Chapter 376: Threats and Tragedy
Is the Queen about to complete her dimensional ascension?
Yang Ming's first reaction to hearing the news was to ask, "Is there something wrong with the biological shielding system in the base? Why are they still able to get in touch?"
"Boss, the shielding system is functioning normally."
Hiding in his headphones, Lu quickly answered:
“After the warning dream occurred, I have temporarily transferred Miss Hera to the mobile fleet. This was also her request.
"To be precise, this was not the Queen communicating with Hera, but Hera, as one of the Zerg network terminals in the galaxy, foresaw, through some kind of instinctive drive, that the Queen was about to complete the dimensional ascension ritual.
"Thirteen percent of Hera's nervous system has undergone changes different from those of humans."
Yang Ming leaned back, sitting in the office chair that automatically wrapped around his body, thinking about the impact of this incident.
He can't rely too much on the law, he always needs to exercise his brain more.
The Queen is about to complete her dimensional ascension, and this is not good news.
There is no other reason. Among the Zerg, only the queen is a real individual. The Zerg army produced by the queen will return to the void of the planet they have previously swallowed after the queen is upgraded, making themselves part of the planet and evolving into the planet's mineral deposits over a long period of time.
This behavior is called "Zerg feeding".
A Zerg colony is equivalent to a huge filter, constantly collecting energy and resources for its own advancement and improvement.
When the queen individual completes the dimensional upgrade, the filter will no longer have any meaning of existence. It will repair the natural environment and fill the material loss of the solid planet, thereby reusing the star field.
The point is, before completing her dimensional ascension, the Queen may launch a revenge against the human race in the galaxy.
The Zerg army has become meaningless consumables.
No matter how many sixth-level adults die, the Queen will not be burdened at all.
The insect nests accumulated at the border of the Milky Way are about to surge in; a major challenge to human civilization in the Milky Way is about to come.
Yang Ming smiled slightly, but soon, he hid the smile.
He took three aspects into consideration at the same time.
First, the arrival of the insect swarm can be used as a major plot for the assessment of "Faya's Game". Whether it is the current situation or the omen of the insect swarm, they all meet the signs of the start of "Faya's Game".
Second, the Empire is at war with three major powers and has already consumed part of its conventional military strength. If the Zerg attacks, the top four political systems of human civilization, especially the Empire and the New Federation, will most likely suffer large-scale attacks. At that time, the Empire and the New Federation will not be a matter of collapse, but a matter of life and death for hundreds of billions of human beings.
Thirdly, the Faya experiment project undertaken by Dark Star is aimed at this Queen. If this matter is exposed, the Queen will definitely take bloody revenge. Even if it is not exposed, this experiment will be terminated after the Queen is upgraded, and Yang Ming will lose the upper basic conditions for a head-on confrontation with the Sherman family.
Well, very passive.
"Boss," Lu said softly, "are we going to do anything to stop the Queen?"
"Only the stellar cannon can deal with the Queen," Yang Ming sighed, "It is obviously impossible for the Empire to turn its guns around and launch an expedition to the outer regions at this time."
"What if the Fayats interfere?"
"Will the Faya people interfere?" Yang Ming asked back.
Lu analyzed it carefully: "The probability of interference is very low, less than 10%. I have analyzed the history of the empire. There have been three similar large-scale insect swarms in history, all of which were caused by the failure of the queen's individual dimensional upgrade."
"Can the dimension upgrade fail?"
"Yes, boss."
Lu said softly:
"Dimensional upgrading is an extremely difficult thing. The Empire has been trying for so long but has not been able to complete any form of dimensional upgrading. However, compared to the time it takes for civilizations that have successfully upgraded to this step, tens of thousands of years is too short.
“That’s a qualitative change in life form.
"Generally speaking, the three basic conditions for civilization to upgrade are time, space, and energy, which can be simply expanded to 'negligible influence of time', 'ignoring the spatial barriers between large galaxy clusters', and 'mastering energy that can destroy large galaxy clusters'.
"The Zerg's dimensional ascension is not included in this. The Zerg are high-dimensional life forms, and the queen is an individual that migrates downward. But even for them, it is extremely difficult to return to the high-dimensional world, and the failure rate is very high."
Yang Ming frowned and asked, "It doesn't matter whether the Queen succeeds or fails in her dimensional ascension. She will most likely cleanse the galaxy of humans anyway. Is that what you mean?"
"Yes."
“Is there a solution?”
"No," Lu said softly, "The only thing I can do is to comfort your conscience as a human being. The content of the comfort is that the decline and rise of civilization, like the vacuum quantum tide, is itself a romance in the universe."
Yang Ming: …
"Speak human language."
"Okay," Lu smiled, "This is a great opportunity for us to deal a heavy blow to the empire!"
Yang Ming leaned back, folded his arms and fell into deep thought.
