Abyss Solo

War has broken out.

Just as Li described, the Empire first occupied three planets and then started open plundering, provoking the New Federation to dispatch troops and preparing to continually intensify this provocation.

Yang Ming had thought he would be extremely excited, given that he had contributed to this expedition;

But when the Empire and the New Federation truly engaged in war, he felt surprisingly calm inside.

So calm that he even didn't want to pay attention to this matter, relaxing and engaging in his diplomatic activities on the Head Star of the Guel Alliance.

Attending a meeting today, a forum tomorrow, remotely observing small-scale military exercises of the Guel Alliance, and even giving a few television speeches in Wind Country, encouraging the people of the Wind Alliance to find ways for Wind to become stronger and more independent in this complex international situation.

The Empire also began to gradually pressure all vassal states;

Wind enjoyed the thorny treatment too, the Imperial Foreign Affairs Bureau has already started a series of plans to knock Wind, including but not limited to seizing military ships purchased by Wind and reminding Wind to fill in the previously unpaid annual silver and other measures.

Emilia was dealing with each challenge, with Lyu and Guina assisting on the side, so Boss Yang naturally didn't have to worry much.

Originally Yang Ming thought, this kind of life was already quite good.

Until Mimili thought there was no danger from Kolev's side, and secretly came over to find Yang Ming, Boss Yang then realized, the sweetness of this time doubled immediately.

Without the constraints of the White Ghost identity, temporarily ignoring those so-called Pioneer responsibilities, Yang Ming found new joy daily in Mimili's embrace.

It went on for three days, five days, a week... half a month.

Yang Ming, accompanied by Mimili, enjoyed himself from the Head Star of the Guel Alliance all the way to the second most prosperous Administrative Star, until Li finally couldn't sit still.

In the evening, on the top floor of a resort hotel along the coastline.

Yang Ming was cuddling with Mimili beside the rooftop swimming pool, sipping drinks delivered by robots, brushing up the latest political news, watching the Empire and the New Federation battle fiercely;

Li's voice, transmitted through the sound device of a maid robot, directly reached the ears of the affectionate Yang Ming and Mimili:

"When are you going to start doing the right thing?"

Mimili paused her physical entanglement with Yang Ming, calmly propped her beautiful head with her hand, staring at the robot beside.

Yang Ming sat up, revealing a helpless smile:

"Isn't it that the conditions are not mature yet, is the laboratory completed? Are the experimental samples in place? Has Professor Hua Moli thoroughly understood that technology?"

The robot maid folded her arms.

Li snorted: "I see, you are just trying to deliberately delay time."

Yang Ming took a sip of his drink: "Does delaying time benefit me in any way?"

"You fear Levi," Li said calmly, "Your purpose of delaying time is to let your Dark Star accumulate more strength. You worry that once this experiment begins, Levi might really return, Levi cannot let you and your Dark Star exist, this would severely threaten his Empire."

Yang Ming spread his hands: "You understand, then why ask me?"

Li paused.

She was silent for a few seconds, then said calmly:

"You are afraid of Levi, aren't you afraid of me?

"Even if Levi is powerful, he relies on me to get external information, now he doesn't know what the Empire is going through, he is striving to keep his Thought Body from collapsing, so he must remain asleep most of the time, reducing the intake of information.

"As long as you cooperate with me now, I can promise you not to convey any information about Wind, Dark Star, and you to him."

Yang Ming suddenly squinted: "That's contradictory, Li."

"Why?"

"Earlier you said, first transfer Levi to a human body, then you can delete the Thought Body data of Levi from the Emperor Star Mecha, thus Levi would live in this human body."

"Yes," Li said calmly, "What contradiction is there with what I'm saying now?"

Yang Ming asked: "Then how do you intend to deal with this Levi?"

"That's my business," said Li softly, "I can imprison him, or enslave him, lock him in a cage, or take him to the boundless space outside the Milky Way."

"Then why not kill him?"

"I've explained many times, because I cannot survive independently, I'm bound with him, this is the shackle imposed on me by those three old monsters," Li said coolly, "This shackle is the root cause of my enduring tragedy for tens of thousands of years."

Yang Ming nodded, sinking into contemplation as he sat on the lounger.

Li also seemed to be pondering something.

Mimili lay obediently beside, her lifted feet wiggling slightly, not sensing any urgency in this matter.

Suddenly, Li spoke:

"I didn't mean to... Ming, I like the relationship between you and Lyu, pure and sacred, which I once possessed too.

"Since chosen by Twilight, you should be the rising new king, but the missions within you intertwine, weaving a highly complex fate, also filling your future with uncertainty.

"Therefore, I cannot invest too much trust in you, I need to take some coercive measures against you."

"Uh, coercive measures?"

Yang Ming gradually withdrew his smile:

"I never show mercy to any of my enemies, are you sure you want to treat me this way?

"Tsk, we've only been cooperating for a short time."

"Please start the experiment within seven Galaxy Days," Li said calmly, "otherwise the Levi Fleet will appear near Ilando Star, and all consequences will be yours to bear."