Chapter 555: Necessary Sacrifice
All of a sudden, numerous Navy members mutinied.
This amused the people on Tai Sui's side, as they watched the Navy eat their melon so enthusiastically. Good heavens, Hebron was assisting them the whole time.
"Hebron, this guy, his act is too fake." Even Brando couldn't hold it in.
Luo Yan laughed and asked Brando, "You think he's acting?"
Brando chuckled softly, "You don't understand, Hebron is a trusted confidant of the Six Gods, completely trusts and carries out their orders."
"For something this major, handling it so messily, it must be by the Six Gods' instructions."
"His words hit right at the mark... namely that Kildan's brothers are actually more important than Kildan's own life."
At this point, he was thoroughly convinced that the Six Gods intended to send all the fake Navy to Gao Xin's side.
Forcing them to have no choice but to follow Gao Xin to fight the Angel Envoy!
"Fuck, I'm a thief, I'm a rebel!"
"I couldn't stand the giant enterprise back then, and it's the same today!"
"Brothers, let's rebel!"
"Follow me to kill these Navy dogs!"
Kildan was already holding back his anger, and now he erupted into a mutiny.
He claimed he was greedy for life and fear of death, referring to leading everyone in rebellion back then and then joining the Navy.
But do those who achieve a True Dragon level truly fear death?
There must be some firm belief supporting them; otherwise, they wouldn't survive to become a True Dragon.
He ultimately abandoned the rebellion and accepted the imperial amnesty really just to let those who followed him survive... No choice, the mechanical army was too strong back then, rebelling with a pack of tigers and wolves was like joking around, it was too desperate.
The Navy gave them a choice back then, so he naturally defected to the Navy.
But now, to make him abandon the lives of those under him? Wouldn't the amnesty be for nothing then?
He might as well have gone to Crime Prison Island for a battle royale back then! Maybe more people would have survived.
"Hebron, die for me!"
Kilga overclocked at the twelfth rank, surrounded by multiple layers of external fusion energy, along with two hundred True Dragons charging at Hebron.
While by Hebron's side, there were only twenty True Dragons, all part of the official establishment, also sent to participate in this conference by the Navy side proactively.
At this moment, they were being besieged by ten times as many True Dragons, the scene extremely tragic.
Nearly a million people in Freedom City also switched sides.
Those with affiliation and those without, clearly divided, fighting each other.
The dragons from Crime Prison Island only needed to watch, even commenting and criticizing.
However, Gao Xin and Quinn frowned: "Hmm?"
Gao Xin sensed something wrong and immediately rushed to the battlefield.
At the same time, Hebron shouted sternly, "You traitors who betrayed the Navy, don't blame me!"
"Blow it up for me!"
In an instant, beneath Freedom City, a strong radiation source exploded, an extreme nuclear explosion suddenly appeared.
Everywhere, it was all detonated simultaneously.
"What!" Brando's eyes widened, he didn't expect Hebron to do this.
"Buzz!"
Most of the mutinous Navy were only Tiger or Elephant level, bearing the brunt, unable to react, about to be completely annihilated in an instant.
At the critical moment, Gao Xin's figure appeared there.
"Crimson Reverse Moon Slash!"
"Life Tree·Super Healing."
Gao Xin majestically slashed once, actually slicing through the high energy of the nuclear explosion.
The slashing of the nuclear explosion, like a home run, was visually extremely impactful.
Not only that, a vast, intricate, holy Life Tree construct appeared behind him.
The energy flowed, radiating brilliantly.
In it, Gao Xin also infused Taixui Blood, injecting it into the people with the light wave, sustaining their vigor.
"This..." Hebron was stunned, Gao Xin actually saved the lives of a million people.
Kildan and other leaders, terrified and horrified: "Damn it! You were planning to kill us all along!"
With the nuclear explosion just now, among the million people, except for their 500 Dragon Levels in the sky with strong capabilities to survive, all other Tigers and Elephants would certainly be dead.
Fortunately, fortunately Gao Xin anticipated it early and directly intervened to calm the situation.
"Hebron!" Brando stepped forward, astonished: "What are you doing? We are all former comrades-in-arms, you want to kill them all?"
He thought Hebron finished acting, forcing the crowd to rebel, would be killed by Kildan and others' rebellion, and that was it.
Unexpectedly, Hebron turned around with a nuclear explosion sweep, almost exterminating everyone below the Dragon Level.
"Just quelling the rebellion." Hebron said coldly.
Brando was stunned: "You... you overacted..."
He still thought Hebron was helping, after all, Gao Xin had Prophet Divine, and was powerful. As long as no one held him back, he could save these people.
In this way, it equates to aiding Gao Xin in winning people's hearts, making these rebels even more dedicated to help him fight the Angel Envoy.
Unexpectedly, Gao Xin said, "He's not acting, or rather, the script isn't what you think."
"These people are already among those from Crime Prison Island, whether they betray the Navy or not, that won't change."
"So Lao Liu inevitably has to remove them all to ensure that the population on this planet is less than ten thousand."
Brando glared and said, "But... isn't the goal to campaign against the Angel Envoy? Forcing them to rebel, isn't that to get them to help you?"
Gao Xin said gravely, "Only those at Dragon Level can be of help, the others in Lao Liu's eyes must be eliminated."
Brando suddenly realized he had misunderstood the primary objective of the Six Gods.
