Helping each other with countless me.

Chapter 361: Ode to the Emperor

Sophie, the name is the same as a certain item.

This is his bad taste.

Because this woman's ability is related to blood.

So, after setting her abilities, I gave her this name.

For this woman, he might be the person who knows her best in the world, even better than she herself.

Her abilities, personality, hobbies, past, future, and even the secrets buried in her.

After all, in his group portrait, this woman was the absolute protagonist of that stage.

In fact, the reason for hiring her, besides to familiarize himself with her abilities and be able to control her to complete the reform of Raphael Star, is to open her copy.

Well, or to be more precise, it is to start the story that happens to her.

As for the butterfly effect, that's a joke. He has already traveled to this world, why would he care about the butterfly effect?

"Hello, Governor Raphael."

Although Sophie is higher in status than Li Zhongren, that is only in name. To put it bluntly, she is just a dog of the empire, while Li Zhongren is a big taxpayer.

Therefore, we still need to give due respect.

"I won't say any more nonsense. I'll leave this matter to Colonel Sophie."

"I have issued an order. During your investigation, everything is green light and my consent is not required. Please make sure to resolve this matter as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will delay my payment of taxes to the empire this year."

"Don't worry, I'll do my best."

"This is the earliest crime scene."

Sophie led her team to the scene of the first death of a noble.

This is a large villa on the second floor with its own entrance and courtyard, lawns, trees, simulated blue sky, and a gentle breeze.

But at this moment, there was silence without any sound, because the strange death had completely destroyed all life here.

"Your Excellency the Governor, there is no need for you to come here in person and take risks."

"If I don't pay taxes this year, I won't be the governor."

Hearing this, Sophie shrugged her shoulders. She knew that what Li Zhongren said was right, because the empire would not care why you didn't pay taxes. As long as you didn't pay taxes, you were finished. It was that simple.

Moreover, this is not because the Empire is ruthless, because the burning of the Star Torch consumes astronomical amounts of spiritual energy every moment.

Today, you have an excuse, tomorrow, he has an excuse.

Then should the Star Torch continue to burn?

Faced with a territory the size of the entire Milky Way, it is even less likely that the Empire will have the ability to help you solve your problems, so it adopts a one-size-fits-all approach and exchanges absolute autonomy for absolute taxation.

If you don't pay taxes, you die.

"It smells like the evil god."

As you walk into the manor, what catches your eyes is dried blood sacrifices and human body tissues everywhere.

As a powerful psychic, she smelled the scent of the evil god at the first moment.

"What kind of evil god is it?"

"It should be the god of desire."

"I have dealt with almost all evil gods. This smell is most likely from the God of Desire. The best evidence is that there is only the smell of blood here, but no stench. The source of the stench is that this place is so dry."

"dry?"

Li Zhongren asked even though he knew the answer.

"Yes, the God of Desire likes a dry and comfortable environment. This is what many special forces members have concluded."

"So, these human tissues and blood dried up so quickly in a short period of time."

“It doesn’t even smell rotten.”

"So how does it do that?"

"I ask them to check themselves with the Holy Light every day, but nobles still keep dying."

"Holy Light is not omnipotent."

Sophie shook her head.

"Otherwise, humans wouldn't need to fear the evil gods. The evil gods have many ways to escape detection by the Holy Light. To put it simply, the virus is afraid of alcohol. However, if the alcohol concentration is too high, the surface of the virus will solidify quickly to protect the core."

"The same is true for the abilities of the evil gods. Through special methods, they can solidify a protective layer on the surface of their own abilities. As long as the protective layer is not pierced, the holy light will not be able to detect the abilities of the evil gods."

"Afterwards, the ability will erupt and the infected person will die."

“But there are some problems with this.”

"what is the problem?"

“That’s the problem.”

Sophie narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Whatever the evil gods' purpose is, no matter what methods or means they use, their core purpose is to infect more people, and then use this as a coordinate to open the subspace gate and summon the evil gods' offspring."

