218: "All-human battle royale tournament Season 7 warm-up"

In this world, there are always some fools who, while others are busy calculating, stubbornly gaze up at the stars.

For that unseen shore, they are willing to bet all their chips; for that nonexistent glimmer, they are willing to burn their own lives.

The existence of these fools is a romance that rationality cannot understand, an inextinguishable spark of civilization—

Dale chose to stay.

According to him, among the two hundred-plus human livestock in that hall, over seventy chose to pick up weapons after their ropes were cut, fighting for their identity as "humans"—

Although most of these people were those raised as "food," while those raised as "pets" were mostly mentally incapacitated, and even if they had a shred of reason left, most chose to end their own lives.

In short, the guy's exact words were that since there were still people who showed him such a strong will to survive, he couldn't bear to leave them to fend for themselves.

He thought about staying, so that at least there would be someone slightly professional among these meat-livestock who had just stood up.

And the alert team that arrived later also expressed their support for him, leaving behind some equipment and ammunition.

Thus, among the evacuating crowd, they were not included—

"Activating · Warp Drive Module."

With a flash of white light, that reconnaissance-type FG300, which had been quietly parked in the shadow of the space station, closed its pressurized hatch and entered warp flight status.

At this moment, inside its pressurized cabin, a small Shuttle opened its hatch.

Celius walked down, carrying the stunned Marshal Dietrich.

Two soldiers were standing by.

Seeing Celius, they immediately stood at attention and saluted loudly:

"Captain!"

Celius nodded, handed Dietrich, who was on his back, to them, and asked casually:

"Did the first team retreat successfully? Were the targets intercepted?"

The soldier on the left reacted immediately and answered quickly:

"Report! While waiting for evacuation, the first team was assaulted by a large number of armed militants."

"We suffered heavy casualties during the interception,"

"But the fourteen targets were not lost."

Celius nodded. He watched as the two held Dietrich, one on each side, and said:

"Good, as long as there were no losses—take this guy over there too."

"Yes!"

At this moment, the soldier on the right asked a confused question:

"Report, sir, I have a question I don't understand."

Celius looked at him and nodded in agreement.

So the soldier said:

"Our ultimate goal is also to execute these officials of The Consortium,"

"Then why go to such great lengths to bring him over to execute him?"

"Wouldn't it have been better to just finish them off while at the space station?"

Celius listened, lowered his head, and thought for a while.

After a long time, he raised his head and replied:

"I remember Chusiro wrote in 'struggle of humanity' that there is a difference between legal judgment and personal judgment,"

"I can't explain that much—but,"

"The order we received was 'capture,' not 'execute'."

"A soldier's duty is to obey orders."

"Also, since the plan was to capture, the subsequent plans were likely based on the premise that 'we have captured the targets'."

"Although there are definitely backup plans,"

"But as the executor of the primary plan, if you fail to complete the mission, leading to the activation of backup plans, don't you think this behavior would bring shame to you, to the company, and to the Legion?"

"Besides, we are clone bodies, we won't really die."

The soldier then lowered his head and said:

"Yes, I understand, sir!"

"Please forgive my presumption."

Celius waved his hand and said:

"No need to apologize to me. Counseling the psychological problems you develop is one of my duties,"

"If you have free time, read more books, especially 'struggle of humanity',"

"You need to inject some spirit."

"Yes!"

Subsequently, the two carried Dietrich towards the brig on the ship.

Celius shrugged, took the two big guys behind him, and headed to the Bridge.

Soon, the Warship exited warp flight status and entered void flight in an empty star region...

Flying... flying...

In the blink of an eye, it was gone.

...

After the FG300 reconnaissance ship carrying the Special Operations Team entered the void, Xi Hai immediately received the action report with photos.

One hundred and sixty-two Special Operations Team Members, at the cost of eighty-eight casualties, tied all the high-level officials of The Consortium who planned that so-called "Compulsory Conscription Act," including that "supreme" Marshal, to one ship.

