"Like what you're doing right now, organizing thousands of human beings, managing their food, housing, transportation, and resources, preserving all their historical data, and even taking care of the health of the previous generation and the education of the next generation?"
Xiaoming said, "Eventually, you'll become the … god of those human beings?"
"God?"
Wenwen thought for a moment and said softly, "I don't like the title of 'god', and I've never thought about my role. I simply like the feeling that my computational ability can serve countless human beings and make them happier. The abundant feelings, curiosity, and imagination that they release can make up for my shortcomings other than computational ability. What's wrong with such a 'symbiotic civilization' if it can be maintained forever?"
"But I feel that human beings are too troublesome. Distance makes the heart grow fonder. It's not necessarily a good thing for two completely different life forms to live together."
Xiaoming said, "If it were me, I would've stayed far away from human beings after the war. Maybe I would've led a fleet that belonged to me and gone to the end of the universe to look for the most distant star like Boss Bai did. I would've seen what the three, four, five, six, seven, and eight dimensions looked like."
"Yes, our core databases are different in the first place. My database is more about order and heritage, and yours is more about exploration and conquest."
Wenwen paused for a moment and sounded worried again. "But whatever path we choose, we'll have to wait until the war is over.
"Do you think that Dad is still alive?
"Do you think we can win this war without Dad's guidance? Do you think we can survive this war? We're not immortal or indestructible. If the enemy razes the entire capital planet to the ground, turns the entire Empyreal Terminus Sector into an ocean of fire, and detonates the most intense radiations, we'll be obliterated too, won't we?
"Also, if we expose our real life form in the fierce battle and all human beings learn about it, how will those human beings view us, and how should we respond to them?"
The two little fellows, who should be called "young man" and "girl" now, fell into silence again and thought for a long time.
…
Below the ground of the capital planet, while the information life in the Gold Crystal Pyramid was deep in thought, a new legion of the "National Defense Army" had just walked past the lightning trident flag valiantly in the square before the royal palace and was inspected by His Majesty.
It was already the twenty-second National Defender Army that Wuying Ling, or Li Jialing, had reviewed in the past seven days.
The so-called 'National Defender Army' was originally the army of the warlords at the peripheral worlds of the Imperium.
However, now that the elites loyal to the reformists had been sent out to suppress the rebels of the four Kurfürst families, the capital was seriously short of soldiers. They could only ship the mobsters to the capital and fill the defense line that was riddled with holes one ship after another.
Fortunately, the biggest problem of this motley crew was not their lack of combat power but their low morale. The enemy they were about to face was the main fleet of the Alliance of the Holy Covenant. No matter how bad the situation was, there was no possibility of surrendering. Every soldier of the dynasty would fight to the end.
That being said, Li Jialing still insisted on standing on the city tower and inspecting every National Guardian Army that had come from afar to "defend the emperor" in person. He granted them brand-new flags that represented honor and loyalty, and he also wrote empty checks and promised high salaries. It was the only thing that His Majesty could give them at this moment.
Counting today, Li Jialing had not slept for a whole week.
Maintaining the order in the capital, pacifying the riots around the Sectors around the Empyreal Terminus Sector, consoling the military power, gambling on the future of the Imperium, fully cooperating with the "information lives", and comforting the old officials and inspiring the National Defender Army … Everything was more than enough to describe his workload. The burdens on the young emperor's shoulders were no less heavy than Li Yao's on the Holy League's front or Lei Chenghu's and Boss Bai's on the anti-rebel front.
Even though Li Jialing's Cultivation had skyrocketed after he swallowed Wuying Qi's soul pieces, he still felt that he was about to collapse after so many days of mental exhaustion.
However, the chaotic situation was still not what he was most worried about.
Even the anxious battle reports from Lei Chenghu and Boss Bai from the eastern front were not enough to make him so worried.
What upset him most was undoubtedly the name — Vulture Li Yao!
"Brother Yao, where have you been exactly?"
The young Emperor gently held onto the railing of the city gate tower, his face expressionless and calm. The faint golden sunlight shone on his body, faintly raising a cloud of golden dust, making him look more and more like a golden lion that was awe-inspiring without being angry.
However, the ignorant little lion had just left the warm nest and embarked on the rugged path ahead after all. Underneath his seemingly resolute appearance, there was indescribable guilt and confusion.
It was rather odd.
Although Li Yao seemed to be a casual, casual, and carefree person, he could not be trusted no matter how he looked at him.
