Marvel Book of Magical Events

Chapter 1705 Chapter 1701 Enlil, King of the Sky

The hatch of the assault boat gradually closed, leaving only dim white light in the cabin.

Tita's armor-covered palm tightly grasped the hilt of the sword. The half-human-high jump shield rested on her arm. The large-caliber bolt gun was firmly absorbed by the magnetic lock of the armed belt. The damping safety mechanism hung from the ceiling. Locks secure each android securely in the cabin. The visor was closed, and the holographic HUD projections lit up one by one. She quickly scanned the screen to flash the armor's energy, medicine, and oxygen reserves, as well as the various interfaces and armor integrity, before closing her eyes. She knew that the other sisters around her were doing the same thing, and she knew that each of them felt the same emotions.

She took a deep breath and tried to calm her anger.

As the planned orders were issued quickly and orderly through the communication channel, her breathing became stronger and her heart beat faster and faster. After the power armor turns on the combat mode, the energy supply gradually increases, and the heat released by the heat dissipation vent seems to be the boiling alchemical blood in her body instead of the heat released by the fusion energy supply core. The Emperor had not been away from the Retribution for too long, but even so, Tita could feel the worries of every crew member on the Retribution.

She witnessed the Emperor's Pegasus-type assault craft sink into the vortex of Neptune's atmosphere, and then completely lose the signal. Even though the Emperor had told her that this might happen, she still felt like something important was missing from her soul. An officer claimed at the meeting that the emperor might have encountered unforeseen danger, and even suggested that the emperor was dead and that they should change the voyage plan.

Before the meeting ended, the officer was relieved of his position by Tita and became a low-ranking petty officer on the weapons deck.

This is the result of the sisterhood chief's efforts to restrain his anger. In the past, this kind of behavior that shook the confidence of the army could have been thrown into a military court. On the battlefield, he might have been shot on the spot by a military judge - fortunately, the emperor The order left behind when leaving preserved the last vestiges of the sisterhood's sanity. No one in the Sisterhood believed that the Emperor was dead, and they believed that Neptune could not kill the Emperor. Tita repeatedly stated to officers at all levels of the fleet that the Emperor had already established a fleet in space long before the Punishment entered the universe. This situation is not something that people like them who have never left the solar system can argue about - now Tita closed her eyes and felt the torment. She would rather kneel at the feet of the emperor who doesn't know where he is now than command the battleship to attack the alien aliens at the edge of the solar system. Even jumping into the atmospheric vortex of Neptune together is much better than enduring loneliness in the cold and desolate void. .

But this is the emperor's order, and this is the principle that every artificial human must use his life to fulfill deep in his soul. The torture of waiting was like hot grease pouring into the veins, and the androids became quite violent. If there was not enough space on the Punishment to accommodate the training ground, there would definitely be several violent conflicts on the Punishment. Even the calmest androids, such as Aura, a heavy weapons shooter, were furious because of the Emperor's disappearance. The command system of the fleet is at the same level as the Sisters. The military discipline of the space fleet cannot suppress the fanaticism caused by the loyalty of the androids. They can only rely on the command system of the Sisters to restrain them. Tita has made a lot of efforts in this regard. When she is not participating in command meetings, she spends half of her time sweating on the training ground.

Tita opened her eyes again, and the battlefield information sent from the bridge of the Punishment was clearly displayed in front of her through holographic projection. Now the void missile cruisers built on Mars have begun to launch attacks. Those nearly automated ships are completely controlled by Martian technicians and semi-mechanized life forms, and require minimal logistic resources. These missile cruisers serve as the first wave of attacks. The picture displayed on Tita's tactical command helmet also included the results of those Mars missile cruisers - she saw meteor shower-like interstellar missiles streaking across the void, and the grid-like energy shield erupting on the surface of the cylindrical alien alien space station. A supernova-like blazing light. Immediately afterwards, a bolt of lightning flashed across the energy shield, and a plasma warhead penetrated the shield and exploded on the surface of the space station. A large hole was opened on the surface of the space station made of an unknown material, and a large amount of condensed air, debris and external materials were formed. The alien crew was sucked into space by the terrible negative pressure.

The satellite launched in advance determined the coordinates of the gap and also determined the appearance of the alien alien.

There will be a landing point, and the enemy will be the blue-skinned Kree.

