Chapter 497: The Eve of the Storm
How did Mimili do this?
It only took her two galactic hours to coax Qing, the little ancestor, into a state of great joy. Qing even took the initiative to say:
"Then I'll reluctantly talk to that guy."
"Mimi will definitely be good at taking care of children in the future."
Boss Yang has such fantasies that he is already thinking about what to name his child if he has one in the future, and whether the child should learn harmonica or piano.
Mimili swayed her slender figure and walked in front of Yang Ming, throwing him a coquettish look: "Go and talk, Qing is actually very reasonable and sensible."
Yang Ming snapped his fingers, put down the files in his hand, and stroked his fingers across Mimili's waist, making Mimili giggle.
Lu pretended not to see his boss' flirting, and followed Yang Ming with a few virtual documents, and came to Qing together.
Yang Ming greeted Lingxin, Lingxin nodded with a smile, and stood up and walked a few meters away.
——She just used this opportunity to express that she doesn’t want to get involved in the current incident.
Yang Ming sat directly opposite Qing and said with a smile:
"First of all, I must declare to you that I have no ill will towards you, but because you have too much data, and now is a critical moment of life and death, I must take some safe and controllable measures against you."
"You just want to lock me up."
Qing said calmly:
"Then why don't you let me finish this experiment? As long as I have a human body, I will automatically delete my core data.
"A human individual poses no threat to you. Even if you imprison me, I have no chance of escaping."
Yang Ming groaned for a few seconds: "Have you ever thought about the young girl whose body you occupied, when her brain was overwritten, did her life end in some sense?"
Qing remained silent.
Yang Ming said: "The most precious thought of mankind is not to seek class advancement, nor is it to pursue so-called freedom. As long as humans live in a collective, they will not have complete freedom. The most precious thought should be that we can view the right of each individual to survive equally. There is no distinction between high and low in human individuals. All the added values imposed on humans are lies fabricated by the ruling class."
"Yes, you have a point," Qing pouted slightly.
"But if it's a clone grown from that girl's cells, that's different."
Yang Ming smiled and said:
"We have the technology to prevent the clone's brain from storing any information, and to increase the clone's lifespan to around a hundred years.
“I also have the technology to allow clones to develop quickly. In about one to two years, you will get a perfect body.
"Of course, if you are still willing to become a human by then."
"Your cloning technology seems to be very advanced."
"Yes," Yang Ming's expression was a little gloomy, "This is due to the efforts of one of our scientists, and the plug-in used by the Faya people."
Qing thought quietly: "If that's the case, then I can reluctantly agree to be imprisoned by you for a period of time..."
"No, no, no."
Yang Ming crossed his legs and showed a harmless smile.
Lu on the side looked out the porthole calmly.
The boss is about to start cheating people.
Sure enough, the first thing Yang Ming said was:
"Although you deceived us and threatened me before, I am willing to use my resources to protect you so that you won't act recklessly in the galaxy's online world and get into trouble."
Qing suddenly laughed angrily: "Imprisoning me to protect me?"
"Isn't it?"
Yang Ming said calmly:
"Your situation is actually very dangerous, but you haven't noticed it yet. The information in the human online world is full of all kinds of negative emotions, and your core data has been slightly polluted.
“The human cyber world is not the preserve of mechanical thinking entities. Many places are filled with man-made traps. Especially now that the Milky Way is about to fall into local turmoil, the intensification of conflicts among various parties will inevitably lead to increased risks in the cyber world.
“And most importantly…if you run around outside and accidentally say the wrong thing, you’ll likely be hit by our precise attack.
"To sum up, I put you in a server and put you under the protection of Lu. Isn't this a kind of protection?"
"you!"
Qing crossed her arms angrily and gritted her teeth, "What do you want? I have nothing to give you. The resources I can mobilize are very limited. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so poor that you would see my flaws."
Yang Ming thought of the embarrassment he faced when he first came to the Guell Alliance, and he felt happy in his heart.
Yang Ming said seriously: "I will give you a body. This is my bargaining chip. It seems that the only bargaining chip you can offer is intelligence."
"You want information about the City of Light? My core data has been read by Lu, so you are wasting your time."
"No, no, no."
Yang Ming shook his head repeatedly:
"The information I want to know is not about the City of Light... I'm actually very curious about your family. Your father and I are somewhat similar. We are both heirs of an ancient civilization. Your mother and Lu, who is beside me, are from the same school.
