Chapter 496: Feeling the Breath of War

Cold floor, metal walls, a single bed, plus a small screen, constituted this small room.

Ever since Ye Nan gave Kairisi a hint, Kairisi had hurriedly left in a hovering car, not even sending Ye Nan off.

However, he didn't care. Kairisi left, so he went back by himself. He happened to see the Federal military's recruitment advertisement again, so he joined the Federal military. After training for a few months, he went to the battlefield.

"Ye Nan, they have already manufactured 100,000 robots." Ilis's figure suddenly appeared on the screen, with a smile on her face.

100,000 robots meant that Ilis controlled an army of 100,000. As long as Ilis was willing, she could make these 100,000 robots rebel at any time, turn around and strike, and cause chaos in the Human Federation.

However, what Ilis wanted was not the chaos of the Human Federation, but the complete swallowing of the Human Federation, turning the Human Federation into a member of the Space-Time Empire. This was her goal.

"For you, what does it matter if I pay everything?" Ilis looked at Ye Nan, a ripple passing through her eyes.

Humans often talked about the "seven-year itch." Indeed, the bone-deep love had quietly dissipated, but it left behind a kind of emotion, accompanying her and integrating into life.

Every bit of emotion could be seen everywhere, yet could not be found anywhere. In human terms, this was a plain husband-and-wife relationship.

She was also clear about Ye Nan's goal. She knew that what Ye Nan wanted to do was to rescue Ripley. Although he had never said such words to her face, everyone knew.

However, wanting to rescue Ripley required extremely powerful strength, and swallowing civilizations and developing the Space-Time Empire to a certain height was the only way.

"100,000 robots." Ye Nan's face sank. "I didn't expect their movements to be so slow."

He had thought that under the full-scale manufacturing of Senator Chief Kairisi, the number of robots should be very large. But to Ye Nan's surprise, the total number of robots was only 100,000.

"Could it be that some changes occurred inside?" Ye Nan pondered. The biggest change might be that Kairisi didn't believe in the super-brain, so he didn't intend to pin all his hopes on the super-brain, so the number of robots decreased.

"Ilis, has Kairisi had anything improper recently?" Ye Nan, who couldn't figure it out, sought help from Ilis. After all, he was blind to Kairisi's daily routine, far less understanding than Ilis.

"Improper? That's not the case." Ilis shook her head, and then asked as if she understood something, "Are you suspecting that Kairisi is deliberately not using his full strength?"

"Hmm." Ye Nan nodded, acknowledging Ilis's guess.

"Actually, you don't need to worry." A smile that was hard to fathom appeared on Ilis's face. "In fact, they are not slacking off. On the contrary, they have already used their full strength."

"You probably don't know that three days after you joined the military, Kairisi scattered his family wealth and sought peace with the military, and the military also agreed. So, they are already at odds with each other."

If you only look at the literal meaning, Ilis's words were incoherent. Since they were already at peace, how could they be at odds?

But Ye Nan, who knew the ins and outs of all this, understood completely that what Ilis said was correct.

Admittedly, Kairisi sought peace with the military, and the military also agreed. The matter seemed to have ended, but in reality, this was just the beginning of the storm.

Kairisi, who had lost all his family wealth, had to rely on other consortiums and cooperate with other consortiums. With the super-brain and Peters, he naturally wouldn't have any accidents in the short term. But after a long time, the consortiums he relied on would have some small thoughts. Kairisi, who didn't want to be annexed, could only speed up the progress, manufacture as many robots as possible, form an army, and fight the military to the death.

Only in this way could he take back what belonged to him and master the supreme power of the entire Human Federation, being a true Senator Chief.

And all of this was exactly what Ye Nan had self-directed.

"As for why he only manufactured 100,000 robots in more than half a month, it was entirely because of the early modification of the production line." As she spoke, a playful smile appeared on Ilis's face. "The robot technology of this civilization is very backward. Compared to my Terminators, it's not worth mentioning. So I told them the technology of the Terminators and let them mass-produce Terminators. Although it was only the original model of the Terminators, it was still much stronger than their own robots."

