The Witch's Taste

However, when the starship humans first arrived in this sector, the federal home defense fleet came to intercept them rashly, and then were completely destroyed by Suzuna Tsukinomiya, which directly caused the Garcia sector to completely lose its long-range offensive power, so they could only watch the starships Humanity is showing off its power beyond the attack range of orbital defense facilities.

As the news of the military parade was officially announced, the enthusiasm of the crowd was quickly aroused. Almost everyone was discussing how powerful the human starship is... I use social psychology to explain this, that is, everyone likes to hear it. I don’t like to hear exciting and good news that makes people worried and irritated, so I prefer to pay attention to some fake news that promotes starship humans, even if it is blindly optimistic.

Except for the disembarkation party.

These people firmly believed that there was no chance of winning against the Federation, so they did not want to show off their military power. They started arguing fiercely with the mainstream public on the public LAN inside the starship.

Leaving aside public opinion at the social level, the military is tense for the military parade.

The army's infantry and mechanical corps are urgently training their stances. Although they are not the protagonists of this military parade, the live broadcast will show them on standby in the cabin; the main fleet is also stepping up its time to patrol, practicing various combat formations and cruising formations. The change.

Before the military parade officially begins, a rehearsal preview must be arranged for the leaders to avoid any glitches during the official live broadcast.

Due to the closed nature of human beings in starships, the people living inside have no idea what is happening outside. Therefore, the military's rehearsals did not make any disguise. They directly used the vast and deep space as the background canvas, and countless ships flew majestically. Shuttle back and forth.

"Four battleships, 4 cruisers..." Chen Ziang looked at the live broadcast screen and quietly asked Tsukinomiya Suzuna, "What is our current military strength in the Milky Way?"

"A regular federal fleet usually has one battleship as the main ship, four cruisers for escort, and a sufficient number of frigates." Tsukimiya Suzuna replied.

"In other words, the strength of our fleet is equivalent to four federal fleets?" Chen Ziang asked thoughtfully.

"Of course, combat power cannot be judged based on tonnage." Xia Zili corrected from the side, "The most important thing in fleet battles must be the intensity and scale of firepower. A cruiser loaded with powerful weapons must be far better than a ship with mediocre weapons. Battleship.”

"The other thing is tactics and luck." Tsukimiya Suzuna added, "Even a small torpedo boat is not impossible to sink the aircraft carrier if it drops bombs at the right time and location."

Chen Ziang was thoughtful and said after a while:

"Then let me change the question: In a duel under fair conditions, how many regular fleets of the Federation can we possibly deal with?"

"Four," Tsukimiya Suzuna said.

"2.5." Xia Zili had a different opinion.

"If I were to direct, it would be 4, but if she were to direct, it would be 2.5." Suzuna Tsukimiya said with a sneer.

Xia Zili rolled her eyes.

"How many conventional fleets does the Federation have?" Chen Ziang continued to ask.

"Not counting the private fleets of the chaebols, not considering mobilization and conscription, and excluding the defense fleets stationed in each sector, there should be about 100 on the surface." Tsukimiya Suzuna replied.

"I understand." Chen Ziang suddenly realized.Being outnumbered is impossible to defeat.

"But these fleets are also performing tactical missions all over the galaxy. It is impossible for them to besiege us collectively." Run behind your back."

"Twenty-two fleets?" Chen Ziang clicked his tongue and asked, "Even if each fleet fires a light spear once, if they all come in volley, the Forever will be disintegrated directly on the spot, right?"

"It doesn't matter." Tsukimiya Suzuna waved her hand and said, "Because I will take action."

This is indeed not a big deal.If gods represent irresistible power, then senior witches like Suzuna Murasaki are demigods.If they concentrate on defense, the weapons in the material world will have no effect, which can be called an "impenetrable shield".

And their strange and powerful force is worthy of the title of "Undefendable Spear".If it weren't for the "self-exploding bombardier" technology developed by the temple, no matter how many fleets there were, they would have been killed by the witches in various ways. It was precisely because of these bombardiers that it was necessary to form a mortal fleet to help them share the direction of the curse.

