DPM Chapter 85-The Death of Luo Ying-Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77
Rather quickly, the Night Shard expressed to the Federation that he was willing to cooperate with them. However, he needed the Federation to send a delegation back down to Earth again, for specific arrangements to made. Some things required minute attention to detail in order to go smoothly. For instance, the return of Qinglong, when to construct the Federal base, and so forth.
At this point, the Federation didn’t have any indications that the Night Shard was plotting anything, and they still needed to buy more time for the building of their new ship. Therefore they simply gloated over the fact the Night Shard was willing to continue the peace talks in all sincerity. In order that the majority board the new ship without a hitch, the Federation also decided that they would not concern themselves with the fate of the delegation they sent down.
Their original plan for the delegation was to temporarily promote some less valuable people to key senior government positions, then have those people form the delegation. Until the Night Shard requested Ouyang Yi by name.
That made things difficult for the Federation. Ouyang Yi held in his hands a lot of Federal classified information. Furthermore, if Ouyang Yi left the moon, the Federation wouldn’t have anyone else to fake being Qinglong for the scheduled meetings with the Night Shard.
But if they didn’t send Ouyang Yi, the Night Shard would unavoidably be angered, and they would lose the time they’d been stalling for.
After weighing both their options, the Federation eventually chose to have a chat with Ouyang Yi.
Ouyang Yi was well aware that the Night Shard had specifically asked for him by name. His heart beating like a drum, he thought through the situation time after time, always arriving at the same conclusion. If he was sent back down to Earth, he’d likely never be able to return to the Federation. And forget what the Night Shard might do to him, the true crux was he wouldn’t be able to get a seat on the new Federal ship.
It was impossible to fool himself into believing that the Federation would stop itself for his sake. No, he absolutely had to find a way out of going back down to the Earth.
He’d hustled like a maniac the last two days, trying to use any relationship he had with anyone, yet he still hadn’t succeeded in getting the Federal government to change their decision.
Not only had they not changed their decision, they’d been putting on file plans for possible scenarios, like—what to do if Ouyang Yi died, what to do if Ouyang Yi leaked classified information, what to do if Ouyang Yi sought asylum with the Night Shard, etc., etc.
Finally, the Federal government came up with the worst plan. If the Night Shard, by any chance, found out the truth and aimed his nuclear weapons at the moon, the Federation would deploy a ‘gene’ bomb.
When the military came to find Luo Ying again, she was standing by herself in the astronomical observatory, staring up at the skies.
The soft blue Earth was curled up in a layer of white clouds, like a blurry illusion, dimming the distant stars.
Both hands in her pockets, she agreeably listened to the military’s request that she make a gene bomb. Next she serenely nodded and said: “Good.”
The young general who’d been sent to talk to her was taken aback. He’d been told of her reaction to the dissection of Qinglong, but perhaps that’d been an anomaly. For, contrary to their forebodings, Luo Ying seemed to have no objections to this new idea.
“We hope to genetically modify the mutants to be more passive and obedient. They should be under our control, follow our orders.” The military were quite clear on their high expectations.
Luo Ying gave a little laugh: “That’ll be impossible. It’s not that I’m not willing……Just, if I had more time, more research specimens, I could do it for you. A month, though? It can’t be done.”
“Then……a bomb to completely wipe them out?”
Luo Ying thought for a moment, then shook her head: “I hear the Night Shard’s capabilities are a hundred times higher than Qinglong’s were. Even a few nuclear warheads probably wouldn’t kill him. His metabolism will be very fast, his self-healing abilities the same. No ordinary gene bomb will be able to finish the job.”
The general indiscriminately kicked at the railing next to him, laboriously pondering: “If that’s not possible, how about……Could you take away their ability to reproduce? Ten, no, fifty years from now, they’ll die. If they don’t exist, they won’t pose a threat to humanity. I know you can do this, at the very least. It’ll be a simple matter for you.”
“Yes.” Luo Ying nodded.
“Then……you’ll do it?”
Luo Ying turned her head, looking thoughtfully at the man in front of her. She’d been continuously working with him ever since Dai Rong hadn’t made it onto Noah’s Ark. He seemed very young to her, being only in his early thirties. Though his eyes were filled with adoration and even deeper feelings.
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“Fifteen days,” Luo Ying told him, “That’s when our contract expires, no?”
“That’s right. Will you still consider working with us afterwards?”
Shaking her head, Luo Ying said: “I can’t say. Who knows what the future will bring? I’ve done a lot of thinking these past few days. People……why do they exist? Why are we alive? For what?”
“The thing with Qinglong……Don’t be too sad about it. You’re the hope of the Federation. So please take care of yourself.”
Luo Ying smiled at the general: “Sometimes I wonder. I’m alive. But for what reason? I used to always think the aim of existence was mere survival. Natural selection. It’s nature’s power and choice, and no matter how cruel, it’s as it should be. Now I’m left wondering, for the sake of survival, to live and live well, what is there that’s wrong to do?”
“Um, you……Would you like me to contact a psychologist for you?”
“No,” Luo Ying declined, “I’m just thinking out loud. Life is so short. Why endure endless misery? We’re born, we grow, and in the end we die.”
“Maybe too many things have been happening lately. When we jump to our new planet, everything here, everything that’s happened, it won’t matter anymore.”
