The behemoth from the seabed came too quickly. The enormous waves were whipped up by the fearsome tentacles. It wasn’t Yi’s first time seeing the ocean, but it was her first time seeing a creature from the depths.
No wonder ships couldn’t pass through. In front of such a sea monster, even a 100,000-ton cruise ship wouldn’t be able to withstand it.
Yi controlled the drone to fly downwards, as if wanting to properly record this precious moment. All the cameras on the drone focused on the tentacles before being flown back to the hive.
She thought, these photos will definitely sell for a lot of money to the media…
The little dinosaur started calculating her Xiao Jin’s treasury again. She didn’t want to miss any chance to make money.
In the Air Fortress, Qing Chen had also completed the final harvest. He stood calmly in the command cabin, showing no sign of fatigue. Yi helped him grasp the rhythm of battle; everything was just right.
Qing Chen asked in puzzlement, “Wait, there should be a Caucasian woman in this Air Fortress. Where did she hide?”
Yi said triumphantly, “I already helped you kill her!”
“What?” Qing Chen was stunned.
Yi smiled, “I intentionally left her a way out, letting her board the Airship, and then I shot down the Airship.”Qing Chen was looking for Nikita to get eyeballs for Shendai Yunluo.
But now, hearing Yi’s words, he immediately frowned.
Yi cautiously said, “Don’t be angry, I’m sure she didn’t have any Forbidden Artifact on her.”
Qing Chen shook his head, “It’s not because of that, but Yi… you can’t kill people.”
Yi was silent for a few seconds, “My brother isn’t here now, and besides, she’s your enemy, a very perverted enemy. There’s even video in the Air Fortress of her making specimens out of others. She deserved to die.”
“But she shouldn’t have been killed by a little girl,” Qing Chen patiently said, “I’m not very afraid of your brother coming to find trouble with me, after all, if you and I don’t say anything, he won’t know. But the problem is Yi, you’re still a little girl, you shouldn’t have blood on your hands, and your parents wouldn’t want you to grow up in this environment.”
Qing Chen continued, “I can indeed take you to the Forbidden Sea's Far Shore to slaughter, and you are indeed very, very powerful. I can be selfish and coax you into saying it’s okay, if I only treat you as a tool, I can convince myself not to be so sentimental. But Yi, in my eyes, you are a living little girl, you shouldn’t have blood on your hands.”
For Qing Chen, he really didn’t want to turn Yi into a monster who disregarded life because of his own selfishness.
He still preferred the current Yi, who carefully managed her Ling’s money.
Ren Xiaosu had taught her so well, it couldn’t be ruined by him.
Yi mumbled, “But I’m already a thousand years old.”
“Then you’re still a little girl in my eyes,” Qing Chen insisted.
Yi suddenly asked, “Then how old is the little girl you see me as?”
Qing Chen pondered for a moment, “About fourteen or fifteen years old.”
“Why so young? I think I’m at least seventeen,” Yi was somewhat discouraged.
“Alright, don’t dwell on this, reopen communications, and wait for the Roosevelt family’s contact,” Qing Chen calmly said, “Let’s see if we can deceive them.”
Five minutes later, Yi suddenly said, “They’re here.”
The communication channel opened, and a woman’s voice came through, “Report altitude, speed, coordinates, any anomalies.”
Yi imitated Nikita’s voice and replied, “Altitude 12,000 meters, speed 270 kilometers per hour, coordinates 3741, 2119, no anomalies.”
The woman calmly said, “Mr. Storm is very angry and incomprehensible about your failed operation in the East Continent, and hopes you are ready to bear his wrath. I’m waiting for you in Storm City, and will open a navigation channel for you then.”
The communication cut off.
Qing Chen breathed a sigh of relief. For the next few days, all he had to do was wait.
However, at this moment, he heard footsteps behind him. Qing Chen turned his head in astonishment and saw an Asian girl standing behind him.
Seeing him turn around, the girl turned around twice in place and said in Yi’s voice, “Look what I found!”
The girl was wearing a pink T-shirt and jeans, looking about seventeen or eighteen years old. She was wrapped in highly realistic nanomaterial skin, just like a real human.
