Interstellar leader

Richter waved his hand, and the dreamlike blue spot of light disappeared.The blinding white lights turned on, illuminating the laboratory like eternal day. "The full-scale attack has begun, and the empire has sent us a request for a truce."

"I don't know about it." Li Qing said.

"Of course, I directly refused." Richter raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth raised a smile that was not smiling. "Thanks to the good show you played at Rockefeller, you directly wiped out [-]% of the empire's fleet. Now that they have no resistance, why do we have to stop the war?"

"Good show?" Li Qing felt the long-lost anger quietly burning in his heart. "You call this a good show?"

"Why not? Haha..." Richter laughed.At the same time, Li Qing's smart bracelet vibrated a few times, and the face of Admiral Ackerman appeared on the interface projected in midair. His expression seemed relaxed for a long time.

"Isaac, go to the Third Legion to help. They encountered trouble in the Casta galaxy. The satellite array outside the central star could not be defeated, but was pointed at by the ground forces."

"Yes." Li Qing replied and closed the call interface.He picked up the military jacket hanging by the door and gave Richter a cold look.The latter seemed unaware, and then teased in a frivolous tone: "Why, my angel is going to kill again? Oh——I can see the resistance in your heart, but you are very skilled in doing it. Thinking in the cabin, thousands of young lives were lost."

He came over and leaned against the door, blocking Li Qing's way, with that weird, cold smile still on his face. "You say you don't want to kill, and you don't want the power of God, but you ask yourself, when you make two starships crash into each other like a marionette, when you cut off the lifeline of others with your hand, in the blink of an eye You changed the outcome of a war and even the entire history in just a short time, do you have the desire to be above all sentient beings?"

"Get out of the way." Li Qing wanted to push him away, but stopped because of his next words.

"You have, at the moment the starship explodes. Humans are ugly, so there will be wars, famines, exploitation, injustice... You like to see humans disappear, flesh and blood explode with the possibility of evil, and the universe is cleansed , So pure, I know you like this. You love everything that is true and beautiful, how can something like human beings that always have a dark side get into your eyes?"

"I am human."

"You're not anymore."

Li Qing pushed him aside forcefully, and he hit the edge of the console and made a dull sound.The black-haired young man immediately touched the button on the screen beside the door, and when the sliding door of the laboratory closed behind him, Richter yelled at him through the crack of the door: "Li Qing!"

The young man's bottomless black pupils shrank suddenly when he heard this name.How did he know his name?Richter seems to be omniscient, no secrets can be hidden from his eyes, and he also has the ability to enter the dimension of thinking.He is not human, but what is he?

"Admit it, Li Qing, you hate humans." Richter's voice continued to sound in his mind, with a bewitching meaning. "If I could give you a new world, a clean, pure, free universe, without killing, without sin—"

Li Qing cut off their thought connection, and left that place quickly.Richter then opened the door, but didn't chase after him. He just leaned against the wall and watched the tall figure go away.His stiff smile stayed on his face, and he whispered softly: "I have chosen for so long, I can't be wrong..."

Li Qing's starship found the Third Legion's fleet outside the Casta galaxy, half of which did not go to battle at all, and were quietly parked in space, and the other half returned from a tentative attack, and several slightly larger warships were hanged. Lots of minor injuries.

After his small passenger ship docked with the command ship of the Third Legion "Goddess of Victory", Li Qing just opened the hatch and fell into a strong bear hug.

"Old man, ahem...let me go!"

The struggle was futile, and the old man started to grab his face again. "Yo, haven't seen you for a few months and still gain weight?"

Gaining weight... Li Qing has nothing to say, since his weight has not changed to the nearest decimal point since the genetic transition.He lowered his voice and said to his grandfather who was still scratching his face: "Everyone is watching, I don't want to lose face?"

The old man rolled his eyes. "What face do you have, boy? I trained you like a dog at the beginning, but now you have the rank of major general and dare to challenge grandpa?"

"Don't dare." Li Qing has nothing to do with this old man. "Stop it, I'm here to help, not to be slapped in the face by you."

Under the shocked eyes of several subordinates, the old man finally returned to normal. The gray-haired lieutenant general still looked dignified when he was serious. "Isaac, I think you already understand our predicament."

"The satellite array of the Casta Central Star." Li Qing spread his five fingers and turned his wrist. The galaxy model in the sky was enlarged with his movements and adjusted to a suitable area. "It's very precise. It deserves to be the planet with the most outstanding defense in the empire. It controls the super information center of the entire battlefield."

