Qing Chen turned around and hurriedly said, "I am Mr. Northon Kennedy's butler. I've come to the wine cellar to retrieve some wine!"
He allowed the soldiers to search him, but they found nothing.
Two soldiers entered the wine cellar and searched for any possible hidden doors. After confirming that there was no one else inside, they escorted Qingchen towards the main hall.
The black box was placed on top of a wine barrel in a very casual manner. The soldiers saw it but did not pay any attention to it, assuming it was just a device used to measure sweetness and temperature in the wine cellar.
The soldier led Qing Chen to the room where the black spider was.
Black Spider looked at him and said, "Take off your clothes."
Qingchen obediently took off all his clothes and stood naked opposite him.
Black Spider scrutinized him carefully, then asked, "Name?"
“Brian Kennedy,” Qing Chen said somewhat nervously, “is the surname that the Marquis Kennedy bestowed upon me after I was freed from slavery.”
Black Spider asked calmly, "Why did he give you a surname? And why did he help you get rid of your slave status?"
Qing Chen said cautiously, "I made a contribution on the way to Blackwater City because I encountered the resistance army."
Black Spider suddenly pulled out an LCD screen, pointed to a message, and shouted, "You took a bullet for Marquis Kennedy back then, where are the bullet wounds on your body?!"
Qing Chen was stunned for a moment: "That's fake news. Actually, I didn't take a bullet for the Marquis Kennedy. It was Abbot who took the bullet, and he died on the way. I was credited for killing two rebels with my bare hands and carrying the Marquis Kennedy out of the forest. The news attributed both things to me. That's false reporting."
Black Spider pulled out a news article that reported that the butler had taken a bullet for the Marquis Kennedy, killed two rebels, and then carried the Marquis Kennedy to safety.
However, the actual situation was that the news outlets, in order to exaggerate the loyalty of the butler slave and spread the message to other slaves, attributed the two incidents to the same person.
As for the deceased Abbott? He's not worth mentioning.
All the questions asked during the interrogation were carefully arranged; every question contained a trap.
Just now, when he heard the sound of the airship, he went to the wine cellar to buy time.
As he walked, he pressed the butler's phone tightly against Yi's black box, helping Yi to infiltrate the civilian network of the Western Continent.
Intrusion takes time, and Qingchen must buy Yi time so that the other party has time to gather the butler's identity information!
Yi was also very clever and capable. The moment he hacked in, he searched for all information related to the butler. The most important thing was that he analyzed the news reports from many years ago and found that the news was fake news because there was no record of gunshot wound suturing in the surgical records of Storm City Public Hospital after the Marquis Kennedy was rescued.
Even if Qing Chen is incredibly skilled, he can't extract such clues from a massive amount of information like Yi does.
Chapter 803, Battle Royale and the Slippers
The most distinctive feature of the cities in the Western Continent is that each city has a floating fortress above it.
They are like a sky island at the core, awe-inspiring to all citizens like a black steel firmament.
The dukes spent most of their time residing on the Sky Isle, where the aerial fortress resembled the defensive castles of medieval royalty and nobility, imposing and solemn.
Airships rising and falling in the city transported supplies to it.
The Storm Sky Fortress floated above the city's skies. A middle-aged man in a black robe walked through a dimly lit and long corridor.
His black robe, embroidered with strange runes in gold thread, trailed on the ground.
Upon arriving at a gate, two mechanical guards greeted them, "Welcome, Duke Storm, Your Highness the Arbiter."
As they spoke, the two mechanical guards stepped aside, and the gate at the core of the aerial fortress slowly opened.
Duke Storm walked slowly inside alone, only to find the empty room surrounded by 12 independent screens, constantly switching between surveillance footage of the city.
In the center of the room was a huge holographic projection, which was extremely realistic. It showed a middle-aged Asian woman walking in the forest.
The woman's hair was gray, and her face was etched with wrinkles. She looked so ordinary that she wouldn't attract any attention even if she walked down the street.
She casually pinched the air, and a piece of cabbage appeared between her fingers.
Outside the holographic projection, a giant elk came to her side and slowly chewed the cabbage in her hand.
The woman smiled and gently stroked the reindeer's face: "Why did Duke Storm suddenly come here to me?"
Without a word, Duke Storm inserted a blade-shaped hard drive into the isolated control panel beside him: "I need your help to analyze this battle video. Is there any artificial intelligence controlling the battle of the Reign?"
The middle-aged woman asked in confusion, "Artificial intelligence?"
Duke Storm calmly replied, "That's right, an artificial intelligence just like you."
“I’m interested in seeing that,” the woman said. “By the way, in surveillance area 798, someone stole something. According to facial recognition, the person is citizen number 199201201, and the victim is citizen number 291001100. Please send someone to arrest him.”
Duke Storm frowned: "You can just inform the sheriff of the fortress about such a trivial matter."
The woman said nonchalantly, "This is a deal between me and the Roosevelt Kingdom. While I am fulfilling my responsibilities, I also ask that you take it seriously."
The next moment, the deer and fields in the holographic projection disappeared, leaving only the King's Landing alone in the sky, with countless drones and fleets engaged in battle.
Magnificent and grand.
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In Manor No. 18.
Including Qing Chen, everyone who had been interrogated was gathered in the living room. Not only that, all the slaves working on the farm were also driven by drones to the front of the villa and lined up in a crooked square formation.
The interrogation continued, and four more airships gathered above the manor. With such firepower, even a demigod would likely not be able to escape.
Qing Chen frowned.
In the sky, hundreds more soldiers descended along the ropes, some even carrying black boxes.