Qing Chen was stunned. He never expected such an episode to occur: “You are…”
“I’m Yi,” Yi said happily, “I didn’t expect there to be such a robot in this Air Fortress. I was tired of the mechanical jailer’s body. This body is so flexible and good-looking. She’s Nikita’s personal servant in the Air Fortress, with quite powerful artificial intelligence, but unfortunately, she doesn’t have life.”
Qing Chen realized at this time that the Forbidden Sea's Far Shore’s technological development direction was actually very different from the Federation’s.
Because of historical reasons, the Federation doesn’t allow any robots to have Bionic Skin, nor does it allow anyone to develop artificial intelligence technology.
But the Forbidden Sea's Far Shore doesn’t have this historical baggage.
First of all, in the last wasteland civilization, the whole world experienced a two-hundred-year nuclear winter, and civilization was almost cut off. Everyone almost returned to the savage age.
However, the East Continent experienced an intelligent machine crisis, but the West Continent did not. From this point alone, the West Continent’s technological level must be ahead of the East Continent.
This is also one of the reasons why their Air Fortress Technology is more mature than the Federation’s.
Secondly, in terms of bionic people, because of Huo Zhong Company’s abuse of bionic technology, and because the East Continent civilization cares more about scientific ethics, bionic technology has always been resisted.
But the West Continent is different. The people there are unrestrained, they create whatever is useful to them, even if the West Continent is full of clones, Qing Chen wouldn’t be surprised.
Thirdly, in terms of robot research and development, the West Continent has already begun to manufacture robots with such a high degree of bionic characteristics, and they are comprehensively applying robots in the field of life, unlike the Federation, which only uses them for war.
Fourthly, the West Continent doesn’t have a network hunter like Li Shentan. Could it be that many people have already uploaded their consciousness to the network? Definitely!
The Federation is trying its best to prevent people from completely indulging in the network in order to improve productivity, but what about the West Continent? Could they already have extremely advanced virtual network technology?
Finally, could the West Continent also have… a super artificial intelligence like Yi?
Qing Chen couldn’t be sure. Ling’s birth was an accident, and Yi’s birth was Ling’s masterpiece. In the field of artificial intelligence, the breakthrough from 0 to 1 can be decades, or even thousands of years, just like humans who learned to use fire after tens of thousands of years of reproduction.
Thinking of this, Qing Chen became curious about the world of the West Continent.
Wouldn’t that be another kind of cyberpunk world?
Just as Qing Chen was thinking, Yi actually went back and changed her clothes, “Which one looks better, this one or the last one?”
Qing Chen seriously said, “Both look good.”
“Okay,” Yi said, “I’ll go and have a look again; there are many more clothes.”
Qing Chen asked, “What level is this robot?”
Yi thought for a moment, “Although it’s flexible enough, it doesn’t have strong power and a dynamic core, so it’s just an ordinary household robot and cannot be used for combat. However, I checked the chat content of the kingdom members and found that robots can be DIYed. The Roosevelt Robotics Company provides various optional accessories; you can choose better nanomaterial skins, choose bodyguard components…”
“Bodyguard components?” Qing Chen questioned.
Yi nodded, “Yes, it’s a package that includes built-in firearms in the mechanical arm, and a slightly better power core…”
“Can you choose higher ones?” Qing Chen questioned.
“Of course, I heard them say that you can also choose a nuclear-powered mechanical heart, equipped with powerful pulse weapons and pulse flight kits.”
Qing Chen was stunned. This is not Iron Man’s configuration. The West Continent could actually equip civilians with such things?!
If a war broke out, the East Continent would be very weak in terms of individual combat capabilities.
But Yi was a little frustrated, “But I don’t seem to be able to choose them.”
“Why?” Qing Chen curiously asked.
“Their social strata are divided into nobles, citizens, freemen, and slaves,” Yi said, “Only nobles can choose those best kits. Also, those things are very expensive, and I don’t have their currency.”
Qing Chen could see that Yi had just gotten a new body and liked it very much, and she also had a strong interest in those modifiable parts.
It’s like a child playing a nurturing game, always wanting to make his or her character more powerful.
Forget Yi, aren’t Qing Chen and the others also working hard in Cultivation to make themselves stronger?
