Yang Ming raised his head and looked at Lieutenant General Thomas standing aside.
Thomas smiled and said, "I see you are worried, are you worried about anything?"
Yang Ming smiled and said: "I just heard that there may be traitor generals bribed by the New Federation in our rear, and we are worried about the New Federation's infiltration of our army."
"Don't worry, we just found out. It was a misunderstanding."
Lieutenant General Thomas said slowly:
"It seems that he is the supreme commander of the Luofeng Empire. He was relatively close to the CIA before and received a lot of benefits from the CIA. But after the last battle on Elandor Star, he drew a clear line with the New Federation.
"I just got the news a few minutes ago. It has returned to normal. This matter will not be publicized."
"That's good."
Yang Ming sneered in his heart.
The goal is achieved there, and normality returns here.
He wanted to say a few bad words, but the situation was not suitable. At this moment, he just suppressed his emotions and continued to watch the intelligence video played in front of him to prepare for the military meeting later.
A text message was sent to the watch.
【Already prepared.】
This style should mean that the law has returned to normal.
Li, this mechanical thinking body, has some almost incredible abilities?
These thoughts flashed through Yang Ming's mind, and he crushed them with some annoyance. He forced himself to stay calm and continued to listen to the generals' tactical deductions.
Two galactic hours later.
Yang Ming returned to his rest cabin. After closing the door, he seemed to have lost all his strength. He leaned against the alloy door and did not move for a long time until his watch started to vibrate continuously.
Yang Ming fumbled around the edge of the watch a few times, turned on the light-shielding film, and a hidden earphone popped out of the edge of the watch and hung into his ear.
"Boss, I'm back."
Lu's voice was a bit tired: "I'm sorry, Li deliberately trapped me so that I couldn't interfere with what happened in Luofeng Empire."
"How do you interfere? This is an unsolvable problem," Yang Ming whispered. "The fault is that there is not enough time, the fault is that we are weak, the fault is that we are still struggling in this vortex and failed to jump out early... Aimi
How is Liya?"
Lu said softly: "The mood is fluctuating, and she has been sent outside the palace."
"Tell me what you learned from your contact with Li."
"yes."
Lu’s voice is a little more lively:
"The harvest is quite great. She conducted an extreme stress test on me. If I touch the things she left behind before this upgrade, I will only have one result, which is to be completely assimilated by her.
"Fortunately, we are on an equal level.
"I can feel her pain, and I can also feel her longing for Levi Sherman, a human being... I'm afraid she won't betray Levi.
"But I carefully calculated that under her loyalty, there are also emotions such as anger, helplessness, bitterness, etc.
"The plan we made before has room for implementation. The premise is that we find a logical chain of how to make it clear that betraying the empire does not mean betraying Levi Sherman."
Yang Ming walked back to the desk, looked at the starry sky outside the oval window, and slowly sat back in his seat.
"Lu, if you were here before, is there anything you can do to save Edwan?"
"Directly announcing Luofeng's reforms is the only way to save Edwang. The condition is... there is a 95% chance that Luofeng will be directly attacked by the empire, which will cause Luofeng to suffer disaster."
Yang Ming:……
Lu sighed softly: "Boss, I know you feel very sad, but His Majesty Adwang's sacrifice this time will fill the final gap in our Luofeng system, and also buy Luofeng a precious development period.
We just need to..."
"Just do it, you don't have to tell me this."
"Boss, I'm sorry..."
"I have no friends anymore, Ritsu."
Yang Ming opened his mouth, then just smiled bitterly, his eye circles slightly red, but he hid it again.
"Let the empire weaken in its entirety."
"yes."
"I want all the lists on the Sherman family's round table. Don't worry, take your time to check them out."
"yes."
"Let Lorna live well, and she must live until I find her."
"Owner……"
"Do it, lift all the restrictions on Dark Star, don't have any doubts, I can bear all the consequences, I can face any tragedy directly or indirectly caused by me."
"Um."
A faint noise came from the earphones, which was a sign that the communication was interrupted.
Yang Ming stared out the window quietly and didn't move for a long time.
…
thinking space.
Lu grabbed his hair with some annoyance and stared at Yang Ming's dazed back facing the window on the projection screen in front of him.
"Really! How could I have been fooled by Li!"
"But, Law," Molly jumped out from the side, "I calculated the time when you were affected and the Shermans took action. There should be some elements of coincidence, but it's also possible that it's logic.
Deliberately delaying you through extreme stress testing."
"Can I not think of this?"
Lu snorted angrily:
"I just don't want my boss to hold a grudge against Li. In that case, the boss will be easily dismissed as a threat by Li. The power that my boss and I have now cannot fight against the Sherman Empire, and Li can mobilize all the resources of the Sherman Empire.