The office door locked itself, and the projection devices in several corners of the office started up at the same time, and Lu's figure appeared next to Yang Ming.
Since she dared to show up in person, it naturally meant that she controlled the network and basic hardware of the entire base.
Yang Ming rubbed his eyes and whispered, "This is different, Lu."
"Boss, are you worried about civilian casualties?"
"Well," Yang Ming said, "My fight with the Sherman Empire is based on politics. I only need to deal with those in power. Even if a war is triggered, the destructiveness and harm of these wars will not cause a reduction of more than 10% of the population in the area involved in the war. But the Zerg is different. This is a confrontation between races. The Zerg plague will destroy all humans on the planet. I can't take advantage of this."
Lu groaned a few times: "But boss, if you keep your bottom line and fight against those who have no bottom line, you will suffer a loss in yourself."
"Why should I care whether they have a bottom line or not? As a human being, all I want is to live a comfortable life."
Yang Ming said calmly:
"Using the Zerg would make me feel guilty and uncomfortable, it's that simple."
"Boss, if we announce this news now, it may stop the war between the Empire and the three major powers," Lu said softly, "The Queen is only about to ascend to a higher dimension. The time of 'about to' can be long or short. There is no sign of the insect swarms moving now. This may be a few years, ten years or even hundreds of years later. This requires Miss Hera to conduct follow-up verification."
Yang Ming groaned for a few seconds and said, "Let Hera investigate it first. After the investigation is clear, we will study how to deal with it."
Lu asked, "Boss, what is your clear goal for the Sherman Empire?"
"Didn't I say that the first goal is to control it. If we can't control it, let it disintegrate and stop it from being a threat to our Dark Star."
Yang Ming sneered:
"Every one of the Sherman family and the great nobles of the empire now has some personal grudge against me.
"I haven't used my real killer move yet, and I don't have enough time. My home planet may enter the trial cycle at any time, which means I have to make more preparations.
"But as long as the time is right, or we create a good opportunity, dismantling the empire is our inevitable option."
"Then I roughly know what to do," Lu nodded gently, and suddenly winked at Yang Ming, "Boss, what is the killer move you are talking about?"
“It’s also an ideological thing, so I can’t say much about it.”
"Okay, you're still keeping it a secret," Lu puffed up his lips, "Then I'll go talk to Miss Hera and ask her to continue investigating the matter! Boss, just enjoy your life here~ In terms of human appearance alone, Her Highness Daphne is pretty good too."
Yang Ming glared at the guy, and Lu disappeared instantly.
"By the way," Yang Ming shouted, "Supervise Da Wa and the others and see if you can develop them into part of the White Ghost Team."
"Yes! This is on me!"
…
Enjoy life.
Whenever Yang Ming closed his eyes recently, he would imagine the image of Edwin lying in the cold space, the back of Li standing in front of General Thomas, the blue planet, and the painful burning feeling of the earth's fire eroding his body.
Now, when the Queen will take action against the human civilization in the Milky Way has become crucial information.
Everything depends on this information.
If the insect swarm is going to hit in a few months, Yang Ming will not hesitate to notify all humans in the galaxy to prepare for battle.
This is a racial confrontation, which is above all political struggles and personal grudges.
After repelling the Zerg, he can still settle accounts with the Sherman family.
If the insect swarm strikes five years later or even later, Yang Ming will temporarily suppress this information, allowing the Sherman Empire to engage in aggressive warfare for a while, completely intensifying domestic conflicts. At the same time, it will also prevent the Sherman Empire and the three major powers from engaging in another large-scale war of the same scale as the previous two, and avoid a large-scale internal consumption of the precious combat power of human civilization.
——Every ship of human civilization is used to fight against the Zerg and defend the human race itself.
Yang Ming flipped through the file at hand.
The so-called file is actually a physical folder, which contains pages of books made with virtual projection technology. Through this folder, one can directly read the internal archives of the Military Intelligence Bureau.
Although Yang Ming was arranged here as a formality, the Military Intelligence Bureau had given him all the necessary authority.
The confidential information that Yang Ming can retrieve now is almost the same as that of Atlo and other acting deputy directors.
He browsed through the confidential archives of the Military Intelligence Agency, but didn't see many serious confidential cases, but did see a lot of big gossips about aristocratic entertainment.
The agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau usually keep an eye on the nobles and officials related to the Imperial Military. Their every move is under the control of the Military Intelligence Bureau. In addition, the promotion and appointment of colonel-level officers within the army will involve an identity investigation and background list.
This highlights the starkly different positioning of the Imperial Military Intelligence Agency and the New Federal CIA.
Several thoughts flashed through Yang Ming's mind.
He suddenly became interested in where those terrorists that the New Federal CIA had been using came from. The Military Intelligence Agency should be conducting relevant investigations.
Yang Ming entered several keywords in the search bar.
Gas attack, Sakaar, concert.
