Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Especially after learning about the concept of "liquidation", Hong understood that for them, consuming energy was tantamount to accelerating the pace of civilization being devoured—although according to No. 2945, this devouring would not be a sudden destruction. The whole family ate everything, but it was a gradual process, but that also...

and many more.

Hong suddenly realized something.

Now that the reason for the opponent's initiative to attack is probably because there is not much time left before the liquidation process—then, how did the opponent force the opponent to squeeze out such an attack when the creatures in the subspace were about to starve to death? Pen energy to assist in combat?

After realizing this problem, Hong immediately ordered the intelligence network within the church to start collecting information, hoping to confirm her very bold guess.

As expected, after several minutes of intense collection, Hong really discovered the phenomenon she guessed—a phenomenon that she was very unwilling to see.

On a distant new colonial star that has just been colonized for less than 200 years, the colonial cities that were once bustling with people have now turned into a silent place of death.

About 1 million Tukka people once lived on this planet.

But now, they are all dead—from the position and shape of the corpses, Hong can be sure that these Tukekas died suddenly without warning or preparation, even at the last second before death, They still shuttle between factories and cities, working tirelessly for the great religious order and gods in their minds.

But now, there is only a bleak breeze left here.

The Order sacrificed the entire population of the planet.

For their "greatness".

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PS: I would like to report to you the progress of the current bounty (it is not over yet, if you have a blade or something, you can continue to vote)

When the reward started on April 4, there were 21 monthly tickets, 1620 recommendation tickets, 20725 rewards, and 26.5 blades.

而截止目前5月5日早上5点30分，当前月票数2405张，推荐票25931张，打赏44.03万，刀片945张。

Tickets add 5 chapters (upper limit), and the tipping removes the 16 gold treasure box, which is 28.03 yuan. Add 1 chapter, add 3 chapters to the blade, and add 20 chapters to the treasure box, a total of 29 chapters will be added.

I have to be a little bit busy these days, save some manuscripts at most, and I will be completely fine until the 8th, when the time comes, I will directly turn into a violent code word meow and start updating.

In May, rush!

Volume 220 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter [-] Neither Mercy nor God

Is it really worth it?

Looking at this planet that has completely shed its "human" breath, Hong felt very...incomprehensible.

What is the first element of civilization?

Intelligent creatures are desperately developing technology, industry, and even powerful force. What is the purpose?

Is it for the greatness of civilization?

Obviously, this is not the case, or it should not be the case—all in all, the purpose of the existence of civilization is for people, that is, for the thousands and thousands of people who make up this civilization, and for every individual that makes up it. people.

Give civilization to age, not age to civilization.

If such behavior is to fight against foreign aggression and win a better future for their descendants, then such sacrifice is undoubtedly just and noble.

But apparently, that's not their purpose.

In order to realize the "sublime" and "magnificent" ideals of the entire civilization, in order to realize a so-called pure universe, they will sacrifice tens of millions of their own population.

Especially when such sacrifices do not occur on the battlefield where they fight the enemy, but in the city where they work and live, they are sacrificed by their own people to pray to a so-called "god" for strength.

Can such a value that makes Hong feel extremely uncomfortable, really be explained by the pollution of a subspace creature?

Ai Xing people don't have such values. According to the historical data excavated by Hong, even when Ai Xing people were in a difficult situation and were about to enter the refuge, their social values ​​were far better than those of the religious order.

Obviously, either the other party has grown to such a strength that it can distort the consciousness of intelligent creatures in the past thousand years.

Or, the three views of these Tukekas are wrong.

Hong hoped it was the former, because in that case, at least after she wiped out Tukeka completely, she could still mourn for the bright future that this civilization once had, just as she did before destroying the Aixing civilization.

Even if they are sworn enemies, Hong also wants to maintain an objective attitude towards each other as much as possible, and try to avoid discrediting the other party because of their position, just like a very popular saying in the media circle of Cat League——

"Our advancement and beauty don't need to be reflected by discrediting others."

But if it is the latter, then even after they are completely wiped out by Red, they will be included in the textbooks of the Cat League as a notorious name, and become a model of "existence for existence, greatness for greatness".

Unfortunately, at present, the latter possibility is extremely high.

"A civilization that has gone astray."

Looking at the surface city that began to appear abnormal due to losing human control, Hong shook his head, and ordered the probes of other planets to monitor the surface of the planet with the highest precision for 48 hours, so as to ensure that when the other party sacrificed again, they could Get news as quickly as possible.

