Chapter 235: Alliance
[Shocked! Hui Saka, who was considered to have a promising future, quietly announced his retirement from the entertainment industry and may become a military spokesperson. ]
When Yang Ming woke up, this was the headline on Yaha Star.
Hui Saka's sudden retirement surprised his fan base, who had just appeared a short time ago. After all, in everyone's opinion, he had already become one of the top anchors thanks to the White Ghost incident, and it was time for him to make a big splash and gain both fame and fortune.
There is no way around it, you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Since he had joined the Imperial Super Reformer Organization as Hui Saka, he had no choice but to give up those tempting announcement fees.
He can still weigh the importance of the two.
Why not make the mechanical substitute look like his current 'Captain Hamton'?
Yang Ming had also thought deeply about this, mainly to prevent the White Ghost's face from being used by the Empire too early.
Leaving the captain's lounge, Yang Ming was worried about today's team training, and trotted all the way to his own "game corner".
"Captain arrives at the bridge."
Lu's voice appeared along with her projection.
026 is currently active on the surface of Yaha Planet, responsible for purchasing properties, smuggling arms, and providing supplies and support to the boss's mechanical substitute at any time. He can also run errands and deliver flowers and movie tickets.
Law has started a daily briefing:
“Boss, the military has begun equipping itself with new detectors and is expected to restart the nationwide detection plan within a week.
“Your Majesty Adwan sent a greeting message last night, and I have replied according to your usual practice.
“Yesterday, several ministers from Luofeng tried to persuade His Majesty Aidewang to take back the military power. We have now sent people to interview these ministers.
"Kolev's business activities have suffered some setbacks recently. He tried to intervene in the chemical and energy industries of several countries near Luofeng at the same time, but was attacked by two official forces. His cash flow is almost broken. Should we support him?"
Yang Ming thought for a moment and said, "Let this old man suffer a little. He has been a little arrogant recently. He even boasted to me in a video chat that he would soon become one of the top 100 richest people in the Milky Way."
"Okay, boss. I will control the losses. After all, he still owns 70% of our shares."
"Well ," Yang Ming warned, "Don't rush into business expansion, especially since we are now influencing every aspect of the Luofeng Empire. We are actually using Luofeng's resources and wealth to make a profit. If we fail, it would be irresponsible to the people of Luofeng."
"Understandable boss, my investment alertness index has always been 100%."
Yang Ming had already picked up the holographic helmet, with a smile on his face: "Are there any good comedy movies recently?"
"There are some good movies in the New Federation, but the Empire hasn't imported them, so they can't be shown in theaters."
"You can help me rent a movie theater and secretly show pirated movies. Comrade Xiaolu, you have to learn to be flexible."
"Okay boss, I'll arrange it right away!"
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows, adjusted himself to a comfortable lying position, and put on a helmet.
He is looking forward to the combat training that starts today.
It’s not that he wants to see the long legs of the captain and the female team members, but mainly because he also needs to learn combat skills, learn from their strengths and overcome their weaknesses, and improve his own combat effectiveness.
The consciousness hangs on.
Yang Ming seemed to be traveling through the deep starry sky. His body first disappeared and then returned. The realistic feedback given by the mechanical sensors allowed him to quickly adapt to the real gravity of the planet.
When he opened his eyes, he saw the robot standing in the corner of the dormitory at the training base.
Charging completed.
"Good luck, boss," Lu said with a smile, "I just secretly saw from the surveillance that Captain Catherine is wearing black stockings and a miniskirt today."
Yang Ming: …
It's as if he is an old pervert who has never seen a beautiful woman!
A few seconds later, Hui Saka ran to the training ground.
…
New Federation, Minter City.
A closed-door meeting of core members of the ruling party.
Young Congressman Allison sat in the corner, listening quietly to a group of old men discussing how to divert the increasingly prominent contradictions within the New Federation.
This is how political systems develop.
When a country or a civilization develops to have more than a hundred administrative stars, the collision between regional development imbalances and regional cultures becomes an inevitable major problem, and a bombshell that can tear the entire federation apart at any time.
In particular, many regions still have historical problems, and local governments in the federal system have too much autonomy.
The four great gangsters in the galaxy each have their own troubles.
The 'evil empire' next door is highly centralized, and can avoid the internal problems encountered by the New Federation, but the problems they face are more serious - the people may launch an anti-imperialist revolution at any time.
An old man answered a phone call, then stood up and hurried to the corner and whispered something in Allison's ear.
Allison smiled and said, "I usually turn off my communication device during meetings. OK, I'll go to the online meeting right away."
The old man patted Allison on the shoulder, his eyes full of encouragement and relief.
Allison went to the lounge next door, turned on the projection device, and appeared outside a long table.
This was an online meeting of CIA deputy directors. In addition to Allison, who represented the House of Representatives, there was also a presidential secretary and two senators present.
Allison was invited to this deputy directors' meeting as an exception, and also represented a group of veteran lawmakers.
