All right. Those carbon-based monkeys who lived for barely a century thought the entire universe would share the same moral standards. That was where humanity's shallowness lay—and its arrogance, too.
...I think Professor Huo said that. His character was debatable, but he was probably competent. Yu Lian decided he should take his word for it.
So, Little Gray's claim that it was "ridiculous" had a good deal of merit.
In any case, the truth about the Ring of Miracles should be clear by now. The friendly forces still there had found and activated the mechanism that would destroy the dome over Sector 1487. Whether the credit went to Major General Marlowen, the veteran archaeologist; Long Yuan, the Lingyan Society's star pupil; or some other team of heroes didn't matter.
What mattered was that some genius had suddenly come up with the idea of turning it into a way to threaten the Galactic Empire.
And it had clearly worked.
The Imperial fleet at the Ring of Miracles had been thoroughly spooked. Even the famous Vulcan had left its temporary port on the ring, putting at least one astronomical unit between itself and the ringworld.
Under the circumstances, when Yang's fleet entered the Ring of Miracles system from another direction, the Imperial forces didn't even send anyone to intercept them.
Of course, Yang's fleet didn't make a scene, either. Yang Xiyi might have seemed reckless, but he was always steady as a rock. Every apparently "crazy" move he made was the result of careful consideration. He knew full well that if it came to a fight, Yang's entire fleet might not be able to take on a single Vulcan. Besides, the Earth soldiers had been badly shaken by the sight of the Ring of Miracles' dome destroying itself.
In the end, Yang's