Chapter 433: with translation of chapter title

Rebellion, overthrow?

Overthrow the existing backwardness and ignorance?

In an instant, how to stir things up on this hot, humid planet and rescue compatriots suffering slavery and oppression, various plans surged into the OriginalBody minds.

However…

"Father, are we only nine?"

Helusi, however, voiced the brothers' confusion on their behalf.

"Correct." Sui Bian nodded in affirmation.

"This…"

Including Helusi and Fogeirim, all the brothers hesitated a bit, since they had never left their father since they could remember, carrying out the "biological observation" operation arranged by Rebecca and Alekxia, they also completed it under Sui Bian's watch.

But, father suddenly had them nine oppose the entire planet's backward, ignorant feudal forces, which truly made the OriginalBody who had never left protection feel apprehensive.

Fear?

Not much.

Confusion, however, abounded; they feared they would do poorly, or mess up father's arrangements.

"Only you nine are correct." At this moment, Sui Bian, sensing the OriginalBodies' thoughts, added: "But you are OriginalBodies; even if you are youths, that doesn't change the fact that you are OriginalBodies, whether in physical form or spiritual energy, you must crush the so-called deities."

Of course, I, Bai Hou, and your brother Constantine will stay here temporarily; moreover, each of you will have two elder guard brothers secretly providing assistance; don't treat this operation as a mission, relax your mindset, knowing that your ten OriginalBody elder brothers, at your age, had already participated in many military operations.

Listening to father's consolation, the OriginalBodies indeed had less confusion, but each became eager to try, seeming to want to prove now that they could handle all of father's arrangements.

Because, the OriginalBodies always felt the subtext of the comforting words was saying that those ten OriginalBody elder brothers had adapted to the battlefield earlier, while they were like a bunch of kids who couldn't leave their swaddling……

Perhaps father didn't intend that, but Helusi, Fogeirim, etc. OriginalBodies couldn't help but lean toward that.

Immediately, as the 'big brother' among the nine OriginalBodies, Helusi puffed his chest and, representing the brothers, promised: "I understand, Father! We will not disappoint Father!"

"Having this spirit is good." Sui Bian, who is also over two meters tall, always wore a kind smile, then raised his left hand, lightly patted Helusi's right shoulder, then surveyed all the OriginalBodies present, and spoke earnestly:

"Even if you mess up, I won't be disappointed, because you are my children; however, you must distinguish when you can disregard sacrifice to efficiently achieve the ultimate goal, and when you must minimize loss to maintain secrecy and low profile, or directly slay the enemy leader and take down their lair, understand?"

Upon hearing this, the OriginalBodies finally stopped being restless, and nodded in response: "Yes, Father."

"All right." Sui Bian's left hand naturally gestured toward the distant city-state, raising his voice: "Go! Go make the people here realize that humanity's destiny should be in humanity's hands!"

"Yes! Father!"

As the words fell, the OriginalBodies dressed in casual wear, leisure wear, even Hawaiian-style, sprang into a sprint and vanished without a trace in an instant.

And the guards responsible for each OriginalBody's safety kept their "gaze" on the OriginalBodies from start to finish, then directly activated the optical camouflage on their powered armor, then activated the transmission device, also completely disappearing.

In the end, only Sui Bian, Bai Hou, Constantine, and two guards remained at the cliff's edge.

"Chairman..." Bai Hou, gazing at the city-state, said with her prosthetic face showing no ripple: "According to the data of the OriginalBodies at this stage, simply relying on force to overthrow all feudal regimes on this planet would take only twelve hours to complete."

Upon hearing this, Sui Bian glanced at his secretary with peripheral vision, while also concealing his own spiritual energy, expanding his perception range, covertly "watching" each of his sons, and responded:

"Matters cannot be judged by one side alone; take Luo Jia, who essentially dislikes, even loathes war, so he would tend to use words, and his favorite book "Human Truth," to try to incite and gather a large-scale rebellious force."

"If it's Alfa Rui Si and Omega these two brothers, they might covertly foment rebellion, causing internal strife among the feudal regimes, so they can reap the benefits as the fisherman."

"I have given them absolute freedom, so they will employ their own best plans and means; therefore there's no need to estimate or predict time—we only need to patiently wait here."

