Chapter 456: Twenty‑Four Days: Alien Fragments Unleash Deterrence

The original government and military of Zero‑Five Earth have already been dissolved…

The company began establishing branches in each state…

House arrest was imposed on multiple alien species, including the Si Ke Lu Er Zu…

Inside the Dark Angel flagship, marble floor tiles and stone columns line the interior, while holographic devices render a bright sunny scene outside the window, resembling the reception hall of a knightly temple, resonating with Helusi's muttering.

On each side of the reception hall, every ten meters—that is, between each massive column—a Terminator stands, dressed in a white robe, its helmet a medieval‑knight design of the "Dead Wing" Honor Guard.

These absolute elites of the Dark Angel legion, though not as massive or towering as Taibelos, are each still true giants.

Seated at the very front of the reception hall is, of course, the Dark Angel OriginalBody, Lai Ang.

Standing in the center are Helusi, watching the holographic screen, and the silent Taibelos and Sai Ma Er Ya Di Liu Si.

These two battalion commanders were authorized to board the ship in order to report to Lai Ang the significant events that occurred on Zero‑Five Earth over twenty‑four days, which is the content of Helusi's initial muttering.

Twenty‑four days.

Within less than a month, initially Taibelos and Sai Ma Er learned that Helusi had gone to plunder the Time Gem, but no feedback was received, and communications and tracking remained in a continuous blackout, prompting the two commanders to immediately order a halt to all actions, focusing on searching for the OriginalBody's trail.

It should be known that the disappearance of an OriginalBody is not an incident their two battalions can bear.

Taibelos, whose relationship with Helusi was already deep, flew into a rage, leading veteran Terminators of his First Company to activate a teleport to the New York Temple, ready to tear apart the Gu Yi that had previously eluded them.

Fortunately, Hong Hou relayed the father's orders in time to Taibelos's ears; otherwise, given Taibelos's temperament, he would not have ceased until Gu Yi and all the mages were completely eradicated.

As for the father's command, it was that Helusi, undergoing trials in another dimension, should suspend all search operations and continue reshaping the society, situation, and environment of Zero‑Five Earth.

Receiving the father's directive, Taibelos could only temporarily restrain his urge to slay Gu Yi and transferred the cooperative, captured Gu Yi to the temporary detention area of the Bloody Shark vessel.

Next, the Shark and the White Governor, both simmering with a nameless fury, launched a grand‑scale reshaping of Zero‑Five Earth.

The already brutal and ferocious Shark eliminated all forces and organizations marked as hostile or difficult to control by Ye Lian Na.

It was too lazy even to communicate.

Groups and organizations represented by a series of "famous" figures—such as Aldrich Killian, who researched the Endgame virus (the antagonist from Iron Man 3), and Darren Cross, who sought to use Pym particles for arms trading (the antagonist from Ant‑Man)—were instantly and completely eradicated.

If Helusi were present, the Sharks would still be willing to negotiate; "unfortunately" Helusi is not, so Zero‑Five Earth truly experienced how terrifying the angry Astate and its auxiliary forces can be.

Consequently, online complaints and insults also dwindled, for fear that those sharks might "follow the cable" and break in.

Of course, because Taibelos followed the father's orders to the Isle of England, successfully entered a gravity‑anomaly zone, and plundered the fluid‑like Reality Gem, thereby awakening the Dark Elves drifting in space in a hidden state.

Thus the remaining "orphaned" Dark Elves of that race, guided by the Reality Gem, entered the Solar System, even contemplating a descent onto Earth…

But before that, the Dark Elves were spotted by a UNSC escort cruiser subordinate to the White Governor, and were completely annihilated by the cruiser's three plasma cannon shots.

These Dark Elves, who in Thor 2 nearly caused Asgard's fall with a single raid, were wiped out by a 700‑meter London‑class cruiser; there's really nothing to lament.

However, if Taibelos and the Sharks knew these Dark Elves possessed decent individual combat quality, they might blame the London‑class cruiser's crew for destroying what could have been a brief outlet for venting and slaughter—a sort of "toy."

