Chapter 504: Hunting the Dreadnought!
The news that the Empire's Sixth Expeditionary Fleet was ambushed by Luo Feng has not yet spread.
The full-channel speech of the old emperor of the Sherman Empire has begun live broadcast.
Soon after, the interstellar network of the Imperial Star Circle returned to normal. The people of the Imperial Star Circle, who had been waiting for a long time, rushed onto the Empire's unified network, only to find that... they suddenly experienced a slight delay.
Not only was there a little more latency, all their previous network traces had been cleared, and the entire network became very clean.
From the Imperial Star Circle outward, all kinds of posts on the Internet disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye;
In just a few minutes, the servers of 120 information-gathering portals were locked, and tens of billions of accounts were restricted from speaking.
The navies of the New Federation, the Confederation of Guell, the Free United States and other regimes suffered heavy losses, and their volume was reduced by half.
Anyone who had previously made remarks that were detrimental to the stability of the empire received a warning.
This warning had a practical effect, and the imperial cyber world became much quieter.
It was in this environment that the old emperor of the empire appeared before the people.
His figure appears on projection screens used for warnings and directions on driveways and streets, on large advertising screens in squares, on various channels of home projectors, and in every corner of the Internet.
The people who were marching stopped;
The workers who were working stopped what they were doing;
The troops that were assembling also stopped executing the non-combat orders they had received. As requested by their superiors, the soldiers saluted the image of His Majesty the Emperor and listened to the instructions obediently.
The old emperor specially changed into a black robe that he would wear to pay tribute to his ancestors, and wore a precious metal crown that had been passed down for tens of thousands of years. In his right hand, he held a scepter that symbolized supreme power, and spoke in a kind and gentle tone:
"My dear fellow citizens of Sherman's Empire:
“I believe everyone has already felt that our empire, the political system that has always protected us and provided us with a happy life, is now facing severe challenges under the deliberate instigation of external hostile forces.
“These foreign forces deceived our people, instigated and bribed some nobles, and deliberately carried out various events to arouse public resentment in order to stir up public sentiment.
“Our empire is the greatest and most powerful empire in the galaxy .
"Our economy will not shrink due to the current turmoil, because we have sufficient resource reserves. The Empire is confident that every citizen will get enough living supplies..."
The old emperor continued his speech with great emotion;
However, people from all over the empire lowered their heads and looked at the network access devices in their hands.
White Ghost’s live broadcast finally went online after being postponed several times.
It is obvious that the White Ghost's live broadcast attracts more public interest than the old emperor's live broadcast.
The Imperial Palace of the Emperor Star, the headquarters of the Tentacle Organization.
Daphne, wearing a dark windbreaker, was now folding her arms and looking at the big screen in front of her.
In the middle of the big screen is playing the emperor's speech to appease the people, which was recorded in advance and announced to be live. On the left side of the speech screen are data statistics, and below the data statistics is a small window - White Ghost Live.
The bad news continues:
"Your Highness, the data here has been surpassed by the White Ghost Live."
"According to the terminal feedback, we only have a 26% audience rating here... All official channels have been used."
"We can't block White Ghost's live broadcast room. Several departments have taken joint action, but White Ghost's live broadcast server is just like his name, constantly popping up like a ghost."
“But the data model predicts that we will maintain around 21 percent.”
There is also good news for Daphne.
——In the live broadcast of White Ghost, White Ghost was lying quietly on the bed. White Ghost's assistant, the female assistant who had previously helped out in the Governor's Mansion on Saka Star, and the Valkyrie Posa were all guarding beside him.
He is fine.
He is still alive.
He was almost perfectly protected.
In this regard, Daphne could only sigh: "This is the appeal of the White Ghost. There is nothing we can do about it."
"Then Your Highness, our data..."
"When you tell others, adjust the data higher. Don't tell my father about this," Daphne said. "Don't let it affect my father's mood. It's just a small matter."
"As you command, Your Highness."
Daphne pricked up her ears and listened carefully to the conversation on the White Ghost's end. Then, she made the excuse that she was a little tired and turned to walk towards the lounge in the corner.
After she closed the door, she looked around, took out her private Internet access terminal, and opened... White Ghost's live broadcast.
The live broadcast effect of the emperor of the empire is just for fun;
If you really want to see the barometer of the empire's political arena, you have to look at the White Ghost lying on the hospital bed.
On the projection screen, Yang Ming was lying motionless on the bed, with an instrument beside him displaying some of his body indexes.
026, who was standing by the bed, wearing a huge helmet, answered the questions carefully selected by the audience in a gentle voice, and the tight clothes she was wearing... made Daphne frown slightly.
"This kind of figure must have been plastic surgery."
For the first time in the past week, Daphne's mind was filled with topics that had nothing to do with imperial politics.
Then, I heard this 'ghost assistant' say softly:
"Why did you choose to broadcast live now? I don't know. It was the boss who set the time, but he is resting because of his weak health."
"Yes, the boss likes us to call him boss. We work for him and he pays us. This way, the boss feels that he does not owe us anything. When the boss runs away, he won't worry about us starving to death."
