Chapter 513: Labdo's Determination
It’s great to have the big banner of Faya.
Moreover, what Yang Ming said was not a lie.
The Fayya people did support their dark stars - during the period when Hera was doing research;
The Faya people do want to target the Sherman Empire now - mainly to let Yang Ming enter the City of Light and kill Levi.
Wouldn't it be more convincing if you mix everything together?
After the meeting, Boss Yang sat in the chair of the projection suite and was distracted for a while.
Lu's projection appeared on the side.
She keenly noticed that her master was in a strange mood and came over to keep him company.
Yang Ming seemed to know that she was coming, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Is there any sign of activation?"
"Not yet," said Lu. "Everything is in our calculations. Our losses are 20% less than expected. The Ghost Project is proceeding normally."
"How many fighters have entered the Ghost Project now?"
"Eighty percent of the dead," said Lu. "Now there are 8.65 million ghost pilots... Boss, after the war, are you sure you want to take them to Dark City?"
"Well," Yang Ming said, "There's no need to send them to the core Dark City. Let them go to the bases with lower numbers."
"Boss, most of their data-driven thinking may not last for more than a few months before it collapses, which will take up a lot of our extra resources..."
Yang Ming said: "Just treat it as respect for them, Lu, are we going to delete them after we use them? They are heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country, and we should give them as many resources as possible."
"Boss, I'm not disrespecting..."
Lu pursed her lips slightly, took the initiative to walk to Yang Ming's side, raised her hand and placed it on Yang Ming's shoulder, and said gently:
"Don't stress too much, this is the way to protect Luofeng."
Yang Ming's breathing became heavier, he closed his eyes and sat there, whispering:
"I don't have confidence anymore, Lu. I don't have confidence that I can pass the third test of Twilight... Power can easily lead people astray...
"So many people are fighting tooth and nail for your orders, brazenly prepared to die. I can almost see those soldiers, they are watching me, they are waiting for me to order them to die, they are asking...
"Sir, can we win by doing this?
"This is war, law, this is human war. Humans use all their advanced technologies to kill each other. Humans create so-called beliefs, ideologies and other concepts just to prove that they are right and the other party is wrong, and then impose so-called justice on the other party!
"Sixteen million people!
"In two days of war, we lost 16 million people and 16 million families were plunged into grief."
Yang Ming raised his hand to cover his forehead and swore twice.
"I can't even bring back their bodies."
Lu didn't dare to speak and stood quietly behind Yang Ming.
From her point of view, Luofeng now has more than 20 billion people and more than 10 billion registered households. If we look at it from the perspective of the Luofeng Alliance as a civilization, this damage is within a controllable range. As long as a stable living environment can be ensured, civilization will continue to develop.
Therefore, as long as the current war does not result in a loss of more than 5% of the population, it will not affect Luofeng's subsequent development.
After being tempered by war, the Luofeng Alliance itself has gained a lot of benefits.
First, they were able to establish their status as a powerful country through this war, and now they have obtained the qualifications for parallel dialogue with the United States of Freedom and the Guell Confederation.
Second, the sense of recognition and honor within the Luofeng Alliance will be greatly enhanced.
Third, the army’s combat effectiveness will be improved to a higher level.
Yang Ming wiped his face and breathed softly.
“I’m sorry, I’m a little stressed out, and I’m a little emotional. Damn… It’s really hard for me to suddenly be held responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people.
“Don’t worry, I’m sure I’m on the right track.
"International status is never achieved at the negotiation table, but is won with fists... I will not command the following battles. I will go to the front line to fly a drone. Whether I command or not will not have much impact."
"Boss," Lu reminded, "you'd better not participate in the front-line battle. We are not in such a desperate situation that we must lead the charge. Otherwise, if you get into some difficulties, it will directly affect the entire battle situation."
Yang Ming turned his head and glared at Lu.
Lu insisted on his opinion: "Besides, didn't you say that you didn't want the Empire to know that the White Ghost was Luofeng Commander Yang Ming?"
"Oh, yes, there is this one."
Yang Ming clicked his tongue:
"I'm a bit upset... I'm going to get some sleep first. Call me if anything happens.
"How is Catherine preparing? It will be her turn soon. The impact on the empire from the outside has already formed. The empire's honor and sense of crisis have come. Perhaps it will sober up the people of the empire who are intoxicated in the dream of being a hegemon."