Meanwhile, Captain America, Black Widow, Hawkeye and other native Zero‑Five Earth military personnel, after undergoing the "assimilation" by the Battle Sisters, have become one of the main forces assisting the Shark and the White Governor in managing Zero‑Five Earth.

Especially Captain America.

Although Steve Rogers's codename contains the word "America," that does not mean the veteran's conduct aligns with America; Rogers can be said to be the hero and role model in the hearts of Zero‑Five Earth's people, a symbolic spirit.

Once Steve Rogers completes the "assimilation," he switches to a black close‑fitting combat suit, wields a vibranium shield painted red and white like an umbrella in his left hand, and after publicly supporting "Human Truth" online, people's resistance to the sudden "reform turnover" diminishes considerably.

As for the experts who first contacted the Shark battalion—Tony Stark, Eric Savidge, and Henry Jonathan Pym among others—they have been deemed valuable "assets" and have all been absorbed into Umbrella's research department.

Tony Stark, also known as Iron Man, learned about the existence of the multiverse through the Shark battalion and even perused numerous alien and anomalous incident files.

From then on, without the Battle Sisters needing to employ Spiritual Energy for "assimilation," Stark voluntarily expressed his stance, strongly supporting the main‑universe human philosophy.

After all, this Iron Man, originally a billionaire playboy, after numerous events has begun to conceive a "Steel Sky" defense system for Zero‑Five Earth.

It can be said that the martial‑virtue‑rich main‑universe humanity aligns well with Stark in constructing defense systems.

With Iron Man's involvement, although humanity mastering matter‑antimatter cannot further raise energy levels, at least multiple options are offered to humanity.

Since matter‑antimatter's most effective and "stable" use is weaponization, Umbrella has not fully replaced existing power packs and has instead focused future research on dark matter.

Finally, there are Zero‑Five Earth's infrastructure, as well as the Moon and Mars of the Zero‑Five Solar System.

Backed by Arcadia, the White Governor managed and planned, and within twenty‑four days—less than a month—Zero‑Five Earth swiftly passed through…

① Anarchic turmoil →

② Turmoil subsides →

③ Order rebuilt →

④ The Engineering Department demonstrates what efficiency is and launches massive infrastructure projects.

Simultaneously, a dome‑type colony is established on the Moon, and planetary terraforming devices are installed at both the north and south poles of Mars →

⑤ The populace gradually stabilizes, and people begin to accept the fact of main‑universe rule, among other steps.

Moreover, the first three steps were completed within the third hour after Helusi vanished into the dark dimension.

Thus, when Lai Ang led an expedition force composed of the Dark Angel main troops, along with some Extreme Warriors and Dark Crow Guard, arriving at Zero‑Five Earth, the Shark and the White Governor delivered an almost perfect answer sheet.

The sole deduction point is that Taibelos and Sai Ma Er claim they somehow "lost" the under‑age OriginalBody.

Nevertheless, it was precisely these twenty‑four days that the Shark and the White Governor completely set aside past grievances, stubbornly becoming a model of cooperation between brother battalions.

However, Lai Ang, who received a war‑leader position and temporary use of the Governor's Sword from his father, paid no heed to the so‑called deduction point and, unprecedentedly, praised the two commanders with, "Well done, keep it up."

At this moment.

After quickly reviewing what occurred during Helusi's "disappearance," the holographic screen before him dissipated; he tilted his head slightly upward, gazing at Lai Ang, who, even after restraining his Spiritual Energy, still exuded an absolute kingly aura, a silent, imposing presence.

Honestly, this should be his first face‑to‑face meeting with Lai Ang.

Mainly because he and brothers such as Fogrum and Luojia had just left the Zero‑Three Universe and were assigned different trials by their father, leaving no time to visit the OriginalBody brothers stationed in each star sector.

At this moment, observing Lai Ang from such close range, combined with Lai Ang's previous act of cleaving and destroying the dark dimension with a single sword, made Helusi keenly feel the huge gap between himself and the ten OriginalBody brothers…

There's no choice; the original ten OriginalBodies were each over two hundred years old, while the newly reborn him is only seventeen, not yet of age, let alone comparable in experience, charisma, temperament, and so on.

He paused.