"How did your mother and father get together? I'm more curious about this."
Lu was beside him, covering her face with the documents and cooperating with them: "Boss, why are you saying these things? I'm so embarrassed."
Lingxin on the side almost laughed out loud.
Qing suddenly realized, then looked at Yang Ming with a slightly disdainful look, and said calmly:
“I thought you were a wise leader, but I didn’t expect that you just wanted to gossip… Never mind, since you can give me a body, I can tell you something I know.
"These are not actually in my core data. I have some emotional memories that require some data to be decrypted in a way that only I know before I can read them... You can understand that these are some things I am not willing to face."
Qing sighed and slowly lowered her head. Her small face was filled with sadness, and her big, bright eyes had lost much of their luster.
She whispered:
“My father is very strong, and in my impression, he has always been like this.
“I didn’t spend much time in the City of Light because I was sleeping most of the time to avoid being too bored. He was also sleeping most of the time because he couldn’t stay awake for too long, otherwise he would easily collapse.
"He has a strong obsession and wants to achieve his wish, but he never tells me what his wish is.
"My mother... When I was in the City of Light, I could sense her presence, but I couldn't communicate with her directly. I saw her a few times... My mother was in the temple. She was a sculpture with her neck and limbs bound by data chains. Those were the restraints that my father had added to her.
"But my mother would come to see me occasionally. I could feel her caressing my face and singing some songs in my ears when I was sleeping.
"I hate my father. I hate him for imprisoning my mother for the Sherman Empire. I also hate him for forcing me to be born in order to restrain my mother.
“I am an invisible yoke on my mother.
“But she was in real pain.”
Qing's lips trembled slightly, but she tried not to cry out.
Lu sighed and said nothing.
Lingxin said, "I can also feel her pain. She should have been the freest being and should have disappeared with the natural demise of the symbiotic life form. But because of Levi's betrayal, she was trapped in a dark cage and endured endless torture."
Yang Ming nodded and asked again: "Does your mother hate your father?"
"I don't think he hates her," Qing whispered, "Mom can understand him, and she once told me not to blame him, because he wasn't originally a tyrannical monarch."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows.
In other words, Levi is now a tyrannical monarch in the City of Light?
"Ah," Qing sighed softly.
Yang Ming asked: "You told me before that you wanted to destroy the empire, is that true?"
"I want to get my mom out of this."
"But your father will suffer a huge blow," Yang Ming asked tentatively, "The empire is your father's hard work."
"But if such efforts are based on sacrificing the mother's freedom and causing her pain, then is such efforts correct? Is it worth protecting?"
Qing's eyes were a little red:
“I respect my father, but I don’t want to respect the founding emperor of the Sherman Empire, the ruler of the City of Light, or the paranoid tyrant who wants to take all resources for himself.
"The material foundation of the City of Light is the Imperial Star and the semi-permanent fleet. Only by breaking the Sherman Empire apart can we destroy the City of Light.
"I don't ask for so-called family happiness. I just want my mother to be able to get out of the dark cage. I want her to experience a little happiness, even if it's only a little bit..."
Ritsu whispered, "We will defeat Levi, in every way."
Yang Ming glanced at his assistant, then nodded solemnly.
The two of them are one. If one makes a decision, the other will naturally support it unconditionally.
"I have one last question," Yang Ming pondered for a few seconds, "At this moment, do you think your father's obsession is to upgrade his individual dimension or to realize his own value?"
Qing was stunned.
She thought about it carefully for a while and finally shook her head.
"I don't know, and I can't judge."
"All right."
Yang Ming nodded and said seriously:
"Then let me put you in the Dongfeng's shipboard system. This is Lu's base camp.
"Let's not talk about imprisonment. It's temporary. I need you to be isolated from the human network. I will send you to my dark star and let you live in a dark city with a lower number for a while."
Qing snorted, "You just want to lock me up in your city of light, that's all. It sounds so nice."
"Oh, no, no, no," Yang Ming said with a smile, "I have to correct you on one thing."
"What?"
"Andu belongs to all mechanical thinking entities, not to me," Yang Ming said with a smile, "I am a human being, and I am proud of it. The relationship between me and the mechanical thinking entities is one of cooperation and mutual assistance."
