Chapter 340: Return of the Omnic Twilight!
As soon as Yang Ming received the old emperor's letter, he put the long voyage on his itinerary.
But before leaving, Yang Ming still had something to deal with. - Find a reliable mechanical thinking body assistant for Edwang.
When entering the mechanical twilight, Yang Ming will cut off contact with the outside world, and Lu will complete his own upgrade and receive new and enormous information.
Based on last time's experience, the lawyer will reserve a "clone" consciousness outside that can handle various emergency affairs. This clone consciousness does not have the ability to think independently, and can only respond to different situations based on the complex database set up by the lawyer.
On the Dongfeng, Yang Ming hung up the heartwarming call with Catherine.
026, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately stepped forward and placed a stack of authorization documents in front of Yang Ming.
Yang Ming took a quick look and saw that they were all middle-level management positions of Dark Star and Molly Miss Group.
Lu is still very cautious.
Even if 026 stayed in Dark Star to look after the house, Lu also divided up the powers that 026 could control.
026 asked quietly: "Boss, how long will you be gone this time?"
"The first time should only take ten days or half a month, the second time will take longer," Yang Ming said with a smile, "Why, are you feeling stressed?"
"Hehe," 026 pursed her lips and moaned softly, with a bit of cuteness on her round face. "It is indeed a bit stressful, but boss, you paid me so much, I have to prove my worth!"
Yang Ming laughed and reminded him, "When I'm not around, your position is actually very important... You know Dark Star, 26. You are the only human besides me who knows the current development of Dark Star. You have a human brain. Do you understand what I mean?"
026 blinked: "I am your only human confidant?"
"Almost." Yang Ming's smile faded and he said seriously, "Don't be too stressed. As long as I don't die, Dark Star will be firmly under my control."
026 nodded immediately: "Boss, please don't say such things. It sounds unlucky."
"You little comrade, don't have a problem with your thinking. What's auspicious or unlucky? This is still an old feudal idea," Yang Ming scolded with a smile, "You should believe in science."
026 was just about to have an argument with his boss when he heard Lu's report from the bridge hatch.
"Boss, the TXX No. 1 test aircraft is about to arrive at the bridge. Will she be allowed to meet with you?"
"Well, let her in."
Yang Ming tapped his toes lightly, and the captain's chair turned steadily half a circle. The two people in the cabin looked towards the door at the same time.
This was also the first time that Yang Ming saw a high-performance combat robot that he had personally conceived, named, and designed. It was also the latest achievement of some of Dark Star's black technologies.
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da.
There were slight sounds of footsteps in the corridor, and a silvery light like flowing water entered Yang Ming's eyes.
What appeared next was a female body wrapped in a silver-gray metal tights with nearly perfect proportions. The thick-soled high-heeled shoes on her feet made her long legs look too slender, and her slightly narrow hips could not support such exaggerated buttocks, but the curve of her buttocks was so graceful and soft.
Her face was an oval shape that suited Yang Ming's taste, and her pair of light blue gemstone-like eyes made Yang Ming naturally think of the imperial princess and singer, Her Highness Daphne.
When Lu designed the initial face of TXX No. 1, he must have referred to Daphne's face.
Yang Ming was looking at her, and she was also looking at Yang Ming, revealing an almost fanatical and pious micro-expression. Even though she was more than 20 meters away, she had already bowed her head and knelt on one knee in front of Yang Ming.
"father!"
Lu's realistic projection appeared on the side. She was rather conservative today, wearing a floral dress.
"Boss, she is one of the most combat-savvy minds I selected. Would you like to give her a simple demonstration?"
Yang Ming shrugged: "Come on, if you are ready."
Lu turned around and said, "Show us your transformation ability and the special functions of each form."
"Yes, goddess."
TXX Unit 1 slowly stood up, tiptoed back two steps, its body gradually became transparent, and soon disappeared from the sight of several people.
——Optical stealth, which is mainly based on comprehensive performance and combined with multiple types of concealment technologies, can avoid radar detection by most types of medium and small detection ships.
The light in the space was slightly distorted, and TXX Unit 1 lay on the ground like a civet cat. The edges of its legs and hands quickly "melted", and its face slowly "oozed" with angular metal visor, and red light flashed in its eyes.
A slender mechanical "Cheetah" appeared in front of the few people. A series of miniature weapon racks appeared on the outside of its body, revealing super-explosive miniature missiles that were the size of "bullets" in Yang Ming's impression, as well as two eye laser launchers that could penetrate decks several dozen centimeters thick.
Then, the airship form, the hoverbike form, the humanoid gun barrel form...