"So, this kind of weird method should not have erupted, but should have continued to lurk until all the senior leaders were infected, and then erupted in an instant. This would be more reasonable. By then, you wouldn't even be able to ask for help."

"Is there a traitor in the upper echelons?"

Li Zhongren frowned.

"Exclude dissidents?"

"That's possible, but on my way here, I analyzed the identities of the nobles who have died. They are all random and not that important. If you want to eliminate dissidents, doing this can only be said to be alerting the enemy."

"My personal reasoning is that something went wrong with the agent that was bewitched by the descendant of the evil god."

"But it doesn't matter. I will find it and solve it as quickly as possible."

"You, have you got any clues?"

"Ah."

Sophie nodded.

"This is related to my ability, so please forgive me for not being able to explain in detail how I obtained the clues."

The abilities of psychics are their own secrets. Oftentimes, battles between psychics are more like battles of intelligence.

Like Sophie, her abilities are related to blood.

Simply put, it is to control the blood.

However, the core of her control over blood is very interesting. When setting it up, he referred to Japanese comics such as "Moe Fungus Story" and "Cells at Work!". Simply put, she can communicate with existence at the cellular level, and the cells in her psychic field have anthropomorphic will.

As you can imagine, investigating the crime scene was a piece of cake for him.

He could ask those remaining cells directly any questions he had.

They will all answer.

However, she can only communicate with red blood cells and even give orders to them, influencing the concrete real world from the microscopic world.

So, just now, she should have communicated with the red blood cells remaining here.

And derived intelligence from it.

This was also the information he left behind intentionally.

"But, I can tell you the content of the intelligence."

Sophie spoke again.

"The incident here was caused by the corrupted mutants of the descendants of the God of Desire. This is certain. However, as I said just now, there is no clear explanation as to why the other party would do such a thing to alarm the enemy. I need to track them down before I can draw a conclusion."

"Okay, so what do I need to do?" "Let the nobles hide in their homes."

"The rest depends on your luck."

There was a hint of helplessness in Sophie's words.

"I can confirm that this thing is a psychic virus. I can eliminate it, but I can't do anything about the people who have been infected. Only when I kill the final mother body will the virus die along with it."

"I understand. I'll leave everything to you, sir."

"That's the way it is."

Inside Li Zhongren's Governor's Mansion.

He sat in the living room, contacted all the nobles in the upper echelons of the hive via video, and told them the results.

Behind him is a huge portrait of the emperor.

There is also a poem on the side of the portrait.

Ode to the Emperor

The eternal divine light shines through the nine layers, and the golden throne suppresses the dark sky.

The vast sea of ​​stars burns in the eternal night, and the emperor’s lonely heart shines like a rainbow.

He alone holds the torch to burn the chaos, sweeping away all demons and intimidating the foreign enemies.

The soul is lost for eternity and the body turns into fire, but the blood is shed on the flags of thousands of soldiers.

We are all loyal and courageous and we pledge our all to never be caged in this world.

This poem was written by the great romantic poet of the empire, White Orion.

Of course, this poem was actually written by Li Zhongren using the AI ​​big model.

To be honest, it seems to be the case, but in this world, this poem is widely sung throughout the entire galaxy. Basically, every governor's office has such a painting and such a poem to pay homage to and commemorate the emperor.

"So, everyone, I can only say, I wish you all good luck, and pray for the Emperor's blessing."

After saying this, Li Zhongren closed his eyes slightly and said no more, looking as if he knew that life and death were determined by fate.

In fact, he transferred his consciousness to another body.

That's right, the flames of the Furnace of Sin can split into sub-flames, and these flames can construct an external incarnation.

That was the cult leader who was devoured and burned by him.

This was also the plan he designed.

It's also very simple, nothing complicated.

Just take advantage of the imbalance in the newspaper reports and put all the blame for the massacre of nobles on this cult leader.

Moreover, in order to provide a reason for the cult to take action.