"Prepare for launch. Five, four..." In the cabin, an indifferent automatic announcement sounded.

Tita opened her eyes and checked the data on her power armor one last time. She has led the sisterhood to participate in every war initiated by the emperor, and every android under her command is the most elite battlefield veteran. She believed that she was fully capable of fulfilling the emperor's orders. "Sisters!"

"For the Emperor!"

"...Three, two, one. Launch."

A familiar pushing feeling came from behind.

War has come again, and her sword will be stained with the blood of aliens again.

This excited her, it would be the best sacrifice to the Emperor, no matter where He was.

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Captain Miller looked at everything in front of him with his mouth wide open. He still couldn't believe what he saw.

The Forbidden Army used a suspended assault motorcycle to detect the movements of a group of semi-nomadic and semi-hunting tribes. Even though this group of tribes who had initially domesticated wild horses were armed with stone spears, they were an armed force that could not be ignored on this land. The Imperial Guard estimated that the targets of this group of semi-nomadic and semi-hunting groups would be the half-hunting, semi-gathering, and semi-agricultural tribes they had previously detected. Immediately, the emperor's caravan accelerated its movement. The Imperial Guard commander boarded the suspended armored vehicle and led half of the Imperial Guard directly. Pounce on the place where the conflict breaks out between the two tribes.

Without war or violence, the leaders of the two tribes were brought before the emperor.

At least the nominal leader. In this era, the monarchy had not yet taken shape.

These Neolithic humans did not even have the same kind of blood on their bodies. No matter whether it was the plundering of the half-nomadic half-hunting or the resistance of the half-hunting, half-gathering, and half-farming tribes, everything disappeared in front of the imperial army descending from the sky. From courage to Anger is like dust. Captain Miller couldn't understand the language of these people, but he could tell from the body language of the two Neolithic primitive humans what these humans were thinking.

Surrender. They knelt on the damp earth in surrender.

The Emperor only appeared before them once, speaking some language that Captain Miller did not understand, and the humans shouted a single word. That word is pronounced like "en", the main difference is whether those human pronunciations are accurate. Immediately afterwards, the commander of the Forbidden Army distributed the sheep in the caravan to the two tribes. The half-nomadic and half-hunting humans were thrown into the caravan, and the Forbidden Army taught them how to operate the caravans that were linked by iron chains. The half-hunting, half-gathering, half-farming tribe brought goats and cattle back. The two tribal leaders stood beside the commander of the Forbidden Army. Next to the giant Forbidden Army, these primitive people wearing animal skins and linen seemed quite excited. There is no doubt that these two primitive tribal leaders may faint in the next second. Even humans in the 21st century may develop "superhuman phobia" due to the size of the Forbidden Army. There is no reason why these primitive tribal leaders can be spared.

It was obvious that the emperor intended to maximize his human resources.

As the guides of the caravan, they did not feel defeated at all, but were full of excitement and surprises. Captain Miller suddenly felt funny about his previous worries. He forgot the historical process of this era. Even though the emperor had repeatedly stated to him the relationship between production relations and productivity, he still forgot that this was an era in which language and writing were slowly taking shape. He had no doubt that if he did anything stupid, the stunningly beautiful maid would definitely chop off his head.

"En means Enlil, and they regard our Lord as a god."

Dinah's job today was to keep an eye on Captain Miller so that this stupid human with no education in sociology or Mesopotamian history would cause trouble. While she would be happy to chop off the fool's head, the Emperor claims the man will be of many uses. For such a person, he naturally has certain privileges. Even if Dinah wanted to throw him into the stasis chamber, she couldn't.

"En means master. It is extended to the god of earth and air, the god of wind and war, the creator, father, king and the almighty Lord of the universe. They are singing the praises of my Lord's justice and justice, trying to get my Lord to recognize their rule. This was the divine right of kings, the beginning of primitive monarchy.”

Captain Miller had to admire the rich imagination of these primitive people.

Although it is a bit biased to call these people primitive people, for people from the 21st century, there is no difference between the ethnic groups who are giving birth to writing and primitive people. In any case, he felt extremely lucky that there was no violent conflict such as genocide. He could no longer expect these early-civilization humans to correctly understand that the Imperial Guards were just genetically modified warriors. After all, these people didn't even know what steel was. , not to mention genes.

"Does your master rely on deception to make these people surrender?"

