Chapter 45: Starting to Lose Martial Ethics
The uncle and nephew before getting into the rented luxury car:
With exaggerated mannerisms, loud voices, lifeless eyes, and a Galaxy dialect that smells of ice, he discusses the business of millions of dollars in flow every day.
After getting into
The smile on Yang Ming's face quickly disappeared, his eyes instantly became sharp, he pointed the watch dial at the car computer and quickly pressed the button.
Kolev operated the monocle for a few seconds, checking all possible locations of eavesdropping devices in the luxury car.
As soon as the hover car drove away from the car rental company, the interface of the center console changed.
A virtual beautiful girl in a blue and white striped skirt jumped out from the border of the fixed screen and greeted with full energy:
"Boss, long time no see!"
The lawyer has successfully taken over the luxury car.
"How come it's been so long since we last met in just two days?" Yang Ming asked, "Report the location of the Feinan."
"In synchronous orbit on the far side of the planet."
Lu put his hands behind his back, and a perspective view of the planet's surface appeared around him. There was a light purple light spot behind the planet, which was naturally the location of the Feinan.
Lu reminded: "Boss, there is an expensive defense system on the planet Yilando, and the Feinan cannot approach the surface directly."
The projection on the car's central console changed rapidly, and a retro castle built on the top of a mountain attracted the attention of Yang Ming and Kolev.
This huge castle was now in the scenery on their left.
Lu's voice was very brisk:
“This is the Luofeng Palace located on the edge of Yilanduo City. Boss, you should be able to see it directly now.
"The mountain below the palace has been hollowed out. There is a large military base inside. The defense system is inside. In addition, there are a large number of anti-ship surface defense guns and sensitive detection systems."
Lu paused and added:
"If the Feinan approaches the palace, the chance of being discovered is 90%. If it approaches the city of Yilando, the chance of being discovered is 50%.
Kolev wondered, "How did you calculate this probability?"
Yang Ming smiled and said, "It's a risk assessment. The Feinan can't provide us with direct fire support for the time being."
"But I can provide all-round intelligence support," Lu said with a smile, "Boss, as you said, this place is very chaotic."
"Switch to autopilot," Yang Ming said, "Transmit the information to me directly via text, and find a way to help me find this person's whereabouts."
His watch projected a picture .
Lu curled his lips and said, "Boss, your secretary was away for only two days, and you've already found a new prey? Are you a low-level primitive creature dominated by your lower body?"
"Get to work! Stop talking nonsense."
Yang Ming cursed angrily, and Kolev beside him narrowed his eyes and laughed.
He rarely saw Yang Ming being unable to fight back after being humiliated.
A few seconds later, Yang Ming's watch vibrated slightly, and messages popped out one after another.
While Yang Ming concentrated on compiling intelligence, Kolev began to enjoy the pleasure of driving on the edge of the bustling city.
“Tsk.”
Yang Ming scratched his head in annoyance and whispered, "Lv, have you found the whereabouts of that woman?"
"I just found some clues, boss," Lu explained, "because you don't have authorization, I can't hack into the military network here. I can only search through the two police patrol ships that took the target away."
Yang Ming said: "Block the external signals here, and don't let my words be eavesdropped."
"Okay boss."
"Is the situation bad?" asked Kolev.
"We may be in trouble," Yang Ming said, "The identity of that woman is crucial and must be found out as soon as possible... But from another perspective, we have come to the right place."
"How to say?"
Yang Ming turned his head and looked at the bustling streets passing quickly outside the window.
"It looks peaceful here, right? In fact, it's like a powder keg that could explode at any moment."
Kolev's eyes lit up: "We will be the fuse?"
"We are here to reap the benefits, why do we have to blow it up?" Yang Ming narrowed his eyes and smiled, "It just so happens that I will go through my plan with you."
Kolev yawned. "Well, I'll take advantage of the fact that my old man's energy has not been completely exhausted by the long journey."
"According to the information Lu has collected, there are five major forces in the current Luofeng Empire, or in other words, on the Yilandu planet."
"Five?" Kolev was surprised and immediately became alert. "Why is the country still splitting up? Who are they?"
"Since it is an empire, the most powerful force is naturally the royal family."
