CH 147

The Empire’s long-range detection instruments probed the zerg planet but found no more signs of life on it.

As a result, more people began to relax. Only a few dozen of senior management knew of the new mother zerg, and they gradually divided into two factions.

One faction was the Ability Users camp, which still believed in Lei Yao’s speculations. The other faction was the alarmist faction, mainly dominated by the Incapacitated who believed that Lei Yao had committed a serious crime against the Empire – the crime of splitting the country.

They believe Lei Yao’s claims after killing the mother zerg were because he was afraid of losing his position.

Sentinels and guides existed sorely to fight the zerg, but once the Zerg disappeared, they were worthless.

The Ability users were no longer god-like beings, and they were no longer saviours of the Diyang planet.

They will fall from the altar of the gods and fall heavily to the ground.

They might even be worse than ordinary people, who can still live an ordinary life.

And that these Sentinel-Guides, without their natural enemies, will inevitably become a source of fear for ordinary people in the future, just like the “zerg.”

For the sake of stability, the state constantly monitored their every move or centralised their control.

For years, these two factions argued.

In the year following the disappearance of the zerg, complaints began to be made by civilians about the ability of those with powers to coerce civilians.

Once there was no common natural enemy, the irreconcilable contradiction between the capable and the powerless became particularly acute.

The powerful looked down on the powerless, and the powerless hated and feared the powerful. They feared their abilities and resented them for having them.

In the eighth year of the zerg’s disappearance, the top echelons of the Empire were gradually dominated by the Incapacitated.

As the conflict between the incapacitated and the capable intensified, the Imperial hierarchy decided that the ability users should be centrally controlled.

To facilitate control, the Imperial Army was forced to separate the Sentinels and Guides remaining on the planet Diyang. The separated Sentinels and Guides were sent back to the university, only this time not to teach them to study, but to control them.

In the tenth year after the disappearance of the zerg, the crime rate among the Ability users continued to increase.

Lei Yao eventually petitioned the Empire to send all the ability users to R18, never to return to Diyang in their lifetime.

On that day, the military top brass and the imperial top brass held a meeting for three whole days. On the third day, the emperor finally announced, with a tired face, that he had agreed to Lei Yao’s proposal.

The emperor was a powerless man who was once proud to have married a powerful guide and to have two powerful sons. But now, his hair was frosty at the temples as he had now lost two of his sons.

It took half a month for Lei Yao to gather all the powerful people on the planet Diyang.

On that day, all of them walked onto the spaceship, some without a trace of nostalgia in their eyes, while others looked back at the beautiful planet Diyang from time to time. From the moment they boarded the ship, there was no turning back.

On that day, a huge crowd gathered to watch the departure of the Ability users.

The moment the immense spaceship took off, the crowd erupted.

After so many years of fighting, they had finally won.

In the spaceship, Lei Yao looked at the Ability users with different expressions and said, in a serious tone, “We are not abandoned by the Diyang Planet, and we have not abandoned it. That planet has long since become unsuitable for our existence. Without our natural enemies, we were bound to have irreconcilable conflicts with the Incapacitated. I think many of you here have never been to R18, but believe me, it will bring you surprises. R18 will serve as our home planet from now on. We will build homes, countries, and start brand new lives on that planet. ”

Many of the sentinels and guides who had been separated found each other through a spiritual bond, and they gazed at each other as they travelled to that unknown planet.

The planet R18 had changed dramatically in ten years.

When Bai Lixin arrived ten years ago, the R18 only had water and vegetation. But it was mostly a desert, with yellow sand rolling everywhere.

However, after ten years of work by Lei Yao, Bai Lixin, and others, the planet had been covered in blue and green.

The air was fresh and pleasant, and it was a beautiful sight to behold.

As soon as the Ability users walked down the steps, they smelt the incomparably fresh smell of grass.

Lei Yao scanned the crowd and smiled, “Although this land is beautiful, it is just a bit more pristine. Everyone can stay at the training base for the first few days. As for the house, please work on your own. From today onwards, this planet will be called Fire Obsidian, and all of you are our people of Fire Obsidian. Although there are no nice houses yet, we have a good place for imprisonment here, so if there are any of you who have extremely special fetishes, like hurting people or something, I won’t mind making those people stay there for a few days first. On Fire Obsidian, we are all ordinary people. There are no Ability users here, no Incapacitated, just Fire Obsidians.”

In the eleventh year after the disappearance of the Zerg, a new planet appeared in the galaxy – Fire Obsidian.

This planet was an alliance and had no empire. The leader of the alliance was a guide with 3S powerful mental powers, and his lover, a sentinel whose beast form was a phoenix.

The Fire Obsidians gradually adapted to the planet and took root on it.

For years afterwards, the Fire Obsidians never ventured set foot on planet Diyang.

In the twentieth year after the disappearance of the zerg, the alarm signal on Diyang that had stopped functioning for years suddenly turned on, emitting one shrill, piercing sound after another. That sound brought the crowd, who had been at ease for twenty years, back to endless painful memories.

