A day later, Ye Ming summoned Liana and Hall to his office.

According to the usual practice, as long as Ye Ming stays in one place for more than a week, then he should be equipped with a temporary office that is as fully functional as possible - now that he has been here for more than a month, the office will naturally be configured long ago.

It's just that compared to the earth and the moon, which he often goes to, the configuration here is a little lower, but even so, He Mo has arranged it for him properly, and it can be regarded as the largest, brightest, and most fully functional in the entire Sky City.

In this, there is naturally her careful thinking.

Ye Ming left, won't this office become hers?

"You may be seated."

Ye Ming walked to the sofa, looked at the top of his head after bowing his head slightly, and the exposed large projection equipment made him a little worried about whether it would fall off: "This thing won't fall off?" ”

"Don't worry, the base is welded to death, unless the whole slab falls." He Mo looked back at Hall while making tea and said with a smile: "Sir Hall, the floor slab won't fall, right?" ”

Hall's expression was indifferent, and he just glanced at the ceiling lightly: "Although the use of steel by human beings has not yet reached the limit, it is impossible to worry about the steel structure falling off after heat treatment. ”

Liana touched Hall lightly.

Of course, she knew that Ye Ming and He Mo made this joke at this time to make the scene not seem so embarrassing and heavy.

After all...... The two of them, today are going to see with their own eyes how humans defeated them. And they, a year ago, were the masters of this place, the heads of an all-out war with humanity!

"Well, it's just uncomfortable to look at, when will I hang the top."

Ye Ming cocked Erlang's legs, and then raised his wrist to take a look.

"Aita, start the projection and access the command center combat star map."

"Roger, hostile civilization observation object detected, clearance confirmed...... Authorized, start accessing the signal. ”

As Aita's voice fell, a curtain of light descended instantly, unfolding a three-dimensional star map above the coffee table. On the star map, countless bits of light have converged.

Hall's pupils narrowed for a moment, and he realized that the location of the human star map was the 32712 galaxy outside Base 32.

At this time, the human warships were already converging outside the stargate, forming an hourglass-shaped defensive formation.

"How are you going to attack?" Hall looked up at Ye Ming: "Still use ultra-high-speed warships to penetrate the defense and then release the missile cluster?" Or is it to unleash that ghost missile? ”

The ghost particle was the most advanced weapon that Ye Ming personally told him about the last time the human race wiped out their thousands of warships.

It's advanced to ...... The Imperial side can't even detect it!

In order to know what it was, he was willing to stay, otherwise he would die without an eye.

Now, humanity ...... It should be repeated, after all, this is the way to fight with the least loss.

Liana, by contrast, was a little calmer, but she also stared at the starlight on the star chart.

She knew that this time, the Empire had dispatched its most powerful Star Destroyer Array—a weapon that, when combined, was powerful enough to destroy a planet, and when attacked, could seal the entire stargate.

Therefore, she also wants to know how humans can break through the past.

"Well, since you've emptied all of our probe ships before, we'll send probes over first."

Ye Ming glanced at the time again and put on the headphones.

- Showing off the strength of human beings to these two does not mean that everything is shown to these two people, listen.

After a moment, he frowned slightly, and looked at Hall with a slight surprise: "What other weapons do you have?" ”

Hall was a little confused, glanced at Liana, and then turned his head to look back at Ye Ming: "What do you mean?" ”

"As soon as our hypervelocity spacecraft passed through the stargate, they were wiped out by you." Ye Ming said with a puzzled expression: "It stands to reason that you shouldn't have such powerful firepower...... You'll be able to blow up the defenses of our antimatter scouts unless you're constantly salvoking stargates with massive warships. ”

"Chief Ye, have you considered it, in fact, we have such an ability." Although Hall couldn't guess what method the legion used to intercept the human exploration spacecraft, according to what Ye Ming said, with unlimited continuous attacks from the main cannon, it could indeed destroy all the matter that came out of the star gate.

