Chapter 492: Paper Tiger
The war has begun.
Just as the girl said before, the Empire first occupied three planets, and then began open looting to stimulate the New Federation to send troops to fight, and prepared to continuously intensify this stimulation.
Yang Ming thought he would be very excited, after all, he had contributed partly to this expedition;
But when the Empire and the New Federation actually went to war, he was surprisingly calm.
He was so calm that he didn't even want to pay attention to this matter. He relaxed and carried out his own diplomatic activities on the first star of the Guell Alliance.
Attend a meeting today, a forum tomorrow, remotely observe the small-scale military exercises of the Guell Alliance, and give a few televised speeches in Luofeng to encourage the people of the Luofeng Alliance to strive to find a way to make Luofeng stronger and more independent in the current complex international situation.
The Empire also began to gradually put pressure on all its dependent states;
Luo Feng also enjoyed the treatment of a thorn in the side. The Imperial Foreign Affairs Bureau had started a series of plans to crack down on Luo Feng, including but not limited to seizing the warships purchased by Luo Feng, requiring Luo Feng to make up for the previously unpaid annual silver, and so on.
Emilia was responding to each move, with Lu and Guina assisting her, so Boss Yang naturally didn't have to worry too much.
Originally Yang Ming thought that his life was good enough.
It was not until Mimili felt that there was no danger on the side of old Kolev and secretly ran to find Yang Ming that Boss Yang realized that the sweetness of this time had doubled.
Without the constraints of the White Ghost identity, and temporarily not thinking about the so-called pioneer responsibilities, Yang Ming can find new pleasures in Mimili's arms every day.
Three days, five days, a week... half a month passed like this.
Yang Ming brought Mimili from the first star of the Guell Alliance, eating, drinking and having fun all the way to the second most prosperous administrative star of the Guell Alliance. Li finally couldn't sit still anymore.
At dusk, on the top floor of a resort hotel on the coastline.
Yang Ming and Mimi were hugging each other by the rooftop swimming pool, drinking drinks brought by the robot, reading the latest political news, watching the life-and-death struggle between the Empire and the New Federation;
The girl's voice was transmitted directly to the ears of Yang Ming and Mimi Li who were being intimate through the voice-generating device of the maid robot:
"When are you going to start doing real work?"
Mimi stopped invading Yang Ming's body, calmly supported her beautiful head with her hands, and looked at the robot beside her.
Yang Ming sat up and showed a helpless smile:
"The conditions are not yet ripe. Is the laboratory built? Are the experimental samples in place? Has Professor Hua Moli mastered the technology?"
The robot maid crossed her arms.
Li snorted: "I think you are just trying to delay time on purpose."
Yang Ming took a sip of his drink and said, "What good will it do me to delay?"
"You are afraid of Levi," the girl said calmly, "You are delaying time so that your Dark Star can accumulate more strength. You are worried that once you start this experiment, Levi might really come back. Levi will not allow you and your Dark Star to exist. This will seriously threaten his empire."
Yang Ming spread his hands and said, "Don't you understand? Then why are you asking me?"
The girl was a little speechless.
She was silent for a few seconds, then said calmly:
“You are afraid of Levi, but aren’t you afraid of me?
"No matter how powerful Levi is, he gets information from the outside world through me. Now he doesn't know what the empire is going through. He is trying his best to prolong his thinking body from collapsing, so he must stay asleep most of the time to reduce the intake of information.
"As long as you cooperate with me now, I can promise you that I will not tell him any information about Luo Feng, Dark Star, and you."
Yang Ming suddenly narrowed his eyes: "It's inconsistent, reason."
"Why?"
"What you said before was that you would put Levi into a human body first, so that you could delete the mind data of Levi in the Imperial Star Mecha, and then Levi would live in this human body."
"Yes," Li said calmly, "Does this contradict what I'm saying now ?"
Yang Ming asked: "So how do you plan to deal with this Levi?"
"That's my business," Li said softly, "I can imprison him, or I can enslave him, I can lock him in a cage, or I can take him to the endless starry sky outside the Milky Way."
"Then why not kill him?"
"I have explained this many times. Because I cannot survive on my own, I am bound to him. This is the shackles those three old monsters put on me," the girl said coldly. "This shackle is the root cause of the tragedy I have endured for tens of thousands of years."
Yang Ming nodded and sat in the recliner, lost in thought.
Li seemed to be thinking about something.
Mimili lay there obediently, her feet raised and shaking slightly, and she didn't feel any sense of urgency.
