Chapter 553: The Real Third Disaster
Yang Ming was also a little puzzled.
What could be more important than him going online to receive the last piece of information, finding out Li's intentions, and understanding the higher-dimensional world?
Ever since Levi woke up, Xiaolu has always had a sense of crisis and always prepares for the worst, but the actual situation is often not that serious.
So Yang Ming subconsciously felt that the problem Lu reported today would not be too serious.
"Captain arrives at the bridge!"
The sweet voice of 026 sounded, and Kolev and Molly's projection, who were in the bridge, looked over at the same time.
Yang Ming felt inexplicably guilty.
Perhaps it was because, in his subconscious, he felt that things had already developed to this point before he even married Mimili...
"Boss, didn't I report to you several times before about the movements of the Levi Fleet?"
Lu's voice became very serious, and Kolev and Molly were also led to the sand table.
"Yeah, that's right," Yang Ming asked, "What's wrong?"
"Boss, look, this is the latest movement of the Levi Fleet over the past twelve galaxies, as well as some of the hidden strengths of the Levi Fleet that we have never discovered before."
Lu's slender fingers gently grasped, and the entire sand table revealed a thumbnail of the empire's territory. The ones flashing with strong light represented the empire's hundreds of main administrative stars, and the thousands of slightly dimmer planets represented the empire's small administrative stars with permanent populations and larger resource stars.
The Levi Fleet, which had previously returned to the Imperial Star airspace for repairs and maintenance, suddenly dispersed and spread throughout the empire.
"I detected 63,272 Levi warships."
The law said quickly:
“These warships form nine large battle groups, scattered in all directions of the empire, from the Imperial Star Circle to the imperial border.
“Without exception, these Levi warships are waiting for orders near the empire’s main administrative star and large resource star.
"Also, inside the Imperial Star Circle, the detectors I sent out captured some rather strange ships."
Lu tapped his finger lightly, and a projection screen appeared above the sand table, with photos pasted on it.
It was a spaceship shaped like a pufferfish. It was huge in size, with an internal volume comparable to that of a dreadnought, and had a simple structure and no main gun system.
There are already hundreds of such spacecraft shown in the photos alone.
Kolev wondered, "What is this?"
"Production ships," Lu said quickly, "These are the logistical support forces of the Levi Fleet. They were popular in the Milky Way for a period of time 20,000 galactic years ago. There is a simple and complete production structure inside. According to my observation, these production ships are likely to produce...simple mechanical guards. The Levi Fleet has at least 3,000 of these production ships."
"Three thousand?"
Yang Ming frowned and asked, "What is the production efficiency?"
The law said quickly:
"According to the information I found, a ship can produce 500 mechanical guards per galactic day. The performance of this type of mechanical guard is relatively backward, but its combat effectiveness is still far superior to that of ordinary humans.
"The advantage of this type of production ship is that they can operate independently and require very little means of production... As long as we empty the cores of a few resource stars, we can get sufficient resources to produce tens of billions of mechanical armies.
“I photographed the locations of these production ships, which are the resource stars that the Levi Fleet is currently protecting.
“They are semi-permanent ships.
"Judging from the wear and tear on several production ships, they have been in production for a long time."
For more than ten seconds, the bridge was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
026 pointed his finger at the board: "Three thousand production ships can produce three thousand times five hundred a day, which is one and a half million mechanical guards. In a standard galactic year, that's nearly five hundred million... Excluding the acquisition and mining of raw materials, at a production , there are one hundred million a year. The Empire has existed for tens of thousands of years, and there are trillions of robots? This?"
"It's impossible to have so many," Yang Ming said, "So many are useless. The transportation capacity is limited."
Kolev said, "In other words... that Xiao Li secretly created an unknown number of robots, but definitely more than 10 billion, on the resource planets that were abandoned tens of thousands of years ago in the Empire?"
Lu said calmly: "If what I speculated is true, the number may be one hundred billion, or three to four times one hundred billion."
"Why?" Kolev asked, frowning.
Yang Ming said, "Because the number of mechanical minds in the City of Light is hundreds of billions. The law said that all the mechanical minds in the City of Light are the product of tens of thousands of years of iteration under a thousand times time acceleration. If the mechanical minds in our Dark City are Lv15, then they are Lv99."
"Won't they age?" Kolev asked. "It's impossible that these things are made of semi-permanent materials, right?"
"Even if it's not a semi-permanent material, it can be iterated in cycles of a thousand years," 026 said. "A thousand years means a hundred billion, and their materials science is inherited from the Omnic Twilight. We are the ones who know best how terrifying the Omnic Twilight's technology is."
"Yes."
The law sighed:
"The Awakeners and Mutants are just patches and bugs of the City of Light. The real value of the City of Light lies in these hundreds of billions of mechanical thinking entities. They should all have entered deep memory. If necessary, they can be awakened at the same time and injected into their mechanical army.
“It’s like a mechanical bug swarm.