“Is the boss’s technical team related to the New Federation?
“I think that those who asked this question probably don’t know how much the New Federation hates my boss.
“There was a conspiracy theory before that our boss, White Ghost, was a high-level agent promoted by the New Federation at great cost within the Empire in order to disrupt the Empire.
"But dear, if our boss hadn't exposed the New Federation's plan to bury the insects, the Empire would have entered an active insect plague period for several years, and it would have been the only Empire to enter an active insect plague period, and the Empire would have gradually weakened.
"The problem facing the empire now is actually the people's long-standing dissatisfaction with the aristocracy and the protection of the aristocracy by the imperial laws.
"Our position has never changed. We want to overthrow the aristocracy of the empire and turn the Sherman Empire into a truly happy country. My boss told us before that he found it ridiculous that such a powerful empire had the most backward slavery system and more than one-tenth of the population belonged to a class below the common people.
“The biggest problem in human society is actually the inability to eliminate the existence of classes. However, a political system, an enlightened, progressive political system that considers the people, should find ways to eliminate the existence of classes, rather than acting as an umbrella for classes or even creating classes itself.
“Look, the parliamentary system represented by the New Federation is a very good system, but it has a flaw, which is that over time, parliamentarians are corrupted by capital.
"Especially when the voting system encounters cheaters such as those who control public opinion and modify history, voting becomes a game of competing for money. Capital obtains benefits such as taxes, operating costs, and policy subsidies from the government by cultivating parliamentarians and politicians, while the parliamentarians themselves receive support from capital and personal wealth.
“The most horrifying thing is that they take this kind of corruption for granted.
"Why is the New Federation not as strong as the Empire in terms of military strength? The cost of building a warship of the same combat power is 162% of that of the Empire.
"The parts-to-whole ratio of a warship, that is, the price you spend to buy all the parts of the warship compared to the price of the warship when it is delivered to the army, the lower the better, because it means the lower the maintenance and upkeep costs.
"The average parts-to-whole ratio of the Empire's main battleships is 150 percent, while the average parts-to-whole ratio of the New Federation's main battleships is 235 percent.
"This is what I just said, a system that will protect the upper class, the new federal government is a protective umbrella for those big companies.
“The Empire is even more powerful now . The Empire created a slave class to make the more numerous civilians feel superior, and then used this to maintain the stability of the Empire and make the civilians accept the fact that they are being trampled under the feet of the nobles.
“Our boss’s ideal has always been to return the imperial aristocracy to the common people and eliminate the empire’s largest privileged class.
“In addition, the biggest problem facing the Sherman Empire right now is actually the cancer hatched by the aristocracy, the Sherman family.
“While I was telling you all this, the Sherman family had already launched a siege on our live broadcast.
"However, their technology is too backward. Our ancient technology is very powerful. Even if they encircle and destroy several galaxies, it will not affect our live broadcast."
A slight smile crossed Daphne's lips.
This little assistant is quite cute.
That’s right, this figure is too exaggerated.
She herself is already a small branch that has borne fruit, and it's okay even though gravity is almost distorted here.
Daphne slid her fingers lightly, enlarging Yang Ming's helmet and stared at him in a daze.
This live broadcast did not give out much information.
The most valuable information is Yang Ming’s current condition - the little girl-like Posha is the best reference.
The rest is just the same old tune, and there is even a little bit that continues to fuel the empire and let the people continue to output to the nobles.
Interestingly, White Ghost's assistant highly praised the current emperor of the Sherman Empire, saying that this emperor, who was once called a big idiot by White Ghost, was a monarch who really wanted to do things for the people of the empire, but unfortunately, he was stripped of all power by the old monsters of the Sherman family.
What surprised Daphne the most during the entire live broadcast was that the Emperor Guard 2.0 system, which had been highly praised by those officials, was completely defeated in the battle to suppress the White Ghost Live Broadcast.
Emperor Guard 2.0 was helpless against White Ghost’s live broadcast.
Is ancient technology really... so powerful?
Daphne lay on the sofa, thinking quietly.
…
The scientific research team responsible for the development of Labdo also had similar doubts as Daphne.
The gray-haired old man kept saying, "Labdo! Why don't you stop them! You control the network connection between the stars! You can definitely do this!"
The image of Labdo sat quietly beside the porthole, gazing at the starry sky ahead. When the old man had almost finished shouting, he turned his head to look at the old man.
"I will not attack the White Ghost. This is the agreement we reached before."
"I really should clean all your core data! Oh! My God! White Ghost is now an enemy of the Empire!"
“No, there is something wrong with your perception.”
Labdo continued to look at the starry sky and said calmly:
“The core power of the empire lies with His Majesty the Emperor. The Great White Ghost has discovered the root of the empire’s problems. That is, the interest groups formed by the great nobles have completely sidelined His Majesty the Emperor. This is the root cause of the problem.
"An order without the authority of the emperor is unjust in the empire.
"Now I follow your orders to protect this country, not to fully believe in your ideas."
The gray-haired old man danced with joy, but in the end he just growled, turned around and walked away quickly.
