Chapter 689: Declaration of war

"Wait! Please don't do this!"

Seeing that Li Ang seemed determined to light the fire and take himself away in one wave, Atifi 128, who was facing a life-and-death crisis, had to retreat to the second best and begged with a child's voice that carried a taste of panic:

"If you must blow up the airship, can you take me away? Don't blow me up together?"

Take this "artificial intelligence" away?

Hearing Atifi 128's proposal, a look of excitement couldn't help but emerge on Li Ang's face.

Although the kingdom didn't have anything like the "Internet" and the infrastructure was extremely lacking, taking her away wouldn't do anything, at most she could only be used as a chat machine.

But this was an intelligent machine after all, and even for the Keroke Kingdom, it was that kind of precious asset that could not be replicated. Being able to take her away was naturally better than destroying her.

Not to mention that he still had the badge system on him. If he could get badges like "Father of AI" or "Master of Intelligent Machines" after taking her away...

"Lead the way!"

After extinguishing the burning match in his hand, Li Ang warned coldly:

"You'd better not play any tricks, and don't even think about delaying time, delaying until those guards come up to save you. The whale fat of the airship has already begun to volatilize. As long as there is a spark, it will explode immediately. As long as the guards come up and fire a shot, you will explode directly!"

"I know."

Atifi 128 said somewhat aggrieved:

"I just don't want to be completely destroyed now, and I won't try to do these high-risk attempts... Please go to the control room as soon as possible. My most important core components and data are in the black fifteen-protection box behind the main control panel."

Li Ang frowned upon hearing this, and while rushing to the control room, asked:

"What is that fifteen-protection black box?"

"It is a black fifteen-protection box. It is a box that is high-temperature-proof, water-proof, shock-proof, ionization-proof, impact-proof... dust-proof, and low-temperature-proof. It is a storage container specially customized by Atifi 01 to prevent us sub-bodies from being damaged."

"But it can't prevent this scale of explosion, and being smashed directly from the sky of seven hundred meters, right?"

"Yes... when the fifteen-protection box was designed, it didn't consider that it would encounter such extreme situations."

"No wonder."

Li Ang couldn't help but sneer upon hearing this.

"I said why you didn't come out to speak before, and had to wait until I finished pouring all the whale oil to show your face. It turns out you spent time calculating carefully and found that you definitely wouldn't survive after being blown up and then smashed, so you were in a hurry, right?"

"Mr. Li Ang, your expression is not precise enough. We sub-bodies are just a kind of computing logic that is difficult to replicate, and there is no concept of death and life. It should be called destruction and maintenance."

"Follow mine from now on. If it is destroyed, it is death; if it is not destroyed, it is life."

"Okay, I will modify the corresponding wording when communicating with you."

"Not bad... I have arrived at the conference room. What should I do next?"

"There are three anti-detachment locks behind the main control panel."

Atifi 128 said at a very fast speed:

"Next, please take the key according to the operation manual, then open the locks in order, and completely dismantle the panel..."

"Crack!"

Directly using the power of the Holy Spirit Pendant to scrape a circle along the operation panel and tear all the locks, Li Ang used both arms to lift the entire front panel, revealing the black box that was about fifty centimeters long and thirty centimeters wide, and connected to a bunch of strange equipment.

"The panel is dismantled. Then what? Pull this box out directly?"

"According to the operation manual, next we should first handle..."

"Be direct. Pull or not?"

"Pull a part..." Helplessly directing Li Ang to dismantle the sound-receiving instrument connected to the copper pipe, the hammer set used for making sound, and the multi-faceted crystal that looked a bit like a camera on the operation panel and could be twisted at multiple angles, Atifi 128 used the last small section of copper pipe connected to the sound-making hammer:

"Mr. Li Ang, next I will enter a short sleep. As long as you insert a set of energy storage blocks dedicated to power armor into the circular interface behind the fifteen-protection box, you can wake me up again."

"Got it, go to sleep."

"Okay, then I..."

"Wait a moment."

After waiting for a while with the box containing Atifi 128 in his hand, but not triggering any badges like "Father of AI," Li Ang hesitated slightly, then put forward a request:

"Can you call me Daddy?"

"???"

"Boom!"

Accompanied by a deafening explosion, the giant airship with a total length of over three hundred meters at the top of the 7-shaped boarding tower instantly exploded with incomparable flames.

In just over ten seconds, the entire thirty thousand cubic meters of hydrogen were ignited, and the pale blue flames with a temperature exceeding two thousand degrees directly shot up nearly one hundred meters high, illuminating the terrified faces of the soldiers under the boarding tower while scorching most of the sky.

"It's on fire! The airship is on fire!"

"God..."

"Retreat! Don't go forward, retreat quickly!"

Even though the officers were already shouting to stop them, looking at the terrifying scene like a natural disaster above their heads, some soldiers with insufficient mental toughness still couldn't help but open their mouths wide, staring blankly at the tower top in the distance.

Under the scorching of the flames like a surging sea tide, the thick gasbag of the airship, which might not even leak if stabbed with a knife, only persisted for a few breaths before half of it was burned away, revealing the supporting frame spliced with light alloy inside.

Immediately after, even the metal supporting frame couldn't hold on, rapidly deforming and breaking under the terrifying high temperature. Some metal with a lower melting point was even directly burned into liquid and sprinkled down like raindrops.

And with the burning of the internal supporting frame, the airship, which was nearly half the height of the boarding tower when erected, could no longer maintain horizontal floating, began to tilt uncontrollably, and finally fell toward the boarding tower surprisingly slowly yet quickly, and finally directly entangled and hung on the boarding tower, turning the upper half of the boarding tower into a blue torch pointing to the sky.

Finished... completely finished.

Looking at the blue flame nearly one hundred meters high at the top of the "torch," the guards responsible for guarding the boarding tower had their faces turn deathly pale.

This time, not only was the airship parked in the secret port destroyed, but even the most important boarding tower was creaking under the burning of the fire. Even if the material of the boarding tower was special and not afraid of burning, it would not be completely destroyed, but just cleaning it up would probably take several months.

And what is even more deadly is that such a large-scale accident happened, but they, the guards responsible for guarding the tower, knew nothing about it. The fault in this can no longer be described as simple dereliction of duty.

"Go! Follow me over!!!"

After the hydrogen in the gasbag was basically burned out and the fire weakened, the officers whose future was already hopeless immediately greeted the soldiers under their command, their eyes bloodshot, and rushed toward the boarding tower, preparing to see what happened.

And just at this critical moment, an exceptionally loud shout came down from everyone's head.

"My name is Neisen, and I am the leader of the radical rebel faction you are talking about!"

A figure whose appearance could not be seen stood in the middle of the boarding tower and shouted loudly to the people below:

"I announce that I, Neisen, am responsible for this attack!

In addition, from now on, I want to declare war on the entire kingdom!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 690 =====