After more than two months following the conclusion of the great battle, Yang Ming has been in a state of idleness.

Daphne came here with the cell group for a round before leaving.

They agreed to Yang Ming's request and started constructing a temporary equipment management center on Saka Star, which will take a few more months to complete.

—This is also a means to control Yang Ming.

Yang Ming doesn't mind this at all.

He clearly understands which weighs heavier between a completely controlled force and personal strength.

The current situation of the Sherman Empire is not very clear.

After the great battle, although no alliance was formed between the three major powers, they have now fully united. The number of fleets and ships amassed on the New Federation's front line gathers the elite forces of the three major powers.

The logic of this is simple.

Everyone knows that the Empire is difficult to offend, but having already offended them, they have no choice but to go all the way.

Besides garrisoning near the New Federation border, the three major powers also mobilized many ships to the Empire's busier trade routes, making the Empire feel a 'tangible pressure.'

Political and diplomatic skirmishes play out every day, with netizens and water armies from both camps clashing constantly.

These two months have been extremely lively off the battlefield, yet the battlefield remains quiet and peaceful.

Both sides have already laid out their conditions for a ceasefire.

The Empire's ceasefire conditions are rather stringent, demanding the New Federation publicly acknowledge that the bug planting plan, the gas bomb incident, and the collective assassination were orchestrated by them, and severely punish the involved politicians and participants, pay double the previous war indemnities that remain unsettled, and allow the Empire to garrison on twelve stars of the New Federation border for ten years.

The three major powers' ceasefire conditions are actually reasonable, only requiring the Empire to withdraw from the New Federation border, cancel the last war indemnities, apologize to the New Federation citizens, and return the plundered New Federation citizens to their original residences.

However, the Empire does not want to agree.

In Yang Ming's view, the Empire cannot agree.

If the Empire softens, the strong tyrant image it has built over the years will be ruined.

This image is the moat of the Empire's ruling foundation, and once breached, the three major powers, through ideological and democratic propaganda, would directly infiltrate the Empire's interior. The New Federation would ramp up efforts to launch revolutionary democratic movements to topple the Empire, quickly leading to chaos within the Empire.

The entire human civilization in the Milky Way must know and believe that the Imperial Army is invincible.

This is the way of survival for the Empire.

The current situation is that the three major powers hold the initiative, and the Empire is now somewhat stuck.

What does Yang Ming think?

Yang Ming watches with delight.

This situation couldn't be better for him.

Although Wind is once again facing heavy pressure from the Empire, they have indeed secured six months and secretly completed the expansion of the Wind Alliance, establishing a resource transportation channel between the Nonar United Kingdom and the Luofeng Empire.

Now, the military strength of the Wind Alliance has also been 'brutally' boosted to some extent.

Wind's national defense fleet has expanded to six, with the sixth defense fleet composed of the Dark Star Fleet, shrouded in mystery on regular days, and promoted as Wind's ace force.

The armies of other countries in the Wind Alliance have completed initial integration and streamlining, also forming six fleets. Although their combat prowess is somewhat 'miscellaneous,' they are still adept at safeguarding trade routes and maintaining peace within the Nonar United Kingdom.

At this point, the Wind Alliance has twenty-six administrative stars, a population exceeding 4.2 billion, and if all kinds of miscellaneous ships are counted, they can assemble two combat groups.

This has become a force that cannot be ignored in the region.

However, this is only the surface strength of Wind.

The real trump card is Dark Star, which had its restrictions lifted by Yang Ming.

The 'civilization volume' increase of mechanical civilization is dozens to hundreds of times that of human civilization.

Moreover, once a mechanical civilization forms a scale advantage, it only needs to find enough resources, and it can rapidly and comprehensively self-replicate on multiple fronts.

When a mechanical civilization wants to root on a planet, it doesn't need to modify the planet's atmosphere or increase the concentration of certain gases; it only needs to detect, explore, determine value, dig a base, establish covert routes, expand production lines, and start adapting 'proliferation.'

Yang Ming himself feels uneasy because of the rapid enhancement in strength.

If this thing bursts out of control, human civilization in the Milky Way could be jeopardized.

The Milky Way possesses vast, undeveloped star domains; Dark Star has incomparable development potential; now Yang Ming ponders how to restrain this force, making it cohabit peacefully with humans.

Yang Ming already has a plan.

Once "Faya's Game" ends, he plans to sneak off with Dark Star to complete a dimensional elevation of civilization, avoiding any impact on current human life in the Milky Way.

Dark Star has already started taking on experimental projects from the Faya people, laying the foundation for future dimensional elevation.

From the assassination incident to this moment, these crucial six months have given Yang Ming more confidence and enabled Wind to slightly step out of its previous dire predicament.

Unfortunately, the Imperial crackdown on Wind has restarted.

Mentioning this, Yang Ming is filled with anger.

The evil Sherman Empire truly has no moral bottom line.

Even though Wind has shown no signs of rebellion, they are labeled traitors; while the Empire battles the New Federation, Wind officially contributes money and manpower, sending its elite fleets—the first and second defense fleets, led by Gudun Mah—to hold the line for the Empire on the New Federation border.

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