Walk alone in the abyss

How did the Dark Star No. 2 base become so large?

Standing on the bridge of the Dongfeng, Yang Ming looked at the metal buildings spread out on the ground below, like moss attached to the stone surface, and couldn't help turning his head to look at Li.

"The newly added buildings are all your brains?"

"Yes, boss," Lu showed a gentle smile, "You promised me that I could use 80% of the previous profits to expand my hardware, and I did everything according to your requirements. "

Yang Ming crossed his arms and said with a smile, "Is the pressure so great?"

"What pressure?"

"Your senior gave it to you," Yang Ming said with a smile, "Sure enough, pressure can make people mature quickly, but you have become more and more mature recently."

Lu rolled his eyes, followed Yang Ming's example and folded his arms, and said calmly:

"I didn't feel any pressure.

"On the contrary, it's you, the boss. The strength of the accompanying mechanical thinking body is closely related to the amount of resources controlled by the host.

"I have the advantages of technological change and latecomer, and the gap with that senior is much smaller than the gap between you and Levi Sherman, boss."

Several black lines hung on Yang Ming's forehead.

That guy was a 'historical figure' tens of thousands of years ago.

If they were in the same era, he really wouldn't necessarily lose!

Of course, this can only be said not necessarily.

"I'll arrange the welcome ceremony to maintain the majesty of the father," said Li, whose figure disappeared in a flash.

Yang Ming: ...

She was also angry.

Yang Ming yawned, looking at the ground getting closer and closer outside the window, the outlines and structures of those newly added buildings became more and more clear, the metal buildings everywhere were empty, only some robots were operating on their own.

The dark star No. 2 base is located at the center of the territory of the Luofeng Empire. At present, Lu has built twelve information highways, which can radiate the whole territory of Luofeng through the dark two.

Later, Luofeng only needs to formally establish an alliance with the surrounding small countries and sign an information exchange agreement, and Lu will be able to instantly control all the network resources of those small countries and complete the expansion of Yang Ming's power.

But then again...

Law seems to be in a bad mood all the time.

In Yang Ming's intuitive feeling, it seems that Lu is under some kind of huge pressure now, an inexplicable pressure.

The trouser legs were gently pulled down, Yang Ming put away his thoughts and looked down.

A cute little girl was staring at him with a pair of clear and bright eyes, and said crisply: "Hug."

Yang Ming lowered his head and hugged the little mother-in-law, and said with a smile, "Are you bored? Have you played all the games on the boat?"

"Not yet," Po Huan looked out the window, "Is this your base?"

"one."

Yang Ming said slowly: "This is also the foundation of my foothold. I am constantly active and struggling outside, and the resources I obtain will be filled here, and when it develops to a certain stage, it can feed me back."

Posuo asked: "Do you want to become the emperor of human beings by doing this?"

"No, you should be able to understand me," Yang Ming said with a smile, "I have my own goals to strive for, of course, if I become an existence like Levi Sherman, I can better accomplish my goals, and I don't Will deliberately suppress my ambition and desire for power."

Posuo nodded thoughtfully, and whispered: "These are meaningless."

"Why?"

"When you get the ancient god cell group, you have the ticket to enter the high-dimensional civilization, and the next step is the process of accumulating energy, improving yourself, and improving your genes."

Posha reminded:

"You should devote all your energy to these aspects.

"I don't need to do anything now, because you are helping me to do this. When you get the genes of the same level as mine, I can attach to you and complete the energy leap."

Yang Ming smiled and said, "You have made a good plan."

"So, it counts as an investment."

The little mother-in-law suddenly nodded forward, and lightly touched Yang Ming's forehead.

A warm force spread across Yang Ming's forehead, and the cells in his body seemed to have experienced a short but refreshing bath.

Yang Ming was stunned for a moment, wondering, "You gave me energy again?"

"The improvement of your own energy is still too slow due to the limitation of genes. When the biological energy I master surpasses yours, I can't help but attack you."

