94: Chapter 94 The Hacking Strike by AI Zero! S-Class Top Secret File!

Deep inside Dawn Base.

The sound of air-raid sirens and blinding red light intertwined.

Twenty thousand Type-Zero Mecha poured into the underground tunnels.

The heavy sound of metallic footsteps converged, and the entire mountain trembled in response.

Hundreds of US soldiers hid behind sandbag bunkers at the end of the tunnel, holding heavy machine guns and individual rocket launchers.

"Fire! Don't stop!"

The company commander roared hoarsely.

Dozens of anti-tank rockets, trailing smoke, flew out and slammed heavily into the mecha in the front row.

The flames from the explosions instantly engulfed the towering bodies of the mecha.

Before the soldiers could even cheer, several massive dark shadows smashed through the thick smoke and walked out.

The dark energy shields on the surface of the mecha didn't even ripple.

Instead, the terrifying shockwave generated by the rocket explosions echoed back and forth within the enclosed underground tunnel.

Many soldiers behind the bunkers were shaken to the point of bleeding from their seven orifices and collapsed on the spot.

The Clone Warriors had no emotional fluctuation.

The mecha in the front strode forward, its massive metallic palm directly grabbing the red-hot barrel of a heavy machine gun and yanking it hard.

The person and the gun were both dragged into mid-air.

Immediately after, the mecha raised its right leg and kicked the heavy sandbag bunker.

The multi-ton bunker collapsed instantly, burying dozens of soldiers behind it alive.

There was no tactic whatsoever, purely a double crushing of power and armor.

The mecha legion moved through the complex underground base as if it were unopposed, pushing forward layer by layer.

Five hundred meters underground, in the core command center.

The surveillance screens were filled with static.

All peripheral defense lines had completely lost contact.

The heavy sound of footsteps came through dozens of meters of rock, like a countdown from the Grim Reaper.

General MacArthur's eyes were bloodshot.

As the USA's final trump card, he absolutely would not allow himself to become a prisoner.

He would even less allow this base, which symbolized the final glory of America, to fall into the hands of the enemy.

He turned abruptly and walked to the deepest part of the command console.

There was a red console covered by bulletproof glass.

MacArthur pulled the key from around his neck, inserted it into the hole, and turned it all the way.

"General! What are you doing!"

Several staff officers were terrified and pale, wanting to step forward to stop him.

MacArthur drew his pistol and fired two shots, "Bang! Bang!", into the ceiling, forcing everyone back.

"The base has fallen! We are all going to die!"

The old general roared frantically.

"At the very bottom of Dawn Base, there are two ten-megaton hydrogen bombs buried! Since we can't hold it, we'll drag these monsters down to hell with us!"

He pressed the red confirmation button without hesitation.

The entire command center was instantly enveloped in blinding red light.

A piercing countdown broadcast sounded in every corner.

"Self-destruct sequence initiated. Nuclear explosion countdown: three minutes, zero seconds."

Los Santos, Global Financial Center penthouse suite.

A striking red warning icon suddenly popped up on the holographic projection screen.

"Master, a strong nuclear radiation energy source has been detected activating. Dawn Base has initiated the bottom-level nuclear bomb self-destruct sequence. Countdown: two minutes and fifty seconds remaining."

Anna reported quickly, her tone carrying a hint of tension.

Chu Feng leaned back on the sofa, his expression unchanged.

"Zero." Chu Feng exhaled a puff of smoke and looked at the alien woman standing next to the workbench.

"Can you cut off their self-destruct sequence?"

Zero immediately knelt on the ground, looked up, and replied: "Answering Master. Earth's computer network has no defense against me. But I need to access their internal network interface."

"No need for such trouble. Mother Nest, open the quantum communication channel to Zero. Establish a virtual connection." Chu Feng ordered.

"Channel established." The Mother Nest's voice sounded.

Zero closed her eyes.

The diamond-shaped blue crystal on her forehead instantly burst with dazzling light.

The Star Core Race's silicon-based brain directly transformed into a massive data stream, following the quantum channel provided by the Mother Nest, and instantly descended into the underground network of the Rocky Mountains.

Dawn Base command center.

The countdown had reached "one minute, thirty seconds."

MacArthur gripped his pistol, staring fixedly at the countdown screen.

He had already imagined in his mind the scene of the nuclear explosion swallowing everything in an instant.

Suddenly, the countdown numbers on all screens froze.

Immediately after, the screen images flickered wildly, and countless garbled codes popped up.

One second later, all the screens turned a deep, icy blue.

In the very center of the screens, an unknown diamond-shaped geometric pattern appeared.

"What's going on? Why did the countdown stop!" MacArthur rushed to the console, frantically pounding on the keyboard.

No matter how he operated it, the system had no reaction.

"General... our underlying code has been wiped."

A technical officer slumped in his chair, his face full of despair.

"The self-destruct sequence has been forcibly terminated. The physical fuses have also been locked by the system."