Yang Ming briefly introduced:
"You may not be able to imagine that this prosperous, crowded, modern city we see now actually has an imperial dictatorship as its political system.
“Note that this is not the royal power that is hollowed out by the parliament and the cabinet.
"It is the actual imperial power. All matters are discussed by the emperor of the Luofeng Empire and his ministers."
"oh?"
Kolev murmured:
"This is really rare. How could the various interest groups tolerate the existence of a powerful emperor for a long time? Just like the Sherman Empire, after the last reform - the reform that promulgated the new calendar - a balance was formed between the military and politics, and the royal family was almost completely sidelined. Although the emperor retained the right to declare war or cease fire, he had to respect the opinions of the ministers and the Senate."
“The reason is very simple.”
Yang Ming smiled and said:
“The royal family of the Luofeng Empire is essentially a puppet of the royal family of the Sherman Empire.
“The money they paid as tribute every year was directly transferred to the private account of the Sherman royal family.
"The Sherman Empire does not allow the Luofeng Empire to reform, so the Luofeng Empire naturally cannot change. The emperor here is both a real emperor and a puppet emperor. This has led to the division of the royal family into two factions."
"Which two factions?"
"You'd better take a note."
Yang Ming said slowly:
“The royal conservatives firmly support the emperor and advocate maintaining the status quo.
“The royal reformists, with the support of ministers and external capital, want to complete the reform of the Fallen Wind Empire and thereby reduce the exploitation and rule of the Sherman Empire here.
“Two anti-royal forces have formed outside the royal family. One is the Liberal Revolutionary Party. They have been suppressed by the royal family many times. Their goal is to launch a revolution to overthrow the royal power. Behind them is the big capital of the New Federation.
"One is the New Industrial Federation, which is a complex capital force and is also a force that we can get closer to now. It is our goal to integrate into it in the next stage."
Kolev counted on his fingers: "Conservatives, Reformists, Revolutionaries, and the Union. These are only four... Oh, these four are already enough to make me feel overwhelmed! What is the fifth one?"
"military."
Yang Ming clicked his tongue:
“According to current intelligence, the royal family also has to look at their faces.
"They are led by a few old men in the military who only care about their own interests and don't care who has the final say in this country. It's enough to give them enough military funding and don't touch their business."
"The military has business?"
Kolev groaned for a few seconds:
"Don't blame me for discouraging you, Yang Ming. Under such circumstances, how are you going to get a planet? It's almost impossible. No matter how barren a planet is, it's fat meat in the eyes of these vampires."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Do you know why I chose to develop here?"
Kolev asked cooperatively: "Why?"
"The developed, developing, and undeveloped habitable planets are all controlled by major forces. I can't spend the short five years on interstellar exploration and finding new habitable planets."
Yang Ming's fingers quickly fiddled with the dial:
"Here, officials are corrupt and transfer property. People who have the ability to leave have already left. The remaining people are forced to stay on their own planet. They are desperate.
"As long as we find an opportunity, through business or other means, or even by creating a title and fiefdom here and occupying a barren administrative planet, it will be easy to win people's hearts. With the current average civilization level of 2.35 in the Milky Way, as long as I can control the planet, I can successfully complete the first stage of the goal.
"Everything is done to pass the assessment smoothly."
Kolev was silent for a long time. He used his brain, which had been in use for seventy-three years, to analyze the information given by Yang Ming.
Soon, Kolev agreed with Yang Ming's point of view: "You are right. For you at this stage, coming here is the best stage."
"Of course," Yang Ming smiled mysteriously, "I have a backup plan."
"what's the plan?"
"The three ruins administrators gave me a little convenience during the tomb patrol assessment. To be precise, it was a small bug."
Yang Ming narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Who said that a level one civilization can only be a civilization of carbon-based life forms?"
"this!"
"You're going to cause an omnic hazard!"
Kolev quickly covered his mouth, looked at Yang Ming in shock, and whispered:
"If this matter is exposed, I guarantee that a dozen dreadnoughts will appear before you! They will open fire on your planet!"
Yang Ming shrugged: "Don't worry, Uncle Hatton, I have sufficient plans, so our priority is to build a normal administrative star. If that doesn't work, then go and build a resource star."