Suddenly, Li said:
"I didn't want this to happen... Ming, I like the relationship between you and Lu, it's pure and sacred, and I once had it.
“Since you have been chosen by Twilight, you should be the rising new king, but your missions are intertwined, forming an extremely complicated destiny, and your future is full of uncertainty.
"So, I can't put too much trust in you. I need to take some coercive measures against you."
"Uh, enforcement measures?"
Yang Ming's smile gradually faded:
"I never show any mercy to my enemies, are you sure you want to do this to me?
"Tsk, how long have we been working together?"
"Please start the experiment within seven galactic days," Li said calmly, "otherwise the Levi fleet will appear near the Ilando star, and you will bear all the consequences yourself."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Then should I bet that you can't mobilize the Levi Fleet?"
"The choice is yours," Li said softly.
She exited the robot maid's positronic brain, which bowed slightly, then executed the charging and restarting procedure, and walked back to the living room of the suite with light steps.
Yang Ming shrugged slightly: "Look, trouble is coming."
Mimi Li smiled and said, "At worst, we can just run away."
“It’s not that simple.”
Yang Ming pinched her smooth face, and there was not much sadness in his eyes.
"I'm in a passive position now. Tsk, I need to find an opportunity to take the initiative."
Mimily lay there with her chin in her hand, also lost in thought.
However, as she was thinking, she felt the straps of her bra being suddenly pulled open, and Yang Ming's warm chest pressed against her. So she gave up thinking, a charming smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, she turned over and hugged Uncle Hamton's neck, welcoming his passionate kiss.
It’s not too late to think about these things later.
The essence of the problem is that the rationale has gained military superiority, which is a huge trouble that cannot be avoided.
…
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da.
The sound of high heels hitting the floor, with a slightly dull rhythm, echoed in the corner of the Emperor Star Dimension Laboratory.
Princess Daphne, dressed in a smart professional suit, stopped outside Director Ino's private laboratory and knocked on the alloy explosion-proof door.
"Come in."
Director Ino's somewhat dull voice came from the speaker on the door.
Daphne pushed the door open, her delicate makeup unable to conceal the tiredness on her face.
Director Ino should have been taking a nap before, but now he was rubbing his eyes and slowly getting up. As an elderly man, his movements were a little slow.
Daphne wanted to step forward to help, but was rejected by Captain Ino's gesture.
"Uncle," Daphne whispered, "You must take good rest. This is a critical period. You cannot let your body collapse."
Director Ino sighed softly:
"Rest? I want to rest too.
"In recent experiments, we seem to have accidentally touched a door again.
"The door opened a tiny crack, and I seemed to be able to glimpse a little bit of information about the higher-dimensional world.
"The high-dimensional world is anti-cognitive and anti-our current cognition. If we want to understand this little bit of information, we have to re-establish a three-dimensional thinking and logical structure that is countless times more complex than the current human society... Oh, right, you are not interested in these."
Director Ino rubbed his neck: "How's the front line?"
"The overall situation of the war is stable, and the New Federation is not very willing to fight, which just meets our expectations."
Daphne smiled bitterly:
"You let me take charge of the Military Intelligence Bureau. The guys that Hanton trained before obeyed my orders, but I really can't find a suitable position.
"In addition, the military is planning a list that is expected to include thousands of imperial officers who spoke out during the previous riots across the country... This matter should be stopped. It will not help the empire to hold these officers accountable at this time.
“Also, they want the noble fleet of Sakaar to go to the front line and bring down some of the White Ghost’s supporting forces.
“I can’t describe their madness.
"Granduncle, if we allow them to use this method, I'm afraid it will trigger a greater crisis within the empire."
"well……"
Director Ino closed his eyes and pursed his lips, not saying a word for a long time.
He murmured, "The purge started with the army, not the nobles, and then spread to the civilians, and dealt with the civilians who had caused trouble before... This is their idea, to ensure that the army is under their complete control first."
"But!"
Daphne pursed her lips tightly.
Director Ino whispered, "We can't do more. Compared with their strength, the combined strength we can bring together is too small."
"To win my father's support?"
"He will only watch the internal friction at the round table and take the opportunity to take more power, that's all."
Director Ino sighed softly and said with a smile:
“Daphne, my experiment has made some progress recently, so I will concentrate on the laboratory in the next few months.
"You can stay in the Military Intelligence Bureau quietly, don't interfere with them, and don't make any comments. What you need to do now is to be well behaved and sensible. Only if you keep quiet can you save your fiancé's planet Saka.
"Didn't you say that it was his second home and spiritual sustenance?"