"Well, okay...... It seems that there is no way to give you a live situation. Ye Ming shook his head with a smile on his face.

Hall's pupils shrank again, and he said in a deep voice, "What do you mean?" ”

"It means that there is no way to do a visual display of the battlefield." Ye Ming picked up the teacup, blew the tea foam lightly and took a sip, and after putting down the teacup, he pushed the teacup in front of the two of them in front of the two: "Then we have to wait for the news." ”

"What's the news? You guys...... How to attack? Hall didn't blink his eyes, and looked at Ye Ming through the star map.

"Send ghost particles over with ultra-high-density curvature missiles."

"How do you send it?"

"Deliver it directly." After finishing speaking, Ye Ming pressed the earphones, and after listening for a few seconds, he smiled slightly: "This time, three of them were sent at once, and all of them were cleared - I hope your battleship can hold up for a while." ”

Hall stared at Ye Ming deadly, he inhaled deeply, and clenched his hands hard: "Can you...... Say the principle? ”

"Of course—I actually told you a few months ago—that we've mastered the techniques of ascending and lowering matter, and we've combined the two."

"You can understand it as ......" Ye Ming pondered for a second and then continued to explain: "We put a huge bunch of energy and control centers into a proton-sized piece of matter, and this atom can be used to empty the entire airspace in a broadcast manner according to our will, with a displacement speed that exceeds the speed of light—it is driven by curvature. ”

When Liana heard this, her hands and feet were cold.

A controlled proton!

What kind of technology is this?!

No wonder Ye Ming would let them observe the battle situation without any scruples!

But then, Hall's voice rang out: "We can't detect the curvature fluctuation of the size of a proton, but if it's a broadcast displacement, it will definitely cause a curvature wave." ”

"Yes, you can detect waves of curvature. But it didn't work, you couldn't react. ”

"So how does it achieve the attack? A proton ...... How to attack? It can even penetrate most substances directly! And even if it encounters a battleship...... That little curvature could not have caused such powerful destruction and collapse of matter! ”

Hall was still staring at Ye Ming, his mind was full of fireworks from the beginning.

It could never have been caused by a single proton.

"Yes." Ye Ming nodded again, like an extremely patient teacher: "So, the moment it comes into contact with the set atom, it will release powerful electromagnetic energy - you can understand that it is a condensed version of the main cannon that can be controlled or a bomb that explodes in the core of the spaceship." ”

Hall's pupils shrank to the extreme in an instant!

"This ...... How can it be? ”

"How...... Implement? ”

"I'm sorry, I really can't explain how to make it happen." Ye Ming shook his head with a smile: "And I can tell you that you are a big step behind us in both theory and technology, even if I tell you how to achieve it...... It's also unlikely that you'll be able to complete it in a short period of time. ”

"He Mo, take some snacks, let's talk while eating, we may have to wait for an hour or two here."

……

Ye Ming knocked on the melon seeds while "trying" to chat with the two.

But it was clear that neither Hall nor Liana were all on the conversation, and they kept looking at the star map—the human warship on it was still not moving.

This means that humans have a lot of confidence in the ghost particles they release.

And this kind of confidence also means...... The Imperial fleet, located behind the Stargate, is being attacked by unknown weapons.

Suddenly, Ye Ming's expression moved, he touched the earphones again, and then a smile rose on his face: "It seems that your defense is not very good." ”

Hall, who had been worried in his heart, immediately took a sharp breath: "What do you mean?" ”

"Meaning, our probe has passed."

Ye Ming raised his hand and pointed at the star map, and after a while, the star map disappeared, followed by a red light in the sky.

- No, not red light, but countless dense and innumerable red dots converged into a light, illuminating the entire office red.

In the upper right corner of the star chart, a number is constantly rising.