The little mother-in-law struggled a few times, Yang Ming let go of her legs, and she nimbly jumped to the ground, waving her hands at Yang Ming.

"I'm going to play, get the cell cluster early."

Yang Ming stared at the back of this little guy running away, also a little dazed.

Good guy, she is now her investor?

He doesn't mind a little more loans.

Outside the porthole, the ground slowly cracked open, like an abyss monster opening its mouth.

"Boss, you are about to enter the No. 6 maintenance dock. Miss Hera is waiting for you in your exclusive lounge. We have done a detailed test, and her body data has not changed. The global biological shielding equipment has been activated."

"Yeah," Yang Ming nodded, feeling a little uneasy for no reason.

The worst case scenario should never happen.

...

Two things stand out in Yang Ming's exclusive lounge, comfort and luxury.

The metal frame of the inverted pyramid embedded in the ground at a depth of 1,000 meters resists the pressure from all directions, and a panoramic simulation system is deployed inside, creating a simulated town with a living area of ​​more than 200,000 square meters.

This is the 'lounge'.

The huge transparent room on all sides is surrounded by dense green plants, and enjoys the light of the stars brought down from the ground by super-sensing optical fibers.

When Yang Ming stepped out of the elevator, he saw the thin figure standing in the corner of the French window at first sight.

Hera.

He felt a little hotter in his heart.

026 followed Yang Ming with his little mother-in-law in his arms, looked curiously at Hera's direction, subconsciously held a finger in his mouth, and muttered softly:

"It looks delicious."

The corner of Yang Ming's mouth twitched slightly.

But it seemed that there was no danger lurking in Hera.

The ferry took them directly to the entrance of the room, Yang Ming signaled 026 to take Po Huan for a stroll, then pushed open the door and walked in.

Hera had already turned around, her big eyes were like a calm lake, following Yang Ming's call, the lake had a little ripple.

"came back?"

Yang Ming sighed and took the initiative to open his arms.

Hela still wanted to be reserved, and took a few steps forward slowly, but after all, she couldn't suppress the impulse in her heart, she rushed to Yang Ming quickly, bit her lip and jumped into Yang Ming's arms, a pair of slender legs hooked Yang Ming Ming's waist, bowed his head and asked for a kiss.

Yang Ming gave her an enthusiastic response.

If not, when Yang Ming turned his head, he saw 026 and Po Whirling at the corner of the glass room staring at the room from the corner of his vision, he would definitely not step on the sudden brake.

Yang Ming temporarily pushed Hera away, the latter was already short of breath.

026 hastily covered his big whirling eyes, turned around and ran to a room a little further away.

"Then, is your child?"

Hera frowned and asked, then realized that it was too indecent for her to hang on Yang Ming's body, she lowered her head and jumped off.

"Her," Yang Ming sighed, "In a sense, I am her child, but it's just part of my genes... She is a Valkyrie."

"I've heard about it."

Hera looked surprised, then squinted at Yang Ming, and stretched out her hand to hook Yang Ming's neck.

"Can't it be opaque here?"

"Of course," Yang Ming snapped his fingers.

In the thinking space, Li muttered "Galaxy Prodigal Son", "Huaxin Carrot", "This is human beings", and changed the glass room to a full-blocking mode.

After half a day.

Yang Ming and Hera were lying on the mat in the swimming pool, a bath towel covered their bodies.

Hera yawned wearily, and whispered, "Have you had no female companion recently?"

"Yes...why do you ask that?"

"I'm almost exhausted," Hera muttered, "Although I am an adult woman with normal physical needs, your physical strength is too good."

Yang Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Didn't you insist on going crazy?"

"Bah, I'm a lady."

Hera turned sideways, propping her cheeks, her wet hair stuck to her cheeks, and her eyes were full of attachment.

"Ming, I miss you."

