Chapter 253: Five Hundred and Twenty Million
this?
Why did it suddenly get disconnected when I was reaching the climax?
What era of Internet technology is this?
How could Lu, who claimed to be a little goddess in the online world, be disconnected by him? He just saw twelve tugboats forming a "summoning array" and the giant fortress that was pulled in opened its star cannon.
Yang Ming looked at the pedals of the mecha with some confusion, turned his head to look for Lu's projection, and found that Lu had disappeared at some point, and there was no response to his gesture calls.
"Where's Ritsu?"
"Boss!" 026 suddenly shouted, "The Dongfeng has sent a recovery message, asking us to return to the tail cabin immediately."
Yang Ming subconsciously glanced outside the cockpit and saw that there were still many bugs that had not been cleaned up.
"Let's go back. Why is Lu suddenly acting so strange?"
"Yes," 026 immediately adjusted the direction of the mecha, and the Red Demon flew back to the tail cabin of the Dongfeng.
Then, under the reverent gaze of tens of thousands of soldiers from the Imperial Local Guard Fleet who had just arrived, the Dongfeng quickly left the battlefield, completed the coating under high-intensity acceleration, and quickly disappeared into deep space.
Yang Ming couldn't help but think more about Lu's abnormal behavior.
What went wrong?
The cruiser Hera was on was besieged by Zerg?
Lu suddenly became silent, which made Yang Ming inexplicably nervous.
026 also hurriedly followed Yang Ming back to the bridge.
Everything was normal in the bridge, and the mechanical guards controlled by Lu accurately controlled the navigation of the Dongfeng.
Finally, the Dongfeng arrived at the 'avoidance airspace' they had pre-set and hid near a natural satellite. Lu's projection appeared again in the spacecraft's cockpit.
"call--"
She heaved a long sigh of relief, and sat there slumped in an exaggerated manner, her eyes staring blankly.
"Boss!" 026 came over, "Lv seems to have been played badly!"
Yang Ming: …
"Bah! You're the one who got screwed!"
Lu angrily enlarged the projection, turned on the simulated gravity field to bring a sense of reality, and threw 026 to the ground. The two of them laughed in front of Yang Ming.
Lu even laughed with a feeling of surviving a disaster.
Yang Ming casually grabbed his own chair, sat down, crossed his legs, and waited for Lu to escape the gravity zone of 026 before he slowly spoke:
"What's going on?"
"Boss! There are dirty things in the Imperial Star Circle!"
"Dirty stuff?" Yang Ming frowned and said, "Young man, you have to believe in science."
Lu showed a palpitating expression and said in a trembling voice:
" Boss, you don't know what I just went through. I was controlling the flow of information in my mind space, broadcasting live for you, and paying attention to Luo Feng, the New Federation, the battlefields of the empire, and Miss Hera... In short, I was very busy doing these things.
"Suddenly I felt a pair of eyes appear behind me.
"In my mind space, my own mind space, these eyes stared at me.
"When I turned my head to look over there, all I saw was the barrier that I had set up in my mind space, which was a white wall. But when I turned my head back in confusion, I saw a ghost standing inside my main screen!"
026 twitched a few times in coordination.
Yang Ming's eyes lit up: "Ghost?"
"Yes, boss. It's actually a blurry shadow. The front is in darkness. I can't see it clearly."
Lu bit her lips lightly, came forward pitifully, and hugged Yang Ming's arm.
"Boss, I don't feel safe at all now. Can I build a mind space in your brain? We just need you to install a chip next to your brain."
"Get lost!"
Yang Ming has discovered that Lu must have deliberately concealed something.
He looked at 026 and said slowly, "Little 26, help me make some dinner. Give me more meat."
“Okay boss!”
026 looked at Lu with some worry and trotted away.
"Tell me, what's going on?"
Yang Ming stared into Lu's eyes:
"A parasitic machine cannot refuse the master's reasonable request. This is our agreement."
Lu pursed his lips and hesitated for a while, but finally he sighed and began to tell what had just happened.
At the peak moment of the battle between the Imperial Invincible Fleet and the Zerg Sixth-order Queen, a few minutes before the Skywrath Fortress appeared, Lu felt a huge network fluctuation.
"The source of this fluctuation lies in the center of the Imperial Star Circle, which is the Imperial Star.
“In a very short period of time, tens of thousands of super-powerful main brains were activated in the Imperial Star Circle. The computing power of these main brains is several times stronger than the most expensive and powerful supercomputers available on the market. This is definitely something that the empire has hidden.
“After these masterminds were activated, I suddenly discovered that the originally loose and leaky Imperial network had suddenly become a solid block, and the network security level within the Imperial Star Circle had been raised by several levels.
“The servers I set up on Yaha Star were out of my control in two seconds.
