Yi was Qing Chen’s only teammate on this trip.
If Qing Chen were to arrive at Storm City alone, how much damage could he inflict? As a stranger, unfamiliar with the place, what could he possibly accomplish?
Therefore, after arriving at City 5, Qing Chen’s first task was to find Yi.
It wasn’t just to deal with the Puppeteer; he also needed Yi to go with him to the other side of the Forbidden Sea.
The Old Master on Ginkgo Mountain asked him: What is your purpose in going to the other side of the Forbidden Sea? Qing Chen said he wanted to understand the enemy’s situation and kill the King.
But actually, these weren’t the most important things. The most important thing was Yi. He needed to unleash ‘Yi from the other side’ to inflict real disaster on the enemy!
However, he couldn’t reveal Yi’s existence, so he couldn’t tell the Old Master.
Qing Chen didn’t intend to have Yi help in fighting; this was something he’d promised Li Shentan…
But having Yi help summarize and organize useful information was certainly acceptable, right?
What intelligence network could be better than Yi?As long as it wasn’t a physically isolated network, Yi could waltz right in!
In the Federation, Yi was constrained by his elder, Li Shentan, only able to engage in small-scale activities under an assumed identity to earn some Ling money. After only helping Qing Chen twice, Li Shentan came out to punish him, the ‘bad guy’ who had led his niece astray.
But this was a super AI!
A super AI capable of triggering an AI crisis, yet acting like a schoolchild, carefully saving up Ling money – how could that be?
It must be said, Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin’s upbringing was truly excellent. Qing Chen had imagined what an AI would be like, how dangerous it could be.
He’d thought of ten thousand possibilities, but he never imagined it would be such a well-behaved “little girl”.
Of course, this little girl was now a bit rebellious. Having lived for a thousand years, she had finally reached puberty and wanted to go out and play.
Bringing such an entity to the other side of the Forbidden Sea, to a place without Li Shentan, Qing Chen suspected Yi could cause their technology to regress by fifty years.
At this moment, Yi suddenly asked: “Bringing me out like this… is this considered eloping?”
“No,” Qing Chen said expressionlessly.
“Oh, okay,” Yi said. “I was hoping to experience eloping. But I really like this big toy you gave me.”
“Glad you like it,” Qing Chen also showed a slight smile. Somehow, seeing Yi so happy with the gift made him feel happy as well.
Who would have thought Qing Chen’s first gift would be an Air Fortress?
Only two Air Fortresses had come to the other side of the Forbidden Sea, and Qing Chen had managed to obtain one through his plan.
Qing Chen said: “Have you figured out the Air Fortress? If so, let’s prepare to kill.”
Yi curiously asked: “We’re only 610 kilometers from Federation City 1, we haven’t flown very far. We’re also only 890 kilometers from Shendai’s Northern Army Group. Should we make a surprise attack and hit them?”
If the Air Fortress suddenly flew back, Shendai’s Northern forces would likely suffer heavy casualties.
But Qing Chen shook his head: “Our current target is not them; the Roosevelt family is the most important enemy. If we attack Shendai, the Roosevelt family will certainly know that the Dominating Vessel is out of control. Then, it will be much harder for us to approach it.”
“That’s true…” Yi said. “I’m ready, let’s do it.”
Qing Chen was located outside the gym in the third-floor white activity area. After having the black people hide in the restaurant, he immediately walked outside.
Before he had taken two steps, the familiar sound of playing Dou Dizhu (a Chinese card game) rang out.
The originally imposing prelude to the battle instantly became festive and joyous, and Qing Chen couldn’t help but laugh and cry: “Why are you playing music?”
“Powerful characters have BGM when they make their entrance!” Yi said. “I’m playing Happy Dou Dizhu in the Outer World, and I’ve already won several hundred billion Happy Beans, and I’ve also made a lot of money through this method.”
“Making money? Can’t you sell Happy Beans?” Qing Chen asked in confusion.
“I help others win Happy Beans,” Yi said naturally. “Someone spends 100 yuan to top up 12 million Happy Beans, and I’ll play for them. It takes at most half an hour to win them. I can handle several thousand orders a day; it’s very efficient. I can play thousands of games simultaneously, it’s no effort at all.”
Qing Chen was dumbfounded. Topping up Happy Beans actually involved personally playing the game to win?
Of course, an ordinary AI playing Go can make the world’s number one player cry, so a super AI winning Happy Beans was naturally no problem.