"Me too," Yang Ming sighed, looked at the starry sky projected on the ceiling, and whispered, "Don't leave when you come back."

"I will go back later, and the research work has not been completed yet."

Hera bit her lower lip lightly, and she simply returned to lying flat again, her right hand fumbled for Yang Ming's left hand.

She whispered: "I'm sorry, because of my father's death last time, I lost my mind."

"I can understand."

"Aren't you asking me why I came back?"

Yang Ming smiled and said: "If you want money, a ship, equipment, or a robot, don't worry, I will prepare it for you, whoever let me be poisoned by you."

"It's not this. For my current research, human's instruments at this stage are useless," Hera pondered a few times, "Let me report on my current research direction first, Mr. Boss."

Yang Ming cleared his throat: "Speak."

"I have been in continuous communication with the queen. Last time, before the queen led a swarm of tens of billions of bugs to invade the New Federation, she tried to swallow my consciousness."

"Swallow consciousness?"

Yang Ming immediately sat up, frowning at Hera.

Hera hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I'm still Hera, a human Hera, and the queen chose to give up at the last moment."

Hera sighed softly, and began to talk about her experience at that time.

At that time, she rejected the queen's conditions, and an abyss of consciousness appeared before her eyes, and that abyss swallowed her in one gulp.

"Different species have different perceptions of the universe, and different interpretations of the concept of death.

"At that time, the queen wanted to assimilate my consciousness and make me an inconspicuous part of her huge consciousness, but she soon discovered that I was still a human being.

"The queen judged that if my consciousness is assimilated, her huge consciousness will be affected, similar to being affected by human cognition.

"Of course, the Zerg's cognition of the universe and space is closer to the essence. She is not afraid of human culture and civilization. What she is worried about is..."

"What is it?" Yang Ming asked.

Hera said: "The pleasure of human beings."

"What?" Yang Ming's expression was full of bewilderment.

Hera laughed and said softly: "Space Zerg is a high-dimensional creature. The first-order Zerg to the sixth-order Zerg are all Zerg in the developmental stage of their larvae. What must be said here is that the only individual recognized by the Zerg is the female insect itself. .”

Yang Ming said: "I have already understood all these things."

"What is pleasure?"

Hera asked herself and answered:

"Pleasure is a relatively primitive self-reward mechanism for low-dimensional cosmic creatures, such as us humans, based on body hormone secretion and neuron circuit structure.

"Simplify the understanding of the rules of biological evolution - when a creature completes a behavior that is beneficial to survival, in order to let itself remember this kind of behavior, the brain will form a pleasure circuit, driving itself to repeat it.

"For example, the continuous benign interaction for reproduction brings happiness, the satisfaction of food after hunger, the relaxation obtained by resting oneself after extreme fatigue, and the realization of a day-and-night dream can also obtain pleasure.

"Pleasure is the reward mechanism of the body at the moment when the desire is satisfied.

"So, instead of completing these behaviors, directly stimulating the brain to generate biological signals to obtain pleasure is essentially the self-degeneration of the individual life."

Yang Ming nodded: "You mean, the Zerg doesn't have a pleasure mechanism?"

Hera's eyes lit up: "Yes, the eggs of mother worms exist in low latitudes, and the adult state of individual mother worms exists in high-dimensional, high-dimensional worlds. Reproduction has lost its meaning, and the pleasure mechanism has been abandoned in their evolution.

"Under extremely limited conditions, I observed the mating process of male and female insects, of course not the huge sixth-order female insect.

"That's just a behavioral stimulus that allows the female worms to gain more biological energy and produce more 'self-protecting' pseudo-worm populations, they have no pleasure, and they are afraid of pleasure.

"The oversatisfaction of pleasure will have a counterproductive effect, and there will be diminishing marginal utility.

"Bugs without desire have no weaknesses, but as long as we give them pleasure circuits, they will have weaknesses."

Yang Ming: ...

