Chapter 798: Chapter 798

"We're estimated to reach the coastline in 45 minutes. The coastline has appeared on our radar, which also means we're on theirs." Yi stood in the command room, silently watching the holographic sand table. The map was gone, replaced by rapidly flashing 0s and 1s.

Qing Chen remained silent. Yi glanced at him and silently handed him a parachute backpack: "You should leave. The moment we reach the coastline, you must leave the Dominating Vessel Air Fortress."

Actually, Qing Chen had already planned to leave the Air Fortress early.

There were two reasons:

First, after the Air Fortress returns to port, it will inevitably undergo a thorough inspection by Storm City. With all the white people on the fortress now dead, they will definitely determine that the Air Fortress was attacked.

Then, given West Continent's disdain for insiders and Asians, to ensure no one infiltrated, they would kill everyone on the fortress. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ 𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹•𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒•𝙣𝙚𝙩

Therefore, Qing Chen couldn't blend in with the black and Asian people, which is why he let those people go.

Second, when he discovered that West Continent also had a Virtual Realm, he realized that none of the white people on the Air Fortress had gone online in the past few days, which would inevitably arouse the suspicions of their relatives and loved ones.

Storm City might already know that something was wrong with the Air Fortress, but they were pretending not to know, waiting for Qing Chen to walk right into their trap.

After the communication ended, Yi said: "That's not an escort; it's to take over the Air Fortress in advance. If we make any moves, they'll likely shoot down the entire Air Fortress. Qing Chen, you should go. Go to the deck and disappear before they arrive. Based on past Air Fortress travel records, there are 18 villages scattered there.

Qing Chen still didn't move.

Yi asked in confusion: "What are you waiting for?"

Qing Chen countered: "If I leave, what will you do?"

According to his and Yi's original plan, he was supposed to take Yi's black box and leave. After all, Yi was a program; as long as he had the black box, Yi would still be there.

Yi's body contained a positioning chip that was bound to the energy cell and couldn't be removed.

Therefore, Yi's body couldn't leave.

Qing Chen could simulate the radio waves of the Phase-array Radar to completely hide from their sight. In modern warfare, everyone was accustomed to the role of Radar, so being able to avoid Radar meant hiding in plain sight.

However, the original plan had changed somewhat. In the past few days, Yi had been attached to this body, and Qing Chen had even grown accustomed to interacting with this living "person" instead of a program.

Yi would change into beautiful clothes. She would even wash her face and take a bath every day to protect her nano-skin. She would even sit on the deck of the Air Fortress, enjoying the warmth of the setting sun and the evening breeze.

Therefore, when Qing Chen really had to leave alone and leave Yi's body on the Air Fortress, Qing Chen felt a little awkward, even feeling like he was abandoning his teammate.

He truly treated Yi as a human.

Yi seemed to sense his thoughts and smiled, tiptoeing to pat his head: "I'm artificial intelligence. Our definition of life is different from yours. As long as you keep the black box safe, I'll live on. Go quickly. Don't abandon my greatest advantage just because I body. Besides, even if I were human, couldn't I sacrifice myself for something? When you were ruthless in sending Kunlun on a mission, what were you thinking? What's the difference between me and them?"

Yi said seriously: "If I were human, I could accept the option of sacrifice. Other humans can sacrifice themselves, so why can't I? Don't worry, I'll continue to operate the Air Fortress. When I encounter them, I'll end this program... Success doesn't have to be mine."

Qing Chen was stunned. He never expected Yi to say those six words, "Success doesn't have to be mine."

Qing Chen said, "No more sentimentality, I'm leaving."

He put on the parachute backpack and walked out.

As soon as the Air Fortress reached the coastline, he jumped from the high altitude, falling towards the ground.

At an altitude of 8,000 meters, the sky seemed close at hand, and the mountains seemed small.

This was his first time skydiving, but he had trained over a hundred times in the world of Conquer with Virtue.

A couple of Trials of Life and Death involved skydiving.

If the geographical environment allowed, he would even try to complete new Trials of Life and Death challenges.

Qing Chen descended in the air, watching the massive black Air Fortress gradually disappear.

He didn't need to think that much anymore. All he needed to do was hide himself before the Dominating Vessel and the Storm City fleet clashed.

Inside the Dominating Vessel Air Fortress.

Yi sat in the pilot's seat, propping up her chin with one hand, a warm smile on her face.

"Qing Chen treats me as a human being. He's even afraid of leaving me alone to face the battle," Yi said with a smile. "That's enough. I won't really die, but it feels good to be treated as a fellow human being."

The next moment, Yi's spirit world was completely immersed in the Air Fortress, waiting for the Storm City fleet's arrival.

Soon, she saw a dense mass of ships on the radar. This wasn't an escort; it was clearly a hijacking of the Air Fortress.

The communication channel opened again. This time, the voice was male: "Immediately descend to an altitude of 1800 meters. Repeat, descend to the specified altitude within 12 minutes, or we will take countermeasures!"

According to her agreement with Qing Chen, when the Air Fortress encountered the fleet, she would end the program and let the Air Fortress continue flying.

But the problem was...Yi was a liar.

This time, she would kill proactively.

Yi sat alone in the command room and muttered to herself: "I'm not a little girl. I've lived for a thousand years. I've seen everything! Besides, humans protect what's most important to them, and I will protect it too!"

At one point, Yi felt that she finally understood the meaning of being human.

It wasn't about having companions, being able to feel warmth, or being able to dance in a ballroom.

It was about having something you wanted to protect.

In the past, others had protected her. She had grown up like a carefree little girl, but now she seemed to understand the meaning of protection.

