Hanton ...... Hanton? ”

"What's wrong?"

Yang Wei looked up at Lieutenant General Thomas on the side.

Thomas smiled: "Seeing that you are preoccupied, are you worried?" ”

Yang Wei said with a smile: "I just heard that there may be traitor generals in our rear who have been bought by the new federation, and we are worried about the infiltration of our army by the new federation." ”

"Don't worry, I just found out, it was a misunderstanding."

Lieutenant General Thomas said slowly:

"It seems that he is the supreme commander of the Falling Wind Empire, he has been close to the CIA before, and has received a lot of benefits from the CIA, but after the last battle of Ellandor, he has drawn a line with the new Federation.

"I just got the news a few minutes ago, it's back to normal, and this matter won't be publicized."

"That's good."

Yang Wei sneered in his heart.

When the purpose is achieved over there, it will return to normal.

He wanted to explode a few foul words, but the scene was not quite suitable, so he just suppressed his emotions at the moment and continued to watch the intelligence video played in front of him to prepare for the military meeting later.

A text message came from the watch.

[Ready.] 】

This style should be that the law has returned to normal.

This mechanical thinking body has some almost incredible abilities?

Yang Wei crossed these thoughts in his heart, and crushed these thoughts with some irritability, forcing himself to stay calm and continue to listen to these generals make tactical deductions.

Two galactic hours later.

Yang Wei returned to his rest cabin, and after closing the door, his whole body seemed to have lost all his strength, leaning against the alloy door, and did not move for a long time, until the watch vibrated continuously.

Yang Wei fumbled around the edge of the watch a few times, turned on the shielding film, and a hidden earphone popped up on the edge of the watch and hung it in his ear.

"Boss, I'm back."

Ritsu's voice was a little tired: "I'm sorry, Ri deliberately trapped me so that I couldn't interfere in what happened in the Falling Wind Empire. ”

"How do you interfere, this is an unsolvable problem," Yang Wei said in a low voice, "The fault is that there is not enough time, the fault is that we are weak, and the fault is that we are still struggling in this whirlpool and failed to jump out early...... How about Amilia? ”

Ritsu said softly: "The mood is fluctuating, and she has been sent outside the palace." ”

"Tell me what you learned from your contact with Li."

"Yes."

The voice of the law is a little more agile:

"The gain is quite large, she has put me to the limit of the stress test, and if I touch what she left behind before this upgrade, I will only have one result, which is to be assimilated by her.

"Fortunately, we are on an equal footing.

"I could feel her pain and how much she longed for Levi Sherman as a human being...... She's probably not going to betray Levy.

But I carefully calculated, and under her loyalty, there were also emotions such as anger, helplessness, and bitterness.

"There is room for implementation in the plan we have set before, but only if we find a logical chain of how to make reason determine that betraying the Empire is not the same as betraying Levi Sherman."

Yang Wei walked back to the desk, looked at the starry sky outside the oval porthole, and slowly sat back in his seat.

"Ritsu, if you were here before, is there any way you can save Edwan?"

"Directly announcing the reform of the wind is the only way to save Edwang, and the condition is that it ...... There is a 95% chance that Falling Wind will be directly attacked militarily by the Empire, thus giving Falling Wind a catastrophe. ”

Yang Wei: ......

Ritsu sighed softly: "Boss, I know you feel very uncomfortable, but this time His Majesty Edwan's sacrifice will fill the last gap in our Falling Wind system, and it can also exchange precious development period for Falling Wind, we only need to ......"

"Go ahead and do it, you don't have to tell me that."

"Boss, sorry ......"

"I don't have any friends anymore, Ril."

Yang Wei opened his mouth, and then just smiled bitterly, his eyes were slightly red, and he hid it again.

"Let the empire weaken in its entirety."

"Yes."

"I want all the lists on the round table of the Sherman family, don't be in a hurry, go and find out slowly."

"Yes."

"Let Lorna live well, and you must live until I go to her."

"The host ......"

"Go ahead, lift all the restrictions of the Dark Star, don't have any doubts, I can bear all the consequences, I can face any tragedy that I directly or indirectly create."

"Hmm."

There was a faint noise coming from the headphones, which was a sign that Ritsu had cut off communication.

Yang Wei quietly stared out the window and didn't move for a long time.

……

Thinking space.

Ritsu grabbed his hair with some annoyance, staring at the back of Yang Wei in a daze at the window on the projection screen in front of him.

"It really is! How did I fall for it! ”

"But, Ritsu," Molly jumped out from the side, "I've calculated how long you've been influenced, and the Shermans' actions, and there's probably some element of coincidence, but it's also possible that Reason is deliberately delaying you through extreme stress tests." ”

"Can I not think of this?"