DPM Chapter 85-The Death of Luo Ying-Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77
Rather quickly, the Night Shard expressed to the Federation that he was willing to cooperate with them. However, he needed the Federation to send a delegation back down to Earth again, for specific arrangements to made. Some things required minute attention to detail in order to go smoothly. For instance, the return of Qinglong, when to construct the Federal base, and so forth.
At this point, the Federation didn’t have any indications that the Night Shard was plotting anything, and they still needed to buy more time for the building of their new ship. Therefore they simply gloated over the fact the Night Shard was willing to continue the peace talks in all sincerity. In order that the majority board the new ship without a hitch, the Federation also decided that they would not concern themselves with the fate of the delegation they sent down.
Their original plan for the delegation was to temporarily promote some less valuable people to key senior government positions, then have those people form the delegation. Until the Night Shard requested Ouyang Yi by name.
That made things difficult for the Federation. Ouyang Yi held in his hands a lot of Federal classified information. Furthermore, if Ouyang Yi left the moon, the Federation wouldn’t have anyone else to fake being Qinglong for the scheduled meetings with the Night Shard.
But if they didn’t send Ouyang Yi, the Night Shard would unavoidably be angered, and they would lose the time they’d been stalling for.
After weighing both their options, the Federation eventually chose to have a chat with Ouyang Yi.
Ouyang Yi was well aware that the Night Shard had specifically asked for him by name. His heart beating like a drum, he thought through the situation time after time, always arriving at the same conclusion. If he was sent back down to Earth, he’d likely never be able to return to the Federation. And forget what the Night Shard might do to him, the true crux was he wouldn’t be able to get a seat on the new Federal ship.
It was impossible to fool himself into believing that the Federation would stop itself for his sake. No, he absolutely had to find a way out of going back down to the Earth.
He’d hustled like a maniac the last two days, trying to use any relationship he had with anyone, yet he still hadn’t succeeded in getting the Federal government to change their decision.
Not only had they not changed their decision, they’d been putting on file plans for possible scenarios, like—what to do if Ouyang Yi died, what to do if Ouyang Yi leaked classified information, what to do if Ouyang Yi sought asylum with the Night Shard, etc., etc.
Finally, the Federal government came up with the worst plan. If the Night Shard, by any chance, found out the truth and aimed his nuclear weapons at the moon, the Federation would deploy a ‘gene’ bomb.
When the military came to find Luo Ying again, she was standing by herself in the astronomical observatory, staring up at the skies.
The soft blue Earth was curled up in a layer of white clouds, like a blurry illusion, dimming the distant stars.
Both hands in her pockets, she agreeably listened to the military’s request that she make a gene bomb. Next she serenely nodded and said: “Good.”
The young general who’d been sent to talk to her was taken aback. He’d been told of her reaction to the dissection of Qinglong, but perhaps that’d been an anomaly. For, contrary to their forebodings, Luo Ying seemed to have no objections to this new idea.
“We hope to genetically modify the mutants to be more passive and obedient. They should be under our control, follow our orders.” The military were quite clear on their high expectations.
Luo Ying gave a little laugh: “That’ll be impossible. It’s not that I’m not willing……Just, if I had more time, more research specimens, I could do it for you. A month, though? It can’t be done.”
“Then……a bomb to completely wipe them out?”
Luo Ying thought for a moment, then shook her head: “I hear the Night Shard’s capabilities are a hundred times higher than Qinglong’s were. Even a few nuclear warheads probably wouldn’t kill him. His metabolism will be very fast, his self-healing abilities the same. No ordinary gene bomb will be able to finish the job.”
The general indiscriminately kicked at the railing next to him, laboriously pondering: “If that’s not possible, how about……Could you take away their ability to reproduce? Ten, no, fifty years from now, they’ll die. If they don’t exist, they won’t pose a threat to humanity. I know you can do this, at the very least. It’ll be a simple matter for you.”
“Yes.” Luo Ying nodded.
“Then……you’ll do it?”
Luo Ying turned her head, looking thoughtfully at the man in front of her. She’d been continuously working with him ever since Dai Rong hadn’t made it onto Noah’s Ark. He seemed very young to her, being only in his early thirties. Though his eyes were filled with adoration and even deeper feelings.
""
“Fifteen days,” Luo Ying told him, “That’s when our contract expires, no?”
“That’s right. Will you still consider working with us afterwards?”
Shaking her head, Luo Ying said: “I can’t say. Who knows what the future will bring? I’ve done a lot of thinking these past few days. People……why do they exist? Why are we alive? For what?”
“The thing with Qinglong……Don’t be too sad about it. You’re the hope of the Federation. So please take care of yourself.”
Luo Ying smiled at the general: “Sometimes I wonder. I’m alive. But for what reason? I used to always think the aim of existence was mere survival. Natural selection. It’s nature’s power and choice, and no matter how cruel, it’s as it should be. Now I’m left wondering, for the sake of survival, to live and live well, what is there that’s wrong to do?”
“Um, you……Would you like me to contact a psychologist for you?”
“No,” Luo Ying declined, “I’m just thinking out loud. Life is so short. Why endure endless misery? We’re born, we grow, and in the end we die.”
“Maybe too many things have been happening lately. When we jump to our new planet, everything here, everything that’s happened, it won’t matter anymore.”