He deliberately caused some problems in the cult leader's soul, and this problem could be detected by Sophie's ability.

Finally, in order to prevent anyone from associating him with the leader of a cult, he needed to prepare one last backup plan.
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The bottom floor of the hive.

Sophie led her team members to walk among them.

Along the way, she followed the size of the cells and viruses in the air and walked towards her destination. However, the only thing that made her feel a little confused was that the cells and viruses at the bottom of this hive did not seem to be so abundant.

But considering that the other party is an expert in playing viruses, it is understandable.

What she didn't know was that the air at the bottom of the entire hive had actually been thoroughly purified by Li Zhongren using the Fire of Sin, just to prevent her from obtaining information that she shouldn't have through the cells.

And Sophie would never have thought that someone could know her abilities in advance and plot against her. In fact, in the original book, Sophie never revealed her true abilities to anyone until her death. To the outside world, people only knew that she seemed to be able to control blood.

However, she didn't know that the definition of blood is conceptual. In her opinion, anything in the body of any living thing that is used to maintain the functioning of the body can be called blood.

So, the theory is, she can manipulate all microorganisms in a certain area.

Of course, there is a price to pay for doing this.

So, she wouldn't do that easily.

And, microbial anthropomorphism, after all, is a kind of psychic ability of hers, a kind of calculation and deduction. When the information in the real world is incomplete to a certain extent, or iterated to a certain extent, her ability will not be able to obtain useful information.

"Are you all ready?"

"everything's ready."

Sophie nodded slightly. They had worked together so many times that there was basically no need for them to say any nonsense to each other.

Therefore, after receiving an affirmative reply, Sophie raised her hand and real blood mist gushed out from the pores all over her body. The blood mist floated in the air and spread instantly, completely blocking an area in front.

The so-called area actually refers to the sewers at the bottom of the hive city.

However, after countless years and countless people's transformation, this place has long been unrecognizable. Only some main pipes are still preserved. The rest have converged into an underground river. The underground river lingers in the bottom of the entire nest city, and finally flows along the lower terrain to deep underground.

Surrounding these rivers are dismantled pipes and ruins, and the cultists are hiding in these ruins.

Scarlet blood balls rose from the ground, completely blocking the area.

Sophie did not rush forward immediately, but maintained the existence of the barrier next to it. Her team members, wrapped in a smaller scarlet barrier, rushed through the ruins, killing anyone they saw.

The attacks of the cultists were all blocked by Sophie's barrier.

The cultists were slaughtered unintentionally, like wheat being cut.

Of course, this is just as bad. After all, these are the elite troops from the empire. If they do not have this level of strength, they are not worthy of providing interstellar support.

However, Sophie did not let her guard down.

Here, there is only one person who really makes her need to be alert.

At this moment, although she looked relaxed, she was actually talking madly with the cells and viruses around her.

"So, she is schizophrenic?"

"Yes Yes."

In Sophie's vision, the cute cells raised their hands.

"It seems like something went wrong."

"What's the problem?"

"we do not know."

“But then she got really smelly.”

"Smelly?"

Sophie was slightly stunned, and then she suddenly realized.

It is obvious that the believers of this evil god's offspring are not only bewitched by the power of the god of desire, but also seem to be bewitched by the god of filth.

That's why he becomes schizophrenic and does things that ruin his own plans.

"You, retreat!"

Sophie suddenly thought of something and gave an order to her three team members.

Almost at the same time.

A series of popping explosions were heard.

Foul-smelling mucus, rotten bones, and all kinds of dirty and filthy things, mixed with spiritual energy, sprayed in all directions, corroding everything they touched.

Even Sophie's blood-colored barrier was corroded and riddled with holes.

Fortunately, all her team members retreated safely.

At this time, on the ruins, a woman slowly crawled out from the foul-smelling mucus.

Half of the body is charming, and half of the body is rotten
Desire and filth.
Sophie narrowed her eyes slightly and dealt with two evil gods at once.

She knew that she would have to use her real trump card.
(End of this chapter)