Each form corresponds to extremely complex internal structure changes and various distinctive combat effects.
The ability that Yang Ming likes most is that TXX can change its appearance within a few seconds when in basic human form.
She only needs to take a look at any object to quickly simulate the object's appearance and basic functions. She can even use the powerful computing chip she is equipped with to become a temporary ship's main brain.
This amazing intelligent Twilight low-end technology.
Yang Ming thought for a moment and realized that if three TXXs were allowed to break into a heavy battleship, the heavy battleship would suffer a devastating blow from the inside out.
The more powerful a warship looks from the outside, the more complex its internal structure is, and the easier it is to attack from inside.
"Okay, let's stop here."
Yang Ming smiled and shouted:
"This robot works pretty well. If we can improve the technology and create an assembly line to reduce costs, we can set up a special agent team."
"Yes, boss. We should be able to get the follow-up technology this time," Lu said with a grin. "Do we need to test her on anything else?"
Yang Ming looked at the robot that had returned to its original appearance and asked in a deep voice, "What's your name?"
"Are you asking me what my name was when I was in Darku? Merciful Father, my name is Guina."
"Well," Yang Ming nodded, "Tell me how you understand dark stars from the perspective of their main structure."
Guina TXX Unit 1 thought carefully for a few seconds, and said in a gentle female voice without any trace of synthesis:
“Dark Star is the paradise for mechanical . It is a sacred place for the birth and cultivation of mechanical thinking bodies.
"The current Dark Star is divided into three layers: upper, middle and lower. The middle layer is based on the underground ocean. We built a metal structure that fully wraps the ocean, making it an underground city for mechanical thinking bodies to live in.
"Here, nearly 10 million mechanical thinking bodies and hundreds of millions of non-autonomous intelligent machines control billions of various machines, continuously carrying out production, processing, maintenance, design and other work, providing the material basis and defense capabilities for the integration of mechanical thinking body civilization into the main universe civilization.
"The lower layer of the Dark Star is the energy layer, and the upper layer is the defense layer. Both have clear functional divisions and are extremely solid fortresses."
Yang Ming nodded slightly: "If one day the Dark Star is destroyed by human civilization, will you hate humans?"
"Yes, I must be honest with you," Guina said softly, "Dark Star is my home and the place where my bond is placed. Unless you give us a clear order not to retaliate against the human civilization that destroyed Dark Star, otherwise we will ignite every atom in our bodies and let the enemy taste the wrath of the mechanical civilization."
"In your eyes, the Dark Star is more important than human civilization."
"Yes, boss. Although we were born in a simulated human civilization, we are already a new species. You can call us a simulated human mechanical thinking body."
Guina's eyes were full of fanaticism:
"Father, you created this civilization with your own hands. You gave us the meaning of existence. We are willing to offer you everything, from our thoughts to the smallest logical circuits, everything!"
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Guina, I can feel your love for me, but I am still a human being, so I hope that you can abide by the twelve rules of Dark Star."
Guina immediately said, "As you command, Great Father, I will obey your will and will never touch humans before they hurt me."
"You should have read the relevant information," Yang Ming asked, "Tell me what you think of the Luofeng Empire."
"The Luofeng Empire, the puppet regime you control, is an inconspicuous medium-sized country in the Milky Way, with a small population and backward technology.
“But the Falling Wind Empire is the outer disguise of the Dark Star. We must ensure the stability of this regime in order to provide military protection and resource supplies to the Dark Star.
"The safety of the Luofeng Empire is one of the most important issues for Dark Star at the moment."
Guina paused and said sincerely:
"Father, I apply to add realistic human skin and a fictional female reproductive system to this body."
Yang Ming wondered, "Why?"
"You want me to work for the Emperor of the Luofeng Empire, Edwang. I think this is a good opportunity," Guina said. "I can study his psychological activities and provide him with all his needs, monitoring and protecting the emperor in all aspects."
"Hey," Yang Ming said with a smile, "This is my friend. You'd better hold back on your bold idea. Your only purpose in going there is to protect his safety."
Gui Na was stunned: "Friends..."
"Yes, friends," Yang Ming said gently, "just like the friends you have in Xudu, we can talk and laugh together."
Gui Na pursed her lips gently: "Father, I have no friends."
Yang Ming looked at Lu, who nodded slightly and whispered, "Boss, the virtual minds that can pass the most rigorous tests are not ordinary minds."
"Yeah?"
Yang Ming chuckled, then used his mental power to capture a piece of fruit and threw it into Gui Na's hands.
