Abyss Solo

Chapter 75: 045 Start Not Speaking of Martial Virtue_2

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“What are the two factions?”

“You’d better take some notes.”

Yang Ming spoke slowly,

“The Imperial Conservative Party, staunch supporters of the Emperor, advocate maintaining the status quo.

“The Imperial Reformists, supported by ministers and external capital, want to complete reforms on the Luofeng Empire to reduce the Sherman Empire’s exploitation and control over here.

“Outside the royal family, two forces have formed against it. One is the Liberal Revolutionary Party, which has been suppressed by the royalty many times. Their goal is to start a revolution to overthrow the monarchy, backed by major capital from the New Federation.

“The other is the New Industrial Union, a complex capitalist force, and the one we find easier to approach. It’s our next phase target to integrate with.”

Kolev counted on his fingers, “Conservative Party, Reformists, Revolutionary Party, Union, that’s only four… Oh, these four are already headache-inducing! What is the fifth?”

“The military.”

Yang Ming clicked his tongue,

“According to current intelligence, even the royalty has to watch their moods.

“They are led by a few old men in the army who only serve their own interests and don’t care who actually runs the country. As long as they have enough military funding, and we don’t touch their business, it’s enough.”

“The military has businesses?”

Kolev pondered for a while,

“Don’t blame me for dampening your spirits, Yang Ming, but under circumstances like these, how will you acquire a planet? It’s nearly impossible. Even the most barren planets are seen as fat meat by these vampires.”

Yang Ming smiled, “Do you know why I chose to develop here?”

Kolev cooperatively asked, “Why?”

“Developed, developing, and undeveloped habitable planets are all occupied by major forces. I cannot afford to spend the short five years on interstellar exploration and finding new habitable planets.”

Yang Ming quickly fiddled with the dial,

“Here, officials are corrupt and transfer assets, capable residents have already left, leaving those forced to stay, feeling hopeless.

“If we find the opportunity, through business or other means, even by getting a title and fief here, occupying a barren administrative star, it would be easy to win people’s hearts. With the current Milky Way’s average civilization level of 2.35, as long as I can gain control of this planet, I can smoothly complete the first stage of objectives.

“Everything is to smoothly pass the assessment.”

Kolev was silent for a while, using his brain, which had left the factory seventy-three years ago, to analyze the information Yang Ming provided.

Soon, Kolev agreed with Yang Ming’s point, “You’re right. For you at the present stage, coming here is the best platform.”

“Of course,” Yang Ming smiled mysteriously, “I also have a backup plan.”

“What plan?”

“Those three Relic Administrators, a little convenience they gave me during the tomb patrol assessment, or rather, a small bug.”

Yang Ming squinted and smiled, “Who says a first-rank civilization can only be a carbon-based life form’s civilization?”

“This!”

“You’re planning an Intelligent Machine crisis!”

Kolev hurriedly covered his mouth, looking at Yang Ming with shock, whispering,

“If this gets exposed, I’m sure over ten Dreadnoughts would show up on your doorstep with full firepower aimed at your planet!”

Yang Ming shrugged, “Don’t be hasty, Uncle Haton, I have a well-thought-out plan, so our priority is to acquire a regular administrative star. If that’s not possible, then we go for a Resource Star.”

“Stick with the first plan! Trust me! We can definitely manage the intricacies here!”

Kolev said firmly.

Yang Ming smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Uncle. There are many parameters involved to pass the assessment smoothly.”

He opened his watch, took a screenshot of a particular interface, and pushed the screenshot in front of Kolev.

Oh, what is this?

A silver-white box appeared before Kolev’s eyes, with two browsing tabs at the top left, labeled [Personal Attributes] and [Affiliated Civilization]. The screenshot content was under the [Affiliated Civilization] tab.

Behind ‘Affiliated Civilization’ was the word ‘none.’

‘Possessed Administrative Star’ and ‘Comprehensive Development Index’ both showed ‘0.’

Below the comprehensive index were four sections:

Technology, Humanities, Education, Military.

The technology section included innovative applications, basic theories, military technology, civilian patents; the humanities section included culture, entertainment, Thought Body happiness index, residents’ sense of belonging, etc.

Without exception, all options showed zero.

“How is it? Isn’t it clear at a glance?” Yang Ming said with a smile, “I made it with Lyu, it visually reflects all the data.”

Kolev asked in a low voice, “What about personal attributes? Can you satisfy an old man’s curiosity?”

“No,” Yang Ming said seriously, “I don’t want to affect the uncle-nephew relationship between us.”

“Give me a break,” Kolev slammed the steering wheel, “I don’t want to know!”

Ding ding!

The virtual image of Lyu popped up on the hovering car’s control panel.

“Boss, we have a problem.”

“Speak,” Yang Ming quickly adjusted his expression.

Lyu immediately said, “I’ve found, the last location that woman appeared was in one of the military fleets in the airspace near this planet. She was knocked out and taken in; it doesn’t look too promising.”

“Is her identity clear?”

“Not yet; suspected to be related to the royalty… Should I invade their military network? Their firewall is pretty outdated, filled with various spies’ little tricks.”

Yang Ming thought for a moment, “This increases the risk of exposure.”

Lyu grumbled, “Boss, you need to have more trust in me!”

“Don’t I trust you?”

“Ability, I mean in terms of ability,” Lyu changed his tone, “and, what I mean by trouble isn’t referring to that.”

On the projection screen appeared a three-dimensional navigation map, first showing seven or eight red markers, then the markers quickly zoomed in, switching to real-time camera footage.

Each red dot represented a black-painted hovercar, and from the ‘military’ license plate, this convoy obviously had significant backing.

The conversation Lyu captured made Yang Ming and Kolev’s expressions subtly change.

It was the work communication between two middle-aged men:

“…Yes, sir, we’ve locked on to the target. They’ve rented a car and are heading to the city center.”

“Don’t let them approach the city center, try not to cause any commotion.”

“I understand, once we catch up, we’ll immediately stop them.”

“Make sure to search carefully, if you suspect they have any problems, use any means necessary to make them talk… or rather, do you get what I mean? It’s the General’s orders, I can’t mess it up, at least not without results.”

“Don’t worry, sir, I know what to do. Even if the chip isn’t on them, they must be spies from an enemy country.”

“Alright, leave it to you, and make sure to do it cleanly.”

Zzz.

The call ended.

Yang Ming and Kolev exchanged glances.

Kolev muttered with a frown, “They really have foresight; we’re much more terrifying than spies.”

Yang Ming raised his hand to rub his temples.

His brilliant plan, was it going to be aborted before it even started?

Chip? What chip? What was the situation with that woman?

Yang Ming’s thoughts became a bit scattered.

“Boss, they’ll intercept you in about twelve minutes,” Lyu reminded, “I suggest abandoning the operation here. The converter can directly teleport you back to the ship.”

Kolev’s expression looked a bit panicked.

“I can’t leave my old partner,” Yang Ming chose without hesitation.

This made Kolev grin widely.

Yang Ming thought briefly, his expression becoming a bit more vicious,

“Dammit, I originally wanted to play nice with them, but they chose to be unreasonable first.

“Invade! Lyu, I’m giving you access to all the intelligence-gathering tools, just like they said, do it cleanly; get everything out of them!”

“I don’t want to come here for nothing, at least get some benefits.”

“Yes, boss!”

Lyu saluted, changing from a youthful outfit to a military green strapless dress, her legs wrapped in black stockings, with a beret on her head.

“Combat mode activated!”

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