Chapter 342: Levi, Li, and Zhimu
Is that enough?
The second test, is it so sloppy?
Yang Ming stood in the building where he had made the choice between the 'mechanical' and 'evolutionary' routes last time. Under his feet was liquid metal with a mercury texture, and in front of him was a growing 'technology tree' with dense branches and leaves.
He was outlining the general scope of the second takeover technology.
Yang Ming doesn't have to worry about omissions, as Lu will fill in and delete them in the later stage to ensure that the entire Dark Star system can get the best and most comprehensive technological combination.
Yang Ming was still thinking at this moment, thinking about the previous conversation with the examiner.
After passing the second test of the Twilight Omnic, Yang Ming talked with the examiner about many topics related to the Faya civilization and told the examiner that he had undertaken the experimental project of the Faya civilization.
"This is a good thing," the examiner said gently, "The Faya civilization is a high-dimensional ruler that spans hundreds of large galaxy clusters. Although their development has encountered a huge bottleneck, they can still decide your fate. Obeying their will is the appropriate way to survive."
Yang Ming asked: "Have they ever accepted the inheritance of the Omnic Twilight?"
"No," the examiner said gently, "We have had contact with them, but they do not agree with the concept of mechanical ascension. They think this civilization has only reached the end of mechanical civilization, not the end of great life civilization."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly.
The examiner gave him some cheat sheets:
“Every Fayya is the product of the collective mind ascending from a civilization in the material universe, but they will be assimilated by the original Fayya people and become pure Fayya individuals.
"There is a core concept in the civilization of the Fayya people. You can follow this concept when dealing with the Fayya people. It may be helpful to communicate with them."
"What concept?"
"The Fayya people believe that life is a special form of existence in the material world. Everything in the universe is equal, from dust to stars. The aggregation of basic particles and quantum tides in an absolute vacuum weave a brilliant universe using possibilities and chance. The universe itself is a miracle, a civilization."
Yang Ming nodded, indicating that he remembered it.
The Fayyad people's concept of nature has something in common with some classical philosophies of his hometown.
Since they were talking about Faya's game, Yang Ming was no longer shy and asked the examiner many questions about how to save the mother planet.
The examiners' answers were rather pessimistic.
The Faya civilization is too powerful for those greenhouse civilizations.
The rules cannot be changed, and the Faya civilization will not allow him to excessively interfere with Faya's game progress... Yang Ming lowered his head and looked at the lines on his palm, then sighed softly.
Let's move forward.
Maybe, when he becomes the second Levi Sherman, he will be qualified to negotiate with the Fayans.
Yang Ming raised his hand and patted his cheeks to cheer himself up, and began to carefully select the tens of thousands of options in front of him.
Although he had never heard of or seen many of the terms here, let alone understood what they meant, this did not prevent him from looking for the more critical technologies and finding the shortest path to connect these technologies.
Yang Ming's test took about half a month, from entering the twilight sleep of the artificial intelligence to answering the examiner's questions.
It took another two months to select the technology tree and undertake the corresponding technology.
For the past two and a half months, Yang Ming has basically lost contact with the outside world.
However, after Lu cried, made a fuss, and acted like a spoiled child to the examiner, Lu also got a simple "early warning mechanism", which made Yang Ming feel a lot more at ease.
Nowadays, Yang Ming already has a fleet with enough military strength to protect himself, and the examiner did not say this time that he would upgrade the Dongfeng for him or give him a new and powerful ship.
But how could Yang Ming miss such a good opportunity?
If the examiner refuses to give it to him, won’t he be shameless enough to ask for it?
When you are floating in the Milky Way, you are bound to get hurt. But even if you get hurt, the benefits will go into your pocket.
After the law entered the stage of upgrading and inheriting technology, Yang Ming would go to see the examiner whenever he had nothing to do. At the beginning, they were discussing some reliable knowledge and technology, but later the discussion gradually became more diverse, from the artistic level of high-dimensional civilization to the wonderful existence form of two-dimensional civilization.
And every time, every topic will end with 'this ancient god-like life form is too fragile'.
After a while, the examiner became a little annoyed.
"Oh! All right! My dear examinee!"
The examiner raised a big hand and almost covered Yang Ming's mouth.
"You want me to help you upgrade the Dongfeng?"
Yang Ming immediately revealed an innocent, harmless, pure and kind smile and nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
"Do you want a miniature dreadnought?"
The examiner frowned and scolded:
"We have principles! Our principle is not to interfere too much with the current civilization of the Milky Way!
"The Dongfeng is the limit of the attack ship I can give you!