The primary strategic goal is still to eliminate Crime Prison Island. Helping Gao Xin campaign against the Angel Envoy is just incidental, a separate bet, just in case it works.
However, they only need a few hundred Dragon Level people like Kildan to help Gao Xin; the others are useless and must all be destroyed.
As for Gao Xin using Taixui Blood to cultivate more Dragon Levels, that's just his idea; the Six Gods don't think that way. He must ensure there are fewer than ten thousand people here.
If the fight against the Angel Envoy results in the weaker ones perishing? That's too much risk, the Six Gods wouldn't choose to do that.
So Hebron first drove everyone to rebellion and then used the pretext of suppressing the rebellion to cleanse everything below Dragon Level through nuclear bombings.
"But these are our comrades," Brando emotionally couldn't accept it.
Hebron coldly said, "The moment they were assigned to Crime Prison Island, they weren't anymore."
"You..." Brando's eyes widened.
From the perspective of the plan, the sacrifice of these people is necessary; otherwise, the Emperor's Contract might not be broken, triggering AI awakening.
But... but this is too heartless.
"They were assigned to Crime Prison Island by the giant enterprise, and they are to be completely abandoned like this? How can Six Brother do this?"
"Driving everyone to rebellion and then wiping out everything below Dragon Level in the name of suppressing, is this your idea or Six Brother's?"
Brando said tremblingly, still unable to believe it.
Seeing him open up, Hebron's eyes turned sharp, surprisingly also furious, "Brando, Six Brother values you so much, yet you repeatedly disappoint him."
"Do you think I want this? Do you think Six Brother wants to abandon these people? Who among them wasn't recruited by Six Brother back in the day?"
"Many of them are the weak; do you think Six Brother needs their strength? No, he just hoped that the life-extending Navy could be a bit larger."
"But now, 40% of the population and most of the Dragon Levels have to be abandoned."
"You talk about a single bill making us give up on them, but have you thought about why the giant enterprise targets those of us who have always fought for the government?"
"Isn't it because you, Brando, and Xiao Yaomu nearly wrote your intention to wipe out the giant enterprise on your faces?"
"Even as incompetent as the giant enterprise elitists are, they're not fools; your non-cooperation and contempt make them constantly want to weaken the Navy, fearing and excluding us, viewing us as a huge threat."
"This is Six Brother, who has served the giant enterprise diligently for so many years, the top Divine King, bowing to those elitists as a servant, and still couldn't change that impression!"
"If the giant enterprise did not exclude us, today's events wouldn't have happened; Kildan and the others would still be in the Navy!"
"The giant enterprise will be destroyed in the illusion of the Navy's loyalty, with Six Brother's skills, it can definitely be done..."
"That would be the perfect crime!"
"But all of this was ruined by self-righteous thorns like you; we had to abandon more people, all because you guys didn't know how to endure."
"Six Brother never blamed you, but I can't stand your self-righteous pride and dignity, what the hell is that worth?"
"Do you have the face to blame me? Comrades, only you know comrades? I really want to kill you, damn it!"
Hebron was not only unashamed but even cursed at Brando fiercely.
Brando's face turned pale, unable to refute.
The situation has reached this point, was it because this group of people couldn't act?
Gao Xin also lamented, indeed many in the Navy were dissatisfied with the elitists, Brando was such an example.
When he participated in the Elephant King Conference, his disdain for the elitists was almost written on his face, he even collaborated with me, telling him the information on Gao Yunzu and other elitists.
This angered the elitists, there were bullet screens cursing him at that time, yet they couldn't do anything about him. He was a senior Navy, also a promising UR talent; unless he declared rebellion, there was no way to touch him.
But this anger, he dodged, yet it ultimately fell on the Navy as a whole.
On the contrary, Six Gods consistently served the elitists, and were the Navy's most loyal general, actually the biggest grave digger.
Not to mention, if the Navy's behavior towards the elitists was as 'righteous' and 'loyal' as Six Gods', the giant enterprise might one day be played to death by Six Gods in their sleep during advantageous circumstances.
"Is it my fault?" Brando murmured.
Gao Xin chuckled softly, "It's not your fault, it's never a one-person problem."
"But you are indeed too naive, and have no stance to judge Lao Liu."
"Do you think Lao Liu abandoning unorganized and weak comrades is too cold-blooded? But when your Navy abandoned countless helpless civilians outside, wasn't that cold-blooded?"
"Isn't it the same? Just because these people were once your comrades, you feel it's ruthless?"
"Since you support Lao Liu's plan to abandon all outsiders, you should have been prepared long ago, maybe one day, you too will be 'necessary sacrifices'..."
Gao Xin's words were deafening.
They made Brando's whole body shudder, he lowered his head bitterly, covering his face with his hands in extreme self-mockery.
Yes, Six Gods abandoned this batch of people, and the Navy collectively abandoned tens of billions outside, aren't they the same? All so-called 'necessary sacrifices'.
Gao Xin sneered, "So-called 'necessary sacrifice', once there's a first time, there will be a second, are they insiders? Are they outsiders? It merely depends on how this line is cut."
"When you compromise to the end, there's no way back, only step by step abandonment, to ensure ultimate victory."
"Hehe... so I never choose survival that requires abandonment and compromise."
"Only fighting hard from start to finish, is the most regret-free path."
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