[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer":3,"chapter-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-1001":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cyberpunk: Cross-dimensional Science and Engineering",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1152960,1495,"Chapter 995 - 40: Advance","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-1001",1001,"\u003Cp>The dawn lightly spreads across the earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Europe has never experienced such a tense moment before, everyone is working overtime to ensure the production lines deliver the planned products correctly—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as transport vehicles are produced, they are taken away by drivers and remote control engineers; weapons, drones, and combat robots are transported immediately after production; soldiers rush to the frontlines even before receiving their weapons...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many even adjust their brain-machine equipment on the way, experiencing the real battlefield in virtual reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the real battlefield, the war has already begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No war drums or roars, only the low resonance of mechanical thundering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Titan Mecha crashes the yellow sands, the reconnaissance soldiers on Steel Bone Warhorses move swiftly through fields, hills, and deserts, drones scatter in reconnaissance; everything appears orderly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0212: The largest military action since World War II on this planet...we are surrounding the entire Middle East...over 250 times larger than Latovia...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0116: It’s strange, a few years ago we and the European Union were merely unfamiliar neighbors, now we have to fight side by side...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Christopher: No one wants to become a specimen made by robots.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the distance that separates the Iron Riders, network technology tightly connects them—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The King’s Throne acts as a signal base station, drones with relay capabilities accompany the line extension, on this network, hundreds of Iron Riders and tens of thousands of soldiers unite, tens of thousands of drones and armed vehicles head towards the frontline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Christopher, as the Royal Guard Captain and the first Iron Rider of Latovia, often faces numerous questions from newcomers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this country believes in Lille’s capabilities as King and is unwavering in the future he offers, not everyone possesses Christopher’s mindset, they can feel fear, they can feel terror, they can feel doubt...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They can also ponder, yet Lille cannot address each of their thoughts, the knowledge within the national think tank can hardly replace the living person’s presence to clarify their confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Steel Bone Warhorses carried these people who have never left Latovia across the European Continent, they saw long highways, vast fields, unending hills, and towering mountains, they saw countless people living on this land, they saw a world similar yet different from Latovia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A real, broader world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0212: We need to attack Ultron, like attacking the former Grand Duke’s head, strike the robot’s palace at any cost...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0212: But I don’t understand, why do we need to maintain such a large line?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although knowledge can be crammed into the memory in their heads, skills can be directly called using skill chips, but vision and cognition cannot; the Iron Riders and regular army, despite their tenacious will and excellent execution ability, cannot understand many things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, in their understanding, defeat the leader in a battle and half of it is won—they could completely launch a full offensive after breaking Ultron’s factories to maximize the raid’s benefits, rather than confront Ultron’s army head-on from the start.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How can they intercept the enemy on such a vast area? Why must the military force be dispersed to such an extent, and also intercept Ultron?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Christopher: If Ultron develops more troops, he can arbitrarily launch attacks on other regions of Europe, at that time it’d be passive. While his first wave is repelled, controlling him when his robot varieties and quantity are still manageable is the best choice...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the war scale is large, compared to historical wars, this is actually a blitzkrieg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it turns into a war of attrition, Ultron only needs to drop bombs everywhere to blow farms and factories sky-high—human society would be finished—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who knows if a self-iterating AI might evolve more sophisticated tactics and strategic thoughts from the history of human self-slaughter?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least for now, Ultron’s terror lies solely in his terrifying production capacity, and his first wave of attack thoughts are also very simple: concentrate forces to seize territory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he realizes the effectiveness of harassment strategies, the main cities might never see living beings outside them;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Christopher understands his compatriots’ perplexity: The European Union forces are still undergoing reorganization and upgrading, which means this first wave of attack, especially the vanguard army, are mostly Latovians.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they trust Lille, believe that the King’s decision leads them to the victory promised by Heaven’s sound, during their wretched days, there were not so many Europeans sacrificing to save them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Christopher: To save mankind—we can say that now, humanity counts on us.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0212: This sounds like a Crusaders’ tale from the church, defeating evil man-made things and saving the world, something like that.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Christopher: Unfortunately, this isn’t a story, we really are saving the world.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0154: I believe, the fact that Europeans cannot be relied upon doesn’t mean we can’t be relied upon; Ultron robots’ target is clearly not just the European Union, they’re not...uh, racists, they’re species extinction robots!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0054: I agree, if others can’t be relied upon, it doesn’t mean we have to abandon this world, His Majesty has given us everything, for the future, I would execute his orders without hesitation.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0212: Me too—guys, you misunderstood me, I just wanted to lighten the mood...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Iron Rider #0099: Don’t lighten the mood anymore, you’re not suited for this.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[A01 Alert: Anomalies detected.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Reconnaissance soldier #0876: Shot down an Ultron drone, we are approaching his area.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[C09 Area Report: Firefight occurred in the area!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[F05 Area Report: Multiple large Ultron robot formations confirmed, deploying fixed turrets—]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultron’s robot army swarmed out, artillery and missiles streak across the Middle Eastern sky, the battle has completely erupted!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The advancing lines start to report enemy sightings and firefight occurrences continuously, on the holographic map before Lille, lines in different areas begin to soften yellow then turn yellow—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The desert begins to observe a large number of mechanical factories and transport teams, as well as the mobilizing Ultron robot army!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is a full-scale engagement, and the facts prove Lille’s thoughts and frontline planning are correct:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost every area has engaged in combat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In cyberspace, Ultron’s hacking signals also start a full-scale assault on the combat network; distortion rate of information begins to rise rapidly, increasing line pressure sharply, Ultron launches a counterattack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Lille predicted, Ultron’s forces indeed far outnumber Latovia’s!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the instant of large-scale firefighting, Lille judged that they would be at a disadvantage—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the King’s Throne remains hovering high above the lines without showing any intention of joining the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The King’s Throne must wait for confirmation of Ultron’s core central location before joining the battlefield!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[D11 Area detects anomalies!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[We’ve detected strange optical scanning data!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[The ground is full of metal!]\u003C\u002Fp>",1125,"2026-06-03T12:33:47.681Z","2026-06-03T12:33:56.171Z",1,"novelbin.me","8f43fea7a8ff84289f86107173d94a73aa602ab71beff1693782f7e87ed0f767","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-1002","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-900",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]