Chapter 401: Deep Space Movement
“How shameful!”
On the way back to the lord's mansion from the military camp, Yang Ming leaned back in his chair and sighed to the sky.
Daphne on the side covered her mouth and chuckled.
Daphne, who had just witnessed the whole process of Yang Ming and his private army commanders' blood-thirsty killing, comforted them:
"Some of your men are smart. Even if they were placed in the regular army of the empire, they would be trained to be talented generals. It is not unfair that you lost to them.
"What's more, they also limit your strengths - you can't join the battle."
Yang Ming complained: "Are you comforting me or insulting me?"
"Of course it's a comfort," Daphne laughed.
"Okay, comfort me," Yang Ming leaned back in his chair and slowly closed his eyes, "There will be no more necessary activities next time. I will stay here for half a month without any worries."
Daphne asked, "Didn't the Super Reformer Organization send you an invitation letter, wanting you to come over and train the Super Reformers?"
"That's not urgent," Yang Ming said slowly, "The insecticide experience I can pass on to them is backed up in the Empire's database. This is the vacation you fought so hard to get for me, so I have to cherish it, right?"
Daphne smiled with narrowed eyes, with a hint of tenderness that could not be dispelled.
Yang Ming looked at her for a few seconds, then took out his own network terminal and opened the special application installed for him by the military. A simple map of the empire's territory appeared in front of them.
The so-called territorial map itself omits 99.9 percent of naturally existing celestial bodies and only specially marks out the administrative stars.
Yang Ming began to study the empire's military deployment to deal with the insect tide.
Daphne said softly, "Didn't you say you wanted to rest?"
"I'm still a little worried," Yang Ming sighed softly, "The Empire is where my home planet will live in the future, and I don't want to see any problems with the Empire."
"Besides this?" Daphne asked, "You have no feelings for the Empire?"
"Do I need to have feelings for the Empire?"
"Of course, this is not a necessity," Daphne smiled, leaning back in the soft chair and closing her eyes, not looking at the information she was not authorized to see.
Several thoughts kept running through Yang Ming's mind.
In other words, there were three things that he was always worried about, which made him unable to completely calm down:
Is Li going to take action against him? What method will he use to take action against him? What exactly is he going to do by borrowing him?
When does "Faya's Game" start?
How large will this insect swarm be? Will the Queen target the Faya people's "Valkyrie Project", that is, him and the Valkyrie Posa?
"We should think of a way to allow Posu to be with me openly."
Yang Ming kept thinking.
He had already prepared enough biological shielding devices on the Dongfeng, and the twelve prepared evil ghost mechas were also equipped with shielding devices.
Nothing else, just cherish your life.
After spending a peaceful half month on Sakaar, Yang Ming rushed to the main base of the Super Modifiers, and Daphne returned to her tour to encourage the people.
During the past half month, they were like a couple in love, spending all their time together.
But they did not have any interaction between the two sexes. At most, Yang Ming was hugged and leaned on when they slept, and in front of outsiders, Yang Ming would hug Daphne's waist and kiss her cheek.
That's enough.
They both got what they wanted in the relationship.
However, after the two separated, sitting in their respective ships, they would still look up at the porthole.
"Lil, was I a little cruel to Daphne?"
"Boss, she is very ambitious."
"Yeah," Yang Ming sighed and shook his head, putting aside these distracting thoughts and began to contact his real girlfriend, Mimili.
The super reformers are all his people, so there won't be any problem letting Mimili come over to keep them company.
…
Countdown to the Zerg Tide: 105 standard galactic days.
On the top floor of a hotel on the surface of the planet where the Super Modifier Training Base is located.
Yang Ming was lying on the water wearing only his shorts, and next to him was Mimili who was wearing a bathrobe and showing off her perfect figure.
She drank some wine and looked a little dazed. She kept pinching some fruits and putting them to Yang Ming's mouth. From time to time, she would come up to him and kiss his forehead and cheeks, and then rub his forehead.
Yang Ming had a headache.
A physical headache.
It seems that the instinct of the ancient god's life form is at work.
Now, as long as he closed his eyes, he could always see the starry sky. When he looked around, he could always see pairs of cold eyes.
Bugs, endless bugs, gathering in every corner on all sides.
He already felt some kind of deadly threat.
"Mad!"
Yang Ming cursed: "Believe it or not, I will rush over and chop them up!"
Mimi Li on the side smiled and touched Yang Ming's head: "Lü said that Po Su also had a similar phenomenon. She was very uneasy and stopped playing games and watching movies. She also took the initiative to ask Lu to prepare enough weapons and equipment for her."
"Tell Lu to send the shielding device over as soon as possible."
"The new production line is already in operation, and the enhanced shielding device will arrive in three days."
Yang Ming groaned: "We will be tortured for another three days. Let's go back to the Dongfeng."
"No uncle, you still have a few classes to go to, and we have to keep our promise to those super-transformers."
Mimili dived into the water, like a mermaid, circling around Yang Ming, her wet long hair draped over her fair and smooth skin, and the charming fragrance penetrated Yang Ming's nose.
"I'm here to help you relieve the pain."
