Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 219: Collective Rebellion

"Ah Ying, approximately how many senior commanders does your fleet have?"

"About 120 people, bro, you're not going to clone them all, are you?"

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be cloning. We can first scan and store the consciousness of these 120-plus senior commanders, and then transplant and clone them when the opportunity arises.”

Linghu Ying looked at Zhou Yuan No. 1, pondered for two minutes, and then said, "That's one way too. It seems I'll have to do some ideological work with them when I inspect tomorrow?"

"When you inspect tomorrow, hold a meeting to discuss dealing with the replicator fleet. You require that senior commanders undergo cloning like you, within six months, to maintain healthy, young bodies and abundant energy, in order to guarantee victory over the replicator fleet. I can send you the video of the replicator fleet; in fact, you know that these replicators are indeed terrifying."

"After tomorrow's inspection, I will order the fleet to rely on the resources of the various planets in the solar system for resource extraction, weapons manufacturing, and comprehensive combat readiness."

"Ah Ying, this is the best way. Only through cooperation and collaboration among the three parties can we possibly defeat the copyists."

Linghu Ying and Zhou Yuan No. 1 communicated smoothly. Linghu Ying began to consider how to manage the fleet and use his power as the supreme commander of the fleet.

About half an hour after Zhou Yuan No. 1 left Linghu Ying's office, Linghu Ying received a video of the replicator fleet transmitted by Zhou Yuan No. 1. Looking at the densely packed, layered army of beetles, Linghu Ying couldn't help but feel a chill.

Linghu Ying immediately called the fleet command center, instructing Commander Qin to distribute the video of the replicant fleet to all warship captains. The captains were to organize their crews to watch the video and discuss countermeasures. A high-level fleet commanders' meeting was scheduled for the following day after Linghu Ying's inspection of the fleet. On her first day in office, Linghu Ying, the former Linghu Yingke/Longti, gave Commander Qin a decisive and efficient impression, a style very consistent with the previous Linghu Ying. Commander Qin, as always, executed Linghu Ying's orders flawlessly, distributing the video of the replicant beetle fleet to all warships.

That evening, Linghu Ying, Xiao Mei, and Zhou Yuan No. 1 naturally engaged in passionate and intimate sexual intercourse. As a clone, Linghu Ying experienced the full spectrum of human desires for the first time.

Linghu Ying inspected the fleet, showing everyone that cloning could be done in this way. Linghu Ying's stunning beauty was naturally incomparable to that of the fifty-year-old Linghu Ying. Just like Xiao Mei, who accompanied Linghu Ying, although she was exceptionally beautiful, her age clearly showed her shortcomings. Linghu Ying's movements and style of doing things remained unchanged.

Just as Linghu Ying and Zhou Yuan No. 1 had discussed, at the high-level commander meeting, everyone showed fear at the replicant beetle army. Even Xiao Mei was pale with fright, as it was the first time she had ever seen replicants.

Taking this opportunity, Linghu Ying issued an order requiring all senior commanders to scan, store, and clone their consciousness, and proposed the idea of ​​uniting the humans of this planet and Time Fleet One to fight against the replicant fleet.

These 120-plus senior commanders seemed to have no ideas or suggestions. Perhaps they were already used to absolute obedience and execution of orders, which saved Linghu Ying a lot of trouble.

In the following days, the Time Fleet's No. 1 Consciousness Research Institute warship became very lively. In order to better and faster perform consciousness replication, storage, transplantation, and cloning on the senior commander of the Linghu Fleet, Pana No. 1, Chu Xiaolu No. 1, and Huo Jing No. 1, who were working at the planet's parliament building, were transferred back to the space fleet base by Linghu Ying to assist Zhou Yuan No. 1 in his work.

Security and regulations on the planet began to loosen, and the Starquat government began constructing military bases. However, the space fleet was built and controlled by the Linghu Fleet, which was also responsible for the construction of expanded Death Star weapons on various planets. Linghu Ying's orders were that the humans on this planet could only possess ground-based military forces and ground-based air defense weapons, and were absolutely forbidden from possessing a single space warship or an outer space weapon.

The thousand clones on Time Fleet One resumed their work, primarily focusing on scientific research. People like Thomas were also responsible for the administration of Time Fleet One. The thousand-plus clones were under the supervision and control of the Linghu Fleet to prevent them from engaging in any tricks.

However, during the process of transplanting and cloning the consciousness of the senior commanders of the Linghu Fleet, Zhou Yuan No. 1 used tricks. The later parts of the consciousness stream data of more than 120 senior commanders, like those of Linghu Ying and Xiao Mei, had a very high degree of similarity and matching. Zhou Yuan No. 1 modified or directly deleted them.

More than 120 people underwent painless euthanasia immediately after their consciousness was scanned and downloaded inside the device's metal cavity. Their bodies were removed and immediately carbonized, replaced by clones. Xiao Mei's clone looked even younger and more beautiful than Linghu Ying's clone.

