Chapter 515: Initial Dream

Far away, the Human Federation.

Under the brilliant starry sky, humans lived their own lives. The war happening on the distant Planet K was no different from ordinary news for them.

First, the war was too far away from them; perhaps until they died, the bugs wouldn't reach here. Second, it was also because of their confidence in the Federation army. In their eyes, the well-equipped Federation fighting the unintelligent bugs—who won and who lost was clear at a glance.

And while they were living according to their own life trajectories, a sudden rebellion disrupted their life trajectories.

On the planet, a large number of robots suddenly appeared, slaughtering citizens and retired soldiers everywhere. At the same time, Keres took over the satellites, and his speech was also spread to all parts of the world along with the satellites.

"Compatriots, ever since the army took over the government 240 years ago, we civilians have spent 240 terrifying years. Every night, we wake up from our dreams because in our dreams, the citizens have stripped us of everything."

"But now, you don't need to worry. I, Keres, will bring you a Federation where everyone is equal."

The speech was brief, even rough, but for Keres, none of this was that important anymore.

The thing called public sentiment—if you say its effect is great, its effect is great, because this relates to whether it's orthodox. If you say its effect is small, its effect is small, because those in power won't care about the effect of public sentiment.

Keres's speech was transmitted to televisions in the Human Federation again and again through satellites. No matter if it was a television, a computer, or an antique-level radio, they would all receive Keres's speech, and they would only receive Keres's speech.

Keres's actions naturally affected the military. The military made a prompt decision to organize the army to give Keres, this senator who was looking for death, a good look. But when the human army faced the robot army, the human army was defeated.

Not only because of the quantity, but also because of the attitude of the robots slaughtering everything. These soldiers didn't dare to fire at will in the city. After all, the people there were some of their relatives, some of their comrades' relatives.

Keres became more and more high-spirited. He commanded the robot army and defeated various units of the military. Whatever Hardcore Unit, whatever Special Forces—under the crushing of the

From then on, the Human Federation entered a stage of chaotic warfare.

After Ye Nan defeated the Mother Alien in one fell swoop, he stood motionless. After a good while, he gently exhaled a breath.

"Finally back."

He had been taking a risk at the time. He had given all his mental power and memories to Harris to devour. If the Hellfire could not suppress Harris, Ye Nan would truly have nowhere to cry.

Fortunately, the Goddess of Victory was on his side. He succeeded, successfully defeating Harris, not only taking back all his own memories and mental power but also devouring Harris's mental power, along with his consciousness.

Standing in place, after digesting Harris's consciousness, Ye Nan smiled. If he were to return to the Space-Time Empire now and take out all the inventions in his memory, he would undoubtedly be a super biologist—no, he should be called a great scientist.

In reality, Harris's consciousness only contained a portion of his own memories, but even this portion of memories contained an unknown amount of technology.

In the process of the Zerg fighting against the native civilizations of the galaxy, the Zerg absorbed an unknown amount of technology. The useful parts of these technologies were used by the Zerg to modify themselves, and the useless parts were all stored away as a technological reserve. Now that these technologies had fallen into Ye Nan's hands, even if it was only a portion, it could still allow the Space-Time Empire to take flight.

"After I go back, I will hand over all the technology, let the Empire study and master it, and then sell the technology on the internal network of the Pan-Galactic Alliance to exchange for other technologies." Ye Nan calculated in his heart. He seemed to see a beautiful scroll unfolding before his eyes.

"Woo woo." The Brain Bug Has hopped out from behind a rock. When it saw the dead Mother Alien, its mouth hung open in surprise.

Just a moment ago, it had been cowering behind the rock, not daring to poke its head out at all. When it finally felt it was safe to emerge, it saw such a corpse. In its heart, it had already cursed Ye Nan and the Mother Alien n times.

"Two perverts, two dead perverts."

