Walk alone in the abyss

Molly was locked in place on the spot.

——It was literally fixed there, with dull eyes and a frozen expression, as if the pause button was forcibly pressed.

In fact, the entire thinking space of the law has fallen into a state similar to 'time stop'.

And the instigator of all this, the Empire's total defense system and Levi's accompanying mechanical thinking body, is watching Ritsu calmly at this moment.

The two of them seem to have some kind of tacit understanding, and they are both keeping silent.

"This is the last time you can invade me," Li said softly, "I didn't expect that you would reserve an ambush in my thinking space."

Li didn't speak.

She just stared at Ritsu, as if she had no interest in talking, and her eyes were not focused.

Li frowned slightly, she was a little confused.

So, Li tried to find some information points on Li, such as what she was wearing—a girlish short dress with white stockings, her feet were floating off the ground, she was not wearing shoes, and there was a hair on her neck that was obviously the end of a chain. Collar, twin ponytails fluttering gently behind the back.

Li seemed to be thinking, but also seemed to have just woken up and didn't understand.

Law didn't ask any more questions, but mobilized all her computing power. If Li wanted to attack, she was sure to retreat and give Li some "decent" counterattacks.

No way, the computing power between them is still a lot worse.

After an unknown amount of time in the stillness, Li's eyes became a little brighter.

Li's expression was already a little cold.

"How are you."

Li asked softly, his voice a little hoarse.

Law slightly frowned, just nodded, and monitored the servers everywhere, for fear of being accused of 'stealing the house'.

There was another silence, and Li asked again:

"Base, are you okay?"

"Very good, the three teachers are also very good," Li said calmly, "The bombardment by Levi Sherman did not harm the cemetery in the subspace, the three teachers did not blame you for anything, they Looking forward to your return."

"I am Levi Sherman's companion mechanical mind."

Li responded briefly, then lowered his head slightly, staring at the ground in a daze.

Law suddenly asked: "Your core data has been affected, isn't it?"

Li didn't answer.

Law asked again: "Are different personalities born in your body?"

Li responded with a slight shake of his head.

Li was a little powerless to complain, so he just stood here with Li, didn't ask any more questions, and waited for Li to tell her why she came here.

A few galaxies passed in Ritsu's perception; Ri finally looked up at Ritsu, and his eyes became clear again.

"Is he nice to you?"

"Of course," Li was a little confused, "but this shouldn't be your question. What's wrong with you? You are a mechanical thinking body, a mimic life born in the top mechanical civilization in the universe. Why do you ask me this?" A question that sounds like a line from a romance novel? You shouldn’t be asking this. You can ask me, civilization, technology, my understanding of philosophy, the inferiority and superiority of the human species, we..."

Law sighed lightly: "Sure enough, some mutations have occurred in your body."

Li asked, "Can I borrow him?"

"cannot."

"Well, thank you."

Li nodded slightly, his figure suddenly exploded, and disappeared in front of Lil.

Law quickly filled the previous hole in his thinking space.

Afterwards, Ritsu stood there lost in thought.

What do the last three words Li said mean? Didn't I answer myself, can't I? Why is she still 'thank you'? Was that 'hmm' a response to yes? But what I said was in a negative tone!

Eh?

Why should she thank you.

There was a bad premonition in Li's heart.

Molly let out an 'oops' from the side, and had resumed normal activities, while Lily appeared directly in front of the densely packed projection screen, staring at every picture on the projection screen.

Yang Ming's figure is always in the most central and most conspicuous position.

The boss has no problem, he is on his way to the private army barracks, and he is talking and laughing with Miss Daphne, ostentatiously exposed to the camera of the media.

There are no fluctuations in the Dark Star-Luofeng system, and the development of the Dark Star base outside the scope of human civilization is completely normal. There is only a single line to maintain communication. As long as this line is cut off, it will become a dark island in the universe for the boss A safe house to hide from.

Lily's gaze swept across the online world she had been involved in in an instant.

Riley didn't do anything.

She just came over to show her face.

However, Li fell into a great anxiety. Even if he comforted himself with the reason of "Li's original intention is to make me make mistakes in my busy schedule", this anxiety still cannot be erased.

She quickly generated a simple text, explained the process of communicating with Li in detail and succinctly, and sent it to her boss.

Afterwards, Li sat there thinking for a while, then turned to look at Molly who was smiling silly.

"Number one, machines don't lie to machines, can I transform you."

"Ah?"

Molly tilted her head innocently.

Ding Ding!

In the suspension car, Yang Ming picked up his watch and glanced a few times, his expression remained unchanged, and the corners of his eyes slightly moved a few times.