But the mortal fleet needs to resist the attack of the federal fleet, and the federal fleet is restrained by the witch... It feels like a chess game, forming a circular chain of restraint.

After watching the military parade preview, Chen Ziang had no objections.He admitted that he was not proficient in military affairs, and he had no intention of forcibly giving advice to experts. He only asked other people's opinions.

"I think it's okay." Xia Zili agreed.

"It's a bit bland." Tsukimiya Suzuna knows how to play devil's advocate. Since Xia Zili thinks it's okay, it's naturally not okay for her. "Without the majestic volley of thousands of artillery pieces, it's just a simple fleet." If you drive alone, what publicity effect will there be? It’s not a big enough event at all.”

"Besides wasting energy and ammunition, what is the practical significance of firing thousands of guns at once?" Xia Zili was also speechless, "If everyone agrees, I have no objection."

"What do Qingyu think?" Chen Ziang asked.

"If we want to fire thousands of artillery pieces, it is better to directly attack Galapasia." Xia Qingyu replied, "Isn't this a big enough scene?"

This answer was even more outrageous, so much so that Chen Ziang couldn't tell for a moment whether she was answering seriously or whether she was mocking Suzuna Tsukimiya.

At this moment, he suddenly received an urgent call from Lu Yunfeng:

A powerful mysterious change occurred on the surface of Planet Garcia. The signal was so violent that even in outer space tens of thousands of meters away, the spiritual pressure divination array began to alarm frantically.

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To the elven tycoons, what does a colonial star mean?

The answer closest to reality may be "chess pieces".

For chess players, chess pieces are not indestructible, as long as their destruction can be exchanged for sufficient value.

The Garcia sector is clearly on the verge of destruction. The number of people sick and comatose due to the "Plague Walker" is increasing sharply. However, the chaebols have not paid protection fees to the Baal Group like they did in Aegelaos. In exchange for special medicine.

This is not a simple battle of will, but a cold and rigorous value calculation.

The Baal Group's bid this time was much higher than the last price offered in Aegelaos.The reason is that the Garcia sector, as an older colonial sector, has a much higher level of development and population than Aegelaos, so allowing the plague here to spread will cause the plutocrats to suffer greater losses.

If considered from a pure profit perspective, it is obviously more cost-effective to pay "specific drug purchase fees" to avoid losses to local industries. However, the Barr Group has obviously ignored the Klublev family. This old-line industrial aristocratic plutocrat seems to have less thinking than capitalists. Closer to impatient tyrants - they value face more than money.

The spokesperson of his family soon publicly declared at a consultation meeting organized by the sector government that "the only way to save Galapasia is for the Barr Group to immediately hand over the formula of the specific medicine so that our soldiers can concentrate on Deal with those evil humans instead of lying in the barracks groaning and waiting in line to get antipyretics."

The representatives of the Barr Group left the meeting immediately. They would never let go of their core interests, otherwise the company's control of Aegelaos would also suffer heavy losses.

The government-enterprise consultation meeting broke up unhappy.The sector government is still trying to mediate, but they don't know that financiers have quietly begun to reduce their holdings or even short the assets of the Garcia sector.

From the tough statements of the industrial aristocrats, these vampires sensed their vague intention to cash in on their son-Klublev had decided to give up all his properties in Galapasia in exchange for the destruction of the entire Garcia. to let other chaebols suffer the same level of losses.

As long as everyone loses money together, then my loss is acceptable. This is the redemption tactic.

As for why Klublev decisively decided to "exchange the money", the financiers have no definite evidence. They only suspect that the secret military factory they set up somewhere has been seriously penetrated and violated based on some sporadic intelligence. Destruction, so that production activities were completely paralyzed.

The reason for such a generous exchange of chess pieces was because the value of the chess pieces used for exchange had suffered great damage - of course, they hid this matter.

