Chapter 534: Her Final Shackles
[Emergency: Civil strife in the empire, Levi awakens. ]
[The entire network of the Sherman Empire has been completely wrapped by the dual mechanical thinking bodies. The detectors near the Levi Fleet's base are operating normally. There is no abnormality with the Levi Fleet for the time being, and there is no abnormality with the Imperial Star. We are ready to evacuate to deep space at any time. ]
[Boss, your virtual mind body must be prepared to evacuate at any time. I will directly attack the City of Light when necessary to cover your evacuation. If necessary, you can abandon the virtual mind body, which will not be too much of a burden for you.]
[The Dongfeng has retreated to the border of the empire.]
[This news has been notified to Emilia. In order to prevent panic, this information has been concealed from other political entities.]
[Levi seems to have cleared out most of the Sherman Empire's elite power holders. I'm gathering more intelligence.]
Yang Ming's eyelids passed over rows of words, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a silver-gray ceiling.
Levi is awake?
Yang Ming was still a little confused, but his brain gradually began to function again.
This is the new student dormitory No. 034 in the advanced training base. The guy who shares the dormitory with me is snoring loudly at the moment.
He didn't share a dormitory with that annoying guy Kabu, which was the most wonderful experience for Boss Yang.
Although, I do miss being with Kabu...
That guy was indeed a bit nagging, but he was very loyal and was the kind of friend who brought meals to Yang Ming's cafeteria for 300 times in a row without any complaints.
Yang Ming shook his head, trying to focus on the important matter at hand.
Levi really woke up.
This made Yang Ming feel a little surprised, but the matter itself was reasonable.
After deciding to confront the Empire directly, Yang Ming and Lu assumed various extreme environments, including Levi's fleet suffering a huge setback and Levi waking up and starting the Imperial Star's huge mecha to oppress Ilando Star.
In response to this situation, Yang Ming and Xiao Lu prepared a comprehensive plan to ensure that they and Anxing could survive.
Yes, they didn't think of confronting the giant mecha of Emperor Star head-on at the beginning.
From another perspective, the various plans they formulated are actually designed to avoid such extreme situations.
——The star cannon that can jump is too terrifying. It is the only invincible weapon in the Milky Way today.
If this extreme situation occurs, Yang Ming has at least three options.
The first way is to negotiate with Levi, use the potential of the Dark Star as a bet, and in turn threaten Levi so that Levi dare not start a war, so that both parties can reach some kind of binding agreement, and the human civilization of the entire galaxy will enter the Cold War era with two major mechanical civilizations as the core.
The second way is to temporarily abandon the people of the Fallen Wind Alliance, let the Dark Star escape into the vast uninhabited star field, and after it has developed sufficiently, return to the Sherman Empire before the end of "Faya's Game" and directly destroy Levi.
Yang Ming certainly didn't want to take the second path, as that would make his and Edwang's efforts go to waste, and the soldiers who died in the Battle of Xie Luo would also be meaningless.
If we take the first path, there are too many uncertainties.
The Faya people have already given an 'ultimatum', and Yang Ming also knows that in the real world where the flow of time is normal, he will soon enter the higher-dimensional world.
So, he has a third way.
He can work together with Posa to directly enter the Imperial Star and actually destroy this huge mecha.
The price of doing so is that he and Posa will have to slaughter tens of millions of people with their own hands. This is different from commanding warships to engage in a high-intensity war. The psychological pressure is enormous and will inevitably leave a psychological shadow.
The third path seems to have the lowest cost, but in fact, it is the path that Yang Ming is most reluctant to try.
Yang Ming turned over, lay on the bed and began to organize his thoughts.
Now there are several issues that need to be clarified.
How long will Levi be awake?
After he wakes up, is there a possibility that he will collapse directly?
Should he continue to push forward the arrangements he had made within the empire, or should he hold off and wait for Levi to fall asleep again?
Yang Ming had no way of communicating directly with Lu at this moment;
But he knew that if an emergency really occurred, Lu would not act on his own and would definitely pull him back from the City of Light.
The flow of time here is a thousand times faster than in reality. Even if he sleeps for a few more hours, only a dozen seconds will have passed in reality.
Let’s get some sleep first.
Being in this state of time flow for a long time puts a lot of strain on the brain.
Yang Ming yawned, readjusted the position of his earplugs, hugged his arms, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.
In the next few months, Yang Ming was a little absent-minded during training, resting, fighting, and going out on patrol.
