Chapter 436: Underground City Cluster
The voices of the old men's stories gradually faded away.
Yang Ming sat on the sofa in the corner of the 'cafe' - this gathering place functioned like a cafe - and was stunned for four or five minutes without moving.
Outside the window, the square of the underground city, illuminated by simulated sky light, looks like a real clear sky on the surface.
Pedestrians come and go, the scene is busy and fulfilling.
The Domingos here seem to be able to maintain a positive and healthy attitude, and the neatly arranged buildings a little further away demonstrate the orderly life here.
Yang Ming raised his hand and pinched his nose, continuing to ponder.
Labdo is currently obtaining intelligence by "invading the Domingos' supercomputers and servers."
While Yang Ming was talking to these elderly people, Xiao Lu had already completed the work that Labdo had not yet completed, and sorted out a "story outline" for Yang Ming.
"law?"
Yang Ming called out softly.
He gently turned the dial of his watch, and Lu's bust appeared quietly. A hidden earphone popped out from the corner of the watch and was put into Yang Ming's ear.
"Boss, Labdo's robot is nearby, we better be careful."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Don't you think this artificial intelligence is not up to par?"
"But boss," Lu answered seriously, "you taught me to despise them strategically and pay attention to them tactically. Even the most useless enemy is still an enemy, and we must treat them with caution."
"You've heard the conversation here, so help me summarize it. My mind is a bit confused right now."
"Okay, boss. This story starts from the Big Bang... well, from the initial reclamation of Planet Domingos..."
According to the information Lu has collected now, and according to the rumors about the ancestors of Domingos Star, about thousands of years ago, the ancestors of Domingos Star came from a spaceship called "Rebuilding Civilization". The spaceship landed on this planet due to a malfunction and became the pioneers of Domingos Star.
This sounds like a pretty standard space adventure story.
But in reality, this is a lie.
According to the information decrypted by Lu, Domingos was an abandoned resource planet more than 16,200 years ago. Due to its harsh environment and barely habitable environment, it was once used as a place of exile for the empire.
Later, due to changes within the empire - some border unrest, or border changes caused by a long period of time, the worthless exile planet Domingos gradually disappeared from the imperial map data. The empire no longer threw exiled criminals here, and it became a "paradise" isolated from the world, incapable of space travel, and excluded from the pan-galactic human civilization.
The Imperials who were once exiled here completed the initial reclamation of the planet. Using the equipment left behind by the former Imperial garrison, they gradually changed the planet's climate, making the planet's atmosphere suitable for human survival, and gradually becoming a sub-habitable planet.
Then, about seven thousand galactic years ago, a spaceship called "Re-Civilization" landed, and the armed forces that rushed out of it occupied this place.
The historical information organized according to the law has roughly restored the original appearance of the events of that year.
"It was a robbery and massacre of small political entities similar to that of pirate gangs."
Then, for hundreds of years, the planet became a paradise for black market trade and pirates.
As time went on, the concept of the Domingos was born, the planet had its own history and culture, and the Domingos nation gradually formed.
This is how the Domingos nation came to be.
"That is to say, the ancestors of the Domingos were interstellar pirates and criminals exiled by the empire."
"Yes, boss. If we calculate by numbers, the Imperials have an absolute advantage. From the perspective of the ethnic gene map, there is no problem in believing that the Domingos are the descendants of the Imperials who lived 16,000 years ago."
"Is the fact that Li is here related to those imperial exiles?"
"Well, I only got a little information. This underground city is closer to the upper level, and the information stored in the database is only a few words."
Lu hummed a few times and said quickly:
“Regarding the ‘Goddess of Reason and Wisdom’, the earliest record can be traced back to 740 years ago.
"The Domingos had encountered some development bottlenecks at the time. They had already established their own country, but they were completely powerless to resist the fangs of international capital. The country was about to become a dumping ground for international capital.
"For the first time, the goddess of reason and wisdom appeared before the head of the Domingos government."
Lu's voice paused, and his accent changed a little , like an old scholar reading a book, nitpicking on every word:
"She seemed to have descended from the sky, a true god from the illusion. She had a mature and beautiful appearance and pure and innocent eyes. She brought us technology that would allow us to survive in the sinister capital war.
“This is the original historical record I found.
“What is certain is that, initially, it was this ‘goddess’ who provided Domingos with a batch of technology through the Internet, which barely allowed Domingos to retain its own capital market.
“Since then, the goddess of reason and wisdom has been secretly helping the Domingos develop.