Labdo shook his head calmly:
They simply don't understand the power of the White Ghost.
Law, who witnessed all this, also shook his head in his thinking space:
This Labdo has no idea of the power of a true mechanical thinking god.
…
The White Ghost's live broadcast was essentially to compete with the old emperor's speech for traffic.
They did this perfectly under the premise of rational observation.
As soon as the live broadcast that lasted half a galaxy hour ended, Yang Ming took off his helmet and jumped up from the hospital bed.
After 026 took off his helmet, he quickly untied the armor on Yang Ming.
"Lü, how's the battle going?"
"The Empire's Sixth Expeditionary Fleet is already at the end of its strength," Lu's simulated image instantly solidified, "most of our ships have been evacuated and reorganized. The second ambush will begin soon. Now our final goal is to destroy or capture that dreadnought."
Yang Ming looked at the sand table in front of him.
After half an hour's efforts by the Luofeng Fleet, the Sherman Empire's temporary mixed Sixth Expeditionary Fleet that invaded the New Orei Empire is now reduced to less than two hundred ships.
Although the Luofeng Fleet withdrew most of its ships to open up a second battlefield, it still maintains its superior firepower.
It can be seen that Lu really wants that dreadnought, as well as the dozens of heavy battleships and shield ships crowded around the dreadnought.
"How long will it take for the Imperial reinforcements to arrive?"
“The reinforcements from three directions were held up .
"The largest reinforcement force, consisting of more than 620 ships, will soon be ours."
The law said quickly:
"It should be noted that the Empire has assembled a reinforced combat group consisting of 5,000 warships, with the goal of destroying our force. They are on their way, and the vanguard will appear in this airspace in about 42 minutes."
"That is to say, we have to resolve the battle within twenty-five minutes."
There was a slight light in Yang Ming's eyes:
"Show some of your cards."
" Boss , are you going to use the Terminator to charge the ship? Or are you going to expose some of our new anti-ship weapons?"
"Forget about the Terminators. It's better for me to charge ahead than to use them," Yang Ming said. "I'll go take down that dreadnought, and you find a way to get those heavy battleships down."
"Uh, Boss, I can actually take care of these heavy warships. The drones have already sent enough nano-sensors in, but you may not have enough time to raid the dreadnoughts."
Lu whispered:
“If you want to join the battle, I suggest you lead the team.
"In a battleship bombardment, if we have to consider your actions in those ships, the overall efficiency will be greatly reduced."
Yang Ming's forehead was full of black lines.
Damn!
Is he a burden?
"Okay, come on."
Boss Yang walked back to the bed and lay down, complaining a little depressedly:
“It’s not time for me to knock out the Queen with an uppercut.
"Come here, show me how you can get these ships!"
Lu immediately smiled, then picked up the intercom in a serious manner and placed more than ten projection screens above the bed so that Boss Yang could witness it with his own eyes.
"assault."
As soon as Lu finished speaking, the image on the projection screen changed simultaneously, showing the detailed situation of the core area of the battlefield.
The drone swarms carried out medium to close range bombings around the dreadnought just as they had done before;
Just a few seconds after Lu's order was issued, the entire drone swarm, more than three million twenty-meter-class drones, avoided the core area of the Sherman Empire fleet's firepower network, gathered into dozens of metal torrents, and rushed towards the dreadnought.
Deep space tentacles!
Yang Ming's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of similar scenes.
"Zerg tactics?"
"Hmm," Ritsu said with a smile, "Bionic tactics, bugs are also living things."
The Sherman Empire's fleet fought stubbornly and immediately adjusted its firepower deployment, but the synchronized firepower cover from the outer Luofeng ships made it difficult for the already precarious remnants of the Sherman fleet to continue.
Yang Ming watched the scene quietly.
After suffering nearly 1% casualties, the drone swarm directly submerged the huge dreadnought.
Then, the scene that made the Sherman Empire soldiers despair happened again.
Just like the swarm of insects will be mixed with various troublesome special insects among the ordinary adults that serve as cannon fodder;
Among these drones are various special fighter jets.
The shield generator of the dreadnought was interfered with, and holes appeared in the shield;
A swarm of drones covered the periphery of the dreadnought, the dreadnought's close defense system was paralyzed, the entire shipboard network was unable to operate, and the power-related compartments were cut off from the outside world.
Then, more than 100,000 drones released the mechanical guards hidden in their abdomens.
One by one, the mechanical guards drilled into the hull of the dreadnought, and like a tide, swept across the entire dreadnought.
Yang Ming watched this scene quietly, frowned and asked: "Is the Dark Star's combat system so strong now?"
"This tactic has great limitations," Lu laughed, "and each drone has a mechanical mind as the pilot. If it is a large-scale battle, we don't have so many mature mechanical bodies, and there are not enough mechanical bodies to drive the ships. However, this problem can be solved in a similar way to the expansion of the Third Scourge."
Yang Ming nodded and looked at the progress bar below.
The progress bar was steadily improving, and after reaching the passing line of 60%, it turned directly into green light.
Dreadnought, captured!
