Chapter 618: The Great Purge

"Also, since the death toll from this infection has reached three billion, all those involved in this act of treason will be punished by the nine tribes! All their properties will be confiscated and distributed equally to every citizen!" Li Mingze's eyes showed a cold light.

"Your Majesty, there are many senior officials and military officers of the empire among them." Tianyi advised.

"You can think of this as a great purge. Although they are not guilty, the crimes of their relatives caused the death of three billion people. If this infection is not controlled, the death rate may be as high as hundreds of billions!"

"The growth of this organization cannot be separated from the protection and funding of these officials, so no one is innocent!" Li Mingze replied coldly.

"Of course, the Zhujiu Clan just said that. Only they and their closest relatives were sentenced to death, and the rest were sent to the tomb space station to sleep forever!" Li Mingze suddenly said.

If the relatives of these people are not guilty enough to die, let these people spend their lives in the virtual world, so that they can have an explanation to the people of the whole country.

"Yes!" Tianyi nodded and disappeared.

In the Imperial Command Center, a group of senior officers were discussing the next deployment in the conference room, including generals, generals, and marshals.

At this moment, a group of soldiers suddenly opened the door to the room and walked into the room with rifles.

"General Zou Shiming, Lieutenant General Kelisi, and General Mode. The ten of you will be arrested immediately for treason. You have no right to defend yourself. The highest order of His Majesty the Emperor will be implemented immediately!" a soldier said after that. He waved his hand sharply.

Twenty soldiers immediately stepped forward, dragged ten middle-aged men directly from their seats, and pulled them out of the room.

"What are you doing? We were wronged! I want to see His Majesty!" the officer who was dragged from his seat begged loudly.

"Your Majesty has an order. You will naturally see Your Majesty during the trial. As for the crime you have committed, you will know when the trial comes."

"The remaining generals, please continue the meeting. Our mission is only for the ten of them." After the soldier finished speaking, he neatly saluted a military salute and then turned and left the conference room.

After the door of the conference room was closed again, many generals in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

The scene just now frightened them. While the ten people were being dragged away, no one dared to express their anger, for fear that they would also be taken away.

"What crime did the ten of them commit, and they were taken away immediately?" The remaining officers asked each other in low voices.

"I understand, you watch the news." An officer hurriedly projected his terminal into the center of the hall.

"According to our reporter's understanding, the Supreme Court of the Empire has just announced a treason case involving several major families in the Empire, dozens of wealthy businessmen, senior imperial officials and generals."

"It is said that five major families in the empire, thirty-two wealthy businessmen, thirteen high-ranking officials, and ten generals funded a private foundation."

"This foundation recently colluded with the Zerg and spread a deadly virus capable of destroying a civilization into the empire through refugees!"

"Currently, thousands of colonial stars have been ravaged by this virus! And the foundation's spaceships are still trying to transport refugees carrying the virus to the empire!"

"According to our reporter's understanding, the Foundation has tampered with border data, allowing these virus-carrying refugees to safely enter the empire's thousands of colonial stars!"

"This virus has currently caused the death of three billion people, and as the virus spreads, the death toll continues to rise. However, the empire has dispatched biochemical prevention and control troops to thousands of infected colonial stars to prevent the spread of the virus. diffusion!"

"Therefore, the Imperial Supreme Court once again declares that all persons involved in this treason incident will be punished for treason, collaborating with the enemy, and murder!"

"Those involved in minor cases will be sent to a hibernation device to spend the rest of their lives in the virtual world!" Snap, the officer turned off the video screen.

Many officers in the room looked at each other. They did not expect that there would be such high-level officials involved in this incident. However, these people deserved it. No matter what time it was, they dared to ignore the imperial government's warning. .

At the same time, more than ten officials in the imperial government agencies were also taken away directly from their offices.

Until they were arrested, these people had no idea how much trouble their children and relatives had caused for them.

Even if these people cried all the way, it was of no use. Their previous official authority disappeared in an instant. When they heard the crime of treason, these people had already guessed that they had only one way to die.

Several major families in the empire did not escape the hands of the imperial government. A large number of their members were forcibly captured by the imperial forces directly in the family strongholds.

During the whole process, the mercenaries hired by these families at huge prices didn't even dare to fart.

When the imperial army opened the door, the mercenaries and bodyguards who had signed a life-and-death contract with their families threw their weapons aside.

The imperial soldiers did not make things difficult for these people. These people were just working people.

Some of the entrepreneurs involved in the case were intercepted by imperial warships in space and abducted directly back to the imperial capital.

In less than an hour, all personnel involved with the Foundation were arrested from various places.

No one could escape, and even those who fled to the occupied areas were caught up by the imperial fleet.

A few days later, these people were gathered and sent to the Imperial Supreme Court.

At this time, the empire's biochemical control troops also arrived at the infected colonies.

Transport ships specially used to deal with biochemical crises fell from the sky, sending soldiers wearing chemical protective suits and robot troops to the vicinity of cities that have been infected by the virus.

As soon as the biochemical control troops arrived, they established a defense circle on the spot. After the base construction modules carried by the transport ships were thrown onto the open space, buildings rose from the ground.

As many as 200 million biochemical control troops were sent to more than 1,000 colonies, but the number of these people was still too small.

Even if each person was equipped with ten combat robots, each colony was only allocated 200,000 soldiers and 2 million combat robots.

And there were as many as 3 million infected people on each planet who had been infected and turned into monsters.

This number is still growing. Fortunately, the biochemical control troops still have warships to use.

Otherwise, let alone prevention and control, they would simply go to die.

The first batch of biochemical control troops who arrived at the infected area had already exchanged fire with the infected.

Li Mingze was very pleasantly surprised to find that although the virus spread at a terrifying speed, the attack and defense capabilities of the monsters it created were not very good!