“And the existence of this goddess was kept a secret by the leaders of the Domingos.
"Until the establishment of the Tree of Life, the goddess was officially 'deified'. Then the Domingos tragedy broke out, and this goddess became the religious belief of the Domingos people."
More than seven hundred and forty galactic years ago...
Yang Ming always felt that this number was somewhat familiar.
Yang Ming's mind raced, and he suddenly asked, "Lv, what happened to the Empire more than 740 galactic years ago?"
"New calendar reform, boss."
New calendar reform?
Ah, yes, the Imperial New Calendar.
Yang Ming seemed to suddenly understand.
It is now the 738th year of the Imperial New Calendar. Exactly 740 years ago, there was some turmoil within the Empire.
According to the imperial history textbooks, the new calendar reform successfully imposed constraints on imperial power and turned it into a bridle to restrain the imperial aristocracy. After the new calendar reform, the basic rights of the people of the empire were guaranteed, which was a direct manifestation of the influence of civil rights on imperial power.
Lu laughed and said, "Boss, I suddenly have a bold guess."
"What guess?"
"The goddess here is reason. To be more precise, it should be the second form of reason. The reason that Domingos believes in is quite different from the reason that serves as the defense system for the entire empire.
"Li is guarding something here, and this mission does not directly conflict with the mission given to Li by Levi Sherman."
Lu smiled and said:
“Boss, why don’t we go to the city deeper underground?
"If this is true, then there must be an incarnation of Reason here, an incarnation of Reason that is not imprisoned. We may be able to get a lot of information from her.
"Or, we can get a path here on how to help Li out of trouble and let Li help us in return."
Yang Ming's heart was pounding.
However, Boss Yang turned his head and looked outside the window again.
"Lu, the empire doesn't know this, right?" Yang Ming asked.
Law quick answer:
“Yes, boss. The information was hidden. These underground cities were built quickly after the Domingos tragedy. Although the Empire knew about it, it did not interfere considering the panic of the Domingos people.
“The Empire didn’t know that the Domingos had built such a large city complex underground and supported such a large population.
“There is also a bug here.”
"BUG?"
"Yes."
Lu smiled and said:
“Or, this underground city cluster has extremely advanced defense technology, which can avoid the detection of warships that frequently appear outside Domingos Star.
"Or, the Imperial warships that were exploring this place were affected in some way, causing their detection instruments to be unable to produce valid data.
“I think it’s most likely the latter.
"This is also an important basis for me to conclude that there is a second form of the clone of the principle here."
Yang Ming nodded, picked up the refreshing drink and took a sip, thinking about where to start next.
Yang Ming asked: "What did Labdo find out?"
"He just broke through the core database of this layer," Lu said with a sigh. "Obviously, the tool library he has is very limited. He is not yet proficient in using unconventional communication methods. These should be limited by the technology of the empire itself."
"How about we take advantage of it?"
There was a cunning gleam in Yang Ming's eyes.
“If you go and investigate directly, it will be easy to contradict each other, so it is better to let Labdo go.
"Behind Labdo are the elite ruling faction of the empire. In a sense, it can threaten Li. Only by causing a conflict between the two of them can we really benefit."
"Boss," Lu reminded, "Labdo can't be a match for Li, even if he is Li's clone."
"Let him try," Yang Ming said, "If young people don't try their luck and experience the dangers of the world, how can they know... that lying down is the most comfortable?"
Yang Ming adjusted the collar of his robe.
"Go find our little Labdo. This robe is so uncomfortable. It's like walking without any protection."
Lu asked in a low voice: "But boss, Labdo now controls more than 800 imperial warships. If he is provoked and directly attacks these three Domingos planets, it may cause a large-scale humanitarian disaster."
“First of all, this itself is a test for Labdo.
"Secondly, I don't need to care about these guys who have nothing to do with me."
Yang Ming shook his head:
"No matter how much we try to whitewash it, the Domingos are still continuously supplying blood to terrorists. The poison gas bombs on Saka and the terrorist attacks by Chauvin Freedom on Ilando all have the shadow of the Domingos behind them.
"I would only think about how to use them. At most, I would cooperate with them, but not treat them as my brothers and sisters. Wouldn't that be too hypocritical?"
"Yes, boss," Ritsu laughed, "I'll give Labdo a little extra speed, his arsenal of tools is really meager."
…
Labdo was now in great shock.
These Domingos people actually built such a large-scale underground city right under the nose of the empire!
At the same time, Labdo admired the ghost master, Lieutenant General Hanton even more.
