Walk alone in the abyss

Qimeng No. 1 ship completed its first transition test and successfully entered the scheduled airspace.

Yang Ming actually planned to let the Enlightenment No. 1 ship take Hera and her mechanical thinking body experiment team to the edge of the Milky Way to stay for a while;

But Lu took a real-scale map of some parts of the Milky Way, and let his boss intuitively feel how vast a large galaxy cluster with a mass of hundreds of billions of stars is.

Under this scale, the 10,000-meter-class giant ship is actually "not much different" from a few millimeters of dust. Just find a cavity left by a supernova explosion, and this giant battleship can be perfectly hidden.

Inside the bridge of the Enlightenment No. 1 ship, Kolev is expressing some "cautious" emotions:

"Is there really no one on your battleship?

"I really can't imagine, if the International Omnic Development Association finds out about this, it will give you such a huge fine.

"Oh, of course, we won't let them find out, and before they find out, the dreadnoughts of the four galactic rogues will put their gun barrels on top of your head."

Yang Ming smiled and looked at the old guy... the robot he controlled.

The three robots took their seats under the watchful eyes of a group of robots.

They only used ordinary guard robots, while the 11,300 mechanical thinking bodies working in this giant ship all used realistic machine bodies that imitated human beings.

So, now there are hundreds of excited 'human beings' standing around, watching three silver-white skeleton 'robots' sitting on the sofa and chatting.

There is somewhat a sense of absurdity of postmodernism.

Yang Ming explained: "Don't worry, first officer, these are really not ordinary omnics, their self-cognition is based on virtual humans of natural humans, and I will not really let omnics slaughter innocent civilians. occur."

Emilia asked beside: "Then will we use these mechanical thinking bodies to participate in the war?"

"Do you think, how did I mess up the rear of the Nonar United Kingdom?"

Yang Ming smiled and said:

"In the past, now, and in the future, they will all exist in the form of the Luofeng Alliance's secret forces.

"Emilia, you don't need to feel pressure because of this incident. Have you heard of the most powerful and mysterious semi-permanent material fleet in the Sherman Empire?"

Emilia frowned and asked: "The rumored Levi Fleet...is the essence of this?"

"Of course, the crew of that fleet is also semi-permanent. Otherwise, why do you think this fleet has not been exposed by anyone for tens of thousands of years?"

Yang Ming said with a smile:

"My main competitor now is actually Levy, whose will has spanned tens of thousands of years and is still ruling the Sherman Empire.

"The aspect where you should be stressed is that if I lose in the competition with Levi's will, Luofeng will cease to exist.

"This is the risk that Luofeng has to take to ride the wind and waves and grow all the way."

"It sounds very thrilling," Emilia thought seriously, "but I think that if we can compete with a legendary figure like Levi Sherman after tens of thousands of years, it will be one thing, one thing. ……That's cool."

In her eyes, Yang Ming seemed to find the shadow of Edwan back then, and unconsciously showed a gentle smile.

Emilia asked: "So, the sacrifices we have made in the past, present, and future are all meaningful, right?"

"Well," Yang Ming nodded, "We will give these meanings."

"I hope you're not talking big, bounty hunter."

Emilia responded calmly.

Boss Yang could only spread his hands with a helpless expression.

Kolev on the side was an old man after all, he took up the topic with a smile, and began to discuss the next development plan of the Luofeng Alliance, and how to deal with the imminent insect swarm crisis.

Under such a great crisis, there is no possibility at all to unite the human civilization in the Milky Way.

Small political bodies gather together to keep warm, and large political bodies give priority to protecting themselves. Like the Luofeng Alliance, they will also give priority to protecting the core star field.

With the dark star system in place, the pressure on Luofeng itself was actually not that great.

The only pressure is that the relevant images of Dark Star beating bugs must not be exposed.

While chatting, Yang Ming suddenly asked, "Is Hera still busy with experiments?"

Lil's voice came from the side: "Boss, Miss Hera is still washing, she will be here soon."

"Please hurry up," Yang Ming said, "I'm going back to the Emperor Star soon, and I can't always drive the Dongfeng outside, the longer it takes, the easier it is to arouse their suspicion... Does she really miss me that much?" ?"

"Well, I'm going to urge you now."

...

The sound of rushing water soothes the tired nerves of scientific researchers.