"Hmm, indeed." Bai Hou nodded thoughtfully.

In fact, she and the boss have been in Universe 03 for twelve years; although her thinking and logic remain inadvertently rigid, Bai Hou has already become very much like a human.

However…

Just thinking of her "sister," who is alone overseeing Universes 01, 02, and the main universe, even Magnus has been sitting on the spiritual energy amplification device.

Although Magnus is now different from before, his spiritual energy capacity far exceeds the past, yet he has also been diligently serving Sui Bian, sitting on the amplification device whose appearance and form closely resemble the Golden Throne for a full twelve years; thus Bai Hou proactively asked:

"Chairman, how much longer must we stay in Universe 03?"

"How? In a hurry to go back?" Sui Bian countered.

"Not entirely." Bai Hou shook her head slightly, saying: "But the main universe should need the Chairman's presence to let all humanity feel at ease."

"Soon." Sui Bian redirected his gaze to the distant city-state: "In another three or four years, Universe 03 should be capable of handling all problems on its own, and those children's minds will truly mature; by then, we will need to start considering the issue of legion expansion."

"Okay." Bai Hou nodded lightly.

And Sui Bian didn't say anything else; his reasons for lingering in Universe 03 are many, one being what Bai Hou stated openly, but more importantly, Universe 03 teems with many monsters and spirits, whose threat level far exceeds that of most alien forces in the main universe.

Therefore, Sui Bian must, within three or four years, solidify the foundations of Universe 03, enabling this side of humanity to possess considerable ability to resist known and unknown forces' encroachment at the first opportunity, such as green-skinned orcs, the Eldar, the Tyranid-like Insect Race, and…

Space Death Spirit.

According to Universe 03's timeline, humanity is in the early stage of the thirtieth millennium; if Universe 03 truly contains this group theoretically detached from biological realms, there should be extremely few either currently awakening or already awakened, temporarily not amounting to much scale.

Even so, Sui Bian must have humanity prepare in advance, after all, the large device may possibly be ineffective against spirits.

A moment of silence.

Sui Bian spoke up, ordering: "Bai Hou, notify Robert, who has returned to the main universe, to have his Extreme Warriors continuously search throughout the galaxy for the shield worlds left behind by the Administrator civilization; also, have Kelakesi's Dark Crow Guard detach some battalions to cooperate with the Extreme Warriors in the joint search."

We have basically digested and absorbed the knowledge provided by the two shield worlds; it's time to elevate our technology to the next level.

"Okay, I've already informed the Red Queen; she will work out the detailed arrangements." Bai Hou agreed.

"Oh?" Hearing that reply, Sui Bian couldn't help but smile and tease: "You've learned to slack off? I said to notify Robert and Kelakesi; in my words, I never mentioned the Red Queen, did I?"

"Ah?" Bai Hou startled, then immediately her prosthetic face showed panic, and she hurriedly said: "It's my oversight, Chairman; next time I won't make this kind of mistake again."

"Hahaha!" Seeing Bai Hou's overly candid demeanor, Sui Bian laughed even more freely, explaining after a long time of not being in such a good mood: "Bai Hou, my earlier remark was just a common joke among people; I had no intention of being harsh or finding fault with you; keep this in mind."

"So that's a joke?" Bai Hou realized.

"Jokes aren't singular; I'll teach you more later." Sui Bian restrained his smile, then as if suddenly remembering something, continued asking: "By the way, how's the situation in Universe 04?"

To be frank, if it weren't for a sudden flash of inspiration in his mind, he might have forgotten about Universe 04 and the Harvester civilization altogether.

Mainly, the Harvesters have gathered the entire civilization's military strength and numbers into the Solar System, possibly still unable to withstand the Blood Raven battalions and their attached UNSC fleet.

Upon hearing the question, Bai Hou immediately replied: "Currently, the 45th Battalion of Tutmos and its attached UNSC fleet have already dismantled Universe 04's human government and military; even if there is relatively fierce resistance and opposition, they cannot stir up any waves."

Wait…

At this moment, Bai Hou's pupils flashed a blue light, and she said: "Chairman, in the latest information uploaded by Gabriel Angelo to the company, it mentions a disc-shaped spacecraft or vessel with a diameter of about 4,800 kilometers, possessing inferior Optical Camouflage, which has already swept past Jupiter's orbit and is now traveling at extremely fast conventional speed, expected to make contact with Zero Four Earth in sixty minutes."