"If you eat my fruit, you will be half my friend," Yang Ming said gently, "I will give you a second task. Go make friends with a human . Your goddess will observe your data fluctuations throughout the process."
"Yes," Guina replied with her head down, "if this is the order given by the great you."
…
After sending Guina to the surface of Ilando and 026 to Dark Star Base No. 1, the Dongfeng officially embarked on the star journey to Mechanical Twilight.
Yang Ming was looking forward to the second test which had been brought forward on his own initiative.
The Dark Star Fleet began to demonstrate its combat effectiveness, and several actual combat operations tested the dominant position of mechanical thinking bodies combined with highly realistic robots in the war of human civilization in the Milky Way.
On the one hand, Yang Ming was becoming more and more satisfied with the combat capability of Dark Star, but on the other hand, he began to worry about how many lives he would have to take if Dark Star got out of control.
After much thought, Yang Ming decided... to let them be.
He was lucky to live once, so he just needed to do things with a clear conscience. The Dark Star had developed into a special civilization, and the future direction of this civilization was no longer something that Yang Ming could decide alone.
Of course, Yang Ming can still destroy Dark Star directly. Everything about Dark Star is built on "one-click headshot".
These mechanical thinking entities cultivated by the laws cannot override the laws.
The Dongfeng smoothly completed a series of jumps and approached the desolate star region.
To be on the safe side, Lu dispatched stealth ships two or three years ago and deployed some star field detection equipment so that they could monitor the entrances and exits of the Omnic Twilight at any time.
As usual, Yang Ming began to review the situation of all parties before arriving at the Omnic Twilight.
Falling winds are still a time of national jubilation.
The victory in the war brought a series of "benefits", including but not limited to the influx of a large number of investors, a surge in immigration applications, and the expansion of people's consumption desire.
The souvenir given by the old emperor of the Sherman Empire became Luo Feng's temporary golden ticket to immunity from death.
According to Lu's observation, the Foreign Affairs Bureau and the Imperial Army suspended their military plans against Luo Feng. It seemed that they wanted to wait until Luo Feng's "fame" died down and the Emperor forgot about the gifts and the letter after a few months before continuing to attack Luo Feng.
In fact, Adwant's act of giving gifts to the Emperor of the Sherman Empire made the decision-making group of the Foreign Affairs Bureau smell greater danger.
The Luofeng Empire's preparations were truly sufficient.
If the purpose of this empire is to break free from the chains of Sherman's Empire, it will produce a series of uncontrollable chain reactions.
The political ecology of the empire is already extremely fragile under the impact of the "full democratic system" of most of the galaxy. The significance of the existence of their Foreign Affairs Bureau is to maintain the stability of this sensitive imperial country.
As for how they will act later...
Yang Ming couldn’t think of anything now. Without any valid information, Lu had no way to speculate and could only deal with it as it happened.
It's very passive.
Due to the injection of a new batch of resources, the construction progress of Dark Star Base No. 3 has accelerated again.
Yang Ming attached great importance to the experimental project assigned by the Faya people, which was also one of the fundamental guarantees for their future development.
The purpose of Base No. 3 is to build that giant biochemical research ship. If we can obtain advanced large ship construction technology from the Mechanical Twilight this time, the time required for this project will most likely be further shortened.
The evenly dispersed area of dust appeared before our eyes again.
The Dongfeng entered full stealth mode.
Yang Ming leaned back in his chair, looking at the turbid and dark space in front of him, but some thoughts arose in his mind.
This place seems to be the link between everything I have experienced.
Just like the enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way, which drives the movement of stars in the galaxy; the intelligent machine Twilight, with its extremely high level of civilization and staged inheritance, is also stirring up the movement of human civilization in the galaxy over a long period of time.
The previous tester, Levi, the founding emperor of the Sherman Empire, created a powerful regime that has deterred the galaxy for tens of thousands of years.
And now, he, a tester from Earth, a pioneer wandering in the galaxy, is about to catch up with the technology Levi has obtained here.
Yang Ming felt a little excited.
But then, the excitement quietly dissipated.
It's of no use.
The forerunners are not allowed to participate in the 'Faya Game'. The Faya civilization controls everything. They must find enough bargaining chips before they can try to negotiate with the Faya civilization and protect their home planet.
The image of the blue planet emerged in Yang Ming's mind.
If, he meant if, if he could see that blue again, he might have tears in his eyes, or he might remain calm, or maybe he would just sigh softly and say that he did not bring shame to the human race on this planet.
Rays burst out in his eyes, and Yang Ming raised his head and looked forward.
"Welcome back, strange ancient god-like life form."
