A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 187 There Has Never Been a Savior

An invisible wave, after a meeting, swiftly and quietly swept across the entire Vorsotis galaxy.

The contents of that meeting were set as top secret among the member civilizations of the Star Alliance within the Vorsotis Galaxy. All the leaders of the civilizations that participated in the meeting avoided talking about it, and some of them even developed a rare psychological disorder called "meeting phobia".

Meeting phobia refers to a condition where, once a patient realizes they are attending a "meeting," they immediately exhibit various negative states, including vomiting, endocrine disorders, loss of excretory control, cognitive impairment causing blindness, cognitive impairment causing aphonia, mental confusion, fainting, shock, and so on.

No one knows what was discussed at the meeting, which remains the greatest mystery among all civilizations in the entire Vorsotis galaxy.

Besides this mystery, two other major events occurred in the Vorsotis galaxy.

The first thing was the mysterious disappearance of the Reta Empire. When the inter-civilization merchant group went to the territory of the Reta Empire because of the overdue contract, they found that it had been sealed off by the fleets of various civilizations and set up as a military control zone, not allowing any outsiders to enter.

After numerous probing attempts by the inter-civilization merchant group, it was finally confirmed that the Raita Empire had disappeared from the Fusotis system.

The strangest thing about this matter is that no news topics related to the Reta Empire are allowed to be mentioned. If any media outlet tries to mention it, they will be approached by mysterious people. After that, the media outlet will either disband, mysteriously disappear, or die unexpectedly.

The second issue concerns the war expenditure tax. The first decree issued by the leaders of each civilization after the meeting was to immediately abolish the war expenditure tax within their respective civilizations.

They publicly claimed that the Babel Bees, seeing the hardships faced by the lower levels of the Star River Alliance's various satellite civilizations, voluntarily reclaimed the small portion of war expenses that they had shared with the Star River Alliance.

As for whether this is true or not, when interviewed by reporters, the swarm's mastermind, Nanali, made no comment. Seeing the mastermind of the Babel Tower swarm in this state, the reporters dared not ask any further questions.

However, regardless of the circumstances, this is a win-win situation for the people at the bottom of each civilization.

After all, with less tax paid, income naturally increases significantly. Even if all this good fortune is only temporary, new taxes may be introduced later, or tax rates may be increased through indirect taxes.

The second decree issued by the rulers of each civilization was to thoroughly investigate all criminal groups that used the pretext of war expenditure taxes to seize personal profits.

Many of these high-ranking officials initially thought that this was just a charade that could be easily dismissed, merely a political show by those in power to win over the hearts and minds of the people within the civilization.

However, as time went on, they gradually realized that something was wrong.

It seems that those in power are really going to carry out a comprehensive purge of the political structure within the civilization. Every administrative planet is teeming with people, enough to form a small mountain. Echoing this mountain are the cheers and applause of the common people at the bottom of society.

They exclaimed that a wonderful era of justice and fairness had finally arrived.

Meanwhile, the Lyonnas man who had secretly passed on information to Lu Shang through the TV series also cheered and took to the streets, fully embracing this moment.

As Lu Shang listened to Nanali's report, he calmly took a sip of purple tea.

"There's something I don't quite understand, Lu Shang, what are you thinking?" Nanali asked.

"What part don't you understand?"

Nanali said, "The deeper reason you sent the swarm this time must be more than just those satellite civilizations using the swarm's name to collect war expenses taxes, right?"

Lu Shang nodded generously and said matter-of-factly, "That's right, I just wanted to give the lower levels of those satellite civilizations a hand while I was at it. I really don't like those in power."

Nanali said, "But it's pointless. Even if the war expenditure tax is abolished, other taxes under different names will appear again, and the fundamental problem will not be solved."

Even someone like Nanali, who isn't particularly politically astute, understands that such a stopgap measure won't solve the fundamental problem.

Lu Shang remained silent for a moment, then finally sighed deeply, picked up the purple tea again, and took another sip.

"I don't expect to solve the fundamental problem. The only ones who can save them in this world are themselves. There has never been a savior."

"If people are willing to give up the right to resist in the face of injustice and become obedient subjects, then they will eventually be exploited by injustice, and their descendants will become slaves forever, never able to rise up. They deserve it; it is their own choice."

Nanali said, "The bee swarm can actually use force to fundamentally solve this kind of problem."

"But would it make any sense to do that?" Lu Shang asked rhetorically, then shook his head. "No, it makes no sense to the bee colony, and it makes no sense to them either."

After the discussion about the underlying mechanisms of the various satellite civilizations ended, Nanali inquired about another matter.

"What do you plan to do with the Nareta Empire?"

Lu Shang paused in his tea-serving motion, pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Have all those Leita people who profited under the guise of the bee swarm been killed?"

Nanali replied, "Of course, based on the information obtained from the escaping photons, the swarm has a complete understanding of who said what, did what, why they did it, and how they did it within the Reta Empire, as well as the entire process."

"All the Rata people who profited from the war expenditure tax were thrown into the nearby star and became clumps of plasma."

"Now only the Reta people, who have nothing to do with the interests of the war expenditure tax, remain."

Lu Shang nodded. Although he was indeed a ruthless executioner who dared to kill indiscriminately, he was willing to admit it.

However, regarding the Rata people, Lu Shang did not intend to indiscriminately kill them. Those who were disliked would be killed, while those who were not disliked would be spared. There was no need to escalate the matter to the level of the entire civilization.

The announcements at the meeting were merely meant to make an example of them; otherwise, dealing with those in power in satellite civilizations, who kept refusing to listen to reason and were forced to drink the penalty cup, would have been much more complicated.

Moreover, Lu Shang happens to need a civilization to conduct experiments on these days...

"These Rata people don't need to be released," Lu Shang said.

"If we put them back, the leaders of those satellite civilizations will probably think the swarm is too soft-hearted, and then they'll start causing trouble."

"Perfect timing! I've had a great idea these past few days: let these Reta people play a role in the bee colony."

Nanali asked疑惑地问道, "What are you doing?"

It couldn't understand what kind of experiments Lu Shang wanted these Rata people to do. Genetically, these Rata people didn't have any outstanding genetic traits, technologically they were far behind the bee colony, and they didn't show any special characteristics in their thinking.

From Nunnally's perspective, the Rata people are pretty useless.

Lu Shang smiled and said, "I plan to emulate the Civilization Farm, apply the three world structures to the Rata people civilization, and then take control of their entire civilization."

"In this way, if their technology explodes one day, the bee colony will also advance with the technology."

(End of this chapter)