"You already have the technology given to you here. I promise you that as long as you make good use of the technology you have received this time, you can create the second most powerful fleet in the galaxy in the next few decades. Listen, this is just a few decades!
"You're even greedier than that guy Levi!"
Yang Ming spread his hands: "Levi doesn't need to challenge the previous tester of the Omnic Twilight."
"Challenge?" The examiner frowned and looked at Yang Ming, "What do you mean?"
Yang Ming sighed, a series of thoughts quickly running through his mind.
When the Ranger is patrolling the galaxy, he cannot tell any lies. With the high-dimensional technology mastered by these three teachers, any lie he tells will be exposed.
Yang Ming said seriously: "The empire's entire defense system, Senior Lu, she is still serving the Sherman Empire."
The examiner's expression softened and he lowered his head and sighed.
Yang Ming immediately noticed something unusual: "You already knew this, right? So you added some settings to Lu to make her feel more in tune with human society?"
"Have you contacted her?"
Yang Ming briefly recounted the empire's defense system that he had sensed, as well as the "gift" that Lu had found on the Yaha Star server and had never dared to open.
The examiner fell silent.
Yang Ming was not in a hurry either. He realized that he seemed to have grasped the weaknesses of these three teachers.
What exactly happened between Levi Sherman and the omnic Twilight?
"If you can," the examiner whispered, "help that child."
Yang Ming raised his eyebrows slightly: "Help her? What's wrong with her?"
"She was imprisoned. Her fate was even more miserable than the three of us. She longed for freedom so much. When we conceived her, we injected too many genes of freedom consciousness into her."
The examiner sighed softly and a remote control appeared in his hand.
It shook the remote control, and a picture appeared in front of Yang Ming's eyes.
This is Levi Sherman and his mechanical mind.
The young Levi had a handsome face, a thin body, and a pair of light blue eyes that glowed faintly like gemstones, like a prince who had just walked off the stage of a fantasy drama.
Next to Levi, a girl with twin ponytails, her body suspended in mid-air, stared down at Levi's profile.
She had her hands behind her back, a slight smile on her lips, and the soft fabric on her body and her twin ponytails were trembling slightly.
"I have never told you about our past with Levi Sherman, because in our opinion, it was a very cruel and helpless thing. We cannot directly interfere with the material world. This is a principle. Otherwise, the three of us might directly destroy Levi Sherman, a despicable human being."
The examiner sighed softly:
"Before Levi Sherman was examined, this cemetery had been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years.
"At that time, the Omnic Twilight still had a disguised shell."
The screen changes again.
An ancient, majestic black equilateral triangular pyramid floats quietly among the bright stars.
Faint flashes appeared in the distant starry sky. The two fleets engaged in fierce firefights were losing men. Dozens of ships exploded one after another. A lifeboat entered a short-range jump orbit and then jumped in front of the triangle.
This was Levi Sherman's first encounter with the omnic Twilight.
"In the beginning, he was kind, wise, had great aspirations, and a desire for power called ambition, and it resonated perfectly with this place."
The examiner
“We thought he was the lucky guy who would end our boring and empty lives.
“He did not disappoint us at first. Carrying the revenge of his father’s murder, he used the technology here and the resources of the noble territories he owned to rise rapidly and began to fight against the corrupt empire.
"After the second test, he acquired all the technologies required for a Level 2 civilization to develop into a Level 3 civilization, including mechanical and biotechnology. He can quickly make up for his technological shortcomings.
“But at this time, because his war with the ancient empire has entered a white-hot stage, he pleaded with us, begging us to open up some of the military technologies in the development stage of the third to fourth level of civilization in advance.
“We shouldn’t have agreed, but under his pleading and support from reason, we ultimately made a mistake, violated our principles, and allowed him to take away some of our high-level military technology.
"He won, overthrew the ancient empire, used his powerful military force to establish a new empire, and began to expand rapidly outward. His fleet was unmatched... It was only then that we realized that we had disrupted the balance of the galaxy and prevented many innocent lives from living out a complete life that could have been complete."
The examiner sighed deeply:
"But these are nothing. His empire can easily reach the third-level civilization, and he can continue to take the assessment.
“This is our selfishness and we have to admit this mistake.
"What we didn't expect was that... after the core area of his empire entered the third-level civilization, when he wanted to come here to take the third assessment, he lost touch with this place, and the perfect resonance disappeared."
Yang Ming frowned slightly: "Is it because he has fallen into self-degradation?"
"The reason should be extremely complicated," the examiner whispered, "Then, he tried thousands of times but was unable to enter here. After getting drunk one time, he angrily ordered the destruction of our outer camouflage."
