Chapter 58
A huge beam of light descended from the sky, and the eggshell-shaped building was annihilated in an instant. The beam of light penetrated several hundred meters underground before dissipating. At this time, all the people and objects that were originally here turned into ashes. Only a small piece of wall survived the 18-story building underground.
The power of the light column was not limited to this. The nearby ice surface surged up like waves, and huge spider-web-like cracks appeared on the ice layer of thousands of meters in radius. The dark cracks seemed to extend all the way to the abyss underground. Around the point where the light column landed, a large amount of ice and snow vaporized into milky white mist, and the residual heat also melted the nearby ice layer, forming a small but deep lake here. However, the climate of the Imperial Capital Star was extremely cold, and the lake water froze into ice again in less than half an hour. That night, heavy snow fell, and by the time the sun rose the next day, no trace of it could be seen.
However, when the beam of light fell from the sky, although it was short-lived, many people still saw it.
For example, Zufar, who lives in the town of Yakaolana, not only saw the beam of light, but he was also directing a thumb-sized drone to take 360-degree photos of him at that time, so he captured the entire process of the beam of light hitting him.
And he knew what it was.
Apollo, the most powerful satellite weapon in the war against the Earth, the sword of the Empire, the guardian of Landia. Three thousand years ago, a rebellion broke out in the country, and the rebels once attacked the palace. As a result, Apollo wiped out most of the rebels with one strike, and then was easily suppressed by the Imperial Army. Now three thousand years have passed, and Apollo has been updated countless times. Several weapons that are more powerful than it and can even destroy planets have been discovered, but for ground creatures, Apollo's power has not diminished.
While Zufar was excitedly speculating on what had caused the Empire to use weapons of this level, he edited the video he had shot and uploaded it to his personal homepage.
Then, the moment the video was uploaded, Zufar found that his personal page was locked. Not only was the video deleted in seconds, but a short notice also appeared on the page:
Dear Mr. Zufar:
Hello.
The content you just uploaded is suspected of leaking state secrets, which violates Article 35 and Article 237 of the Imperial Security Law. Since this is your first violation and you have a good record in the past, you will only be given a warning for this leak. If you violate it again, the staff of the Inspectorate will visit and arrest you within ten minutes, and the specific punishment will depend on the severity of the case.
Have a nice evening.
From: An Lilia, Office of the Inspectorate]
The last part is the notification time, which is right now, accurate to the second.
After staring at the notification for a long time, Zufar shuddered and quickly deleted all the content he had just edited. Not only that, he also deleted all the original videos taken by the drone.
A minute later, his personal homepage was restored.
Two minutes later, he saw one of his good friends casually asking in the circle of classmates: "I just saw a beam of light falling from the sky. I don't know what it is. It's a bit scary. Did anyone else see it like me?"
Zufar flicked his fingers, not even daring to touch his computer.
A few seconds later, the message sent by the friend was quickly withdrawn. After a long time, no one in the circle of classmates spoke. Zufar couldn't help but wonder if they had all received the same warning as himself.
But he didn't dare to ask. Even when they met in the future, he knew that they would never bring up this topic. In the Star Network era, it seemed that they had unparalleled freedom of speech, and could shamelessly comment on the leader of a country and dictate the development strategy of the empire. But when there was real speech control, even in the private space of your own home, you had to keep silent, otherwise, your robot, mobile phone, identity bracelet, computer, food processor, washing machine... you never knew where a pair of listening ears would be hidden.
At the same time, just as Zufar guessed, everyone who tried to talk about this matter received such a warning immediately. The local administrative officials who originally managed the area, such as the mayor, the mayor, etc., as well as the commander of a nearby troop stationed, the news media, and all those who had the responsibility and obligation to report this matter, mostly turned a deaf ear to it. A few people uploaded the report, but it was intercepted before it was seen by the right people. Not long after, those who did so were also transferred from their original positions. Almost all of them were sent to the habitable planet on the border of the empire, and basically they would never come back in this life.
When the pillar of light descended, it was in broad daylight, the weather was clear, and there was no wind or cloud. Although the base was located in a remote area, there were many towns and cities nearby, and countless people saw the pillar of light.
However, such a major news event that took place under a clear blue sky and in which the Empire's strategic weapons were deployed was covered up layer by layer by countless invisible hands, keeping it tightly covered and making it completely airtight.
But before those hands fell, a ray of light quietly disappeared.
There was a little blood stain on the silver-gray cloak.
When Rong Yuan entered the building, he thought it was too cumbersome and threw it on the ground at the door. But when he left, he didn't know what he was thinking, he picked up the cloak again and wrapped it around his body. He sat in the simple tent, covering his chest with his hands. The wound he had suffered in Bai Qixing had not healed yet. This time the wound was torn again and a lot of blood flowed. However, this was all expected. The injury did not affect his movements at all, so Rong Yuan did not care much. The treatment device did not work, so he used a hemostatic bag to press it on. Although it was a folk method, it was more effective than high-tech treatment devices.
Next to Rong Yuan, the red light in the Alpha camera was flashing at a high frequency, which was caused by the large amount of calculations it was performing. After half an hour, the red light became stable and then disappeared. Alpha turned his head to Rong Yuan and said dryly: "Success."
