The Moon—Earth's natural satellite, about 380,000 kilometers away from the third planet of the solar system.
Hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
That distance is the limit that current human technology can barely reach.
Ling Ke knows that if the present world follows the original plotline, then, when the "God of Earth" is born… a few years from now, human civilization will begin exploring Venus and Mars.
However...
—Aside from Walter Young, who crossed into a parallel world via the "Stargate"...
—People here have still not managed to leave the solar system through their own means (technologies developed independently).
—After all, even the "Ark Project" from the pre-civilizational era collapsed and ended up being an "express delivery" that could only be launched over 50,000 years later.
Ling Ke arrived at these conclusions from his base of operations.
—So...
His gaze fell on the curtain of light from the system in front of him.
Displayed clearly there:
[Game Character Template: Medical Transport Ship]
[Origin: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty]
[Character Features: mechanical HP, infinite energy, infinite ammo, fully intact equipment, heavy-armored mechanical unit...]
[Game Skills: advanced medical AI, rapid deployment channel, dispersion curtain, load, reload, healing, afterburner propulsion...]
[Passive Talents: medical station, wound diagnostics station, nanobots, laser scalpel, growth hormone, dual-channel defibrillator, jump system...]
[Description: Full name: Medical Transport Ship G-226, modified from APOD-33 transport. Can be remotely controlled...]
It was a completely new character template that Ling Ke had extracted less than ten minutes ago.
And it was precisely its appearance that prompted him to improvise and slightly adjust the details of his plan.
Yes, improvise.
Currently, there are tens of thousands of troops under Ling Ke's command that can revive infinitely.
On this foundation, he has acquired extensive knowledge related to "combat," from which he has selected hundreds of key figures to form an expert group.
Well... one could call it: the strategy staff.
Up to today, besides the strategy team, Ling Ke has also created an information department, a defense department, and an intelligence department.
Thanks to them, many minor tasks no longer require his direct attention.
For example, he no longer needs to constantly monitor the system interface to surprise himself.
Because the strategy team adjusts, modifies, and formulates more effective plans in real time, based on the current situation and new developments.
Now, Ling Ke's active plans—archived only for emergencies—already number over a thousand.
And that number continues to grow as new character templates from games arrive one after another.
So then...
—The details of our plans are constantly changing.
—This approach would be completely unfeasible for a conventional human army.
—Because the way they share information among themselves is far less efficient than ours.
—Moreover, there are variables like trust, emotions, motivations... too many factors that affect the details of a plan.
—Only we, who are "unified as one," can leverage these strengths to the fullest.
—In other words: "so the enemy can't figure out what we really intend to do."
Exactly.
Ling Ke knows that even if he can leverage his superlearning capacity—thanks to the "Law of Domination" and the "World-Ender Player"—to evolve a thousand or ten thousand times faster, he will still likely be calculated against by those world-class geniuses.
After all, there's Otto, Einstein, Tesla... even Mebius and Velvie...
He doesn't underestimate his enemies.
Which is why...
—With multiple "fake moves," those enemies will be busy analyzing my intentions.
—Truth and lies, real and virtual, all mixed together.
—In the end, they won't find any answers.
—And they'll have no choice but to initiate contact with me on their own.
See, in the end everything comes full circle again.
And as for why his strategy team suddenly proposed to take the Moon...
—First, the appearance of the medical transport ships... their passive skill includes a "jump system," which gives us a certain degree of interstellar capability.
—In terms of travel efficiency between Earth and the Moon alone, we surpass the three major organizations… by at least 100,000 leagues.
—They can barely land on the Moon, but the number of times they can do so and the cost involved… force them to act with extreme caution.
—But us... we have no consumption.
—Based on that massive difference...
Ling Ke's key figures, in analyzing this, remembered Sirin's clumsy operation in the Honkai Impact: Second Impact plot, where she ended up killing herself.
Seriously... she could've just kept hurling meteorites from the Moon. A couple more impacts and humanity would've been extinct.
But she chose to return to Earth, where she was gunned down by every type of opponent.
From the current "enemy of humanity" perspective, Ling Ke doesn't even know how to rate such a move.
After all, for human civilization just a decade ago, even sending a few people to the Moon was a titanic task.
And then Benarés physically landed on the Moon.
But Sirin squandered that advantage.
Well, what's done is done.
Now...
—Sirin encountered the so-called "Will of the Honkai" in the ruins on the Moon.
—And attained her "multi-core" form.
—Considering that this will is merely a disguised division of the superintelligent AI "Prometheus" from the pre-civilizational era...
—Did it detect that Sirin's brain wasn't up to the task, and that's why it dared throw so many gems at her?
Ling Ke jokes calmly.
The ruins of the ancient civilization on the Moon... before, there was no way to reach them, but "now that we have the means, of course we must seize them at once."
Moreover, Sirin launched meteorites from the Moon... even if she abandoned that strategy later, Ling Ke won't repeat that mistake.
He's clear on this:
—Letting my puppet army dominate and kill alone yields points too inefficiently.
—But if I use meteorites instead...
Just look at Sirin's "immediate effects": tens of millions dead within a few days.
—Now that is a true "God's Staff."
Ling Ke sneered and waved his hand.
"唪~"
Australian desert, Earth.
Numerous space gates open on the surface.
One after another, the "Medical Transport Ships and Domination Puppets" take off.
Their engines were already running.
Now they begin to ascend slowly, the sound of the engines growing louder and louder.
Until...
"Whooo~"
"Whooo~"
"Whooo~"
Hundreds of "Domination Puppets and Medical Transport Ships" activate their jump systems. They launch in formation, like a swarm of meteorites, heading straight for the shining Moon.
At the same time...
—Oh... we wonder just how advanced the Destiny Headquarters' network system really is?
Under Ling Ke's Ministry of Information...
Hundreds of "Domination Puppets and Black Shadows" have already hacked Destiny's main headquarters.
They've also severed its external communications.
In fact, if they wanted, they could cause headquarters to fall like "Sokovia" from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
But...
—It's not time yet.
From his base, Ling Ke—hidden behind the scenes—slightly lifted the corner of his lips.
—The "information leak" of the protagonist group has begun.
—What a pity... because for me, now...
He smiled sarcastically:
—There's no such thing as "oversharing."