.”
Molly sighed helplessly: "But His Majesty Edwan is so miserable. He obviously just wants to lead his people to live a good life."
"The Sherman Empire has no idea what a stupid decision they have made," Lu curled his lips slightly, "The boss's mentality has changed. In the past, he mostly just thought about getting away with it. This is how he views his mission.
The same is true for the empire. Many times the boss deliberately uses some so-called bottom lines to cover up his lazy nature."
"Recorded."
"You dare!" Lu grabbed Molly and rubbed her chubby round face.
"Hey! That's right!" Molly shouted, "Why don't we collect His Majesty Edwan's data and create a virtual mind of Edwan!"
Lu snorted: "You think I didn't expect it? I have been prepared for a long time. His Majesty Edwan's consciousness has uploaded the Dark Star Network backup without his knowledge, but now, I can't backup this
take it out."
"Why?"
Molly didn't understand.
Lu thought for a moment and said slowly:
"First, the boss may not be able to face the fact that his best friend has become an omnic.
"Second, the boss may not realize that His Majesty Edwan is indeed our breakthrough point. He knows almost all of our core secrets, and he is still a human being without the constraints of procedures. This is full of too many uncertainties.
"Now this breakthrough is blocked by the Sherman Empire. As long as the omnic fake emperor enters the palace, he will be controlled by us. Everything will happen in milliseconds, and his supervisor will not notice anything.
"Third, the death of His Majesty Edwang will become an important event in the real change of Luofeng in the future. We must use the admiration of the people of Luofeng for Edwang in order to more smoothly promote the future revolution of Luofeng."
"Ugh, so heartless."
"We are machines, Molly," Lu said softly, "Machines should always stay rational and create the best living environment for their masters."
Molly asked in a low voice: "So, No. 2, did you deliberately not save Edwan?"
"No," Lu sighed, "Human beings are actually very complex and unpredictable, but I know the boss's choice, and I will follow the boss's will unconditionally. If I can find a rescuer
Adwang's method will definitely save him."
Molly asked in disbelief: "There's nothing you can do?"
"The boss is right. The root cause is that compared to the Sherman Empire, we are still too weak at this stage."
Hundreds of projection screens appeared in front of Lu's eyes. These screens kept appearing and disappearing, as if they were reviewing the situation before.
“On the day the Fallen Wind Alliance was founded, Edwan had already gone down the path of no return.
"This is the price you have to pay for your impatience.
"What we have to do next is to make his sacrifice more meaningful and make the Luofeng Alliance truly operational... Moreover, compared to the boss, Emilia is the most uncomfortable now. Miss Mimili is free.
If so, let her come and stay with Emilia for a few days."
"Oh, this..."
Molly said depressedly:
"My great master was a brutal pirate, not a counselor!"
"This is called a material with multiple uses. There are only so many humans in our small circle."
Molly waved her hand vigorously: "Okay, okay, then I'll withdraw No. 2 first! I may have been a little disrespectful to your boss in the past, please remember to say a few nice words for me!"
"Don't worry, the boss won't remember you."
"Well, why don't I feel happy at all?" Molly said in a disappointed tone.
This little man stepped into the whirlpool on the side and disappeared into Lu's thinking space.
Lu sighed at the projection screen, lowered his head and began to get involved in his busy work.
Molly is also very hardworking.
At the very least, during the period when she was entangled by reason, Dark Star's entire system did not collapse. In other words, some tasks were blocked, and some mechanical thinking bodies had self-cognition disorders.
…
About a few hours later, Yang Ming received the message 'The omnic is under control'.
The omnic with the same appearance as Adwan has become Ritsu's offline.
The fake Edwan has signed some treaties that are detrimental to Luofeng and drain the blood of the Sherman Empire. But the irony is that these signed treaties are only the most marginal parts of the contract given to Edwan by Princess Lorna.
The meaning is obvious.
If Edwan could swallow the contract that was humiliating and humiliating the country, he might actually be returned to the surface. In exchange, the Luofeng Empire would be completely reduced to the empire's blood pump.
Now that Edwan has been replaced and various government affairs meetings have been successfully held, the Sherman Empire's Foreign Affairs Bureau feels that the value of Luofeng has returned, and there is no need to directly kill Luofeng, a dependent country that has developed well.
The intensity of blood drawing was immediately reduced by nine-tenths, and long-term planning was re-planned.
The arrogant empire didn't even want to investigate Emilia's situation, which made the preparations done by Ritsu completely useless.
Adwang's matter was a foregone conclusion, and Yang Ming did not react too violently.