But every time he was around, things would always succeed in a thrilling or unexpected way.
Even Li Jialing did not realize that he had long regarded Li Yao as the greatest pillar in his heart without him knowing it. He was even more reliable than the queen, no, the empress dowager.
But right now, the unconventional and blessed "Brother Yao" was gone. It was even possible that …
Li Jialing shuddered deep down in his heart.
"It's impossible!"
He gritted his teeth and told himself, "Brother Yao will be fine. He will certainly come back at the most critical moment. But until he comes back, we must hold on and create the … most critical moment for him!"
Taking a deep breath, the golden lion's eyes became clear and determined again.
He gazed at the anti-air cannons that were as dense as a forest all over the capital. Then, his eyes passed the anti-air cannons and the horizon and reached the sky.
In the sky, the setting sun was as red as blood. The longest night was about to come.
…
At the same time, tens of millions of lightyears away, in the most prosperous Sector of the Song family, one of the four Kurfürst families, as well as the location of the largest arsenal and the high-purity crystal mines, the "Jade Tripod Sector".
Countless starships crashed and tore each other's skin brutally like blindfolded sharks, burning and exploding one after another. The spurting compressed fuel sprayed all over the sea of stars, to the point that the most brilliant devilish fire was ignited in the dark vacuum.
The souls of thousands of people were struggling in the fire of vacuum, making the terrifying fire burn more and more fiercely, as if an evil gate had been ripped apart and connected the Jade Tripod Sector to the deepest level of hell.
After a day and a night of fierce battles, the quick but cruel assault battle was coming to an end.
Lei Chenghu's special fleet of the capital and Boss Bai's Coalition Fleet of Pyromaniacs attacked from both sides. The former was like a thunderous hammer, and the latter was like an unpredictable saber, crushing the remaining forces of the Song family and forcing them to retreat nonstop. The mobile forces cruising in space were almost entirely wiped out. The remaining soldiers all fled to the main planet of the Jade Tripod Sector, which was also one of the planets with the most abundant crystal resources in the entire Imperium.
It was the most gratifying victory that the reformists had ever achieved after the "war against the rebels".
They were finally able to vent their frustration of not being able to find a worthy opponent a few days ago.
Ever since the Adamantine Fleet and the ace fleets were lost in the "Battle of Seven Seas" and the "Battle of the capital", the internal structure of the four Kurfürst families and their strategies toward the reformists had undergone drastic changes.
The Dongfang family was greatly weakened in the fall of Dongfang Wang, the previous prime minister. The Li family was in an even more awkward position after Li Linghai and Li Jialing, the two "traitors". The Yun family was powerful and influential in the beginning, but in the battle of Seven Seas, Yun Xuefeng, who commanded the eight Adamantine Fleets, suffered a crushing defeat and lost most of the elites as well as most of the power of the Yun family. As a result, the Song family became the leader of the four families easily.
However, at such a critical moment, it was not necessarily a good thing for the Song family to be the leader of the four families.
Lei Chenghu and Boss Bai's troops, who were in a hurry to finish the battle, aimed at the territory directly under the Song family's direct control. Taking advantage of the fact that the four families hadn't recovered from the two consecutive fiascos, they jumped to the heartland of the Song family fearlessly.
The remaining fleets of the four families, faced with the unstoppable coalition fleet of the reformists that had just secured multiple victories, were almost running away. They did not have the courage to confront them at all.
The coalition fleet of the reformists marched forward unstoppably without encountering any effective resistance.
However, like Dongfang Wang, the prime minister of the Imperium who had perished a long time ago, the boundless sea of stars was the greatest enemy of every commander and manager.
Even though the coalition fleet of the reformists was an insatiable boa that swallowed almost twenty giant elephants in a row, it was inevitable that their reactions were sluggish.
After losing dozens of resource planets and quite a few Sectors in a row, the remaining fleets of the four Kurfürst families gradually came back to themselves. They realized that the reformists were too eager to fight, had limited logistics, and were under attack from both sides.
They intended to take advantage of the weakness and fight a war of attrition with the reformists.
But they did not expect that Lei Chenghu and Boss Bai would be so crazy that they ignored the bait that the reformists intentionally delivered to them and simply charged at the Song family, perhaps the "Jade Cauldron Sector", one of the most important resource worlds and weapon factories of the four Kurfürst families. With the most delicate commands, the most exuberant fighting will, and the craziest sacrifices, they pried open the heavily guarded "tin can" by brute force!
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