The deputy director of the CIA who presided over the meeting said in a deep voice: "Congressman Allison has arrived. Let's officially start the meeting now. Today's meeting will only discuss one matter. We have received an urgent notice that the Empire has found a new burial site for the bugs."
More than a dozen people remained silent.
Allison frowned slightly and asked in a low voice: "Is the technology that White Ghost gave to the Empire really useful? Didn't they say at the last meeting that the remaining Zerg swarms have entered a high-covert state? "
"Yes, our intelligence personnel have obtained the design drawings. The function of the new instrument is to simulate the communication between Zerg swarms, create false signals to affect the Zerg queen, and thus cause the highly concealed Zerg swarms to move abnormally. When used with normal detectors, it can achieve almost 100% detection.
"The only drawback of this technology is its slow detection speed, but this shortcoming will be made up if it is deployed on a large scale in the future."
Allison didn't ask any more questions and continued to think.
The CIA deputy directors looked worried.
The deputy director who was originally in charge of the bug-burying plan had already disappeared from the CIA leadership, and the content of the plan he was in charge of had also been known to all the deputy directors.
'It's a mess. It's all a mess.'
Allison's thoughts were racing.
In his memory, the Empire began to suffer from the Zerg Rebellion a few years before the launch of "Abyss", which was about twenty years later. Groups of fourth-order Zerg swarms appeared inside the Empire, the Empire's Invincible Fleet suffered heavy losses, the Empire's national strength declined rapidly, and the New Federation seemed to be catching up.
Now, with the help of White Ghost, the Empire can eliminate these swarms that have not yet fully developed in advance.
The empire of the future will still be able to remain strong.
On the contrary, due to several years of border conflicts, the new federation has been under too much pressure, internal contradictions have become increasingly prominent, and the cohesion of the people has been declining.
If the Empire finds all the Zerg, or if there are only a dozen or twenty Zerg swarms left within the Empire, they will not pose much of a threat to the Empire.
The changes in interstellar politics between the Milky Way galaxies have become too much for Allison to understand.
He had lost some of his forerunner advantage, and that made Allison feel bad.
"That damn white ghost!"
Curses against the white ghost were heard during the meeting.
The secretary of the President's office asked in a deep voice: "Isn't there anything the CIA can do? Don't you claim to have infiltrated the Empire in every way?"
"We are not bragging about infiltrating the Empire, otherwise we would not have been able to obtain the blueprint so quickly. But the pest control operation is a concerted effort from the entire Empire, from that licentious emperor to the most basic soldiers , all of them regard the elimination of the pest as the top priority at the moment."
"The purpose of today's meeting is to study countermeasures on how to preserve the final results of this plan and prevent the Empire from finding all the burial sites."
"Our experimental base can now produce new insect carriers. Why don't we add some new ones?"
"Wouldn't that give the Empire a legitimate reason to go to war?"
"Do they really dare to start a war? How powerful is the Empire's invincible fleet? Apart from the elite legions, how many ships need maintenance? How many empty positions are there in the border guards? If we go to war, we will lose, but the Empire will also lose its position as the overlord of the galaxy, which will only allow other political systems to rise."
"Even if the Empire doesn't go to war, and continues to encroach on us on the border, it will quickly increase our internal pressure."
Allison raised his hand to signal, and when everyone looked over, he said slowly: "The CIA's responsibility is to the outside world. We don't need to discuss these internal matters. Apart from the burying bug plan, do we have no other plans that can consume the empire's national strength?"
The CIA deputy directors remained silent.
Allison said, "Since everyone has been saying that the Empire is prone to revolution, why not let them have a revolution as soon as possible? This is the job of the CIA."
"The Empire always wipes out rebels as quickly as possible. If a planet declares independence, we give the people time to leave and then bomb the planet. If a large number of rebels appear in a city, we wipe out the city."
A deputy director whispered: "The foundation of the empire is their invincible fleet. The imperial power is based on the military."
Allison asked, "What about the rebellion throughout the territory?"
"Okay, Councillor Allison," a deputy director took off his glasses, "I understand how you feel. The failure of a plan that has been prepared for so long is unacceptable to anyone. I can briefly reveal that we do have plans to launch a rebellion within the empire, but right now, we don't have enough support."
"What do you mean by insufficient support?" the president's secretary asked.
"Those who are most dissatisfied with the emperor are never the lower-class people, but those ambitious people. However, they are all afraid of the Invincible Fleet."
"Not counting the local defense system of the empire, the regular military forces of the empire are directly controlled by the Imperial Star for 50%, distributed within the Imperial Star for 15%, the border defense forces account for 20% and are relatively dispersed, and the remaining 15% are controlled by the nobles in various places. These nobles have always been the targets of our CIA."
"But which noble would dare to challenge this fifty percent?"
"Unless our country can clearly provide military support."
"This is almost impossible to do. The president, ministers, and parliamentarians cannot bear the pressure of a total war and will not allow the New Federation to stand in absolute opposition to the Empire. Our intelligence personnel have done a lot of work, and we have also established friendships with many ministers and nobles."
