Free Web NovelChapter 596: Chapter 379: Joint Plan Against the Twelfth Apostle (Part 2)
Illusion Technique?
Xue Dili closed his eyes. When he had the Modifier, he was also a master of illusion techniques, best at hypnosis, time stop, and charm.
However, these abilities can still be used now, just their effectiveness has greatly diminished, and they no longer hold high practical value.
And that capability to turn falsehood into reality, Xue Dili really felt he was very similar to Loki from Nordic Mythology. This tricky enemy made him rub his brow in frustration, as he always felt this situation was not optimistic. It was the first time he had encountered such an enemy, and he had never fought against anyone like this before.
"What about the other enemies? Your colleagues from the Praise Society?" Xue Dili asked.
"Those enemies are nothing to worry about, sir. I will kill them all." Faust grinned, showing a childlike smile. Despite the healthy appearance of the smile, Xue Dili couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart.
I will gather some data, and shortly after we will travel to that world together.
"Then I welcome your arrival." Faust slightly bowed and fixed his collar, returning to the desk, painting scenes of Earth like a fallen artist.
Xue Dili glanced over; it was the entrance of Ke University, surrounded by many children happily going to school.
He had already painted more than a dozen pictures, all depicting Earth.
Xue Dili didn’t know what he wanted to do with the paintings, but he did not oppose the idea of just recording scenes of Earth.
Leaving the Consciousness Space, Xue Dili found that Susu had not yet woken up; presumably, she had stayed up playing games again last night.
As it was still early, he went directly to the Interstellar Corps. His arrival did not surprise others, probably because he had come too many times, or maybe he knew quite a few people here.
Soon, a woman dressed similarly to a nun arrived: "Hello, Lord Xue Dili."
"Are Songquan and Olivia here?" Xue Dili asked.
"They’re not in, Songquan has been staying at his home recently. His over a thousand children are about to be born, and he’s been overwhelmed every day. Every time I see him, he’s drowning his sorrows in alcohol, and he’s losing a lot of hair." The nun said with schadenfreude.
Xue Dili: "..."
Over a thousand children are about to be born?
Xue Dili remembered only about a month had passed since he had close interactions with the mermaid, is she already due? Is the mermaid’s pregnancy cycle so short?
Seemingly understanding what Xue Dili was thinking, the nun added: "Actually, Songquan brought the mermaid in for a checkup; initially, over a thousand eggs were laid, and the little babies need to develop within the eggs for quite a while before hatching."
"Oh..."
That’s why so many can be born at once?
In the original world, the Demon Beasts must have been rampant, especially mermaids, laying thousands of eggs at once, the species should have exploded, right?
Xue Dili’s mind went astray, and he began thinking about how the lieutenant would raise those thousands of children.
And based on the lieutenant’s species characteristics, probably around 90% of those children would be girls, likely causing him such distress that he exhibits the classic middle-aged crisis of a corporate worker.
Actually, the lieutenant’s age, adjusted to Earth’s timeline, is younger than Xue Dili by half a year or so, and yet he’s already the father of thousands of children.
"What about Olivia, the senior?" Xue Dili asked.
"Olivia, oh, she recently went home to visit relatives, let me see, her vacation should be ending soon, she’ll probably return to work in a few days."
"And 5332?" Xue Dili continued asking about the whereabouts of the last familiar face.
"That big robot? It’s clearing wasteland on a planet once occupied by an Apostle, teaching people there how to farm quickly and scientifically. It’s become someone even the royal family respectfully serves according to its report. After teaching for another month, it predicts everyone on the planet will have learned to farm and will develop smoothly."
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5332, still on the Ninth Apostle’s home planet?
The farming machine consciousness awakened, continuing to farm over there for prosperity and peace?
Xue Dili still remembers that 5332 joined the war because the hawkish mecha destroyed its farm, leaving him unable to farm anymore, which is why he enlisted, prepared to crush those hawkish scoundrels.
And now, it seems the farming consciousness has just continued to awaken.
The nun took out a cigarette from somewhere, lighting it in her mouth, while offering one over: "Want one?"
"I’ll pass..."
The nun was not polite, snapping her fingers to ignite the cigarette, taking a deep drag.
"By the way, what’s the matter this time? If it’s official business, I can help relay a message." The nun said.
"I want to ask if the Interstellar Corps can accommodate around ten billion immigrants?" Xue Dili asked, and added, "And could I borrow the Star Annihilator Cannon, I want to blow up a planet."
The nun: "..."
She tactically leaned back, took a deep drag of the cigarette, and asked, "A world beyond salvation?"
"Pretty much..."
"What kind of situation? Machine crisis? Cosmic swarm? Demon or undead?" The nun counted off these apocalypse issues, it was clear the Interstellar Corps seemed to have a full set of procedures for handling such situations.
"It’s an Apostle invasion..."
"Hiss..." During her moment of distraction, the nun reversed her cigarette, putting the lit end into her mouth, burning a mark on her tongue.
Xue Dili: "..."
"Which Apostle? What’s the current situation?" The nun immediately cast a purification spell on herself, disregarding the ash in her mouth, and asked urgently.
"The Twelfth Apostle... and possibly facing the Fourth Apostle too."
"Hiss... wait a second, I’ll go report to the boss, hold on a moment..."
...
Xue Dili’s preliminary plan was to directly pack up the people from that world and blast the planet apart afterwards.
This is under Faust’s intelligence being completely accurate.
If the World Consciousness did not oppose the Twelfth Apostle’s actions, rather assisted him in achieving agency, and actively lured other Apostles.
However, Xue Dili was uncertain of how credible Faust’s intelligence was, so he prepared other contingencies, but the initial plan was thus.
Xue Dili would sneak into that world and then, without hesitation, directly capture people, carting off both people and land.
Then, if the Twelfth Apostle chased him, he would run, and when the Twelfth Apostle couldn’t find him, he would return to continue capturing people, just capture, capture, capture, capture.
After all, both the Ninth Apostle and the Sixth Apostle basically employed such tactics. They didn’t want to manage colonization stars themselves, only thinking of snagging a population and bolting, so this approach was very normal for Apostles.
Illusion Technique, deception, Xue Dili was completely unaffected by them, he was like someone solely focused on pushing towers, focused entirely on gathering populations, capturing enough people, then blasting apart both the planet and the Twelfth Apostle.
Thus, great success, direct and straightforward.
But in fact, this plan has many issues, and this is just the initial conception.
Since facing a native Apostle head-on, Xue Dili’s chance of winning would likely be less than 10%.
Furthermore, after understanding the general abilities of the Twelfth Apostle, he felt this thing was too tricky, abilities full of mechanics, disguise, illusion techniques, deceit, and with the capability to pull off realistic falsehoods, against this kind of mechanism monster, Xue Dili had to use simpler methods...
You can play mechanics, can your planet play mechanics?
Kidnap populations, then annihilate the star.
Xue Dili’s spatial ability was second only to the lieutenant’s, he was confident even against local Apostles, in pure terms of spatial ability the Twelfth Apostle was probably not his match, and with the help of the lieutenant, it would be even easier for spatial transfer.
Hit and run, guerilla gameplay.
The best way to handle mechanism monsters is simply not to oppose them head-on.
However, this all relies on the involvement of the planet’s consciousness itself, if the planet’s consciousness was not involved, but instead completely hoodwinked and deceived by the Twelfth Apostle...
Then he can only confront head-on on the Twelfth Apostle’s home planet, which is the result Xue Dili least wants to see.