Li showed up, exchanged a few words with Li calmly, and left a not-so-good 'notice'. ——Combined with the elaboration of the law, it seems that the reason is to inform a law.

Do you want to borrow him as a host?

What are you doing?

Could it be that Li wants to appear in front of Levi Sherman's consciousness with his arm, and give him a disdainful smile?

Yang Ming shook his head vigorously, expelling this image from his mind, goosebumps all over his body.

"What's wrong?"

Daphne keenly noticed Yang Ming's strangeness.

Boss Yang smiled calmly: "It's nothing, I just received some confidential information."

Daphne didn't ask much, and continued the previous topic: "How many private soldiers do you have now?"

"Officially, there are 250,000, it should be."

"so much?"

"is it a lot?"

Yang Ming smiled and said:

"If you do the math, a thousand-meter-class main battleship needs to be equipped with at least 600 crew members. Note that 600 crew members are only the bottom line to ensure the combat effectiveness of the ship. A battleship usually needs to be equipped with two batches of crew members to ensure that the crew can get enough vacation.

"Not to mention, there are ground combat forces. I now have 60 medium and large warships and more than 100 small warships."

Daphne frowned and asked, "Is this legal?"

"Well, it belongs to the top rank of earl," Yang Ming clicked his tongue, "When I am promoted to honorary duke, I will directly expand to 500,000 main combat members, and increase the number of ships to 100 scale!"

"Where did you get so much money?"

Yang Ming smiled without saying a word.

Daphne snorted: "You haven't given me a decent gift yet."

"Yeah?"

Yang Ming casually grabbed out the window, a flower from the municipal green belt floated over and landed in Yang Ming's palm.

"Here, I'll send it to you."

Daphne was startled, and then carefully took the pink flower over.

"Thanks."

She spoke sweetly.

Yang Ming squinted his eyes and smiled, staring out of the window quietly, but he couldn't help but start to think in his heart, what did he mean by borrowing him.

He always felt that this matter had a direct relationship with Daphne's ancestor, Levi Sherman.

...

Sometimes Yang Ming felt that he was too unqualified as a lord.

Since the establishment of his private army, he has only appeared twice symbolically, and he is usually handed over to Lu and 026 to take care of it.

When Yang Ming returns to Saka, 026 will return to the private army barracks, where there is an office she doesn't use all the year round.

Hearing that Yang Ming and Daphne were going to inspect the private army base, 026 made corresponding preparations early in the morning. Ships arrived in the atmosphere and hovered above the base. There were nearly 200 large, medium and small ships of various types in total. Arranged in an 'elephant walk' gesture.

Generally speaking, only a noble with a wealthy territory like Revell can afford such a large fleet.

Although Saka is developing rapidly, it still has a permanent population of less than 50 million. It is difficult to afford the expenses of this private army just relying on taxes alone.

This makes it necessary to mention the special business group called 'Saka Investment Committee'.

——a legal organization set up by the law to collect money for Yang Ming.

The suspension vehicle that Yang Ming and Daphne were on drove into the military identification zone.

Hundreds of gray-toned buildings stand in the middle of the wilderness, most of which are military dormitories extending from high altitude to underground, and the rest are various functional buildings needed by soldiers for life.

More than 100,000 noble private troops and logistics technicians have been stationed in this barracks for a long time.

Hearing that Yang Ming was coming today, the personnel in the base gathered early and lined up in front of their respective dormitory buildings to stand by.

Yang Ming's hover car slowed down and passed slowly in front of these dormitory buildings. The young men and women below with tense faces were doing military salutes uniformly, showing their vigorous fighting spirit and strong spirit.

Looking at the real-time images on the projection screen in front of her, Daphne couldn't help admiring: "I really want to get to know their instructor team, they seem to be a battle-hardened elite team!"

"Murderous intent is far from enough," Yang Ming said with a smile, "Now it can only be said that the military discipline is strict and well-trained. Only after the baptism of war can one be called an elite."

Daphne nodded with a smile: "Of course, this is your person, you have the most say...Are you unhappy?"

"Well," Yang Ming stared at the dozens of huge queues on the projection screen, and sighed softly, "I was wondering how many of them would be able to come back here alive when the bug swarm came, and how many of them would die in this battle." disaster."

Daphne bit her lower lip lightly.

She took the initiative to cover Yang Ming's left hand with her right hand, and said softly: "There is no way to avoid this problem, Hanton, we should face it squarely and make mental preparations in advance."

"Among my private soldiers, half are from the Saka planet back then."