According to her intelligence search, the total population of the religious order should be around 180 billion, which is slightly less than that of the Cat League. In Hong's view, a population of 4000 million is a huge price for betraying civilization itself. But if you really look at it from the perspective of the entire population...

At this price, there is still a lot of "room for improvement".

With a population of 4000 million, they have greatly narrowed the gap with the Cat League in a short period of time by virtue of their inexplicable "good luck". Wan?

4000 million is not enough, what about [-] million?

40 million?

Or even...an entire civilization?

Destroying one's own civilization for the sake of victory in the war seemed unbelievable to Hong, and it was completely putting the cart before the horse—but Hong had to admit that with the opponent's performance just now, maybe he could really do this.

After all, before this, she never thought that there would be a civilization that would take the initiative to kill its own population in exchange for power—even according to some information she captured through the listening outpost, the people on the other side actually thought it was Normal, is a "necessary sacrifice".

At this moment, Hong finally understood the opponent's confidence in daring to take the initiative to attack.

It has to be said that this is indeed enough confidence and a strong enough force—however, Hong never wants to see such a powerful force in Maomeng.

Because for the values ​​​​of the Cat League, if it is really to the point where they have to use this trick against their will, it can only appear when they are invaded by the enemy and have already fought to the end. If they don’t do this, they will die—— Whenever there is any slightest possibility, Hong will never do this.

People are ends, not means.

Of course, Hong believes that in the minds of the members of the religious order, they did this precisely because of the invasion of the cat alliance, an alien force, to counter her and prevent the extinction of the Tukeka people, and the cat alliance has indeed signed The extinction order for them makes all this more reasonable.

It was the cat alliance that "forced" them to do so——

No?

Regarding this, Hong didn't care what they thought, because at this moment, there was only one thing she wanted to do——

That is the heinous subspace creature on the opposite side, and these populations with distorted views on cleanliness.

All wiped out.

The time has come.

"The entire fleet has..."

Looking at the seemingly ordinary fleet of the other party, but actually smelling a vague aura of madness, and looking at the time point when the model has been fitted to the limit, Hong resolutely pressed the big red button.

"overload!"

...

The battle has entered the most intense stage.

As the fleets of the two sides continue to approach, the distance between the most advanced fleets is less than [-] kilometers. Except for those warships that have withdrawn from the battle zone and are undergoing rapid maintenance in polar orbit, all the laser ships on the frontal battlefield have entered each other. best range.

The nearly uniform ultra-high-energy lasers are focusing fire on the enemy ship with unimaginable efficiency, ionizing the armor on its surface into hot plasma, expanding, tearing, and finally turning into balls of dazzling flames.

Tiny but deadly cannonballs are shuttled between the boundless starry sky, like the rain of arrows drawn by a group of archers on the ancient battlefield, raging around the enemy, ready to hit those unlucky warships at any time. Long breakdown.

If the barrage fired by the Hulu-class under normal conditions is the rain of arrows from ancient archers, then the electromagnetic cannon barrage under overload is like an archer using a hand strap equipped with a mechanical prosthesis to automatically install it. The modern bow of the arrow box is ordinary, it looks like an arrow, but the actual power is far from the world.

In addition, after entering the hand-to-hand combat stage, the strange bonuses on the religious order have no effect-this kind of luck only allows them to destroy the outer heat dissipation more accurately and have a higher hit rate. In fact, they give the gods energy , and then God personally inspected the Fleet of the Rape Cat League, and then instructed them how to attack efficiently, not the so-called causal bonus.

What's more, this bonus itself is also time-limited. The 4000 million population is only enough to provide their 7 million-ton fleet with a bonus of about 18 minutes. The successful effect is basically zero, and the church did not choose to continue the time in the end.

With a population of 4000 million, is it worth it to increase their win rate from almost 0 to the current 15%?

The church felt that this couldn't be more worthwhile.

For the sake of the supreme voice, what can they not give up?

Whether it's their lives, or... the future of civilization.

Both are "necessary sacrifices".

15%, looks good, but this is just the judgment of their wetware host engineers based on the situation just now. If it stops here, soon, the little gap they just recovered will be wiped out again by the number advantage of Cat League Drop - they can't stop.

They need more.

Stronger.

Soon, the detectors in the church reported a piece of information that made everyone in the cat alliance feel horrified.

TKK-6-d, the third most populous planet in the Order, is an extremely prosperous ecological planet with about 15 billion inhabitants.

Just now, it turned into a mass grave full of corpses.

The religious order is not even willing to take it step by step-their second shot is nearly 10% of the population of the entire civilization.

