Chapter 440: Labdo's Decision
Sangmu is a qualified leader.
Unfortunately, their patron saint and spiritual pillar Lingxin, for reasons that Sang's mother could not understand, chose to unconditionally trust the famous white ghost. When facing Yang Ming, Sang's mother was completely passive.
Sang's mother asked Yang Ming in a roundabout way what he wanted to get from them.
Yang Ming just smiled and shook his head, saying that he had no plans and only wanted to help the Domingos create a better future.
Sang's mother really couldn't believe such nonsense.
She couldn't get the answer she wanted by trying to figure it out indirectly, so she decided to be honest with Yang Ming and try to impress this imperial hero with her sincerity.
Mother Sang sighed and whispered, "Master Ghost, our goddess has unconditionally supported you. We don't have much choice left. Now, I must make sure that you will not let the imperial army attack us, right?"
"certainly."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "In fact, the problem now is the Empire's Entire Defense System 2.0, which is the robot I brought with me. Although it cannot break through the defense network set up by your goddess, it only needs to think about reporting the situation here to the empire, and it will cause this place to fall into an irreparable situation."
"This will be a disaster for us," Mother Sang frowned, "Can you stop it?"
"I am somewhat confident," Yang Ming said, "but the exact degree of confidence still depends on whether you can cooperate."
"So, these are all things that can be discussed, right?"
Yang Ming said, "Since you said so, I won't beat around the bush. I want information, detailed information about your extreme radicals."
Mother Sang pursed her lips tightly and said, "I don't want to betray my compatriots."
"You actually have no choice, Madam," Yang Ming said, "Ling Xin doesn't know you are doing these things. I think you should understand that what she wants to do is to protect your nation. You don't know the reason behind this, but I do."
"But……"
"Believe me, ma'am," Yang Ming said sincerely, "Give me their list. I can assure you that I will not let Labdo leak the news here."
Mother Sang raised her hand and rubbed her forehead.
The upward elevator moved very slowly, as she had deliberately instructed.
"I don't quite understand, Master Ghost," Mother Sang said, "What is your purpose in wanting this list? To make their identities public? They are still terrorists hiding at the border of the Empire, protected by the New Federation Intelligence Organization. Even if we have their list, it will be difficult to catch them."
Yang Ming could not directly say "I want to bring down the most powerful empire in the galaxy", nor could he expose his hostility towards the empire. Of course, he could not say that he supported many of the people behind the empire's resistance organizations.
"What I want is actually... peace."
Even Boss Yang himself couldn't believe this.
"Peace?"
Mother Sang stared at Yang Ming quietly: "Are you kidding me?"
"Not really," Yang Ming said, "The extreme radicals are a part of you that you must abandon. Only by erasing them can you truly usher in peace. You harbor hatred for the empire, which is reasonable and justified, but until you are strong enough, it is better to hide this hatred."
Mother Sang remained silent.
Yang Ming continued: "Is the existence of these people really that important to you?"
"They are my children as well," Mother Sang said with pain in her eyes, "Although they have been bewitched by the New Federation, but...if possible, I want to take the blame for them..."
Yang Ming sighed: "If the Domingos became part of the empire's powerful enemy, I could understand it, but they chose to become terrorists and attack innocent people to create terrorist incidents. This is a crime that I cannot tolerate."
"Well," Mother Sang whispered, "I can give you the list, but it will take about a day."
Yang Ming said, "Do it as soon as possible. I can stay here for a day. As long as I can get the list and there is no problem with the list of terrorists, I will have a better chance of persuading Labdo."
Mother Sang said: "You said before that you don't need to create any achievements..."
"Yes," Yang Ming said calmly, "but I cannot tolerate terrorists, especially those terrorists who made human gas bombs in my territory."
There was some ferocity in his eyes.
Mother Sang pursed her lips tightly, stood up and bowed deeply to Yang Ming, and whispered: "I hope you will not let down the goddess' trust. We have no way out."
There are only two of them here.
Yang Ming did not dodge sideways, but accepted the other party's salute calmly, and couldn't help feeling a little emotional in his heart.
"It's not easy for our own civilization."
But no matter what, the extreme radicals among the Domingos have become the abandoned children of the Domingos.
…
Mother Sang went to prepare the information for the Domingos.
Yang Ming got out of the elevator and appeared in the center of City No. 3. Relying on the protection of "Sister Lingxin" here, he strolled around with his hands in his pockets.
Life here is indeed peaceful, and you can feel that the Domingos are very united.
Yang Ming walked around the nearest school and climbed over the wall in front of the alarm system and surveillance cameras. The surveillance system did not respond at all.
Yang Ming found their history textbook and read it for a long time.
This thing cannot be faked temporarily .
