Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 958 The Recapture of the Empire

"What we need is unity, not war. You should know this. Today, in this great galaxy of His Majesty, our fleets are already reclaiming countless worlds. Your world is one of the worlds we are reclaiming. We are committed to reuniting humanity, just as we did ten thousand years ago, to conquer this galaxy again. You should understand us, not turn against us."

In a human world within the galaxy, an imperial envoy gazed at the so-called emperor of this world. He stared at the emperor and spoke to him, repeatedly emphasizing the legitimacy of the Human Empire as the successor to the Human Federation within human civilization. He also stressed that the Human Empire had already reclaimed countless worlds among the stars, and that they should not oppose the Empire but rather accept its reclaiming and return to the greater whole of human civilization.

“We don’t need any so-called alliance. We are doing very well. The people in my world live in peace and prosperity. We don’t need your so-called support, nor do we need any interference in our internal affairs, much less your so-called protection.”

The emperor of this world looked at the envoy from the human empire before him. He stared at the envoy, who was dressed in magnificent attire, and then looked at the dome of the conference room. Looking at the artistic reliefs and paintings on the dome, he did not want this so-called empire to interfere in his internal affairs, nor did he want this so-called empire to reclaim his world. He was a competent ruler. Under his rule, the citizens of his world lived in peace and prosperity, and no one opposed his rule.

His rule brought the people of this world to live in the best of times. No citizen worried about war or disease, nor about food or cold. He felt he had done a very good job and did not need to return to the so-called greater human civilization. He ruled his world very well and did not need anyone to interfere with it.

"Are you referring to those people who starved to death in the wilderness when we first arrived in this world?"

Upon hearing the words of the world's ruler, the imperial envoy seemed to find it utterly amusing. He stared at the world's ruler with his purple eyes and spoke to him in an extremely sarcastic tone, recounting what they had seen and heard along their journey. The world's ruler, however, would not believe a single one of their claims of peaceful and prosperous lives. After all, based on what they had witnessed since arriving in this world, it was clear that humanity was not living well.

This so-called emperor, the ruler of this world, is an extreme tyrant. The so-called citizens he speaks of are those he has selected, and the selection process for those citizens is merely based on genetics. In this world, those so-called citizens are just a group of humans whose genes are slightly better than those of the so-called lowly people. The things this guy has done are even more absurd than those former planetary governors of the empire.

Even the most corrupt and incompetent planetary governors of those empires would still provide their common people with the most basic sustenance. But the rulers of this world treat everyone else as livestock to be consumed at will.

When the imperial envoys arrived in this world, they had already seen what the people of this world looked like. Only the so-called citizens, as the emperor had said, could survive. In those wildernesses, people starved to death in droves, as if they were not human, but rather a group of wild animals living in the wild, a group that consumed the world's resources.

When the imperial envoys arrived in this world, they saw people starving to death on the wastelands. These people were barely clothed and emaciated. The only food they could get on this world was the garbage discharged from those huge nest cities and all sorts of strange animals that could be found everywhere on the planetary wastelands. The so-called garbage even had a huge amount of radiation when it was discharged, and the animals on this world were also very deadly to ordinary people.

This leaves those living outside the city with absolutely no way to survive. The reason why so many people live in the wilderness in such an extreme environment is entirely due to the rotten practices of the so-called rulers of this world. The rulers of this world will screen out newborns and then throw those that do not meet the standards directly into the wild. Those newborns thrown into the wild are either eaten by wild animals or raised by wild humans.

Under these circumstances, most of humanity in this world lives in extreme misery. After all, compared to the citizens recognized by the rulers of this world, those abandoned by the rulers are the majority. To be honest, after seeing this situation, the imperial envoy, who came from the era of the Revival Expedition, could not imagine how the people of this world survived.

After all, he was born in the era of the Revival Expedition. He had never witnessed the suffering of the former empire. In his understanding, no one in the world of the human empire was starving to death. As long as one was willing to work hard in the world of the empire, the empire would definitely arrange a job that would satisfy one's basic needs. In the current empire, those past sufferings would never appear in the world of the empire. Those past sufferings would only be written in the history textbooks that exist in every world.

The scene he witnessed in this world reminded the imperial envoy of the historical records about the bloated rulers of their world, which enraged him. The so-called ruler of this world claimed to be the only nobleman in the world, but the imperial envoy could not see any trace of nobility in him. The imperial envoy was also a minor nobleman, and he had met many imperial nobles before.