"4,800, disc-shaped spacecraft… Hmm, it's coming pretty fast." Sui Bian muttered, then ordered: "Tell Gabriel that this disc-shaped spacecraft is one of the Reaper civilization's motherships; whether to sink or seize it is entirely up to them. Note: just don't let the Reaper mothership come into close contact with Zero Four Earth."

"Okay, Chairman." Bai Hou nodded again in agreement.

And as she nodded, Bai Hou had already conveyed Sui Bian's order via her internal micro-quantum communication relay to the Blood Raven flagship far away in another universe.

———————

…

At the same time.

Inside the bridge of the Furious Prayer.

Gabriel, standing beside the main console, looked at the text message sent from Bai Hou, then at the mothership displayed on the holographic screen, and quickly finished his thoughts.

Then he slightly turned sideways, looking toward the captain's seat behind him, where his comrade of a hundred years, though still youthful in appearance and even more spirited in demeanor, Miranda Mata, spoke:

"Old buddy, let's get ready to snag that disc together."

"Old?!" Miranda feigned displeasure, pretending to be angry: "I'm saying, Gabriel, we two together are almost four hundred years old, but you're calling me old?"

"Hahaha! That's my oversight!" Gabriel laughed heartily: "Then please put your best naval warfare skills to use, lead our Blood Raven to capture the Reaper civilization's mothership, so we can earn more military merits, Captain Miranda."

"Hmm, that's more like it."

Miranda nodded satisfied, not intending to continue joking with Gabriel, then she glanced with her peripheral vision at the small holographic screen on her right side, noted the displayed data, picked up an old-fashioned communicator resembling a telephone handset, and immediately ordered:

"Tell the Knowledge Power Also (Blood Raven supply ship) to stay in near-Earth orbit of Zero Four Earth to support ground forces, then inform the attached UNSC fleet's vessels Wandering, Slayer, and Light Spear to join this ship in performing a fold jump to the coordinates 1144, 0336, 0772."

"The timing of our joint fold jump will follow my countdown: ten,"

"nine,"

"eight,"

…

"two,"

"Execute fold jump!"

As Miranda's words fell, the Furious Prayer immediately initiated fold jump travel; within a few seconds they ended the "elongation" state and arrived at a region with its back to the Sun, situated between Mars and Jupiter.

Arriving with them were also three three-kilometer-class ships that followed Miranda's orders; in terms of firepower configuration, they were only slightly inferior to the Blood Raven cruiser, being UNSC battleships.

As for the front of the four warships, observable with the naked eye, beyond several hundred thousand kilometers lay a supermassive object that caused unnatural reflections in the surrounding space.

And placing those four warships before that supermassive object—namely, the Reaper mothership with its Optical Camouflage activated—the analogy of "a mantis trying to stop a chariot" seems most apt.

Even the mothership that detected the four warships, and the insect queen or mother queen stationed within it, thought the same.

However, Miranda Mata in the captain's seat, as well as all of Blood Raven and the UNSC, thought otherwise; that mothership, appearing huge and planet-like, was truly the "mantis".

"Huh, trash." Only hearing Miranda first give a scornful laugh "as a sign of respect," then she continued using her favored old-style communicator, raising her voice, and commanded:

"All main guns charge up, lock onto the target's central area."

"Charging complete, lock achieved!" The crew responded in kind with loud affirmations.

"Listen to my orders…" Miranda swept her left hand forward, gazing through the bridge viewport at the Reaper mothership, her tone turning icy: "Blast them! Fire! Let them taste the flavor of the electromagnetic cannon!!"

"Yes!!"

Ri~——whoosh!!!!

As Miranda's command rang out, dozens of tungsten-iron pellets shot out instantly, still emitting a piercing blue light, streaking across space; the brightest of them even surged toward the mothership at 55% the speed of light……

Boom! Boom——Boom——!!

In an instant, the mothership's emerald-green protective shield, before the countless tungsten-iron pellets, was as flimsy as paper, and its hull was easily pierced by the pellets.

(End of chapter)