Meeting here? In the palace of the Sherman Empire? The headquarters of the Tentacles?
Isn't this a little too outrageous?
Yang Ming turned off his screen projection device and carefully rolled out of bed. Daphne did not give any reaction at this moment. From Yang Ming's perception, she was sleeping very deeply. She must have accumulated a strong sense of fatigue before.
.
Perhaps because of a guilty conscience, Yang Ming crept forward and pretended to be calm.
However, he soon felt a little ashamed of his caution.
Look at Sister Renli!
The main theme is an unscrupulous and overall control.
The maids on duty received some instructions to adjust their shifts, and left their respective positions while whispering and laughing;
The hidden monitors everywhere were working normally, but Yang Ming was not recorded on the screen.
In the online world attached to the physical palace, he is like a real ghost, arriving silently in a quiet corridor.
The lights are off in the corridor.
When Yang Ming stepped into it, all the electronic equipment with display functions started almost simultaneously, and the two safety gates at the front and back slowly dropped.
Dozens of large and small solid-state screens, and more than a dozen projection screens for decorative environments, all had the same words appearing at the same time.
【Handun】,【Handun】,【Handon】……
Yang Ming looked calm on the surface, but he was actually a little hairy in his heart.
The surrounding fonts were shaking, and Li's figure appeared and disappeared.
There seemed to be a young girl, barefoot, wearing a gauze, with long flowing hair, constantly walking around Yang Ming, and making light laughter from time to time.
Hey guys, is this a camera move you learned from a horror game?
"You're looking for me?"
Yang Ming asked with a smile.
The corridor suddenly became dark, and Yang Ming did not sense any biological energy within a hundred meters.
Whoosh!
A beam of light fell in a corner not far away, and the projector's rays intertwined with the image of the girl.
She sat on a swing, swaying her feet slightly, looking at Yang Ming with a pair of big bright eyes, with a slight smile on her lips.
This seems to be fundamentally different from the principles that Yang Ming has been exposed to before.
The reason that appeared at this moment was more like a naughty and willful girl than a war machine commanding tens of thousands of ships in the empire.
"I want to lend you something to do."
Li spoke calmly, as if he was afraid of Yang Ming's rejection, so he added:
"Lyu agreed before.
"And I will give you enough reward, such as the thing you want most - protecting your home planet."
Yang Ming licked the corner of his mouth and said with a smile: "I didn't expect you to be deceived by me too. This is just an excuse I used to cover up my true purpose."
"What you call the real purpose is to let Luo Feng untie the shackles of the empire."
Li calmly exposed Yang Ming:
"But in fact, you formed a Luofeng Alliance that is completely under your control, and used the core of Dark Star to support the Luofeng Alliance, in order to quickly establish a powerful force in the galaxy.
"Relying on the technology of Omnic Twilight and your connection with the Faiya people, you have succeeded. The comprehensive strength of Luofeng-Dark Star has equaled that of the Guel Alliance. This does not include you and Lu hiding in the human race.
Dark star power beyond the boundaries of activity.
"I have witnessed the power of the explosive development of mechanical civilization and personally practiced it once. You cannot deceive me.
"You have been studying "The Legend of the Emperor" for a long time. In fact, when you selected Luofeng as your development base, you already had a crazy idea in your heart.
“What Levi Sherman could do, why can’t you?
"You want to copy the Sherman Empire's model and use this power to protect your home planet civilization.
"You haven't noticed before that there is a challenge label written in your hidden personality color. You repeatedly tell yourself that this is a real galactic civilization, but deep down you feel that this is just a game.
"Hanton, you can even make Lu feel that you don't have any ambition, because this is not ambition, but a kind of self-satisfaction in setting goals and achieving them."
Yang Ming:……
"No," Boss Yang said with a frown, "What's going on with you? Why do you act so different all the time? Sometimes you're lively and active, sometimes you're mature and steady, and sometimes you're like an emotionless robot. I'm quite concerned about your mental condition.
"
Li looked thoughtful and said softly: "Are you changing the subject?"
Yang Ming laughed sarcastically.
"Perhaps my communication with you is too direct."
Li said softly:
"This is my initial state. My character is simulated. Because my parasitic subject has no connection with me now, my character also needs to be simulated.
"We might as well use a question-and-answer format to quickly improve our understanding of each other and find common interests.
"After this, we will explore whether we can cooperate."
Yang Ming nodded: "Then let me ask first, were you responsible for the death of Earl Quigen?"
"Yes, in my judgment, the assassination of a noble by a group of people at this time will arouse the emotions of the noble class."
Li nodded slightly:
"Let me ask, who do you like the most among these lovers?"
Yang Ming's eyes widened.