It was the zerg detector!

The zerg had appeared again!

On the detector, the small red dot showed that the zerg’s ship was approaching the Diyang star at an extremely fast speed. Those who had experienced the constant battles with the Zerg twenty years ago discovered that the Zerg’s airships were faster than any other time before.

However, this time, there were no more Ability users guarding Diyang.

The airship soon entered Diyang’s atmosphere and hovered in the sky. It looked like they were about to land.

The people were now desperate. Why did they drive all the Ability users off the planet? Without their protection, the planet was a fat piece of meat that had no power to fight back against the zerg.

The people cried out to each other, feeling that the end of the world had come.

A miracle happened just when the people were desperate.

The airship that was about to land slowly rose back up into the sky, and after a half-hearted pause in mid-air, left the planet Diyang.

“The airship is flying in the direction of Fire Obsidian!” The one watching the detection instrument exclaimed, covering his mouth in excitement and screaming, “It’s the Fire Obsidian! They must have been the ones that sent the signal to draw them away. It’s the Fire Obsidians that have saved us! ”

On Fire Obsidian, Lei Yao imitated the fluctuations of a mother zerg to once again draw the zerg’s airships over.

This was also just speculation on his part. For the past twenty years, Li Sidan and the others who had been following Lei Yao were convinced that the battle was not over. To prepare for a more adequate battle force, they had gathered all the ability users on the Diyang Star and made them accustomed to the brutal creatures on Fire Obsidian.

Li Sidan and the others were confident that it would all work out.

And in the meantime, the science geek Li Sidan continued to analyse and study the mental fluctuations he had collected over the years and had finally come to a conclusion.

The workers, the males and the females, each have a mental frequency range that does not overlap with each other.

The mother zerg’s spiritual frequency can control the worker zerg and the male zerg, while the male zerg can control the worker zerg.

As Li Sidan deduced, the mental frequency Lei Yao had just imitated was almost the same as that emoted by female zergs.

The worker zergs received a distress signal from the mother zerg, and no matter how urgent their mission was, their priority would be to save the mother zerg.

When the zerg landed, they found that this planet was not as soft as Diyang.

Lei Yao and his team repeated their tactics, leading the zerg ships to the Ferocious Tooth Canyon once again, and carried out a planned and sure kill of the zerg.

After twenty years of hibernation, the new mother zerg finally pressed on and decided to strike.

In the sky, the beautiful phoenix was particularly dazzling as he shot countless sharp red balls from the sky, each ball instantly emitting a violent flame when it struck the zerg. The flames enveloped their whole bodies, and it did not take long to burn them to ashes.

Thanks to the phoenix, the battle was never in doubt and it was not long before it was ended.

Because of Li Sidan’s instructions, Bai Lixin purposely avoided the zerg’s airships. As soon as the war was over, Li Sidan headed straight to the front line and got into the airship.

“Chief Lei Yao,” Li Sidan said excitedly, “I think we can use the braking and flight system of this airship to make a ship big enough to fly to the mother zerg’s lair!”

Bai Lixin smiled and said, “In that case, what are you waiting for? After more than twenty years of hibernation, we finally have results. I didn’t expect the new mother zerg to be so cunning; hibernating for twenty years before it started to act. ”

Li Sidan nodded, “Give me some time to study and research this airship. But what a strange thing; where the hell has the mother zerg been hiding for the past twenty years? ” With a shake of his head to himself, Li Sidan began to study the airship with excitement.

He ran his fingers over the translucent operating platform for a moment before turning back to the two men with an awkward look, “Ah, you’re still here. Why don’t you go back first?”

“Professor Li Sidan, I’m not comfortable with you researching this by yourself. If you hit a button and sent yourself into outer space, it would be a great loss to our planet, Fire Obsidian. ” Bai Lixin teased.

Li Sidan huffed, “If only we could get this back to base.”

Bai Lixin shrugged, “No problem. What’s so hard about that.” With that, he shifted and took the form of a phoenix.

After flying out of the airship, the phoenix’s form kept getting bigger and bigger.

It was only when its wings could cover the sky that Bai Lixin came to a halt. He grabbed the airship by the protrusion with both of his claws and took it straight up into the sky towards the base.

As it had been decided they would permanently live on Fire Obsidian, the training base had long removed the daylight system, which was following the Diyang time. As Bai Lixin flapped his huge wings and came in, he blocked the sunlight from the entire training base.

The flying ship was carefully docked in an unused square before Bai Lixin took human form again.

Li Sidan swallowed and looked at Lei Yao in a curt manner, ‘’Chief, although I have watched the madam transform into his form so many times, he is still stunning. Of course, I only said this out of pure enjoyment of beauty and nothing else. ”

Lei Yao glanced at Li Sidan and said, “In the future, do more and talk less. Talking more is worse than not talking at all. ”