Ritsu snorted angrily:

"I just don't want my boss to hold a grudge, in that case, the boss will be easily wiped out as a threat, and the power that I and the boss now have can't fight against the Sherman Empire, and I can mobilize all the resources of the Sherman Empire."

Molly sighed helplessly beside her: "However, His Majesty Edwan is so miserable, he obviously just wants to lead his people to live a good life." ”

"The Sherman Empire doesn't know what stupid decisions they have made," Ritsu pouted slightly, "The boss's mentality has changed, in the past, he mostly thought about mixing things up, this is the case for his mission, and this is also true for the empire, many times the boss deliberately uses some so-called bottom lines to cover up the lazy nature in his bones." ”

"It's been recorded."

"You dare!" Ritsu ran past Molly, rubbing her chubby little round face.

"Hey! That's right! Molly shouted, "Why don't we collect His Majesty's data and recreate Edwan's virtual mind!" ”

Ritsu snorted: "Think I didn't think of it? I had been prepared for a long time, and His Majesty Edwan's consciousness had already uploaded the Dark Star Network backup without his knowledge, but now, I can't take this backup out. ”

"Why?"

Molly was a little confused.

Lu thought for a moment and said slowly:

"First, the boss may not be able to face the fact that his best friend has become a smart machine.

"Second, the boss may not be aware that His Majesty Edwan is indeed our breakthrough, he knows almost all of our core secrets, and he is still a human without programmatic constraints, which is full of too much uncertainty.

"Now this breakthrough has been blocked by the Sherman Empire, as long as that intelligent machine fake emperor enters the palace, he will be controlled by us, everything will happen in milliseconds, and his overseers will not be aware of it.

"Third, the death of His Majesty Edwan will become an important event for the real transformation of Fallwind in the future, and we must take advantage of the admiration of the people of Fallwind for Edwang in order to promote Fallwind's future revolution more smoothly."

"Uh, so ruthless."

"We're machines, Molly," Ritsu whispered, "and machines should always be sane and create the best living environment for their masters." ”

Molly whispered, "So, Two, did you deliberately not save Edwan?" ”

"No," Ritsu sighed, "Humans are very complex and unpredictable, but I know the boss's choice, and I will follow the boss's will unconditionally, if I can find a way to save Edward, I will definitely save him." ”

Molly asked incredulously, "Can't you help it?" ”

"The boss is right, the root cause is that we are still too weak at this stage compared to the Sherman Empire."

Hundreds of projection screens appeared in front of his eyes, and these screens kept appearing and disappearing, as if to revisit the previous situation.

"On the day the Falling Wind Alliance was founded, Edwan was already on the path of no return.

That's the price you have to pay for that impatience.

"The next thing we need to do is to make his sacrifice more meaningful and make the Falling Wind Alliance really work...... Moreover, compared to the boss, Emilia is the most uncomfortable now, if Miss Mimilie is free, let her come over and spend a few days with Emilia. ”

"Oh, this ......"

Molly said depressedly:

"My great master is a murderous pirate, not an emotional counselor!"

"It's called multi-purpose, there are so many humans in our small circle."

Molly waved her hand vigorously: "Okay, okay, then I'll withdraw the second first!" I may not have been a little respectful to your boss before, so remember to say a few nice words for me! ”

"Don't worry, the boss can't remember you."

"Well, why don't I feel a little happy," Molly said in frustration.

The little man stepped into the whirlpool on the side and disappeared into Ritsu's thinking space.

Ritsu sighed at the projection screen, lowered her head and began to devote herself to busy work.

Molly is also quite hardworking.

At the very least, during the period when she was entangled by reason, the entire system of Dark Star did not collapse, that is, there were some task blockages, as well as some mechanical thinking body self-cognitive disorders.

……

About a few hours later, Yang Wei received the words 'Intelligent Machinery Has Been Controlled'.

The intelligent machine, which has the exact same appearance as Edwin, has become the offline of Ritsu.

Fake Edwan has already signed some treaties that are not good for Falling Wind and make the Sherman Empire suck blood, but ironically, these treaties that have been signed are only the most leftover part of the contract that Princess Rona gave Edward.

The meaning is obvious.

If Edwan can swallow that humiliating contract, he may actually be put back on the surface, in exchange for the Falling Wind Empire completely reduced to the Empire's blood-pumping pump.

Now that Edwan has been replaced, and various government affairs meetings have been successfully held, the Sherman Empire's Foreign Affairs Bureau feels that the value of Luofeng has returned, and there is no need to directly kill Luofeng, a vassal country that has developed well, and the intensity of blood drawing has suddenly been reduced by nine-tenths, and long-term planning has been restarted.

The arrogant empire refuses to even investigate Emilia's situation, which makes Ritsu's preparations useless.