The advanced training base for awakeners is somewhat similar to Yang Ming's impression of the "graduate students" on Earth. They have to participate in study and training, as well as do some work.
The high-level training base where he is located is located at the intersection of three special urban areas.
If a mutation event occurs, a small dot will be painted black on the map;
Those three urban areas, as seen on the map, have become a connected shadow area, and this advanced training base is like a nail stuck right in the middle of the shadow area.
On the third day after Yang Ming arrived here, he heard a shrill siren coming from the northwest;
However, a few minutes later, he received the order to attack, and he boarded an armored hovercraft with several trainees and quickly provided support to the area where the incident occurred.
At the time, Yang Ming thought that this was just a live-fire drill.
But when he saw with his own eyes the mutant whose upper body had become a crystal killing two passers-by, he felt an inexplicable shock in his heart, and then he pounced down without hesitation and subdued the mutant directly.
Afterwards, there was no praise or reward, and they continued to return to the base classroom to learn some theoretical knowledge of combat.
Since then, Yang Ming has been on a mission every three to five days.
His friend Kabu had applied several times to eat, live and work in the same team with Yang Ming, but was ruthlessly rejected by the instructors.
However, Kabu did not give up and continued to try to convince the instructor team.
Moreover, Kabu has begun to get along well with several female instructors, and they are flirting with each other, and there seems to be a tendency for them to use backdoors to get in.
Yang Ming didn't have any idea about this.
Kabu was able to be transferred back, that was Kabu's ability.
Now he just wanted to wait for new news from Lu.
The flow of time here is a thousand times faster than outside. It takes a thousand galaxies to pass here while only one galaxy passes outside. Simply speaking, one hour outside is approximately equal to one and a half months inside.
So, Yang Ming waited anxiously for more than four months, but only three hours had passed outside.
During the lunch break that day, Yang Ming had lunch and took a nap on the sofa in the corridor.
Kabu, also known as Adwan Kabuba, came over with a plate of fruit and was about to chat and complain with Yang Ming.
Yang Ming snored deliberately, and Edwan Kabuba immediately shut up and enjoyed the fruit by himself.
It was at this time that Lu sent a second text message about Levi's awakening.
[Boss, there is still no movement from the Levi Fleet, and there is no sign of the Imperial Star activating.]
[It has now been confirmed that Levi has indeed awakened. Almost all members of the royal family have seen Levi. He is an old man with white hair and no beard, exactly the same as the image in the history books, and he is very humorous.]
[Levi has taken over all the information and knows everything that Reason knows. He calls the white ghost a little ghost and says that the little ghost is very interesting.]
[I read a sense of danger in this. If Levi doesn't want the empire to be destroyed, he will definitely do something to protect his empire.]
[Levi seems to have rewarded Daphne generously, and Daphne's status in the Sherman family has risen sharply. ]
[The Empire seems to be recovering its imperial power, the influence of the Sherman family elite is almost bankrupt, and Levi is currently missing. ]
【We are ready for a large-scale evacuation.】
No movement?
Yang Ming felt a little more at peace.
But what the hell is that 'little ghost'?
Is he familiar with Levi?
At the normal time flow rate of the Milky Way, Levi has been awake for several hours. Levi has cleaned up most of the elite rulers of the Sherman Empire. Next, it is very likely that he will launch a war against other countries.
A war that Levi personally participated in?
Yang Ming opened his eyes, and a sharp light flashed in his eyes.
Yang Ming's blood started boiling inexplicably at the thought of having the opportunity to fight against Levi Sherman.
"Wow, you're awake!"
Adwan Kabuba grinned:
"Come and have some fruit! You have a live-fire class this afternoon, and that's a physically demanding job."
…
Yang Ming's imaginary Levi Sherman:
He awakened from the chaos of the virtual universe and returned to the empire he founded. Faced with the corrupt empire and the chaotic international environment, he was ruthless and cut through all obstacles, clearing the rotten flesh of the empire with the force of thunder, and then adopted the method he was best at - war, to conquer all enemies who dared to be against him.
However, the real Levi Sherman:
"Oh, this is really interesting. This is a really interesting idea. I can sneak into the City of Light and get together with these two little guys. I can get to know them carefully and study them."
"You know, Li, if he can help me, I will have a better chance of winning. Even if it jumps from a one in a million chance to a two in a million chance, it will be doubled!"
