Interstellar leader

Li Qing relaxed his tense body and sank himself into the chair that could be adjusted automatically.Apart from failure, there is no second possibility, which made him feel relieved.This is the first time when he was sitting in the starship and floating in the vast universe, he didn't have to think about where his parent star was, he didn't have to dodge lasers and electric arcs, and he didn't have to do endless life calculations.

He stretched out his fingers, and quickly tapped a few times on the operating platform in front of him. The surrounding bulkheads slowly became transparent in front of his eyes, leaving only the floor under his feet.The illusion created by the horizon is very wonderful, as if he is only standing on a pure white floor, wandering in the vacuum, exposed to the rays, like a cosmic ghost.

Li Qing closed his eyes, and for the first time since Joerg disappeared, he felt extremely calm.He has nothing now, no home, no concern, no hometown. After 10 minutes, he will have no reputation, no freedom, and no future.

He seemed to have nothing, but he was still thinking, and he let his thoughts wander like ghosts, jumping on the ladder of time and space.He enjoyed this rare freedom and peace, thinking without asking the meaning.

Hundreds of thousands of kilometers passed in a single thought, and he jumped into the transition point behind him, entering a piece of stardust.He watched the nebula begin to split and shrink, and a nucleus formed in the middle, like a seed of life.Fusion begins and a new star is born.

When it entered the main-sequence star stage and evolved three planets, Li Qing recognized that this was the Rockefeller galaxy. He came to the surface of the second planet, and a lush virgin forest had already appeared on its surface.He landed on it, walked, felt connected to something, countless slender silver threads stretched out from his body, and flowed to everything in front of him-green leaves, invisible bacteria, Unremarkable stones, the planets themselves and the stars, everything that is ordered and contains information.

He blinked and saw an ancient starship land here.A woman in a white spacesuit took out a somewhat bulky detector and eagerly waited for the data on the screen.Within a moment she was jumping up in ecstasy.

"We've founded a new colony! (We've found a new colony)"

A man emerged from the starship, staring at the forest in front of him and laughing.None of them saw Li Qing, he seemed to be a transparent person.Li Qing found that most of the silver threads on his body were rushing towards them, and radiating silver threads also appeared on their bodies, spreading out in all directions, connecting with all the surrounding substances.All the matter in the universe forms a huge network map, each silver line is a vector, and densely packed silver lines connect every point.Intelligent life with higher thinking ability is ranked higher in importance, followed by artificial intelligence, and inorganic substances such as stones also have silver threads, although they are few and weak.

Li Qing suddenly understood what these silver threads were.

This is micro-connection.Microconnections are a net, a cosmic web.

When every node disappears, the silver wire will change, but in the end it remains stable in the same pattern. The existence in this universe cannot change this net. It will go down the established trajectory with a stable posture until the life of the universe ends. .

But he can.

He found that he only had vectors pointing to other nodes, and no vector pointing to him.He is a time traveler who exists and does not exist, independent of this universe.He can change the micro-connection, but the micro-connection cannot change him.

"You are not part of this universe, you are not bound by binding, you can control matter with your mind, and you can do things that no other life in this universe can do."

He remembered Richter's words.

"You are the only god in this universe."

"Li Qing." A familiar voice sounded from behind, he turned around, and a phantom stood in front of him, with blond hair and blue eyes, and a gentle smile.

"Richter? No...Jörg," he murmured. "There is no time and no space here. Is this real? Or is it evolution in my head?"

"What do you think is real?" Joerg approached, putting his arms around him.Li Qing thought that his hand would pass through his body like a ghost, but he didn't.He really felt his limbs and temperature. "Is matter real, or mind, or is our existence an illusion?"

Li Qing didn't answer.

"I've already left, to another universe," Jörg said.Li Qing felt the weight in his arms disappearing little by little. "We are the chosen ones. Don't trust Richter, definitely don't trust him."

"We'll see you again, Joel."

"Of course. In front of thinking, you will find that the distance between the two universes is not that far..." Joerg lightly placed a kiss on his lips and disappeared.

Despondently, Li Qing touched his lips with his fingertips, and the heat left by the other person seemed to have not dissipated.He raised his eyes and saw a white light. The Rockefeller star was exploding as a supernova. He could not feel the heat that destroyed everything. The dazzling light could not blind him. All he saw was information, because he had no body, only thoughts.He is in the dimension of microconnections.

With a second thought, he returned to the battlefield, and the time was still at the beginning of the 10 minutes. He saw clusters of silver lines sinking from his body into the people on each starship and the AI ​​in the command system.A wave of his will cut a cluster of silver wires pointing to the Imperial destroyer, the pattern of micro-connections in this space of stars changed, and time began to flow.