"To humans, my Lord is a god. To humans at any time." Dinah threw a disdainful look at him, "You have never seen my Lord's ability to destroy a planetary civilization, so To say such stupid things.”

"He is also a human being. This is what he said himself. I have read the "Unified Truth" he wrote. What he pursues is human free will and equality."

"For Him, He is human. For you, having the power of God is God, at least until your mind fully accepts dialectics, otherwise a man who walks on water will not be worshiped as a god. . Being able to distinguish between the two is the ultimate goal of my Lord to drive away superstition."

Captain Miller wanted to refute that Christianity could last so long because of its inherent philosophy, but he couldn't do it anyway. After all, he didn't believe in religion. And because he had just witnessed how primitive religious worship was born, and found that the phenomenon was exactly the same as the description of the development of religion in "Unified Truth" - there was no strong conclusion that he could not understand under the dogma of limited empiricism. Things related to logic are superstitions. When humans cannot understand natural phenomena, they naturally regard them as gods. For these humans, the emperor and the imperial guards are things that cannot be understood. Since they cannot be understood correctly, they can only use superstition, just like the Asa clan known to the Nordic people - he is very convinced that Mesopotamia There must be this god named En on the Asia Plain, but this name now belongs to the emperor. He now also began to wonder whether the so-called Garden of Eden in the Old Testament was a relatively wealthy village in this era.

"Now that your master has given these men the right to rule, what then?"

"In this era, the sacrifices offered to gods are humans rather than lambs." Dinah pointed at Captain Miller, "As the person in charge of educating those young children, now you are the high priest."

The high priest of primitive civilization inexplicably assumed the responsibility of accepting sacrifices. In addition to the armed maid Dinah, his assistants also had two praetorian guards. The emperor didn't even bother to show up in front of these primitive civilizations, and he didn't need to. All it takes is to pull the caravan in front of the tribe, and then the tribal ruler will come forward to promote Enlil's name, and then personally select the children of appropriate age through Dinah and stuff them into Captain Miller's caravan. There was no resistance in this process, and even the sacrifices themselves were extremely compliant, as each child had a piece of candy stuffed into his mouth. The reason why human beings love sugar is entirely the instinct of physical development. In this era of scarcity, there are almost no means to directly obtain large amounts of sugar. The candy distributed to children in primitive civilizations can almost buy an adult labor force, and it will not Some people think there is nothing wrong with selling themselves for a piece of candy, not to mention that the parents of those children narrowed their eyes with laughter because of the lambs given to them by the high priest, tribal leader and golden angel (praetorian guard).

Compared to "gods" like the emperor who accepted sacrifices and then gave gifts to "believers", the sacrifices required to sacrifice unknown gods of primitive religions in this era were much more bloody - such as burning children alive. , or vivisection of prisoners to remove internal organs, etc. - the "sacrifice" required by the emperor seemed more civilized. What made Captain Miller even more satisfied was that the emperor also issued instructions to these primitive tribes through the imperial guards and the armed maid Dinah. From then on, all sacrifices only required a portion of the food to be dedicated at a specific time. After the ceremony, all tribesmen You can share the food offerings.

Captain Miller did not understand the language of these primitive tribes, and everything was relayed by the armed maid Dinah.

"Laugh at me." Captain Miller sat down on a simple chair. "I admit that I missed this part of my education. I was also worried about you massacring these primitive tribes." The emperor ignored him, but He was minding his own business playing with the strange machine on the table. The machine that looked like it was made of brass and rubies made a low humming sound, and the air was filled with crackling static electricity and hoarfrost condensed by the sudden drop in temperature. "Were you prepared to see my joke from the beginning?" Captain Miller asked, "otherwise you would definitely stop my stupid behavior."

"It's not necessary," the emperor said in a low voice. The closer he got to the machine, the fainter the emperor's voice became, as if thousands of people were speaking at the same time. Captain Miller had lost interest in the anomalies surrounding the Emperor, and he had no interest in exploring whether this phenomenon was related to this machine. "You must start to accept new knowledge, Captain Miller. Those children will be your crew in the future, and I hope they can have the correct understanding."

"There are not enough teaching tools in the caravan."

"So we will establish a stronghold in a suitable place." The emperor's expression finally changed. He was smiling, but Captain Miller had a rather bad feeling. He had a premonition that he would hear some information next that would refresh his knowledge. "That stronghold could just be called Eden."