3879，3879，3880……

Looking at the numbers, Hall's heart instantly fell to the bottom, he pointed to the numbers, and said in a trembling voice: "This is ...... Destroyed battleships? ”

"To be precise, it's a comparison based on existing records, which isn't entirely accurate, but it's not much different."

Hall's face turned pale in an instant.

He turned his head to look at Liana, and saw that Liana's expression was the same, and her eyes were full of deep despair.

Ye Ming put down the melon seeds, got up slowly, and looked at the pair of fallen mandarin ducks condescendingly.

"As you have seen, the Empire has no qualifications or strength to bargain with us."

"But we still want peace, because ...... The resources of the entire universe are limited. ”

"When these resources are used for war, then they are used for people's livelihood. And in this universe, there are still so many lives and civilizations in the stage of ignorance and backwardness......"

"As a high-level civilization, one should not turn a blind eye."

"That's the biggest difference between us and you."

Hall and Liana looked up at Ye Ming.

Ye Ming's expression was serious: "I don't know if your civilization has a turning point in history, but we do—I hope you can have it." ”

"Now, this universe, your civilization, has reached a turning point."

"You have the choice of whether you want your race in the empire to completely move towards the opposite side of civilization, or to enter a new order and become a real civilization."

After finishing speaking, Ye Ming slowly walked out of the office and gave the two of them time to think.

Although Ye Ming left, He Mo was still there.

It's just that He Mo didn't bother the two, she was like Ye Ming's secretary at this moment, only responsible for serving tea and water to the two, and eating all kinds of snacks comfortably on the side by the way.

And she had a great time.

Because...... The two men were visibly in a state of deep shock and fear, followed by endless silence.

In silence, Liana stared at the beating number, closing her eyes as it rose to five figures.

Then, she opened her eyes and looked at He Mo.

"Can I contact that side?"

"Yes." He Mo nodded casually.

Liana inhaled hard, then pulled open the bag that Gloria had given her.

Looking at this handbag, the corners of He Mo's mouth curled up slightly - Ai Wen knew that she was preparing a P gift, and this bag was hers! And I just bought it, and I didn't even carry it once.

*

"It seems that the battle is going well."

In the office of the Foreign Affairs Office next door, Director Xia looked at Ye Ming, who pushed the door in, and got up with a smile to greet him.

She is engaged in diplomatic work, although diplomacy is inseparable from war, but she herself is not familiar with combat or anything, and she doesn't like it very much, so she simply drinks tea and waits for the result.

"Well, in fact, the empire has no power to fight back now." Ye Ming walked to the sofa next to him and sat down, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and at the same time, his face rose with emotion: "The next thing is how the imperial people decide their fate." ”

Director Xia nodded approvingly.

She is always engaged in diplomacy, and she knows that a civilization like the Empire, whose sphere of influence covers the entire habitable zone of the universe, is the most difficult to deal with.

If we follow the system of conquest, then it is very likely that it will cause turmoil and disaster to the entire universe in the future.

That's why human beings use so many means against a limited number of imperial people—or inducement, or coercion, or influence.

The aim was to deal with the future of the empire as "peacefully" and "influently" as possible.

Razing the Empire's sphere of influence into ruins, smashing all the Empire's warships to pieces, and leaving the entire universe covered in wreckage...... That is not in line with the logic of human governance of the future universe.

In addition, how to decide the fate of the people of the empire is also a headache - the current moral level of human beings, the biggest thing that can be done is to make the people of the empire become second-class citizens under human rule.

After all, it is only normal for the people of the Empire, a defeated race that has been characterized by humanity as an "evil force", to be called second-class citizens—compared to what the Empire has done, humanity has been a great gift to them.

And then there's exile.

But exile is often there in China, and in reality...... It's so hard to implement.

With a population of tens of billions of people in the empire, it is a big trouble to be completely exiled, not to mention how to settle them.

Therefore, after many considerations, the top of the human race finally decided to let the Imperial people "choose" their fate by themselves.

Human beings, on the other hand, will ultimately decide their fate according to their choices.