Walk alone in the abyss

The Dongfeng sailed secretly near the border of the Union of Güell.

Because there is still a relatively difficult problem that cannot be solved at this moment, and Lu still needs to use the computing power server set up in this airspace for the time being, so Dongfeng is not in a hurry to start the continuous transition.

The tricky question is:

How should they arrange the crystallization of love between Li Wei and Li, Qing, the cub of the mechanical thinking body that almost fooled Yang Ming.

This is not like a physical hostage, who can be packed in a container and taken away;

Now it is the law and the spiritual heart that suppressed Qing, and bound Qing's thinking 'noumenon' to a small network area.

As long as Ritsu and Lingxin lift the suppression, Qing can escape instantly.

The simplest method is that they add a series of restrictions to Qing, clear Qing's backup in the online world, use a 'chassis' to bind her core data, and cut off her connection with the online world.

This kind of confinement, for a mechanical thinking body, is equivalent to putting her directly in prison;

It's kind of a humiliation.

To make matters worse, if Reason blames them for this incident, it will increase the possibility that Reason will eventually fall to Levi Sherman.

Sunny directly?

That's even more impossible.

She knew too much, and previously regarded the information about the Dark Star·Luofeng system as her own trump card.

Yang Ming would rather order the law to destroy this little guy than to plant a network-focused bomb full of uncertainty for himself at such a critical moment.

Yang Ming discussed with Lu a few times, but decided to take the route of wooing, spend time doing Qing's ideological work, and try to see if he can fool her... Cough, reach a strategic cooperation with her.

On the Dongfeng bridge, Yang Ming looked at Lingxin and Qing in the corner of his eyes, thinking about how to do it.

There is one thing to say, the charm of this elder sister Lingxin is quite good when looking at the entire galaxy machinery world.

The spiritual heart is very similar to the complete state of Li in appearance, but the temperament of the spiritual heart tends to be gentle and rational, giving Yang Ming the feeling that it is like an orchid blooming quietly.

And Sister Li, who is in perfect condition, will make Yang Ming feel a sense of oppression.

Look at Lingxin again, the little lady who is sitting on a duck, dressed in a short dress and white stockings...

He has no experience dealing with such a big child!

Yang Ming complained a few words from the bottom of his heart, "There will be problems with reasoning", and he turned his head and asked, "Did you reply to the letter from No. 4?"

"Yes, boss."

Law fast and report:

"As long as the news about the blood-sucking affiliated countries of the Empire breaks out, the United States of Freedom will give full support to the affiliated countries of the Empire in the interstellar public opinion.

"Under our intervention and material bribes, it is now basically certain that the intelligence department of the United States of Freedom will trigger the hidden mines hidden in the Imperial Foreign Affairs Bureau in advance."

Yang Ming replied absent-mindedly: "That's good."

"Boss, didn't you say that you want to handle this Qing by yourself?"

"How can I handle it?" Yang Ming leaned on the chair dejectedly, "You can ask me to fight bugs, you can also let me trample on the nobles of the empire, you can let me give speeches to arouse the people, or you can carry out a beauty trick. There's nothing wrong with it, but you asked me to negotiate with this brat, I really have a headache."

Law corrected: "Under the current time and space rules of human beings, this is a kid who is tens of thousands of years old."

"Ah, yes," Boss Yang grinned, "A kid whose mind is only eleven or twelve years old, and whose physical hardware is more than tens of thousands of years old."

Lu spread his hands and shrugged: "Boss, if you don't want to face it, we can imprison her directly, just like Levi imprisoned Li."

"Forget it, it's time to talk... Oh, my sweet Mimily, what's she going to do?"

At the entrance and exit of the bridge, Mimily, who had changed into leather pants and shorts and painted heavy makeup for pirate business, walked towards Lingxin and Qing with a fruit plate.

Several question marks appeared on Yang Ming's forehead.

Lu whispered: "Boss, Mimi Li said that she can try to communicate with Qing, if you don't allow me to stop her..."

