Chapter 243: The Threat from the Edge of the Galaxy
“Hahahaha! Hahahaha!”
After leaving the drinking party, Yang Ming drove the luxury car given by the Military Intelligence Bureau, and Catherine kept laughing in the passenger seat.
She laughed very loudly.
Yang Ming drove with a gloomy face, and now with the help of Lu, he had to pretend to be familiar with the streets.
Do you think he can't hear you?
Lu and 026 are now also laughing together!
This Atlo, in just a few minutes, directly destroyed the "favorability" that he had worked so hard to build up before, and almost made Yang Ming turn against him on the spot.
Is this guy blind?
Didn't you see him constantly picking food for Catherine and finding topics to talk about and joke with from time to time? Isn't this a man pursuing a new relationship? Pulling out his old lover for him, this is fucking ridiculous!
But fortunately, Yang Ming was smart enough and did not explain anything to Catherine on the spot. Instead, he gently asked Hutton's second mistress to take a seat.
"At the time, we were on a ship that only returned to its home port once every year. We stayed with each other and gave each other spiritual support, which made the boring and lonely space voyage no longer monotonous.
"In fact, everyone suffered a great deal of mental trauma in that situation. The ferocious Valkyrie destroyed the entire spaceship, and we were lucky to survive.
"Don't worry, I won't retaliate against you. There's nothing to retaliate against."
Expressing tolerance, pointing out that their relationship happened several years ago, because they comforted each other due to loneliness during the voyage.
What else can he do besides this?
Directly attack the previous lover and express loyalty to the prospective girlfriend around you?
That's not what a man should do.
Artero confirmed again and again, and Yang Ming expressed that there was no need to pursue the previous details. The girl was released on the spot by the military police, and rushed up to Yang Ming and gave him a deep hug.
Hmm... my figure is out of shape.
"Hanton, I didn't expect that you would... I am willing to compensate you with everything I have."
Yang Ming could only refuse with a smile and said that he would not make an appointment if he was not familiar with the person.
The banquet, which had originally had a good atmosphere, quickly came to an end.
Before leaving, Yang Ming took the initiative to ask for Atreus' contact information. Atreus immediately said that he would be on this planet recently and that if there was anything, he could contact him directly.
The Military Intelligence Bureau is the intelligence department of the military that handles some of the dirty work, and Atlo has plenty of ways to do it .
Moreover, Artero hinted many times during the drinking party that he had someone behind him who could help Yang Ming solve various problems.
After Yang Ming walked out of the hotel suite, he could faintly hear Atlo sighing with the people around him, saying things like "ancient technology is so amazing" and "it's impossible to tell that this is a mechanical body".
Then, now…
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Catherine patted Yang Ming's shoulder: "Can you do that again? That, that, I have very few ex-girlfriends! Hahahaha!"
Yang Ming frowned and ignored her.
She smiled a little more happily.
"No, why do you feel so happy?"
Yang Ming identified the road and used the bubbling sound that he had not used for many years:
"Oh, my dear Captain Catherine, shouldn't you be jealous and angry? Aren't we in the ambiguous period?"
"Jealous? Why?"
Catherine took off her mask and placed it beside her, leaning comfortably in the seat of the automatically adjustable support module, blinking her long eyelashes, staring at Yang Ming with her bright eyes.
She asked softly:
“Do I need to be unhappy about this?
"That was your former lover, not your current one. If you tell me now that you were still having ambiguous relationships with other women while trying to date me, then I might give you a taste of my fist.
"But now... you behaved very well just now. You didn't embarrass a weak person and helped her solve the problem."
Yang Ming: This? Is this sister's vision really that big?
On second thought, he and Miss Hera are still lovers, but since Hera is on the Dark Star, they are not normal lovers.
"I'm not that fickle," Yang Ming said calmly.
"Who knows, Mr. Mysterious White Ghost," Catherine said with a tut, "It seems that I can't easily express my affection for you before I'm sure whether you are serious about the relationship with me."
"That's totally unnecessary."
Yang Ming's gaze became much more distant:
"I admit that I do have a lot of experience in this area, but I hold on to one truth."
"truth?"
"If you can't give me a pure body for my future partner, then give me excellent skills for my future partner," Yang Ming winked at Catherine. "You will know the importance of skills in the future."
Catherine gritted her teeth and almost couldn't help but kick the guy away.
Yang Ming opened the car window and felt the cool night breeze. While chatting and laughing with her, he was thinking about a small problem that was difficult to solve.
How should he face Hamton's family?
Although the body is still Hanton's, his thinking consciousness has been replaced by this big boy from Earth.
In a way, this is the murderer meeting the victim's parents.
It's quite awkward.
The closer he got to the Huntons' house, the more pensive Yang Ming looked.
