Chapter 370: Slaughter Them All!
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
After Blue 6 finished his speech, he stepped forward bravely. The first to follow him was the group of Blue Race adjutants. They knew what was happening and what the sacrifice was, but they followed Blue 6 without question.
In comparison, the Defense Unit soldiers and Black Star Troopers hesitated. It was not that they did not dare to follow Blue 6, anyone who heard Blue 6 had a fire burning within them. As long as the person was human, he or she would willingly follow Blue 6. The glory and the honor that were going to be redeemed, it was greater than the fear of death.
However…
Other than death, these people had more things to consider. For example, their families, the Hope, the entirety humanity… These considerations weighed down on them because even though their own deaths were negligible, if their deaths caused the deaths of their families and friends, then death would not have solved their sins.
But even so!
At least one-third of the Defense Unit soldiers and four Black Star Troopers followed Blue 6. As Blue 6 was about to leave the Hope, Yao Yuan's voice suddenly appeared in everyone's communicators.
"Minister of Foreign Affairs, Blue 6, in my capacity as the Hope's captain and the Chancellor of the human government, I award you the power to declare war against others and present you with the assistance from Units 1, 2, and 3 of the Black Star Troopers to slaughter the evildoers and those alien scum that have humiliated us humans!"
This order was given through the public channel, and it managed to make the blood of the people boil. Even though certain parts of society still had reservations and they still had their own opinions, Blue 6's earlier speech had greatly raised the human fighting spirit. The speech, with its awe-inspiring righteousness, had raised an unstoppable popular support. Now combined with Yao Yuan's verbal confirmation, the popular support had become officialised, and even if certain people still maintained the desire to compromise, their voices were swallowed by the majority.
At the same time, Yao Yuan communicated directly with Blue 6 using a private channel, "You have acted rashly this time and we will discuss the punishment for this transgression later. Now, listen to these orders… First, naturally, is to declare war against all the level 2 space civilizations that are provoking us. We will only accept their unconditional surrender and nothing else.
"Secondly, find the civilizations responsible for this Shelter, the representatives from those level 3 space civilizations. Demand that they severely punish the level 2 space civilizations that have led the provocation. Demand that they compensate our losses. It can be in minerals, supplies, technology, products, or even space curiosities, but the value has to be at least ten times the amount we have spent at this Shelter! If they do not agree, then declare war against the entire Shelter!
"Thirdly, after the declaration of war, I have an attached mission for you… Stall it out, use your words or threats or just random talk. In any case, stall for me for 15 minutes. In these 15 minutes, you have to ensure that all the level 2 and 3 space civilizations know that we mean war, but try to stop them from entering our ship. After 15 minutes is up, you can retreat with everyone else back into the Hope, and that… will be when the real war begins!"
After that, Yao Yuan's voice completely disappeared. Blue 6 stood there in short contemplation for a while before smiling in relief and turning to address the few adjutants behind him. "What are you all doing standing there? Haven't you heard the orders from Your Highness the Chancellor? We are to wait for humanity's strongest force, the Black Star Trooper Units 1, 2, and 3!"
The few adjutants were still rattled. In reality, when they followed Blue 6, they already understood a certain awareness, the Blue Race's awareness!
Surviving in space was more than direct assault, it had compromises too. Of course, there were races like the Pa Race that lived with their guns blazing, but mammals did not have the life force and rate of reproduction the Pa Race had. If they followed the ways of Pa Race, there would probably be no mammals in space.
Therefore, even though the Blue Race was the kingpin of many races, they too would need to compromise many times. However, that compromise was limited to the Emperor and the royal committee. Acting as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was definitely part of the royal committee equivalent, but compromise was never a word in the Minister of Foreign Affairs' dictionary. It was because of this that Ministry of Foreign Affairs had their own military and the ability to declare war that was not part of the main governmental structure. The goal of this separation was to ease the difficulties faced when the Hope was in this kind of rock and a hard place situation. The sacrifice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would preserve the spirits of the rest of the race's members.