Zhou Yuan No. 1, however, was worried about something, and the deadline for this matter was drawing ever closer. He clearly remembered that Linghu Ying had said that the "master" wanted the Linghu fleet to return in ten days, and the ten-day deadline was fast approaching, leaving only two days. Zhou Yuan No. 1 considered whether to tell Linghu Ying and Xiao Mei, his two clones, about this matter. After thinking about it, he realized that even if he told them, they probably wouldn't know what to do either. It was best to wait and see, Zhou Yuan No. 1 thought.

Linghu Ying resumed the five-person shift system, alternating between two shifts and sharing a bed with Zhou Yuan No. 1.

Huo Jing No. 1 seemed to sense that Zhou Yuan No. 1 was acting differently than before. "Big brother, is something on your mind?"

"Yeah, Uncle hasn't been in the right state of mind these past two nights. What's wrong?"

"Could it be that they think we're too old? Haha, we need to get a younger body too." Chu Xiaolu No. 1 seemed to be jealous.

"Don't talk nonsense. I'm worried about something." So Zhou Yuan No. 1 informed the "master" that the Linghu Fleet should leave the day after tomorrow.

"I guess even the clones of those high-ranking commanders probably don't know how to get back, right? The 'master's' summons probably won't work on these clones."

"That's what I'm worried about. If the master's 'summoning' of Linghu Ying and the others fails, does their 'master' have a backup plan or a killer move to deal with these disobedient 'children'?"

"Brother, that's very possible. You'd better tell Linghu Ying tomorrow and tell her to be on guard. Maybe the day after tomorrow, a huge round hole will appear in the 'space-time portal' and many warships will jump out of it."

"Yes, I'll talk to her about it tomorrow morning."

"It would be best if we regained control of the Time Fleet, which would make us more effective against the replicants or unknown enemies."

“I’ve hinted at it to her before, but she’s not in a hurry to return our fleet. I’ll talk to her again tomorrow.”

Linghu Ying directly refused Zhou Yuan No. 1's request to return the Time Fleet. Her humorous reason was that if Zhou Yuan No. 1 possessed the Time Fleet, how could she, Linghu Ying, possibly catch up with it? The dozens of warships of Time Fleet No. 1 were placed under the control of Linghu Ying's personnel. Linghu Ying ordered all warships to enter a state of full combat readiness to prevent any sudden attacks.

In interstellar space of the solar system, the Linghu Fleet has dispatched numerous warships for patrols, and more than thirty Death Star weapons that have already been built have also been deployed around the fleet base. Each Death Star weapon is much larger in diameter than the original smaller Death Star weapons; the current Death Star weapons are one kilometer in diameter and can operate continuously for twenty days without needing to recharge from the sun.

As Zhou Yuan No. 1 feared, the summons from its "master" did indeed occur. At the fleet base, a massive, circular vortex, known as a "space-time portal," appeared. Five thousand warships, including Linghu Ying's flagship and the Time Fleet, were forcibly pulled into the vortex. Even warships patrolling other parts of interstellar space were rapidly drawn towards it, automatically and quickly being sucked into the vortex like iron filings attracted by a magnet. One by one, the warships vanished. Even the thirty-odd Death Star weapons were swept into the vortex after all the warships disappeared. During this process, all communication between the warships was severed, and the artificial intelligence operating system malfunctioned. These warships and Death Star weapons were completely beyond the control of humans and the artificial intelligence.

What terrified everyone even more was that, as the warship lost control, everyone's consciousness seemed to be frozen. They remained in their original positions and postures, without making any movement, like the living dead. Even the intelligent robots seemed to have short-circuited or shut down, all of them malfunctioning.

These warships, artificial intelligence, and intelligent machinery lost autonomous control, and everyone in the fleet instantly lost consciousness and memory.

All the fleet's warships and thirty-six Death Star weapons suddenly returned to normal. When everyone regained consciousness, including all the clones on Zhou Yuan No. 1, they all said in unison, "Yes, Master." Everyone in the fleet, including the thousand clones, was as if they had lost their souls.

The enormous circular vortex in space disappeared, as did the blue planet, Mars, and others.

In the warship's command center, Linghu Ying gave up her seat, and Zhou Yuan No. 1 took the highest command position. On the detection holographic screen, Zhou Yuan No. 1 observed that around his fleet, there were 363 fleets of similar size, and these fleets were all converging on each other and heading in the same direction.

Zhou Yuan's No. 1 fleet also began to gradually converge on those fleets.

Spacetime suddenly trembled again. Behind Zhou Yuan's fleet No. 1, a huge circular vortex appeared, from which several warships leaped out, followed by waves of ships. On one of these warships appeared a man whose face was almost identical to Zhou Yuan's. This newly appeared fleet also began to converge on the massive fleet.

As if by prior arrangement, the 365 fleets converged and set off together.