"No, you study this subject, can you deal with the swarm?"

"Not yet."

Hera sat up and licked her lips lightly:

"But I think, if these bugs in the Milky Way can understand what pleasure is, especially the big queen who is about to ascend the dimension, let her bring the pleasure mechanism to the high-dimensional world, what will happen? This must be very difficult. interesting!"

Yang Ming scratched his head.

Hera restrained her smile and said seriously:

"Ming, my current research direction has nothing to do with protecting human beings.

"To be honest, I have become numb to this topic, I have done everything I can, and I don't owe the human race anything.

"As for the new federation, I no longer have any affiliation with this country, and refusing to be an envoy of the Zerg race to destroy them is all I can do.

"Now, I only live for two things - to improve human understanding of Zerg, and to satisfy my thirst for knowledge."

Yang Ming pointed to himself.

"You are my lover," Hera immediately added, "you are a part of my life, this one is different, and because you funded my research, I will share all my research results with you later , allowing you to gain an advantage when facing the swarm."

Yang Ming couldn't help rubbing the center of his eyebrows.

The good news: Hera's done adjusting, and she's back to those two happy years.

The bad news is: Hera has completed the change of self-cognition on her own, and has stepped into the path of a paranoid scientist without any scruples.

"I'm a little worried about your mental state," Yang Ming said in a deep voice.

"I'm fine, Ming," Hera turned around and jumped into the pool, turning her body around a few times, "I feel great now, you don't have to worry about me at all."

Yang Ming stared at her beautiful body and reminded: "We have known each other for several years, but your skin condition is getting better and better. This is actually the influence of those microorganisms."

"It's nothing to me, can it be regarded as a reward for you?"

Hera smiled softly, swam to Yang Ming's side, and raised her hand to stroke Yang Ming's chin.

She said softly: "I am not a qualified lover. Most of my future actions will be for scientific research, but Ming, I love you."

Yang Ming smiled and said, "So, what do you want me to do with you now?"

Hera blinked and whispered:

"I have a crazy plan that may require your cooperation...

"Shall we go on a trip to the New Federation? Just go to the vicinity of Ram Star, or to the vicinity of the Zerg forces in the Milky Way, but this is more risky.

"I want to restore our life for those two years without any biological shielding device, but I will not spend my time on work every day, but spend it with you.

"I want to continue to generate pleasure, and pass on this pleasure to the galactic swarm through the network of individual information interaction of the mother worm.

"The last time the Queen sent someone to attack us, it wasn't because she felt humiliated. The Zerg didn't have such complex social cognition concepts as humans. It was because the interaction between us stimulated the Queen. She was on the verge of dimension ascension and couldn't bear it." This part of the stimulus.

"Our most advantageous weapon against the Zerg is not a ship, but a primitive body."

Yang Ming couldn't believe it: "That's all?"

"Hmm! That's it!" Hera's facial capillaries were slightly congested, "Is it okay?"

"I'm just busy and don't have much time," Yang Ming thought about it carefully, "Will this stimulate the Zerg to directly fight human civilization?"

Hera said: "It's possible, but if the experiment is successful, it might change the Zerg... Believe me, human civilization in the Milky Way has a good chance of winning against the Zerg here!"

Yang Ming pondered a few times, and continued to think about it.

As long as Hera is like this, he can contribute to human civilization, and he will definitely not refuse. The problem is... this... always feels like being peeped by the big queen...

It's better to think about it in the long run, and he doesn't have so much time now.

"Hera..."

Hum, buzz!

The watch by the pool vibrated suddenly, and Lu Rare jumped out without avoiding suspicion.

Hera subconsciously covered her chest and squatted into the pool.

"Boss!" Lu looked at Yang Ming with bright eyes, "My mastermind on the Dongfeng just received a huge amount of information! It's the same as last time! It's the same as the time when I was fighting!"

Yang Ming's spirit lifted.

Faya!