"Just use the first plan! Listen to me! We can definitely handle the human relationships here!"
Kolev said firmly.
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Don't worry uncle, there are many parameters to pass the test successfully."
He turned on his watch, took a screenshot of a certain interface, and pushed the screenshot in front of Kolev.
Oh, what is this?
A silver-white box appeared in front of Kolev. In the upper left corner were two browsing tabs, one reading [Personal Attributes] and the other [Civilization]. The screenshot was taken under the [Civilization] tab.
After "belonging to civilization" there is a word "nothing".
There is a '0' after 'Administrative Stars' and 'Comprehensive Development Index'.
The comprehensive index is divided into four sectors:
Science and technology, humanities, education, and military.
The science and technology section includes innovative applications, basic theories, military technology, and civil patents; the humanities section includes culture, entertainment, the mind body happiness index, residents' sense of belonging... and so on.
Without exception, all options are followed by zero.
"How is it? Isn't it clear at a glance?" Yang Ming said with a smile, "Lu and I did it together. It can directly reflect various data."
Kolev asked quietly, "What are the personal attributes? Can they satisfy the curiosity of the next old man?"
"No," Yang Ming said seriously, "I don't want to affect the uncle-nephew relationship between us."
"Come on," Kolev slammed the steering wheel, "I don't want to know!"
Ding ding!
Lu’s virtual image popped up in the center console of the hover car.
"Boss, we are in trouble."
"Tell me," Yang Ming quickly adjusted his expression.
Lu immediately said, "I found out that the last location that woman was seen was in a military fleet in the airspace near this planet. She was knocked unconscious and was carried in. It doesn't look like the situation is optimistic."
"Has she been identified?"
"Not yet. It seems to be related to the royal family... Will you allow me to hack into their military network? Their firewall is very old and filled with toys of various spies."
Yang Ming thought for a moment: "This will increase the risk of exposure."
Lu said dissatisfiedly: "Boss, you have to trust me more!"
"Don't I trust you yet?"
"Ability, I mean ability," Lu changed the subject, "and the trouble I'm talking about is not this."
A three-dimensional navigation map appeared on the projection screen. First, seven or eight red dots appeared on it. Then the marks were quickly enlarged and switched to a real-life camera.
Each red dot represents a black-painted hovercraft. Judging from the "Jun" on their license plates, this convoy is obviously of some importance.
The sound of the conversation captured by Lu also caused Yang Ming and Kolev's expressions to change slightly.
This is a work communication between two middle-aged men:
"...Yes, sir. We have locked on to the target. They have rented a car and are heading to the city center."
"Keep them away from the city center and try not to cause a disturbance."
"I understand. When we catch up with them, we will stop them immediately."
"You must search them thoroughly. If you find that they have problems, use all means to make them talk... In other words, do you understand what I mean? I can't mess up what the general has told me to do, at least I can't get nothing out of it."
"Don't worry, sir. I know what to do. Even if the chip is not on them, they must be spies from the enemy country."
"Well, I leave it to you. Do it cleanly."
Sizzle.
call ended.
Yang Ming and Kolev looked at each other.
Kolev frowned and muttered, "They really have foresight. We are much more terrifying than spies."
Yang Ming raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows.
His brilliant plan was going to fail before it even started?
Chip? What chip? What's the situation with that woman?
Yang Ming's thoughts suddenly became a little confused.
"Boss, the enemy will intercept you in about twelve minutes," Lu reminded, "I suggest you give up the operation here. The transporter can take you back to the spaceship immediately."
Kolev looked a little panicked.
"I can't abandon my old friend," Yang Ming made the choice without hesitation.
This made Kolev grin.
Yang Ming thought for a moment, his expression becoming more sinister:
“Damn it, I was trying to get along with them gently, but they were the first to refuse to be reasonable.
"Invasion! Law, I give you permission to use all the means of stealing secrets. Just do as they say, do it cleanly, and take their pants off for me!
"I don't want to come here for nothing. I want to at least get some benefits."
"Yes, Boss!"
Lu saluted and changed her youthful outfit into a military green tube top dress. Her legs were wrapped in black stockings and she had a beret on her head.
"Switch to combat status!"