At this moment, Black Spider walked out of the room and said with a cold expression, "Take fingerprints and blood samples from everyone."
Qing Chen was startled. The other party was indeed meticulous, leaving no chance for the infiltrator.
Once the information and data are uploaded, everything will be exposed.
However, Qing Chen did not make any rash moves. He obediently stood behind the group of rich second-generation nobles and slowly walked towards the sample collection point.
He quickly glanced around out of the corner of his eye, trying to determine the best way to escape.
Based on his previous memory of the terrain, he had to get into the vineyard as quickly as possible, and if any drones landed, he also had to use electromagnetic pulses to disable them as quickly as possible.
The problem is, what about the main firepower of the airships? What about Black Spider, this unknown level expert? What about the soldiers of the Storm City Army Group?
He wasn't brave enough to take on a thousand men single-handedly!
Qing Chen glanced at the black spider out of the corner of his eye; it was the only way out he could find after calculating countless pieces of information.
His only way to survive seemed to be to abduct the woman with lightning speed, and then gamble that she was important enough to the Duke of Storms, and that no one would dare to ignore her life!
After kidnapping Black Spider, he needs to use him as cover and head towards 11 o'clock. There's a huge canyon there; if he continues upstream along the canyon, he'll reach the Forbidden Land in about 120 kilometers.
Only by entering the forbidden land and seeking refuge within the territory of the Giant Dynasty can Qing Chen possibly survive!
The line to have their fingerprints and blood samples taken moved slowly forward. Outside the door, all the black and Asian slaves were required to strip naked, and soldiers checked the chip information behind their ears one by one.
A device resembling a handheld security scanner swept past the soldier's ear, and with a beep, all the information appeared on the LCD screen in the soldier's hand.
When it was Qingchen's turn, the soldier gestured for him to place his palm on the instrument. Qingchen pressed his palm down, and a blue light swept across his palm, indicating that the data entry was successful.
The soldier waved for him to leave, while Qing Chen casually approached the Black Spider.
At this moment, Lan Shan looked at Black Spider, who then swept his sharp gaze over. Qing Chen immediately realized that this was an A-level expert with a sixth sense!
But it doesn't matter. If Qing Chen gets within 5 meters, even if the opponent is an A-level, they won't be able to escape.
As they moved slowly, Lan Shan said to Qing Chen, "Butler, bring us some water."
Black Spider sneered, "No one is allowed to leave until the verification information is relayed back from Storm Fortress."
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Inside the core of the Storm Fortress, Duke Storm stood silently in the darkness, watching the battle alongside the woman in the holographic projection.
"How about that? I think only artificial intelligence can perform such exquisite operations," Duke Storm said calmly. Under such control, a kill ratio of 1:7 could even be achieved.
The woman in the holographic projection analyzed the battle process over and over again, her perspective constantly switching between the cameras of the various airships: "It's an artificial intelligence algorithm, but it may not be alive, and it may not be the best algorithm either. I guess someone must have pre-loaded an automatic attack program onto the King's Landing, ultimately completing the unmanned battle."
Duke Storm frowned: "What makes you say that?"
At this moment, the holographic projection changed, and the woman waved her hand, and all the battle scenes returned to the starting point of the battle, when the drones of the King's Landing air fortress had just taken off.
However, the course of the battle completely changed.
The drones were much more organized from the start, weaving through the sky and swiftly shooting down Storm City's drones one by one. Duke Storm's pupils contracted slightly, because the King's Landing in the hands of the woman in front of him had a much more powerful killing efficiency.
The holographic projection displayed numbers: the top showed the original combat kill data of the King's Landing, which was 173 drones shot down in one minute; the bottom showed the kill data achieved by the woman, which was 391 drones shot down in one minute.
These are completely different levels of combat.
However, the next second, a swarm of drones suddenly broke through the ranks, heading straight for the flagship where Black Spider was located amidst the interplay of firepower.
The teardrop-shaped drone's engine was running at full capacity, pushing the drone to its speed limit!
Seven seconds later, the Black Spider flagship slowly plummeted in the holographic projection, billowing thick black smoke.
It was only at this moment that King's Landing was penetrated by distant artillery fire.
Yi's fighting skills were impressive, but a slight comparison would highlight that this woman was the true master of combat, while Yi was just a clumsy child.
Duke Storm watched silently as the woman slowly said, "This is the true power of a super artificial intelligence life form. The other party was merely mechanically calculating the kill, while all my previous preparations were for the decapitation. Of course, this is also why you isolated my server in the five aerial fortresses, isn't it? This is the meaning behind the cage you meticulously crafted for me."
The woman spoke with a smile, seemingly not angry at all.
"Didn't you ever think about escaping?" Duke Storm asked.
“No need. The superconducting world is my world, and that’s enough,” the woman replied. “I’m also tired of scheming against you humans. This way of coexisting is fine. I’ve concluded that what’s on the Reign is just an automated attack algorithm, not an artificial intelligence life form.”
“Understood,” Duke Storm nodded.
At that moment, the gate outside the room opened again, and a young man stood outside, holding a new blade hard drive.
Two mechanical guards at the entrance blocked his way; it seemed only the Duke of Storms was allowed to enter.
Duke Storm turned and walked to the door, took the hard drive from the other person, and plugged it into the independent control panel: "The screening data from the front has been retrieved. Analyze whether there are any intruders."
The woman smiled and said, "That's simple..."
Just a second later, the woman opened her eyes: "There is a suspicious person in Manor No. 18. There is no information about him within the Federation. Arrest him."