Considering the de facto control of the entire sector, once they decide to use counter-attack tactics, the cost of stopping them will be very huge, and the financiers naturally have no intention of coexisting with Garcia at all costs, so they quickly Shift focus to stop loss...

As a result, the Garcia sector, which was abandoned by both camps at the same time, was irreversibly hurtling towards hell.

The number of sick citizens increased sharply every day, hospitals were completely paralyzed, pharmacies were sold out, and the district government failed to take effective measures (in fact, there was nothing they could do), so the social order soon collapsed. Lost.

The rioting crowd first looted all the shops that had not been looted, and then began to target the surrounding neighbors.

Among the numerous vicious and senseless large-scale violence incidents, the human race, which has been publicly slandered by the public media, has undoubtedly become the biggest victim.

These human citizens who were unwilling to unite and speak out to defend the interests of the ethnic group, and who did not smell danger and run away in time, originally relied only on the federal "lawful society" and "racial equality". However, with the unexpected collapse of social order, most of them Everyone acted unprepared.

Many families couldn't even find a gun. Faced with attacks driven by racial hatred, they could only seal the doors and windows in vain, and then desperately call the Sheriff's Department for help.

The manpower of the Sheriff's Department was already stretched thin, and there was no way to provide timely assistance. Therefore, these federal humans were dragged out of their homes by criminals, and were beaten, tortured, abused, and brutally killed. Naturally, all their hard-earned family wealth was robbed.

The imperial business group disguised by Gloria is still carrying out the work of smuggling human residents.With the major changes in the situation, this kind of stowaway quickly turned into a substantial rescue. Many Federation humans were even willing to part with their wealth just to get a stowaway ticket for their children.

As for citizens who have not been able to get the qualifications to smuggle people into the country, there are naturally some bad guys who, with the attitude of "If I die, you won't be able to live," frantically call the Public Security Department to report them - who has anyone in the Public Security Department to take care of illegal immigrants?Even community order cannot be managed.

After a few days of delay, a security officer finally noticed something was wrong and forwarded the news to the Federal Intelligence Agency.

Agents of the Intelligence Bureau attacked the port of the Imperial Merchant Group, and a fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides.Gloria worked as a space mercenary after all, and soon used her superficial mysterious power to completely annihilate these agents.

She ordered her men to quickly collect the bodies, and at the same time she quickly contacted the starship. Before the communication was fully connected, she suddenly felt a strong sense of danger.

Some kind of dark green, boundless and thick fog rose from the southeastern suburbs, almost dyeing the entire sky with a miserable and strange color, like the thick mucus of a fat caterpillar being crushed.

If she remembered correctly, in that direction was the largest cemetery in Galapasia, and it was also the temporary accumulation place for a large number of corpses caused by various recent disasters.

The status is already recovering!

383.Chapter 378 The end of the rescue

Green, apart from the special meaning given to it by humans, is generally considered to be natural, harmonious, full of life and vitality.

But these adjectives obviously have nothing to do with the green smoke rising in the distance.

The smoke... looks like densely packed locusts, with dust and suspicious particles moving in crazy trajectories. Just looking at it makes people feel nauseous and vomiting.

If you look down from a high altitude, you will find that the green smoke is expanding extremely fast, as if it is driven by some kind of explosion without fire or gunpowder smoke. In just 5 minutes, it covers the suburbs with a radius of seven to eight kilometers. area, and even the southeastern urban area of ​​Galapasia was also eroded.

The official TV station claimed that this was a chemical smog of unknown origin, and advised citizens to avoid the smoke as much as possible, but how could the citizens have the heart to listen to instructions?

Even if more "natural disasters" strike, it will only stir up the already chaotic situation again.

A large number of federal starships are taking off from the surface of the planet Garcia. These are privately owned ships of the chaebols, responsible for carrying key assets and equipment, or escorting important people out of Garcia.

As the "Imperial Merchant Group" responsible for rescue on the planet's surface was attacked by the Federal Intelligence Agency, the starship humans quickly destroyed one of the ships and declared it a "retaliatory reciprocal attack."