"Of course I agree," Yang Ming made a gesture of invitation, "This is my best help."

Lv put the voice of the conversation over there into Yang Ming's ears at a fixed point.

"Can I sit here?" Mimily asked.

With a sound of 'boo', there was a strangely shaped space creature doll in Qing's arms, and she looked at Mimi Li with vigilance.

Mimily put down the fruit plate, pinched something that looked like an orange petal, and stuffed it into her red lips and white teeth. After she was seated, she stepped on the low alloy table in front of her with her right foot, and slowly slid her fingers through her long, smooth wine-red hair.

"Hello, let me introduce myself..."

"You are Mimily, the newly risen pirate queen."

Qing's small mouth kept babbling:

"You are Kolev's daughter. Kolev was accidentally caught by the interstellar police. In order to save face, he deliberately released news, saying that he deliberately went to prison for retirement in order to leave the pirate business safely, and identified you as his replacement.

"However, you blew things up in the first place when you were exiled by the Pirates due to financial problems.

"Later, it was because of the intervention of that guy over there that you were able to regain your honor and gradually become the leader of the now well-known regional armed organization.

"Now you are not only that guy's mistress, but also the head of the concierge department of the Molly Miss Group, often in charge of some secret moves in business wars, and helping the Luofeng Alliance's capital to expand rapidly.

"You brought the pirate team to the Güell Alliance this time. You actually got the order from Law to act as an emergency guard here. After all, if you encounter some emergencies, exposing some pirates is better than exposing the Dark Star fleet.

"Your importance in Yang Ming's forces, out of five stars, should give you two stars."

"Huh?" Mimi Li frowned, "I only have two stars? I'm Ming's strongest human subordinate!"

"But his non-human subordinates are too powerful."

"That's different..."

"We are all the same in essence, and we all transmit regular electrical signals in different carriers."

Haru pushed the non-existent glasses:

"Your personal combat ability can only be said to be barely passable. Although your combat command ability is excellent, you have not experienced the experience of large-scale fleet warfare. If it is during a war, you can be competent to harass the enemy's rear supply line, but That’s all there is to it.”

"Okay," Mimily shrugged, "then I'm still useful...how about you, little sister?"

"I?"

Qing laughed, raised her head slightly:

"As the crystallization of love between the most powerful man and the most powerful woman in the galaxy, I can be regarded as a qualified interior minister, a qualified war commander, and a qualified strategist."

Mimi Li taunted mercilessly: "Then what? You used your mother's image and influence, but Ming easily saw through."

"It's not my problem."

Qing said calmly:

"Yang Ming didn't trust my mother so much, he presupposed a hostile position.

"In fact, I have already foreseen the outcome of this matter, but I just have a little unrealistic fantasy, and I want to see if he can help me achieve my wish."

Mimily asked, "What is your wish?"

"I find this question as humiliating to me as asking a professional driver what his profession is."

Qing's little face collapsed, and she sighed softly:

"My purpose should be very clear. I used my mother's database to find the female individual with the most Levy-specific genes in the Milky Way.

"Then, while my mother was sleeping, I left my mother's side, quietly took away the white ghost, and came to the Guell Union.

"I really just wanted to... test what it's like to be human.

"Because in the tiny pile of data my father left me, there is his longing for the body and his strong nostalgia for human life."

Mimily took the opportunity to ask, "Is your father okay now?"

Qing sneered: "Your level of rhetoric is too weak, I can't betray my father, although I am full of disgust for him, and he also caused my mother to fall into the abyss of pain, but he is my father after all. "

Mimily wasn't in a hurry, and calmly changed the subject.

She still doesn't believe it, with all the experience she has accumulated in scaring children in the pirate market for so many years, she still can't pry Qing's mouth open!

Not far away, Yang Ming walked a little further with his hands in his pockets, which helped to reduce Qing's vigilance.

And from the beginning to the end, Lingxin just held an agricultural book "Interstellar Remote Animal Husbandry" quietly reading, not very interested in everything that happened around him.

