Interstellar leader

"How did you get in here?" After the arrangements for accepting the surrender were completed, the old man stood at the door of the information center and asked Li Qing. The expression on his face was very curious.

"As a spy, I always know something that you don't." Li Qing replied vaguely.Of course, the old man was not satisfied with this answer, so he continued to ask: "Then why are you not injured?"

"Do you know what the world looks like?"

Mr. Lancelot found this question very abrupt and strange, but he answered it anyway.He pointed to the lush jungle, the endless Hengduan Mountains, the blue sky and the clouds—he pointed to everything around him and said, "Isn't the world like this? Why, mathematics can't satisfy you, you kid started studying philosophy?"

"That's all we observe. The senses are not necessarily real, and definitely not comprehensive."

"Of course." The old man said. "But we have science, which paints a picture of the world as it is."

Li Qing shook his head lightly. "Science is the law summed up by everything we observe. Since our observations are not comprehensive, how can science be inclusive? So, tell me now, do you know what the world looks like?"

"Well, I don't know."

"Then don't ask me why I'm not hurt. There are so many things in this world you don't know about, and chasing them is expensive."

Just now, a lieutenant colonel came over to salute Li Qing and asked him to help restore the intelligent system of this planet.He glanced at the old man again, turned and left.Mr. Lancelot thought about it for a while, and suddenly realized: "This kid, don't talk if you don't want to. He is so mysterious, it made me dizzy!"

Li Qing stripped Casta's central control system from the empire's internal military network, recreated a satellite monitoring system, and connected them to the Republic's star network.When the control here had been completely handed over to the Republic, he received a communication from Major General Yang of the Federation.

"Have you captured Casta?"

"Yes, Jonathan surrendered. I show that you are now parked outside the imperial capital, and fleets are coming from the jump point one after another. Do you want to launch a full-scale attack?" Li Qing asked.

"Yes." Yang looked excited. "You can just go directly from the transition point of Casta to the direction facing the galactic center near the imperial capital, and we can just form a pincer attack in the direction facing away from the galactic center."

"Has all the troops of the empire been concentrated in the capital?" Li Qing asked hesitantly.Yang immediately replied: "Of course, you don't have to worry about ambushes in other places. Besides, we have also checked. They are huddled on that planet and refuse to move a step. But no matter how hard the shell is, it will be smashed one day. Wait for it." Celebrate the victory, my friend, maybe you can celebrate the new year in the imperial capital."

"You mean to leave immediately?" Li Qing frowned slightly, and he opened another window on the optical brain. "I have to report to Admiral Ackerman now—"

"No need." Yang interrupted him. "I've told Ackerman, and he totally agrees with me. Let's not give the Empire a chance to breathe, just attack."

"We are now persuading the empire to surrender, the chance of success will be much higher, why not try?"

Yang froze, and then showed a somewhat bitter smile. "Isaac, you are indeed not a qualified soldier. I should have discovered that all your thinking and decision-making are not based on the interests of the Republic or the alliance of our two countries. I think you have always been free from organizations, groups, and even Outside the country - all your decisions are about choosing the best path for all mankind."

"You disagree with my approach."

"The problem is not here now." Standing on his starship, Yang pointed to the faint light of stars in the low-transparency porthole behind him. "The problem now is that Christopher I will not surrender. I have already spoken to him."

"Let me try it." Li Qing insisted. "Give me 10 minutes."

When both parties agree, the video conference opens.Li Qing stood in the central control room of Planet Casta, looking at the scene opposite.Christopher was sitting in the emperor's office. The pure white complicated imperial clothes were embroidered with gold thread, which matched his already long hair very well.He looked very haggard, his well-groomed hairstyle and clothing could not conceal his thinning cheeks, and there was a black shadow under his eyelids, looking as decadent as this empire that was about to perish.

"Why, are you also here to persuade me to surrender unconditionally?" He chuckled twice, his voice hoarse due to the severe lack of sleep for several days.

"The defeat of the empire is irreversible. What can be saved is the lives of the people of the empire, and their lives depend on your words." Li Qing begged him. "Chris, surrender."

Christopher looked at the man on the screen from a distance of hundreds of light years, and felt in a trance that he had returned to the time when he swore allegiance to him.His expression now is as sincere as before, and his tone is as gentle but firm as before—he has to admit that Isaac Lancelot has a sincere charm, which always makes people involuntarily give trust and agree with him The point is correct.

"Isaac," whispered the Emperor in a hoarse, weary voice, "I hate you."