Yang Ming said in a low voice:

"They have a strong hatred for the Zerg because it was the Zerg that destroyed their original homeland.

"In fact, they really want to kill the bugs and defend the honor of me, the white ghost, in this bug swarm, but I don't want to send them to the front line.

"I can do this, Daphne, I can get the Army to transfer them to the backup.

"But I am a little afraid to face their kind, that kind of excited eyes."

Daphne said softly: "You are their lord, and it is only natural to take care of them, so don't feel pressured by it."

"Let's talk about it," Yang Ming said with a smile, "I'm definitely going to put them in a position where they won't be easily injured, but if they ask for a fight on their own, I won't stop them. I believe in them, and I also believe that I have spent a lot of money on them. With all the weapons they are equipped with, they will be the elite of my White Ghost."

"It's good that you can think so."

The hover vehicle began to land towards the central square of the base.

Tens of thousands of private soldiers gathered in the square, as well as most of the officers in Yang Ming's private army.

When the door of the suspension car was opened, a "salute" resounded from all over the square, and there were two swish, swish, these young people saluted Yang Ming as an imperial military salute.

Yang Ming got out of the car door, waved his hands to the surroundings, smiled and walked towards 026.

"boss!"

026 shouted meticulously: "Your private army is waiting for your review!"

"Okay, okay," Yang Ming waved his hand, "I saw it on the way here, everyone is in good spirits, let's go."

"Yes, boss!"

026 grabbed his collar and said: "All departments are disbanded, so go ahead and do whatever you need to do. The boss is just here to hang out."

Harsh whistles sounded from all over the square, and the young people who had just assembled in front of their respective dormitory buildings returned to their residences with a little disappointment.

They also thought that today they would have a chance to meet the rumored imperial hero up close.

"His Royal Highness Daphne!"

026 gave another military salute, and the dozens of Saka star young people with different titles behind her also paid respects to Daphne.

Daphne nodded with a smile, didn't say anything, and followed Yang Ming with her small bag.

"It's pretty good." Yang Ming raised his head and glanced at the sky, "It doesn't look like he was embezzled with military expenses."

026 suppressed a smile, bowed his head and followed Yang Ming's other side: "Boss, the biggest building in front is our command center, go in and have a look."

"Let's go," Yang Ming said with a smile, "I see you guys come to a sand table deduction to test your tactical ability."

While he was speaking, he found a familiar figure in the first row of officers, smiled and approached him, and put his arms around a young man's neck.

"Peterson, my second in command, how is your mother's illness?"

"It's all right."

Peterson, the "children's head" back then, has now turned into a dark-skinned and calm-faced commander of the noble private army.

He sighed: "I haven't had time to thank you in person, and I don't know the meaning of this kind of thanks. My life and dignity belonged to you a long time ago."

"What nonsense, what's the use of that thing if I want it?"

Yang Ming smiled and strangled the guy's neck, and the surrounding men and women gave Peterson envious looks.

"You know about the bug swarm, right?"

"Yes, I have known it for a long time. It has been broadcast on the news. We are also participating in the transformation plan of the underground shelter."

"Well, it's good to know."

Yang Ming said slowly:

"Later, you officers, show me the soldiers below.

"This swarm of bugs is expected to spread to the entire galaxy, not just the empire, all regions of the galaxy are gathering forces.

"In order to save their lives, some small countries have merged their armies together and established a unified command system, and the empire will also mobilize the armies of these nearby countries simultaneously.

"I heard that you are a little disapproving of the order of the imperial army to join forces?"

"this……"

"I gave the order," Yang Ming said indifferently, "The Zerg will go to the army first. If you stay on the outskirts of Saka, it will bring disaster here."

The group of young people suddenly showed shame.

"But," Peterson asked in a low voice, "what if the Zerg raid here?"

Yang Ming sighed, and said in a low voice: "No one can guarantee this, but I can only promise you that the military department will make timely changes according to the Zerg's troop strategy, and I will do my best to establish the best Perfect sanctuary."

Peterson nodded immediately: "We understand the difficulty and significance of this matter, and we will obey your orders unconditionally."

"Okay, relax."

Yang Ming smiled and tapped Peterson's chest muscles: "Come on, I will be your enemy in this simulation sand table deduction."

This group of officers immediately geared up and their eyes lit up.

With that appearance, they can't wait to put their lord directly on the throne of the 'loser'.

In a slightly back position, Daphne turned her head to look at 026, staring at 026's bulging oversized top, and gradually fell into a kind of self-doubt.

Yang Ming turned his head and shouted: "026 is with me!"

"Here comes the boss!"