Chapter 449 Crushing Hope
After they both sat down at the small table on the shuttle boat.
The minister asked straight to the point: "What are you doing here? Are you sick and dying, so you jumped out and wanted the empire to take care of you in your old age?"
Shi Qian looked very peaceful, without the arrogance that the minister remembered from Shi Qian when he was a pirate. Faced with the minister's question, he asked: "Have we met?"
"No, but I know you."
"I know you too."
After both parties got to know each other, they both came to the consensus not to talk nonsense.
Shi Qian also stated the purpose of his trip: "I don't look like I'm going to die of illness, but I heard that my master is dead, so I came to confirm."
"Dead indeed."
"Is there a tomb?"
"Only clothes, not the empire."
"Where?"
"In...your junior brother's colony."
"Junior brother?"
Shi Qian seemed to have really lived in seclusion in the past and did not have any close understanding of the outside world. He did not know Chen Ming's situation.
However, Shi Qian still wanted to meet Wu An's last apprentice before his death.
"Can you contact him for me?"
"You are a wanted criminal now, don't ask for too much."
"You know I'm not. The wanted criminal has long since died. What comes out now is just a man named Shi Qian who happens to look the same, has the same genes, and has the same abilities. You know why I came out."
"A natural disaster?"
Shi Qian nodded.
He can't escape even if humanity dies. As a person who has died once, he doesn't want to die again.
After hearing this, the minister quickly recalled his past judgment on the effect of time-shifting psychic energy. It seemed that it was a simple and crude psychic energy that could be used to directly increase the intensity of various things.
Suddenly a clear idea came to the minister's mind.
They had just suffered a failure, and Shi Qian's spiritual power might be used here.
His psychic powers may even become the best, used to defeat the weak against the strong.
But the minister suddenly sighed again and said: "I can't contact him, and your junior brother is also temporarily out of contact."
"But I can help you contact his people."
Shi Qian made a gesture of invitation.
The minister simply took out the terminal and called Huihuang directly.
Faced with Shi Qian's request to go over, Huan Huang only asked Shi Qian one question.
This is what Wu An used to call Shi Qian privately.
Shi Qian recalled the past and replied with some uncertainty: "Little madman?"
"Shi Qian can come over."
The minister shrugged: "I'll prepare a spaceship for you."
He didn't intend to stop Shi Qian.
If Shi Qian is willing to come out, he is willing to come out. Whether he can be moved to a suitable position and play a role without others mentioning the past, that is what he needs to operate.
Until this matter is settled, the minister still pretends that there is no such person as Shi Qian.
And he has other tasks now.
Not only nano matters, but also mechanical clan matters, a considerable part of the tasks have always been within the scope of his responsibility.
The empire is still facing two enemies at the same time, and he doesn't want to create a new enemy because of something that has passed or is trivial.
The minister shook his head and suddenly asked: "Speaking of which, what have you been doing in the past few decades? Even Wu An doesn't seem to know that you are not dead."
Shi Qian hesitated for a moment, but chose to answer the question: "Since I escaped that siege, I found a place to hide in other places in the star field."
"In the past few years, I have always felt sorry for Master. You must know how much my Master did for me at that time, but I had nothing in return."
"I just thought that maybe it would be best if I died completely, so I didn't go back to look for him."
"I was too young and energetic at that time, and I could solve many things by lowering my head..."
"I wanted to live like an ordinary person, but within a few years my mental condition could no longer support me."
"I went into cryo-sleep for a long time, and I only woke up in recent years."
"I had just adapted to the new world, and then I encountered the invasion of the machine race, and then I heard the news of the death of my master."
"You can check what I said. I should be able to check all of this since I came to you."
"No need."
The minister waved his hand. He could tell that Shi Qian's life was quite painful, and was even very similar to Chen Ming's experience.
But Chen Ming resisted and even killed one of the two level 6 psychics.
However, Shi Qian failed to do this and could only escape by feigning death, and even did not dare to reappear later.
The minister said as he sighed with some empathy.
However, he actually doesn't have a very personal feeling for this kind of bottom-level pain, but he knows what attitude he should have.
Just like he just said he wouldn't investigate, there will always be someone who will put everything Shi Qian has experienced in front of him.
The minister and Shi Qian were silent for a while.
A brilliant voice suddenly sounded from the communication that had not been hung up: "There is no need to fly the spaceship, let's use a faster method."
The minister didn't say anything when he heard this. He just turned around and took out the special terminal that Chen Ming had given him before.
"What?"
In Shi Qian's doubts, the metallic liquid flowed out from the terminal and moved towards Shi Qian's feet.
"Relax, it'll be over soon."
Two days passed in a blink of an eye.
The countdown to the online meeting room has also been suspended for two days, and is still maintained at just over six days.
Thinking on the bright side, at least the empire's plan for the Colossus was successful, and what someone said to the minister before that the countdown would not be extended has been broken.