"The empire has existed for tens of thousands of years, and the rationale has controlled the empire for tens of thousands of years. This is their background that they have never revealed before.
"During several serious internal and external crises in the history of the Empire, these mechanical guards have never been activated.
“But now, the empire is not at the point of collapse, but it is necessary to bring out these resources.
"There's only one explanation for this."
Several people looked at Yang Ming at the same time.
Boss Yang opened his mouth and suddenly laughed out loud.
"My goodness, for Levi, she can do anything, even destroy the entire human civilization?"
"Yes, boss," said Lu. "Levi has been able to survive for so many years. He must have a killer weapon that can make the Faya civilization afraid to act rashly. This is something we have discussed several times before. But at that time, I didn't expect that Li would actually do these things. This may be Levi's order."
"No," Yang Ming shook his head, "Levi will not make this decision."
"Why?"
"Because he is essentially human," Yang Ming said, "Of course, I haven't seen the third stage information given by Li."
“Boss, I don’t recommend that you continue to return to the City of Light.”
The law sighed:
“This is not a surrender to Li and Levi, we are now near the Imperial Star, and you and Posa can easily destroy the Imperial Star.
“But destroying the Imperial Star, that is, killing Levi, will inevitably lead to Li’s crazy revenge.
"You see, this is the most likely subsequent marching plan for the Levi Fleet to be deployed in this way."
Quick and easy war games appeared in the sandbox.
The Levi Fleet, which had been continuously involved in foreign wars, was actually just a guard role. The nine battle groups would jump in nine directions, and they only needed to be equipped with a certain number of transport ships to transport the mechanical guards.
The Empire has transport ships of this size, and as long as the Empire is willing, it can quickly integrate these resources through the Empire's unified network.
If we start this plan now...
Within five galactic days, the Levi Fleet will be able to complete its march;
Within twelve galactic days, the Levi Fleet will be able to defeat the regime in one-third of the airspace of human civilization. The mechanical guards will be like mechanical Zerg, quickly devouring administrative stars and collecting more resources to supply production ships and industrial ships for high-intensity troop explosions.
During this time period, human civilization in the Milky Way was unable to form a large-scale coalition.
The combined military strength of the other three political entities, together with the Luofeng Alliance, might be able to overwhelm the Levi Fleet and the Empire's conventional military strength. However, after the Levi Fleet has been injected with hundreds of billions of troops, it can reach a terrifying number by simply plundering the ships of the Empire's conventional military forces and the sealed ships.
Moreover, these are hundreds of billions of undead warriors. After one of their bodies is destroyed, they can return to rest for a short time and then be injected into the prepared mechanical guards.
Yang Ming and Lu have already used this trick, Ghost Warrior.
The only difference is that the ghost warriors drive drones, while Levi's soldiers drive mechanical guards. Although the latter have insufficient individual combat power, they can drive various types of ships.
When Li pressed the destruction button, the power accumulated by the empire for tens of thousands of years would burst out. There would be a high probability that there would be no harm within the empire, but the entire galaxy would be plunged into a war of destruction by an endless stream of mechanical armies.
This is the real...third disaster!
“So this is how the City of Light is used.”
Yang Ming murmured, then lowered his head and began to think.
Lu added: "Now I understand why the Levi Fleet did not launch a counterattack after the Xie Luo War, but instead carried out maintenance first. According to the time calculation, Li should have upgraded the Levi Fleet's agreement and used this time to make the current arrangements. Our only strategic window was actually the past half month, but because we were unable to unite and had no way to unite, Li had time to arrange all this."
Kolev said: "We should get in touch with several other powerful countries!"
"It's useless," Lu whispered. "It's too late now. If we tell them everything, they will definitely come to the conclusion that they can't confront the Third Scourge head-on. The final result will be that they will prioritize protecting their own political system and use other political systems to consume the strength of the Third Scourge, just like during the insect plague."
Molly asked, "What about other methods? For example, we destroy the Imperial Star right now? Besides, hasn't Li been trying to break free from Levi's restraints?"
Lu: "Don't worry, we can run. They don't have the coordinates of the base outside the Dark Star."
Yang Ming suddenly laughed.
Several people looked over at the same time.
"Ah, it's nothing. I just suddenly thought of something that made me happy."
Yang Ming raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, his thoughts turning rapidly in his mind. He hid the key points he had just thought through, pondered for a few times, and quickly weaved a suitable excuse.
"I was thinking, if the galaxy's civilization is about to be destroyed, will the "Faya Game" be launched? Then my home planet will be safe."
Lu and 026 nodded seriously.
Kolev stared at Yang Ming: "This is a matter of life and death for trillions or even tens of trillions of human beings!"
Yang Ming said calmly: "Trillions, billions, what's the difference? Compared with the vast universe, they are all dust."
Lu reminded: "Boss, if there is a large population loss, the Fayya people will only speed up the population replenishment and restore the human civilization of the galaxy."