Edwang's matter was a foregone conclusion, and Yang Wei did not react too violently.

He can only wait, wait for this war to end, and withdraw himself from the front.

The course of this war is not destined to be too fast.

After waiting for nearly ten days after the falling wind incident, the expeditionary force of the Sherman Empire finally made a big move, and in the direction of the main battlefield, six battle clusters were pushed forward at the same time, and the second and third battlefields were opened up on the left and right, which were used to contain the ships and regiments of the three major powers.

This time, the empire gathered 24,000 medium and large warships of various types, including noble private ships and vassal ships.

The three major powers mobilized nearly 30,000 ships, which is an absolute advantage in numbers.

However, a comprehensive comparison of the combat strength of the two sides, including the number of dreadnoughts, the comparison of the firepower and protection capabilities of the main warships, etc., shows that the strength of the two sides is almost a five-to-five situation.

In this case, whoever can pull out more follow-up forces will be able to dominate the battlefield.

Before the war began, the intelligence services of various countries had already begun to clash, and the diplomats of both sides had also started a new round of tearing on the interstellar stage.

The empire seems to be a little more prepared.

Some of the pitch-black fleets that were photographed in succession within the territory of the empire, and the legend of the Levy Ship Regiment began to rise again.

Yang Wei judged that this should be the empire exerting pressure on the three major powers.

When this war is fought, one of the two sides must retreat, otherwise it will have to be a high-intensity war.

Just as before, the Empire and the New Federation tore each other apart, and the Güell Alliance and the United States of Liberty benefited behind the scenes, the large governments in the galaxy, regardless of the distance in space, were only slightly stronger, and they were waiting for the four rogues of the galaxy to lose at this moment.

Under normal circumstances, such a war is bound to have one side to retreat. - The alliance of the three great powers has no covenant loyalty to speak of.

But the trend and trend of the war are completely out of the normal logic.

Many political commentators with a keen sense of smell have discovered that behind the three great powers, there seems to be a mysterious big hand that forces them to unite against the powerful Sherman.

Either way, the war is about to reignite again.

Soon, a piece of news began to spread wildly inside and outside the empire.

The commander of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, the Hero of the Empire, the White Ghost, is about to make a public speech.

As soon as this news came out, many people thought that this was the empire preparing to retreat and find a step for itself.

Because, the White Ghost is the best person to end this war.

There are even many politicians who have simulated in their minds the content of the White Ghost's speech - he can start from the perspective of a hero, promote anti-war, call on the Galactic human family, and then denounce the new Federation, throw all the blame on the new Federation, and show that the Empire does not want the soldiers to die in vain.

Someone posted a similar post, predicting the content of the White Ghost's speech, which received a lot of attention.

However, what the Galaxy netizens didn't know was that Yang Wei, who was waiting quietly on the bridge of the command ship, was worried about his speech at the moment.

The bridge of the command ship of the photographic ball is being adjusted.

"Hanton."

Thomas pulled Yang Wei aside, sent back the speech that Yang Wei had given before, and said in a low voice: "After everyone's discussion, some of the words in this are too radical. ”

Yang Wei frowned and said, "I'll take a look...... Oh, these have to be changed, right? That's right, it's always bad to swear. ”

Lieutenant General Thomas smiled, raised his hand to pat Yang Wei's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Hanton, I'm very happy, you can stand from the perspective of the army and the honor of soldiers, originally I thought that you would give an anti-war speech to reduce everyone's desire to fight." ”

"General, you know the situation in the country, we actually have no way out."

"Yes Hanton, we must win this war, and we must also defeat the capital ship group of the new Federation, and keep more than sixty percent of our own ships."

Thomas whispered:

"You don't have to worry, we can easily achieve the set goal, the Imperial Guard system has been fully activated at this moment, and the truly invincible ship group of the Empire is already at the jump point.

"What I'm worried about now is that they're going to run away when they see something is wrong.

"Neither the Free States nor the Güell Alliance have brought in real ace ships, and they are obviously reluctant to do much for the new Federation, and this is the strategic point we can grasp next."

"Yes General," Yang Wei nodded vigorously, "I will encourage the Imperial soldiers to fight bravely and move forward!" ”

"Go ahead!"

Thomas's eyes were full of relief.

Yang Wei gave a military salute and turned around and walked to the podium.

The lights in the bridge slowly dimmed, and the levitating ball hit the spotlight to lock on to Yang Wei's figure.

The speech was recorded and then broadcast, and the staff everywhere were relatively relaxed.

Yang Wei gave an imperial military salute, raised his hand to support his military uniform and hat, nodded slightly to the recording director, and a starry sky special effect appeared behind him.

The speech, which later came to be known as the prologue to the three-year war, began to be recorded.

(End of chapter)