Chapter 396: Guilt, birth, and preparation time!
Yang Ming took off his helmet and looked at the interior of the medical cabin, a little dazed.
The probe that injected the gene stabilizing fluid was slowly pulled out of his arm, and the expensive alloy coating on it had to be replaced.
——It’s also thanks to his wealthy family that he has no shortage of money, otherwise this type of injection would be completely unaffordable for ordinary cyborgs.
The door of the medical cabin opened smoothly, but Yang Ming lay there at his side, without moving for a long time.
"boss."
Lu's projection appeared beside him, looking somewhat worried, and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?"
Ten minutes ago.
After witnessing Hera's experimental results, Yang Ming did not get angry, nor did he blame Hera. On the contrary, Yang Ming behaved very calmly, as if all this had already been part of his plan.
Then, Yang Ming hugged Hera gently and whispered a few words of encouragement.
Before leaving, Yang Ming seemed to be still worried that Hera would be under too much pressure. Like an elder caring for a younger person, he rubbed Hera's head and said softly:
'Just do it. We have come to this point and there is no turning back. I will always support you, just as you support me.'
Lu glanced at Hera in the giant ship and found that she had already returned to the laboratory.
The corners of Hera's mouth couldn't stop rising. She felt happy and relaxed, and became more motivated at work.
Looking at my boss...
Yang Ming lay quietly in the medical cabin, lost in thought, as if something in the air before his eyes was attracting him.
This made Lu a little worried.
Not far away, 026, sitting on the back of a tracked robot, floated over with two cups of hot drinks to replenish his energy, and asked with a smile: "Is it over there?"
Lu made a gesture to keep quiet.
026 blinked: "What's the matter?"
Lu shook his head and signaled 026 not to ask more questions.
Yang Ming stood up and jumped out of the medical cabin. He raised his hands and squeezed his cheeks twice, then pulled himself together: "I need to get back to the Imperial Star as soon as possible. I've been out for too long."
"Boss," Lu asked softly, "don't you blame me for hiding this?"
Yang Ming asked back: "Lv, will you betray me?"
"Of course not," Ritsu said softly, "I am a part of your life."
"Then why should I blame you and Hera?"
Yang Ming whispered:
"I can understand your starting point, and to be honest, I actually had a hunch before that Hera would most likely take this path.
“The direction of this experimental project is to clone Hera herself and create more human pseudo-queens… I was just thinking about what will happen next.
“When Hera chose this path, she was destined to face a tragedy of her own.
“Because this is already a tragedy in itself.
"How should she face those more than a thousand clones? Are these more than a thousand clones considered human? There is no doubt about it. What is their specific relationship with her? Are they the continuation of her life? Or, from the perspective of the limited number of cell divisions, are they her?
"Ah, my thoughts are very confused now. This incident really gave me a bit of a shock."
026 at the side asked quietly: "Is there something wrong with Miss Hera?"
"She's fine," Yang Ming smiled. "She's working hard to advance the experiment, which means a lot to us, that's all."
Lu stood aside with his hands behind his back, puffing up his lips, and whispered, "Boss, if you are angry, just scold me."
"What are you scolding me for?"
Yang Ming comforted:
"Hera made the sacrifice, and you chose to help her, and I am the direct beneficiary. If I continue to scold you two, I will become a green tea... Stop looking so stern, come over and give me a hug."
Ritsu blinked continuously: "Me, me? Want to hug me, boss?"
"otherwise?"
Yang Ming opened his arms and waited quietly: "Come here quickly."
Lu suddenly became nervous, and the main brain component next to him seemed to be smoking.
"Boss! I'm just a virtual body made with simulated gravity. How about I order a body like Guina's...嘤!"
While she was still talking, Yang Ming took two steps forward, hugged her tightly and strangled her twice.
Although the simulated gravity technology brought a tactile sense that was extremely close to that of a real person, there was still a slight penetration of Yang Ming's arms and Lu's back.
A bunch of garbled characters appeared in Lu's core thinking area.
Before her onboard mainframe began to smoke, Yang Ming's voice rang in her ears:
"Lü, you have to remember that the most direct way for us to surpass the Empire is to take on the third Omnic Twilight assessment.
“It is crucial that I can resonate with the Omnic Twilight again.
"Think about Levi Sherman and why he was turned away. I seem to be following his path now."
"No boss," Ritsu whispered, "You are the best leader."
Yang Ming let go of Lu's projection, smiled and shook his head, then walked towards the tail cabin.
The Dongfeng began to return to the spaceport outside the Imperial Star.
After watching Yang Ming leave, Lu stood beside the medical cabin thoughtfully, analyzing the true emotions of his host, boss, master, and male god at the moment.
026 came over and asked quietly, "Did you have a disagreement with the boss?"
"No," Lu looked a little depressed, "I acted on my own initiative and made him unhappy. He can't get angry with me and Miss Hera."