"Let me think about how I can get their attention and become their friend. How about this?"
Bang!
A ball of white mist exploded under Levi Sherman's feet. When the mist dissipated, the old man had disappeared, and in his place was a young beauty who looked somewhat like Daphne.
Hot body and pure face.
Li on the side had his mouth twitching wildly, and finally he just shook his head.
"Can you be normal?"
"Normal? Isn't this normal?"
Levi Sherman thought about it carefully, and then there was a bang under his feet and white mist exploded, just like a circus performance.
When the white mist dissipated, a well-mannered middle-aged woman wearing glasses appeared in this virtual space.
"How about this?"
Levi Sherman raised his hand to support the huge object on his chest and licked his red lips: "This will definitely charm these two young boys!"
"You have such a twisted sense of aesthetics!" Li cursed with gritted teeth, "Don't expose your own sexual fetish, bastard!"
Bang!
Levi returned to his original appearance, looked at Li helplessly, and complained: "Shouldn't you give me some advice now? I want to talk to the two of them."
Li frowned and asked, "What exactly do you want to do, Levi?"
"Get closer to them," Levi Sherman pointed to the screen beside him, where images were flashing by quickly, and the screen was locked on 'Yang Ming Daru' and 'Edwan Kabuba'.
"Approach them, and then do what?"
"I plan to become friends with them," Levi Sherman said with a smile. "It's a great experience, isn't it? Especially after learning about Adwan's story, I feel a little guilty about Adwan."
Li looked Levi Sherman in the eyes.
The latter just looked at Li with a smile.
After a while, the smile on Levi's lips disappeared.
Li frowned and said, "Every time you wake up, you will change a little. Although each change is very small, after dozens of times, your changes have become huge. Levi, you are like two different people now."
"It's just two people," Levi Sherman made a two-sign gesture. "The me with a body and the me without a body are essentially two different minds. My mind operates in two different modes in the naturally grown brain and in the brain simulated in the ocean of data."
Li pursed his lips tightly.
Levi Sherman sighed: "But, what's the difference? My goal hasn't changed, only my personality has changed a little."
"If you had seen the current situation of the empire, you would have launched a war without hesitation."
"To be precise, that was me 20,000 years ago."
Levi Sherman shrugged:
"I have protected this empire for too long.
“I’ve cleaned up the mess for my descendants too many times.
“This is seriously inconsistent with the cyclical law of human civilization development.
"Besides, what I want to do next has nothing to do with the Empire. With the help of the Empire, a huge political system, and the Empire's network, a huge computer, we have conducted a calculation that lasted for tens of thousands of years. Now the calculation has a result, right?"
Li frowned and said, "Can you really give up the Sherman Empire?"
"It's not about whether I can give up, but this empire can no longer be sustained. The empire has lost."
Levi Sherman shook his head:
“If the little ghost didn’t exist, I could rely on the technology given by the omnic Twilight to keep the Empire ahead until other political systems catch up with the Empire, and then they would have a chance to defeat the Empire.
“But with Little Ghost here, and he’s chosen a more pure mechanical evolution route, there’s no way we can win in the end.
"If we launch a surprise attack on him now, the dark star planet he has set up outside the human activities in the Milky Way can become the seed of revenge.
"He doesn't even need to give orders. These intelligent machines at the same level as us will evolve their own civilization and then destroy us in turn.
“When he chooses to build some of the dark stars outside the Milky Way, we will have no chance of winning. The only difference is whether tens of billions more or tens of billions less humans will die.
"Why fight a war that can't be won?
"Although I am a demon who has killed countless people, unnecessary massacres are absolutely meaningless."
Li nodded slightly.
Levi Sherman suddenly laughed again: "In that case, why don't I change my mindset and try to get something from the little ghost?"
"get?"
"To be precise, I want to try to cooperate with him," Levi Sherman said as he looked at the rapidly flashing screen. "He is in the City of Light. This is the perfect opportunity. I also need to observe him thoroughly before deciding whether to cooperate with him."
Reason didn't speak.
Levi Sherman hummed a tune, opened the closet beside him, and picked and chose among the colorful clothes.
Rational thinking space.
The girl with twin ponytails hugged her knees with her hands, a faint smile on her lips.
The Sherman family elite ruling group, that is, the Supreme Supervisory Council of the Sherman Empire, is dysfunctional.
Of the only two chains left on her body, the one on her wrist quietly disintegrated.
The last restraint was the neck.