What surprised Yang Ming was that the content of the textbook was actually quite objective and rational, without much inflammatory content.
Their "Ancient History" tells the story of the initial reclamation process more than 10,000 years ago, but beautifies the details of "imperial criminal exiles" and changes it to "a spaceship stayed on this abandoned resource planet due to its own malfunction."
In Recent History, the Domingos described the Domingos Massacre in detail.
What made Boss Yang feel quite favorable was the team that compiled these history books and their questions about the imperial invasion war.
[This was an out-and-out imperial hegemony bullying of a weak nation, and it is also a history that we must never forget. In the complex interstellar environment at the time, we blindly followed the politicians of the New Federation and placed our planet under the guns of the Empire. The war criminals of the Empire, with their brutal and barbaric acts, caused permanent and unhealable scars on us.
【We cannot forgive the invaders on behalf of our dead compatriots;
We are not qualified to forgive the demons who raised the butcher knife on behalf of the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to resist the invasion;
[We have no reason to decide for future Domingos whether we should become part of these perpetrators...]
After leaving the school, Boss Yang felt mixed emotions.
The weak Domingos had already been distorted to a certain extent under the strong pressure of the empire.
They tried their best to propose the policy of "don't provoke the empire" in a decent way, hoping that they could recuperate and continue to survive in the interstellar space. As a result, three factions emerged: the revenge faction, the radical faction, and the survival faction.
This time I came here, the harvest has been too rich.
The most important gain is that they got a new helper - Lingxin, and Xiaolu got Lingxin's core data and established the right to supervise Lingxin.
For a mechanical thinking being, this is equivalent to "surrendering".
Secondly, there is the list that is about to be obtained.
Yang Ming was going to hand over the list to the Imperial Military Intelligence Bureau, but before doing so, he had to do two things.
First, dig out the organization that was involved in the Sakaar poison gas bomb incident. If the Military Intelligence Agency can kill them, then kill them. If not, then he will do it himself.
Second, let Lu grasp the every move of these terrorists, and then exert direct pressure through the arrest of the Military Intelligence Bureau and his own pursuit, and try to force these desperate criminals into the organization indirectly controlled by Catherine, so as to directly strengthen Catherine's power.
If these resistance groups want to create real pressure on the empire, what other options are there except to unite?
There is a third point, and that is the Domingos themselves.
The Tree of Life and the Domingos home planet maintain a great influence on the Domingos in the Empire, and the Domingos are now one of the main ethnic groups that make up the Empire's slaves.
The tens of billions of slaves in the empire are like a bomb that can explode at any time.
In the future, all that is needed is for the Dark Star system to continuously produce cost-effective small and medium-sized warships. Then a considerable number of these Domingos will become the Imperial rebels who can rise up at any time.
This is a real help, but it is a bit cruel to the Domingos.
Buzz, buzz!
Yang Ming picked up his watch and glanced at it. It was a reminder from Lu.
[Boss, they are indeed preparing a comprehensive list, and many of the terrorists I marked before are on it.]
Boss Yang raised his eyebrows slightly.
The Domingos have shown him sincerity, so he should go find Labdo and have a good talk.
Yang Ming returned to the library, made a cup of hot drink, and leisurely read the entertainment books there for a while.
Every move of Labdu is under Lu's watch, so there is no need to worry that Labdu will suddenly get desperate and leak the information here.
This guy is quite obedient and has been trying hard to break through the firewall here.
The Imperial Fleet's supercomputer in space was almost smoking, but it still couldn't find any valuable information.
After finishing a cup of hot drink, Boss Yang left the sofa that he had warmed up, and went to the maintenance station near the library, where he found the sanitation robot that was still pretending to be charging.
There was no one around, so Yang Ming walked straight forward and knocked on the robot's head.
"how's it going?"
"Oh, sir," Labdo lowered his voice to the lowest level, "Why did you come directly here? Although I have already affected the surveillance nearby and the robots here, it is still too dangerous to meet directly!"
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Don't worry, we have a big fist, so what are we afraid of? How did you harvest?"
"well!"
Labdo sighed, and a slightly depressed emoticon appeared on the screen of the sanitation robot.
"I am imperfect. I am sure that I am lacking in ability. I still have a long way to go before I can be mature and reliable. I... this security system is too difficult! My Lord, I can't open it!"
He actually started to cry.
Yang Ming quickly comforted him: "Everyone has their own expertise. Labdo, this may not be what you are good at. You are better at arranging troops, right?"
"That's computing power... It's not my specialty..."
Labdo hung his round head, and the makeshift external positron brain inside his cylindrical body also revealed a sad emotion.
Who could know that he was heartbroken.
His advanced version of the empire's national defense system couldn't even solve the data security system of a weak nation.