He is so powerful!
Needless to say, his personal strengths are beyond words. His powerful acting skills and camouflage abilities make Labdo call him an expert. It doesn't seem like he is performing at all, but rather he is indeed a veteran pirate!
Now, the pressure is on Labdo.
He had to find out the secrets here and open their confidential database without alerting the Domingos.
Labdo originally thought that this was just a small matter.
Who is he? A product of the Empire's cutting-edge network technology, he stands at the top of the artificial intelligence of human civilization in the Milky Way. Breaking the backward network of these Domingos is simply... simply... is...
It's a little difficult.
Labdo's mind body did not open up its own mind space. If someone stared at his root host monitor, they could clearly see that this guy's expression changed from relaxed at the beginning to gradually solemn, and then began to frown;
Finally, he got himself a bottle of wine, lit a cigarette, made a background picture of a bustling city night scene, sat there and began to feel depressed.
He actually couldn't figure out the Domingos' encryption method!
Who can I go to for justice?
Labdo got furious and directly called upon the computing power of the main brains of hundreds of warships in outer space on Domingos's mother planet, and began to compete with the core database of the outermost underground city on Domingos planet.
Labdo quickly discovered several problems.
First, there is no information about the Domingos’ underground city in the Imperial database.
Second, according to his continuous investigation, there are seven underground cities in total, each with its own independent network, which is absolutely physically isolated, and the security is stricter as you go deeper. The population of these seven cities is evenly distributed, and they have a full range of living necessities. The scope is very large, and the seven-story underground structure can easily support a billion people.
Third, there are very few automated machines here, and people use manual labor wherever possible. There seems to be a natural distrust of machines .
Their average technological level is comparable to that of the pan-economic zone outside the Imperial Star Circle. The people's living standards are not low, and material resources are also abundant.
Labdo thought about it carefully.
According to the Empire's style of doing things, they could have directly launched an attack on the Domingos and strangled the "sinister" Domingos civilization in the cradle.
But Labdo remembered the warning of his idol, White Ghost.
"We must not alert the enemy and try not to cause casualties among innocent people."
Labdo reminded himself repeatedly and continued to fight against the database in front of him.
Whenever he thought about the six underground structures and six databases with higher technological levels, the corners of his mouth could not help but twitch slightly.
He roughly calculated the time it would take him to crack the outermost database.
Thirty-two galactic days and six galactic hours...
Taking the wine, lighting a cigarette, and looking at the background picture, Labdu fell into a deep depression again.
Right at this moment!
Labdo heard a "click" sound, and the key matching that he had been trying randomly was successful. Labdo's root host almost jumped up. ——Of course, he didn't have the power structure to jump.
Done!
Solved!
It was as if Labdo had opened a door and found a large amount of data displayed in the other party's database. He immediately began to organize the data.
At this moment, the robot controlled by Labdo suddenly heard a shrill alarm, and red words popped up in the database.
The maintenance robot, which was inserting its fingers into a charging port on the street, turned its head to look to the side. More than a dozen uniformed patrolmen in front and behind stared at it. A micro drone was hovering in the air, shining a beam of light on Labdo's robot head.
"The intruder is there!"
"Is it a robot? How did it sneak in?"
“Grab it!”
Labdo shook his head, quickly pulled out his finger, turned around and ran back the way he came.
He wants to find his idol, the White Ghost, General Hanton, who is the strongest fighting force in the empire and can easily wipe out the city.
However, after Labdo ran a few steps, he heard an explosion not far away.
It looked up and saw a large group of drones in the sky, chasing a figure running on the roof of a building and bombarding them wildly. Laser weapons were flashing and there was chaos on the streets.
“Oh!”
Labdo's electronic eyes burst into sharp light.
They actually dared to attack the Empire's Lieutenant General. This is a crime punishable by bombing the entire planet!
All ships...
“This way!”
Yang Ming suddenly yelled, and jumped down from a residential building several dozen meters high. Without giving Labdo a chance to say anything, he picked up the maintenance robot, turned around and ran towards the alley ahead.
"Hurry and show us the way, Labdo! We need to find a place to hide first!"
"Oh, well...I suggest bombing them!"
"What the hell do you want to be accused of massacre by those rubbish politicians in the New Federation? Find a place to hide first!"
"I understand, sir. You have considered it more comprehensively than I have. Please go to the left and I will show you the way. I have already found a hiding place! These Domingos are planning a huge conspiracy, and I have received this part of the data!"
