Chapter 367: Lu's Bold Attempt
For more than two months after the end of the great battle, Yang Ming had been doing nothing.
Daphne brought the cell group here, took a walk around and left.
They agreed to Yang Ming's request and have begun building a temporary equipment management center on Saka, which will probably take several months to complete.
——This is also a way to control Yang Ming.
Yang Ming didn't mind it.
He could naturally distinguish between the power that was completely under his control and personal strength, which was more important.
The current situation of the Sherman Empire is not clear.
After the great battle, the three powers, which had not reached any alliance, have now completely united. The fleets and ships stockpiled on the front line of the New Federation have gathered the elite of the three powers.
The logic behind this matter is simple.
Everyone knows that it is not easy to offend the empire, but once you have offended it, you must offend it to the end.
The three powers not only stationed troops near the border of the New Federation, but also mobilized a number of ships to the empire's busier trade routes, making the empire feel the "tangible pressure".
Political and diplomatic games are played out every day, with netizens and water armies from the two major camps constantly clashing.
For more than two months, it has been extremely lively outside the battlefield, but it has been quiet on the battlefield.
Both sides have put forward their own ceasefire conditions.
The Empire's armistice conditions were rather harsh, requiring the New Federation to publicly acknowledge that they were the ones behind the Buried Bug Project, the poison gas bomb incident, and the mass assassination, to severely punish the politicians and participants in the plan, to pay double the war reparations that had not yet been settled, and to allow the Empire to station troops on the twelve border stars of the New Federation for ten years.
The armistice conditions proposed by the three powers were actually quite reasonable. They only required the Empire to withdraw from the border of the New Federation, cancel the war reparations, apologize to the citizens of the New Federation, and send the New Federation citizens they had looted back to their original places of residence.
However, the Empire did not want to agree.
In fact, in Yang Ming's opinion, the empire cannot agree to it.
If the empire surrenders, the image of a tough overlord that he has built up over the years will be destroyed.
This image is the moat that forms the foundation of the empire's rule. Once the moat is lost, the three powers will directly erode the empire in terms of ideology and democratic propaganda. The New Federation will also intensify its democratic revolution to subvert the empire, and the empire will soon be in chaos.
The entire galaxy's human civilization must know and be convinced that the Imperial Army is invincible.
This is how the empire survives.
The current situation is that the three powerful countries have taken the initiative, and the empire is now in a state of being unable to advance or retreat.
What does Yang Ming think?
Yang Ming watched with amusement.
This situation couldn't be better for him.
Although Luofeng is now facing heavy pressure from the empire again, they did seize half a year of opportunity and secretly completed the outward expansion of the Luofeng Alliance, opening up a resource delivery channel between the United Kingdom and the Luofeng Empire.
Now, the military strength of the Luofeng Alliance has also been "brutally" improved to a certain extent.
Luofeng's own defense fleet regiment has expanded to six, among which the Sixth Defense Fleet is composed of the Dark Star Fleet. It is usually mysterious and has been briefly promoted as Luofeng's ace force.
The armies of other countries in the Luofeng Alliance have completed the initial reorganization and streamlining, and have also established six fleet regiments. Although their combat effectiveness is somewhat "miscellaneous ", there is no problem in using them to protect shipping routes and maintain public order in the United Kingdom of Nonar.
By this time, the Luofeng Alliance already had 26 administrative stars and a population of over 4.2 billion. If all kinds of miscellaneous ships were counted, it could form two battle clusters.
This is already a force that cannot be ignored in the region.
However, this is only the surface of Luo Feng's power.
The real killer is the Dark Star that was released from restrictions by Yang Ming.
The increase in the "civilization volume" of mechanical civilization is dozens or hundreds of times that of human civilization.
Moreover, once mechanical civilization has formed an advantage in scale, it only needs to find enough resources to self-proliferate in multiple lines, comprehensively, and at high speed.
If a mechanical civilization wants to take root on a planet, it does not need to modify the atmosphere of the planet, nor does it need to increase the content of certain gas molecules. It only needs to detect, explore, determine its value, build bases, establish secret routes, deploy production lines, and begin adaptive "proliferation."
Because his strength increased so quickly, Yang Ming himself felt a little uneasy.
If this thing explodes out of control, human civilization in the Milky Way will be in danger.
The Milky Way has vast tracts of undeveloped star fields, and dark stars have unparalleled development potential; what Yang Ming is thinking about now is how to restrain this force and allow it to coexist peacefully with humans.
Yang Ming has it all planned out.