"Impossible! This is a completely air-gapped local area network! How could someone from the outside hack in!"

MacArthur smashed the keyboard to pieces and roared hoarsely.

No one could answer him.

"Boom!"

The heavy door of the command center was kicked flying by an irresistible force.

The multi-ton metal door panel slammed onto the console, crushing several technicians into pulp on the spot.

Amidst the flying dust.

A tall, dark green mecha stepped over the threshold and walked in.

A blue Plasma Spear shimmered with a deadly light under the dim illumination.

MacArthur raised his pistol and pulled the trigger frantically at the mecha.

The bullets hit the dark energy shield and bounced off one after another.

The mecha took a step forward, its massive mechanical palm directly gripping the old general's neck, lifting his entire body into mid-air.

"Crack."

A crisp sound of bone breaking rang out.

The USA's last five-star general had his head tilt powerlessly to the side, his corpse casually thrown to the ground.

The battle ended.

The cold voice of the Clone commander came through the communication channel.

"Reporting to Boss. Dawn Base has been completely captured. All enemy personnel have been cleared. We are currently taking inventory of supplies."

In the penthouse suite.

Zero opened her eyes, the light of the crystal on her forehead gradually fading.

She lay back down on the ground, as if waiting for her master's praise.

"Well done."

Chu Feng reached out and stroked her aqua-blue hair.

Having received praise, the corners of Zero's mouth lifted slightly, and she actively pressed her cheek against Chu Feng's palm and rubbed against it.

"Master. The supplies in Dawn Base are very abundant."

"We captured one thousand heavy tanks and two thousand armored vehicles of various types. There are enough military rations to feed one hundred thousand people for ten years."

"Most importantly, in the warehouse at the very bottom of the base, we discovered a reserve of fifty thousand tons of special steel, as well as three thousand tons of aerospace-grade titanium alloy!"

Chu Feng nodded with satisfaction.

The spoils of a military base were indeed much richer than those of a chaebol shelter.

These basic metal materials were exactly what the shipyard was currently lacking the most.

"Transport everything back to the shipyard. Tell the transport fleet to hurry."

"Also." Chu Feng looked at Zero on the ground, "When you hacked into their system just now, did you find any useful information?"

Zero immediately raised her head, a stream of blue data flashing in her eyes.

"Master. I read all of their top-secret files. Among them was an S-Class file with the highest encryption level, the content of which is very valuable."

A document with The Pentagon's top-secret watermark was immediately projected onto the holographic screen.

The file only contained a few blurry photos and a very short video.

The background of the photos was a massive, bottomless red canyon.

At the bottom of the canyon, the wreckage of a massive, silver-gray spaceship was half-buried.

The spaceship's design was very peculiar, its surface covered in strange patterns.

"The Grand Canyon?" Chu Feng recognized the terrain at a glance.

"Yes, Master." Zero's voice carried a hint of fluctuation, "The file records that the USA military discovered this crashed spaceship fifty years ago. But with their level of technology, they couldn't break through the spaceship's hull at all and could only keep it secretly blockaded."

"I recognize this ship's energy identification code. This is a heavy resource supply ship from our Star Core Race's 7th Fleet."

Chu Feng's eyes lit up instantly.

A resource supply ship!

"What's loaded inside?"

Zero replied: "The supply ship is responsible for providing logistical support for the entire fleet. Inside, there is at least five hundred tons of high-purity element zero ore stored. There are also large quantities of formed dark energy crystals and spare maintenance modules for interstellar warships."

Five hundred tons of element zero!

Chu Feng sat up straight, even withdrawing the feet he had resting on Evelyn's back.

His current black hole-class star destroyer requires one hundred tons of element zero to build a single ship.

The inventory he had previously dug up from under Hollywood had already been completely used up.

He was just worrying about having nowhere to get this rare ore, and now it was like someone delivering a pillow just as he was getting sleepy.

As long as he took this supply ship, not only would the materials be complete, but even the extra Wealth Points would be able to skyrocket.

"Does this ship have a self-destruct system or defense mechanisms?" Chu Feng asked cautiously.

"The supply ship is not equipped with heavy weapons. But its hull uses level five civilization strong phase-change armor, which cannot be broken by any weapon on Earth. Unless one possesses the highest commander-level key."

Zero looked up very confidently: "I am a navigator and possess secondary access rights to the fleet. I can open the spaceship's hatch for Master."

Chu Feng laughed out loud.

The alien maid bought for five million was simply a super treasure trove.

Chu Feng stood up, took the black trench coat from the side, and draped it over himself.

"Tell the mecha legion in the Rocky Mountains not to return to Los Santos. Turn directly toward the Grand Canyon."

"Notify the underground arsenal to pack up all one thousand sets of individual dark matter grenades created yesterday."

Chu Feng strode toward the suite door, his voice filled with intense anticipation.

"Zero, come with me. Let's go retrieve the element zero that belongs to me."