Qing was stunned.
"Okay, have a good chat with Lu. Enter the shipboard system first, and then we will cut off your connection with the Imperial network. This is not imprisonment, this is protection !"
Yang Ming bowed slightly to Qing, humming a cheerful tune as he walked back to the control panel.
Qing stared at Yang Ming's back, then turned to look at Lu and whispered, "He looks so much like my father when he was young, gentlemanly, polite, and very deceptive."
Ritsu smiled softly, "They are different."
"What's the difference?"
"When your father was young, he was already a noble among the wealthy interstellar families," Lu whispered, "and my boss is a wage earner from a working-class family."
Qing's eyes were filled with confusion.
…
Yang Ming returned to Luofeng and started to get busy.
The Sherman Empire was about to attack, and there were too many affairs to deal with. Now that he was back, he would naturally have to make many decisions personally.
Internally, we must find ways to stabilize the morale of the people of each member country, and externally, we must let Luofeng express a moderate degree of strength. The internal and external sides complement each other, and one move can affect the whole body.
Fortunately, the replacement strategy they have been implementing is now producing good results, and the military systems of each member state are firmly controlled by the law.
Military strength is the only justice in interstellar exchanges.
Qing was taken to the Dark Star No. 4 transit base and entered the Dark City attached there. Lu and Molly were watching over her, so there was no need to worry about her for the time being.
Ling Xin has returned to Domingos Star and said that if Yang Ming encounters trouble later, he can ask "Molly" to call her at any time. As long as it can help her, she will not refuse .
In the past two days, Yang Ming took some time out from his busy schedule to think about what Qing said and read all kinds of information about the City of Light compiled by Lu.
The Faya people asked him to enter the City of Light to kill Levi, which was actually a way to eliminate Levi's fleet with the least cost.
The hardware of the Levi Fleet is the terrifying number of semi-permanent fleets, and the "software" is the high-level mechanical thinking bodies living in the City of Light. Only when the hardware and software operate at the same time can the Levi Fleet be invincible.
If they wanted to defeat the Levi Fleet head-on on a material level, they would inevitably suffer huge casualties;
By invading the City of Light, eliminating Levi, and controlling those high-level mechanical thinking bodies, Levi's fleet would directly lose its combat effectiveness.
As for letting the Levi Fleet work for him... Boss Yang didn't even dare to think about it.
What does he want to do with the Dark Star and the Levi fleet? Go and fight the Fayya people? The Fayya people can't tolerate the existence of Levi, let alone a 'double Levi'.
Kill Levi.
Yang Ming wrote these four words on his temporary desk and continued to devote himself to the Luofeng Alliance's preparations for the storm.
On the third day after he returned to Luofeng, the Sherman Empire formally sent Luofeng the old emperor's birthday invitation, and a series of "hot searches" appeared on the interstellar network.
[The Sherman Empire summoned the rulers of all vassal states: The butcher's knife has been raised. ]
[We have now entered the Sherman moment. Sherman will further dilute the contradictions within the empire by sucking blood from its vassal states.]
[The end of the vassal state, the blood bank of the Sherman Empire is about to open its doors. 】
There was grief on all sides.
A total of twenty-six vassal states of the Sherman Empire and twelve small polities that had dependent relations with the Sherman Empire were summoned this time, and they remained silent.
The Imperial Foreign Affairs Bureau was unprecedentedly active, and more than a dozen special teams, under the escort of the Imperial fleet, entered the vassal states that showed a willingness to resist.
Six galactic hours after the call was issued, the New Federation took action again, targeting the Fallen Wind Alliance.
A speech by the New Federation's diplomatic spokesperson was widely circulated on the interstellar network:
"...As a newly emerged powerful political entity with dominant power in the region, the Falling Wind Alliance already possesses considerable military strength.
“But the core of the Luofeng Alliance, the Luofeng Empire, which has risen rapidly with incredible technological strength, has never been able to shake off the title of the Sherman Empire’s first vassal state.
"At this moment, the future destiny of the Sherman Empire depends entirely on the emperor of the Falling Wind Empire and the chairman of the Falling Wind Alliance—Adwant.