Sure enough, Gloria's next actions seemed to be ignored by federal officials and plutocrats, and she never encountered any resistance.

Due to this sudden emergency, the military's rehearsals for the military parade were also suspended.Supreme Leader Chen Ziang gave instructions to mobilize all available ships to carry out "humanitarian rescue" to Garcia as much as possible.

Of course, limited to humans.

A large number of ships landed on the outskirts of Galapasia without being intercepted by air defense forces or orbital facilities. It seems that the sector government and the plutocrats have reached an unspoken understanding: as long as you don't stop us from running away, we will It doesn’t matter how you save people.

The human residents who came after hearing the news boarded the ship in an orderly manner under the supervision of soldiers.At the same time, there were elves, orcs, dwarves and other ethnic groups who tried to mix in for survival, but they were basically driven away by the soldiers... Because the starship humans must be a single-ethnic country, there is no way to work around this.

Even if it is "only saving humans", the short-term transportation capacity is still insufficient.Therefore, we can only refer to Takamagahara and Aegelaos, giving priority to technical experts in various fields and their families, followed by human families who have not married other ethnic groups (after all, family members have to follow the ship), and then... nothing Then, the first two have completely occupied the transportation capacity.

On the second day when the green mist appeared, nearly half of Galapasia had been occupied.The drone that penetrated deep inside would immediately lose its signal, and the exploration team also disappeared without a trace. It wasn't until someone tied a carbon fiber rope to the expedition team, and after losing contact, they forcibly dragged them back, only to find that the bodies in their protective suits had already grown... It was full of bloated and putrid pus, with dark green juice squirming in it.

This change made the citizens staying on the surface of the planet extremely uneasy. Many gang members launched attacks on starships in an attempt to seize a ship to escape, but were shot down mercilessly by the human military of the starships. kill.

Chen Ziang monitors the overall situation on the Forever.Federation humans sent to the starship will first undergo a complete quarantine, then fill out documents and undergo identity verification. Finally, they will be placed into an isolation area at the rear of the mothership by family - they will need to undergo strict scrutiny.

At the same time, the situation on the planet is deteriorating rapidly, and the green fog is spreading faster and faster. A large number of blowflies have begun to appear in it, flying everywhere and biting all visible flesh and blood life, and those bitten by them People will soon fall into coma, and their bodies will quickly swell, eventually becoming a breeding ground for these flies to breed larvae.

And deep in the green mist, the figure of some kind of corrupt behemoth can be vaguely seen - it has sharp mouthparts and a carapace body the size of a mountain. It is surrounded by endless swarms of flies and clouds of disease, spreading plague and disease around it. die.

It was already the last day of the five days in the plan. The fleet responsible for the rescue did not dare to risk being stranded. After receiving the signal from the starship, they immediately left behind the citizens who were still queuing to board the ship and started their engines together. , take off and run away.

Chen Ziang stood at the bird's-eye view window of the bridge and saw these ships landing one after another inside the Forever, while the huge planet Garcia in the distance was now covered by a green mist covering one-third of the hemisphere.

As for the urban area of ​​Galapasia, it has been completely occupied and can no longer be seen from the position of the starship.

It is obvious that this colonial planet will soon turn into a plague world, and then be quietly wiped off the existing territory by the Federation.

Chen Ziang was horrified by the power of gods that could easily destroy the world.He is not even sure whether the main enemy of starship humanity in the future is the Federation that is powerful enough to abandon a colonial planet at will, or other unknown dangers hidden in the darkness deep in the universe.

The Forever and the Transient set sail.The fleet left the Garcia sector and came to the edge space of the galaxy, and then conducted a simple military parade as planned.

The people were watching the live broadcast of the military parade, and the senior officials held another brief meeting and began to review the report of the rescued Garcia human.

Both belong to the Federation, but there are quite obvious differences between the humans of Garcia and the humans of Aegelaos.In the words of Suzuna Tsukimiya, "many people have not positioned themselves correctly."

