Author: Back to business

The voices of the old people's stories gradually faded away.

Yang Ming sat on the sofa in the corner of the 'cafe' - this gathering place functioned similarly to a coffee shop - and remained stunned for four or five minutes without making any movement.

Outside the window, the square of the underground city, illuminated by simulated sky light sources, looks like a real clear sky on the surface.

Pedestrians come and go, busy and full.

The Dominguez people here seem to be able to maintain a positive and healthy mentality, and the neatly arranged buildings in the distance reflect the orderly life here.

Yang Ming raised his hand and pinched his nose, continuing to think deeply.

Labrador is currently obtaining intelligence by 'invading Dominguez's supercomputer and server'.

While Yang Ming was talking to these old people, classmate Xiao Lu had already completed the work that Labrador had not finished yet, and sorted out a "story outline" for Yang Ming.

"law?"

Yang Ming called softly.

The dial of his watch turned slightly, and Lu's bust appeared quietly. Then a hidden earphone popped out from the corner of the watch, and Yang Ming inserted it into his ear.

"Boss, Labrador's robot is nearby, we should be careful."

Yang Ming smiled and said: "Don't you think this artificial intelligence can't be put on the stage?"

"But boss," Lu replied seriously, "what you taught me is to despise strategically and value tactically. No matter how useless an enemy is, they are also enemies. We must treat them with caution."

"You also heard the chat here. Please help me summarize it. My mind is a little confused right now."

"Okay boss, this matter starts from the Big Bang... well, from the initial reclamation of Domingos Planet..."

According to the information currently collected by Lu, according to the rumors and records of the ancestors of Domingos Planet, probably thousands of years ago, the ancestors of Domingos Planet came from a spacecraft named "Civilization Reconstruction".

Glitch descended on the planet and became the pioneer of Planet Domingos.

This sounds like a very ordinary space adventure story.

But actually, this is a lie.

According to the information decrypted by Law, Domingos Planet was an abandoned resource planet more than 16,200 years ago. Due to the harsh environment, it was barely habitable and was once used as a penal colony for the empire.

Later, due to internal changes in the empire - some border turmoil, or border changes caused by a long period of time, Dominguez Planet, a penal colony of little value, gradually disappeared from the empire's map data. The empire no longer sent exiled criminals here.

This place has also become a 'paradise' that is isolated from the world, has no ability to travel through space, and is excluded from pan-galactic human civilization.

The Imperial people who were once exiled here completed the first reclamation of this planet. Using the equipment left behind by the former Imperial garrison, they gradually changed the planet's climate, making the planet's atmosphere suitable for human survival, and gradually became a planet.

Less habitable star.

Then, about 7,000 galactic years ago, a spacecraft called "Civilization Reconstruction" landed, and the armed forces that rushed out from it took over the place.

The historical information organized according to law can roughly restore the original events of that year.

"It was like a pirate gang plundering and massacring a small political body."

Then, within a few hundred years, this planet became a paradise for black market trade and pirates.

As time progressed, the concept of Domingos was born. The planet had its own history and culture, and the Domingos nation gradually formed.

This is the origin of the Domingos Nation.

"In other words, the ancestors of the Domingos were interstellar pirates and criminals exiled from the empire."

"Yes, boss, if calculated in terms of numbers, the Imperials have an absolute advantage; from the perspective of the national genetic map, there is no problem in thinking that the Domingos are the descendants of the Imperials 16,000 years ago."

"Is Li Li's appearance here related to those imperial people who were exiled here?"

"Well, I just got a little information. This underground city is relatively close to the upper level. The information stored in the database only contains a few words."

Lu groaned a few times and said quickly:

"About the 'Goddess of Reason and Wisdom', the earliest date can be traced back to 740 years ago.

"The Dominguez people encountered some development bottlenecks at that time. They had already established a country, but they were completely unable to resist when faced with the huge mouth of international capital. The country was about to become a dumping ground for international capital.

