Chapter 316 Behind the Imperial Power
'Pioneer number one.'
Yang Ming was just about to explode and subdue the old man in front of him.
But reason made him restrain himself, and the rows of high-performance firepower devices he saw on the road made him choose to remain calm.
Yang Ming remained calm and showed a puzzled expression, as if he was asking what the old man was talking about.
He couldn't tell where the old prince in front of him got the information from.
At this moment, he thought of how the Empire's defense system had once invaded the Dongfeng, and that this might be a blackmail, with other forerunners contacting the Imperial officials in an attempt to suppress him, the White Ghost... and so on.
The worst case scenario is that the fifth forerunner becomes Faya's favorite, and that is the old prince in front of him who controls the Empire's dimensional laboratory.
"Your expression right now is really good. It fully proves that you are a person who is good at thinking and rational and restrained."
Director Ino laughed and patted Yang Ming's arm.
His originally hoarse voice became much smoother at this moment because of his good mood.
"You are wondering why I know this? How should I explain this to you? Because the Empire should have known. How long do you think Faya's game has lasted? It is cyclical, occurring once every thousand galactic years on average, and each time it produces a large number of interstellar refugees.
“You don’t think that the ones who truly control the empire are those nobles who live a life of drunkenness and debauchery, do you?
"Then the empire would have ceased to exist long ago."
Yang Ming was stunned.
He suddenly realized that he had overlooked something.
Pioneer No. 4 obtained a lot of information about Faya's games in the Free United States.
The empire has existed for tens of thousands of years, so there must be some mechanism that has preserved it...
Moreover, the intelligence held by the Empire must be the most numerous and detailed of all current political systems in the Milky Way!
Yang Ming suddenly felt relieved, and burst into laughter. There was a hint of confusion in his eyes, but he quickly regained consciousness.
What he thought was his biggest secret turned out to be transparent to the empire.
Director Ino smiled and said, "Come over here, we'll talk while we walk. The road is long, and I have a lot to tell you."
Yang Ming nodded, put his hands behind his back and followed behind Director Ino, and asked, "Did the Empire know my identity a long time ago?"
"No," Director Ino said with a smile, "For now, I am the only one who knows about this matter and the special existence of the Forerunners...Are you surprised?"
"Um."
Director Ino said slowly:
"Because this is nothing to the Empire. The Milky Way is a petri dish for the Fayar people, and the Fayar people have too many secrets.
“For the empire, the game of Faya is just to provide a group of cheap laborers to supplement the population. Every time, there will be a series of news, but this kind of news will soon be forgotten by people.
"More than a thousand galactic standard years, this span is really too long.
“Moreover, the authorities of each camp will choose to suppress this news, not daring to let the people know the truth about the world and the fact that higher-dimensional beings are constantly interfering with us. This is not conducive to the stability of the political system.
"Do you mind sitting in this suspended chair? My legs and feet are not very convenient."
Yang Ming and Director Ino sat in a device similar to a suspended wheelchair, floating over the busy and silent laboratory below.
Yang Ming asked: "Your Majesty asked you to use this to persuade me?"
"You overestimate him," Director Ino laughed, "He gave me a bunch of ancient god's cells and told me that this is your weak spot."
Yang Ming: …
"But I retrieved your information and analyzed your motives. I found that what you want most is not personal military power, but imperial power."
Director Ino continued:
“Perhaps before you defeat the Valkyrie, you will desire this group of cells, but now, you should no longer have the pressure from the Valkyrie.
“This is some of the information I found in the database of the Empire’s National Defense System.
"I was wondering what your desire for power came from, so I used an idle supercomputer cluster to search the Empire's network backup and quickly found some information related to 'Greenhouse Civilization'.
“That Forerunner No. 2 in Minter City thought that all the existing civilizations in the Milky Way were fools.
“He is the fool. That guy was chosen by the old men who controlled the New Federation Parliament a long time ago. They used his so-called foresight to do things they thought were beneficial to the New Federation.
“In the Empire, there are no more than five people who have the authority to read the Forerunner-related materials. The others just haven’t paid attention to this.
"Especially our lovely Emperor. He actually asked me to threaten you with a bunch of cells. As smart as you are, you will definitely make an expression of grief and indignation, and then go to me, your nephew, to ask for more benefits, right?"
Yang Ming laughed.
Can this old man read minds or something?
"I said that the Sherman family chose to train you, not because His Majesty the Emperor wanted to train you."
Director Ino looked at Yang Ming:
“You should know the weight of these five words, the Sherman family.”
"I know something about it," Yang Ming nodded, "but I don't understand why?"
"Why? Hehehe."
Director Ino looked at Yang Ming and said, "Because you used your foresight to help the empire deal with the insect plague."
Yang Ming frowned slightly.
Just because of this?
Director Ino said in a gentle voice:
“The Empire’s national defense system is not omnipotent. The Empire’s territory is too vast. It can only interfere with administrative planets where the network exists.
“There are holes in many corners of the empire, allowing these rats to sneak in and out.
