Chapter 585 New Requirements

"Your Majesty, I have brought Lawrence here!" The officer came to the door of the room and knocked on it loudly.

"Let him in!" Li Mingze responded.

The officer stretched out his hand to open the door, made a gesture of invitation, and Lawrence hurriedly walked into the room.

When Lawrence entered the room, he saw more than a dozen people wearing military uniforms like him, but without any military atmosphere, standing in front of a desk.

And sitting behind the desk was Li Mingze himself.

"Long live His Majesty!" Lawrence was startled and stood at attention and saluted.

"Okay, everyone is here!"

"The information you are going to access next is the highest level of secrets of the empire. You must not disclose it to the outside world. If the information is leaked for any reason, you and your family and friends will evaporate from this world! Do you understand!" Li Mingze said loudly to the fifteen young people with a serious face.

"I understand!" Lawrence and others hurriedly straightened their bodies and answered firmly.

"Very good, follow me." Li Mingze waved and turned to walk to one side of the room.

After detecting Li Mingze coming, the wall on one side of the room melted into a pool of liquid and spread to both sides.

Passing through this door, Lawrence and others came to a conference room of several hundred square meters. In the middle of the conference room was a large round table with nearly a hundred seats around it.

Following Li Mingze's signal, Lawrence and others sat down in the designated positions, and then a series of light screens flashed, and the originally empty seats were filled with scientists from the Empire.

"The meeting officially begins! The content of the meeting is SSS-level top secret. You will be isolated for twenty years after the meeting, and at least two robots will follow you every day for monitoring."

"I will briefly explain the current situation to you!" Li Mingze waved his hand after speaking, and a holographic projection of the Empire's starting point ring world appeared in the air.

"The capital of our empire, Qidianhuan World, is a relic that our empire accidentally discovered. The builder of this miraculous building has been lost in the long river of history."

"The reason they perished was because of a race called Zerg! This Zerg is not the brainless race with obvious weaknesses that you have seen in novels and movies." Li Mingze said as the holographic screen in the middle of the conference table turned into hundreds of insect-like creatures of various shapes.

"The Zerg is an interstellar race led by a queen. Their queen completely controls this huge biological empire from the genetic and spiritual level."

"In addition to the cannon fodder Zerg, according to the records of ancient civilizations, ordinary members of the Zerg also have their own consciousness, but their consciousness can be unconditionally controlled and deprived by the queen."

"In addition, the relics of ancient civilizations also mentioned the two main categories of this Zerg."

"The two major categories are the combat type with a body structure like a beast and the tool type with a body structure close to primates. The combat type Zerg has a combat ability far beyond that of ordinary people."

"And the humanoid Zerg is good at using various tools, which is no different from our technological civilization!"

"While the Zerg is constantly devouring and harvesting various civilizations, it also uses the tool type Zerg to absorb the essence of technology of various races! They are no longer a simple biological civilization!" Li Mingze said this and played a precious battle scene left by the ancient civilization.

A silver warship with a clear technological appearance flew towards the fleet of the ancient civilization. The fleet of the ancient civilization did not suspect that the warship was a Zerg warship at first.

But when the warship approached, tens of thousands of metal balls were shot out from the warship, and these metal balls flew into the air and turned into ring structures.

Then a series of small portals appeared in the ring structure, and countless self-destructing Zergs swarmed out of these portals like a swarm of bees.

Just when the fleet of the ancient civilization wanted to attack these self-destructing Zergs, a shield suddenly stretched out in front of the warship that had just flown to block all attacks. Under the cover of this shield, the self-destructing Zergs slowly approached the fleet of the ancient civilization, and the next scene was a one-sided massacre that was unbearable to watch.

"As you can see, this Zerg has perfectly integrated electronic technology and their biotechnology."

"And this Zerg is now approaching our Milky Way!" Li Mingze waved his hand again after speaking, and a red dot that was constantly approaching the Milky Way appeared on the screen.

"A few days ago, I don't know what means this Zerg fleet used, but all long-range weapons in our galaxy were limited to one thousandth of the speed of light!"

"What does this mean? It means that all our original tactics for beyond-visual-range combat are no longer effective! In the next battle with the Zerg, our original weapons will lose their best effect, and the design of the warships is outdated!"

"This is why I recruited you! We need to redesign the warships and weapons! The original design that focused on frontal defense and attack is no longer suitable. All the battles from now on will be carried out in close combat!" Li Mingze said solemnly to everyone.

"Your Majesty, are you saying that the work of designing a new warship will be handed over to us?" Lawrence said in disbelief.

"That's right. You are the only ones who have participated in the design of interstellar battleships and then in the design of battleships from World War I to World War II. I need you to give valuable suggestions to the battleship designers of the Empire and assist them in completing the design of the Empire's new battleships!" Li Mingze nodded and affirmed.

"Next, I just need you to design a battleship. The requirements for this battleship are that the size cannot be too large, the armor must be thick, and the combat method is close-range combat!" Li Mingze said this with his careful consideration.

Designing only one battleship is to speed up the design of the battleship and make the design of this battleship perfect.

At the same time, the requirement of small size is to be able to coat a layer of dimensional armor for a small number of battleships!

The Empire will change the situation of building larger and larger battleships in the past, and the battleships produced in the future will be miniaturized.

"Your Majesty, I have a different opinion!" Lawrence suddenly raised his hand.

"Speak up!" Li Mingze looked at Lawrence curiously.

"Your Majesty, since long-range weapons cannot be used, what is the definition of this weapon!"

"Does it refer to all warships, spaceships, drones, fighters, and artillery, or is it limited to beam weapons and ballistic weapons?"

"If drones are not judged as long-range weapons, can we vigorously develop aircraft carriers? After all, aircraft carriers are the kings in this kind of battle!" Lawrence said, pushing his glasses for show.