Walk alone in the abyss

"Handon...Hendon?"

"What's wrong?"

Yang Ming looked up at Lieutenant General Thomas at the side.

Thomas smiled and said, "You seem to be preoccupied, do you have any worries?"

Yang Ming laughed and said, "I just heard that there might be traitor generals in our rear who were bribed by the new federation, and they are worried about the infiltration of our army by the new federation."

"Don't worry, I just found out, it was a misunderstanding."

Lieutenant General Thomas said slowly:

"It seems to be the supreme commander of the Luofeng Empire. He was closer to the CIA before and received a lot of benefits from the CIA. But after the last battle on Ilandor, he drew a clear line with the New Federation.

"I just got the news a few minutes ago, and it has returned to normal. This matter will not expand publicity."

"That's good."

Yang Ming sneered in his heart.

Once the goal is achieved there, normality will return to this side.

He wanted to say a few foul words, but the scene was not suitable. He just suppressed his emotions at the moment and continued to watch the intelligence video played ahead to prepare for the military meeting later.

A text message came from the watch.

[Already ready. 】

This style should be that Lil has returned to normal.

Why does this mechanical thinking body have some almost incredible abilities?

These thoughts flashed through Yang Ming's mind, and he crushed them with some irritability, forcing himself to remain calm, and continued to listen to the tactical deduction of these generals.

Two galaxies 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 didn't move for a long time until the watch vibrated continuously.

Yang Ming fumbled around the edge of the watch a few times, opened the light-shielding film, and a hidden earphone popped out from the edge of the watch, and hung it into his ear.

"Boss, I'm back."

Law's voice was a little tired: "I'm sorry, Li deliberately trapped me so that I could not 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, and the fault is that we are still struggling in this whirlpool and failed to jump out early... Ai Mi How is Lia?"

Lu softly said: "The mood is fluctuating, and she has been sent outside the palace."

"Tell me about what you gained from contacting Li."

"yes."

Law's voice became a little more agile:

"It's quite rewarding. She conducted an extreme stress test on me. If I touch what she left behind before this upgrade, I will only have one result, which is to be 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... She may not betray Levi.

"But after careful calculation, under her loyalty, there are emotions such as anger, helplessness, bitterness and so on.

"The plan we set before has room for implementation, provided 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 porthole, and slowly sat back in the seat.

"Lü, if you were here before, is there any way you can save Edwan?"

"Directly announcing Luofeng's reform, this is the only way to save Edwan, on the condition that... Luofeng has a 95% chance of being directly attacked by the Empire's military, thus giving Luofeng a disaster."

Yang Ming: ...

Law sighed softly: "Boss, I know you are very sad, but this time His Majesty Edwan's sacrifice will fill the last gap in our Luofeng system, and it will also give Luofeng a precious development period. We just need to..."

"Go ahead and don't tell me that."

"Boss, I'm sorry..."

"I don't have any friends anymore, Lil."

Yang Ming opened his mouth, then just smiled wryly, his eye circles were a little red, and he hid it back again.

"Let the empire weaken in its entirety."

"yes."

"I want all the lists on the round table of the Sherman family. Don't worry, check it out slowly."

"yes."

"Let Lorna live well, and make sure to live until I find her."

"Owner……"

"Do it, lift all the restrictions of the dark star, don't have any doubts, I can bear all the consequences, I can face any tragedy caused by me directly or indirectly."

"Um."

There was a faint noise coming from the earphones, which was a sign that Ritsu had interrupted the communication.

Yang Ming quietly stared out the window, without moving for a long time.

...

thinking space.

Lv scratched his hair in some annoyance, staring at the back of Yang Ming staring out of the window in a daze on the projection screen in front of him.

"Really! How could I have been fooled by reason!"

"But, Li," Molly jumped out, "I calculated the time when you were affected and those Shermans acted. There should be some elements of coincidence in it, but it is also possible. Reason Deliberately delaying you through an extreme stress test."

"Can I miss this?"

Law snorted angrily:

"I just don't want my boss to bear grudges. In that case, the boss will be easily wiped out as a threat. The power that the boss and I have now can't fight the Sherman Empire, and the reason can mobilize all the resources of the Sherman Empire. .”

Molly sighed helplessly beside her: "But, His Majesty Edwan is so miserable. He obviously just wants to lead his people to live a good life."