"100,000 Terminators." Ye Nan said in shock. Even in the Space-Time Empire, there was no such quantity of 100,000 Terminators. There were many reasons for this result.

The most important one was that the ore was insufficient. Although the Earth's ore seemed to have a large total amount, in reality, after hundreds of years of rampant mining by humans, much had been consumed. In addition, rebuilding the human home also used up a lot of ore, which led to the number of Terminators being between 20,000 and 30,000.

However, the Human Federation was different. The Human Federation's interstellar mining technology was already very mature. Not only other unmanned planets, but also some meteorites would be captured and then decomposed. It could be said that the universe's ore was inexhaustible. Of course, the premise was that you had this technology.

No need to think, these technologies all came from higher civilizations.

"Given time, the number of Terminators will be even more. Let alone 100,000 Terminators, even a million Terminators, ten million Terminators, it's not an impossible thing." Ilis clenched her fists and waved them in the air, as if showing off her power.

Even during the time she was in Skynet, there were no ten million Terminators. The main reason was that the ore on Earth was insufficient, and she herself couldn't go to outer planets to mine ore.

"If there was an army of ten million Terminators, wouldn't I be able to sweep the entire galaxy?" Such a thought suddenly popped up in Ye Nan's heart, but then, this thought was extinguished by himself.

Ten million Terminators seemed to be a lot, covering the sky and the earth, but facing the strong ships and cannons of other civilizations, it wouldn't work.

What planet-destroying cannons, what black hole weapons, were all existences that made Ye Nan feel terrified. Let alone ten million Terminators, even a hundred million Terminators wouldn't be enough.

This point, looking at the overwhelming Zerg, was known.

The Zerg opened up battle lines throughout the entire galaxy and confronted the local civilizations of the galaxy. Besides needing time, they were probably also wary of the weapons of the local civilizations of the galaxy.

From ancient times to the present, humans had always pursued deterrent weapons. Nuclear bombs were one of them, the Human Federation's Q-bombs were one of them, the Pan-Galactic Alliance's planet-destroying cannons were one of them, and the legendary black hole weapons were even more so.

This kind of weapon that was enough to cleanse the entire battlefield was probably one of the reasons why the Zerg were wary. Otherwise, with the number of Zerg, where would they let the local civilizations of the galaxy be arrogant?

"However, the number of Zerg is really too many." Ilis, who didn't know what Ye Nan was thinking, continued: "According to the internal data of the Human Federation, the Arachnid Zerg have a full number of one billion."

"One billion." Ye Nan was startled. What was the concept of one billion? One billion was enough to turn the entire planet into an ocean of Zerg. But thinking about the human population on Earth before the end of the world, Ye Nan could understand.

The humans of one world had six billion, so it was no big deal for the Arachnid Zerg to have one billion.

Although he said so, thinking of the number of one billion, Ye Nan shivered. The Arachnid Zerg were not humans. Their bodies were much larger than humans, and they were all combat experts, one against a hundred, which was not a difficult thing. Just thinking about such a large number would scare people to death.

"The Arachnid Zerg are just a small branch of the Zerg. In fact, the real Zerg are confronting several of the most powerful civilizations in the galaxy. That is the main battlefield. This place can at most be considered a position."

As if seeing what Ye Nan was thinking, Ilis hit Ye Nan without hesitation.

"The Zerg have already spread to the entire galaxy. Only a remote civilization like Earth would not have the footprints of the Zerg. But now it seems that the flames of war will soon sweep the entire galaxy."

"According to the Zerg's planning, they will soon open up a battlefield in the solar system to contain us, making us unable to transport ore to those higher civilizations."

Ilis's bright eyes looked at Ye Nan, as if to give Ye Nan infinite encouragement.

"You don't need to provoke me." Ye Nan suddenly laughed. "I just couldn't turn my head for a moment."

