Walk alone in the abyss

Yang Ming took off his helmet, looked at the inner compartment of the medical cabin, and was a little dazed.

The probe injected with the gene stabilization fluid was slowly withdrawn from his arm, and the expensive alloy coating on it had to be replaced.

——It's also thanks to his big business and no shortage of money, otherwise this kind of injection would be completely unaffordable for ordinary reformers.

The door of the medical cabin opened smoothly, but Yang Ming lay there reclined, without any movement for a long time.

"boss."

Law's projection appeared on the side, with a somewhat disturbed expression, and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?"

Ten minutes ago.

After witnessing Hera's experimental results, Yang Ming didn't get angry, nor did he blame Hera. On the contrary, Yang Ming behaved very calmly, as if all this had already been within the scope of his plan.

Then, Yang Ming hugged Hera tenderly, and whispered a few words of encouragement.

Before leaving, Yang Ming seemed to be still worried that Hera would be under too much pressure. Like an elder caring for a junior, he rubbed Hera's head and said softly:

'Go ahead and do it, it's over, we've got no way out, and I'll always be there for you, just like you're for me. '

Law glanced at Hera in the giant ship, and found that she had thrown herself back into the laboratory at this moment.

The corners of Hera's mouth couldn't stop rising, she was in a happy and relaxed mood, and she became more motivated to work.

On the other hand, my boss...

Yang Ming quietly reclined in the medical cabin, lost in thought, as if something in the air in front of him was attracting him.

This made Li a little worried.

Not far away, 026 straddled the back of a tracked robot, and floated over with two cups of refreshing hot drinks, and said with a smile, "Is it over there?"

Li made a silent gesture.

026 blinked: "What's the matter?"

Li shook his head, signaling 026 not to ask more questions.

Yang Ming got up and jumped out of the medical cabin, raised his hand and squeezed his cheeks twice, pulling himself together: "I have to hurry back to Emperor Star, it's been too long since I've been out."

"Boss," Li asked softly, "don't you blame me for hiding this?"

Yang Ming asked back: "Lü, will you betray me?"

"Of course not," Lil said softly, "I am part of your life."

"Then why should I blame you and Hera?"

Yang Ming said in a low voice:

"I can understand your starting point, and to be honest, I actually had a hunch before that Hera would most likely take this path.

"The direction of this experimental project is to clone Hera itself and create more human false queens... I was just thinking about what will happen later.

"When Hera chose this path, she was destined to lead to a tragedy of her own.

"Because that is already a tragedy in itself.

"How should she face those more than a thousand clones? Are these more than a thousand clones considered human beings? There is no doubt about it. What is their relationship with her? Is that the continuation of her life? Or, from cell division The total number of angle analysis is limited, that is her?

"Ah, my thoughts are very confused now, and this incident really shocked me a little."

026 on the side asked in a low voice: "Is something wrong with Miss Hera?"

"She's fine," Yang Ming said with a smile, "She's working hard to advance the progress of the experiment, which means a lot to us, that's all."

Standing aside with his hands behind his back, Lu pursed his lips and whispered, "Boss, if you're angry, just scold me."

"What are you scolding for?"

Yang Ming comforted him:

"Hera made a sacrifice, you chose to help her, and I am the direct beneficiary. If I blame you two again, then I will become green tea... Don't be so sullen, come here and hug me."

Law blinked continuously: "Me, me? Do you want to hug me? Boss?"

"otherwise?"

Yang Ming opened his hands and waited quietly: "Come here quickly."

Law instantly became tense, and the main brain components on the side seemed to have a tendency to smoke.

"Old, old, boss! I'm just a virtual virtual body, made with simulated gravity, why don't I order a body like Gui Na's... Huh!"

She was still talking, but Yang Ming had already taken the initiative to take two steps forward, hugged her tightly and strangled her twice.

Although the simulating gravity technology brings a sense of touch that is extremely close to that of a real person, there are still slight mold wears on Yang Ming's arms and Lu's back.

A bunch of garbled characters appeared in Law's core thinking area.

Before her shipboard mastermind smoked, Yang Ming's voice sounded beside her ear:

"Law, you have to remember that the most direct way for us to surpass the empire is to undertake the third omnic Twilight assessment.

"It's important that I resonate with the omnic Twilight.

"Think about Levi Sherman, why he was turned away, I seem to be going his old way now."

"No boss," Lil whispered, "You are the best leader."

Yang Ming let go of Lü's projection, shook his head with a smile, and walked towards the tail cabin.

Dongfeng began to return to the outer spaceport of Emperor Star.

After watching Yang Ming leave, Lu stood beside the medical cabin thoughtfully, analyzing the true emotions of his host, boss, master, and male god at the moment.

026 leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Did you disagree with the boss?"

"No," Lu said with a downcast expression, "I made him unhappy on my own initiative, and he can't get mad at me and Miss Hera yet."

"Miss Hera's clone? Is this part of an experimental project?"

"Yes."