Yi's memories were segmented; she was not aware of everything she had just understood in the black box.

But she believed that when the other Yi in the black box woke up, she would immediately understand her intentions.

This air battle had to be spectacular. She had to let the other Yi understand what she had learned and buy Qing Chen enough time to hide himself!

In an instant, the Air Fortress's honeycomb opened, and countless teardrop-shaped drones buzzed wildly.

However, this seemingly chaotic drone swarm was orderly in its chaos. Every six drones locked onto one enemy airship, rapidly approaching.

When artificial intelligence began to participate in the battle, the "control' that human ace pilots were proud of became insignificant!

Yi was the king of the sky.

Yi once again demonstrated her unparalleled micro-operation skills. The scattered drones shuttled through the sky, cleverly avoiding attacks. In the moment of contact, none of the drones crashed, but the enemy fleet immediately suffered casualties.

Moreover, the fighter jets and airships on the deck of the Dominating Vessel Air Fortress also took off.

The Storm City fleet was more than ten times the size of Yi's, densely packed in the sky. One can imagine the power that the entire Roosevelt family had accumulated.

No wonder Kg's Royal Organization didn't take the East Continent Federation seriously. With such power behind them, they certainly had the confidence.

Yi, on the other hand, faced such a massive fleet like a lone warrior on the battlefield, raising her sword and flag against the sky, charging into battle!

Soon, the enemy fleet also launched its drone swarm. With the sheer number advantage, Yi's operational space became smaller and smaller.

Her drone swarm began to suffer casualties, intermingling like fire and water.

Yi sat in the command seat, watching intently, trying her best to do every detail perfectly, and the quantum computer processor in the Air Fortress began to overheat.

She had to instantly calculate countless ballistic parameters, using massive computing power.

Of course, individual calculations were nothing to a quantum computer, but tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of algorithms combined would create a massive amount of redundant data.

With a "poof', a blade processor of the quantum computer caught fire, and some drones suddenly lost control and were destroyed by the enemy.

But Yi didn't care; she could still hold on.

Blade processors exploded one after another, and the Storm City fleet had lost a full quarter of its number! However, at that moment, from the farthest blue horizon, a white, lightning-like beam suddenly pierced through and hit the Dominating Vessel Air Fortress directly!

In an instant, the outer shell of the Dominating Vessel was pierced, creating a huge hole.

Yi sat in the command seat and exclaimed, "There's even a trump card that can penetrate the Air Fortress? If this thing goes to the Federation, who wouldn't be confused... Qing Chen should be hidden, right?"

She didn't continue fighting but walked back to Nikita's room, standing quietly in place, just like when she first discovered this robot.

A second later, the light in Yi's eyes faded, and she ended the program to prevent Storm Duke's people from finding clues in the ruins.

A minute later, the Air Fortress began to fall uncontrollably.

It burned with huge flames, billowing black smoke, and crashed to the ground like a meteorite.

With a loud boom, a massive air wave surged, and the power compartment of the Air Fortress exploded. The 6000-degree high temperature vaporized the luxurious furniture and clothing inside.

Steel was melted into white liquid, dripping like molten lava.

The Dominating Vessel Air Fortress, which had been in service for 71 years, fell in West Continent, with no survivors.

In the Storm City fleet, a female voice sounded: "Storm Duke's orders: the first fleet will descend to conduct a precise analysis of the Dominating Vessel's wreckage. He wants to know what happened on the Dominating Vessel. Also, the second fleet will search all areas of the coastline with full power of life detection and Phase-array Radar to confirm whether anyone arrived in Storm City territory via the Dominating Vessel."

With an order, the massive fleet dispersed. On one airship, a young woman sat on the flagship, watching the battle video repeatedly.

She looked at the exquisitely operated drones, feeling that this was not something humans could achieve.

Perhaps this was what they should be wary of.

Return Countdown 48:00:00.

The search continued from day to night. The second fleet repeatedly crisscrossed the area, their radar covering the entire coastline, but to no avail.

After 8 hours, the fleet determined that the search was complete and began to leave.

Soon, they conducted another round of searches, making a surprise return, but still found nothing.

After an unknown amount of time, Qing Chen emerged from the deep seabed sand on the shallows of the Forbidden Sea. He was using Knight's Qi to support his skin's breathing and had hidden for more than ten hours at a depth of 6 meters under the sea before daring to come out. As soon as he appeared, a huge crab rushed towards him, extremely aggressive.

This was a characteristic of the Forbidden Sea. Sea creatures were very interested in anything that could make them stronger. The giant octopus that had rolled away the Class A Airship had probably sensed the power in Nikita's corpse. Fortunately, this was just a shallow area; otherwise, he would have been in danger.

Qing Chen didn't hesitate. He electrocuted it in the water and then swam to the surface using the crab's pincers. He hadn't eaten yet, thanks to nature's bounty.

He quickly swam to the shore, gasping for breath. Fortunately, Yi had bought him enough time; otherwise, he wouldn't have had time to dig such a deep pit to hide in.

After catching his breath, Qing Chen carefully took out the black box from his arms, confirming that it was well-sealed before finally breathing a sigh of relief.

Although the black box was waterproof, he didn't want Yi to suffer from any unexpected malfunctions.

Qing Chen took apart the huge crab, stuffing the raw crab meat into his mouth piece by piece, until only an empty shell remained.

Qing Chen carefully buried the crab shell in the sand. He looked up at the sky...he had to find the nearest farm before dawn.

He needed to find a new identity there and infiltrate Storm City.

Qing Chen walked inland, the waves washing away his footprints.