Chapter 359: Miraculous Effect!
strangeness.
Yang Ming sat in the microgravity massage chair in the luxurious cell and fell into deep thought.
Why?
Why is this?
The high-ranking officials of the Foreign Affairs Bureau were purged by assassins, and the public opinion guidance plan that he and Lu had previously prepared has not yet come into play, and the entire network has spontaneously started to criticize the New Federation?
this……
Don't you give any suspicion to the Luofeng Empire, which is suffering from the secret oppression of the empire?
This situation, which was too smooth, made Yang Ming feel uneasy.
He was worried that the Empire was using a very new tactic, first coming out to criticize the New Federation, and then turning around and secretly stockpiling heavy troops to destroy the Luofeng Empire in one fell swoop.
Seriously, this possibility really exists.
The key lies in reason.
What if Senior Li didn't follow the rules of martial arts and launched a surprise attack on him and Lu?
Yang Ming took the network access terminal he had just brought back and kept searching for the latest news on major portals in the empire.
From time to time, he would glance at the prison management group chat that the warden had secretly pulled in, as well as the chat window with Reville, which would contain various messages from the nobles' small channels.
A group of senior officials from the Foreign Affairs Bureau were attacked.
The imperial bureaucrats and nobles were extremely angry.
The empire began to mobilize large fleets on the border, and the military urgently recalled all officers and soldiers on leave.
The private fleets of the major nobles that had conducted joint exercises with the military had also received the second-level combat readiness order and were gathering and preparing in the deep space area close to the jump point.
The storm is coming.
What made Yang Ming feel a little terrible was that although the area where the Empire stationed its troops was facing the direction of the core star field of the New Federation, that location was not far from Luo Feng’s border.
If one really wants to jump to Luofeng, then... it is not impossible.
The key point now is that Yang Ming must make sure whether the Emperor Guard System has been activated.
Has this situation, where a department's senior officials are almost wiped out, posed a threat to the empire as a whole...
Yang Ming subconsciously glanced at the empty room, placed his watch close to the network access terminal, opened a small screen in the center of the projection screen that could only be seen from the front, and typed a line of text.
[How is the situation? ]
[Uh, boss, didn't you say not to contact us for the time being? Fortunately, you have been equipped with gravity communication. The situation is generally stable and the risks are under control. ]
【Are you the one who guides public opinion? 】
[Boss, I didn't start any public opinion guidance mode. ]
[Law, do you think it is possible that this is a chess game played by the Empire? Has the logic been activated now?]
[No signs of activation have been found for the time being. I have also installed alarm devices on the traffic ports of the major basic servers of the Imperial Star Circle. As long as she activates it now, I can exit the network in advance. She and I are now at the same level in the system core! ╭(╯^╰)╮]
It’s already this late and you still have the mood to send emojis.
Didn't Lu feel his anxiety?
Boss Yang sent a message back:
【Monitor at any time and take appropriate measures immediately if there is any situation. 】
[Understood boss! Don't worry, even in the worst case scenario, the core area of our Dark Star Main Base can be rolled up and escape into deep space at any time.]
After a brief exchange with Lu, Yang Ming felt a little more at ease.
The management has not started;
The current public opinion in the empire, the topics of discussion on the surface, the officials of various departments in secret, and the news coming from the Imperial Star have all determined that this was an assassination attempt launched by the New Federation.
Some people say that the New Federation politicians are dissatisfied with the last Imperial expedition, and the intelligence agencies are deliberately seeking revenge.
Some people also said that the New Federation wanted to deliberately provoke the Empire to go on another expedition, use the war to drag down the Empire's economy, and through this tug of war, let the Empire, which had long been "corrupted", collapse;
Others say that the new federation intends to cut off the ties between the empire and its more than twenty vassal states, and the next step is to instigate rebellion among the vassal states surrounding the empire, thus creating an internal impact on the empire.
I have to say that the Galaxy's internet politicians' analysis is very logical.
Yang Ming, the culprit, even thought these conspiracy theories made sense.
Yang Ming browsed for more than ten minutes and found the water army posts that began to appear.
The CIA begins to interfere with imperial public opinion!
Their response was also quite quick, but the direction chosen by the CIA made Yang Ming feel relieved.
[This is a provocation against the first and second most powerful countries in the Milky Way! ]
Several hot posts quickly circulated on major websites.
The content of the posts is also very interesting. They basically say that the New Federation has lost its temper after the Imperial expedition. They have paid a heavy price, paid high war reparations, and have been attacked by Zerg continuously. Six administrative stars have been destroyed by the Zerg. It is absolutely impossible for them to take the initiative to provoke the Empire now.
This clearly means that other more powerful political systems in the Milky Way want to provoke the Empire into a war against the New Federation, causing the two countries to consume their strength and perish together.