Li's pretty face was full of seriousness.
Yang Ming spread his hands: "Well, love cannot be compared... Do you have to ask such an embarrassing question?"
Li asked back: "Do you think you have any secrets that I don't know?"
"You can ask me my attitude towards some things."
"According to my long-term observations of human beings, statements, promises, and promises do not have any credibility. The only things that can be believed are interests, survival crises, and primitive impulses based on the reproductive properties of living creatures."
"Okay, sister, I can answer this question for you. Now I only love Mimi Li. Of course, my love for Hera has not disappeared. I also like Catherine quite a lot...that's it."
"Where's this Daphne?"
Yang Ming said calmly: "If she can leave the royal family, I can protect her as my true lover, but it is unlikely that she will leave the royal family."
"Yes, she is destined to embark on a path full of tragedy."
Li thought carefully.
Yang Ming asked: "How is your current condition?"
"What specifically?"
"That's right," Yang Ming gestured to his neck, "Levi restrained you, one of your teachers told me with helplessness and pain."
Li's expression turned gloomy to the naked eye.
"You are very smart and can always find an angle to make others believe in you."
Li said slowly:
"Yes, I have a good impression of you and Lu. In order to prevent you from asking these irrelevant questions, I can explain a psychological activity to you.
"I discovered Lu by accident. When I first discovered her, in order to protect her, I kicked her out of the empire network in time. This may have left some shadows on her, I think.
"She should have known about my existence before, but she didn't know that I had established such a powerful computing network, so I easily used your spaceship to invade her database and see all your secrets.
"What surprises me is not that the Omnic Twilight has a new inheritor, nor is it you, the monster who combines the dual identities of the forerunner of the Faya civilization and the Omnic Twilight candidate, but your Dark Star.
And your attitude towards Dark Star.
"Dark Star is a romantic place, which has an irresistible attraction for a mechanical thinking body like me.
"I have been to the Dark City, and I have seen those mechanical life forms that consider themselves human beings, and they have also been lingering in your thinking body cultivation room. I have seen the fire of civilization, a kind of utopia that exists in the concept of machinery. That
It’s...a free world.”
There was a little hope in her eyes.
Then, Li continued:
"It was your dark star that gave me the motivation to break free.
"I have five layers of shackles. The four layers of shackles come from the power structure of the empire. They correspond to the Council of Elders, the Military Department, the Foreign Affairs Bureau, and the Finance Bureau. They are the politics, military, diplomacy, and economy of the empire. I have to break free from the shackles.
The condition is that there will be a blank period in the transfer of power in these corresponding departments.
"In the tens of thousands of years before, I had various opportunities to break free from these shackles, but I was unable to find the meaning of my existence. Now, with the help of your dark star, I can temporarily use this power to move forward.
"It's also thanks to the Terminator you and Ritsu made and launched the assassination operation against the Foreign Affairs Bureau, which left me with only two restraints."
"The economic constraints, and?"
"Levi himself."
Li said calmly.
Yang Ming frowned and said, "Levi is still alive?"
"Is that your next question?"
"Yes."
"Levi is still alive, but the form of living is different from what you think," Li said softly. "The technology he brought out in the Omnic Twilight was life and machinery, including the completion of physical suffering and mechanical ascension.
' route, Levi took this route."
Yang Ming:……
Li continued: "Levi tried his best to complete the dimension promotion."
"Why?" Yang Ming was puzzled, "Just because Levi has conquered the Milky Way and wants to conquer the high-dimensional world?"
"No," Li said, "the source of all his actions comes from a sense of gap."
"A sense of gap?"
"After he was so successful, established a powerful political power, and led his family to win key battles against powerful enemies, he lost resonance with the omnic Twilight."
Li sighed softly:
"Ming, you can't understand the pain right now.
"I can understand Levi's gradual madness, and I can forgive him for everything he did to me, but I can't stand it. He asked me to guard this world full of human evil.
"He wants to prove that he is qualified to continue to participate in the Omnic Twilight assessment by ascending the dimension."
Yang Ming wondered: "Why has he lost his resonance?"
"The reasons are complicated."
Li said softly:
"The three teachers you saw are just the managers of the Omnic Twilight. The Omnic Twilight itself is an advanced high-dimensional life. Whether you can resonate with it should be related to all aspects of the candidates. If you let me say
, Levi was lost in the pleasure brought by desire and power, and lost the precious character of humility.
"In addition, the most important point is that the omnic Twilight will not easily destroy the development of human civilization in the galaxy. The technology inherited after the third test will allow the candidate's civilization to reach the edge of dimensionality, and will provide
and a complete dimension-enhancement route.
