Chapter 960: Boom-boom Ship, Singing Songs

Behind the metal door was a huge space.

In it stood a female statue.

The woman's appearance was extremely beautiful, looking like she was in her thirties.

The statue was five meters tall, somewhat taller than an average adult Witch Tribe member.

It wore colorful robes, its eyes slightly closed; even as a sculpture, its whole body exuded an air of dignified magnificence.

Moreover, it had a temperament unlike that of ordinary Witch Tribe people.

The statue's visage was seventy percent similar to Tai Yin's.

To those unfamiliar, at first glance they might even think this was a statue of Tai Yin.

Tai Yin stood before the statue for a long time.

Suddenly, she murmured: "Mother, my daughter has finally been awakened for the first time. The system loophole you planted on the Taiwu Ship many years ago has finally..."

As Tai Yin spoke, two teardrops slid from the corners of her eyes.

In her mind, memories from childhood surfaced.

That was a cruel episode from the past.

Tai Yin's mother was merely an ordinary concubine beside the Witch King.

Since Tai Yin's birth, she had never seen her father, the king.

Because the Witch King had far too many women.

Almost every Yang Ji (similar to Earth orbiting the Sun once, i. e., a year), a large number of beauties would be sent to the Witch King's palace.

Over the long years, the Witch King himself did not know how many women he had or how many children he had fathered.

Tai Yin had once seen a record in the palace.

Just the brothers and sisters who had been enfeoffed numbered over three thousand.

The eldest among these siblings was over ten thousand years older than Tai Yin.

With descendants continually propagating, after ten thousand years, even just the genealogy occupied a single unit in the biological computer.

There had once been a major incident.

A woman who entered the palace turned out to be the great-granddaughter of one of the Witch King's sons.

Afterwards, the official in charge of genetic testing was killed, along with over a hundred thousand others.

After a bout of slaughter, the matter seemed to subside.

However, the impact spread with the passage of time.

Tai Yin's mother was among the victims.

Some officials stated that it was because, during the enforcement of the Witch Tribe's edicts, human negligence had occurred.

The Witch King deemed it reasonable and thus ordered a strict investigation.

Ultimately, they discovered that the Witch Tribe's governance system had been implanted with a vulnerability, causing it to lose part of its supervisory function.

One must know that, to keep the Witch Tribe perpetually developing at high speed in the universe, individuals are not allowed to possess overly rich emotions.

Thus, the Witch Tribe launched another round of great purge.

The great purge spread, causing turmoil throughout the Witch Tribe.

Finally, to give the people an explanation, Tai Yin's mother was pushed out.

Tai Yin's mother was a beauty who loved the arts.

She enjoyed music, painting, flower cultivation, reading...

Moreover, she was an outstanding intelligent program engineer.

Tai Yin's mother was charged with a crime, sentenced to death by fire, and burned alive before the eyes of hundreds of billions of tribespeople.

Besides sacrificing an emotionless woman who had already been forgotten, the Witch King succeeded in quelling the turmoil caused by the great purge.

Tai Yin watched her mother being burned alive.

From then on, she pretended to be an emotionless woman.

Because of her outstanding performance, the Witch King bestowed upon her the name Tai Yin.

If the Witch Tribe had not faced foreign invasion and dynastic collapse, the present Tai Yin would have become a great witch of the tribe, ruling over several planets.

Tai Yin certainly would not thank the Witch King, that lofty father who felt nothing for her.

Tai Yin strove to grow strong, so that one day she could avenge her mother.

In the great purge incident, the reason Tai Yin's mother was made a scapegoat,

was entirely due to the idea of Taiwu's mother, namely the queen at that time.

Because the queen had long perceived that Tai Yin's mother was an exceptionally wise woman.

The lifespan of Witch Tribe members is extremely long; many things persist for extremely long periods.

The queen, via a powerful biological computer, input data concerning the women and children around the Witch King.

After lengthy calculation, a result was obtained.

That is, if she did nothing, Tai Yin's mother would still appear beside the Witch King.

Then, she would bear a son for the Witch King.

Finally, her fate and that of her son Taiwu would be very miserable.

Finally, a good opportunity arose.

The queen successfully eliminated Tai Yin's mother.

However, not long afterward, the sequelae of the great purge still appeared.

First came internal unrest within the Witch Tribe, with one-third of its planets seeing rebel forces.

This persisted for over a thousand years, and the rebellion never ceased.

The Witch Tribe's strength was greatly weakened during this process.

In the end, an external tribe invaded.

Within a mere hundred years, the Witch Tribe was defeated.

In the end, fewer than a million Witch Tribe members escaped and began drifting through the Universe.

The loss of talent and technology caused the Witch Tribe to wander the Universe for many years, never managing to rise again.

Tai Yin's mother truly was a woman of great wisdom.

Before she even died, she had already deduced her own destiny.

She had prepared early on.

For example, the Taiwu Ship was built by the mother's clan at Tai Yin's mother's direction.

When the apocalypse arrived, it was precisely because the Taiwu Ship had been prepared long ago that Tai Yin had a chance to escape.

Of course, the ship's original name was not Taiwu Ship.

It was actually called the Tai Yin Ship.

Although the Grand Witch altered the ship's AI when departing, making the system loyal to herself.

But the flaw within it was never discovered.

Even an AI of extremely high intelligence could not grasp this.

It is like a person possessing a memory they themselves do not know.

In special circumstances, that memory surfaces, causing the person to wander in a trance.

……

Tai Yin closed her eyes, calming the grand scene that swirled in her mind.

She finally awoke now.

What she must do next is not become the Grand Witch's slave.

But rather…

After obtaining Level‑9 control, she successfully acquired data from Earth.

That is enough.

About half an hour later, a hatch beneath the rear of the Taiwu Ship opened.

Immediately, a flat, small spacecraft over fifty meters long and twenty meters wide, trailing a long tail flame, detached from the Taiwu Ship.

Accelerating, accelerating continuously.

The small craft overtook the Taiwu Ship's bow, pulling the rapidly moving Taiwu Ship farther away.

Soon, under the Taiwu Ship's optical camera, the small craft became a tiny dot.

The AI controlling the Taiwu Ship calculated an anomaly.

After some calculations, it began the process of awakening the Grand Witch.

Shortly thereafter, a strong, heroic man emerged from the Xiūmián chuāng.

Just as when Tai Yin awoke, the AI, after the Grand Witch awakened, began briefing the current situation.

When it learned of a Habitable Planet that tribe members had already visited and a large number of 'sub‑witches' had been produced, the Grand Witch laughed.

Unfortunately, the Grand Witch's joy was short-lived.

Because the ship suddenly exploded.

The Grand Witch only saw a blinding flash of light, followed by pain throughout the body.

Then she knew nothing else.

The massive Taiwu Ship, in the violent explosion, vaporized directly into fundamental atoms.

The intense radiation from the blast tore the Grand Witch's Spirit into the most basic units of energy.

In other words… death beyond death.

On the small craft, watching the Taiwu Ship vanish, Tai Yin picked up a mirror and looked at herself in it.

She was overjoyed, humming the lullaby her mother taught her as a child.

Blasting the ship, singing songs, she'd never felt so at ease.