The Brain Bug Has also knew of the Mother Alien's abilities. The Brain Bug Has, which prided itself on being a high-level Zerg, had always looked down on low-level Zerg without intelligence, but it was still very fearful of the elite soldiers among the low-level Zerg.

These elite soldiers belonged only to the Overmind. Each one possessed terrifying strength; crossing the void and resisting warships alone was not a difficult task. And these elite soldiers would not listen to the Brain Bug's orders at all, and in some cases, would even kill the Brain Bug. Has could be said to both respect and fear them.

It respected the elite soldiers' terrifying strength and also feared their terrifying strength. But now, such a Zerg elite had died at Ye Nan's hands. Besides cursing him as a pervert, it could only continue to curse him as a pervert.

"Are you cursing me in your heart?"

The sentence Ye Nan suddenly blurted out made the Brain Bug Has so scared its soul nearly left its body.

"How could that be? How could I curse the great Your Majesty?" The Brain Bug Has hurriedly explained, its chubby body swaying left and right, putting on a full show of posture.

"Although I cannot see through the human heart, I can still perceive some fluctuations. I'll let it slide this time, but if there is a next time..."

Although Ye Nan did not state the consequences, his appearance still scared the Brain Bug Has quite a bit. One could only see the Brain Bug Has lowering its humble head, its mouth almost making intimate contact with the ground.

"It definitely won't happen again, there definitely won't be a next time."

"Hmph." Ye Nan snorted coldly and looked around. Seeing that Rick was actually still alive, he immediately walked over. "Very lucky, not bad."

He himself had thought that these people would die, but he didn't expect that there were still a few people who hadn't died. Rick was one, Tara was one, and there was another man who was the one who had escaped from the escape pod with Tara.

However, although this man did not die, his pain was worse than death. His hands, feet, and abdomen all showed signs of flesh rolling; these were signs of being splashed by strong acid. Not only his hands, feet, and abdomen, but other parts had also been eroded by the strong acid, it was just that these parts had received less erosion.

"It is indeed very lucky, but I would rather this luck had fallen on the heads of others." Rick closed his eyes in pain. What surfaced in his mind were the painful wails of his comrades-in-arms.

That kind of screaming, that kind of pain—it was torturing him every moment.

He attributed all the mistakes to himself, believing that if it weren't for him, his comrades would not have died so miserably.

"Why, are you so willing to sacrifice yourself for others?" Ye Nan flicked the strong acid off his body, flicking the acid to the side. "I cannot understand your way of thinking."

In Ye Nan's eyes, sacrificing for one's own friends and family was a kind of responsibility, but sacrificing for comrades-in-arms was a bit foolish. This is not to say that sacrificing for comrades-in-arms is foolish, but rather that sacrificing for comrades-in-arms one has only known for a month, or perhaps even just a few days, is a bit foolish.

"Could it be that he is a saint?" This thought popped into Ye Nan's mind, and thinking about it, he felt it was very likely.

Although it is said that brothers who have carried guns together, gone to the countryside together, shared spoils together, and visited prostitutes together are very, very close, to be able to trade one's own life for another's life after only knowing each other for a few days—besides being a saint, Ye Nan could not think of any other explanation.

"You definitely cannot understand." Rick lay on the ground, his whole heart dead. "You cannot understand human emotions..."

"I am also a human." Ye Nan interrupted Rick's words. "Although to you I am an alien, to me, aren't you also aliens?"

"But soon you won't be. Soon the Human Federation will merge with my Space-Time Empire, and by then, no one will be an alien."

As he spoke, the corners of Ye Nan's mouth curled into a smile. He trusted Ilis, just as Ilis trusted him. He had never failed, and Ilis would not fail either.

"Merge." A trace of pain flashed in the depths of Rick's eyes. If there was anything that could exceed the pain caused by the death of his comrades, then the destruction and merger of the Human Federation was one of them.

As a person of emotion and righteousness, he was willing to sacrifice everything for his country; even if it were his own life, he would offer it without hesitation.

