Chapter 339 Temporary Amulet
"Gift?"
Edwang looked at Yang Ming's projection, his eyes full of confusion.
What gift did he suddenly give to the Emperor of the Sherman Empire?
This was neither the old emperor Sherman's birthday nor his funeral. Besides, the vassal states did not need to offer gifts directly to the old emperor, and they did not have such a rule.
"Why give him a gift?"
"For safety," Yang Ming said with a smile, "Although we have defeated a stronger opponent, the crisis has not been resolved. On the contrary, it has a tendency to continue to increase. The Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Sherman Empire will not let us go."
Adwan sighed, "I know this. The situation will become increasingly severe, especially after we have demonstrated strength that we did not originally possess. The Sherman Empire will no longer look down on us... But I think we should still have two to three years of safety."
"No, Edwang," Yang Ming said, "You underestimate the efficiency of the imperial military. Although the nobles and government departments of the empire are inefficient and slow, the imperial military has always been vigorous and resolute."
Adwant leaned back in his seat, rubbing his forehead.
"You are always right, Ming. I know you must have your own considerations, but asking me to give a gift to His Majesty the Emperor and attaching a disgusting compliment is more painful than killing me. Many tragedies I have seen since I was a child all originated from this old man, you know."
"Edwan, we can't let our emotions get the better of us."
"I'm just complaining to you," said Adwan with a smile, "You prepare the gifts and draft the compliments, and I'll do the rest."
"Okay," Yang Ming was about to hang up the call when he added, "I will help you choose an assistant later, a mechanical assistant. Do you want a man or a woman?"
Adwant smiled and said, “Is the appearance of the robot important?”
"Don't you have a real girlfriend?" Yang Ming said, "And the robot I sent over is not just for appearance."
"Wow, that sounds very mysterious. It's better to be a woman," Adwant shrugged. "Narisa wouldn't be jealous of that."
"Okay, I'll take care of the arrangements."
Yang Ming hung up the call and turned to look at Lu and 026. 026 subconsciously pointed at himself and said, " Boss , do you want me to go over and monitor His Majesty Edwan?"
"What are you going to do over there?" Yang Ming said, "Lü, go pick a reliable mechanical thinking body, and then I will test its stability. Pull out the Terminator TXX we are researching and put it next to Advan."
"Okay, boss... If you think that placing a robot that can blow up half a city is a reliable thing to do, then of course I have no objection."
Yang Ming blinked: "Is that thing stable?"
"It's stable," Ritsu explained, "but if it were hit by a high-energy ion beam from a ship's main gun , the explosion it would create would be very violent due to the self-destruction of its batteries."
"If they are hit by the main gun, they will die anyway. So what if the explosion range is larger?" Yang Ming said with a smile, "Produce a few hundred more. They can be used as suicide robots."
law:……
The robot, named TXX by the boss himself, is made of controllable deformable liquid alloy. The cost of one robot is equal to that of a light battleship. Its core technology is the special technology inherited from the Omnic Twilight, and there is no technology to fill the gap in the current human civilization in the Milky Way.
With those resources, wouldn't it be better to build a few hundred warships?
"Boss, you let Dark Star expand its scale before, and I emptied my bottom. Now we are still very poor overall," Lu puffed up his lips, "If you are so extravagant, just dismantle my main brain and sell it for scrap metal."
"It was just a joke. Why are you still angry? 026, comfort your sister Lu."
Yang Ming stretched lazily and slowly stood up: "I'm going to exercise in the simulated gravity room."
Stinky boss!
Lu made a face at Yang Ming's back.
026 thought for a moment, then made the starting position of the "Kameha Qigong" with both hands, and slowly pushed forward towards the law, saying: "Boom!"
Lu was stunned for a moment, and then he started to chuckle as if his funny bone was tickled. He raised his hand and punched 026's shoulder, causing the latter's loose fabric to ripple slightly.
"You're so annoying! Puns will be fined!"
026 raised his eyebrows proudly.
She completed the task assigned by her boss with ease.
…
The short-term risk-avoidance strategy that Yang Ming found for Luo Feng was to let Edwang curry favor with the old emperor of the Sherman Empire from a distance.
This emperor should be considered the weak link of the empire.
Even though Adwant was the emperor of a vassal state, it was not an easy task for him to present gifts to the old emperor of the Sherman Empire.
Generally speaking, the only one in contact with Luo Feng is the Imperial Foreign Affairs Bureau.
The crisis and trouble that Luo Feng is facing now originate from this Foreign Affairs Bureau.
It was difficult to guarantee that the Foreign Affairs Bureau would not intercept the gifts sent by the Luofeng Empire and block the news to prevent the old emperor from disrupting their actions;
It is even possible that the Foreign Affairs Bureau would add some materials to these gifts, so that the Emperor of the Sherman Empire would vent his anger on the Luofeng Empire, thus giving the Imperial Fleet a legitimate reason to take action.
