Chapter 176 Assessment Results
"The main engine of the spacecraft has been shut down, the second auxiliary engine is being repaired, and the third auxiliary engine is operating normally."
"Dark Star No. 1 support ship has jumped and will be able to rendezvous in fifteen minutes."
"Eighty percent of the insect swarms in Luofeng have been wiped out. It is only a matter of time before the remaining insects are wiped out. We have sacrificed more than 16,000 soldiers and lost 12 ships."
"The pseudo-queens were destroyed one after another, and the swarm lost its activity. They were being divided and surrounded by the Sherman Empire fleet, and were being annihilated one by one...
“The Sherman Empire’s military launched a nationwide live broadcast, broadcasting the already certain encirclement and suppression campaign to the entire Sherman Empire, emphasizing that they had defeated the sinister conspiracy of the New Federation.
“The New Federation has begun organizing an emergency press conference to try to explain that this matter has nothing to do with them.”
Lu's voice paused:
"The New Federation's troops retreated in an orderly manner after seeing the Zerg. This became the most favorable evidence for Sherman."
Behind the porthole.
Yang Ming, who was slumped in his chair, heaved a long sigh of relief when he heard the news that this "small" swarm of insects had been annihilated.
"Lv, has our landing point been detected by the Sherman military?"
"Not yet, boss. To be on the safe side, we are heading towards the border of the Sherman Empire. We are preparing a scenario of returning to the Sherman Empire. We have already passed the edge of the detection system of a Sherman Empire boundary marker and immediately turned around after leaving a trace."
Lu explained quickly:
“Even if the Feinan lost most of its power, its performance is still better than that of ships of similar length.
"I have already turned on the stealth system to the maximum. The ship's energy can last for three galaxies, which is enough for us to wait for supplies."
Yang Ming nodded and began to look at the projection screen with interest.
On the projection screen, there was a live broadcast of the Sherman Empire extermination.
The Sherman Empire's ability to seize opportunities is indeed much stronger than before.
Are these noble gentlemen aware of the benefits of guiding public opinion?
This battle also directly reflected how terrifying the combat power of the Imperial fleet with the support of dreadnoughts was.
This swarm of Zerg is a suicide squad sent out by a mature group of fifth-order semi-space Zerg.
With only one tenth of the strength of the Suicide Squad, the Luofeng Empire military alliance currently controlled by Yang Ming would have to put in almost all of its efforts and suffer certain casualties to destroy it.
The main body of this suicide squad fell apart in an instant when faced with the dreadnought fleet and the Empire's powerful expeditionary force.
What is strength?
The dreadnought is the real strength!
However, Yang Ming also knew that his desire to own such a powerful ship was still a pipe dream at the moment.
"Law," Yang Ming said, "The compensation for the soldiers who died in the Luofeng battle this time will be paid from our private funds, which is twice the standard amount."
"Yes, boss."
Lu lowered his voice and reminded, "Ms. Hera is also listening. We can discuss this matter later to avoid putting pressure on her."
Yang Ming turned his head and saw Hera standing by the porthole a few meters away, staring blankly out the window.
Yang Ming nodded slightly, motioned for Lu to go and get busy first, and stood up and walked over.
"It's all right."
Yang Ming hugged her from behind:
"There is a gap in our early warning mechanism. The direction the bugs came from is a gap in our usual defenses. We will fill it after this incident."
"A lot of people died, didn't they?"
Hera whispered:
"It is my responsibility. My experiment is doomed to cause disaster."
"That's also our responsibility. I funded your experiment throughout the whole process."
Yang Ming held her in his arms, feeling the vibrations coming from her petite body, and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Ming, I can't go back to the Luofeng Empire," Hera said, "I want to go to an uninhabited planet. I will find a way to prevent the Zerg from contacting me, such as keeping the signal shielding device on. I have almost finished my research. I can also actively infect ordinary Zerg with microorganisms to extract samples, so as to cover the infection and completely cover the microorganisms that may have mutated in my body. I..."
She couldn't speak because Yang Ming had lifted her chin and kissed her lips.
Hera's body grew limp, but she soon began to struggle.
“Ming…Ming!”
"Okay," Yang Ming loosened his arm, and Hera turned to face him, took two steps back and leaned against the porthole.
She looked at Yang Ming with complicated eyes: "I already know why the swarm of insects came."
Yang Ming frowned and said, "I didn't ask Lu to tell you this."
"I have communicated with the queen insect," Hera's lips trembled, "The swarm thought that the natural enemy was defiling the queen insect. They worship reproduction. I also tried to explain to it that I am a human, but its cognition did not waver."
Yang Ming: …
"We are human," Yang Ming said, "Hera, you have to admit this. We are all human, but there are some differences."
"Yes, you are human, but I am not necessarily still human."
Hera was a little emotional:
"I can feel their thoughts. After communicating with the queen, I even underwent new changes. I can feel the fluctuations that occur when those insects are defeated. They also have emotions and fear.
“I could feel their fear and anger.
"Ming, I really... I can accept that I am not a good person. I can betray my country because I think my country has done something unjust, but I cannot accept that I am no longer human. I clearly... I clearly..."