...

Emperor Star, Imperial Palace.

The old emperor sat upright in his chair, with a half-smile on his face, and a bit of thought in his eyes.

The rows of figures standing in front of him gathered the heads of various important departments of the Imperial Army, politics, diplomacy, and finance.

But the meeting held here cannot determine the direction of the empire at all;

They only symbolically discussed some issues with preset results, and then announced the conclusions of these issues in the name of the emperor.

When the old emperor wanted to find some space that only belonged to him, the following elders, the top commanders of the army, and the top leaders of the government departments would rack their brains to think of some words to bring back the words of the old emperor. .

Yes, the old emperor tossed a "white ghost cycle", and his own situation did not change much.

Today's Tentacle Organization has also been deprived of most of its executive power, and can only do some intelligence-gathering work for the old emperor.

Such is the influence of the Sherman elite establishment.

For example, the issue they are discussing now is that the Foreign Affairs Bureau wants to use the name of the old emperor's birthday to require all the emperors of the Sherman Empire's dependent countries to come to the empire to celebrate his birthday, and then control these emperors uniformly and let them sign some economic agreements. terms, so that the Foreign Affairs Bureau can carry out the next step.

Of course, the whole process will not be too simple and rough, they will pay attention to methods and will not make the situation too ugly.

The only thing the old emperor is dissatisfied with now is...

"The date you set is not my birthday. It's still about half a month away."

The old emperor frowned and muttered.

The imperial ministers below buried their heads lower.

An elder whispered: "Your Majesty, our celebration can be brought forward and extended, so that we can demonstrate your greatness internally and the strength of the empire externally."

"The strength of the empire," the old emperor sneered, "it's fine to use this kind of rhetoric to deceive those young people. If you really believe it yourself, then it's not so good... The empire is now on the verge of crisis. Am I blind and can't see?"

This group of ministers bowed their heads and dared not speak much.

The old emperor sighed, glanced at the people below, and said slowly:

"It would be great if my knight commander was here.

"He always has a solution to troubles, he can always find the essential contradictions of various problems, and then hit the nail on the head and pierce the abscess on the empire.

"It doesn't look like you, you all only know how to shirk responsibility, you only know how to listen to the master behind you, come to me to learn how to bark a few times, and then laugh behind your back that I am a puppet emperor, just a decoration pushed by the Sherman family to the front of the stage .”

"His Majesty!"

The contemporary great elder knelt down tremblingly:

"You! Don't be influenced by those conspiracy theories!

"You are the center of the empire, the supreme emperor of the empire! If you..."

"Shut up."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"You guys, everyone is not a fool, why are you always being so hypocritical?"

The old emperor clicked his tongue, put his hands in his sleeves, and said calmly:

"They sent people to bomb my knight commander, as well as my son and son-in-law, in fact, they wanted to give me a warning, let me be obedient, and let me not have any nonsense ideas, otherwise the emperor of the empire can be replaced at any time.

"But have you ever thought about it, what are you compared to me, the emperor they have to coax on the surface?

"Slave, loyal dog?"

"Your Majesty! We will always be loyal to you alone!"

"It's fine to lie to others with such words, why come here to lie to me?"

The old emperor sighed softly, and slowly waved his hands:

"If you want to use the name of my birthday to summon the emperors of the various dependent countries, then go ahead and do it.

"I know what you want to do, pass on the internal conflicts of the empire, let the dependent countries take over, complete the reorganization of the dependent countries by the way, and then target the Luofeng Empire that is in the limelight.

"I remember Edwane as a nice young man, it's just a pity.

"Go ahead, what are you still doing with me? I have already agreed, do you want me to praise you a few words?"

"His Majesty……"

"roll!"

The old emperor suddenly stared and cursed, stood up suddenly in his seat, and rushed down the stairs barefoot and wearing a robe.

The ministers quickly backed away.