If the Foreign Affairs Bureau is secretly controlled by elite members of the Sherman family, it would definitely be capable of doing such a thing.
Therefore, Yang Ming had to make a big fanfare about this matter and let old Emperor Sherman know in advance that they had gifts to send to the Imperial Star, and a detailed list of gifts and the status of the gifts had to be recorded to avoid any problems with the gifts.
This is not a difficult task.
The day after Yang Ming and Edwang communicated, a piece of news was released on the Luofeng Empire's political talk show:
The Luofeng Empire seized a batch of interesting gadgets in the United Kingdom of Nonar. His Majesty Adwant intends to express gratitude to the Sherman Empire for its protection over the years and will present a batch of artworks to the great Emperor of the Sherman Empire.
Because Luo Feng had just won the war, and Yang Ming asked Lu to buy a bunch of hot searches in the Sherman Empire. Now Luo Feng is at a very high level of popularity in the Sherman Empire, and the news about the gift-giving soon began to spread widely in the Sherman Empire.
But soon, the Foreign Affairs Bureau's counterattack began.
The traffic of news related to Luo Feng began to be suppressed.
Local news portals throughout Sherman's Empire quickly deleted news related to the Falling Winds battle, leaving only some gossip.
A battle without the smoke of gunpowder has begun in the empire's unified cyber world.
Under the propaganda machine of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, Lu, who did not dare to use the White Ghost's 'exclusive server cluster', soon fell into a disadvantage.
Yang Ming originally planned to use his usual method - viral spread through social networks, and then counterattack portal websites;
But when he was about to give an order to Lu, he hesitated.
The White Ghost first appeared during the war between Luo Feng and the New Federation.
At this extremely delicate moment, we should avoid letting others associate the White Ghost with Luo Feng.
Yang Ming looked carefully at the territory of the Sherman Empire on the star map. The territory was so vast and the physical space-time interval between the administrative stars was so huge that Yang Ming could vaguely see the outline of the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
Several thoughts came to his mind, but he dismissed them one by one.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and a smile appeared on Yang Ming's lips.
"Lü, are you there?"
"I am here!"
Lu's projection appeared on the side, still wearing the secretary suit, and bowed slightly to Yang Ming.
"Is the port of the tentacle organization you found earlier still functioning?"
"It's running," Lu said softly, "This is the information port opened on the communication device that Hanxiang and Hanyin once carried. We can send some false information to the server of the Tentacle Organization, but the amount of information cannot be too large. Their self-detection system is very powerful."
Yang Ming stroked his chin and said, "How about sending the news that Edwang wants to give a gift to the old emperor directly to the Tentacle Organization?"
"This is a good idea, but we need to first let the Tentacle Organization feel that this information is valuable and necessary for their emperor to know," Lu said with a smile, "Perhaps we can start with the gift itself and find the old emperor's weak spot."
Yang Ming asked: "What's the weakness?"
"The old emperor will definitely care about a technology - life extension technology. We can spread a rumor that the Nonar United Kingdom's first star has found the secret that can allow humans to live beyond 300 years. Luo Feng wants to give this secret to the old emperor."
Lu laughed:
"Then disguise this message. The Tentacle Organization will most likely tell the old emperor that Edwang wants to send a gift. Then we will formally submit a diplomatic letter and send the gift to the Foreign Affairs Bureau, and wait for the old emperor to send someone to the Foreign Affairs Bureau."
Yang Ming blinked: "You are as evil as this ghost."
Lu: "That's all because of your teaching. I am the one who is learning from you."
"You're said to be fat and out of breath. Make this plan more careful and prepare more contingency plans. What are you going to use as the 'secret to longevity'?"
Lu gave a thumbs-up: "Make a water purifier that automatically adds telomere-modifying agents."
"Well done, go do it."
Lu bowed slightly and was about to disappear, but Yang Ming called her again.
"Wait a minute!"
"Boss, what's wrong?"
Yang Ming frowned slightly, lowered his head and thought, with a little more light in his eyes: "I remember that among the king's family of the United Kingdom of Nonar that we captured, there was a princess who was quite pretty?"
Lu's face was full of disgust. "Uh, boss, have your tastes become so corrupt now? She's already a mother of two children, and she's very bad. When I checked her memory, I found that she was a sadist. She killed countless handsome men and made many male stars in the United Kingdom depressed. Some of them even committed suicide by jumping off buildings."
"Can her memory be modified?"
"Yes, boss."
"Turn her into a fool, the kind that cannot be restored, and then give her a full body cosmetic surgery."
Yang Ming smiled and said:
“Make her the new queen in name only, tattoo the star map of the United Kingdom of Nonar on her back, put her in a work of art, and give it to the old emperor.”
Lu was stunned: "Is this also a gift?"