"Calm down Hera," Yang Ming said in a deep voice, slowly hugging Hera.
Hera suddenly broke down and sobbed in Yang Ming's arms.
Although Yang Ming's focus might be a little strange in this situation, he clearly felt...
Hera's mood seemed to return to normal.
Her previously suppressed and affected emotions, and her previously lost emotional system, seemed to be suddenly restored at this moment.
She was no longer so forced to be calm and rational.
There had been signs of this transformation before. Yang Ming recalled carefully and it was probably around the same time when she adjusted the direction of the experiment and began to try to give instructions to the insects.
Was the reason Hera’s emotions were suppressed before due to the microorganisms in her body?
It's quite magical.
Yang Ming quickly suppressed these thoughts and began to comfort Hera gently.
It stands to reason that in this atmosphere, they could have started a wonderful post-war tender journey;
But Hera insisted that they could not do anything that crossed the line and had to keep a certain distance.
This made Yang Ming feel confused and a little annoyed.
Fifteen minutes later, a teardrop-shaped, 500-meter-class large supply ship appeared above the Feinan.
This supply ship was obviously copied from the latest special ship of the New Federation. The tail of the "water drop" is the engine room and control room. The circular cavity in front of the "water drop" with a diameter of nearly 300 meters has an extremely large capacity.
The Feinan maintained optical stealth and headed towards the supply ship.
The outer deck of the supply ship was constantly rotating, slowly opening up a huge gap that swallowed the Feinan.
Afterwards, the supply ship began to coat and jump, and disappeared in this desolate star field.
…
In order to avoid possible pursuit, the supply ship first jumped into the no-man's land within the Sherman Empire, and then made four consecutive jumps before returning to the Luofeng Empire.
The Dark Star No. 1 supply ship is a support ship tailor-made for the Feinan.
The Fei Nan docked in the dock, and immediately several huge telescopic mechanical arms came over and firmly fixed the Fei Nan.
Dozens of suspended platforms that were painted silver-white floated forward, forming a stable passage outside the main cabin door of the Feinan, connecting to the luxuriously decorated rest platform.
Hundreds of mechanical guards were lined up behind the metal racks on both sides.
Rows of tracked robots quickly drove across the bottom deck and began to inspect the Feinan.
When the hatch opened, the mechanical guards and robots everywhere stopped moving at the same time. These machines, which contained independent thinking bodies, simultaneously saluted their father, the great Goddess of Law, by touching their chests.
"Is it beautiful?"
Yang Ming asked Hera with a smile, and the latter nodded slightly.
Yang Ming curled his lips and said, "Three hundred million, the total cost of this ship and the machinery inside. The beauty is all bought with money."
Hera smacked her lips a little.
Yang Ming remembered something and turned around and waved to 026.
026, who was admiring the scenery inside the ship, ran up immediately. After receiving a few words of instruction from Yang Ming, he helped Hera to go to the platform to rest first.
Then, Yang Ming turned his head to the black box that outsiders could not see, and said with a smile:
"Welcome aboard, Inspector."
The examiner appeared above the black box with his hands behind his back. He turned his head and looked around, his eyes full of emotion.
Yang Ming quickly got into the mood and started talking:
“The Luofeng Empire and its subordinate political systems that you saw before were just the forces I established in public.
“You know, I don’t have any roots, unlike Levi Sherman, who was born into a noble family with territory and led his family to fight all the way.
“My roots now are in these little guys that I personally nurtured.
“The next place we are going to is our Dark Star Base No. 2. After we settle Hera, we will go to Base No. 1 for a walk.
"Also, can you give me some guidance? I want to protect my partner. Can we use our existing technology to build a shielding facility to ensure that she is not threatened by the swarm?"
The examiner nodded immediately.
"Rules are dead, but people are alive. I am impressed by your cherishment and love for your partner."
The examiner turned his head and looked everywhere. He seemed to be able to see those little mechanical thinking entities, and his old faces were full of emotion.
There was even a little bit of emotion.
"You have earned my respect, Secondary Ancient God Lifeform. This is the second time I have said this. This is simply incredible."
Yang Ming and Lu looked at each other, and both of them tightened their expressions and continued to remain serious.
Although the Dark Star Project was their backup plan, the original intention was to use the BUG of the assessment card after the efforts to gain power failed;
However, from now on, Yang Ming, who has mastered the "assessment code", has decided that they must first control a human force in order to better develop the Mechanical Star!
"Distinguish the primary from the secondary."
Dark Star’s second base was chosen on an abandoned resource star near Luofeng’s third administrative star.
The scale of the base here is not too large. Unlike Base No. 1 which developed an underground city deep underground, Base No. 2 was only developed at a depth of 200 meters below the surface. It relied on three connected abandoned mines, and the construction workload was much smaller.
Today, Base No. 2 has already taken shape as an underground city.
Its main body consists of a medium-sized shipyard (under construction), two mechanical automatic production workshops, a heavy machinery assembly workshop, and twelve repair and maintenance workshops;
Residential areas have been built around these core buildings to accommodate thousands of mechanical minds.