Qing Chen suddenly said, “Whatever others have, I will get it for you.”
Yi’s eyes lit up, “Really?”
She stuck out her pinky finger, “Hook, no going back!”
Qing Chen stuck out his pinky finger to hook, but felt something strange…
He instructed, “If you encounter a suitable island for human survival, stay for a while, and put all the black and Asian people on the Air Fortress down there, give them enough resources and tools, let them fend for themselves, maybe they can build a small kingdom.”
“Aren’t you taking them to the West Continent?” Yi curiously asked.
“Well, once the Dominating Vessel arrives there, there is always a danger of crashing, there is no need to drag them along to their deaths,” Qing Chen said.
Although it is very hard to be put on a desert island, this is the only thing Qing Chen can do.
“Okay, according to their navigation map, there will be an island in two days. It was originally one of the Royal Organization’s selected forward bases, but later because it was too far off course, they didn’t choose it,” Yi said, “By the way, there are other fun things on the Air Fortress!”
Speaking of which, Yi, without any scruples, pulled Qing Chen’s wrist and turned to run towards the third-floor white area.
At this time, those black people were still gathered here, not knowing what had happened.
They saw that Qing Chen had actually come back alive, and for a moment they were a little at a loss.
In their imagination, there were more than a thousand white combat members on the Air Fortress, and the powerful Nikita.
It would be very simple to kill someone with such a large combat group.
Therefore, the black brothers just stayed here honestly, waiting for Nikita to lead people to drive them back to the fourth floor.
As a result, they didn’t wait for Nikita, but Qing Chen…
What the hell? Could it be that the passage between the second and third floors is closed, so this guy can survive? But everyone clearly heard the gunshots just now!
Qing Chen glanced at them and said, “Don’t be stunned, find the tools you need, in two days I’ll put all of you on a desert island, then, besides food, each person can take two things from the Air Fortress, as for whether you can survive, how you survive, it’s all up to you. Go play.”
After saying all this, Yi pulled Qing Chen to the door of a separate room. He looked at the nameplate on the door: Virtual Cabin.
“Wait, what is this place?” Qing Chen asked in astonishment.
“I learned from the members of the kingdom that when they take turns resting, they can use the virtual cabin here, using Neural Link technology to enter a virtual network called ‘Superconducting’. It’s like a city, with everything, just like the Federation uses computers and mobile phones to surf the Internet. When soldiers are on a rest rotation in the Air Fortress, they can reunite with their families, girlfriends, and wives in ‘Superconducting’.”
Qing Chen was astonished. The Federation used Neural Link technology to control drones, War Robots, mechanical hunting dogs, and possession.
The West Continent, on the other hand, has fully popularized this technology for civilian use and developed a complete virtual world!
No, Qing Chen suddenly realized this is also the difference in the environment between the East and West Continents.
In the Federation, the development is two hundred years behind, the five Conglomerates are each in charge of their own affairs, cities build city walls, entry requires visas, and the network is isolated, so the core direction of everyone’s research and development is biased towards the military.
But the West Continent has been unified for many years, the foundation of life has improved, and it is natural to develop entertainment branches.
From a certain point of view, the West Continent is more like a traditional cyberpunk.
The door of the virtual cabin opened, revealing rows of neatly arranged cryosleep pods. Qing Chen asked, “What verification qualifications are needed to enter Superconducting? ID, DNA, or iris?”
“Brainwaves,” Yi explained, “Everyone’s brainwaves are unique, just like DNA… unfortunately, I don’t have a brain, so I don’t have brainwaves. After you go in and have a play, tell me what it’s like!”
Qing Chen couldn’t help but laugh, “Don’t say you don’t have a brain.”
“Okay.”
Qing Chen slowly lay down. As a circle of green light scanned the virtual cabin, he suddenly felt… his consciousness seemed to be connected to some mysterious world.
He gradually let go of his guard and fell into darkness.
The next moment, he found himself in a pure white room, with no walls around him, only white soft light.
Opposite him was a mirror, but it was empty.
A gentle voice said, “The decentralized world ‘Superconducting’ welcomes your entry. A new brainwave has been detected, confirmed as a new player. Please start choosing your image.”
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