SFS Chapter 414 Reinforcements
Chapter 414 Reinforcements
Chapter 414 Reinforcements
Lin Xuan didn't want to stay here for too long. The three nanobots he left on the ground to conduct reconnaissance had all lost contact, which meant that something unexpected must have happened on the ground.
The nanobots condensed into a sharp knife at his fingertips, and almost without hesitation, Lin Xuan intended to slit the throat of the little girl in front of him.
"Wait a moment!"
Wei Ming seemed to have sensed Lin Xuan's almost undisguised killing intent. She knew that if she didn't do something now, she might really die.
“I have a way to help you get a legal way into the capital planet.”
……
Fifteen days later, Lin Xuan threw the last bag of luggage onto the spaceship.
"This is a small escort ship. I've made some technical upgrades to maximize its escape capabilities and stealth. It should be more than enough for you to handle most situations, boss." Lin Qi demonstrated the operation to Lin Xuan while adjusting the design drawings.
"I named this ship 'White Dove.' As per your request, all the weapon systems have been removed and replaced with propulsion systems. Boss, are you sure this won't cause any problems? I just feel that a ship without any weapons is too dangerous."
Lin Xuan calmly boarded the cabin.
"I am the greatest weapon on this ship."
"set sail!"
The hatch slowly closed, and Lin Xuan casually found a seat and handed over control of the spaceship to the AI.
The battle with the machine servants in the underground facility brought the amount of nanobots stored in his body to an astonishing level, to the point that he could no longer store them all if he didn't use the system space for storage.
He strongly disliked using systems, not to show off or demonstrate fault tolerance, but simply because he always harbored a certain wariness towards the unknown.
Now, he is about to come into contact with the third-level civilization system, but the clues of the system are still a mystery. In addition to fear, the unknown can also give him another trump card.
The enemy he now faces has gradually shifted from the open to the shadows. Just like Bai Bing, without truly exploring, he would never have imagined that the other party would be hiding right beside him.
Therefore, when he has other ways to solve the current problem, he will try his best to hide his other abilities.
He was very clear about the principle that it's better to keep something to yourself than to show off your skills.
With a jolt below, the White Dove, like a wild beast breaking free of its cage, sped off the ground at an incredible speed.
Lynch's modifications were much better than he had anticipated. The spaceship's speed exceeded that of similar, normally-speeding spaceships by 38 watts per second, which was almost the limit.
Smaller objects cannot provide such a large boost, while larger objects may simply fall apart. Lin Xuan does not believe that Lin Qi did not carefully consider this.
He didn't bring anyone with him this time because he didn't trust anyone.
Starfire has only just taken down Revelation III, and the situation is still unstable. Although Simothers listens to his every word, WALL-E and Hope are never pushovers.
Lin Xuan had previously considered talking to the two of them, since she couldn't stay at Revelation III forever, and with Simothers's abilities, he simply couldn't maintain the daily operations of such a large organization. Without their assistance, Starfire's internal problems would soon erupt.
But the two of them avoided Lin Xuan like the plague, as if they were deliberately avoiding something. Lin Xuan didn't need to guess to know that perhaps her actions this time far exceeded the expectations of the forces behind them, causing them to reassess the possibility of cooperating with her.
During this period, any contact I had with these two people was considered a danger signal.
Hope is likely backed by Yingguang Pharmaceuticals, and if Walle is not backed by Huoling Heavy Industry, another of the three major giants, then it can only be the military government.
However, since the other party chose to avoid dealing with him, Lin Xuan was too lazy to put on a show of goodwill. But after he left, Simothers was definitely no match for the two of them, so the Thirteenth Squad had to stay as well.
On one hand, the Thirteenth Squad represents the Mind Earth; on the other hand, they are also tasked with guarding the hostages.
That's right, Lin Xuan ultimately didn't kill Wei Ming. In his view, a living member of the Disaster Star was far more valuable to him than a dead Wei Ming.
Internet surveillance will certainly spare no effort to try to rescue this jinxed member, and this is his bargaining chip in dealing with these forces.
As for the method Wei Ming mentioned for safely arriving at the capital planet, it was nothing more than an identity card and an informant.
Just as Lin Xuan was pondering, Zhi Zi's projection appeared on his watch.
"Mr. Lin Xuan, you have truly disappointed me."
Tomoko's face showed an expression that was both crying and laughing, revealing her helplessness.
"You'd rather trust a cyber hacker who wants to kill you the first time you meet than trust me, your friend of many years? I told you before that I had a better way to help you infiltrate the capital planet. I thought you just had other things to take care of, but it turns out you don't trust me at all."
Zhi Zi had proposed a plan to infiltrate the capital planet a long time ago, but Lin Xuan ignored it. He had been tricked by this AI more than once. If he could trust a single word from this thing again, he would change his name!
"What's the difference? Anyway, I'm going to enter the capital planet now. At least I did what you said, didn't I?" Lin Xuan started acting like a rogue. After all, the other party was an artificial intelligence, and he didn't know if the artificial intelligence would really be sad.
Zhizi was speechless; he couldn't refute what the other person said, so he had to change the subject.
"Once we arrive on the capital planet, you'll need to be more discreet. You can't be as carefree as you are here. Mechanical Earth has very little control over the peripheral areas, but it places great importance on the core areas. If you're not careful, you might get yourself into trouble."
Lin Xuan nodded: "Don't worry, I've always kept a low profile."
Tomoko had been expressionless, but upon hearing his words, she was instantly amused and exasperated.
"You mean you're being low-key? You mean leading a civilian organization to overthrow the government, and incidentally kidnapping members of a special operations team monitoring the internet, all of that counts as being low-key?"
"If you were low-key, there would be no one in the world who would be high-key!"
……
Meanwhile, in the outer ring of the Elbato star cluster.
The pitch-black universe is like a boundless curtain, swallowing all light.
The stars were sparsely scattered in the distance, their faint light seemingly suppressed by the endless darkness, making them appear exceptionally lonely.
Occasionally, a few streaks of energy, like aurora borealis, would flash by, illuminating the surrounding void for a moment before vanishing just as quickly as if they had never existed. Silence was the only theme here; even time seemed to stand still in this nothingness.
In the boundless expanse of starry sky, steel warships emerged silently like ghosts. Their silhouettes appeared cold and sharp under the starlight, their hulls reflecting a faint metallic sheen, as if blending into the darkness. The warships' engines emitted a deep hum, like some behemoth breathing in the deep sky, carrying a sense of suppressed power.
"The D183 probe ship has arrived and is deploying its space stabilization anchor."
A mechanical voice broke the brief silence in the communication channel. Chu Yan stood in the command center of the main ship, gazing at the silvery-white starry sky ahead through the huge observation window.
The silvery-white star clusters, like scattered pearls, float in the boundless darkness. The light of these star clusters is not dazzling, but rather has a cold quality, like frozen light, quietly embedded in the curtain of the universe.
It was deathly silent. Even in the face of such light, Chu Yan felt no warmth at all. This ancient battlefield was perhaps the graveyard where their entire civilization perished.
For some reason, Chu Yan felt as if there were pairs of eyes watching him from the darkness around him, which made him pick up his communicator.
"Zhang Beihai, we have arrived at the designated area. Are we permitted to enter ahead of schedule?"
"permit."