"I was expelled from the Imperial Star Circle's network. This process only took... three milliseconds."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows.
Lu sighed, "Then, the scene I told you about happened. I really didn't make it up. I was trying to figure out what went wrong, and then I felt someone spying on my four-dimensional space. When I turned my head and looked back, the person was right in front of me."
"What is that? What do you think?"
"Yes... probably the same thing as mine..."
Lu muttered quietly.
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Don't use the word 'thing' to describe yourself. I won't allow you to lower your standards of self-awareness. How can you be a thing?"
"Boss, stop joking now. I'm scared to death."
Lu looked towards the direction where the Emperor Star was.
"I have long suspected that there is a mechanical mind within the empire."
"Is it the thought form left behind by the previous examiner?" Yang Ming asked softly, "Your three teachers occasionally mentioned this topic before, but they didn't continue talking about it. It seems that something unpleasant happened."
"I don't dare to think too much about this matter."
Lu said softly:
"Giving the examinee a mechanical parasite is a tradition of the Twilight Omnic Heritage Assessment. I can give you a hint about the topic. The way you get along with me will determine, to a certain extent, whether you can pass the assessment.
"Of course, this kind of leak is allowed because I now trust my boss unconditionally.
“The original civilization of the Omnic Twilight actually had a very awkward ending. They pursued a higher level of civilization, the ultimate truth of the universe, and then rushed all the way on the road of mechanical ascension, but in the end they were trapped in the machine and could no longer find new things in this field.
"Innovation, accidents, mutations, unplanned fluctuations... these factors will become the last desires of advanced intelligent civilizations.
“So, the Omnic Twilight hopes that its successor will be a natural life form, and enter a higher level of civilization with natural life.
"The companion mechanical thinking body is the solution given by the civilization that created the mechanical Twilight."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "I have probably thought of all these before. I am only concerned about one thing now."
"What?" Ritsu asked quietly, "You're afraid that Levi is still alive, right?"
"Levi is most likely dead," Yang Ming said, "unless he used mechanical ascension to keep his mind alive. It is unknown whether this mind can be called Levi Sherman. What I care about is the relationship between you and the previous examiner's companion mechanical mind."
"Uh, sister?" Lu pinched his chin and thought carefully, "It should be considered as a cousin."
Yang Ming asked with shining eyes: "Do you think she can help us?"
"I don't sense any kindness from her, but I don't sense any malice either," Lu was a little unsure, "Should I try to contact her?"
"No, let's not get close to the Imperial Star Circle for now. You should find a way to investigate this thing first. It would be best if you can figure out its status."
Yang Ming's brain was working rapidly.
He said seriously:
“Later we’ll do some scene-making, give me some special effects makeup to make it look like I’m badly injured and put in a medical bay.
"The Empire suffered heavy losses in this battle and will definitely not let the New Federation off easily. This will inevitably trigger a political storm in the galaxy. It's best for us to hide and watch the fight from afar.
“Besides, I have to go find Posu , and I have to do it in secret. The Empire must want to capture Posu alive.
"It's my best option to pretend to be injured."
"Yes, boss, I'll arrange it right away," Lu curled his lips slightly, "I just wasn't prepared before. If it happens again, although my computing power is insufficient, I won't be kicked out of the Emperor Star Circle network so easily."
"Of course," Yang Ming gave a thumbs up, "My family's law firm is invincible in the world."
Lu felt a little embarrassed, turned around and disappeared, leaving only a little starlight.
Yang Ming picked up the Internet access terminal and opened the popular website of Empire.
Sure enough, the Empire’s internal propaganda was working hard to promote “The Invincible Fleet Defeats the Sixth-Level Peak Queen”, and the battlefield scenes were made into clips.
The queen finally escaped, which made Yang Ming quite emotional.
There is no unbreakable energy shield, only cannon caliber that is not thick enough.
A warp-able fortress star cannon.
That's called security.
…
Lu came a few minutes later with the news conveyed by Hera.
The queen ran away, but the swarm's anger has not been extinguished. The space Zerg has remembered this incident and will make humans pay a hundred times the price.
——This is the message that the queen conveyed to the Zerg in the galaxy, and a copy was also given to Hera.
This fact made Yang Ming feel a little helpless.
The space Zerg actually recognized Hera as the "humanoid queen".
No wonder his living with Hera made the Zerg so crazy that they specially sent a pseudo-queen to rescue Hera.
Currently, Hera has returned to the base.
With the help of Lu and 026, Yang Ming put on a heavily injured makeup, and lay unconscious in the medical .
This picture was sent to the military and the Super Kaiji Organization by the "White Ghost Assistant".
On the cost of sick leave.
By the time Yang Ming finished his work, the empire had already started its national broadcast. The empire's supreme commander and the eldest princess of the royal family would give a televised speech in half an hour.