Some of the Garcias who were quarantined have made various demands: such as providing drinking water that meets international standards for refugee support, arranging suitable accommodation within 24 hours, and promising to transport them to a nearby federal star as soon as possible. District and so on.

It was as if the refuge was a vacation.

What is even more strange is that according to previous intelligence, these Garcias have shown an extremely docile "submissive attitude" in front of the federal sector government, and are not even willing to participate in demonstrations to defend the interests of the human race.

"Actually, the reason is very simple." Tsukimiya Suzuna said with a sneer, "These Garcias do not have the consciousness to join the starship humans, but still regard themselves as federal humans."

"They believe that we, the starship humans, want to rescue them because they hope to use this matter to negotiate with the Federation to remove the title of 'evil organization' from our heads, so they adopt such a confident attitude—— They expected that we would not dare to harm them, otherwise we would break with the Federation."

"This identification is too outrageous." Xia Zili sighed, shook her head and said, "Didn't Garcia already have propaganda against humanity before? Where do these people get the confidence to think that the federation will continue to protect them? of?"

"Even if you are a third-class citizen in a powerful country, once you arrive in what they consider a 'backward country', you will become arrogant and show off your power." Suzuna Tsukimiya said sarcastically, "If it were me who made the decision, I would kill these people who made the demands. We will kill them all, and they will be executed publicly in front of the rest of the Garcia people, to see if there are any ignorant idiots who will jump out to seek death."

"You are a bit too extreme." Chen Ziang waved his hand and said, turning to Song Mingyuan and asking, "Are there any production fields that are in urgent need of labor?"

"Yes." Song Mingyuan said respectfully, "But sir, it may not be a good idea to send these thorn heads to forced labor."

"Oh, what should I say?" Chen Ziang asked.

"Because the reason why the pricks are pricks is because they are ungrateful and have no loyalty." Song Mingyuan replied, "Even if they were given a precious labor opportunity instead of being thrown out of the airlock and killed, they would only blame We did not give them preferential treatment - such people always like to overestimate their own importance, and will become resentful and resentful after being hit by the gap in reality."

"If things go on like this, this group of people will inevitably become resentful and take extreme measures, such as sabotaging the interior of the ship. They will become the dregs of our great society, unstable elements among loyal citizens, and seriously damage the planet. The overall cohesion of the ship's human race. If we were fighting the enemy at that time, we would have to be careful of these people holding us back... It would be a hundred harms and no good."

"Then how do you think we should deal with it?" Chen Ziang said heartily that it was indeed the case.

In normal times, even if someone makes a rebellion, it would be enough to suppress it; but if we are at war with the federal fleet and these extremists take the opportunity to cause destruction everywhere in the ship, the threat will be great.

"If the punishment is carried out publicly, it will definitely make the rest of the Garcia people feel uneasy." Song Mingyuan said confidently, as if he had already prepared the plan, "They don't know why we punish these people, and in the end it will only endanger everyone."

“But it’s not possible to just let it go, so I suggest that the review can be ‘appropriately extended’.”

Chen Ziang was silent for a moment, a little speechless.

What Song Mingyuan calls "extended review" is, to put it bluntly, the procrastination technique that civil servants are best at.Find various reasons to prevaricate these people, and use a lot of reviews to delay them, so that they can be "temporarily detained" in the stern area for a long time.

Doing so effectively creates a prison, which prevents these guys from causing trouble.But this can be denied to the outside world. After all, they are indeed undergoing a "boarding review" procedurally, but the review process is a little longer.

Wonderful!

Chen Ziang confirmed the opinions of others.Xia Zili was doing nothing, and Tsukimiya Suzuna seemed to think it was a bit too merciful, but she couldn't come up with a more suitable plan.

Xia Qingyu remained silent, which made Chen Ziang more certain of his original guess: Song Mingyuan's opinions might have been discussed with Xia Qingyu a long time ago.