"A clone of Miss Hera? Is this part of an experimental project?"
"Yes."
Lu sighed and explained:
"After a series of exploratory experiments, Miss Hera came to a conclusion - her ability to coexist with those high-dimensional microorganisms was not accidental, but the result of interference.
“With the technology we have, we cannot conduct reverse engineering of this interference technology, nor can we understand the basic principles of high-dimensional interference.
"The only thing we can do is replicate this result."
“I can understand this.”
026 folded his arms and whispered:
"But Xiaolu, why did you hide this from the boss?"
"It was because of Miss Hera's repeated pleas."
Lu sighed helplessly:
"I don't know what happened to me at the time, why I agreed to help her conceal it, now I am very, very passive.
"I have absolutely no intention of betraying my boss. I just think that this project is something we must carry out so that we can get more investment from the Fayya people. In the long run, if we can find a way to fight the Zerg, it will be a blessing for the human species.
"But I now feel a deep sense of guilt."
"Don't think too much," 026 said with a smile, "You are just a mechanical thinking body, and your emotions are simulated! Just because the boss didn't scold you two, it doesn't mean you two did anything wrong!"
"No, I did make a mistake. I just realized now that the way I calculated things was too much based on rationality and profit."
Lu folded his arms and whispered:
“I shouldn’t analyze this matter from a purely rational perspective.
“He is the principal responsible for our group.
"Our actions can all be seen as following his will, especially me. I am the incarnation of the boss and the link that allows the boss to control our power. My concealment of the truth will also make him feel uneasy.
“In fact, no matter what Hera’s starting point is, Hera is the boss’s employee. The fact that Hera used cloning technology to clone herself as an experimental sample is essentially related to the boss.
"Miss Hera will keep killing herself. She is also the boss's former lover. The two have lived together for so long, so they must have feelings for each other... This kind of thing is really beyond human ethics. The boss will feel that he is constantly killing Hera... Ah, my teacher! What on earth did I do! This is terrible!"
This was the first time Lu felt so depressed.
026 asked quietly, "Then can we do something for the boss? To make amends?"
Lu raised his hand to his forehead and said, "I'm going to write a self-review. As for you, you can put on your backless vest backwards and practice a bunny dance. Believe me, the boss loves this."
"Bah! Oh my! Why are you becoming more and more indecent!"
026 rushed up fiercely.
Lu disappeared without a trace, leaving behind two weak chuckles.
…
at the same time.
In a secret spaceport within the Luofeng Alliance.
Tens of thousands of pirates in uniform gathered in a huge protective cover, enjoying the comfortable gravity brought by the simulated gravity field, and performing some sports and primitive interactions.
Mimily sat at the command console of the pirate fleet's flagship, and her subordinates kept switching on the big screen in front of her.
Completely different from when she was in front of Yang Ming, Mimi Li here was no longer ladylike, well-behaved, and willful, but rather fierce, majestic, and wild. She had a ponytail, wore sexy hot pants and a small vest, had a black peach heart painted on her face, and the handle of the light blade hanging from her waist had dark red bloodstains.
Behind Mimili, the elite management of the pirate group was having a dinner together. There were dozens of burly women, each more ferocious than the other.
——They are the main staff of the Molly Miss Group’s concierge department.
"Gulululu!"
A lovely reminder sound came into Mimi's ear.
Molly, wearing a maid outfit, sat in a duck position on a floating ball and floated to Mimili's side:
"The old master has sent a communication! Do you want to talk to him?"
Mimi Li subconsciously glanced behind her and whispered, "Connect it, and hide the background."
“Okay, turn on privacy mode!”
"No malicious cuteness allowed."
Molly complained unconvincedly: "How can I have that!"
A few rays flashed, and a bust of old Kolev appeared in front of Mimily. The bust was only the size of a fist, and the figure was blurred.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Mimi asked with a smile, "Are there new competitors that need me to beat?"
"Oh, that's not it, Mimili..."
Kolev groaned for a few seconds.
He had a lot of things he wanted to say, but he couldn't open his mouth.
The child has grown up, Mimi is no longer that little brat, she is wise, brave, cruel and decisive. She is an outstanding pirate leader, even better than herself.
But, this is the only thing...
"Mimilie, you are dating Hamton, right?"
"Well," Mimi Li's smile gradually faded, and she said very seriously, "I was the one who took the initiative to pursue my uncle, and he rejected me for ten years before he finally... I'm very happy now, and I don't plan to take this relationship to the next level, it's good to maintain the status quo..."
"I'm not talking about that," Kolev groaned for a few seconds, "Mimili, I'm talking about a very serious topic."
"Okay, Dad, whatever you say."
"How many children do you plan to have? If you want more than two, would you consider giving our family name to one of them?"
Kolev's old face glowed red, his eyes full of anticipation:
"I can help you name your child, right? Oh, this is just wonderful, it would be great if your mother could live to see this day."
Mimi's expression was dull for a moment.