Catherine also stopped making fun of Yang Ming about this and started chatting with Yang Ming about some light topics.
Yang Ming muttered, "Why would the Military Intelligence Bureau take the initiative to show goodwill to me?"
"I heard from the director that you are very popular now," Catherine said calmly, "In the final analysis, it was because His Majesty the Emperor praised you, so all departments of the empire began to take the initiative to show their respect to you."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "In an imperial country, the emperor's influence is really deep-rooted."
Catherine said calmly: "If the empire changes its emperor, 99.9% of the people will not feel anything."
"Well, what you said is a bit rebellious," Yang Ming said with a smile, "Does the super modifier group not like the emperor? Don't worry, I have already hacked into the car system of this car, and it is safe to chat here."
Catherine said: "We are loyal to a political system. No one requires us to be loyal to the emperor, but we must also respect His Majesty the Emperor."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Excuse me, what organization created the Super Modifiers?"
"The laboratory, the Ninth Research Institute of the Empire, specializes in dimensional human experiments," Catherine said, "With your current reading permissions, you can easily obtain this information on the super-modifier internal network."
Yang Ming wondered, "Don't they ask you to respect the Emperor?"
"We only respect the experiment and are loyal to the Empire," Catherine corrected, "His Majesty the Emperor is the highest administrator of the Empire."
Yang Ming was a little confused about this.
Did the Super Reformer Organization do this on purpose?
In Hanton's memory, Yang Ming saw the brainwashing education of the imperial military, which was the standard of "imperial power is supreme", "if the emperor wants his subjects to die, they have to die", and "swear allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor until death".
Catherine asked, "Are you worried that someone in the upper echelons of the Super Reformer Organization has ill intentions towards the emperor?"
"What do you think?"
"No modified person can enter the Imperial Star," Catherine said, "All your considerations are meaningless."
"Really?" Yang Ming smiled, "Then where is the dimensional upgrade experiment site that the super-modifiers are going to conduct?"
"This is confidential, I don't know."
"Okay," Yang Ming cheered up. The hovercraft began to slow down and drove towards the multi-story parking lot in front. "We're home."
Catherine patted her cheeks, pursed her lips, and took the initiative to say, "Be more enthusiastic later. I don't want to fall into the same awkward situation as you."
"If you receive any gifts, split them in half."
"I earned all that with my own ability, why should I give you half of it?"
Catherine smiled triumphantly, looked at her reflection on the projection screen, and stuffed the golden mask into her windbreaker pocket.
Temporarily ignoring her personal discipline.
…
The first star of the Free United States.
The visiting delegation of the new Federal House of Representatives had just landed, and more than a dozen members of the House of Representatives boarded a small military ship and flew directly to the venue of the welcoming ceremony.
Congressman Allison, who looked middle-aged, was sitting in a corner, chatting quietly with two elderly people he was familiar with.
His watch vibrated gently and Allison gave a slightly apologetic smile. The two old men gestured for him to go at his own pace and continued chatting about the young people in the party.
Allison turned on the private reading mode, and when he saw the message sent by his subordinates, he immediately smiled.
"Boss, we have contacted the fourth pioneer, but will this be a bit troublesome? Your identity cannot be exposed, especially now that the White Ghost and the Empire are getting closer and closer."
Allison calmly replied with two lines of text.
"The person who contacted him was a federal councillor. What does this have to do with the game between the Forerunner and Faya?"
"Yes, boss. We were a little prejudiced. But you still need to be more careful. The other party's mental state is a little unstable."
'As long as he doesn't know it was me who did it to him last time, there won't be any problem.'
'For your home planet to stand tall in the galaxy.'
Allison squinted and smiled, looking at the scenery outside the window.
Thought stamping is really a great original technology.
…
midnight.
Yang Ming lay on the 'familiar' bed in the bedroom, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths.
The feeling of being home was very warm, and the sight of relatives in the house almost brought him to tears.
It really brought tears to my eyes.
Yang Ming didn't know why, he could only attribute it to the fact that Handon's remaining consciousness was affecting this body. He knocked on the "door" and saw Handon's two elders, and his heart was filled with emotions such as sourness, peace, and excitement.
The two elders were also very excited.
They received the notification of their son's death a few years ago, and they burst into tears on the spot when they looked at their lost loved one who had now been found.
There are no white ghosts and no heroes.
At least in front of this middle-aged couple, there was only one son named Hamton who was serving in the army.
With a mixture of emotions, Yang Ming's eyes were a little red, and the words "Mom and Dad" were full of emotion.
Of course, in addition to this seemingly smooth homecoming, there were many "digressions".
For example, hundreds of Military Intelligence Bureau agents have been stationed in the community to protect White Ghost's relatives. This is originally a relatively high-end community, and the security has been upgraded by several levels recently.