But the issue was, your methods of earning Ling money were too simple for a super AI!
Also, after someone buys a Happy Bean top-up, they’ll ask after a while, “Is it done?” and you reply, “Wait a minute, still playing,” – that’s too outrageous!
No wonder Yi later disappeared from the Outer World; it turns out she didn’t lack money!
Although the individual transactions were small, the sheer volume made up for it!
At this time, the air pressure gate in front of Qing Chen opened, and more than ten white people were isolated in the corridor.
He smiled and greeted them: “Good evening, everyone.”
Before they could react, Qing Chen and Silhouette had already passed by them.
Qing Chen had transparent Marionette wrapped around his hand. When this transparent knife passed across their necks, it would bring out drops of blood, but immediately afterward, all the people and blood were turned to ashes by the Marionette, one by one, as sacrifices.
At one point, Qing Chen even thought that the second function of the Marionette was to kill without leaving blood, so as not to stain his clothes and the ground.
Wherever he passed, nothing would be left behind.
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At this time, the combat personnel in the Air Fortress had already been assembled.
Nikita commanded them to proceed to the third floor from three different passages. However, just as these white people received their weapons and lined up to enter the passages, they were divided by numerous gates.
The multi-stage gates were originally intended to maintain the airtightness of the fortress. At an altitude of 12,000 meters, even if some of the outer protective armor was damaged, or even if half of the fortress was damaged, the multi-stage gates could still maintain airtightness, preventing everyone from dying of hypoxia at high altitude.
However, these gates, originally designed to save lives, became tools for Yi to divide the battlefield for Qing Chen. She used the fortress’s multi-stage gates in creative ways, effectively splitting more than 1,200 white people into dozens of groups.
Everyone could only angrily bang on the gates in the corridor, waiting for Qing Chen to reap them!
Every time Qing Chen finished clearing a section of the corridor, a new gate would open in front of him. The entire battle process was smooth and seamless, with perfect coordination.
Yi not only had to divide the battlefield but also had to consider the number of enemies in each batch, their weapons, and how many to leave for Qing Chen each time.
After all, the Air Fortress’s information database contained information on every individual, including management records and past combat records. All of this became the basis for Yi’s calculations.
In an instant, the Air Fortress’s built-in quantum computer only took 0.001 seconds to find the optimal solution.
It even ensured that there were at most two Gene Soldiers in each batch.
Regardless of whether Qing Chen could defeat them, the number was always within Qing Chen’s effortless handling capacity.
As a result, Qing Chen fought his way through, unstoppable.
The moment the next gate opened, the entire Air Fortress suddenly tilted 45 degrees to the left. Qing Chen seemed to have already known this, and he steadily charged forward uphill, while the enemies behind the gate all suddenly lost their balance and fell towards him!
Qing Chen didn’t even need to exert much effort; those people seemed to have voluntarily delivered themselves to the blade, offering their necks to be cut!
Qing Chen and Yang Yang’s cooperation was based on complete trust in each other. Their combined abilities displayed powerful air combat capabilities.
Their most glorious achievement was shooting down a Class A Airship with ordinary human bodies.
The cooperation between Qing Chen and Yi was a seamless connection between two precision machines, ultimate calculation.
Just like back at the A02 base, 24 War Robots assisted Qing Chen in his breakthrough at the perfect angles!
Now, the members of the Royal Organization felt the same fear that Shendai had once felt.
They only felt that this Air Fortress wasn’t their home ground, but the Joker’s home ground! Even the Air Fortress was helping the Joker!
At this moment, Nikita stood in the command cabin. All the screens in front of her were turned off, so she couldn’t see what was happening inside.
The map on the Holographic Sand Table had also disappeared, leaving only a holographically projected playing card: a gray Joker, the Jack.
It floated in the air, slowly rotating.
Nikita stared blankly. Every playing card Qing Chen had left behind was a colored Joker, the King.
What was this gray one?
Could it be that there are two Jokers?
She opened the satellite communication channel, wanting to inform the King of the situation as soon as possible, but all communication requests were unanswered.
It’s over!
The Dominating Vessel Air Fortress has fallen!
Nikita didn’t choose to fight alongside others. She knew very well that when the Joker appeared on this Air Fortress, everything was already over.
When so many of them went to Mount Everest before, weren’t they completely helpless against him? How many A-Classes were there then? Now W is dead, Arthur is dead, Li Yunze is dead.