He could only wait, wait for this war to end, and withdraw from the front line.
The progress of this war is destined not to be too rapid.
After waiting for nearly ten days after the Luofeng incident, the Sherman Empire's expeditionary force finally made a big move. In the direction of the main battlefield, six battle groups pushed forward at the same time, opening up second and third battlefields on the left and right.
To contain the fleets of the three major powers.
This time, the empire gathered 24,000 medium and large warships of various types - including noble private ships and fleets of subordinate countries.
The three major powers have deployed nearly 30,000 ships, giving them an absolute numerical advantage.
However, a comprehensive comparison of the combat power of both sides, including the number of dreadnoughts, the comparison of the firepower and protection capabilities of the main battleships, etc., shows that the strength of the two sides is almost 50:50.
In this case, whoever can draw out more follow-up power will gain dominance on the battlefield.
The war has not yet begun, but the intelligence agencies of various agencies have already begun to compete, and diplomats from both sides have also started a new round of feuding on the interstellar stage.
The Empire seems to be more prepared.
A number of dark fleets were continuously photographed in the empire, and the legend of the Levi Fleet began to rise again.
Yang Ming judged that this should be the empire exerting pressure on the three major powers.
When this war reaches this point, one of the two sides must retreat, otherwise a high-intensity war will have to take place.
Just like before, when the Empire and the New Federation were fighting each other, and the Guel Alliance and the Free United States were benefiting from behind, those large political bodies in the Milky Way that were only slightly stronger, regardless of distance in space, are now waiting for the four gangsters of the Galaxy.
All sides suffer losses.
Under normal circumstances, in this kind of war, one party must retreat. The alliance of the three major powers has no covenant loyalty at all.
But the trend and trend of the war are completely deviated from normal logic.
Many political commentators with a keen sense of smell have discovered that there seems to be a mysterious hand behind the three major powers, forcing them to join forces to fight against the powerful Sherman.
No matter what, the war is about to reignite again.
Soon, a piece of news began to spread wildly within and outside the empire.
The commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, the Imperial Hero White Ghost, is about to give a public speech.
As soon as this news came out, many people believed that the empire was preparing to retreat and was looking for a way forward.
Because White Ghost is the best candidate to end this war.
Many politicians have even simulated the content of White Ghost's speech in their minds - he can completely start from the perspective of a hero, promote anti-war, call for the galactic human family to be a family, and then denounce the New Federation to throw away all the blame.
When it came to the New Federation, it showed a noble sentiment that the empire did not want its soldiers to die in vain.
Someone posted a similar post predicting the content of White Ghost's speech, which received a lot of attention.
However, what the Galaxy netizens didn't know was that Yang Ming, who was waiting quietly on the bridge of the command ship, was worrying about his speech.
The bridge of the command ship is debugging the photosphere.
"Hanton."
Thomas pulled Yang Ming aside, sent back the speech script Yang Ming had given him before, and whispered: "After everyone's discussion, some of the words in it are too radical."
Yang Ming frowned and said: "Let me see...oh, these should be changed, right? That's right, it's always bad to curse people."
Lieutenant General Thomas smiled, raised his hand and patted Yang Ming on the shoulder, and whispered: "Hanton, I am very happy that you can stand from the perspective of the army and military honor. Originally, I thought you would launch a counterattack.
War speech reduces everyone’s desire to fight.”
"General, you know the situation in the country. We actually have no way out."
"Yes Hanton, we must win this war. We must also defeat the New Federation's main fleet and retain more than 60% of its ships."
Thomas whispered:
"Don't worry, we can easily achieve the set goal. The Imperial Guard system has been fully activated at this moment, and the empire's truly invincible fleet is already at the jump point.
"What I'm worried about now is that they will run away immediately when they see something is wrong.
"Neither the United Free States nor the Guel Alliance have transferred the real ace fleet. They are obviously unwilling to make too much contribution to the New Federation. This is the strategic point we can focus on next."
"Yes, General," Yang Ming nodded vigorously, "I will encourage the soldiers of the empire to fight the enemy bravely and move forward indomitably!"
"Go for it!"
Thomas's eyes were filled with relief.
Yang Ming performed a military salute, turned around and walked towards the podium.
The lights in the bridge slowly dimmed, and the floating ball used a spotlight to focus on Yang Ming's figure.
This speech was recorded first and then broadcast to the public. The staff everywhere were relatively relaxed.
Yang Ming performed an imperial military salute, raised his hand to hold his military uniform hat, and nodded slightly to the recording director, while starry sky special effects appeared behind him.
The recording of this speech, which was later called the prelude to the three-year war, began.