Chapter 1953 - 1543: Upheaval
A moment later, the command room doors swung open, and Mo Baoke rushed in, looking extremely worked up.
"Boss, boss, you finally came to get me, I was scared to death!"
"Talk properly. What happened!"
Su Mo scolded him irritably.
"Something big happened, the sky’s changed, totally changed. It’s like someone punched a hole through the sky, everything’s gone to hell....."
Mo Baoke’s expression was downright terrified, his words tumbling over each other.
"Can you calm down and talk properly!"
Su Mo said, his head aching.
"It’s like this, someone posted a video on the forum of Icaroya and Yurika talking, and in the video they spilled a heaven-shaking secret: Negative Energy Pollution is fundamentally incurable. The entire Negative Universe is just one big gas chamber, we’re all committing slow suicide."
Mo Baoke took a deep breath, swallowed hard, and spoke.
When Su Mo heard Mo Baoke’s words, his heart suddenly sank; he hadn’t expected this to get blown open after all.
At this moment, Sun Duoxiang, Long Ke, and the others were all in an uproar, looking completely at a loss.
"Mo Baoke! You’re not joking, right!"
"Joking my ass. If you don’t believe me, go check the forums yourselves, they’re about to explode. I’m telling you, because of this, the entire Revalclus Star Base is in chaos. Lots of people are refusing to keep working! They’ve completely rebelled! Even many soldiers in charge of suppressing the Second Legion are refusing to obey orders. The Federation’s artificial asteroid I was on is totally out of control, smashing and trashing everywhere! The Federation Soldiers can’t hold it down anymore."
Mo Baoke said.
"It’s that bad?"
Su Mo said, his brows knitting tightly.
"What can you do! After this blew up, I don’t know who started it, but a rumor began spreading. They say we were all chosen by Star Ring City to be sent to our deaths, and they’re even saying that the reason our previous civilizations were wiped out and couldn’t survive was very likely because Star Ring City was behind it. That it was Icaroya’s design to push our civilizations to the brink of collapse, then pull us back at the last moment of despair so we’d serve them."
"Isn’t that bullshit? How each civilization fell apart, don’t they have any idea themselves?"
Su Mo said, his expression grave.
He knew very clearly how the Earth Star civilization had gone wrong.
"I also think that theory is kind of bullshit, but it doesn’t matter if it’s bullshit when so many people believe it. Otherwise how would things get this chaotic."
Mo Baoke said in utter frustration.
"Enough, I get it. Let’s not talk about this for now, we’ll deal with it when we get back to Star Ring City."
Su Mo cut the topic off directly; he was worried that if they kept talking, even his own people here might start having problems.
"Okay...."
Everyone responded one after another.
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One month later, the Legendary Level Star Destroyer Immortal Blade, leading its fleet, arrived at the Ring Star Sea.
Just after entering the Rhein Star Sea, they immediately saw two Level-3 Battleships besieging another Level-3 Battleship, missiles pouring down like crazy, as if they were life-and-death enemies.
"Boss, there are ships fighting up ahead."
Long Ke reported, shouting.
"No way, didn’t we just enter the Rhein Star Sea? How can there be ships fighting?"
When Sun Duoxiang heard Long Ke’s report, his first reaction was that it had to be nonsense. The Ring Star Sea was within the Star Ring City’s radiated zone, where internal fighting was forbidden.
"Which country’s ships are they?"
Su Mo asked steadily.
"Let me take a look. The insignias painted on all three ships are the same, all flying the Demun Empire’s flag. Looks like it’s internal turmoil."
Tilo spoke up, giving her assessment.
"Boss, should we intervene?"
"No. There’s no way to untangle what’s going on, even if we wanted to we couldn’t. Besides, haven’t we seen enough people killing each other on the way here?"
Su Mo said in a low voice.
"Uh, that’s true."
Sun Duoxiang scratched his head and replied.
And just as he finished speaking, a missile from the distant starry sky streaked toward the Immortal Blade.
At this moment, Artificial Intelligence·Dark Spirit issued a warning.
"Warning, under attack!"
"Intercepting!"
The next second, Artificial Intelligence·Dark Spirit redirected an Interception Guard turret, which suddenly opened fire.
It blew the incoming missile apart.
All this happened in the blink of an eye, leaving Su Mo and the others a bit slow to react, somewhat stunned. They were also curious about who would attack them.
And why the attack was so weak?
After a few operations, Tilo quickly captured the relevant footage and displayed it.
They saw that the missile had been launched by a second-generation Black Steel Mecha using a portable launcher; after firing, it immediately turned and fled.
"Boss, that’s way too arrogant. This is straight-up provoking us. We can’t just let that slide; send it a long-range missile."
Sun Duoxiang couldn’t help but urge.
"It’s all gone to hell."
Su Mo took a deep, steadying breath and said.
"Yeah, yeah, I feel the same, we’ve got to teach them a lesson."
"You still have the mood to teach anyone a lesson? Full speed ahead to the Heart of Forbidden Prison, before something happens to the Fortress."
Su Mo said, face dark. This was clearly a major problem: the order maintained by Star Ring City seemed on the verge of collapse, and he was now very worried about the situation at the Heart of Forbidden Prison Fortress.
"Yes!"
Tilo responded immediately.
At this moment, the Legendary Level Star Destroyer Immortal Blade led the fleet at full speed toward the Heart of Forbidden Prison.
Along the route, they didn’t see a single commercial civilian ship.
You had to know that the Ring Star Sea used to be insanely busy, with a huge number of commercial civilian ships coming and going.
This abnormal sight only made everyone more uneasy.
Not long after, Su Mo’s fleet arrived near the Heart of Forbidden Prison, and right away they saw Federation GT forces personally guarding the area, with the Star Destroyer Phantom Flower present as well.
Seeing this, Su Mo’s brows twisted into a knot; the Federation’s ace forces had actually been redeployed to guard the Heart of Forbidden Prison.
"Incoming communication request from Phantom Flower!"
Tilo reported to Su Mo.
"Quick, patch it through!"
Su Mo responded immediately.
Soon, Tia’s virtual image appeared. She looked completely different from her usual playful self, her expression extremely grim, with a trace of fatigue in her face.
She spoke: "Su Mo, you’re back."
"Yeah, I’m back. Why are you personally guarding this place?"
Su Mo asked in a low voice.
"Someone tore the sky open, and now order is in total chaos. President of Alles is worried something might happen at the Heart of Forbidden Prison, so he sent us here to personally garrison it."
Tia replied wearily.
"What’s the situation inside the Federation now?"
"Very bad. Things are extremely unstable internally, and the Alles Council is going all out to suppress it. Su Mo, since your forces are back, I’ll hand the defense of the Heart of Forbidden Prison over to you. I need to pull my troops back; the Federation’s side is under a lot of pressure right now."
Tia said to Su Mo, exhausted.
Su Mo thought for a few seconds, then replied, "Okay, you’ve had a hard time during this period. We’ll take over the defense of the Heart of Forbidden Prison. By the way, where is President of Alles now? Is he in Star Ring City or on Earth Star? I want to meet him."