing with the Siara mummies.

Shepard and his team were stationed on the top of the mountain. There was originally a row of fortifications with a very good view, which were used by the Ciara people to protect this super signal repeater. Because this thing is an important means for the Ciara people to understand the outside world, it can be called a treasure of their civilization.

Huang Yehao, Ashley Williams, Kayden Alanco, Sen Luo, Death... Everyone in Shepard's team was firing crazily here. Not only them, but also many B-1 combat robots brought from the Normandy and those logistics personnel, almost everyone who could shoot a gun, all came here to defend desperately.

There were even some smarter Lugubulas with them, holding special laser guns and firing continuously.

Lugubulas are actually very polarized in terms of intelligence. Smart Lugubulas can even have language, can communicate, have their own civilization, and even have their own council of elders. But stupid Lugubulas are no different from wild beasts.

Now, those Lugubulas who rushed forward to act as meat shields and devour the surging Mnggal-Mnggal sludge were undoubtedly the latter.

  Therefore, in total, there were about 1500 people in their army who could use guns, plus more than 8000 Lugubulas without intelligence. It seemed like a lot, but they were facing the entire population of the planet Ciara!

At that time, the Ciara people were unable to leave their planet to establish colonies on other habitable planets, so they stayed on their home planet, and the population once reached 140 billion.

  And with these 140 billion people, plus an incalculable number of various animals, and even corpses that have just died and have not yet completely decayed, it is no problem for Monggal-Monggal to control more than 500 billion individuals on this planet!

Those Mnggal-Mnggal individuals rushed up the mountain frantically, some of them holding all kinds of guns that the Ciara people had once made, even tanks and cannons.

But these sporadic firepower could not threaten Shepard and others hiding behind the fortifications, and the artillery and tanks were also destroyed in advance by the spacecraft in the air.

High in the sky, a total of 33 spaceships sent by the two major factions of the Korok people were providing cover here, fighting against the fighters and spaceships controlled by the Siara mummy, and clearing out the heavy units that appeared on the ground.

The memories of individuals controlled by Mnggal-Mnggal will be absorbed, so through these mummies, Mnggal-Mnggal can also control vehicles such as spaceships and tanks.

The Normandy, which has better performance, serves as a mobile force, patrolling the entire planet and destroying any high-threat targets that appear, such as nuclear missile silos.

The air-to-ground firepower completely covered the area around the mountain! Bullets and rockets were constantly fired from the mountain, and the laser beams in the sky seemed to rain non-stop. Many places below the mountain had already been on fire, and all kinds of debris were piled up like mountains. The sea of ​​silt was constantly wriggling in the flames, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell.

Even though Shepard and his makeshift force now have an absolute firepower advantage, this is still a desperate confrontation.

The battle had been going on for four days. How many Mnggal-Mnggal had they killed? One hundred thousand? One million? It was impossible to calculate. But they only knew that in every corner of the planet, countless Mnggal-Mnggal were coming.

Ammunition is limited, energy is limited, and physical strength is limited.

But Mnggal-Mnggal is infinite... Even if Mnggal-Mnggal is temporarily broken up, he can use his own mud to piece together the relatively intact wreckage and then return to the battlefield again.

Near the fortifications where Shepard and his men were stationed, countless silts gathered together to form a huge head, which spoke: "Give up resistance, it's useless... This is my world... Do you know how many times I have seen such resolute resistance? One hundred and seventy thousand times. And the longest one lasted for 140 days. But... I trapped them in the base for a whole year. Even though they had given up resistance, I still didn't kill them... Instead, I kept torturing them, using the bodies of their relatives and children to torture them... Even if they wanted to commit suicide, I couldn't. Until those poor souls became completely crazy and completely corrupted... And what about you? I plan to torture you for... 10 years... Hahahaha!"

  Boom!!! A blaster cannon dropped from the sky and shattered the head!

(End of this chapter)