Helusi spoke first, expressing gratitude again: "Thank you, brother, for your intervention."

"Hmm." Yet Lai Ang merely gave a slight nod in response, still appraising Helusi, his "younger brother," in a cold tone, commenting:

Truly outstanding; otherwise the evil god would favor your soul and body. Remember, confidence is good, but overconfidence is arrogance.

"Remember brother's teachings," Helusi humbly accepts, then asks Lai'ang, "So what should our expedition force do next?"

…

Hearing that, Lai'ang does not rush to answer, rises from the distinctive marble seat, steps down the stairs, and comes before Helusi.

Facing the imposing OriginalBody, a head taller than Helusi, Taibelos says it's manageable; after all, this shark‑eating battalion commander is already very powerful, but belongs to an extreme legion that does not excel in one‑on‑one combat. The merely 3.7‑meter Saimar barely restrains the urge to perform a half‑kneeling salute.

Ignoring the three's thoughts, Lai'ang waves his hand, summons a three‑dimensional star map that fills the entire meeting space, then with his left hand spreads all five fingers outward, enlarging the region containing the galaxy.

At this moment, Orion and the other arms are marked with dense brief data, indicating that numerous alien races exist within the galaxy.

And at the edge of the galaxy's upper side, a red annotation reads "Sovelin race territory / sample possible".

Furthermore, on the galaxy's left side and lower side, there are two red marks each.

?

Seeing this information, Helusi, Taibelos, and Saimar, though puzzled, patiently await the expedition plan that Lai'ang will present.

Lai'ang places his right hand on the hilt of the governance sword slung at his waist, points his already raised left hand toward the top, then lowers his hand and, addressing Helusi and the two battalion commanders, says:

"When I led the expedition force through the Space Gate into the Zero Five Universe, I used Spiritual Energy to scan this entire galaxy, then selected three alien specimens that could be used as examples."

"Examples?" Helusi furrows his brow and asks, "Brother, do you mean…?"

"Extermination order," Lai'ang says calmly.

"This…" Receiving affirmation from the OriginalBody, Saimar, as an extreme warrior, summons courage and says:

"Sir, issuing an extermination order without first contacting the opposing civilization seems overly aggressive. It could cause all alien races of the Zero Five Universe to unite and oppose our expedition force together."

"…" Lai'ang turns his head to look at the other, says nothing.

"Ha, what is there to discuss with alien specimens?" Taibelos agrees.

Of course, the alien specimens Taibelos refers to are non‑human races other than the Elite, Iron‑blood, Mar, and Otiño (two elf groups).

And up to now, only these four non‑human groups of the main universe have, after a hundred years of integration, been fully merged into human society…

In other words, an Elite with a four‑petaled mouth, gray‑purple skin, about 2.3 meters tall, driving a ground vehicle through city blocks, if stopped by a law officer for routine inspection, the biological scan of its license and ID would list the Elite's race as "Human" and its ethnicity as "Sangheli".

Although the Elite's physiology differs from humans, they have long been part of humanity, and the vast majority no longer speak the Elite's native language.

Therefore…

Among all the combat personnel who, together with Astate, shout "alien specimens," there are also Elite who have long completed the "humanization" in mind and heart.

At this moment, Helusi, as if perceiving the OriginalBody brother's intent, says in a deep voice, "We want the aliens to fear and submit; if they can unite, that's even better, we can eliminate them in one stroke."

"Exactly," Lai'ang nods lightly, raises his left arm again, waving to make the star map display the known extent of the Zero Five Universe, then says:

"Our expedition force's mission is not only to seize the Zero Five Galaxy, but the entire Zero Five Universe. Soon, OriginalBody Magnus will assist us in conducting Spiritual Energy detection of the known regions of the Zero Five Universe, clearing the fog.

Moreover, my father has temporarily loaned me Ark No. 001," Lai'ang says, then fixes his gaze on Helusi and the two others, ordering:

"Helusi, Ark No. 001 will, as configured, project deterrence onto star systems in the Zero Five Universe that harbor life, with you and Dark Angel's 1st and 2nd battalions responsible for guarding them, understood?"

(End of chapter)