Bang!
Her right hand was as fast as a phantom, and she directly deleted the call. Then she slumped in the chair, covering her forehead and uttering a weak groan.
She, the Pirate Queen Mimily, was born.
…
"There are more than a thousand Heras. Are they all crazy scientists? If this gets out of control, it will be fatal."
On the ferry back to Emperor Star, Boss Yang was lost in thought at the starry sky.
Yes, Yang Ming did not feel frustrated at all.
At this moment, he was more immersed in the shock brought by the more than one thousand nutrient tanks, and what he said himself - he was thinking about what role so many clones would play.
The only thing that made Yang Ming feel a little depressed was that he could not help Hera at all.
Boss Yang looked back on his experiences with Hera, from the time they met and lived together, to when Hera was close to collapse because of her father's death, to today. Every step Hera took seemed to have been calculated.
The moment he saw those clones, Yang Ming vaguely caught a glimpse of the big hand floating behind Hera.
The Fayya were watching Hera.
'Are the Fayats the enemy?'
Yang Ming asked himself repeatedly, but could not give himself a definite answer.
When it comes to the Fayals, we cannot use crude concepts like enemy or friend, as the implications are too profound.
In any case, Emilia's birthday was successfully celebrated.
This can only be considered a small episode.
Half a month later, Boss Yang received two letters of apology.
A review came from Hera, which was only a few hundred words. She expressed her regret for her risky behavior in a somewhat helpless tone.
A review from Lu, nearly 10,000 words long, listed the working mechanism of her emotional core, the data friction caused by the interaction between rational and emotional modules, and the arrangement of some key data.
Although Yang Ming didn't understand much of the content;
But he could truly feel Lu's guilt and anxiety, and how much effort she put into writing this review.
Yang Ming gave them simple replies, one was [OK] and the other was [Got it].
Hera's giant scientific research ship is sailing freely in the Milky Way and has dropped traction coordinates at several relatively safe coordinate points to facilitate long-distance jumps when avoiding the Zerg swarm.
Although the Luofeng-Dark Star system has made preparations to fight the Zerg, Yang Ming and Lu are still worried. They produce as many materials and military supplies as possible and try their best to minimize the losses caused by the Zerg tide.
Swarm.
war.
The fire of human civilization in the Milky Way seems to be in danger.
At this point in time, human civilization in the Milky Way is preparing for the upcoming insect swarm.
Whether it is the four major gangsters in the galaxy or the various small countries, they are all transferring almost all their resources to the task of fighting the Zerg tide.
Human exploration ships continued to appear in the border areas of the Milky Way. The Zerg naturally knew that humans were actively preparing for war, and the six major Zerg swarms, which had already gathered for the most part, began to gather faster.
The two major races are about to have a large-scale passionate collision in the Milky Way.
Yang Ming devoted himself completely to the busy official duties.
Wearing the Knight Commander's Medal, he went in and out of several important departments of the Imperial Star. Occasionally, he also had to participate in some interviews and live broadcasts, using the influence of the White Ghost to relieve the mental pressure of the entire empire.
The empire's state machinery began to operate at full speed.
As one of the thirty-six official members of the Empire's Overall Planning Committee, Yang Ming also directly experienced the Sherman Empire's extremely terrifying war mobilization capabilities.
If it were a war of annihilation, the empire would be alone against three of the three great powers and could easily destroy two of them before its own collapse!
Thanks to the efforts of various departments of the empire, the more than 200 administrative stars classified as "marginal buffer zones" did not form a refugee crisis.
One underground shelter after another was quickly converted;
Thousands of large factories in the Imperial Star Circle have begun mass-producing biological shielding devices;
Hundreds of military factories in the Empire, as well as the "Levi Fleet Industrial Fleet" whose exact number Yang Ming could not determine, were producing all kinds of weapons that could effectively kill the Zerg day and night;
Signed by Yang Ming, the Empire's "reserve fleet" was activated.
More than 30,000 retired and sealed warships of various types slowly lifted off from the desolate planets within the Imperial Star Circle.
In less than three months, the Empire mobilized 50 million former veterans and reservists, and the local defense fleet regiments were visibly strengthened.
Even the corrupt nobles of the empire began to stand up, donating supplies and munitions, and taking the initiative to send their children to the most dangerous front-line troops. They also spent huge amounts of money and resources to build new shelters in their territories to protect the people in their territories.
Under the heavy pressure from the Zerg , there was temporarily no noise in the empire.
Those resistance organizations ceased their activities, hid themselves completely, and waited quietly for the insect tide to recede.
'This is the Empire.'
Yang Ming felt a trace of honor in his heart, but it was quickly crushed.
He could no longer have any favorable feelings toward the Empire.
Yang Ming cannot give a definite answer as to whether the Faya people are enemies or not.
But Sherman's Empire was undoubtedly his enemy.
…
Countdown to the Zerg Tide: 162 standard galactic days.