“And due to some reasons, we were unable to use the Empire’s entire defense system at a high intensity, which resulted in the Empire being on the brink of a major recession.
"You resolved this crisis single-handedly, allowing the empire to continue to survive. Isn't that enough?"
Yang Ming smiled bitterly and said, "The Empire didn't say anything before. I thought the only reward for doing this was the title of hero."
"That's because they don't understand your value," Director Ino smiled, "Did you kill Noyce?"
"Yes."
"Why didn't you answer that this was His Majesty's order?"
"It doesn't make any sense," Yang Ming shrugged.
"It would be good for the family if there were fewer scum in the family," Director Ino said gently, "Do you know why the emperor suddenly became so radical?"
Yang Ming immediately shook his head.
“He’s so boring.”
"boring?"
"Yes, he is too boring. The position of emperor is the most destructive to human nature."
Director Ino sighed softly:
“So I respect him very much, and I respect every emperor. When they ascend to the throne, their lives are doomed to lose other possibilities, because they can only become the emperor of the empire.
"You should have heard one thing: every emperor of the empire is a relatively inconspicuous person among the descendants of the previous emperor.
"Do you know why? Because the Sherman family's truly outstanding talents need to be in a position where the emperor cannot see them, to control the operation of the empire.
"The military is the most important, followed by the legions directly controlled by the emperor. The latter has one-third of the empire's military power, but remains loyal to the royal family. Why is this? Because every link is firmly controlled by our family.
“Then there are these confidential research institutes, each of which has a dedicated tribe member supervising it.
"My dear nephew, the emperor, after being stimulated by the empire's defense system, his self-esteem was damaged, and he began to toss and turn... Let him toss and turn, we are watching, he won't toss and turn too much trouble."
Yang Ming murmured , "The powerful family behind the imperial power."
"Okay, you can learn about these later. You will soon be able to become a non-staff member of our family if you are willing."
Director Ino changed the subject:
"How much do you know about the Fayya civilization?"
"Not many," Yang Ming said, "I have had several contacts with them. I know that the one enveloping the Milky Way is a Faya entity. I have come into contact with one of its fragments and heard them talk about many experimental projects. There are probably hundreds of experimental projects in the Milky Way... these."
Director Ino turned his head and looked at Yang Ming, with some doubt in his eyes.
"Direct contact?"
"Yeah," Yang Ming said innocently, "It's just like communicating with them spiritually. It may be because my life foundation is the ancient god life form."
"Oh! This is incredible!"
Director Ino leaned sideways, stared and asked:
"What did you communicate? How did you communicate?"
Yang Ming smiled, concealed his entanglement with the Valkyrie, and how he brought out the individual fragmentary thinking bodies of the Faya civilization, and simply talked about his conversation with the Faya people.
The experimental project teams do not interfere with each other, fragments of thoughts, and a huge mind spanning the Milky Way...
Director Ino listened very attentively, nodding or sighing from time to time.
"This is simply a miracle. How on earth did you manage to make a Faya mind fragment willing to violate the rules in order to communicate with you?"
Yang Ming smiled shyly: "It just happened that I pushed that old man into a dead end."
"Luckily, we decided to train you instead of destroying you, otherwise we would have lost so much precious information."
Director Ino's face was filled with lingering fear.
Yang Ming: …
Feelings, the possibility of destroying him before was quite high?
This time they found a suitable topic and even had some academic discussions around the Faya civilization.
When Director Ino looked at Yang Ming, his eyes showed not only admiration but also some emotion.
"Hanton, do you know what the meaning of this place is?"
Yang Ming looked back and saw busy figures everywhere and equipment that he could not understand.
Yang Ming asked: "Exploring the path to higher dimensions?"
Director Ino laughed and said, "You can say it's right or wrong. To be precise, it's about exploring the possibility of primitive human species ascending to higher dimensions. You just mentioned that the Fayya people are mentally ascending. How do you understand mental ascension?"
"That is, the mind survives apart from the body," Yang Ming thought carefully, "Since the ascension of the mind and the ascension of the machine are opposites, the forms of the two should be obviously different."
Director Ino nodded slightly and said softly:
“The ascension of the Fayya civilization is collective.
“You should know the communication mechanism of the space Zerg, high-dimensional microorganisms, which use quantum effects to communicate directly across space.
“When the Faya civilization reached the threshold of Level 4 civilization, it also faced a difficult decision.
"They had already lost their human bodies and evolved into forms you can't imagine. What we know is that they can change their body shapes freely and can communicate information synchronously across star systems."
Yang Ming was so fascinated as he listened that some forms of mimicry of life emerged in his mind.
Director Ino said slowly:
“Are they human? You can assume so, because they developed a human civilization on a tiny planet.
“Before them, there was a more brilliant human civilization. They are not the origin of human civilization, but what is certain is that they are a possibility of human civilization.
“After a long time, perhaps hundreds of millions of years of attempts, they finally gave up mechanical ascension and the body ascension they had always been obsessed with, and turned to the other extreme.
“Collective Mind Soars.”
"Collective?" Yang Ming asked, "What does this mean?"