She whispered into Yang Ming's ear, then exhaled a fragrant breath and pulled Yang Ming into the water.
An anti-spying light was lit up next to the swimming pool, and the eight combat maid robots further away turned their heads on their own, their expressions becoming very calm.
…
Countdown to the Zerg Tide: 96 standard galactic days.
The first star of the Luofeng Alliance is in the palace of Yilanduo.
Emilia, in her nightgown, sat cross-legged in an office chair, wearing protective glasses, looking at the thin reports in front of her.
It was just a military report of a few thousand words, but she had been reading it for half an hour.
"Ms. Guina?"
Emilia suddenly looked up and asked.
Gui Na, who was dressed in an elegant evening gown, immediately stepped forward and responded, "Your Highness, your orders."
"Can we stop it?"
Emilia asked:
"What I mean is, can we resist the insect tide with only our current military strength?
"The data I saw in this report is indeed somewhat worrying."
Miss Guina smiled faintly: "If we only rely on the apparent military strength of the Luofeng Alliance, we should have to pay some price and lose some marginal administrative stars."
Emilia sighed, "So, the question now is, do we take the risk of exposing the Dark Star and protect all the administrative stars, or do we use our current strength to fight the Zerg and sacrifice a few administrative stars."
" You could say that."
Guina said slowly:
“However, this is just a simple and general situation, the real situation is much more complicated.
"First, we can roughly rule out the possibility of direct communication between the Zerg and the human world. As long as we avoid human sight, we can use our real fleet unscrupulously.
"Secondly, the main attack route of the Zerg in this direction is the Sherman Empire. According to the Zerg's gathering and movement trends, they will attack from the northern and eastern regions of the Sherman Empire. We just happened to avoid the large Zerg swarms here.
“But no one can guarantee this. The Zerg may also use some tactics to mobilize troops. They are very cunning and smart.
"Third, the Zerg will most likely not target planets with mechanical life forms. So, even if Luo Feng suffers a greater loss, if our boss doesn't want to lose money, he doesn't have to support humans."
Emilia pursed her lips slightly: "So, will bounty hunters help humans?"
"At the moment, it seems that they will," Guina smiled with narrowed eyes, "The principle given to us by the boss is to temporarily put aside the hostility between us and the Empire and protect the Luofeng Alliance without exposing ourselves."
Emilia breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. My stress has been reduced by half instantly."
Guina turned her head and looked outside the door: "The emperor is calling me. I'll leave first, Your Highness."
"Ah, wait!"
Emilia suddenly remembered something, stood up, ran barefoot to the cabinet nearby, and took out a pocket memory card.
"Help me give this to the bounty hunter. It contains a video."
"Okay," Guina smiled, "I will definitely deliver it to you... Can you satisfy my curiosity? What's inside it?"
"A video of his birthday wishes," Emilia shrugged. "He celebrated my birthday, so I naturally want to send him some blessings. Today is the day."
Gui Na nodded with a smile.
She did not remind her of the cruel fact that most of the information her boss left in Luofeng was false.
“You’re thoughtful.”
"Go ahead, don't let the omnic wait too long," Emilia curled her lips slightly, "Luckily you controlled him right after he arrived, otherwise I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to resist going up and chopping him down."
"Don't worry," Guina said softly, "an intelligent machine of this level can't cause any trouble in front of us."
…
Countdown to the Zerg Tide: 68 standard galactic days.
The military's 'insect tide response' command center - a five-kilometer-long super aircraft carrier.
On the bridge, on the command deck of this super aircraft carrier, Yang Ming, wearing a dark green imperial military uniform and holding a lightsaber in his hand, kept making some slashing gestures.
In front of him, the projector projected a sixth-level adult insect and a fifth-level adult insect.
About half a month ago, their committee temporarily passed a resolution to issue a batch of temporary strengthening injections to the various fleets of the Imperial Military.
These diluted injections can barely be used by adult soldiers with strong physical fitness, temporarily gaining combat power comparable to half a Gris.
The soldiers' training programs usually only include various firearms and ship subjects, but some time ago they began to add lightsaber courses and close combat subjects with cold weapons.
Now, every large ship of the Empire is equipped with three hundred additional lightsabers, and two diluted strengthening injections are tied to the hilt of each lightsaber.
This is for emergency use and is also the last means of counterattack for the soldiers on the ship when they come into close contact with the swarm of insects and the swarm of insects breaks into the ship.
Yang Ming is not optimistic about this method.
But when the military requested to hold a live class for all soldiers to explain how to kill insects, Yang Ming did not refuse. He gladly appeared here and told everyone about the weaknesses of insects.
“The primary weak spot is their foot segments.
"When the Zerg enter the ship, they will also be affected by the simulated gravity. If their limbs are destroyed, their ability to move will be restricted to a certain extent. They may even choose to leave the ship and fight remotely in space.
“I believe that everyone has read enough learning materials about the Zerg in the past year.
"But I still want to remind you, don't give up your long-range weapons until the critical moment. In terms of close combat, we humans are indeed far inferior to the Zerg..."
On the other end of the live broadcast, Yang Ming gave earnest instructions.