This time, Hong could even vaguely feel that the power of the subspace creature on the opposite side had a small increase after this sacrifice, about 9%.

Assuming that the increase in strength corresponds to the number of sacrificed population, then Hong can speculate that if the entire Tukka civilization is swallowed by it, the opponent's energy will be enough to increase by 110% compared to the current level, then...

and many more.

Hong suddenly discovered something was wrong.

"Retrieve the religious order's Internet data, and query the key words 'God' and 'Energy'."

Almost in an instant, the database displayed all the information collected so far that contained these two keywords—coincidentally, the first line of the listed information was the sentence that Hong wanted to find .

"...The gods have bought us time as much as possible, and his power has been so scarce that it will not be able to sustain it without supplementing it, so we must..."

The following are some common mobilization speeches. The general meaning is that the "God" has done his best, has reached the limit for Tukeka, and the energy has been drained to the point where there is almost nothing left. The believers fight for the loving gods, purify their gang of "filth", for a pure universe or something.

It seems that this "god" is very unwilling to eat their souls, but it is really impossible to squeeze out a drop of energy, and because of their active request, they have to eat the minimum soul, and will Almost all of this energy was used to give them bonuses to support their operations to the maximum.

Hong looked up and saw that the other party's energy intensity had risen a lot, and then dropped slightly after about 10% of the growth rate, and there was no longer any change in energy intensity. "Almost full" these two paragraphs.

how to say.

It wasn't too much beyond her expectations - if the opponent slowly used them all on the fleet of the church, then the red can barely think that their sacrifice is worthwhile, at least under their culture .

But if that's really all there is to it...

The religious order thought it was a great sacrifice, and it thought it was a slave at all costs, all of which became like the performance of a clown in a circus.

Hilarious, yet ridiculous.

"Then, let me see how the 'powerful' power you obtained by sacrificing nearly 10% of the population is actually performing?"

Although according to common sense, the bonus of 4000 million people before was already considerable, but now that the number has increased by nearly [-] times, its bonus is very likely to be high enough to be evenly matched with the Cat League, or even overwhelmed - but Hong didn't panic at all.

In other words, ever since she knew the reason why the other party dared to take the initiative to attack, or the hole card, was this mechanism of sacrificing population in exchange for power, most of her original suspense had dropped.

Even after sacrificing more than a billion people, the addition of their fleet is really enough to defeat the cat league's huge fleet with double advantages in home numbers, forcing her to let the fleet retreat, so what?

The two livable planets stopped completely, nearly 10% of the population died completely, and they gave up long-term development just to burst out a wave of troops all in. Even if it really succeeded, the cat alliance was driven back to its own star field, and even What if they occupied their galaxy?

There is still a huge industrial system behind her, which is continuously providing extremely sufficient reserves for their war in a scientific, efficient and sustainable way. Since the official war, none of their population has died at the hands of the religious order .

It can be said that so far, the productivity of the Cat League has not been damaged in the slightest, and even due to factors such as sustainable industrial expansion, alien trade, and human repayment of arms sales, it is going on the fastest in history. increase.

On the one hand, it is relying on an increasingly powerful industry to continuously increase its productivity, and on the other hand, it is gaining short-term combat advantages at the cost of sacrificing its foundation for becoming stronger.

It is clear at a glance which is better and which is worse.

"The enemy fleet has not shown any abnormalities for the time being."

Soon, Hong's analysis model and the military scientists of the strategic command center gave the same answer.

However, Hong knew that since the other party had consumed some energy—even though the subspace creature had secretly deducted about 90% of the energy, and was still hiding a huge amount of energy while lying to the cult that he had "done everything he could", It seems that they are not sorry for the sacrifice of the Tukekas at all.

But since it is still necessary to use deception instead of directly proclaiming it, then the other party must have to do something to convince the religious order that it is really "doing its best".

That's a total of 15 billion people. Even if it's only 10% deducted, it's equivalent to 1.5 million people, which is nearly three times more than the previous 4000 million—not to mention that according to the current situation, Hong is very suspicious of the previous population. Is 4000 million also a lot of deductions?

What kind of abilities will an energy that is at least several times stronger, or even dozens of times stronger, give the order's fleet?

Hong doesn't know.

But she was ready.

Volume 220 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] Flying Dragon Riding on the Face!

So far, although the cat alliance and the religious order have been fighting for two full hours, but it is very different from others, this time the hard battle damage of the two sides is actually not much, accounting for only about 10% of the total number.