The imperial fleet didn’t stay too close to this Administrative Star; only small fleets would occupy it to show they had taken over.
"Could there be any issues?"
Catherine carefully pondered.
She always felt that even though the Empire’s advance had just begun, it was strangely too quiet.
Catherine opened her contact book, searching meticulously, and quickly discovered that she didn’t have any regular generals she could contact. The only ones she could communicate with directly were the other seven Supermodified captains and the commander who issued orders to them.
Catherine sent a message to this commander, reminding him to be cautious of potential traps ahead.
The commander replied a few minutes later, and the response was simple,
"Just do your job, please trust the frontline command personnel."
Catherine shrugged, stuffed the communicator back into her coat pocket, turned around, and began to rest with her eyes closed.
Two and a half Galaxy Time later, accompanied by a loud rumble and a relatively mild gravitational wave, a piece of news spread throughout the Milky Way.
[Sherman Empire’s fleet detonated a surrendered Administrative Star, and the Empire will destroy every subsequent planet encountered until democracy and freedom are eradicated in the Milky Way.]
The war first broke out in the field of public opinion.
Yang Ming’s body nearly exploded.
In a daze, he didn’t know how long he had slept, with fragmented dreams, Hanton’s memories and his memories on Earth bombarding him alternately.
But fortunately, he pulled through.
When he opened his eyes, he was still in the medical chamber. The first thing Yang Ming did was to check his body to ensure there were no "lumpy scars," and then he let out a long sigh of relief.
The world in his eyes seemed to have changed; when he focused a little, he seemed to see the subtle fibers flowing in the air.
His perception was more acute.
Every cell in his body seemed to respond to the commands his brain sent out.
Without moving, he felt as if he could encompass the entire East Wind in his vision.
—His spiritual power had seen a tremendous increase.
Was Po Suo deliberately giving him a significant portion of that strange biological energy?
What did it mean, as a thank-you for not killing her?
Or was it Po Suo’s means of survival, letting him suppress her in power to reduce his wariness of her?
Yang Ming raised two question marks above his forehead.
The glass cover in front of him slowly opened, and Yang Ming moved his neck as he sat up and touched his armpit.
When his situation was not going well earlier, 026 had used a specially made laser injection device to attack his armpit fiercely.
"Boss, you’re awake."
Several projection devices in the corner operated simultaneously, and Lyu’s figure immediately appeared beside him, wearing a pink nurse outfit.
The medical chamber smoothly erected, and Yang Ming stepped out, doing a few simple stretches.
Suddenly, he had the illusion that he could crush the entire battleship directly...
It was definitely an illusion.
"How long was I unconscious?"
"Over fifty Galaxy Time."
Yang Ming was taken aback, "What about Valkyrie?"
"She is redeveloping."
Lyu lightly tapped, and the projection screen spread out in front of Yang Ming, quickly playing the transformation of Valkyrie over the past fifty hours.
When the screen froze, a delicate little girl was sitting among metal toy blocks, arranging a big house and swimming pool.
Yang Ming couldn’t help but tilt his head.
Valkyrie, playing with blocks?
Even if the body was reshaped, the thought body and consciousness still existed, right? Shouldn’t it be an adult? This...
"Her gaze and brainwave complexity indicate that she has a mature mind."
"But now, she seems to be enjoying the process of growth, and when her body reached this growth stage six hours ago, it stopped growing."
Yang Ming simply couldn’t understand.
He thought of something and closed his eyes, quietly sensing.
The deep starry sky and bright stars appeared once more.
The girl-like Po Suo seemed right in front of Yang Ming, curling her body, her hollow eyes lost in thought at a distance.
For the first time, Yang Ming felt no suppression from her.
This was also the first time Yang Ming felt no innate fear.
"Did she give me part of her power to level the genetic gap between us?"
Yang Ming inquired, but the nurse Lyu beside him also didn’t know how to respond.
"Boss, if you don’t need to consider the threat from Valkyrie for the moment, there are two major events I want to report to you first."
The projection screen in front of Yang Ming quickly switched images, displaying a green planet, with a series of data beside it.
Lyu quickly introduced,
"This is a Secondary Administrative Star on the New Federation border, primarily focused on agriculture and animal husbandry. It houses millions of people and hasn’t received an official name, only a number.
"Specifically, it was the first New Federation administrative unit encountered by the Imperial Invincible Fleet as they progressed with six battle clusters.
"Forty-three Galaxy Time ago, this administrative star was detonated."
Yang Ming tightly knit his brows, "Detonated?"
"Star Core explosion, planetary disintegration."
Lyu switched to the next image, showing the planet exploding.
"At that time, there was an imperial fleet nearby, but the fleet did not actively attack this planet.
"Calculations indicate that the energy required to detonate the planet’s interior Star Core would need a kilometer-class battleship to directly strike the Star Core, and considering the crust and mantle obstacles, it would require a heavy battleship to strike more than twelve times continuously to detonate the Star Core.