"The imperial family of the empire is idle. The emperor alone holds all the power. Those princes and princesses who dare to meet with the ministers privately will lose everything."
The meeting fell silent again.
Allison knew that these CIA executives were "empire experts" who were constantly studying how to bring down this behemoth.
An empire that has existed for tens of thousands of years can indeed make those who try to shake it feel a sense of despair.
"So, what about the Combined Fleet?"
Allison whispered:
“Perhaps we can shift our focus away from the Empire and find a way to provoke conflicts between the Guel Alliance, the Free United States, and the Empire. By combining the military strength of our three countries, we will naturally be able to suppress the Empire’s invincible fleet.
"Of course, we don't need to go to war directly. We just need to cultivate a spokesperson within the empire and use this military force as a deterrent to ensure the success of the revolution or rebellion.
"As long as the rebels gain a foothold in one place, the Empire will pay a heavy price for their years of reckless behavior."
"Congressman Allison, you are ignoring another issue."
"What?"
"We don't have that much time now. Once the Empire consolidates its internal strength, it will retaliate against us."
"The worst-case scenario is that we lose more than 20 administrative stars."
"Allison, we have already prepared the plan you mentioned. The Guel Alliance is on the verge of being overthrown by us. Their resentment and dissatisfaction with the Empire is far greater than ours, but the Free United States always wants to be the final winner, so it is impossible for them to join the game in advance."
"Today we are going to decide the general direction of our next actions. The bug-burying plan is about to fail, and we must change our thinking."
"The direction Allison mentioned is actually the only direction we can work towards at this stage."
Allison suddenly asked, "Now the obstacle to the three-nation alliance lies in the United States of Freedom?"
"Yes, we have a relatively high chance of success with the Guell Alliance."
"What good ideas does Councillor Allison have?"
Allison smiled and said, "I have a friend who might be able to help me a little bit... How about arranging a visit of the House of Representatives to the Free United States? I want to go to the Free United States in person and make some attempts and efforts."
"Oh, Allison, you really are. The Federation is proud of young and strong people like you."
"This needs to be discussed in a meeting. As long as the meeting passes, the CIA will fully support you."
Allison sighed inwardly.
This bunch of old bastards, each of them is just trying to take credit and avoid responsibility!
If the White Ghost is the Pioneer No. 1, then now he must think of other countermeasures.
The White Ghost, which has been recognized by the Empire, is simply too powerful.
The second, third and fourth of the four gangsters joined forces to fight against the Empire, and the weaker party among the forerunners joined forces to fight against the White Ghost. Their goals were surprisingly consistent.
…
To be honest, Catherine 's training is indeed a bit abnormal.
Yang Ming's mechanical body had been following the super-modified person who was doing weight-bearing physical training, and in the end he almost ran out of energy!
Catherine’s philosophy is also very simple - push the body to its limits, break through the limits, and see if a breakthrough in strength can be achieved.
So, this is the current picture.
A whistle ended today's training. More than a dozen players collapsed on the ground, not wanting to move a finger.
Bly, who had collapsed from exhaustion early on, now had recovered his strength. Smilingly, he led several staff members in white coats to help the team members do physical examinations.
Catherine, who was wearing shorts and a T-shirt, was soaked in sweat. She lay on a bench at the edge of the training ground and slowly replenished her electrolytes.
Yang Ming's mechanical body strolled over, lying on a bench beside him with a smile, and said with emotion: "Captain, your physical strength is amazing. The simulated gravity value is twice that of the team members, and you can still move freely in the end. If you look for a boyfriend, you must find someone who is stronger than you."
"Hmph," Catherine rolled her eyes, raised her head and let her long hair spread out, then lay there panting.
Sweat flowed out from behind the golden mask, along her soft jawline and reached the tip of her chin.
Yang Ming's gaze wandered down and stopped at an area where the gravity was more obvious.
"Boss," Lu's voice suddenly sounded in the machine, "It seems that there is some new action from the New Federation. The CIA has released several confidential documents, and many of the agents I marked have received call-ups."
Yang Ming rubbed his nose and replied directly in the machine: "Keep an eye on those senior agents and see what they are going to do next."
"Okay, boss. I think the New Federation will not sit idly by and watch the Empire completely solve the insect problem, but I can't guess what they can do to stop the Empire from launching a new round of insect exploration."
"Who knows? This is a problem that the Imperial Military Intelligence Department should worry about. What we need to do now is to gain a firm foothold within the empire."
"Yes, I'll keep an eye on them!"
Lu's voice disappeared quietly.
Yang Ming suddenly felt a little cold.
"Have you seen enough?"
Catherine asked quietly.
Yang Ming then realized... he forgot to look away in time...
"Very beautiful," Yang Ming gave a thumbs up.
A slender hand suddenly came from the side and hit Yang Ming's robot on the left cheek at a speed that the robot could not dodge.
"abnormal!"
A handsome head with several wires attached flew over a row of benches, rolled a few times on the ground, and let out a soft sigh.
That day, the White Ghost's mechanical body was looking for its head everywhere, which became a joke among the super-modifiers during dinner.
