Abyss Solo

The girl's logic is flawed, that much is set in stone.

Yet, similarly, neither Yang Ming nor Lyu could determine Li's condition, nor could they know the extent of Li's limits. They were indeed manipulated by Li's informational advantage, leading to perpetual passivity.

This is the dilemma brought about by information asymmetry.

Now, Yang Ming had already probed, Li's desired experiment had reached its final step, and they could indeed have an open and frank conversation.

It's time to lay the cards on the table, time to name one's price.

Constantly being led by the nose by Li, Boss Yang found it quite irritating in itself.

—Also, because of the non-stop development of Dark Star, he now had the qualifications to be frustrated with them. If it were two years ago, he would still have to admit defeat, for the hero recognizes the times.

The three-dimensional projector in the room turned slightly, and the figures of Li and Lyu appeared at two corners of the room.

Lyu stood behind Yang Ming, dressed in a Wind Army clerical suit, calmly folding her arms.

Li still dressed as a twin-tailed girl, seemingly having specially changed her "skin" for today's ceremony, with a slightly cute black dress paired with white knee-high socks, making her look like a sprite popped out of some manga.

Unfortunately, this is a sprite holding the "Milky Way nuclear bomb" fuse.

"What do you want to talk about?"

Li's gaze fell through the narrow glass of the lounge onto the young woman lying in the operating room.

"You've already touched my bottom line several times, Ming."

Yang Ming said, "I also don't know what to talk to you about."

Li frowned, looking at the young man in front of her: "What do you mean?"

"Li," Yang Ming sighed, "I don't know how to talk about these things with you, but I still have to ask clearly... Whose Thought Body is about to be downloaded?"

Li said indifferently, "I've said many times, it's Levi's Thought Body."

"Can I communicate with him now?" Yang Ming asked softly.

Li countered, "If he were to awaken at this moment, could our plan still proceed?"

"Then can Lyu check the state of Levi's Thought Body?"

"I can't give Lyu the opportunity to control the Sherman Empire's ultimate weapon force."

"Is that so?"

Yang Ming suddenly laughed:

"But aren't our goals aligned?

"We want to destroy this Empire, you want revenge for Levi's imprisonment, revenge for the Empire continuously casting its disgusting aura on you, I want to at least make the Empire split and dismember.

"Would taking on some related risks affect this goal?"

Li remained silent.

Yang Ming said with a smile, "Or is it that your true intention is not this, but merely to trick me into helping you achieve these conditions?"

Li closed her eyes, refusing to answer.

Yang Ming was in no hurry, casually summoned a lounge chair, placed it in the center of the lounge, and sat down, crossing his legs.

Yang Ming said, "I've actually always wanted to know, what is your true purpose? In fact, I even had some rather bold thoughts, like... you are not Li, you are Levi disguising as Li."

The girl Li laughed slightly, opening her eyes to look at Yang Ming: "Your imagination amazes me."

"This is actually quite reasonable," Yang Ming said indifferently, "Our cooperation this time started before the White Ghost declaration, you arranged an Energy-Gathering Bomb, directed me, sending me from the Emperor Star to the Guel Alliance, throughout the process, you never proved your identity."

"How should I prove my identity further?"

The girl Li's tone was filled with incomprehension:

"My existence, Lyu can sense, we are Mechanical Thought Bodies, this cannot be faked.

"Lyu and I are the most unique existence in the Milky Way."

"No," Yang Ming suddenly laughed, "Besides you and Lyu, there are many other Mechanical Thought Bodies, like the Dark Star members personally transformed by Lyu."

The girl Li said indifferently, "Are they worthy of comparison with us?"

"How about Lingxin then?"

"Lingxin?" The girl Li slightly frowned.

Snap.

Yang Ming snapped his fingers, and behind the girl Li, another projector started working.

A pale blue emerged quietly, as if a jar of blue paint had been poured into a clear pool, and then the blue halos blooming from it quietly converged, forming a slender long dress, depicting the silhouette of a mature woman, finally condensing into Lingxin's face.

Lingxin quietly watched Li.

Li slightly turned her head. Upon seeing Lingxin's image, she had already discovered Lingxin's presence in the local cybernetwork.

"Yang Ming, what do you intend to do?"

Li's tone had already grown more severe.

Boss Yang, on the contrary, felt more confident.

"Don't be nervous, I'm asking Lingxin to step forward just to resolve these doubts of mine."

Yang Ming spoke unhurriedly:

"Humans have a certain ability that is hard to quantify, and that is intuition.

"Strictly speaking, humans have a small trait of high-dimensional life, that is, they can perform non-time-linear automatic sorting of fragmented information, thus generating various extremely faint supernormal information perceptions.

"In layman's terms, it's my subjective judgment.

"By the way, do you remember when I first communicated with you?"

Li stared at Yang Ming: "Are you testing me? It was when I first kicked Lyu out of the Emperor Star network."

"Do you know?"

Yang Ming's voice softened:

"From that moment, Lyu and I have been under immense pressure, even though Lyu comforted herself by crazily enhancing her computing power, at the core, she was incredibly wary of you, and I developed a fear of you as well.

"Then afterward, you began to display tremendous power, the Imperial Fleet under the Emperor Guard System exhibited immense strength that swept through the Milky Way.