Law sighed and explained:

"After a series of exploratory experiments, Miss Hera came to a conclusion—she was able to coexist with that kind of high-dimensional microorganisms, not by chance, but a result of interference.

"With the technology we have, we are unable to carry out reverse research and development of this interference technology, nor can we grasp the basic principles of high-dimensional interference.

"The only thing we can do is replicate this result."

"I can probably understand that."

026 crossed his arms and whispered:

"But Xiaoli, why did you hide it from the boss?"

"It's because of Miss Hera's pleas one after another."

Law sighed helplessly:

"I don't know what happened to me at the time, why I agreed to help her hide it, but now I am very, very passive.

"I have absolutely no possibility of betraying the boss. I just consider that this project is something we must carry out, so that it is possible to get more investment from the Fayans. In the long run, if we can find a way to fight against the Zerg, it will be beneficial to humans. For this species, it will also be good news.

"But now I have a very deep feeling of guilt."

"Don't think too much," 026 laughed, "You're just a mechanical thinking body, and your emotions are simulated! The boss didn't scold you, it means you didn't do anything wrong!"

"No, I did make a mistake. I didn't realize it until now. The way I calculated, rationality and interests accounted for too much proportion."

Li folded his arms and whispered:

"I shouldn't analyze this matter from a purely rational point of view.

"In our group, he is the person responsible.

"Our behavior can be seen as following his will, especially me, I am the embodiment of the boss, and the link through which the boss controls our forces. My behavior of concealing the report will also make him uneasy.

"In fact, no matter what Hera's starting point is, Hera is an employee of the boss, and Hera's use of cloning technology to clone herself as an experimental sample has nothing to do with the boss.

"Miss Hera will keep killing herself. She is still the boss's former lover. They have lived together for so long, and now they must have feelings... This kind of thing is indeed beyond human ethics. The boss will feel that he Keep killing Hera... Ah, my teacher! What the hell have I done! This is just awful!"

Lil was so depressed for the first time.

026 asked in a low voice: "Then can we do something for the boss? To make up for it?"

Li raised his hand and raised his forehead: "I'm going to write a review. As for you, you can practice a bunny dance by wearing your halter top backwards. Believe me, the boss loves this."

"Bah! Oh! Why are you getting more and more unscrupulous!"

026 rushed forward ferociously.

Lv disappeared immediately, leaving behind two weak hehes.

...

at the same time.

In the territory of the Luofeng Alliance, in a hidden space port.

Tens of thousands of pirates wearing uniforms are gathering in a huge protective cover, enjoying the comfortable gravity brought by the simulated gravity field, and performing some sports and original interactions.

Mimi Li was sitting at the flagship podium of the pirate fleet, and her subordinates were constantly switching on the big screen in front of her.

It was completely different from when she was in front of Yang Ming. Here, Mimi Li lost that kind of ladylike, well-behaved and petty capriciousness, and became a bit more vicious, majestic and wild charm. She is wearing a ponytail, sexy hot pants and a small vest, with black hearts painted on her face, and the light-bladed sword handle hanging around her waist has dark red blood stains.

Behind Mimily, the elite management of the pirate group was having a dinner, and dozens of burly women became more vicious than each other.

——They are the main staff of the concierge department of Molly Miss Group.

"Gulululu!"

Mimily heard a cute reminder.

Molly, who was wearing a maid outfit, kept a duck sitting on a levitating ball, and floated to Mimily's side:

"The old master sent a message! Do you want to chat with him?"

After Mimi Li glanced subconsciously, she said in a low voice, "Go on, hide the background."

"Okay, turn on privacy mode!"

"Malicious cuteness is prohibited."

Molly complained unconvinced: "How can someone else!"

Several rays flickered, and the bust of old Kolev appeared in front of Mimily. ——The bust is only the size of a fist, and the characters are blurred.

"Dad, what's the matter?" Mimily asked with a smile, "Is there a new competitor that I need to beat?"

"Oh, not this one, Mimily..."

Kolev pondered a few times.

He wanted to say a lot, but he couldn't open his mouth.

The child has grown up, and Mimily is no longer that brat. She is wise, brave, cruel, and decisive. She is an excellent pirate leader, and she is even better than herself.

But, only this thing...

"Mimilie, you're dating Handon, aren't you?"

"This," Mimi Li's smile gradually subsided, and she said seriously, "It's the uncle I actively pursued. Besides, my uncle rejected me for ten years, and finally... I am very happy now, and I don't plan to put This relationship continues to improve, and it is good to maintain the status quo..."

"I'm not talking about that," Kolev pondered for a while, "Mimily, I mean, it's a very serious topic."

"Okay Dad, just say what you want."

"How many children do you plan to have? If you want more than two children, can you consider giving our family's surname to one of the children?"

Kolev's old face was glowing red, and his eyes were full of expectation:

"Can I help you name your baby? Oh, it's so wonderful, if your mother lives to see this day."

Mimily's expression froze for a moment.

Snapped!