Yang Ming said in a deep voice: "Labdo, I think we can have a good chat."
"Well," Labdo asked, "you can just give me the order directly."
"No, what I want to talk about may be a little risky for you," Yang Ming said seriously, "Let's go for a walk outside. Don't worry, I have just contacted their leader directly, and they will not target us now."
"Oh," Labdeau wondered, "how did you ..."
Yang Ming smiled and said: "Although violence cannot solve the problem, it can provide a shortcut."
"That's right."
"Come on, let's go for a walk."
Yang Ming sat directly on Labdu's back, ignoring the curious gazes of the young men and women around him, and called Labdu to go to the street.
They went to the nearby hospital and shopping mall, walked around everywhere, and then arrived at the embankment of an artificial river, where they took a leisurely stroll and chatted.
"Labdo, what does it feel like?"
"Well," Labdo groaned for a few seconds, "It's very peaceful here, unexpectedly peaceful. People don't seem to be blinded by hatred, and they are not so extreme. Most people are just thinking about life and the future."
Yang Ming crossed his arms and said slowly, "That's right, Labdo. However, this is just that their emotions are temporarily buried by the little things in life. If the Empire's fleet invades again, most of them will actively resist."
"That's almost certain. Have you read their textbooks? I hacked into their education network before, and the content of their textbooks surprised me a little."
"These are the survivalists, Labdo."
Yang Ming said slowly:
"They hide underground, spread across the galaxy, and try their best to pass on their genes, using every possible means to increase their ability to resist risks.
"I can understand them, they just want to survive, as long as their survival is not threatened, then they can live like this.
“We are all members of a collective, but we are also independent individuals. Although hatred cannot be forgotten, hatred cannot become the whole of life. For a nation, the truly meaningful things are to protect its own culture, to protect its own uniqueness, and to allow itself to continue to reproduce.
"Labdo, they just want to live, and they don't interact much with the outside world, so are they wrong?"
"There is nothing wrong."
Labdo said in a deep voice:
"But this is not in the Empire's interest."
"Yes," Yang Ming said, "This could be a hidden danger to the empire, so you insist on destroying this place, right?"
Labdo was silent.
He kept thinking: "Is this part of the assessment?"
"You can understand it this way," Yang Ming said with a smile, "Now is the time for our private conversation."
"Please let me think about it for a few minutes," Labdo said softly.
Yang Ming was not in a hurry either.
He had already made an agreement with Lu that as long as Labdo's core data leaned towards destruction, Lu would modify his data in the shortest possible time, reverse his cognition, and modify Labdo's memory to [they entered the Domingos' underground shelter complex to check], and [only found some broken walls and ruins].
It seemed that the riverbank would soon come to an end.
Labdo sighed softly and whispered, "I can't make a decision. I hope to give this decision to humans."
He said in disappointment, "I originally thought I was a powerful thinker, but now I find that I am still very immature. Similarly, I cannot make myself hard-hearted. I just asked myself whether it is correct to put the absolute interests of the empire first and the interests of His Majesty the Emperor as the absolute core. Of course, this is correct. This is the meaning of my existence."
"Labdo?"
"I am here."
“The meaning of the existence of a thinking body is to explore and think.”
Yang Ming spoke softly, patted Labdo's head gently, and said slowly:
"I suggest that you delete the memory data of the time you have been with me, otherwise your own beliefs may be affected. You are a good child, and I hope you can find the meaning of your existence in the future.
“The reason why life is brilliant is that we are pursuing a belief unswervingly.
"Mechanical life is also life."
Labdo was slightly stunned.
"My Lord," he asked, with a sudden smile, "may I retain these last words of yours?"
"Of course, it's up to you," Yang Ming said, "I will return to the fleet tomorrow, and I will bring back a detailed list of Domingos terrorists. This is the condition for me to let their survival group go."
"You are a good man, my Lord."
Labdo controlled the sanitation robot and bowed his head: "I will start deleting the data now... This journey with you has benefited me a lot."
As soon as he finished speaking, the positron brain in the barrel of the sanitation robot stopped working instantly.
Yang Ming's watch vibrated immediately, and Lu's voice came from the hidden earphones:
"Boss, he deleted this part of the data, and he deleted it directly from the root server. I cleaned up some of the remnants for him and planted the seeds of your influence on him."
seed?
Yang Ming curled his lips slightly and didn't pay much attention to the matter. It was enough to leave it to Lu to handle it.
He stood on the riverbank.
The sparkling river surface reflects the blue sky and white clouds simulated by the giant projection, and the residential area on the other side of the river is crowded and bustling.
A breeze blew, and Yang Ming squinted his eyes and sniffed the fragrance of the grass and trees.
Not bad, this place.