"If possible, we don't want to attack this galaxy." The old man explained: "The empire lost [-]% of its space fleet in Rockefeller last time, and the remaining [-]% ​​have all been concentrated around the imperial capital, forming a tight defensive circle. We To capture every galaxy, you have to face only their air and space forces and ground forces. However, you also know..."

"The satellite array of the empire has done a very good job." Li Qing commented.

"Yes. As long as the enemy fleet is close to [-] kilometers around the planet, we can achieve precise strikes. Beyond this distance, we cannot accurately strike the ground to even [-] square kilometers. The conventional attack in the past was to send Small starships or space planes destroy satellites one by one, but now this method does not work."

Lord Lancelot sighed. "Casta's satellite array is so precise that even something as small as an aerospace plane will be detected and attacked by it in the first place."

The few remaining staff members also stared at the satellite array suspended in mid-air with grimaces. It looked very beautiful, with golden five-pointed stars representing satellites orbiting in graceful arcs.It is the guardian of this planet, and it is also a sky eye. Li Qing felt that this weak consciousness was looking at him.

"All personnel are in place according to the combat plan, ready to land." All the people present opened their eyes wide in surprise, looking at the young senior general, a staff officer hurriedly said: "Sorry, Major General, but we haven't discussed how to destroy— —”

"Give me an optical computer." They heard the handsome black-haired young man say calmly. "In 10 minutes, I'll paralyze them all."

"How do I do this?" the staff officer muttered, and was elbowed by a beautiful female officer next to him. "Can you shut up?" she said in a low voice. "If you know how to do it, you will be the youngest major general instead of him."

The staff officer flattened his mouth aggrievedly, and whispered, "Lia, you don't love me anymore, do you think I'm ugly when you see him..."

"There are many men who are more handsome than you, get out and get ready."

Li Qing, who has excellent hearing: "..." Sure enough, Mr. Doubi's direct subordinates are all Doubi, and he shouldn't have any expectations of these people.

When the entire fleet was ready and parked at the nearest safe distance from Casta Central Star, Li Qing sat in front of the optical computer, quickly opened several interfaces with his slender and flexible fingers, and input a series of commands to the system.Looking at his actions, the old man only recognized one of the pages as the battlefield calculation system, and he had never seen the rest.

The young man stared intently at the screen in front of him. Lines of code flowed out from his hands, and the rhythm of his fingers touching the desktop had a wonderful sense of rhythm.Everyone thought he was hacking into the satellite array's information system, but he wasn't.The optical brain is just a cover, he handed over the control of his hands to instinct, but the real him has already entered another world, the world with only thinking.

He floats in the deep space of the universe, where there is no speed of light, no gravity, and no space-time. With a thought, he circles around the satellite array of this planet.Each one exudes a faint silvery white light, and is entangled by micro-connected silver threads. He can see the connection between them, and he can also hear the faint signal.

It was a vague and small voice, without words, only a faint trace of emotion.Li Qing listened carefully. He had never thought that machines could speak. They were of the same intelligence, but very obscure and fuzzy, like an immature fetus in a mother's womb.Young, but their existence cannot be ignored.

It turns out that machines also have life.Li Qing got a little closer, and the emotion of the satellite array became a little clearer, it was afraid and trembling.

He originally thought that only humans, animals, and advanced AI made by humans were the only intelligent beings. He didn't expect that a satellite array would actually have its own independent consciousness.Richter's words sounded in his mind again: You have not yet understood the nature of life and intelligence, you just take it for granted based on previous experience to judge what has life and what does not.

Pulling himself back on track from his wandering thoughts, Li Qing said softly to the satellite array: "Sorry." He stared at the silver lines extending from them, and drew a circle around a satellite with his fingers, Wherever they went, these lines of thinking were all broken, turning into light spots and disappearing into the dark background.

He heard the thin screams coming from the depths of the other side, like the helpless sobs of a child being tortured.He continued his work, and after a while, everything fell silent, and these mechanical consciousnesses were completely obliterated.From the perspective of the outside world, they just stopped searching and continued to run along the established orbit silently. However, in Li Qing's field of vision, the beautiful ribbons that originally surrounded the shining silver brilliance of the planet had disappeared. The location was already dark and dead silent.

"It's done." Li Qing stopped what he was doing, turned off the interface, and didn't look at what he had subconsciously programmed.He quickly jumped down from the operating platform, and said to several senior officers who were stunned aside: "Let's attack."

"Ah?" Those officers were a little dazed. "Then that... the satellite array is solved?"

"They are just a pile of waste materials now. What was your original plan, I will not mix it up. Now attack according to the original landing plan, and don't give the ground troops time to react. Casta, as an imperial military research base, is of great importance Doubt, be careful not to hurt the communication center, research center and warehouse here, what we want is not a wasteland."