He, who often fought alone, had never seen a war between stars. In the wars he had experienced, most of them belonged to civil wars on planets. He had never imagined what a war between civilizations was like, so he joined the military to feel the breath of war.

He didn't even know how powerful his strength was, but he understood that on this kind of battlefield, he didn't need to worry at all. Whether it was the Arachnid Zerg or humans, to him, they were nothing, so he was absolutely safe.

"It's normal not to be able to turn your head. After all, you have never experienced a war between civilizations." Ilis said with a smile, and suddenly, her face became serious. "Wars between civilizations have always used one planet after another as positions. In this kind of war, it is very common to deploy planet-destroying weapons. So it often happens that you occupy a planet, and someone throws a Q-bomb down, causing you heavy losses."

"So we shouldn't care about the gains and losses of one planet after another in the war, and try to disperse?" Ye Nan asked suspiciously, while humbly asking for advice.

Ye Nan didn't understand the war between civilizations, so he sought help from Ilis. "Not ashamed to ask," as the ancestors said.

"Wrong." Ilis directly denied Ye Nan's idea. "It's not like that at all."

"No matter how much you disperse, if someone throws a Q-bomb down, it will still cause you heavy losses. After all, it is very easy to manufacture weapons like Q-bombs." Ilis said somewhat hatefully. "The real war should be a surprise attack on the nest, not caring about the gains and losses of one planet after another."

"As long as you occupy their civilization's nest, aren't the other planets yours?" Ilis only felt that Ye Nan was a blockhead.

"Don't you Chinese have an old saying called 'decapitation operation'?"

"What if you can't find the other party's hiding place?" A smile appeared at the corner of Ye Nan's mouth. "For example, these Arachnid Zerg, everyone knows that the Zerg's brain bug is on the planet, but wanting to find it is a difficult thing. Technology is not omnipotent. At least the technology of our Space-Time Empire is not omnipotent."

Ye Nan still remembered that when Ilis's satellite scanned the Earth, she said there were no survivors, but the arrival of the Zerg slapped the faces of many scientific researchers in the Space-Time Empire. One survivor after another hidden underground was dug out by the Zerg and swallowed alive.

"This..." Ilis was speechless.

The matter at that time was indeed a failure of technology. After all, although the satellite's ability was strong, it couldn't see through the earth, so it was normal to have mistakes.

Now that Ye Nan brought up this loophole, Ilis didn't know how to refute it.

"Forget it, I won't talk to you anymore." Ilis stomped her feet and disappeared from the screen.

Dong! Dong! Dong!

A knock on the door came. Ye Nan, who was originally confused by Ilis's actions, immediately understood: Ilis must have known that someone was coming, so she disappeared from the screen. As for her words just now, she probably wanted to make Ye Nan feel distressed.

"This Ilis, like Smila, has learned to act like a spoiled child." A realization flashed through Ye Nan's mind.

Bang!

The person behind the door saw that there was no response inside for a long time, so they immediately pushed the door open and broke in.

"Mara, why are you here?" Ye Nan said. The person who came was the lady in red, Mara.

I don't know what happened, but after Ye Nan joined the military, Mara also joined the military, and later, like Ye Nan, became a soldier on this starship.

"It's time to eat. I saw you hadn't come out for a long time, thinking you couldn't adapt to the situation here, so I came over..." Mara's voice became smaller and smaller as she spoke, until it was inaudible at the end.

"So it's time to eat." Ye Nan suddenly realized. He stood up from the bed and said, "Let's go, let's go eat together."

"Wait." Mara hurriedly called out to Ye Nan, who was passing by her, and asked, "Who were you talking to just now?"

"Talking to who? No." Ye Nan said in surprise.

"But I clearly heard it." Mara frowned.

"Perhaps you heard it wrong." Ye Nan didn't want to continue entangling with Mara on this, so he said, "Let's go, let's go eat, otherwise Kaman and the others will come to call us later." (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 497 =====