"Captain Catherine can take action at any time. We are fully prepared."
Lu laughed:
“During your rest period, we will work together with the New Federation, the Guell Alliance, and the Free United States to exert our strength in public opinion.
"The battle of Xie Luo has achieved the strategic goal. Now it depends on our performance!"
“Come on.”
Yang Ming waved his hand, then stretched and wandered towards the rest cabin.
Lu stared at Yang Ming's back.
She could sense that her boss was still feeling a little heavy at the moment.
This made Lu feel a little strange.
When the boss faced countless swarms of insects, he chopped them down with his sword, from the Imperial Star Circle to the edge of the Milky Way, without blinking, and not a single eye was dry.
Now I have only commanded two battles...
The job of a general does require a certain talent for withstanding stress.
…
Yang Ming returned to the rest cabin, tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, so he simply started browsing the Internet.
Luofeng's online environment is half heavy and half festive.
People really like the feeling of being witnesses of history. In every corner of the Internet, you can see posts analyzing how much benefit Luo Feng would get if he won this battle.
When some of the families of the fallen soldiers show up, countless Luofeng netizens will immediately express their praise and admiration.
It wasn't just praise, many people spontaneously went to provide relief to the families of the fallen soldiers.
The war has not yet ended completely, and the Third World War may break out at any time, so the Luofeng government has not yet held large-scale mourning activities, but the people have gathered spontaneously, using rituals based on local cultural customs to commemorate these soldiers who died for their country.
This is a political system that is still in its rising stage. The overall atmosphere is positive and bright.
Yang Ming cut into the Sherman Empire network.
Although he, the man behind the scenes, already knew what kind of public opinion offensive the Lu family would launch, when he entered the online world of the Sherman Empire, he was soon really aroused.
Depressed.
Extremely depressing.
Angry people chanted 'This is not the war we want';
The families of the dead and wounded soldiers wept bitterly in the streets, surrounded by armed police;
The marching crowd held up signs that read "Don't invade other countries", but were directly driven away by mechanical guards.
When Yang Ming was browsing various posts, including video posts, text posts, and holographic virtual posts, the post would always freeze when he was browsing halfway through.
Labdo and the relevant departments of the empire were covering their mouths frantically.
How chaotic does the empire have to be to shake the Sherman family's ruling foundation?
There is actually no standard answer to this.
The empire is a family-style dictatorship, and the people have expressed countless dissatisfaction with the nobles and the imperial high-ranking officials. However, most of the empire's soldiers are loyal.
If one wants to shake the empire's rule, one must deprive the empire of its ballast, its strong military power.
From this perspective, the empire is still not chaotic enough.
But that may not be the case in the future.
The setbacks suffered by the Empire at Falling Wind have already produced three major news stories - the ambush of the New Orri Empire and the two battles at the Falling Wind border;
The psychological advantage that the empire's military strength has brought to its people and soldiers is about to be shattered.
This is the opportunity Yang Ming has been waiting for.
For some unknown reason, Boss Yang felt a little sorry for this guy Labdo.
Based on Yang Ming's understanding of Labdo and Lu's supervision and analysis of Labdo's core data, Labdo should be very disgusted with what he has done now, but he has to follow the orders of the empire.
'Completing the Empire's orders' was given to Labdo as the 'value of existence'.
I hope that when our team exerts its full strength, Labdo can hold on.
Yang Ming was about to turn off the projection screen in front of him when Lu, who was wearing a white shirt and pleated skirt, peeked over from the corner of the projection interface.
"Hey, hey, boss!"
"Um?"
Yang Ming was also amused by Lu's sneaky look: "If you have something to say, just tell me. I'm about to go to bed."
"Well, it's not a big deal," Lu asked softly, "Should we have a family meeting?"
"A family meeting?"
"That is, bring all of our people together and talk about future development."
Lu hummed a few words:
"This is actually about integrating your core team so that everyone has a clear mind. We just defeated the Sherman Empire head-on, so why not hold a family meeting?"
Yang Ming blinked: "Don't ask me about such a small matter. Let me sleep for a while. I'm a little sleepy now."
"You agree?"
"certainly."
"Great!" Lu cheered, then saluted Yang Ming in a coquettish manner and went back to the corner of the projection screen.
Boss Yang couldn't help but smile.
Based on his understanding of Xiao Lu, Lu must have some other little plans, but was just too embarrassed to tell him directly.