"Give society thinking, sacrifice individuals, and gather collective will!"
Director Ino's eyes sparkled brightly:
"Can you imagine? Trillions of humans use their bodies as information processing units for this collective mind! They upload their consciousness and thoughts to the network composed of their bodies, and finally aggregate into a real whole. This is simply the mind born from that human society!
“The low-dimensional collective becomes a high-dimensional individual, and the high-dimensional individual contains the collective and gives it new meaning.
"This super consciousness formed by the resonance of tens of billions of human consciousness has finally broken free from the shackles of dimension.
“The individuals of the Faya civilization you are talking about are a once extremely complex human civilization. They have reached the limits of the current dimension in the fields of art, culture, and so on, but eventually gave up everything to explore the nature of the universe.
"Such a Faya civilization is invincible in our dimension!"
"This is a bit crazy," Yang Ming felt his head buzzing.
The so-called Faya individual is a civilization in itself?
"Haha!" Director Ino patted Yang Ming on the shoulder. "This is the path of the Faya people. Collective thinking soars!"
"Then," Yang Ming asked soberly, "what does this have to do with the dimensional laboratory on the Imperial Star?"
"Of course."
Director Ino smiled and said:
"The Fayya civilization should now have three to four hundred high-dimensional individuals. In other words, there used to be the same number of large galaxy cluster-level human civilizations that ascended through collective thinking using the Fayya civilization's methods and thus became part of the Fayya civilization.
“Each high-dimensional individual controls a large galaxy cluster because they have extremely powerful computing power and control all the energy of the large galaxy cluster in our dimension.
"Do you think that our current human civilization in the Milky Way is qualified to be promoted to a part of the Fayya civilization?"
"Of course not," Yang Ming shook his head.
“It’s inevitable.”
Director Ino smiled and said:
“The Fayya civilization would not allow it either, because a new Fayya individual was born in the Milky Way about 60 million years ago, and this place became the Fayya civilization’s testing ground.
“We have been living under the protection of the Fayyad people, but this protection is also a kind of cage and a restriction.
"The most ironic thing is that the Fayya people restricted us, but wanted us to explore new possibilities, which is the human ascension experiment that they pursued for hundreds of millions of years but failed to complete."
Yang Ming asked curiously: "The dimensional laboratory on the Imperial Star?"
"It's just an experimental project of the Fayya people."
Director Ino raised his eyebrows slightly:
"There are hundreds of galaxy clusters in the universe that we can currently observe, and the Milky Way is just a testing ground.
“But the Faya civilization is not invincible. Wars in higher-dimensional worlds are even more brutal. They are trying their best to find new possibilities, so that they can achieve unlimited evolution with limited resources.
"Faya's game - Greenhouse Civilization, the Imperial Star Dimensional Ascension Laboratory - the exploration of the main body's ascension, are all for these three words - possibility."
Yang Ming leaned back in his chair, lost in thought, and murmured, "In the final analysis, all the disasters we feel originate from the exploration of possibilities by the Faya civilization."
"Don't think about it. You should be grateful," Director Ino said calmly. "The protection of the Faya people is the premise for the continuation of our civilization. The monster-like race of space Zerg is several orders of magnitude higher than our life level... Oh, by the way, do you know what the ancient god life form is?"
"What?"
Director Ino smiled: "Human."
Yang Ming is completely Spartan.
"Human?"
"Yes, the projection of humans in the higher-dimensional world into the three-dimensional material world is the life form of the ancient gods."
Ino said softly:
“The super soldiers that the Faya people tried to create in the higher dimensions were the life forms of the ancient gods. When they disappeared in the galaxy, there was only one possibility... The war on the front lines became tense.
“It’s amazing, isn’t it?
"So, I'm wondering how you survived the secondary ancient god transformation experiment. I understand the Valkyrie, but Kigrof exchanged his daughter with the Faya people. I really can't understand you."
Yang Ming: …
Isn't it amazing? It's changed by the resurrection armor.
And there must have been some Fayya people who interfered with that transformation experiment.
However, Yang Ming naturally could not reveal that he no longer had the resurrection armor, so he just answered with three words:
"possibility."
Yinuo was stunned for a moment, then looked at Yang Ming with a little more "obsession".
They had reached the edge of the spherical building. The suspended seats slowly dropped down, and two alloy doors of the lounge appeared before them.
"Make your choice. This is out of respect for you," Ino said gently. "On your left hand is the group of cells, and on your right hand is my niece... She is very beautiful, but her temperament is a little cold. The most precious thing is that she loves herself and is self-disciplined. She is a family member that I will focus on training."
Yang Ming shook his head: "I actually have no choice."
He walked straight towards the portal on the right.
"Very wise, I won't bother you young men. I have prepared dinner for you."
The old man Ino showed a sly smile:
"In fact, there are no cells in the left door. What there is is a high dose of hypnotic gas. My team respects you very much, but we also have an immense desire for your body."
There were several black lines on Yang Ming's forehead.
He just knows it!
The evil empire would never really give him a choice!
On board a pirate ship.