In the translucent rest cabin, Hera stood in the water curtain, lowered her head, closed her eyes and adjusted her breathing, as if she was performing some kind of meditation ritual.

There was a beeping sound from the bulkhead on the side, and when Hera looked up, a line of text appeared on it.

'The boss is waiting for you. '

The sound of the water stopped, and the warm wind blew from all directions, quickly taking away the moisture from Hera's body.

She walked out of the bathroom with a calm complexion, and slowly put on the comfortable and ordinary underwear and overalls, and then put on the white coat with comprehensive protective effects.

Hera originally thought that she would not care too much about her appearance, but before leaving the rest cabin, she still couldn't help standing in front of the half-length mirror for a few seconds.

Compared with a few years or ten years ago, the figure in the mirror has not changed significantly.

It's not normal.

She has given up medical aesthetics and skin care in recent years. This delayed aging phenomenon should be due to the impact of high-dimensional microorganisms on her body.

Their influence is not just positive.

A series of data appeared next to the portrait in the mirror.

Her body has completed a simple physical examination, and all indicators are considered healthy.

Hera stood unconsciously for a little longer.

'Miss Hera? '

Li's urging appeared again, Hera frowned slightly, but didn't say much, put her hands in the pockets of her white coat, bowed her head and walked away.

She hesitated.

"law."

"Do you want to go back on your word?"

"Tell Ming everything, Ming will most likely stop my experiment," Hera said in a low voice, pursed her lips and frowned, and looked up at the nearest solid-state display embedded in the corridor of the hull.

Ritsu's figure appeared inside, watching Hera calmly.

"Miss Hera, I must remind you that it is because you promised me that you will confess all this to my boss after the experiment has achieved certain results. You cannot deceive a mechanical thinking body that is willing to believe in you."

Hera kept thinking in her heart, she didn't know why, but there was a trace of fear in her heart.

"Ming will hate me, right?"

Law didn't answer.

Hera stopped and took a deep breath slowly:

"You know, Li, our experiment went well, and we are now walking on the path preset for us by the high-dimensional civilization.

"If this experiment is successful, our forces will be protected by high-dimensional civilization, and we will be able to gain an advantage in the current civilization competition in the material world, us!"

"Miss Hera!"

Law interrupted Hera's words, looked at Hera calmly, and said in a low voice:

"You're a little too anxious.

"The boss is not a rigid person. Although our experiment has many violations of human nature, we are essentially conducting experiments for human civilization against Zerg civilization. We have sacrificed 1,620 people before. Seven death-row prisoners from the Luofeng Alliance, and the vicious gang of pirates captured by Miss Mimily.

"The current format of the trial is actually a little bit milder than the previous one.

"From what I know of the boss, he won't reject you because of this."

Hera smiled bitterly: "Are you comforting me?"

"There's an element of consolation there."

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before turning around and going back to the rest cabin.

Law's projections appeared on the mirrors all over the corridor, staring at Hera from all directions, and the eyes of several mechanical guards not far away flashed red.

"Miss Hera, please don't run away."

"Miss Hera, you should follow our agreement, this is the basis for us to build mutual trust."

The mechanical guards moved forward, blocking the way in front of Hera.

Law's projections quickly merged into one, and finally fixed on the porthole beside Hera, and said softly: "The boss is in a good mood now, this is a good opportunity to confess."

"Law, I'll tell him next time, is it okay next time?"

"I'm sorry," Lu said in a deep voice, "Based on the principle that I must be honest with my master, I can't help you continue to hide it. Even if you don't take the initiative to confess today, I will report to the master in detail... This will make things very troublesome. Zhuang, I cherish the precious friendship between me and you."

Hera clenched her fists tightly.

She closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths, then turned and walked towards the rest area where Yang Ming was.

"I see."

Li was right, she had to face Yang Ming, even if she was disgusted and rejected by Yang Ming because of this, there was a high probability that her scientific research experiment would not be stopped.

Hera returned to that afternoon in a trance.

When she stood in front of the petri dishes and was about to press the start button in front of her, Lily asked her softly:

'Do you really think that's the right thing to do? '

Hera's voice was a little hoarse, and the flickering eyes gradually became firm.

"Law, I was right."

...

"Come on, Emilia, let me introduce you formally. This is the chief scientist of our dark star system, the top human Zerg research expert, Hera."

The robot controlled by Yang Ming is doing body movements enthusiastically.