It was actually simple to understand. When compromise was necessary, someone had to be sacrificed. Blue Race had done this multiple times before already. The heroes would be sacrificed and the Emperor and royal committee would release an official statement to denounce their relationship to the Blue Race. After this compromise, at least the main race's spirits would be preserved. This was Blue 6 and the few adjutants' original plan, to sacrifice themselves to preserve the human spirit, that was all.
But who would've guessed that at the very last minute, a great surprise would fall right from the sky. The human Emperor had directly officialised his actions and had given him other missions. Blue 6 was not dumb; he soon understood that stalling for 15 minutes was to prepare for some kind of ultimate weapon… One that could destroy this Shelter before them!
(What kind of ultimate weapon will it be? Theoretically speaking, a level 2 space civilization naturally will not have an ultimate weapon of this caliber. Heck, even a level 3 space civilization at its peak will not have an ultimate weapon that can bring down an entire Shelter, unless the civilization has received technological inheritances from a level 4 space civilization and the ultimate weapon was created using the products of the level 4 space civilization…)
Just as Blue 6 was contemplating this, about 10 plus Black Star Troopers had arrived at this entrance. None of them said anything, they were standing there quietly, waiting for Blue 6's next course of action.
Blue 6 could not figure out an ultimate weapon that was plausible, but he still addressed these Black Star Troopers with high spirits, "Let us go. We will declare war now and cleanse these alien trash that dare to trample on our honor! Also… remember who you are! You are all cosmic adapters! The royalty of space! Ignore the threats by these lowlifes, they will not dare to harm you at such a public place!"
Blue 6 was the first to step out. After the isolation corridor, it was the Shelter's harbor space. There were already several thousand representatives from various space civilizations there. Of course, all of these aliens were from level 2 space civilizations, and there were no level 3 space civilizations present.
Following the appearance of Blue 6's group, the thousand plus aliens started to rise into a commotion. This was because every one of them carried with them a device that could detect the presence of soul. Normally, they were used to detect the soul content of food or to detect the presence of cosmic adapters.
At that moment, the thousands of aliens were excited to find that the small group before them had more than 10 cosmic adapters, more than 10! Even a vibrant space civilization would at most have four to five cosmic adapters, and that was already impossible. More than 10 cosmic adapters? Even a large scale Shelter would not have so many cosmic adapters.
One of the aliens suddenly shouted, "These are all cosmic adapters, we have to kidnap them. After all, this race is an enslaved race, so they will not dare to resist us! They are too scared to do that! After we enslave them, our race will have its revival!"
The people who said that was quite many. At least half of them started cheering, some of them were still dazed, while a small group of people started to retreat. However, as the cheering got louder, the siege engines parked quite a distance away started to come over. And soon, unit after units of alien soldiers in combat suits and weapons surrounded Blue 6's group.
Blue 6 smirked chillingly, but he still opened the communication and amplification devices in his space armor to yell, "We are the diplomatic forces of the human race, we have diplomatic immunity. You are not to attack us, or we are allowed to retaliate according to cosmic rules!"
The words he said were incredibly logical, but the continuous compromises shown by humans earlier had roused the bloodlust within these aliens. They assumed Blue 6's words were a sign of weakness. Furthermore, they were already blinded by greed. There were more than 10 cosmic adapters before them, and the capture of even one would revive their whole race from senescence. If anything, the race would start to improve again. On one side was the natural death from Law of Preservation of Life, while on the other was the renaissance of a race. The choice was obvious for those who had been blinded by greed.
Surrounded by more than ten thousand alien soldiers, Blue 6 suddenly turned to those representatives of the vassal alien civilizations and said, "I order you to immediately deploy your army to aid us humans in the name of the suzerain civilization!"
However, these representatives rushed hurriedly back into their spaceships like they had been torched. They ignored Blue 6's orders, and this caused Blue 6's cold smirk to harden.
More than ten thousand soldiers had surrounded the Hope from all sides, but the Hope still did not retaliate in any way. This steeled the aliens' conviction that humans were a useless race, and they started to zero in on Blue 6's group. The circle of alien soldiers was closing in and capture was going to start at any moment.
Blue 6 took a deep breath as he looked around. Then he ordered, "Alright, we can start now… All this filth that surrounds us, Black Star Troopers, listen to my order…
"Slaughter them all!"