What does she want to do?
Want to seize power and seize the throne, put your hands on your waist and shout to yourself "Hahaha, you lowly human, you have been enslaved by this intelligent machine! Face the reality!" Is this what he is like?
He immediately removed all the screws of her core brain!
Yang Ming yawned and soon fell into a deep sleep.
This is a side effect of the previous injection of neuroleptic drug.
…
Can’t delete all.
It's impossible to delete them all.
Labdo's main mind was paralyzed in a sea of data.
Although the war in the real world has come to a temporary end, both sides need to gather their forces to continue fighting, and foreign forces have launched a general offensive against the Empire's network.
If facing the intelligence organizations and official navy of the New Federation, the Guell Alliance, and the Free United States, Labdo actually has a great advantage, and it is no exaggeration to say that he can handle it with ease.
But behind these three forces, there is actually an even crazier and more powerful navy force.
These trolls act extremely quickly and are well versed in the loopholes of the empire's cyber world.
The most outrageous thing is that they can actually modify the most underlying logic of the empire's cyber world and create loopholes where there are none.
The result of the continuous fighting was that, except for one-third of the planets in the Imperial Star Circle, the entire empire knew the result of the Battle of Xie Luo. Everyone knew that the empire had suffered a defeat, and that 16,000 main battleships had been destroyed by its former vassal states, and the empire had suffered tens of millions of casualties.
For the empire, this was an unjust war of aggression against another country;
The result was that it turned out like this.
The people who were already protesting became even more agitated.
This is the latest proof that the Sherman family is not doing their job.
Before the war, they planned to use the death of the imperial nobles to spread the view that "the prosperity of the empire today is inseparable from the contributions of the aristocracy" in order to calm the public opinion storm in the empire;
Now, this idea is completely impossible to realize.
There were even many people who were unwilling to accept the empire's temporary defeat and attributed the failure of the war to the incompetence of the imperial nobles.
Then……
'The imperial nobles occupy the most resources, but they can't make any contribution to this country. What is the meaning of their existence? Just to oppress us, just for the Sherman family to control every aspect of society?'
This is the latest argument.
Labdo conducted a survey based on the huge amount of data he had.
Twenty years ago in the empire, the public's approval and support for the royal family was around 46 percent;
After the rise of White Ghost, during the honeymoon period between White Ghost and the Empire, the public’s approval of the royal family increased to 56 percent;
Now, public approval of the royal family is a paltry 19 percent.
If this was not the interstellar age, but an age when civilizations were trapped on the surface of planets, without the huge barriers built with science and technology and military technology, the empire would have been surrounded by rebels on all sides by now.
Of course, there are no ifs.
Labdo calculated and searched.
He wanted to find a way to save the empire, to find a path to turn the tide. This was the meaning of his existence, and it was also what too many people expected of him.
But, no.
The internal contradictions of the empire have been accumulating continuously, and this contradiction is like a volcano that has begun to erupt;
This military defeat of the Empire will exert tremendous pressure on the Empire, with an impact almost like a major earthquake;
The combined destructive power of these two factors is enough to tear the empire apart.
But now... Labdo looked at the round table from afar, at those idiots who kept arguing without making any progress, his eyes full of sadness.
Why should such a great empire be controlled by these old monsters who dare not even face the laws of nature?
Labdo had already understood the man;
And now, he wished he could follow in that man's footsteps.
Unfortunately, he couldn't get out.
"Sir," Labdo murmured as he looked down at every corner of the empire, "How can I save this country?"
Naturally, there was no response from anyone around.
Labdo seemed to have thought of something.
In fact, he had already calculated various possibilities and the different paths that would appear if each possibility were extended further.
Now he has only one way.
Go to Emperor Star!
For the problems he couldn't solve, he could only hope for a real, powerful Imperial Guard system that could make the empire invincible again!
After taking over the Imperial Star Circle's network, Labdo was convinced of how big the gap was between himself and the first-generation Imperial Guard system, which was said to have been created with ancient technology.
Awakening the true Imperial Guard is the last resort.
Even if the Emperor Guard System would expel him, make him lose everything he has, and make him return to that small gray space.
Labdo closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and a golden ball of light representing the internal network of the Imperial Star appeared in front of him.
He didn’t hesitate;
There is no need to ask anyone for instructions;
He just opened his arms and jumped towards the golden ball of light.
For the Empire!
