Chapter 134: Report on Strength

Earth was developing desperately, and as Earth’s sworn enemy, the Layite People could not possibly remain inactive.

As a mature Fifth-grade Civilization, the star domain controlled by the Layite People radiated outward from their Layite Mother Star for a range of fifty Light Years.

Unfortunately, Earth happened to be located right on this edge. As a newly promoted Fifth-grade Civilization, whether it was hatred or disputes over star domain ownership, it was enough for the two sides to have a good fight.

The enemies of Leite were not limited to just Earth. In fact, in another direction, there was also a Fifth-grade Civilization called Renos bordering them. For hundreds of years, the two had constant conflicts.

Nowadays, Leite and Renos were arguing endlessly over the ownership of a primitive planet, almost to the point of using force.

Although Leite had many problems, his top priority right now was to suppress the rise of Earth!

On the Layite Mother Star, an emergency meeting was being held at this moment. All the important figures of the Layite Civilization attended the meeting.

The center of their discussion was a very detailed report on Earth’s strength collected by the military.

“More than a hundred and thirty years ago, we launched a war against an inconspicuous, semi-civilized planet. At that time, we were concerned about interstellar ethics, so our methods were not decisive enough. Now, he has become a serious threat in our hearts!”

The first sentence of the meeting’s speaker showed that there was absolutely no room for reconciliation between Leite and the Earthlings, and neither side had any intention of letting go of past grudges.

“Here, I have a latest analysis of Earth’s strength. It is very specific! It is data obtained by the military at the cost of sacrificing over a hundred soldiers.

More than a hundred years ago, the Earthling population was merely a million, and there was only one so-called City of Hope. But now, the Earthling population has exceeded thirty million, and there are over twenty cities.

But these are not the most critical points. What is important is that their technology has developed to the point where it is sufficient to contend with us. Regarding this, the report details several aspects.

First: Earthlings are committed to developing Digital Life. Today’s Earth is a society where humans and Digital Life coexist. At least according to the current situation, their integration is quite good.

Although the performance of their interstellar warships is inferior to ours, there is no longer a qualitative gap. Coupled with the cooperation of Digital Life, which makes absolutely no mistakes, their combat power has leveled with our small warships.”

At this point, the Speaker pointed the spearhead at the Minister of the Research Department: “Can you explain why we Layite People are lagging behind Earth in Digital Life? This is your dereliction of duty!”

But the Research Minister was not a pushover. He immediately stood up and retorted: “The architecture of Digital Life is not difficult; we can fully achieve it. In fact, the Master Control Brain on our spacecraft nowadays is a Digital Life!”

A representative of the Leite military immediately mocked: “Are you referring to that spaceship nanny that only knows how to obey orders and say ‘yes, yes, yes’? Save it. We have already obtained the combat data of Earth’s warships. In virtual confrontations, although our warships have superior performance, the win rate barely reaches 50%. Isn’t this the dereliction of duty of the Research Department?”

The Research Minister’s face flushed red, his double-pupils constricted tightly, and he shouted loudly: “When we were developing Digital Life, who was standing on the sidelines pointing fingers? It was the military guys who don’t know a thing. Now it’s great; we have Digital Life, but how is it different from a puppet? You guys even have to confirm before firing the auxiliary guns of the warship. It’s already not bad to maintain a 50% win rate.”

Seeing that the two sides were about to start a quarrel, the Speaker immediately spoke out to stop them.

“Alright, talking about this now is meaningless. This will cause more soldiers to sacrifice, but it will not affect the final result of this battle. After all, in terms of overall strength, Earth is far behind us.”

“The report raises a second point: Various signs indicate that Earth Civilization is no less than ours, or even surpasses us, in the understanding of the first Dimension of energy. At least, on their two newly built Fortress Stars, they used some technologies we haven’t mastered yet. For instance, the use of the Disintegration Field has made the detailed locations of these two Fortress Stars still undetermined!”

The Speaker looked at the Research Minister, seeking an explanation.

This point, however, made the Research Minister truly wilt. He lowered his head and mumbled a few words: “Ghost knows how those near-sighted guys’ brains are built.”

Compared to the excellent vision of the Double-Pupiled Person, human vision was indeed considered near-sighted.

“Su Yila, tell me what is going on. The Layite People have been a Fifth-grade Civilization for over 900 years, yet technology has progressed slowly. But now, we are actually surpassed by a poor and weak guy. Could it be that the 20% of government fiscal revenue we allocate to you every year as research funding has all been fed to the dogs!”

The Speaker’s eyes blazed with fire, and his voice was icy. Such a result was unacceptable to anyone!

Although Leite was a democratic society and the Speaker’s power was supervised by many, it was still possible to remove such an unproductive Research Minister from his post.