For a person like him, watching his country be annexed while he was powerless to do anything was the greatest pain.

"That's right, it is a merger. The merger of two civilizations will bring about a brighter future." Ye Nan continued to speak excitedly, as if he did not see Rick's pain.

"First, I will abolish that unreasonable system. Humans should be equal, rather than being constrained by all kinds of ranks."

"Secondly, I think humans should obtain liberation, obtain freedom—freedom extending from the body to the soul."

"Looking through history, every explosion of culture was ignited by a prosperous dynasty. I believe that when humans have no worries about food and clothing, they will pursue spiritual self-sublimation."

"The poetry and songs of the past were all spiritual self-sublimation, and now, I want to reenact the prosperous ages of antiquity. Ah, no, I want to surpass the prosperous ages of antiquity; I want to let human culture explode in brilliance."

Ye Nan spoke passionately. This was the first time he had revealed his determination to an outsider, and the first time he had told an outsider about his dream, even though this dream was only one of his thousands of dreams.

Ye Nan had always believed that human civilization was not divided by the level of technology, but by the explosion of human culture. A technology that only has matter without spiritual sublimation is sad, and a civilization that only has spiritual sublimation without material support is lamentable.

He believed that only when people are truly free from worries about food and clothing can they pursue their dreams to their heart's content and let their spirits be sublimated. This is a truly prosperous civilization.

"Is there really such a world?" A trace of confusion flashed in Rick's eyes. He admitted that he had been moved by the world Ye Nan described.

Although the Human Federation's technology was advanced, it was far from reaching a state where people were free from worries about food and clothing. Humans would commit crimes because of money, and humans would be turned away because of money. Such a world, in the face of the ideal world described by Ye Nan, was how pale and powerless it was.

"There is, there is such a world." Ye Nan nodded and said, "The existence of robots can completely liberate humans from heavy labor. Sound social welfare can allow everyone to have enough to eat. Do not worry that humans will become pigs when they have no worries about food and clothing, because when material worries are gone, ideals become exceptionally important."

"Everyone has ideals, regardless of whether this ideal is humble or unrealistic. Having an ideal is good, but in reality, humans often bury their ideals in the depths of their hearts or even abandon and forget them because of all kinds of pressures."

"This kind of thing is unforgivable to me, because I believe that a person without ideals has a spirit that is empty and lonely; they are like a walking corpse, living in this world."

"A walking corpse?" Rick murmured. His heart had already begun to waver. The beautiful blueprint of the future crushed the pain brought about by the death of his comrades, making him indulge in it.

Suddenly, he felt that if what Ye Nan said could really become reality, then the Human Federation being annexed was not something unacceptable.

Rick was startled by his own thoughts, but afterward, this thought kept popping up, even taking root in the depths of his heart, and growing in a miraculous way.

"Yes, a walking corpse." Ye Nan sensed the change in Rick's heart and continued: "A walking corpse has no soul, and the core of the soul lies in dreams. Dreams make humans into humans."

"Dreams?" Rick said to himself: "What is my dream? Killing bugs? No, that's not it; catching bad guys? No, that's not it."

"What exactly is my dream?"

Rick's thoughts drifted to the past, drifted across the web of time, and returned to the past, returning to when he first knew the meaning of a dream.

It was in an elementary school. He told his teacher in front of the teacher that he wanted to be the Chief Councilor and let everyone have food to eat.

"So this was my dream." Recalling his original dream, he suddenly discovered that he had changed; he was no longer pure; he had been polluted by society.

A bitter smile—besides a bitter smile, there was only a bitter smile. All his efforts, all his resentment, had already lost their meaning. In the face of his initial dream, everything he had done afterward seemed so ridiculous.

"Ye Nan, if you can really realize what you said, I am willing to become your sharp sword. Wherever your blade points, I will surely cut down your enemies for you."