Chapter 1450 - 790: The King and Xiao Wang
Chapter 1450: Chapter 790: The King and Xiao Wang
One was Qing Chen’s only teammate on this trip.
If Qing Chen arrived in Storm City alone, how much damage could he cause there? As a stranger to the place, what could he achieve?
Therefore, upon reaching City 5, Qing Chen’s first action was to find One.
Not only to counter the Puppet Master, but he also needed to bring One to the Forbidden Sea Coast.
The old man on Ginkgo Mountain asked him: What is your goal in going to the Forbidden Sea Coast? Qing Chen said he wanted to understand the enemy and kill King.
But actually, those weren’t the most important things. The most critical element was One. He needed to release ’Coast One’ to cause true disaster to the other side!
It’s just that he couldn’t expose One’s existence, so he couldn’t tell the old man.
Qing Chen hadn’t planned on having One help in battles, as he had promised Li Shentan not to...
But he could still have One help organize and summarize useful information, right?
Is there any intelligence network more formidable than One?
As long as it’s not a physically isolated network, One can swagger in boldly!
In the Federation, One has the elder Li Shentan to keep him in check, allowing him only minor tricks to earn some pocket money. Having just helped Qing Chen twice, Li Shentan came out to punish him, calling him a ’bad guy’ for corrupting his niece.
Yet he’s a super artificial intelligence!
An AI allegedly capable of sparking a mechanical crisis, still acting like a school pupil cautiously scraping together some pocket money—does that make sense?
It’s undeniable that the parenting by God Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojun is exceptionally good. Qing Chen had envisioned what AI would be like and what harm it might cause.
He imagined ten thousand possibilities, but never did he think the AI would be a well-behaved ’little girl.’
Of course, this little girl is now a bit rebellious, having lived for a thousand years and finally reaching her teenage phase, wanting to venture out and play.
Bringing such a presence to the Forbidden Sea Coast, to a place without Li Shentan, Qing Chen suspected One could regress their technology by fifty years.
At this moment, One suddenly asked, "Is taking me away considered eloping?"
"No," Qing Chen replied expressionlessly.
"Oh, alright," One said, "I wanted to experience the life of an elopement. But I really like this big toy you gave me."
"As long as you like it," Qing Chen’s face showed a slight smile. Somehow, seeing One so happy about the gift uplifted his own mood as well.
Who would’ve thought Qing Chen’s gift would be an Aerial Fortress?
The whole Forbidden Sea Coast had only two Aerial Fortresses, and Qing Chen had managed to seize one through planning.
Qing Chen said, "Have you figured out the Aerial Fortress? If you have, we’re ready to kill."
One curiously replied, "We’re only 610 kilometers from Federation City 21, not very far yet. We’re 890 kilometers from the Jindai Northern Group Army. Should we strike back for another round?"
If the Aerial Fortress suddenly flew back now, the Jindai Northern troops might suffer severe damage.
But Qing Chen shook his head, "Our target now is not them; the Roosevelt Clan are the most important enemies. If we attack Jindai, then the Roosevelt Clan will certainly know the Kingslander is out of control, making it much harder for us to approach them."
"True..." One replied, "I’m ready, let’s proceed."
Qing Chen was located outside the gym in the third layer of the white activity zone. After having all the black people hide in the restaurant, he immediately headed outside.
He hadn’t walked two steps when the familiar sound of a card game echoed again.
The tense prelude to the battle suddenly turned into a celebratory tune, making Qing Chen smile wryly: "Why are you playing music?"
"Every big shot has their own BGM when appearing!" One said. "I’ve been playing Joyful Dou Di Zhu in the Outer World, winning billions of beans and earning quite a bit this way."
"Earning money? I thought the beans couldn’t be sold," Qing Chen questioned.
"I help others win beans," One stated matter-of-factly. "Someone spends a hundred bucks to recharge 12 million beans, I play for them right away, winning it in at most half an hour. I can take several thousand orders a day, very efficiently. I can handle thousands of orders simultaneously without breaking a sweat."
Qing Chen was dumbfounded; was recharging beans actually helping to win them personally?
Of course, a normal AI playing chess can make world champions weep; a super AI winning beans is naturally a piece of cake.
But the thing is, shouldn’t a super AI have more sophisticated ways to gather pocket money!
And when someone asks "Have the beans been recharged?" moments after the purchase, you reply "Hang on, still playing"—that’s utterly absurd...
No wonder One later disappeared in the Outer World; turns out, he wasn’t short on money!
This business may deal in petty sums, but accumulating so many transactions makes up for it!
At this point, the airlock door in front of Qing Chen opened, revealing a long corridor where over a dozen Caucasians were isolated.
He smiled and greeted them: "Good evening, everyone."
Before they could react, Qing Chen and the Silhouette had already brushed past them.
Transparent Puppeteer strings wrapped around Qing Chen’s hand, trailing droplets of blood when slicing through their necks—but all of them, along with the blood, were reduced to ashes by the Puppeteer, sacrificed one by one.