(Of course, these eighty-eight people just returned to the city.)

Looking at the action report, even Xi Hai had to marvel at the luck of his subordinates—

This operation was packed with the right time, the right place, and the right people:

It was The Consortium's internal strife, and it just so happened that Celius, who took the wrong document, became the Marshal's "confidant",

Coupled with night lamp's conceptual god-like electronic warfare capabilities,

He even dared to say that if they hadn't engaged with the rebellious First-Class Citizen army this time, the Special Operations Team Members could have even achieved a flawless speedrun.

"Hoo—"

Exhaling lightly, Xi Hai closed the report he had finished reading, picked up another communicator, and dialed the communication to Sacred Stars Group.

Delays cause changes. Since all the targets had been captured, they should hurry up and proceed with the trial according to the subsequent arrangements.

One must know that this public execution of The Consortium's high-level officials was not just a simple act of revenge.

It was also to give an explanation to those researchers, and to all potential researchers who might join Sacred Stars Group in the future.

That is, if they have trouble, The Corporation will truly step up.

After all, in this era where 996 can be called charity, this kind of protective behavior is extraordinarily advanced.

And the next step of planning also needed to be prepared for implementation—

On the Imperial Military Department side, he had already cleared the way through Kelaifu's line, using only two R3-level sub-platform technologies to exchange for Kelaifu's guarantee of "firmly taking a stand."

Although the Imperial Military Department actually only received one "Attack Aircraft Hangar Technology."

With this layer, the other major regimes—the Military Alliance and the Empire are allies, and the others are more or less related—

Giving them a result, they would naturally fill in the blanks themselves.

Thus, under his rapid arrangement and promotion,

That reconnaissance FG300 headed straight to Sacred Stars Group's station at the Order Seat and completed the judgment on those Consortium officials within ten minutes:

First, the charges were read, then they were directly sentenced for "Crimes against Humanity," and finally, they were sentenced to death by fire in court.

(Of course, no white phosphorus.)

This process was live-streamed throughout and relied on night lamp for full-network traffic pushing—

Wherever the star marker communication network covered, this live stream would inevitably pop up like a virus, paired with clickbait titles comparable to marketing accounts,

Directly causing this matter to spread throughout the entire star marker coverage area in a very short time.

Less than a standard hour after this live stream, another explosive event occurred.

The Consortium had another "Supreme Council" pop up, announcing that those officials—and even Marshal Dietrich—were all Traitors to The Consortium.

As soon as this statement came out, the local personnel of The Consortium were unhappy again.

There were those who claimed to be loyal to the Marshal, those who claimed to be loyal to the Claude Family, and even those who did it under the guise of "cleaning up the rebels."

The big ones had one or two star clusters, the small ones only had a few star systems, and each had different rhetoric, but they all had one thing in common.

That was not recognizing the legitimacy of that so-called "Supreme Council."

They were either fools who were bewitched, or opportunists who firmly believed that the Military Alliance would stop this dispute.

But undoubtedly, The Consortium, as one of the six top regimes of human civilization, disintegrated just like that within a few hours.

However, facing this scene, the Empire only faintly stated that they did not recognize those splintered small regimes.

The original words of their Imperial Military Department spokesperson at the press conference were—

"We declared war on The Consortium because of the disgusting actions of the entire Consortium,"

"This includes the actions of the high-level and the local levels."

"We cannot acknowledge that these local dictators who have committed crimes can be exempted from the judgment of justice just by changing a name or separating from the name of The Consortium."

"Also, regarding Sacred Stars Group's series of sentences against The Consortium's high-level war criminals, the Empire expresses firm approval and support."

Furthermore, the Empire actively called on other regimes to participate in the suppression action against the "remnants of The Consortium's anti-humanitarian war criminals."

Just when most regimes were still in a wait-and-see state,

Something unexpected and incredibly magical happened next—