Of course, they have no complaints about the harsh environment and work hard for the prosperity of civilization every day.
Yang Ming introduced Base No. 2 as follows:
"This is a production base and also a foothold for future foreign trade. Later, the number of mechanical thinking bodies here will still be controlled at 3,000, and a large number of low-end artificial intelligence machines will be stationed here for fully automated production.
“My plan is to have the best mechanical thinking bodies stationed here, equip them with uniform realistic skin, and allow them to integrate into human society.
"After all, the thinking blueprints of these mechanical thinking bodies are based on the imitation of human thinking."
"That's right," the examiner said with a smile, "In fact, they are more like an extension of human thinking, but without the frail human body."
Yang Ming nodded slightly and said with a smile:
“Lawyer and I designed a complete set of logical structures, and each area is equipped with a psychological counselor to prevent any deviation in thinking.
"Please take a quick look first. Once we build the defense barrier and place Hera, I will take you to Base No. 1."
"Hurry up, Lawrence," the examiner urged. "I can't wait to announce your test results. The method I'm going to give you should be very simple."
Lu appeared and complained: "It's very simple, using biological magnetic fields to manipulate particles in the microscopic world. Teacher, have you ever considered that the technology I have mastered at this stage may not be able to meet this requirement?"
"Is this difficult to do?" the examiner asked in confusion. "Have you spent the last few years researching how to make yourself cute?"
Lu pursed his lips tightly, turned around and disappeared.
Yang Ming smiled and said, "She is indeed very cute."
The examiner shrugged.
Once you understand the examiner's preferences, the subsequent examination will go extremely smoothly.
In particular, they arrived at the Dark Star half a day later. The Virtual Dark City and the large-scale underground city amazed the examiners.
The existence of the Dark City ensures that mechanical thinking entities and humans have common logic.
——The thinking entities born inside all subconsciously believe that they are human beings.
This steel city built on the underground ocean maintains more than 100,000 machines in operation on a daily basis, and can provide hardware support for 60,000 mechanical thinking bodies.
Although in order to support the construction of Base No. 2, the number of thinking bodies living here is only a few thousand;
But as long as an emergency occurs, the Dark City can mobilize 60,000 mechanical thinking army at any time.
The underground ocean was originally dark, but under the illumination of this mechanical city, there were patches of light.
After walking around Base No. 1 for a while, Yang Ming parked the hovercraft near the artificial beach, took the examiner to a lighthouse-like building, and turned around to look at the entire city.
The examiner's eyes were filled with emotion, but he still reminded:
“Pay attention to the scale. It must not be too large, otherwise the Faya civilization will treat this as an omnic crisis.
“Although I am very happy that you can accept the form of mechanical thinking body civilization, the Milky Way is now the territory of humans. You still have to use this place as a supplement and focus on managing the existing human social order.
"I don't want to finally find such a good seedling, but have it destroyed by Faya unreasonably."
Yang Ming groaned for a few seconds and asked, "Is there anything hidden in your description of the Faya civilization?"
"Of course," the examiner said with a smile, "When you have more information and a more comprehensive understanding, you will get more truth. The development of civilization is cruel and emotionless. Individuals must ultimately obey the will of the collective. This is the tyranny of the majority."
Yang Ming nodded.
Powerful Fayya civilization, cruel Fayya game.
"abyss".
Zerg.
The Valkyrie's threat.
The Luofeng Empire and the main civilization of the Milky Way.
Yang Ming's mood was very complicated at this moment, but these complicated emotions soon turned into a faint smile.
"You seem to have figured something out?"
The examiner asked with interest: "Can you share it with me? Before I declare you passed the test."
Yang Ming shrugged: "I just thought... Compared to the moment I opened my eyes and recognized this galaxy, I already have a lot now. Why should I worry too much about the endless crises to see and conquer."
"You have a good attitude." The examiner's projection left the black box, and there was a scroll in his hand. "Okay, I will announce your results next."
Lu appeared in a corner, waiting nervously for the examiner to speak.
"Your first assessment result is excellent, undisputedly excellent. Your score is 126,705.2, which is 60,000 higher than the baseline.
"I declare that you have passed the first assessment of the Omnic Twilight.
"Next, you must set aside three months to go to the Omnic Twilight to accept the gift from this lost civilization and start a new round of assessment cycle.
“Although the technology given to you after the first round of assessment is only the basic technology for the development of a first-level civilization into a second-level civilization, it is also the cornerstone for you to inherit future advanced technologies.
"This assessment has been successfully completed."
The examiner paused, and the black box and it became dim at the same time.
Before leaving, the examiner winked at Yang Ming:
“This time, you can bring a 400-meter-class ship over.
"I should upgrade your protection. The enemy you are facing is too powerful for you at your current stage.
"If my master knew that their successor was bullied by such a lowly high-dimensional insect... oh, that's simply unimaginable. I will definitely be thrown into the vortex of time for hundreds of millions of years."
Four hundred meters?
A higher level of transformation than the Feinan?
Yang Ming's eyes became extremely bright.
Damn!
He had no choice last time. The Feinan was his first ship, and this time he must get a gunboat with dual main guns!