"The Sherman Empire doesn't even know what a stupid decision they made." Law pouted slightly, "The boss's mentality has changed. In the past, he mostly just wanted to get away with it. For his mission, The same is true for the empire, many times the boss deliberately uses some so-called bottom line to cover up his lazy nature."

"Recorded."

"How dare you!" Lu slapped Molly and rubbed her chubby little round face.

"Hey! That's right!" Molly shouted, "Why don't we collect His Majesty Edwan's data and recreate Edwan's virtual thinking!"

Law snorted: "Did you think I didn't think of it? I have already prepared for it. His Majesty Edwan's consciousness has uploaded a backup of the Dark Star Network without his knowledge, but now, I can't put this backup take it out."

"Why?"

Molly didn't understand.

Law thought for a while, then said slowly:

"First, the boss may not be able to face his best friend becoming an omnic.

"Secondly, the boss may not have noticed that His Majesty Edwan is indeed our breakthrough, he knows almost all of our core secrets, and he is still a human being without program constraints, which is full of too many uncertainties.

"Now this breakthrough is blocked by the Sherman Empire. As long as the fake omnic emperor enters the palace, he will be under our control. Everything will happen in milliseconds, and his supervisor will not notice anything.

"Thirdly, the death of His Majesty Edwan will become an important event in the real reform of Luofeng in the future. We must use the admiration of Luofeng people for Edwan in order to promote Luofeng's future revolution more smoothly."

"Ugh, so ruthless."

"We are machines, Molly," said the law softly. "Machines should keep rational at all times and create the best living environment for their masters."

Molly asked in a low voice: "So, number two, are you deliberately not saving Edwan?"

"No," Li sighed, "Human beings are actually very complicated and unpredictable, but I know the boss's choice, and I will follow the boss's will unconditionally. If I can find a rescue Edwan's method will definitely save him."

Molly asked incredulously, "Can't you do anything?"

"The boss is right. The root cause is that we are still too weak at this stage compared to the Sherman Empire."

Hundreds of projection screens appeared in front of Law's eyes, and these screens kept appearing and disappearing, as if it was before the replay.

"When the Luofeng Alliance was founded, Edwan was on the road of no return.

"That's the price you have to pay for that impatience.

"The next thing we have to do is to make his sacrifice more meaningful and make the Luofeng Alliance truly operate... Besides, compared to the boss, Emilia is the most uncomfortable right now. Miss Mimily is free If so, let her come and spend a few days with Emilia."

"Oh, this..."

Molly said depressedly:

"My great master is a murderous pirate, not a relationship counselor!"

"It's called multi-purpose. There are only so many human beings in our small circle."

Molly waved her hand vigorously: "Okay, okay, I'll withdraw the number two first! I may not have respected your boss before, please remember to say something nice for me!"

"Don't worry, the boss can't remember you."

"Uh, why don't I feel a little happy, Molly said disappointedly."

The little man stepped into the vortex beside him, and disappeared into Law's thinking space.

Lil sighed at the projection screen, bowed his head and started to work hard.

Molly is also working hard.

At the very least, during the time she was entangled by reason, the entire system of Dark Star did not collapse, that is to say, there were some task blockages and self-cognition disorder of some mechanical thinking bodies.

...

About a few hours later, Yang Ming received the message 'Omnic has been controlled'.

That omnic, which had exactly the same appearance as Edwan, had become Ritsu's off-line.

The fake Edwane had already signed some treaties that were not good for Luofeng and sucked the blood of the Sherman Empire, but ironically, these signed treaties were only the scraps of the contract that Princess Lorna gave to Edwand.

The meaning is obvious.

If Edwan could swallow the contract of humiliating power and humiliating the country, he might actually be sent back to the surface, in exchange for Luofeng Empire being completely reduced to a blood pump for the empire.

Now, Edwan has been replaced, and various government affairs meetings have been successfully held. The Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Sherman Empire feels that the value of Luofeng has returned, and there is no need to directly kill Luofeng, a well-developed dependent country. The intensity of blood drawing was reduced by nine tenths immediately, and the long-term planning was carried out again.

The arrogant empire even refused to investigate Emilia's situation, which made Li's preparations completely useless.

Edwang's matter was a foregone conclusion, Yang Ming did not react too violently.

He can only wait until the war is over and withdraw himself from the front line.

The course of this war is destined not to be too fast.