After White Ghost's "identity" was exposed, the Military Intelligence Bureau responded quickly and protected White Ghost's family as soon as possible.
They recently arrested more than a dozen agents from different countries near this community.
Buzz. Buzz.
Yang Ming pulled out a shell-shaped communicator from his jacket pocket and turned on the suspension function. The shell floated beside his hand by itself, and Catherine's message appeared on the simple projection screen above.
【Catherine (Team Leader): How do you feel? Isn't it great? I can actually see you crying. This trip was not in vain.】
[Tai (ghost·that man): Did I cry? It's just that my tear glands are a little out of control. How's the food tonight? ]
【Catherine (Team Leader): I like the one made by Auntie better than the one hired by the Military Intelligence Bureau. I envy you for having a complete family. I can't imagine what you sacrificed to gain such a powerful power.】
[Ku (ghost, that man): If I gain great power, do I have to lose something? ]
[Catherine (Team Leader): If you don’t have a strong heart, you can’t control a force that exceeds the limits of an ordinary person. A strong heart can’t be born in a greenhouse, it must go through enough hardships.]
When Yang Ming saw these two sentences, his heart was filled with ripples.
What did he lose?
Home, family, and a blue planet.
What did he go through?
Death, the earth is burning, the countdown to death, the family is melting at hand.
[Hui (ghost·that man): Captain, why are you so full of yourself today……are you attracted by my family atmosphere? Is this my advantage?]
【Catherine (Team Leader): Yes, I am not like you, the only person who is stubborn. I kind of like the atmosphere here. Just now your mother held my hand and talked a lot. She will take me shopping tomorrow. ^.^】
[Hui (ghost·that man): I am not the toughest person, you will know this later. Go to bed early, have fun tomorrow, don't reply to messages and go to bed quickly. ]
【Catherine (Team Leader): You can't control my sleepiness. 】
[Hui (ghost·that man): Thank you. My family is very satisfied with my girlfriend, and they will worry less about me. ]
In the next room, Catherine turned over and lay on the soft mattress with a pillow in her arms, staring at the photos she had just taken.
Yang Ming rested his head on his arm and lost consciousness for a moment. He put away the communicator and tried to fall asleep.
It feels good to be protected by a large number of Military Intelligence Agency 'security guards'.
Ding, ding!
A message from Lu popped up on the Internet access terminal he used daily.
【Boss, something's wrong. 】
Yang Ming immediately put on his hidden headphones, and Lu's voice quickly sounded:
"The server I rented on the first star of the Free United States just detected something abnormal . The New Federation's congressional delegation is trying to contact the core forces of the Forerunner No. 4."
"Um?"
Yang Ming subconsciously glanced at the wall and began typing quickly.
"The New Federation contacted Forerunner No. 4? Is Forerunner No. 2 trying to cause trouble?"
"It's unclear for now," Lu said immediately, "I suspect that Forerunner No. 2 felt the pressure from the White Ghost. If he believes that the White Ghost is Forerunner No. 1, he may go to Forerunner No. 4 to cooperate."
'Keep an eye on this matter and report immediately if there is any follow-up.'
Yang Ming frowned tightly.
This is no small matter. If the forerunners unite, it will be easy to facilitate the union of the two 'participating planets'.
As for the fact that Pioneer No. 2 had previously eliminated the external forces of Pioneer No. 4... in the face of absolute interests, there is no such thing as hatred.
"Yes! There is one more thing, a message from Miss Hera."
Yang Ming immediately asked: "What did Hera say?"
"The Empire has now launched a search for insect burial sites. Currently, seven new burial sites have been discovered, and only a quarter of the Empire's airspace has been searched."
The law reminded:
“Miss Hera reminds us again that if too many Zerg swarms are destroyed in a short period of time, the Zerg’s protection mechanism will be triggered, and it is likely that higher-level Zerg swarms will come to support the affected Zerg swarms.
“Although the Zerg was artificially induced and cultivated by the New Federation, this can also be regarded as a new method of Zerg reproduction.
"The Empire may be attacked by high-level Zerg swarms at any time."
Yang Ming thought about it for a moment.
From his perspective, the empire's strength was damaged, which had both good and bad effects on him.
But now, if the honeymoon period between White Ghost and the Empire can continue, and he can successfully enter the core power class of the Imperial Star Circle, his value may be higher.
And move the perspective away from the empire.
In the war between the Zerg and humans, Yang Ming will definitely stand on the side of humans.
He is not one of those traitors in the New Federation who use Zerg as biological weapons to attack different political systems.
'I will alert the Empire.'
Yang Ming simply replied, and several figures flashed through his mind.
Lieutenant General Thomas, Captain Gris, Director Riva...
This information is of extraordinary value. To whom should I sell this favor?
Another figure jumped out, and the shiny hair caught Yang Ming's eyes.
This is a good candidate.