But the minister should still have a headache, because the empire has no way to solve the nano-planet. Their methods are too weak, and they must find and try new methods.
In the past two days, the minister had made Shi Qian's existence known.
People in the military department are complaining, but at this time, no one can take the initiative to bring up old things.
And looking back now, the original conflict with Shi Qian was not the Imperial Military Department, but the Fifth Army.
It was only later that things gradually fermented, eventually leading to irreconcilable conflicts.
From the current perspective, the Fifth Army itself has very big problems.
In the last major incident involving Zuojiao, the Fifth Army did not play a good role.
There seems to be a shadow of Zuo Jing in this incident.
But fortunately, Zuo Jing was completely dead, and the Fifth Army Corps had also declined somewhat, and was even on the verge of reorganization.
In any case, if Shi Qian's spiritual energy really has the effect that was once speculated.
Then the key to solving the Nano Planet and even the Queen lies with him.
He can be regarded as an alternative method for the empire.
The empire is currently mainly promoting the method of dealing with nano-planet, which is a technology that the minister seems to have heard of before, but is not too impressed.
Of course, this lack of impression is not because the technology is not good, but mainly because this technology was only taken out very early and then sealed up.
It is a technology that Fan Chao recently found out from the inventory.
It is a technology that uses massive celestial bodies to destroy stars, destroy their stability, and use stellar matter to destroy entire galaxies.
This technology has been accumulated for a long time.
But the method of directly destroying stars to affect the entire galaxy would never have been used in the past when the empire's external pressure was not so great.
As for now, the situation is different.
When I asked Fanchao how long it would take for the technology to be put into use, he gave an answer of three days and various paper data.
There is also a way to hand it over to the military in advance for training on the use of weapons.
Just wait for the weapon to arrive and you can use it directly.
As of today, there is still one day left before Fan Chao gives the results.
But today also happens to be the time when the previous batch of nano fleets arrived at the border of the empire.
The minister also established contact with the military headquarters early and was always paying attention to the news coming back from the sentinel array.
He even made a holographic projection at the military command center responsible for this matter.
I squatted directly in the command center, waiting for the further development of this matter.
As the coordinate data of the nanofleet sent back by the Sentinel Array gets closer and closer to the Empire.
The atmosphere in the conference room became increasingly serious.
Under Imperial surveillance.
The nanofleet finally arrived at the border of the empire and collided with the machine race surrounding the empire.
The battle was about to break out, and the battle between the nano fleet and the mechanical fleet was almost completely one-sided.
The mechanical race had no experience fighting the nano fleet at all, and they were assimilated by the nano fleet almost instantly.
However, after the nanofleet cleared away the mechanical race near the contact location, they had no intention of continuing towards the empire. Instead, they spread out to attack different galaxies of the mechanical race.
It can even be said that not a single nanoship has the idea of moving towards the empire.
The fleet that was waiting at the imperial border was just let go.
This result made the heavy atmosphere in the command center suddenly feel lighter. "Is it possible that Nano wants the technology of the machine family?"
"The mechanical tribe also has colossi, maybe they have this idea."
"What should we do?"
"Ask the superiors?"
These questions were quickly conveyed by the minister to the ears of the people who should be conveyed, and soon a new order was issued.
Keep a close watch, wait for the opportunity before acting, and be prepared to cover up the Empire's next move.
The empire's next move is naturally to use stellar-level weapons to conduct destructive attempts on nano-planet.
It's just that the preparation time was not as long as expected.
Just a few hours later, the fleet immediately started moving.
The reason lies in the time changes that were also sent back to the empire by Glory today.
He is willing to accept the empire's comprehensive inspection of his psychic abilities, and is willing to help the empire go head-to-head with the survivors.
So, after a few hours.
The fleet that was incorporated into the Colossus set off again and headed for the Nano Star Field.
Although the original plan was to wait a day before using Fanchao's technology, in case Fanchao's new weapons were ineffective, it would be too much of a waste of time to arrange for Shi Qian's deterioration.
Anyway, the Colossus has been preparing, and the escort fleet is also on hand at any time.
With the guarantee from Huihuang, it is not difficult to reorganize the fleet with Shi Qian as the core.
The military has basically remained silent on this matter.
Most people know that although the Nano Colossus has not yet been recreated.
But it shouldn’t be too long before the day it is re-created or transformed through the colossus of the mechanical race.
The nano fleet occupies the mechanical star field, and it is very likely that they are preparing for the follow-up of their colossus dispatch.
It never goes wrong to try more.
With the help of the sentinel array, the fleet carrying Shi Qian found a fortified galaxy located on the border of the nano star field.
The terrorist detection capabilities of the Sentinel Array allow the Empire's fleet to still have very powerful concealment capabilities despite being of considerable size.
The fleet was so close to the target system.
After once again dealing with the patrol fleet of the galaxy, the Colossus arrived over a nano-planet in the galaxy.
Nanomachines on the planet have gathered faster than last time, and the wild nanostorm has gradually built a shield-like thing outside the planet.