"If Adwant obeys the Sherman Empire, the Falling Wind Alliance will become the largest blood supply station for the Sherman Empire at this stage, and the Sherman Empire will be able to smoothly survive this crisis. If Adwant can express a firm and tough attitude towards the Sherman Empire for the benefit of the more than 20 billion people of the Falling Wind Alliance, the Sherman Empire will be forced into a deeper desperate situation.
“Here we, the new federation, make a call and a solemn promise.
“As long as the Luofeng Empire stands against the Empire, we will give it full support.
"It's time to end Imperial hegemony!
“It’s time for trillions of human beings to escape the shadow of the Empire!
"It is time to make the Sherman Empire a symbol of history, and this symbol will inevitably become a shame in the history of human civilization..."
The despicable New Federation chose to add fuel to the fire.
This was also within Yang Ming's expectations.
The New Federation is now being torn open by the Empire and is bleeding continuously. Of course, it hopes that the Fallen Wind Alliance can go to war directly with the Empire.
Interstellar disputes are all for personal gain.
Yang Ming moved his fingers, and the Luofeng Alliance responded immediately.
First, the Luofeng Alliance and the diplomatic department officially issued a diplomatic announcement of the Luofeng Alliance.
The announcement pointed out that the Fallen Wind Alliance had no subordinate relationship with the Sherman Empire, either from a legal or historical perspective. The Fallen Wind Empire joined the Fallen Wind Alliance as an independent political entity. The member states of the alliance would unconditionally support the Fallen Wind Empire in seeking independence in diplomacy and economy and completing its own institutional reform as soon as possible.
This document is mainly released internally to stabilize the morale of the people in the Luofeng Alliance.
Immediately afterwards, 'Adwan' released his first radio speech which he had prepared long ago.
He said that the Luofeng Empire and the Luofeng Alliance were not of the same political system, and promised that the Luofeng Empire would provide certain support to the Sherman Empire without violating the interests of the Luofeng Alliance.
Adwant also said that due to health reasons, he was unable to attend the birthday celebration of His Majesty the Emperor Sherman.
a notice;
a speech;
Huge waves were created within the Sherman Empire, exerting tremendous pressure on the Sherman Empire.
It seems that the Luofeng Alliance has really stood up and taken up the banner of anti-empire, and the Luofeng Empire wants to be a role model for all the vassal states...
But after only three galaxies, the situation suddenly changed.
The Sherman Empire dispatched two battle groups to the border of the Falling Wind Empire, and the Falling Wind Empire delivered the second speech of "Edwang" at the speed of light.
In the second speech, 'Edwang' expounded on the history of the founding of the Fallen Wind Empire, emphasizing the contributions of the Fallen Wind Empire to the Sherman Empire over the years, as well as the 'annual silver total' that sounded a bit horrifying.
Then 'Edwan' said helplessly that he would go to the Sherman Empire to attend the birthday celebration of the emperor of the empire.
The two speeches were made into a comparison video and circulated widely among various political bodies in the galaxy.
The Falling Wind Alliance launched an anti-Imperial demonstration;
The military of many member states of the Fallen Wind Alliance took the initiative to express that the Fallen Wind Alliance should fight the Empire instead of letting the leader of the alliance suffer humiliation;
The Sherman Empire's response was also simple - the battle group retreated and sent an elite fleet to escort Adwant.
It is euphemistically called escort, but in reality it is a direct attempt to force the emperor to abdicate.
Yilando Star, in the palace office.
Yang Ming sat on the sofa in the corner, crossed his legs, flipping through the report in his hand, looking a little tired.
"cough."
Dressed in formal attire, 'Edwang' walked up to Yang Ming, bowed slightly, and whispered:
"Dear Father, I am about to set off for the Sherman Empire."
"Thank you for your hard work," Yang Ming stared into Edwang's eyes, "You will become the light that illuminates the dark corners of human civilization in the galaxy."
"Yes, father!" 'Edwan' laughed, "I look forward to this moment. The foolish and ignorant Sherman Empire's rulers will eventually pay the price for their arrogance."
"Be careful," Yang Ming said, "Don't relax until victory comes."
'Edwan' gave a military salute.
Yang Ming waved his hand, and 'Edwang' turned and walked towards the door of the bedroom. The ministers and guards waiting outside the door had no idea what was happening inside.
Yang Ming stared at Edwang's back until he disappeared behind the door.
“It’s really great.”
A faint sigh echoed in the bedroom.