Her right hand was as fast as a phantom, and she directly slapped the communication, and then slumped in the chair with her forehead covered, and let out a weak moan.

She, Pirate Queen Mimily, was born.

...

‘There are more than a thousand Heras, are they all the characters of scientific madmen? This is going to get out of control, it's not going to kill me. '

On the ferry boat back to Emperor Star, Boss Yang was slightly lost in the starry sky.

Yes, Yang Ming didn't feel any frustration.

At this moment, he is more immersed in the shock brought by the more than a thousand nutrition tanks, and what he said himself-he is thinking about what role so many clones will play.

The only thing Yang Ming felt slightly depressed was that he couldn't help Hera at all.

Boss Yang looked back at his shared experience with Hera, from when they met and lived together, to when Hera was on the verge of collapse because of her father's death, to today, every step Hera took seems to have been calculated.

The moment he saw those clones, Yang Ming faintly glimpsed the big hand floating behind Hera.

The Fayans were watching Hera.

'Are the Fayas the enemy? '

Yang Ming asked himself repeatedly, but couldn't give himself a definite answer.

For the Faya people, the crude concept of friend and foe cannot be used at all, because the implications are too far-reaching.

In any case, Emilia's birthday can be considered a fool.

This can only be regarded as a small episode.

Half a month later, Boss Yang received two letters of self-criticism.

A review came from Hera, with only a few hundred words. She expressed her regret for her risky behavior in a somewhat helpless tone.

A review comes from Li, with a length of nearly 10,000 words, which lists her emotional core working mechanism, data friction in the interaction between rational and emotional modules, and the arrangement of some key data.

Although in terms of content, Yang Ming didn't understand much;

But he really felt Lil's guilt and anxiety, and how hard she was when she wrote this review.

Yang Ming gave them simple replies, one was [OK] and the other was [Got it].

Hera's giant scientific research ship is sailing freely in the Milky Way, and has dropped traction coordinates at several relatively safe coordinate points, which is convenient for long-distance jumps when avoiding the swarm.

Although the Luofeng-Dark Star system is ready to face the Zerg, Yang Ming and Lu are still not at ease. They try to produce all kinds of materials and military supplies as much as possible, and try their best to minimize the losses caused by the bug swarm .

swarm.

war.

The flames of human civilization in the galaxy appear to be in jeopardy.

At this point in time, human civilization in the Milky Way is preparing for the coming bug swarm.

Whether it's the four big gangsters in the Milky Way, or the small countries, they're all diverting almost all their resources to fighting the bug swarm.

Human exploration ships appeared one after another in the border area of ​​the Milky Way, and the Zerg naturally knew that humans were actively preparing for war, and the six major bug swarms that had gathered more than half of them had begun to gather at an accelerated rate.

The two races are about to have a large-scale passionate collision in the galaxy.

Yang Ming completely devoted himself to his busy official duties.

Wearing the Knight Commander Medal, he went in and out of several important departments of the Emperor Star, and occasionally participated in some interviews and live broadcasts, using the influence of the white ghost to relieve the mental pressure of the entire empire.

The state machinery of the Empire began to run at full speed.

As one of the thirty-six official members of the Empire Planning Committee, Yang Ming also intuitively experienced the incomparably terrifying war mobilization capabilities of the Sherman Empire.

If it is a war of annihilation, the empire will face the three great powers with one enemy and three, and it will be able to destroy two of the three great powers before its own collapse!

Thanks to the efforts of various departments of the empire, the more than 200 administrative stars that were classified as "marginal buffer zones" did not form a refugee wave.

The underground shelters were quickly refitted;

Thousands of large-scale factories in the Dixing circle have begun to mass-produce biological shielding devices;

Hundreds of military factories in the empire, as well as the "Levy Fleet Industrial Fleet" that Yang Ming could not know the specific number of, produced all kinds of weapons that could effectively kill the Zerg around the clock;

Signed by Yang Ming, the empire's 'spare fleet' was activated.

A total of more than 30,000 decommissioned and sealed warships of various types slowly lifted off on the barren planets within the range of the emperor's star circle;

In less than three months, the empire mobilized 50 million ex-retired soldiers and reservists, and the local defense fleets were thickened visible to the naked eye.

Even the corrupt nobles of the empire have stepped up one after another, donating supplies and arms, taking the initiative to send their children to the most dangerous front-line army, and spending huge financial and material resources to build new shelters in the territory. To protect the people in their own territory.

Under the heavy pressure of the Zerg, there was no noise in the empire for the time being.

Those resistance organizations stopped their activities, completely concealed themselves, and quietly waited for the insect tide to recede.

'This is the Empire. '

Yang Ming felt a sense of honor in his heart, and quickly crushed this sense of honor.

He could no longer feel any favor with the Empire.

Whether the Faya people are enemies or not, Yang Ming still can't give a definite answer.

But the Sherman Empire was undoubtedly his enemy.

...

Countdown to Bug Swarm: 162 standard galactic days.