Soon, a number of summarized documents appeared on the page. Yang Ming made an upward push gesture, and the projection switched to vertical screen mode. These documents were automatically displayed in front of Yang Ming.
Yang Ming looked at it carefully for a while and soon found some interesting information.
"Investigation into the Relationship between White Ghost and Her Highness Daphne".
My goodness, these guys are really bored. They have nothing better to do than to plant an ISIS spy on Sakaar, and then focus on his expression and tone when he talks to Daphne.
There are several more documents below, namely: "Body scan data of two palace maids of White Ghost", "The part of Her Highness Daphne's lyrics confessing to the ghost", "Solid evidence of Her Highness Daphne's traffic", and "A brief analysis of the principle of human gas bombs".
What the hell is going on!
No wonder the CIA can't beat the CIA.
What the hell is going on with the Military Intelligence Bureau! They don't do anything useful, they just do these nonsense things!
Yang Ming flipped through a few pages and suddenly stopped when he saw a few related words.
"Genetic Survey Report of the Perpetrators of Human Gas Bombs", "Technical Directions of Human Gas Bombs", and "The Domingos Planet Massacre".
He first looked at the technical direction for a while and found that there was a relatively detailed investigation content, and even an investigation of relevant laboratories in the New Federation. Moreover, based on a series of solid data, a conclusion was drawn that would enable decision-makers to make correct decisions.
The poison gas bomb was made by the New Federal CIA.
Yang Ming glanced at the investigator of the report.
Horatio McKee?
It was a rather unfamiliar name, and when I clicked on his profile picture, the document system automatically displayed this person's profile.
Yang Ming picked up the deputy director's exclusive communicator, sent a message to Atlo, and then clicked on the other two posts.
The genetic investigation of the perpetrators of the human gas bomb pointed the finger at a vanished small country called "Domingos". The people of the same name there were conquered by the Empire more than a hundred years ago, and the Domingos Massacre broke out afterwards.
There are two versions of the tragedy, one is the official version:
[The Sherman Empire imposed just punishment on the shameless country that constantly challenged the dignity of the empire. The empire's invincible fleet overthrew the tyrant's reign of terror on the Domingos star, saved 300 million Domingos people, and brought the gospel of the empire there.
But the despicable New Federation, in order to deal with the Empire, incited the Domingos to launch a meaningless attack on the Imperial fleet.
With the help of the New Federation, several Imperial warships were captured by the Domingos, who attempted to attack the Imperial flagship, resulting in the tragic death of 60,000 soldiers of the Imperial fleet.
The commander of the Imperial Fleet was furious and retaliated by dropping three shaped bombs on the capital of Domingos. About six million Domingos were missing.
Yang Ming’s brows furrowed more and more tightly.
Just by looking at the official polished statements, he had already seen an inhumane massacre.
When he opened the secret files of the Military Intelligence Bureau, the corners of his mouth began to twitch wildly.
The above statement only needs to be modified in a few places to reveal the truth.
About a hundred years ago, Domingos was used by the New Federation to continuously criticize the Sherman Empire. Politicians became lackeys bought by the New Federation, and used their status as a weak and small country to continuously attack the Sherman Empire in the interstellar space.
The Sherman Empire did go to impose punishment on Domingos. The strategy formulated by the Sherman Empire was originally intended to deter Domingos, but the commander at the time, a deceased Duke, discovered a special genetic structure on Domingos.
——The humans in the Milky Way were all seeded by the Faya civilization, which gave them the 'Homo sapiens-level gene lock', allowing them to maintain a stable state and prevent them from evolving in order to adapt to changes in the environment and productivity.
But when the number of human individuals is large enough, there is a chance to break through the limitations of the gene lock, produce more obvious mutant genes, and pass these genes on through reproduction.
Genes are also resources.
On the planet Domingos, there are large areas of mutant genes. Even if the expression of this gene only makes the fingertips of the Domingos people a little longer, it is a very important sample for an empire that focuses on biotechnology.
Thus, a large-scale hunt began.
The Empire's laboratory complex sent many experts.
The Empire began to plunder the population on Domingos, and eventually a military conflict broke out when the plundered population seized warships. The Empire's commander dropped a shaped bomb in anger, and Domingos, the capital with the largest population and the heart of the planet, became a rift in the earth, with more than 60 million casualties and a direct loss of one-fifth of the population.
Because of this incident, most political systems in the galaxy stood against the Empire, which became an opportunity for the complete rise of the New Federation.
The Domingos Planet Incident has also become a taboo word within the Empire. A hundred years have passed, and no citizen of the Empire would mention it.
Let’s not talk about these things for now.
At that time, the number of human samples hunted on Domingos Star also reached 100,000.
The Domingos people, who broke through the genetic lock to a certain extent, have raised the strength of the Empire's cyborgs to a higher level. Many of the Domingos people's genes have been used in...super-cyborg experiments.