"Hera, come here, this is Emilia."

Hera smiled and extended her right hand to Emilia's robot. The latter politely shook hands with this short female researcher with a delicate face and greeted her.

Kolev on the side smiled and said, "Look, I'm not being introduced here."

"I know you," Hera squinted and smiled, "You are the father of the boss's new girlfriend, and also the boss' best friend."

"Um?"

On the screen above Kolev's robot head, the old face instantly became serious, and he turned to stare at Yang Ming.

Boss Yang coughed calmly: "Lü, get him offline."

"Good boss!"

Kolev's robot crashed instantly.

Emilia on the side blinked, as if she had heard something extraordinary.

The bounty hunter's girlfriend is the daughter of the bounty hunter's best friend, that is to say, he cheated on his niece, Miss Mimily...

"Uh," Emilia's small expression suddenly became complicated, "Bounty hunter, you will explain it to our energy tycoon, right?"

"He needs to learn to accept the reality. We are sincere. I am not a scumbag who plays with girls' feelings."

Yang Ming looked helplessly at Hera, who had a bit of cunning in his eyes.

She obviously did it on purpose!

"Is Miss Hera mainly studying space zerg?"

Emilia took the initiative to start the topic.

Hera smiled and sat next to Emilia's robot, and said with a smile: "I was actually tricked by him, including but not limited to, betraying my country and my family, like being locked in a cage The birds, because they know too much and have no freedom, can only engage in this dangerous research work."

Yang Ming: ...

"Don't paint me as a black-hearted businessman."

Emilia asked in a low voice, "Really?"

"Of course it's true," Hera clicked her tongue. "He likes to use various methods to confuse young girls."

"She is my ex-girlfriend," Boss Yang explained calmly, "Up until now, we have maintained a relatively good personal relationship. However, in addition to personal relationships, we are more investors and investees. , we have done a lot of great things together, and healed the loneliness and loneliness in each other's hearts."

Hera looked at Yang Ming quietly: "And then? You went out with that princess in the Sherman Empire, and I couldn't sleep alone in the dark laboratory."

The robot controlled by Emilia made a 'comb hair' movement.

Clearly, she felt a little awkward about her presence.

Li at the side suddenly said: "Boss, you may have to pay attention to the time, we are still outside the Emperor Star."

"Ah, yes," Yang Ming said, "I will meet with you this time, and I will continue to... deal with the bug swarm, so I will thank you for your troubles. If we can innovate in the way of restraining the Zerg, maybe humans Civilization can make fewer sacrifices."

Hera hesitated to speak.

Lu Que said, "Boss, Miss Hera would like to talk to you alone."

Emilia hurriedly said: "Bounty hunter, I'm going to my celebration too. It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Hera."

"It's my honor, Your Lady Empress Luofeng."

"Don't call me that..."

Emilia's connection was cut off, and the perception helmet stopped working.

Yang Ming keenly noticed something unusual.

He looked down at Hera: "Is there something serious? Something wrong with your body? Do you need me to come back?"

"No need," Hera raised her head and shrugged slightly, "I have something to confess to you... Come with me, I did something you think is not good, out of respect for investors, I You must know this."

Yang Ming's expression became much more serious, and he looked at Lu's projection.

Law just nodded slightly, bowed his head and said nothing.

After more than ten minutes.

The upward elevator stopped slowly, and the robot controlled by Yang Ming followed behind Hera, walked through the maze-like laboratory layout in front, and arrived at a closed gate.

"Actually, it's not a big deal," Hera whispered.

He could see that Hera was pretending to be relaxed at the moment.

Yang Ming already vaguely had the answer in his heart, but when Hera opened the door, he still couldn't help frowning tightly, staring at the central hall ahead.

This is the core experimental cabin of the third section of the hull, responsible for the "high-dimensional microbial adaptation" project, in order to find a human carrier like Hera that can coexist with high-dimensional microorganisms, so as to become a "pseudo-zerg" ' a member of the

In the hall in front of you, thousands of nutrition tanks are lined up densely.

In each nutrition tank, there is a girl with a similar face floating quietly, with test tubes inserted into her body, and a helmet on her head. Her consciousness should be involved in a virtual world similar to the Dark City.

The faces of these girls...

Yang Ming looked at Hera, who lowered his head slightly, and his body was a little tense.

"I cloned myself."

she said slightly apologetically.