"The goddess of reason and wisdom appeared for the first time before the head of government of the Domingos."

Lu's voice paused for a moment, and his accent also changed a bit, like an old scholar reading a book, chewing words:

"She is like a true god who descended from the sky and came from illusion. She has a mature and beautiful appearance and pure and innocent eyes. She has given us the technology that allows us to survive in the dangerous capital war.

"This is the original historical record I found.

“What is certain is that in the beginning, it was this ‘goddess’ who gave the Dominguez people a batch of technologies through the Internet, barely allowing Domingos to retain its own capital market.

"Since then, the goddess of reason and wisdom has been secretly helping the Domingos develop.

"And the existence of this goddess has been kept as a secret by the leaders of the Dominguez people.

“It wasn’t until the Tree of Life was established that the goddess was officially ‘deified’, and then the Domingos tragedy broke out, and this goddess became the religious belief of the Domingos people.”

More than 740 galactic years ago...

Yang Ming always felt that this number seemed a bit familiar.

Yang Ming's mind turned around and he suddenly asked: "Lu, what happened to the empire more than 740 years ago?"

"New Calendar Reform, Boss."

New calendar reform?

Ah, yes, the Imperial New Calendar.

Yang Ming suddenly realized.

It is now the 738th year of the Empire's New Calendar, which was exactly 740 years ago. There was some turmoil within the Empire.

According to the imperial history textbook, the New Calendar Reform successfully imposed constraints on the imperial power and turned the imperial power into a rein for the imperial nobility. After the New Calendar Reform, the basic rights of the people of the empire were protected. This was the reason why civil rights affected the imperial power.

Directly reflected.

Lu laughed: "Boss, I suddenly have a bold guess."

"What guess?"

"The goddess here is Li. To be precise, it should be the second form of Li. The Li that Domingos believes in is quite obviously different from the Li that serves as the empire's entire defense system.

"Li is guarding something here, and this mission does not directly conflict with the mission given to Li by Levi Sherman."

Lu smiled and said:

"Boss, we might as well go to the city deeper underground.

"If this is really the case, then there must be a clone of Li here, a clone of Li that is not imprisoned. We may be able to get a lot of information from her.

"Or, here we can get the path of how to help Li get out of trouble and let Li in turn help us."

Yang Ming's heart skipped a beat.

However, Boss Yang turned his head and looked out the window.

"Lu, the empire doesn't know this, right?" Yang Ming asked.

Law quick answer:

"Yes, boss, the information has been hidden. These underground city clusters were quickly built after the Domingos tragedy. Although the empire knew about it, it did not interfere considering the panic of the Domingos people.

“The empire didn’t know that the Domingos had built such a large city complex underground and fed such a large population.

"There is also a BUG here."

"BUG?"

"Yes."

Lu smiled and said:

"Either, this underground city group has extremely high protection technology and can avoid the detection of warships that frequently appear outside the Domingos planet.

"Either the imperial warships exploring here have suffered some kind of impact, causing their detection instruments to be unable to produce valid data.

"I think it's most likely the latter.

"This is also an important basis for me to conclude that there is a clone of the second form of reason here."

Yang Ming nodded, picked up the refreshing drink and took a sip, thinking about where to start next.

Yang Ming asked: "What did Labrador investigate?"

"He just broke through the core database of this layer," Lu said softly. "Obviously, the tool library he has is also very limited. He is not yet proficient in using unconventional communication methods. These should be restricted by the empire.

its own technology.”

"How about we take advantage of it?"

Yang Ming's eyes flashed with a cunning light.

"If you go and investigate directly, it's easy to get the answer, so why don't you let Labrador do it?

"Behind Labrador is the elite power group of the empire. In a sense, it can threaten Li. Only by letting the two of them conflict can we really make a profit."

"Boss," Lu reminded, "Labrador cannot be Li's opponent, even if he is Li's clone."
To be continued...