In other words, half an hour later, it will be decided whether the Milky Way will enter an era of total war or continue to develop peacefully.
The Empire's casualty statistics are out.
This is a death toll that is unacceptable to everyone in the empire, from top to bottom.
During this Zerg tide, six administrative stars suffered direct Zerg attacks, three administrative stars were basically destroyed, and the death toll exceeded 350 million.
The three administrative planets suffered varying degrees of devastation, with more than 170 million people killed.
What is not mentioned in the propaganda is that these six administrative stars were selectively abandoned by the Imperial Military.
In fact, there is no other way. When a choice must be made, the military can only make the choice that puts interests first.
The abandoned planet is the planet with the least population among all the attacked administrative planets. It is about to be kicked out of the "main administrative planet" sequence. Most of the planet's surface is urban ruins, with low industrial output value and severe pollution. It has little value itself.
More than 520 million civilians died, which is equivalent to the destruction of a small galactic country.
The military losses were equally staggering.
More than eight million soldiers of the empire were killed - most of them were from the second- and third-line troops of the six administrative stars, as well as the surface armed security forces. All those with military status were included in the statistics.
More than 1,300 warships of various types were destroyed - mainly from local defense fleets.
Nineteen main battleships were lost.
A dreadnought broke down due to high-intensity combat and needed to be overhauled.
War is always unfortunate.
This war is even more so.
The swarm of insects buried by humans, more than 40 warships that simultaneously attacked the burial site, and the New Federation's burial plan...
This is not just a natural disaster.
This is also a man-made disaster.
In order to catch up with the empire in the competition of national strength, the New Federation did not hesitate to use all means to make the ancient empire collapse from within.
Yang Ming did not take the opportunity to guide public opinion.
Lu was indeed frightened by the fluctuations in the Imperial Star. She was very cautious in her activities in the online world. When the White Ghost website was blocked, she would rather spend money to find a work team to perform temporary maintenance than to "act recklessly" in the Imperial network again.
This is a mechanical thinking entity that understands following the heart.
The time for the TV broadcast has arrived as scheduled.
Yang Ming, 026, and Xiao Lu hid in the captain's lounge of the Dongfeng. The two "humans" drank beverages, ate barbecue meals, and stared at the large projection screen.
Lu was lying on the single bed, wearing a short skirt and short shirt, with her chin supported by her hands, obviously a little distracted.
The first person to appear was the empire's Minister of the Interior, who asked all citizens of the empire to observe a moment of silence, announced the losses caused by the insect plague with deep sorrow, and highly praised the soldiers of the empire's three armed forces.
Next to appear was the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Military, the third most powerful man in the empire.
The old general lost control of his emotions several times, his eyes were always red, and in his trembling old voice, there was infinite remembrance and remembrance of the sacrifices and victims, as well as anger towards the executioner behind the scenes.
The old general clearly expressed the precursors to war.
Now the Imperial Army is ready for a full-scale war with a certain country;
Those responsible for causing this insect plague will pay a heavy price!
The last person to appear on TV was a dignified and elegant middle-aged woman wearing a black veil and constantly wiping her tears. She expressed deep condolences on behalf of the imperial royal family and encouraged the people to face it bravely.
Similarly, the Imperial Princess also made similar remarks.
"If this is a natural disaster, we have survived it, the Empire has overcome this crisis, and the glory of the Imperial Star will continue to shine in the center of the galaxy's civilization.
“But if this is a natural disaster caused by man-made disasters, an attack that is intended to destroy the Empire’s national strength and disrupt the Empire’s order, then the Empire will definitely not sit idly by and wait for death. The citizens of the Empire will not sit idly by and wait for death. The soldiers of the Empire will not sit idly by and wait for death!
“We have the most powerful fleet in the galaxy, but we cherish this hard-earned peace.
"If our tolerance becomes a barrier for the enemy to wantonly destroy, then it is time to abandon this tolerance and use our powerful military force to maintain the peace of the citizens of the empire!"
Let’s fight!
Yang Ming waved his fist excitedly.
The Empire is finally going to establish a new federation!
The princess changed the subject:
"In this insect swarm battle, the royal family must specially commend a hero. Everyone should be familiar with him. He is the White Ghost, Officer Hanton.
"He used his own strength to save tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of victims. He assisted the local defense fleet in defeating three evil queens, but was ultimately seriously injured."
Yang Ming's "sick leave photo" appeared on the screen .
The eldest princess sighed deeply:
“This is a hero of our empire, and the royal family will award him the Order of the Imperial Star.
“Hanton is in a deep coma now. We don’t know if he can wake up, but before he wakes up, we should bring the culprit of this disaster to the court of the Imperial Star.
"This is the best response to this hero!"
Yang Ming: …
Damn.
He became a propaganda tool of the imperial royal family.