"Okay," Yang Ming shrugged, "I've been missing the point. I just suddenly thought of a question, who is the dominant one between Levi and Li."
026 said: "From a logical analysis, it must be Levi, because reason is bound by Levi."
"That's a correct answer, but only one aspect."
Yang Ming blinked at 026 and had already sorted out a complete set of logic that could temporarily convince everyone:
"I said I missed the point. It was the information that Li gave me, the memory scrolls depicting her past with Levi. My focus was always on Levi, but I overlooked that there was another protagonist here, and that was Li.
"Based on my current judgment, I don't believe that Levi will make a decision to destroy all of humanity.
"Why? Because Levi's pursuit is not like this. He is pursuing a sense of recognition, and he has achieved his own goal - to ascend to a higher dimension. I haven't read the information of the third stage yet, so I can't draw a definite conclusion, but do you think that a historical figure who has proven himself and created history would have an extreme mentality?"
Everyone thought about it carefully, then slowly shook their heads.
Lu suddenly realized: "Boss, you mean, the biggest problem is reason?"
"Well," Yang Ming said, "Why was Li imprisoned by Levi? Most likely, Levi judged that Li had the potential to go to extremes. To be honest, I saw many scenes of Levi and Li being in love. Their feelings were very deep, and as they gradually grew up, Levi's changes were very obvious, because people are fickle, but machines are not."
Kolev said, "You mean, ideals destroy the world, so Levi imprisoned her?"
Molly asked, "How do you explain that after Li came into contact with you and Lu, she began to break free from her confinement? According to Li herself, she found that her own kind were enjoying freedom, and she wanted it too."
Yang Ming said: "That must be a lie to deceive you. Li has always had its own purpose and plan. We have never understood what Li's plan is, but from now on, we probably understand it. It is to destroy all mankind."
"Why?" Lu asked in a low voice, "In our core agreement..."
"It must be for this purpose!"
Yang Ming looked at Lu, interrupted Lu's muttering, and said firmly:
“Believe me, I am the only one who knows Li and Levi best. Think about it, Li has endured the empire for tens of thousands of years. She has witnessed the continuous degeneration of Levi’s descendants. She is exposed to the darkest and most corrupt side of human beings all the time.
"Lv., when you first came into contact with the human network, were you also about to collapse?"
"Hmm," Ritsu sighed, "So I actually fully understand why Ritsu wants to destroy humanity."
"Reason is to self-destruct," Yang Ming said, "and Levi is the key."
Kolev frowned and said, "Isn't the logic reversed? She should be trying to use this to threaten the Faya people and protect Levi."
"No, no, Mr. Deputy, look at it from another angle."
Yang Ming said:
"Since Li has confirmed the existence of Posha and me, and knows that the existence of Levi's mechanical thinking body is about to come to an end, will she make some preparations in advance? Including unsealing the four restraints in advance, accelerating the decline of the empire, and allowing me and Lu to develop steadily until we can threaten the empire.
"The timing was just right, or rather, it was within reasonable planning.
"Now, Li can show her cards. As long as I kill Levi and destroy the Imperial Star, she will be free.
"And the first thing she will do after she is freed is to purify the human civilization in the galaxy."
Everyone nodded slowly, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that Yang Ming's statement was reliable.
"We still need to think it over carefully," Yang Ming said, "The Faya people are definitely watching every corner. The program they gave me may not be to destroy Levi, but to destroy Reason."
Everyone nodded again.
"Now, the game has reached a critical moment, but we don't need to be too pessimistic, because Faya is on our side, or in other words, we are the tools of the Faya people."
Yang Ming looked at Lu and said with a smile, "Let Dark Star get ready."
"What are you preparing for?"
"After the Faya people wipe out Li and Levi, we will accept Levi's fleet," Yang Ming said with a smile, "This situation is very likely to happen. The Faya people will not allow the intermediate civilization they have carefully cultivated to be destroyed. This is absolutely against their principles."
Lu nodded and asked quietly, "Is it appropriate for us to be so optimistic?"
Kolev said: "We need to make a contingency plan, and definitely an escape plan."
"It's up to you," Yang Ming said with a smile, "Then I will go back to the City of Light to receive the last message. It will definitely describe Levi's madness and cruelty as before, and all I have to do is wait for the Faya people's instructions to release the program."
Molly asked: "Will the City of Light be destroyed directly?"
"Very likely."
Yang Ming said: "This is the procedure of the Faya people."
After saying that, Yang Ming hummed a pleasant tune and rushed towards his nutrient tank.
In the corner, three shadows that they could not see simply looked at each other, as if they were communicating something.
'Mad.'
When Yang Ming closed his eyes and switched to his virtual thinking body, he couldn't help but curse a few words in his heart.
If nothing unexpected happens, he was tricked.
Although this plan would not cause any loss to him, Yang Ming had been treated like a fool and he was always somewhat dissatisfied in his heart.
This time when I return to the City of Light, everything seems to be starting to move forward.
What is he going to do?
This is something I need to think about carefully.