"Your Majesty, just now a destroyer went crazy, crashed into their companions, and exploded. It's very strange." Jonathan looked away from his bracelet and glanced at Li Qing vigilantly.

"It's just an accident. All the execution passwords have been changed, and he himself is under our noses, so it is impossible to invade our AI system. He is not a god."

Christopher looked at the young man in the video conference. His appearance had changed a lot, but he could still recognize him at a glance, with his bottomless eyes, and his thinking posture—eyelids drooped, With his fingers crossed on his chin, he seemed indifferent to everything in this world.

Admiration, admiration, love and hatred are mixed and intertwined into a strange emotion, which is disturbing. Chris has been unable to distinguish what kind of emotion it is, just wants to hold him, as if holding a key of fate, and put his talent, mystery And miracles are all in the palm of your hand.Maybe it's not emotion, but an obsession.

"Isaac, 10 minutes is up, have you considered it?" The emperor stretched out his hand to the commander of the enemy country. "Surrender, you have no choice."

"In this case, the only option is to surrender, unless a miracle happens." He heard Li Qing say.This sound sounds a little weird, like a distant faint sound, and it seems to be ringing in the ear.The young man in the image didn't move at all, he was still in that posture with his head down.

Chris shuddered suddenly.Then, he heard Li Qing's cold and calm voice resounding in his mind.

"Then let the miracle happen."

The channels of the command system suddenly became chaotic, and the screams and alarms from different starships rang together, and most of them only lasted for a few seconds before disappearing.The porthole has been automatically filtered and dimmed. Chris turned his head stiffly to look out the window, but he couldn’t see any starships. There were only clusters of lights exploding in his sight, and the [-]D model floating on the podium gradually dimmed. They went out one by one, and after a while there were only a dozen starships left.

Li Qing quickly calculated their importance to the universe, and cut off those silver threads. When the importance of a node is close to zero, its life will automatically come to an end.

He is constantly destroying the shipboard AI on the imperial starship. He doesn't care what happens when the starship loses its systematic management, whether it's an explosion or chaos, whether all the crew members die or survive, he doesn't care.Just as he knew that if he gave the order to fight to the death, the starships of the empire would ruthlessly shoot them all to pieces.

This is war. Since the human beings who started the war have chosen to be barbaric, they should not pray for kindness.

He raised his fingertips, and a silver beam of light extended from it, sinking into the largest mothership. He jumped lightly along the beam of light, and landed in the command cabin.He's standing next to Chris, who can't see him because his body isn't here, his mind is here.

Li Qing stared at the light and was about to cut it off, when he suddenly saw Chris' eyes glued to the projection in front of him, his expression was very complicated, frightened, excited and fascinated were mixed together.He saw his pale lips flutter, like the wings of a dying butterfly.

"Isaac," he said softly.

Li Qing hesitated for a second, only one second, then he broke away from the dimension of thinking and returned to the cockpit of the "Rockefeller".He gasped shallowly and struggled to stand up from the chair, feeling a little exhausted.

There was silence in the communication station, and everyone looked at all this with wide eyes in horror.Li Qing leaned against the wall with a hoarse voice. "What are you doing in a daze, they have already fled, chase after them."

It was already late at this time, Christopher I and Jonathan had already fled, Li Qing looked at the star map, their starship "Keynes the Great" disappeared at the nearest transition point, and could no longer catch up.

But it was useless, the Empire lost the war completely.Their beautiful game was defeated by an impossible miracle. Instead of capturing Rockefeller, hundreds of large starships were damaged instead. The king who fled back to the empire would face a surprise attack from the Federation directly into the imperial capital.

The sharp blade has reached the throat of the empire, and Christopher Windsor is destined to be the last emperor.

"Isaac? What's going on?" A few minutes later, the fleet had already begun to clean up the battlefield, and the Imperial Army on the Western Front of Rockefeller had also withdrawn. Ackerman finally got the news, and his voice sounded on the command channel.

"We won, let's prepare to attack the empire in an all-round way." Li Qing replied succinctly.

"No." Ackerman's voice began to tremble. "I mean what's going on here? What... what kind of power is this?" Li Qing was silent for a moment, until Ackerman's gasping sound became more and more obvious.

"It's not power, it's truth," he finally said.

"Report sir, the battlefield is cleaned up." Sara's voice appeared on the communication channel.Half a second later, she heard the sentence she most wanted to hear every time she played.

"Return."