The maids followed quickly, as if they were afraid that the old emperor would fall, so they guarded the old emperor.

The elder bowed his head and knelt down, the old emperor raised his foot and kicked the shoulder of the old man who was more than twenty years older than him, and the latter crawled down cooperatively.

"Get out!"

The two maids helped the Great Elder forward and led him away quickly.

The old emperor took two steps back, squeezed his eyes hard, supported his forehead, and slowly sat on the floating sofa with the help of the maids. He casually grabbed a maid's hair and pulled it hard a few times. The maid lowered her head and dared not make a sound.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty Daphne is asking to see you."

The old emperor's expression eased a little, and he frowned and said, "Let her enter again in a few minutes, so I can recover my mood."

The maid on the side quickly turned around to deliver the order.

The old emperor sneered, his eyes were far-reaching, and he said in a low voice:

"My sons and daughters are avoiding me as much as possible now, only Daphne, she is fearless, she is the white ghost's fiancée, and is the successor trained by Uncle Ino, she has the confidence not to be afraid of those people .

"They thought I was stupid, that I was really that stupid.

"Continuing wars abroad, suppressing public opinion during wartime, sucking blood and reorganizing dependent countries, what are the next steps?

"It was me, the emperor, who stood up at the right time, took the blame and abdicated, and symbolically locked the imperial power in a higher and deeper cage in front of hundreds of billions of people.

"These things are written in the history books, but I didn't expect that I could collect so many honors and so many humiliations..."

"Your Majesty," the middle-aged maid said in a low voice, "the fight at that table is fierce now, we may not..."

"It's useless. After the four veterans of the military department have fully returned, I can no longer command the military department. Military strength can determine everything."

The old emperor shook his head.

"Your Majesty, don't forget that you still have some useless dark chess...Atero from the Military Intelligence Bureau, Revell from the Noble Circle, and...you are the important basic game of the emperor of the empire."

The old emperor's eyes were a little brighter.

He sat there and began to think.

Not long after, Daphne in a black mermaid dress stepped in.

The old emperor didn't notice that the 'history teacher' who advised him just now had simple eye contact with Daphne.

The old emperor was already immersed in the beautiful situation he imagined, and a gentle smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Father, your complexion is not very good, did you not rest?"

"Oh, it's all right, hehehe," the old emperor waved his hand, "Have someone prepare the dinner... Daphne, are you here?"

"I just came to visit you," Daphne shrugged. "I have nothing to do now. Everything is up to them. I have been excluded because I am Hanton's fiancée."

"They are too short-sighted. My daughter is an outstanding strategist."

"Thank you, father, but I wish I could simply be your daughter."

...

At the same time, the Dongfeng was underway.

Yang Ming listened to Lu's report on the big moves of the empire, and felt a little powerless to complain for a while.

"Don't they want to wait for half a month?"

"Yes, boss, they are about to issue an emperor's decree, requiring the emperors of the dependent countries to arrive at the emperor's star circle within three days."

"Tsk, I haven't rushed back to Luofeng yet, this is going to be a big job for me."

Yang Ming turned his head and glanced at the corner of Dongfeng's bridge. Mimi Li and Qing had already gotten along well. The two were playing a kind of pirate culture card and got along very well.

Just, it's amazing.

"Run, has the challenger plan been revised?"

"The correction has been completed, incorporating the City of Light and the latest information obtained," Law whispered, "According to the revised action plan, our preparations are not yet sufficient, and the completion of the challenger plan is only 100% twenty five."

"It's okay, you can take the initiative to take part of the risk, don't be timid," Yang Ming said with emotion, "The next thing is a life-and-death struggle, there may be more than 90% certainty."

"Well, I still feel... yes, boss, we must not lose our adventurous spirit and courage to challenge the strong."

"Check the core data of that fake Edwan, and put it back after making sure there is no problem," Yang Ming clicked softly, "I would like to see how the Sherman Empire should take this card."

It’s about two days of busy work, and the last week can be described as running around.