As for why the mastermind behind the attack would launch a surprise attack on the Bureau of External Affairs, a department that can only be considered a second-tier department in the imperial system, the New Federation CIA's water army also gave a "reasonable" explanation.
First, the closure of the Foreign Affairs Bureau will not affect the normal operation of the empire, nor will it affect the empire's dispatch of troops to the New Federation.
Second, the empire's more than 20 vassal states may become the targets of the hidden forces' next attack. By attacking the vassal states, they can avoid direct friction with the empire and achieve the goal of striking at the empire's economic system.
Third, no one took the Foreign Affairs Bureau seriously, the leadership security system was very poor, and officials usually did not think that they would become targets of attacks by foreign forces, so the success rate was high.
etc.
With the support of a large number of online trolls, these hot posts gradually began to dominate the public opinion direction of some portal websites.
However, at this time, the Imperial Military Intelligence Agency suddenly stepped in and issued a notice, which reversed the wind direction again.
The interstellar network has memory!
This attack was preceded by a series of signs!
The Military Intelligence Bureau stated in the notice:
The Military Intelligence Agency noted that just three months ago, discussions about the Empire's economic system emerged within the New Federation.
This discussion, focusing on the Imperial Foreign Office, a department that has never received much attention, emphasized the key role of dependent states in the imperial economic system.
Subsequently, the New Federal CIA also released the structure of the Foreign Affairs Bureau and the information of most of the senior Foreign Affairs Bureau officials who were attacked in this operation.
The Military Intelligence Bureau seriously suspected that this was a complete terrorist attack initiated by the New Federation!
Following the poison gas attack on Sakaar, the New Federation has launched a series of planned and purposeful attacks on the Empire!
The New Federation aims to dismantle the empire's internal structure and ruling power from all aspects, plunging hundreds of billions of people into dire straits.
As soon as this announcement came out, it immediately caused an uproar.
The Military Intelligence Bureau followed suit, mobilizing the resources of nobles from all sides to form a huge water army, and began to attack each other with the New Federal CIA.
In this fight for the high ground of public opinion, the Military Intelligence Bureau, for the first time ever, showed an extremely tough stance.
Yang Ming: …
Luo Feng, is it really the country's destiny that has arrived?
Edwang really needs to kowtow to these idiot high-ranking officials of the Imperial Military Intelligence Agency.
This little war, didn't he start it...
Buzz, buzz!
Yang Ming's network terminal vibrated slightly, and a familiar avatar popped up.
It turned out to be the handsome and elegant Major General Atlo!
——Yang Ming now likes the officers in the Military Intelligence Bureau system very much.
Connected!
"Hahaha, I knew it! Dear Hanton! You can definitely use your own access terminal at will!"
Atro smiled and said:
"When I saw your network access terminal was online, I knew you were paying attention to the massacre of the top brass of the Foreign Affairs Bureau!
“Have you seen the public opinion war going on now?
"How is it? Is the momentum we created bold enough? Is this counterattack decisive enough?"
Yang Ming nodded vigorously: "Very strong! The directors above you have finally shown some strength for once!"
"Hey, what's it got to do with them!"
Atro raised his eyebrows:
"The high-level officials of the Foreign Affairs Bureau were purged, and the great Emperor was furious. Our Military Intelligence Bureau did not receive any intelligence in advance, and we were unable to find any valuable clues after the incident.
"Our director and deputy directors have all been taken to Emperor Star.
"Now, the power of our Military Intelligence Bureau is held by our six major generals."
Atro cleared his throat:
"I discovered that the New Federation had planned this long ago and it was me who instigated the cyber public opinion world's counterattack."
Yang Ming almost laughed out loud.
Damn it, not a single drop of distilled water from his early 'investment' in Atro was wasted!
"Well done, Atro! From every angle!"
"The New Federation is really going too far ! Do they think we are fools? I have carefully analyzed the surveillance records left by those liquid robots. Only the New Federation has such technology, military level, and high-tech comprehensive strength! And it has this intelligence support!
"They are so self-righteous! They really think we are stupid and have no scientific knowledge!"
Atro said firmly:
"The previous terrorist attack, as well as the subsequent incidents that have comprehensively mobilized public opinion within the empire and attempted to create class divisions, show the New Federation's wolfish ambitions!
"Why did His Majesty want to train me? It was because he was very dissatisfied with the previous style of the Military Intelligence Bureau system.
"Next, we must carry out internal reforms and engage in a long-lasting and reciprocal confrontation with the New Federal CIA, the Guel Union Special Intelligence Agency, and the Free United States Information Intelligence Center. In the foreseeable future, we will use our resource advantages and technological advantages to completely overwhelm them in the galactic intelligence community!"
"Ambition!" Yang Ming gave a thumbs up.
Atlo laughed slyly again, "I'll be reporting to the military later, so I'll say this, how about that?"
"The tone is fine, but the eyes need to be more determined and have more light."
"There's light? How do I do this?"