The Research Minister obviously realized this too. He was quite straightforward and stood up directly, saying: “I have indeed been seriously derelict in my duty. I do not have enough ability to serve as this Research Minister!”

After saying that, he walked out of the meeting hall without looking back.

The Speaker’s face turned livid with anger at this former Research Minister named Su Yila. He took a few deep breaths to stabilize his emotions before speaking again: “Very well, then let us talk about the third point: Many signs indicate that Earth Civilization is developing some kind of super weapon. This weapon has nearly the same power as our strategic weapon, ‘Planet Destroyer’.”

As soon as this point was made, everyone present gasped. The previous points were nothing serious, just surpassing in certain aspects, and did not pose a threat.

But now, if the Earthlings possessed this terrifying weapon, it meant that the Layite People could never completely eliminate Earth in the war. Otherwise, the result would likely be mutual destruction.

The Planet Destroyer was based on the Disintegration attribute of the first Dimension of energy, temporarily dissolving the electromagnetic force of a planet. The effect of this dissolution was completely disastrous.

It is well known that an ordinary planet maintains its shape due to the result of gravity countering electromagnetic force. Without electromagnetic force, gravity would cause the entire planet’s matter to begin collapsing. The larger the planet’s mass, the more severe the consequences.

Basically, any Life Planet, as long as it is hit by a Planet Destroyer, will, under the action of the planet’s own immense gravity, form a celestial body similar to one between neutron stars.

Such a celestial body naturally cannot sustain life. If even the mother planet for survival is gone, then whether it is Earthlings or Layite People, they can only wander in the Universe and slowly move towards destruction.

In the Universe, no Civilization would kindly take in a wandering race.

Everyone at the meeting fell silent, pondering the significance of Earth possessing the Planet Destroyer.

After a long while, the military representative spoke up: “We must defeat them before the Earthlings develop this weapon! Otherwise, there will be no winner in this war, only mutual destruction!”

At this time, after listening to the report from his assistant behind him, the Foreign Minister said to the Speaker in a low voice: “News just came from the border that the Renos People have dispatched troops to the Lansen primitive planet and have started building a military base on its natural satellite. Our people were expelled by the Renos People.”

“What?! Those bitches of Renos, this is completely looting a burning house! Speaker, I think we should immediately fight back!” the military representative shouted immediately.

The Speaker, however, fell into an unusual silence. He propped his head with one hand and said helplessly: “We do not have the ability to fight on multiple fronts now. Norance, conceal this news from the outside world, and then heavily promote the threat of Earth! Renos is just doing it for a primitive planet. But humans, from the very beginning of returning to Earth, swore an oath to exterminate our race. You must carefully weigh which is more important.”

Foreign Minister Norance hesitated for a moment, then asked uncertainly: “Is there no possibility of reconciliation between us and Earth?”

The Speaker sighed deeply: “The blood feud was formed over a hundred years ago; it can only be washed away with blood. Especially with such a violent race as the Earthlings, we should not have shown mercy in the beginning.”

In this highest internal meeting of Leite, these Double-Pupiled People also set a racial strategy to go all out against the Earthlings.

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On the Earth side, Lin Lei, in the guise of Lu Yuan, also submitted a comprehensive strength report on the Layite People to the Earth Federation Parliament.

Lu Yuan, currently 54 years old, was in the prime of his life. He was the highest person in charge of the Earth Security Department. The information department he controlled had extremely high operational efficiency; every move of the Layite People could not escape his eyes.

The report Lin Lei submitted this time was obtained by him personally invading the Layite People’s internal confidential network. It clearly analyzed the Layite People’s military deployment, the armed distribution of various interstellar bases and fortresses, as well as the economic and political situation of the Layite Civilization.

The Layite People had no secrets in Lin Lei’s eyes.

Similarly, this report caused a huge uproar in the Parliament.

“Lu Yuan, can you confirm the authenticity of this report?” This was the first question everyone in the Parliament asked upon seeing this report.

It was too detailed. Reading this report, everyone felt as if they were looking at a comprehensive strength report of Earth itself.

Lin Lei explained calmly: “Everyone, please remain calm. I think you should hear the process of how I obtained this report. This is the result of the hard work of dozens of intelligence analysts and a hundred Digital Life intelligence scouts from our department over several months. Of course, I personally participated in this operation as well.”

Lin Lei’s current body was a recognized computer genius. As long as he took action, there was nothing that could not be handled.

The Layite network, in his and the Digital Life’s view, was simply riddled with holes. Moreover, the Digital Life inherently existing within the network were tightly confined, without a shred of freedom.

This was an asymmetrical contest, and Lin Lei, leading hundreds of Digital Life, won a complete victory!

What this report brought to Earth was an immense advantage in information. Before the battle between the two sides even began, the Earth side had already seized a large amount of initiative.