In today's empires, the nobles, under the reform plan of the Duke of the Nation, have become the management and backbone of those worlds. They have more responsibilities and face greater pressure than the citizens of those worlds. However, under these circumstances, not many nobles want to pursue their own selfish desires. After all, with the Imperial Court's current scrutiny of every career and lifestyle, those nobles who dared to pursue their own selfish desires and outwardly comply but inwardly defy the law have almost all had their property confiscated.

"Those are just a bunch of lowly people. They are not citizens of this world, but merely expendable commodities, just livestock wasting the world's resources." The emperor of this world looked at the imperial envoy, feeling utterly bewildered by the envoy's anger. After all, in his understanding, he truly did not regard those humans he had abandoned as human beings.

"I…"

The imperial envoy looked at the ruler of this world. He originally wanted to hurl the most vicious insults at him, but after thinking for a while, he realized that his education hadn't given him the vocabulary to hurl those vicious curses at the man. In a brief moment, the imperial envoy realized that peace negotiations with this world were impossible. After all, the ruler of this world had clearly rejected the empire's peaceful reconquest proposal, and the only remaining reconquest was to take over the world by war.

The imperial envoy looked at the ruler of this world before him, clenching his fists in anger until his knuckles turned white. He glared at the ruler and spoke angrily.

"Even the lowest-level scavengers in the Imperial world have basic survival guarantees; at least they won't starve to death there now. How many humans have starved to death in your so-called peaceful and prosperous eras?! Your claims about humans selected through genetic testing are a joke. We've examined all the means of production in this world, as well as its overall production capacity. This world's total production capacity is more than enough to support all of humanity, and even more. Your claims about dividing humans into different classes based on genetic disease rates are utterly ridiculous. Even those mutants from the Imperial world can now receive gene therapy and enjoy the rights of an Imperial citizen. Your so-called rule is nothing short of primitive tyranny for the Empire!"

The imperial envoy looked at the ruler of this world. His body trembled with rage, causing the decorations on his clothes to emit golden light under the palace's illumination. His angry voice also made the gold leaf covering the palace's dome tremble slightly.

"Hehehe... Your anger seems ridiculous to me. You have no need to have any sympathy for those lowly people in the wilderness. Their only purpose in existence is to prove the superiority of the citizens I have selected. Those genetically inferior creatures are just a bunch of beasts who are not worthy of being called human."

The ruler of this world looked at the imperial envoy, but he was not annoyed by the envoy's anger. He simply touched the DNA double helix pattern on his chair, which symbolized the highest authority in this world, and then spoke to the imperial envoy in an extremely sarcastic tone. In his eyes, this so-called imperial envoy was a ridiculous fellow who actually got angry with him for those lowly people, and who actually yelled at the ruler of this world for those who were not even human.

“You’re right. I don’t need to yell at a barbarian like you. Just wait, you’ll regret refusing to be reclaimed by the Empire.”

The imperial envoy looked at the ruler of that world before him, suddenly realized something, and then a mocking smile appeared on his lips as he spoke to the ruler of that world before turning to leave.

Do you think you can still walk now?

Just as the imperial envoy turned to leave, the ruler of that world looked at his retreating figure and spoke to him in an icy tone. As soon as he uttered these words, the imperial envoy suddenly stopped and turned to look at the ruler of that world. However, contrary to the ruler's expectations, he did not see any panic or fear on the imperial envoy's face. The imperial envoy still wore that mocking smile.

"Why can't I leave? You barbarian."

The imperial envoy looked at the ruler of this world, gave him the middle finger, and then his figure vanished in a beam of teleportation light. The instant the imperial envoy disappeared, a look of horror appeared on the emperor's face. He had never seen such technology before. He knew it was a teleportation technology, a technology that only existed in the oldest database of this world. He had always thought this technology was a myth, but when it appeared before him, he finally began to think about what the imperial envoy had said about him being a primitive man.

"It's just some bluffing technology. These invaders want to take over my world, and I will make them pay a heavy price."

However, after pondering for a while, the ruler of this world, driven by his deep-seated arrogance, abandoned further thought. He walked to a window in his palace and, through the specially designed blast-proof glass, looked at the stars hovering in the sky above this world. These were not stars, but the fleet of the so-called human empire. He looked at the human empire's fleet; these behemoths, each tens of kilometers in size, posed no threat to him. His deep-seated arrogance made him believe that his orbital defense system would easily destroy this massive fleet.