"I'll download some lighting software and give you some reflections, that'll be fine."
"That's right, I'll get ready right away... I'll be busy now, dear Hanton! Really, after meeting you, my life has suddenly ushered in a series of turning points!"
Yang Ming smiled and shook his head: "You have earned all this through your own efforts and the support of Uncle Ni San."
Atlo chuckled, waved at Yang Ming, and hung up the call.
Yang Ming jumped out of the microgravity massage chair.
Although he couldn't be completely assured, Yang Ming already had a rough idea in his heart.
Only at this moment did Yang Ming realize that each of the steps he had previously arranged for Lu to take had a deeper meaning, and each step was cleverly connected to form the current situation.
He didn't even notice it.
It was learned through noble channels that two battle groups with 5,000 warships were stockpiled at the border of the empire. They had begun early migration and appeared outside the border of the New Federation, oppressing the border administrative star of the New Federation.
The shadow of war is brewing in an area of the Milky Way that is so vast that it has almost no boundaries.
…
"The global defense system still cannot be activated?"
In the virtual conference room, Director Ino asked with a dark face.
The fifty or so virtual projections sitting around the round table all fell silent.
"Something's not right, Ino."
An old voice said slowly:
“Whether it was the previous war of public opinion or this terrorist attack, according to records over the past century, the entire territory’s defense system can be activated smoothly for such incidents.
“But now, it has repeatedly given expressions that do not constitute conditions for initiation.”
Someone said, "I am in charge of the laboratory that maintains the black box of the national defense system. We are conducting a comprehensive inspection of the black box. From the data collected so far, this defense system...it is too old, and many of its logical operations seem to have slight deviations."
“Can this program be maintained?”
"Maintenance is technically difficult," the man said. "We cannot access the core data area of this system. We can only use the operation manual to operate on the periphery."
“We’ve tried this countless times.”
"Why did our ancestor Levi do this? He left us a powerful system that could maintain the stability of the empire for tens of thousands of years, but he didn't give us the authority to modify the internal core?"
"This is the wisdom of our ancestors Levi. If this system was used by ambitious people, our round table would have ceased to exist long ago."
"No matter what, we have to be careful and not rely entirely on this system."
An old man said slowly:
"The first significance of the Empire's unified network is to provide a fast data path for this system.
"In response to this, the research project I'm in charge of has already produced a whole new resource integration system. Perhaps, we have reached the time point for nurturing the Empire's National Defense System 2.0."
“Is the technology reliable?”
"It's reliable. The current computing power is not sufficient, but as long as we can access the Empire's unified network, we can build a new empire-wide defense system that only obeys our Sherman family in a short period of time."
Director Ino suddenly asked: "What if there is a conflict with the existing system?"
"So my suggestion is that we build a few administrative stars in the edge areas, physically isolate the network, test the stability of this system, and conduct sufficient demonstrations."
A group of people nodded slowly and continued to express their opinions.
Another old voice sounded:
“No matter what, the New Federation has crossed the red line this time.
"The last expedition failed due to the Zerg attack, which also gave them some hope.
“I propose that we launch a surface strike on the twelve administrative stars on the border of the New Federation.
"Let the military take action immediately. The legions near the Imperial Star will dispatch six fleets to show the New Federation the true gap between them and us."
Director Ino and the figures around him nodded slowly and began to discuss the extent of the attack.
A slightly younger old man in the corner suddenly asked:
"Is there another possibility that this was not done by the New Federation?"
“Who else but the New Federation could develop such an unheard-of robot?”
"I am in charge of the Imperial Mechanical Military Equipment Research Laboratory Group, and I can answer this question clearly. With the technology we currently have, even the most core technology, we cannot produce this kind of robot. We can achieve mechanical deformation and solid-liquid material transformation, but we cannot complete the body construction so smoothly and in such a short period of time, not to mention the somewhat terrifying fluid fusion movement ability.
“This is a technology that only a true level three or higher civilization can possess!
"My intuitive feeling about these assassination robots is that they are life, real mechanical life, mechanical life with the ability to evolve.
"What I am most worried about now is that the New Federation has surpassed us in the field of fully automatic machinery. If we don't strike back at the New Federation, we will face real challenges."
"It is possible that the New Federation has taken over the Faya people's mechanical dimensionality upgrade experiment project."
"war."
"war."
"agree."
“Is it not currently possible for other countries to achieve this kind of technological advancement?”
"The current mechanical development has reached a bottleneck, which is also the main reason restricting our territorial expansion. If we want to take a small step forward, we need to wait for a long time while maintaining the scale effect. The other political systems do not have this foundation."
The old man who raised the question nodded slowly and uttered two words:
"war."
…
Half a day later, on Yaha Star, in the VIP room of the Noble Prison.
Yang Ming looked at Daphne who was rushing over and a charming smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Mr. Messenger, are you here to deliver another message?"