But this time, under the influence of Shi Qian's psychic energy, the power output of the Colossus was increased to nearly ten times by him using the simplest and crudest means.
The energy beam shot from the colossus's muzzle is close to pure white.
This energy that annihilates everything no longer only penetrates the surface of the planet and destroys the core of the planet.
This time, it penetrated directly through the entire planet, completely erasing everything in its path.
Dazzling, almost white fire appeared on the surface of other areas of the planet that were not directly hit by the energy beam, dragging everything into extreme high-temperature purgatory and burning.
The nano-planet is not that the entire planet has been completely transformed from the outside to the inside. The interior of the planet still retains some of its original structure.
Now, these structures are destroyed, and even nanomachines can no longer fill them.
The entire planet began to collapse.
Totally destroyed from the inside out.
All that was left was a broken planet that was torn apart.
"Success!"
Several cheers from the young officers rang out in the command center.
But this is just a small step that the empire has just taken.
To truly contain Nano, more planets need to be destroyed.
At this time, the colossus has recovered the loss of use under the influence of brilliant psychic energy.
Before the nanofleet arrives, Colossus can continue to find its next target.
And at the same time that the nano-planet was destroyed.
In the galaxy where the wormhole is located.
In the hall of the Queen's carriage.
The Queen is still sitting on the throne.
But for some reason, her majestic posture disappeared.
She looked a little embarrassed and covered her left eye.
Between the gap between the palm and the face, some metallic liquid was flowing out.
She seemed to have been through some traumatic things.
But she is still as beautiful as before.
The Queen suddenly let go of her hand and wiped away the metallic liquid flowing from her left eye.
She seemed to no longer endure the pain, and instead breathed a sigh of relief and closed her eyes again.
She stood up and waved her right arm, and a dark, indescribable space was created at her will.
The Queen stepped directly into it without hesitation.
The next moment.
This pitch-black space rift spanned countless light-years and appeared in the galaxy that had just been destroyed by the Colossus.
The tens of thousands of meters long colossus was instantly torn apart by some unobservable force into pieces with an average diameter of no more than half a meter.
The escorting fleet was also twisted into twists by some force.
Whether it was a battleship or a frigate, as long as it was mobile, it was completely destroyed.
Shi Qian, who was originally staying in the fleet flagship, felt for a moment that he was dead.
But fortunately, his feeling was wrong, and he was brought back to the empire by the president's psychic powers.
The level 6 psykers who have returned to the Empire are preparing for the day, waiting to be summoned to deal with some troublesome places that only they can deal with.
It was only now that the Sentinel Array barely gave a warning that the Queen had arrived in the system where the Colossus was located.
This terrifying power was beyond everyone's imagination.
And something even more terrifying is happening.
The Queen once again reached out and tore open the rift.
And the torn black space rift that could not be described in words appeared in the empire, and appeared in the place where Shi Qian finally arrived.
The piercing siren didn't even have time to sound.
The terrifying power has already acted on the planet where level 6 psykers usually stay.
The entire planet was completely torn apart and crushed at this moment.
Of the eleven level 6 psykers on the planet and the thousands of ordinary people who provided services to the psykers, only five survived.
Each of them has their own ability to escape.
But the remaining people have no room to struggle.
There seemed to be no difference between one psyker and eleven psykers in front of the Queen.
There was even one of them who had the ability to face a super-physical psyker, but he also died in the Queen's raid.
Everyone who knew what was happening where the Queen was at this moment was silent as if their throats were being strangled.
Humanity's hope seemed to be completely crushed at this moment.
There are only more than thirty level 6 psykers in the empire.
Losing a fifth in just a few seconds is an absolutely unacceptable result.
This means that the upper limit of the power of psykers possessed by the Empire has been greatly reduced, and it also means that the Empire may truly have lost all threats to the Queen.
It can even be said that the empire never seems to have the qualifications to fight the queen.
The Minister of Psychics, who was also paying attention to this place, suddenly noticed the metallic liquid overflowing from the corner of the Queen's left eye.
He saw the subtle pain in the Queen's slightly opened nanomechanical eyes.
At this moment, the minister realized that Wu An's death was not that easy.
The life and death of the empire, survival and destruction, seemed to depend only on his thoughts at this moment.
He made the calmest decision he had ever made in his life.
"President, send all level 6 psykers, including me!"
No one can escape the catastrophe of the empire's demise.
Only when everyone comes together can we launch the final and most effective counterattack at this moment.
The empire can continue to exist if it succeeds, but if it fails, it is better than a long journey into hell.
"I can't do it."
"What?"
The minister didn't have time to ask more questions.
Because even as he spoke.
A black spot with completely different properties from the dark space that the Queen tore apart appeared next to the Queen.
This black spot that is difficult to see clearly with the naked eye suddenly becomes larger, as if the gravity that attracts everything is telling everyone.
This is a black hole.
(End of chapter)