Getting a Technology System in Modern Day - Chapter 1021

Capítulo 1021: Surprising Discovery

The Zelvora mental network was currently chaotic as they watched one imperial attack after another without the ability to do anything about it, as all of the attacks pointed to the empire having planned and preemptively dispatched them years ago, and were only now being brought online.

With each attack that the empire brought online, causing devastation on the scale of a solar system at most or a planet at the least, they combed their systems for similar signatures but always ended up finding nothing. The empire came up with a new means of attack every five hours, and they kept their promise.

It had been a week, and they were starting to feel exhausted from repeating the same thing, as nearly all of their forces were forced to be on standby in case the next attack was targeted at their star system. Even if it was not them who were targeted, they were then forced to mobilize to start looking around for similar means of attack that might have been placed by the empire, not giving them enough time to rest and recuperate.

While they were still in the middle of combing through to check for the previous attack, the next one would erupt, increasing their backlog. To anyone outside looking at it, they would realize that the empire was using an attack on a single star system or planet to force the entirety of the remaining conclave forces to move and expend their manpower and mental energy.

Together with all of that, civilizations were also forced to try and think of what other means the empire might use on them, and to try and look for them.

Although many of those endeavors acted as nothing but a waste of manpower and resources, one of them had finally shown results, as something out of the norm was finally discovered by a Zelvora military scientist. He was responsible for combing through the body data of those who had visited the empire and were forced to receive the vaccine that was mandatory, as it was required to avoid killing each other from diseases that might be no different from a cold in one civilization but extremely deadly to another.

That vaccine was the cause of the biological virus’s spread that had already taken out more than seventy percent of Erythian monsters, who were expected to go extinct in the remaining three days. The week that had passed since the empire unleashed the attack was enough for the top ten civilizations to pinpoint exactly where the spread started, and they had discovered that the vaccine was the cause.

The empire had given them the chemical and atomic structure, and even a sample and the recipe of the vaccine for each civilization to look into. They also took the responsibility of producing them for their masses to take before heading to the empire. Through the scrutiny of the vaccine, nothing lethal or dangerous was discovered, which was true, as what the empire did was introduce a new chemical that caused the materials in the vaccine to undergo changes that would then be fatal to their specific target.

Immediately following the discovery by the military scientist, a meeting was called, and a meeting network was set. All those vital individuals attended the meeting taking place in the mental network, as it seemed like the empire had another avenue for using the same vaccines, but this time targeting the Zelvora. This new threat was even more deadly than the one on its way to kill all the Erythian monsters, which had already resulted in them losing more than half of their manpower.

“What the fuck is going on in their minds? What goes on in the minds of a civilization that would come up with something like that?” Those were the sentiments and questions that spread all over the private mental network meeting when the scientist finished briefing them on the potential route the empire could use to directly attack their entire civilization.

The scientist had discovered that if you introduce a few chemicals into the body of someone who had taken the vaccine, the antibodies in the body of the individual who took it would undergo a mutation. This would result in the mutated antibodies releasing a few different elements that will follow the bloodstream and mimic the way oxygen leaves the blood and goes through the blood-brain barrier through diffusion.

Once through that barrier and into the brain, they will be attracted to specific brain tissue to combine with it and cause a clog and act as a sponge of sorts. This will act as a noisemaker for their mental network, turning anything they send out to one another into nothing but scrambled and indecipherable noise, which will be no different than killing their mental network that they relied on for many things in their daily lives. To add insult to injury, that same noise will also permeate into their mental abilities, reducing their effectiveness to less than thirty percent of their full capabilities, which is no different than crippling them.

Although at the moment it was just a theory of what the empire might be capable of doing to them, and it would need a few external chemicals to induce it, only one of those external chemicals was missing from their bloodstreams: a chemical that would act as the bonding agent, bringing everything together and triggering the avalanche that would lead to the end goal. All of those other chemicals were introduced into their bodies through different imperial products, making it obvious that the empire was more than likely aware of the attack and was ready to activate it at a moment’s notice.

The only consolation for them was that the binding agent was not capable of living exposed for long, and none of it was found in any of their star systems. But none of them were consoled by the news of it at all, since it meant that the empire could just spread it during their actual invasion and weaken them moments before a face-to-face face-off, immediately taking away both their connection and most of their mental attack capabilities, which were a nightmare to deal with in a normal circumstance.

For a moment, the private mental network was filled with chaotic thoughts of people trying to come up with a good way to deal with such a situation, but none of them could come up with a possible solution. Had they not been on the receiving end of such a preplanned attack, they would have agreed it was a masterstroke of an attack, a foresight in planning, and a cunning mind that the empire had that called for marveling.