"You have to let the emperor of the empire fully enjoy the pleasure of conquest in order to arouse his desires," Yang Ming said, "and the emperor's unrestrained desires will often be a disaster for the country. Of course, our little design this time can only be a small spark."
"Okay, but I always feel that this is a bit inhumane," Lu said with a light sigh.
When it comes to ruthlessness, it has to be her boss.
A few days later, a transport ship carrying a large number of artworks left the Luofeng Empire.
Adwang took the initiative to be a guest in a relatively famous live broadcast room in the interstellar network, and 'accidentally' said that he had sent a batch of artworks of extraordinary significance to the great Emperor of the Sherman Empire, and that the batch was on the way.
The public opinion in the Sherman Empire that Yang Ming had arranged before began to hype the topic;
Lu quickly sent the relevant information to the server of the Tentacle Organization and took the initiative to destroy the information port.
The subsequent developments were somewhat "dreamlike" for the top officials of the Foreign Affairs Bureau.
The transport ship of the Luofeng Empire was intercepted at the border of the empire. The Foreign Affairs Bureau dispatched the first working group to find a way to reasonably detain the contents of the transport ship.
But before the first working group had time to set off, the second-in-command of the Foreign Affairs Bureau stationed on the Imperial Star sent an urgent message.
The Foreign Affairs Bureau could only dispatch a second working group and mobilize all its forces to send the transport ship intact to the space station near the Imperial Star for inspection by the Imperial Star.
About two days later, a letter of commendation written by His Majesty the Emperor himself was placed on the desk of the Director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau.
On the envelope of the commendation letter was written a line of beautiful ancient imperial characters:
To the fallen emperor, the wise Edwan.
“Fuck!”
The director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau cursed in the tiniest voice, resisted the urge to tear up the letter, and began to select the deputy director who would be sent to the Luofeng Empire.
As for the situation of the art princess on the Imperial Star, Lu also found out a little bit.
She lived well, becoming a living ornament in Sherman's palace, blending in with the other 'ornament' maids.
…
The handwritten letter from His Majesty Emperor Sherman soon became hot news in the Sherman Empire and the Luofeng Empire.
On the bridge of the Dongfeng, Yang Ming heard the news as soon as he came out of the medical cabin, a smile appearing on his face.
"At least, Adwan is safe now."
"Yes, boss. Luo Feng has more window period," Lu said softly, "I noticed that the Foreign Affairs Bureau and the military have also delayed their efforts to strangle Luo Feng. They probably want to wait until the heat of this incident subsides."
"That won't do. Turn up the heat."
Yang Ming took off his shirt, revealing his muscular body.
Lu said "wow" a few times beside him.
"Lü, I remember when I contacted Atro before, he once said that the Military Intelligence Bureau is now stepping up its efforts to infiltrate the entire New Federation?"
Lu immediately said, "Yes, Boss. They have achieved good results. At least they can ensure that the significant news happening in the New Federation's first star, Minter City, can be sent to the Military Intelligence Bureau office in the Imperial Star within five minutes."
Yang Ming laughed and said, "Next, we will spread some rumors in the New Federation, saying that the New Federation is going to launch the next move against the Luofeng Empire, a vassal state of the Sherman Empire. We must make it sound serious so that the New Federation can demonize Luofeng, and we must control public opinion in a small area to avoid causing a wave of public opinion in the New Federation."
"Okay boss, I understand what you mean!"
Lu smiled and said:
"In fact, there is no need to incite public opinion. We can use the double agents of the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau and the New Federation Central Intelligence Agency. I have identified about 18 double agents, and they are charged according to the amount of information they provide."
"That would be great."
Yang Ming squinted and smiled:
“Go ahead and get the news into the Empire through the New Federation first;
"Choose a good time and use my identity as White Ghost to send a message to Atro, saying that I am concerned about the New Federation's retaliation recently. The New Federation has begun to recover and may create riots on the border of the empire or in its vassal states.
"Tell Atro to send me a copy if he has any relevant news."
"Yes, I'll arrange it right away."
Lu's figure disappeared in a flash, and Yang Ming sat in the captain's chair, continuing to stare at the star map in front of him.
Toppling an empire of this magnitude is not something that can be accomplished by one person or one force in a day or two.
'What am I thinking?'
Yang Ming laughed awkwardly.
Toppling the empire single-handedly is just a galactic fantasy.
If you have the leisure time, you might as well think about how to determine the launch date of Faya's game, which is the most reliable.
Next, after doing some more preparations, he can go to the Intelligent Twilight with peace of mind and get some "black technology" for his own Dark Star system that the Sherman Empire does not have.
——Levi Sherman originally chose "machinery" and "life", and Yang Ming's current path is pure "machinery" and "evolution".
These bits of black technology may be the beginning of their building an advantage over the Sherman Empire.