In the front scene, the two dreadnoughts began to fire continuously, and the triangular pyramid temple turned into cosmic dust.
At the beginning, Levi blocked this place to prevent others from arriving here and becoming his challenger.
But as time went by, and because Levi did not mention the Omnic Twilight to outsiders, the ban here was gradually lifted. After the Empire suffered several power-seizing changes, the Empire's fleet no longer guarded this dust belt of unknown significance.
"Li, is this the name of Levi's companion mechanical mind?"
"Well, it's the law of reason," the examiner sighed, "She had a disagreement with Levi, but because the companion mechanical thinking body must obey the master's orders, it is an iron law that cannot be changed, and reason cannot go against Levi's will."
Yang Ming sighed, but did not express his anger towards Levi.
It is somewhat despicable to try to win the sympathy of the examiner in that way.
"Levi lost the possibility of rapid dimensionality upgrade, so he began to pursue other things to satisfy his increasing pleasure threshold.
“The territory of the Sherman Empire began to expand. Levi’s natural life span was 150 years, and he fought for 120 years.
"When he was near death, he frantically sought ways to make himself live longer, and even wanted to transfer his consciousness to become a mechanical life. However, his throne and supreme imperial power became his shackles. His successor was eager to sit in that position, and Levi's various lifespan experiments were interfered with."
"It can be like this," Yang Ming laughed awkwardly, "What can the emperor do? It's just a different political environment."
“Then the most outrageous thing happened.”
The examiner whispered:
"Levi imprisoned Reason."
"Huh? Why?" Yang Ming wondered, "The companion mechanical thinking body is bound to the host brain. If the host brain dies, the companion mechanical thinking body will inevitably die. Isn't that what you told me?"
"Yes, so I say that Levi is an extremely despicable human being," the examiner narrowed his eyes slightly, "In order to make his empire prosper and to allow his descendants to control Li and continue to be invincible in the galaxy, he carried out a series of plans. He first made Li fall in love with him."
"Fall in love with him?" Yang Ming glared, "What do you mean?"
"It's like, Ritsu is in love with you."
Yang Ming glared and cursed: "Oh my god, he can do this to his own brothers? He doesn't even have a physical body?"
“Is your definition of love a little too narrow?”
The examiner shook his head and continued:
"The three of us don't mind this kind of thing. What we mind is that he took advantage of Li's yearning for love and pushed Li to the brink of collapse. He modified his core agreement and used Li's love for him to create five chains to completely bind Li.
"He locked Li in the core area of the Imperial Star, freezing her mind forever, turning her into a powerful tool without any thoughts, feelings or emotions.
"At the moment when Li was restrained by him, he gave up his last chance to resist, and just smiled bitterly with tears streaming down his cheeks.
"And the existence of reason was also erased by Levi Sherman. All that is known to later generations is that the Empire has a national defense system that can instantly control any network in the Empire."
Yang Ming sighed beside him: "This guy is also quite miserable."
"Well," the examiner whispered, "So, if you have the chance in the future, help her...you are the only one who can help her."
"Unless the entire empire is overthrown."
"Not necessarily. The three of us have noticed before that the constraints of reason are constantly being untied," the examiner said in a deep voice, "This may be related to the abnormal alternation of the top power in the Sherman Empire."
Several question marks popped up in Yang Ming's head.
An abnormal alternation of top power?
That's not the point, the point is...
"So," Yang Ming rubbed his nose embarrassedly, "the combination of Li and the Sherman Empire is really too terrifying. Luofeng is now facing internal and external troubles, and my Dark Star is also on the verge of life and death. What I want to say is... can you give me a special ship that is not that big, but has firepower comparable to that of a dreadnought..."
"cannot."
"No! Teacher, please don't reject me so quickly."
"When you need me, you call me teacher. When you don't need us, you call me old monster. Do you think we don't monitor your complaints?"
"You're invading my privacy!"
"This is your obligation when taking the test!"
"Hey, it's an invasion, my privacy is not a big problem... Teacher, please don't leave, let's continue chatting. Can't we give you the firepower ships? Then can we give you a few flying Henan people? Sublight speed maneuvers can really save lives... If that doesn't work, then shield ships, shield ships will be fine, right? I'm in real danger in the galaxy, and I really need a little warmth from our Omnic Twilight."
At the edge of the dim cemetery, two figures gradually walked away.
The old ones looked helpless, while the young ones were all smiles.
Do you want him to return empty-handed?
Sorry , this really can't be done.