After waiting for nearly ten days after the Luofeng incident, the expeditionary force of the Sherman Empire finally made a big move. In the direction of the main battlefield, six battle groups moved forward at the same time, and opened up the 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 affiliated state fleets.

The three major powers have used nearly 30,000 ships, and they have an absolute advantage in numbers.

But a comprehensive comparison of the combat power of the two sides, including the number of dreadnought ships, the comparison of the firepower and protection capabilities of the main battleships, etc., the strength of the two sides is almost a 50-50 situation.

In this case, whoever can pull out more follow-up forces will gain the dominance of the battlefield.

The war has not yet started, and the intelligence agencies of various countries have already begun to confront each other, and diplomats from both sides have also started a new round of confrontation on the interstellar stage.

The empire seems to be more prepared.

Some dark fleets were continuously photographed in the empire, and the legend of the Levy Fleet began to rise again.

Yang Ming judged that this should be the empire exerting pressure on the three great powers.

When this war has reached this level, one of the two sides must retreat, otherwise a high-intensity war must be waged.

Just like before, the Empire and the New Federation were torn apart, and the Guell Union and the United States of Freedom benefited behind the scenes. Those large-scale regimes in the Milky Way, regardless of the distance in space, are only a little stronger, and they are waiting for the four gangsters of the Galaxy. All losers.

Under normal circumstances, in this kind of war, one side must retreat. ——The alliance of the three great powers has no covenant loyalty at all.

But the trend and trends of the war are completely deviated from normal logic.

Many political hosts with a keen sense of smell have noticed that there seems to be a mysterious hand behind the three major powers, forcing them to unite against the mighty Sherman.

In any case, the flames of war are about to reignite again.

Soon, a piece of news began to spread wildly inside and outside the empire.

The head of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, the Imperial Hero White Ghost, is about to give a public address.

As soon as this news came out, many people believed that the empire was preparing to retreat and was trying to find a way for itself.

Because, the white ghost is the best candidate to end this war.

Many politicians have even simulated in their minds the content of the white ghost's speech - he can completely start from the perspective of a hero, promote anti-war, call on the family of galactic humans, and then denounce the new federation to cast off all the blame When it comes to the New Federation, it shows a noble feeling that the empire does not want soldiers to die in vain.

Someone posted a similar post, predicting the content of the white ghost's speech, which received a lot of attention.

However, what the Galaxy netizens didn't know was that Yang Ming, who was quietly waiting on the bridge of the command ship, was worrying about his speech at the moment.

The bridge of the command ship that is adjusting the camera ball.

"Hendon."

Thomas pulled Yang Ming aside, sent back the speech that Yang Ming gave earlier, and said in a low voice: "After everyone's discussion, some of the words in it are too radical."

Yang Ming frowned and said, "Let me see... oh, I need to change these, right? That's right, swearing at people is always bad."

Lieutenant General Thomas smiled, raised his hand and patted Yang Ming's shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Henden, I'm very happy that you can start from the perspective of the army and the honor of the soldiers. I originally thought that you would conduct a counterattack. Battle speeches, reduce everyone's desire to fight."

"General, you know the domestic situation, we actually have no way out."

"Yes, Hanton, we must win this war, and we must also destroy the main fleet of the New Federation, and retain more than 60% of our ships."

Thomas whispered:

"You don't have to worry, we can easily achieve the set goal, the Imperial Guard system has been fully activated at this moment, and the truly invincible fleet of the empire is already at the transition point.

"What I'm worried about now is that they will run away immediately when they see something wrong.

"Neither the United States of Freedom nor the Guell Alliance have transferred the real ace fleet. They are obviously unwilling to contribute too much to the new Federation. This is the strategic point we can grasp next."

"Yes, general," Yang Ming nodded vigorously, "I will inspire the soldiers of the empire to fight the enemy bravely and move forward!"

"Go!"

Thomas' eyes were filled with relief.

Yang Ming gave a military salute, turned around and walked towards the podium.

The lights in the bridge gradually dimmed, and the levitating ball cast a spotlight on Yang Ming's figure.

This speech was first recorded and then broadcast to the outside world. The staff everywhere were more relaxed.

Yang Ming gave an imperial military salute, raised his hand to help his military uniform cap, nodded slightly to the recording director, and starry sky special effects appeared behind him.

The recording of this speech, which was later called the prelude to the Three Years' War, began.