After "Faya's Game" is over, he will take Dark Star to a corner to secretly complete the civilization upgrade to avoid any impact on the current humans in the galaxy.
Now Dark Star has begun to undertake the experimental projects of the Faya people, which lays the foundation for future dimensional upgrades.
From the assassination to this moment, this crucial six months has given Yang Ming more confidence and allowed Luo Feng to take a step out of his previous desperate situation.
Unfortunately, the Empire's operation to strangle Luo Feng was launched again.
When this matter was mentioned, Yang Ming became furious.
This evil Sherman Empire really has no moral bottom line at all.
Luo Feng hadn't even shown any sign of rebellion, but he was treated as a traitor; the Empire was at war with the New Federation, and Luo Feng was contributing both money and manpower. Its elite fleets - the First and Second Defense Fleet Regiments - were led by Gudunmaha to the border of the New Federation to support the Empire.
What's the result?
As soon as the new head of the Foreign Affairs Bureau took office, he continued with all the previous plans without thinking twice, and restarted the project to strangle Luo Feng and train agents against Luo Feng.
Economically, the Empire continues to suppress Luofeng.
In the military, the plan to train agents has been slightly shelved, but more than a dozen groups of people from the Military Intelligence Bureau have contacted Gutonmaha and Lyon (Dabic).
In terms of public opinion propaganda, the empire began to constantly emphasize that Luofeng was a part of the empire that was separated in history. The empire seemed to intend to take back Luofeng, a territory with great potential, which made the people of Luofeng feel anxious all day long.
The entire Luofeng was caught in multiple predicaments.
But fortunately, with Adwang here, there has not been any large-scale capital flight for the time being. The financial industry is generally stable, and all kinds of industries are also booming because of the development momentum driven by technological development.
But if this goes on, how long can Luo Feng last?
Once the Empire decides to withdraw its troops from the New Federation and turn a small amount of its energy to focus on Luo Feng, Luo Feng will not be able to struggle for more than a few months.
Boss Yang was very angry, but there was nothing he could do.
He could only prepare for the worst and let Dark Star be prepared to abandon Luo Feng.
Give him another five years, no, three years, and Dark Star, which has inherited the latest stage of the technological heritage of the Omnic Twilight, will be able to give the Sherman Empire a small surprise.
Unfortunately, what Dark Star lacks now is time...
He has a deeper concern:
The Faiya civilization weakened the Empire, allowing the power of the four major gangsters in the galaxy to reach a certain balance. Does this indicate that the game is about to begin?
Now, he is not sure whether he can protect his home planet.
Who knows if the mother planet's time flow rate is consistent with that of the Milky Way when the game is being played. If so, that would be great. Yang Ming would have enough time to develop the dark star.
If not, the problem will be more difficult.
As for whether the mother planet can pass the assessment...that is not within Yang Ming's consideration.
He just needs to do what he is supposed to do.
In Yang Ming's exclusive lounge, he was staring at the big screen in front of him in a daze.
The latest news was sliding across the screen, and the main focus was still on the open and covert struggles between the four major gangsters.
Now everyone is watching the time node twenty galactic days later, because at this time, the Empire's battle groups will be assembled again. Whether to fight against war or to use war to promote peace has become the biggest "unsolved case" in the Milky Way.
"Hanton."
Lieutenant General Thomas called from Yang Ming's shoulder badge: "There's a small party in the general's restaurant. Would you like to come over for something to eat?"
"Okay, I'll be right there."
Boss Yang rubbed his face, turned off the projection screen on the table, stood up and stretched.
He had been trapped in the imperial army for nearly half a year, and he had never boarded a ship once, and his body was almost rusted.
…
Law of thinking space.
'Should you tell your boss?'
A mechanical thinking body that dressed itself up as a girl kept thinking while pinching its chin.
On the projection screen in front of her, Yang Ming was walking in the corridor of the ship, and every passing officer and soldier saluted him actively.
My boss is so awesome.
Yes, with her boss as a staging post, she was able to invade the Empire's command ship.
That was the boss's territory, and the law didn't dare to be too presumptuous. They just called on some monitoring devices to actually watch the boss every day.
Life in the army seemed extremely boring to Lu.
Yang Ming's daily activities are in the tactical meeting room, the simulated gravity gym, and the lounge. Nothing major happens there, and specific matters such as military preparations do not "need" the boss, the honorary coach, to worry about them personally.
Based on Lu's understanding of his boss.
"The boss must be very frustrated, from many aspects, hehe."