At the other end of the live broadcast, in the bridges and lounges of the Imperial warships, the Imperial soldiers who were sitting upright had extremely eager light in their eyes.
In the star field led by the directional orbit near the star Saka, in the T32 battle cluster of the local defense force which gathered more than 600 warships, the group of young people from Yang Ming's private army were in high spirits at this moment.
Their lord had already told them these words.
That's on the surface of the planet, not in the vast universe.
Peterson stood in front of the porthole with his hands behind his back, looking at the messages popping up in the captain's special group chat, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
On his chest, a special badge is particularly eye-catching.
It was a silver-white skull with blazing flames burning around it. Its empty eyes, which were flickering with faint light, seemed like black holes that would never evaporate.
…
Countdown to the Zerg Tide: 36 standard galactic days.
A planet on the edge of the empire.
Amid the slight noise, Catherine stood in front of a railing and looked up at the dozens of gates above that were slowly closing.
They have entered an independently run 'rebel only' shelter.
The ventilation system started working at full capacity, and the warm air blowing in from the side ruffled Catherine's hair.
Several men and women appeared in the back.
"Boss, the shielding devices have been activated. It is probably safe here."
"The Free United States is really awesome. They gave us so much equipment for free. However, they also want us to consume the resources of the empire. I am not very grateful to them."
Someone said: "I think it was not given to us by the United States of Freedom, but by the financial backers behind our boss."
"The United States of Freedom was involved in a scandal last week. There are more than 20 extremely poor administrative planets. The quality of the shelters they built is problematic, and the number of shielding devices they equipped is insufficient. They simply abandoned billions of people. How could they give us the equipment for free if they don't have enough equipment?"
"Didn't the United States of Freedom sell shielding devices to half of the galaxy?"
"That's normal business behavior. They gave their country's military a 60% discount on the purchase price, which has already made the New Federation and the Guel Alliance very dissatisfied."
"But fortunately, the Free United States will not face the Zerg in the first round. Judging from the direction of the Zerg's attack, the Free United States and the Guel Alliance are both outside the deep offensive, and there are thick human civilization territories on the periphery as a barrier."
"The New Federation is really miserable. They have old and new grudges against the Zerg. Half of the Zerg swarm is targeting the New Federation."
"Fighting the Zerg is different from fighting the Empire. The New Federation's planetary defense system is the best in the galaxy."
"The Empire has to face two Zerg swarms."
A girl asked quietly, "As super-changers, don't we need to fight?"
The people who were chatting suddenly fell silent.
Catherine lowered her head and sighed, her gloved right hand reaching forward lightly, as if trying to grab some dust.
"No need. The Empire has no place for us at the moment, and we don't have enough ships to get out."
The mood of several people became obviously much lower.
The sounds of clang and clang were heard one after another, and dozens of gates closed at the same time.
Catherine suddenly said: "If a swarm of insects arrives on this planet, we can't just sit there and wait to die."
"yes!"
…
Countdown to the Zerg Tide: 19 standard galactic days.
Imperial Star, Imperial Palace Module, Imperial Palace Main Hall.
The sound of hurried and chaotic footsteps was heard outside the hall, and a large number of elders, nobles, and ministers from various departments hurried into the hall.
The old emperor also had a solemn expression on his face. He floated in from the back door in a suspended chair and sat down on the high platform.
"Tell me, what's the emergency?"
The most quick-talking elder in the Council of Elders immediately reported:
"Your Majesty! Zerg scouts have appeared at the border! There are about 100,000 high-level adults that can only achieve three-dimensional invisibility. They have entered the empire's star field and dispersed in all directions! They should be trying to spy on our military deployment and make their own tactical arrangements!"
"Hundreds of thousands of scouts?" The old emperor frowned tightly.
"Yes, Your Majesty. The operating mechanism of the Zerg's ability to jump is that the individual Zerg combine into warships. They combined into hundreds of small warships and broke into our border!"
The old emperor looked at the two highest commanders of the military.
"Your Majesty, our mobile fleet has begun an all-round interception. Currently, we have... the news just came in the last second, we have intercepted one-third of the Zerg warships! We have marked 80% of the enemy's warships!"
"They are looking for our fleet, Your Majesty!"
The emperor frowned and covered his forehead: "Is Emperor Guard 2.0 ready?"
"We are ready and can join the Empire's unified network at any time."
"Well, don't be impatient," the old emperor said, "We still have to trust the Imperial Guard system that has led the empire through tens of thousands of years. Imperial Guard 2.0, as a supplement, can make us feel much more at ease... Where is my Knight Commander?"
"Your Majesty, Knight Commander Hanton means that he might also be the target of the Queen, so he cannot come to the Imperial Star to protect her, and he cannot stay in the command center either. He has already rushed to the front-line troops."
"He's the target?"
The old emperor raised his eyebrows slightly: "Pass on my order, and say that the empire needs a hero like him to stand up. As long as he can repel the big queen, the empire will give him all the honors."
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
The old emperor exhaled lightly. He had poor stress resistance and now he felt the tremendous pressure from the powerful alien life forms.
"These damn bugs!"
The emperor began to speak foul language.