"Yes," Daphne's eyes suddenly became much gentler, "but uncle, how long are we going to remain silent?"
Director Ino smiled and said:
“Silence until one of the following three conditions is met:
“They suffered a huge military defeat externally;
“An entire planet-wide rebellion broke out in the Pan-Emperor star system;
"More than ten capital ships of the Imperial Army have mutinied."
Daphne looked thoughtful.
"If you feel upset, come and sit with me," Director Ino said with a bit of yearning in his eyes, "Humanity's political struggles are boring and dull. The pursuit of the truth of science is the core driving force for our progress."
…
About nine galactic days passed after Zili threatened Yang Ming.
"Boss," Lu reported regularly every few galactic hours, "We have not found any signs of the Levi Fleet's deployment. We have already arranged enough drones and space wave sensing devices in the star field where the Levi Fleet is located."
At this moment, Yang Ming was in the lounge , rushing towards their last visit location in the Guel Alliance - the planet where Professor Hua Moli's research institute was located.
Last time, Li gave him seven galactic days;
Yang Ming did not cherish it well.
It is now the tenth galactic day;
Li has not yet fulfilled her promise to mobilize the Levi Fleet to attack the planet Ilando.
This is...
"Has she been scaring us before?"
Yang Ming asked in confusion. Mimili, who was exercising in the fitness area not far away, laughed out loud when she heard it.
Lu hummed a few times: "After all, we can't be careless boss."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "We definitely can't be careless. We have been ready to conduct experiments at any time a few days ago. As long as the Levi fleet moves, we will start the experiment immediately. But the problem now is... the Levi fleet doesn't move at all."
Lu clicked his tongue: "This is indeed a little speechless, and it also proves that this theory is problematic."
"No matter how problematic she is, she has our intelligence."
Yang Ming yawned:
"I've been so nervous these past few days... We've been wasting time on this matter long enough, we can't keep wasting all our time here.
"Lü, you arrange for the Luofeng delegation to visit the Hall Abnormal Human Research Institute as normal. Mimili and I will go directly to the secret laboratory and ask Professor Hua Moli to prepare . Are there any defects in the various instruments?"
“Without the boss, everything is ready to go.”
"What about the emotions of the test specimens?"
"Very stable," Lu smiled, "We have already informed her that the next experiment may damage her memory, but as long as she participates in the experiment, she can directly receive a reward of 15 million Guel Alliance coins. She did not refuse at all."
Yang Ming wondered, "Why?"
"Instead of a wealthy life, she is willing to give up her previous memories."
"Okay," Yang Ming said without commenting, "Where's Professor Hua Moli?"
"The professor is a great researcher, and he wants to explore this field that few people have explored," Ritsu said with a smile, "He even took the initiative to suggest that we cultivate some clones."
Yang Ming said: "Isn't cloning technology unethical?"
Lu Dao: "In their understanding, science is not about ethics, science is about results and possibilities."
"All right."
Yang Ming shook his head.
Under Lu's arrangement, the fleet completed the jump, and when rushing to the target planet, he and Mimili entered a small cargo ship.
After more than two galactic hours of travel, they successfully arrived at the new laboratory built outside the spaceport.
The laboratory still has the sign of Hall Institute, but only Hua Moli and a small number of researchers know about the research projects there.
After Yang Ming arrived here, he met Hua Moli.
There was no sense of strangeness between the two of them, and they continued to talk about beauties, beautiful scenery and women's underwear, which made Mimili roll her eyes.
——Kolev was on a business visit to the Guell Alliance on behalf of the Fallen Wind Alliance to engage in business cooperation and had long been away from here.
Then comes the preparation before starting the experimental project.
Yang Ming stood in the observation room and saw the young girl lying on the operating table playing with the network terminal. That was the new body chosen by Li for Levi's thinking body - that was on the surface.
One by one, instruments with simple shapes but extremely complex internal structures were slowly turned on. More than a dozen medical robots were controlled by Lu, busying themselves around with their heads down.
Professor Hua Moli sat meticulously in front of the operating table. When everything was ready, he looked up at Yang Ming and showed the key-shaped chip in his hand:
"Just plug this in and you can start the experiment anytime."
"Well, wait a moment, professor," Yang Ming said seriously, "I need to talk to a friend of mine before deciding whether to start this experiment. Give me the key."
“You’re the boss.”
Hua Mori threw the key over and took a few steps back from the edge of the operating table.
"Since you have given me and my daughter a large sum of money, I will listen to you 100% now."
Yang Ming nodded with a smile, then turned and walked towards the lounge.
'Reason', now we can be frank and have a good talk.