"I know, it's very natural to hate a spy." Li Qing paused, his fingers tightened tightly on the cold metal edge of the light brain. "But this is not what we are talking about now. We are talking about this war. You have to make the best choice for the people of the empire. Not to mention the tens of thousands of soldiers guarding the imperial capital, you have to think about ordinary people. Being hit by a shell is not a good thing, if we forcefully attack the imperial capital, the casualties of civilians may be tens of millions—"

Chris burst out laughing until a violent cough interrupted his high-pitched laughter. "Ahem... When did I give you the illusion that I care about tens of millions of civilians?"

"You..." Li Qing found sadly that he had nothing to say.Of course he still remembers the tragedy of Yongyao Star, the memory device that stored the activation code of the "corona", carrying the lives of [-] million people, he just watched it being taken away by Chris, and [-] million lives were in his hands. It turned into ashes in front of my eyes.

"I hate your so-called sense of justice and kindness, which are the luxuries that only a darling like you who grew up in the sun can have." Anger and sadness mixed together, making Chris's originally handsome face a little horribly distorted . "This world is inherently unfair. Darkness and filth are its main colors. Let me tell you, even if you save them, no one will be grateful to you. The mob is just scum."

"I don't care about this." Sitting in front of the light brain, Li Qing only felt that his blood was mixed with ice, and the cold and stiffness spread in his body.He knew that there was little hope of persuading him to surrender this time, but Chris' words made him feel even more chilled.

Chris flashes a mocking, icy smile. "Jonathan accepted your persuasion, because he has a family and the same damn kindness as you, but I have nothing."

"You have a daughter, Catherine, she—"

"Whether the empire surrenders or not, is there any difference in her fate? She is just a former princess, but I am very honored that I have lived to this day, at least I can take the charge of the king of subjugation for her."

Li Qing was silent for a long time, and the time passed slowly in the silence until the end of the 10-minute time limit.He looked straight into Chris' eyes and said in a very soft voice, "Please, Chris. I beg you for the tens of billions of people in the imperial capital."

beg him?Violent anger suddenly rose in Christopher's heart.He could abandon him without looking back because of these ants, and now he is begging him in a low voice.

"Do you think I'll say yes?"

The young man just looked at him without saying a word, his black eyes were as deep and calm as ever, suppressing all emotions, making it impossible to see what he was thinking.

"I refuse to surrender," Chris said grimly, before cutting off the video conference.

In another window on the optical brain projection screen, Yang waved at Li Qing. "Failed?" he asked in a positive tone.

"En." Li Qing responded, stood up from the chair, pressed a few times with his right finger on the wrist ring of his left hand, and the operation interface showed a three-dimensional projection in the air in front of him.He clicked on the projection a few times, and Ackerman's voice came. "Are you ready? In this decisive battle, the [-]st, [-]rd, [-]th, and [-]th legions will all be dispatched."

"Understood, carry out the order." Li Qing replied without emotion.He immediately connected his own command system, and ordered to all the officers of the First Legion: "All the space troops are dispatched, equipped with the first and second groups of space and space, and arrive at the Casta galaxy within two hours, from the c1 transition point Sail to the imperial capital with the Third Legion."

Yang quietly observed for a while, waited for him to finish the arrangements, and said in a casual tone: "You seem to be in a bad mood. Why, are you disappointed in him?"

"I'm disappointed in humanity."

"You don't seem to be qualified to say this." Yang chuckled sarcastically. He turned his head and looked at the star outside the porthole, which was particularly dim due to the light filtering effect of the porthole.He draws out his voice, sounding like an old man sighing after all the vicissitudes of life. "I heard that you have not been in the army for a long time, and you have commanded no more than ten battles. Some people have already started calling you "Military God". There are many. The lives of half of the empire's soldiers are in your hands, so what difference does it make to you to kill a few more?"

"It's different." Li Qing said calmly.

"What's the difference?" Yang's tone was not sad, his tone was flat and empty, as if something had been lost in his years of military career, and it didn't match his young face. "This is war, Major General Lancelot. There is no room for morality in war, because it is a complete betrayal of morality."

"The former must be sacrificed, and the latter can have a way out. For me, this is a matter of calculation."

"What?" Yang exclaimed in surprise.

"Making human beings lose the least amount of population after this necessary war and change is over, this is my last insistence on my remaining humanity."

There was a cold and firm light in the young man's dark pupils. He stood upright, his slender and tall body wrapped in a black military uniform, as cold and proud as a cypress tree in deep winter.Yang froze for a moment, then said slowly: "Young man, you think you can save all mankind, but in the end you will find that you can't even save yourself."

"Yang, have you heard a word?"

"what?"

"With great power comes great responsibility."

After Li Qing said this, he cut off the video, and Yang was thinking on the other side of the star network.Lancelot means that he has the ability to surpass all human beings?Has he already cracked that world?Maybe Lancelot will find him soon, because he has the secret of mind transfer in his hands.