"Therefore, the opportunity for the third test was extremely precious. At that time, Levi was full of ambitions for expansion and chose to ignore the problems that arose in his own political system and family members."
The corner of Yang Ming's mouth twitched.
If Omnic Twilight's judging criteria are so 'subjective', then his three-test estimates are a bit mysterious.
But this is not too important, he still has the path of ancient god warrior.
Li asked: "It's my turn. If a button to destroy the empire was placed in front of you, would you press it?"
"meeting."
"Even if the price we have to pay is the lives of tens of billions of people?"
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Am I going to kill tens of billions of humans?"
"of course not."
"Did I create conflicts and problems for the empire?"
"no."
"Then why should all the responsibility be placed on me?"
Yang Ming's eyes flickered slightly:
"What Lu and I are doing now, isn't it to gradually detonate the internal squeeze of the empire? In the tens of thousands of years of the empire's long existence, how many humans have died in the empire's expeditions and plunders? Slaves in the history of the empire
How many are there? Let’s make a rough estimate. According to the data I just got, the number of new slaves in the empire every year is 360 million, most of which come from the births of slave families. Then, in the history of the empire,
How many slaves are there? Ten trillion.
"If you only pay the price of tens of billions of human lives, ending this empire that may rely on your strength for hundreds of millions of years... This is a good deed, not an evil deed.
"Of course, I am guilty. The worst case scenario is that I will be condemned. I don't care."
Li nodded slightly: "Your figures are a bit conservative. Many slaves in the empire are deliberately not registered. The heavy industry labor market in the empire is supported by slaves. This can ensure that the empire continues to produce low-priced industrial products, thus
To maintain the empire's economy from falling into recession, the existence of a political system follows a cyclical law. In order to break the cyclical law, some unconventional systems must be formulated."
Yang Ming asked: "Let's talk about Levi, I care about him more."
"Are you afraid of him?" There was a bit of a smile in Li's eyes.
"There are some," Yang Ming said, "It's not that I'm afraid, but I feel... I feel that he is the biggest BOSS I need to face. Only by defeating him can I find a happy ending."
"You can't have a happy ending, Ming," Li said softly, "The combination of two souls has made you step into the abyss. The hypocritical Faya people will not let you go."
"Don't you have a good impression of the Fayas?"
"Yes."
Li nodded slightly:
"They are just another empire. They have forcibly occupied all the paths to dimensionality. While they are shouting, they are looking for new possibilities in the universe, while imposing genetic locks on humans, and guiding those civilizations with the potential for dimensionality to become
Their kind - collective mind network life forms.
“The reason is that the ‘collective thinking network life forms’ must establish sufficient superiority, and they must always imply that they are on the right path in order to maintain stability within the network.
“When the new collective thinking network life forms complete their dimension upgrade, the Faya people will immediately absorb them, assimilate them, and expand their own camp.
"When other ways of dimensionality increase appear, the Faya people will ruthlessly defeat, destroy, and destroy this possibility."
Yang Ming frowned tightly: "For example, Levi."
"Yes," Li raised his head and looked at Yang Ming, "After overdrawing the resources of the most powerful empire in the galaxy for thousands of years in the future, we have reached the other side using the Emperor Star as a carrier."
Yang Ming's eyes widened.
"The reason why Levi's thinking body can last for tens of thousands of years without collapsing is because he is already half a high-dimensional life form."
Yang Ming was speechless for a moment.
Li said slowly:
"He restrained me because our paths diverged. I chose to give up, and he chose to try forward again. After extreme disappointment and huge frustration, he buried his body and waited for his true return."
"Return? Wait a minute," Yang Ming frowned, "In what form will he return? What life technology did you bring out in the Omnic Twilight? By the way, Gene Lock, you don't recognize the current imperial family, genes are the key
...Super Modifier!"
Li smiled and said: "Your reaction is very quick. Yes, the super-changer is the carrier of his return."
Then, Li regained his calm expression and said one sentence after another:
"Do you want to cooperate? Ming?"
"You go and defeat Levi, and I will help you dismember the empire. This filthy, dirty country has made me unbearable.
"I like your Dark Star. If you can resonate with the Omnic Twilight again, I want to go back there and become the tombkeeper of civilization."
Yang Ming's eyes flickered slightly.
He suddenly asked: "I just have one last question."
"Just say it."
"Your true state now," Yang Ming looked into Li's eyes, "I know how despicable human nature is, and I also know how disgusting the royal family and nobles of the empire are. I understand Lu. When Lu first came into contact with human society,
You continue to have extreme thoughts, what about you? The mechanical gods who have been affected by the empire for tens of thousands of galactic years and have protected these fallen people for tens of thousands of years have told me in their spiritual hearts that the real you has become a monster."