There was no joy in his tone. Rong Yuan just nodded, his expression unchanged.
As mentioned before, Alpha is one of the most powerful intelligent computers in the world. He can invade and control most networked mechanical products. With him, Rong Yuan is invincible on many planets. Because all surveillance cameras are equivalent to his eyes, and all electronic products can become his assistants. Although he is alone, he has extremely powerful power.
But since it is "the majority", that is to say, there are actually some things in this world that Alpha cannot deal with.
For example, the intelligent orchid grass on the capital star of Landia.
The computing power and intelligence of Bluegrass are not as good as Alpha, but Landia is its home. Here, there are three quantum computer base stations in the outer space orbit, which are constantly transmitting a large amount of information; on the ground, Bluegrass also has five base stations of different sizes, one deep underground in the Ice Palace, which is considered its main body; and four in other locations, which are like its limbs. With these base stations as support, and all of Landia's network programs are running under the supervision of Bluegrass, so in this place, it can completely defeat Alpha.
In the past, Alpha's invasion was like breaking into the owner's house through the back door, locking the owner up, and then becoming the master and domineering; now in Landia, as soon as it slips in through the back door, it will be discovered by the owner who is staring at it all the time and holding a gun, and it will be thrown out immediately. If it is not careful, it will be punched with a few holes. If it is even more careless, the owner may call a few friends to track down its origins and track it down to Rong Yuan, its backstage.
When Rong Yuan first came to Landia Capital, Noah and Lancao had a fight, and the arrogant Noah was almost exposed. Fortunately, it had great abilities and many tricks, and finally got rid of Lancao's pursuit and escaped unscathed, barely a draw. But Alpha, as a replica, had its own program defects, and although it had been making up for it over the years, it was still a little short; plus it didn't have a real quantum body, and actually secretly borrowed Lancao's base station for calculations and didn't dare to be discovered, so it was inherently at a disadvantage.
Therefore, Rong Yuan had to hide his whereabouts and quietly landed in the blank area of the Imperial Capital Star. Because once he appeared in the monitoring network of Landia, Alpha was unable to completely block Rong Yuan from the monitoring. Then the moment he appeared, the enemy would find out that he was not dead, and his every move would fall into the enemy's eyes, and then fatal attacks would follow. Even Rong Yuan did not want to face such a situation.
But as long as he wants to take action, it is only a matter of time before his identity is exposed.
So, he chose this base station at Rigg Hill as the first stop of the battle.
Rong Yuan attacked the base station, and before the attack came, he inserted a small chip into a huge black machine under the base station.
This machine is the whole reason for the existence of this building and is also one of the four small base stations of Lancao.
The chip contained a virus program targeting Lancao that Noah had created in anger after losing the first battle. Then, for this operation, Alpha took it out of the database, modified it slightly, and wrote it into the chip. When Rong Yuan inserted it into the base station, the virus program immediately began to work. Although the time was short, the quantum computer transmitted information in an instant.
Therefore, before the base station was destroyed, an extremely short program was mixed into the main program of Orchid.
It is not a very complicated program, so its functions are extremely limited and it only has two functions.
First, in the future, when a monitoring system detects Rong Yuan and Alpha, Lan Cao will judge them as ordinary passers-by, will not issue warnings to certain people, and will not immediately attack them;
Second, it can deliver some "exempt from inspection" information right under the nose of the orchid, so even if it is prohibited content, it will not arouse the vigilance of the orchid.
The second day after Apollo's attack, early morning, inside the Ice Palace.
Being an emperor is probably the only job in this country with very good benefits that allows people to work all year round. Although she had just been crowned and had attended a banquet that was not relaxing at all until late at night, Serinda had already gotten up and .
In the huge conference hall, there were more than a dozen impressive people sitting on both sides of the long table. Serinda was the youngest among them.
The two parties, one is the top official of the Landia Empire, and the other is the representative of the Interstellar Alliance. At this time, in front of Serinda, there is a stack of paper contracts - to show caution and to prevent some unexpected situations, even today, when signing major contracts, people are still accustomed to using paper materials.
The two parties had discussed the contents of the contract for several years, and the actual preparation even started decades ago. Serinda had been involved in this matter for a long time when she was still a princess, and all the controversial details had been debated. Now the only procedure left was for Her Majesty the Queen to sign and confirm it.
Although she remembered every punctuation mark in the contract, Serinda read it carefully from beginning to end. This was the first major event after she took office, and she hoped it would be perfect.
When she picked up the pen, Serinda inadvertently thought of Rong Yuan's attitude towards this matter.
He doesn't approve.
But he didn't have any strong opposition, it was just an attitude.
Because of that seemingly casual objection, Serinda's enthusiasm for promoting this matter suddenly cooled down a lot, and she was also emotionally overshadowed . For this reason, the contract that was supposed to be signed three years ago has been postponed to now, and the content has been revised many times. Serinda has considered and confirmed every word, and this contract is absolutely beneficial to the empire. As the queen, she is responsible for the entire country, not for considering the opinions of a certain person.
Thinking of this, after a brief hesitation, the tip of her pen fell on the paper.
Before she had even made the first stroke, she suddenly received a message on her private communication number.
Some people around seemed to have sensed something and their expressions changed slightly.