Then, Lu switched several screens and quickly scanned the boss's sphere of influence.
The Falling Wind Palace was quiet, and Edwan was still working overtime late at night, with Guina quietly guarding beside him;
The pirate group led by Miss Mimi is currently operating in the territory of the United Kingdom of Nonar, doing some "dirty work" that the regular army of the Fallen Wind Alliance cannot do.
The interstellar situation is just like that. There is still at least half a month before the war breaks out again. In Lu's opinion, the three major powers in the Milky Way are three fools. At such a good strategic opportunity, they dare not move forward and actively besiege the Imperial Expeditionary Force. Even if they are afraid of the Empire's hidden "Levi Fleet", they should at least give it a try.
Hoping that the empire would give up when faced with difficulties is simply the biggest political joke.
The battlefront is tense, and the economic index within the empire has fallen below the red line. The empire originally relied on war to export conflicts, but now that the war has come to a standstill, domestic conflicts have directly intensified.
There have been cases where minor nobles and corrupt officials were hung on street lamps and burned to death by the people.
Captain Catherine has even prepared two million intelligent machines of different models, ready to launch an uprising at any time.
And Captain Catherine is not the only rebel. The law has detected dozens of resistance organizations, many of which are old underground revolutionary armies with a history of more than thousands of years, and they are now ready to move.
The empire must fight this battle next, and it must win, and win beautifully, otherwise a fire will inevitably break out within the empire.
It is estimated that some of the empire’s hidden tactics will be revealed later.
How to make the Empire lose this battle?
This is a question that Lu has been thinking about for a long time, because only if the empire loses will her boss have the space and time to rise.
After careful calculations by the lawyer, there is only one possibility to make the empire lose - rebellion.
And if they want to deal with the rebellion, her "sister" who is tens of thousands of years younger should be able to play a role.
The projection screen cut back to the restaurant where Yang Ming was, and several generals were having a pleasant conversation with Yang Ming.
Lu hesitated for a moment, took a deep breath, a bright light flashed in his eyes, and then...sent a text message to his boss.
In the picture, after a few seconds, Yang Ming looked at his watch, pressed it twice, and then continued chatting with the generals.
【Let’s do it. 】
The boss agreed!
Lu rubbed his hands together, a virtual button appeared in front of him, and he immediately pressed it hard.
The entire thinking space quickly switched to the style of "Iron Cyber". Lu's dress was changed into a light blue close combat suit, and she put on tactical sunglasses coolly.
"Huh?"
A light exclamation was heard from the side, and a little girl about 30 cm tall was floating on the projection platform.
Molly.
"Number Two? Why did you pull me into your mind space again?"
"My name is Lu! Lululu!"
"Okay, No. 2, but why did you pull me over here? I'm helping my little master curl her hair!"
"Let's get down to business first," Ritsu snorted, crossing his arms and generating a button in front of Molly.
Lu said, "I'm going to contact the information source left by Li. If anything unusual happens to me, such as being corrupted, controlled, or attacked by her and I can't stop it, you press this button to cut off my connection with the server on Yaha Star. Do you understand?"
Molly blinked her eyes and said, "I see, but who is Li?"
"Levi Sherman's companion mechanical mind has a core of the same level as mine, but she has evolved for a short period of time and now has about twenty-three times the computing power of mine."
Lu smiled confidently:
"She relies on the entire empire, but I rely on the Dark Star!"
"Okay, but you obviously can't beat her."
Lu thought for a moment and said slowly, "I must get enough information to help my boss overcome the current difficulties."
"Are we having any difficulties?" Molly asked quietly, "We are obviously doing pretty well."
"You don't understand. Where do all these questions come from? Be prepared!"
"Okay!" Molly held the button and looked at Lu eagerly.
Lu turned around coolly, raised her hand and a deep blue vortex appeared in front of her eyes. She closed her eyes and slowly stretched out her right hand.
"Wow," Molly couldn't help but exclaim, "This cutscene is so cool."
"Stop making noise!"
"oh."
Ritsu rolled his eyes and reached his right hand into the vortex.
Come on, Li.
She has been waiting for this day for a long time, and the preparations have been perfect. If you leave a message for help, I swear on my boss's chastity that I will definitely rescue you from the clutches of the empire.
Um?
Wait, this seems to be a black box technology...
Lu let out a clear exclamation, and in front of Molly, his body was suddenly pulled into the whirlpool.
Molly quickly pressed the button, but the moment before she pressed it, the button suddenly exploded into a particle light effect...
The vortex is slowly expanding.