Going to the Dominating Vessel alone to kill the Joker? Unrealistic.
Nikita even regretted it a little. If she had known this would happen, why had she ordered the poisoning of the Joker, pretending not to know that he was on the Air Fortress?
However, she couldn’t understand how the Joker controlled the Air Fortress.
Nikita tentatively whispered: “Who are you?”
No one answered.
She stood up and hurried out, first putting on a high-altitude protective suit and oxygen mask in the equipment room, then forcefully opening the manual valve leading to the first deck.
Strangely, the manual valve opened without any obstruction.
Nikita slowly and steadily came to the deck, opened the Airship’s safety lock, and jumped in!
There were Fighter Jets on the deck, but the Fighter Jets’ cruising range was 8,000 kilometers, not enough to reach the other side of the Forbidden Sea, and Fighter Jets required higher piloting skills.
Nikita had to escape from the Air Fortress! As far as possible!
The Class A Airship’s cabin door closed, instantly completing the airtight pressurization. She removed her oxygen mask, working as five people, quickly completing the Airship’s adjustments.
The roar of the engine started!
With the help of the huge jet flames, the Airship slowly rose into the sky, tilting its hull to detach from the deck.
However, at this moment, Nikita saw in her 360-degree panoramic view that countless beehives suddenly opened on the waist of the Air Fortress behind her.
Half of the Air Fortress’s drones were destroyed while resisting the cockroach tide, and the other half were all here!
Teardrop-shaped drones flew like locusts, forming a helical DNA-like forward sequence in the air to minimize air resistance in the most precise way.
Nikita was desperate. Neither the Class A Airship nor the Air Fortress were known for their speed; they were fortresses in the sky, but they moved relatively slowly.
But the drones equipped with pulse engines were different. From the moment they were created, they pursued ultimate speed!
Nikita watched the approaching drone swarm, only able to let out a helpless wail. Only at this moment did she understand that the reason they had let her leave was simply because it was more convenient to deal with an A-Class this way.
A-Class fighting A-Class, even if Qing Chen was more skilled, there was still some risk.
Who knows what kind of trump cards this crazy woman still has?
Therefore, in Yi’s calculation, giving her a way out, then killing her with a swarm of drones, would allow them to completely neutralize her, which was the optimal solution.
Of course, if they found a Forbidden Artifact on her after she left, that would be another matter.
After all, Yi knew that Qing Chen loved Forbidden Artifacts.
Qing Chen had given her such a big toy, and she wanted to give something back, but it’s a pity.
But it doesn’t matter, there are so many Forbidden Artifacts on the other side of the Forbidden Sea, and she can always help Qing Chen find something he likes.
At this moment, Nikita also released the drone swarm from the Class A Airship.
However, how could the drone swarm she controlled compare to Yi’s?
When her drone swarm opened fire, Yi’s drone swarm had already anticipated the trajectory, dodging all the trajectories by an extremely small distance.
The drones’ laser launchers crisscrossed in the sky, as if weaving a huge net.
But Yi’s drones were able to fly in the gaps of the grid!
Nikita even felt a sense of helplessness. She felt that she could not hit the enemy no matter what, even if she had hundreds of drones, it seemed useless!
This is the computing power of a super AI. If the drone swarms are the black and white pieces on a chessboard, then Yi is completely crushing Nikita, every detail within the calculation.
In an instant, Yi’s teardrop-shaped drones also opened fire. In an instant, the drone swarm weaved a magnificent laser net in the air.
Just this instant.
Nikita saw that the control screen in front of her suddenly turned red: All drones destroyed!
She was shocked. What kind of air combat ability was this? What kind of target locking ability was this!
In an instant, hundreds of drones were destroyed. Even the best pilots in the Roosevelt family couldn’t do this, right?!
The next moment, the laser net covered the Airship she was in.
“Power system damaged.”
“Anti-gravity system damaged.”
“Ammunition depot damaged…”
Nikita felt weightlessness. The huge Class A Airship, burning fiercely, fell towards the Forbidden Sea!
8,000-meter altitude.
4,000-meter altitude.
1,000-meter altitude.
With a loud boom, the Airship crashed into the sea, shattering into pieces!
But that wasn’t the end. In the unfathomable depths of the sea, several huge octopus tentacles suddenly reached out, easily dragging the Airship into the deep seabed.
Even Yi let out a soft “Wow” at this sight.
This is the human forbidden zone, the Forbidden Sea!
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