339: My former self

In an instant, the artillery fire tore the old man's body into shreds.

Only a brain-machine interface remained, falling to the ground completely intact.

Yet even so, everyone present dared not lower their guard in the slightest.

Because at this moment, the sky had almost entirely transformed into a giant screen.

Inside the screen was a face completely different from the old man's just moments ago.

This face, Liu Yan recognized.

It was Jacob, whom Liu Yan had tried to kill not long ago.

All the Xia Country Operatives present felt their scalps tingle as they were stared at by the face on the giant screen in the sky.

At this moment, Jacob was expressionless.

Buried deep in his eyes was nothing but disappointment.

"A brave character, yet trapped within an ignorant brain."

"I admit, you have impressed me."

"Including you, Liu Yan."

"Your personality has changed significantly from before."

"Since that world ended, Hafke's technology has once again made a qualitative leap."

"If this time you had still relied on yourself alone, facing the scale of war from just now, you would have found it difficult even to see me."

"But this time, you seem to have learned to cooperate."

"Perhaps it is precisely because you have people around you that you can rely on, that makes you think you can challenge Hafke."

"I gave you a chance, but your answer has disappointed me."

"Based on your performance, I can see that in the future, you will also trigger countless wars."

As Jacob finished speaking, an interstellar battleship, so massive it struck fear into everyone's hearts, appeared out of thin air before them.

It seemed as if it had been there all along.

Only now did many people finally realize how the old man from before had managed to walk through the void...

In front of this interstellar battleship, the storm red piloted by Fuji was no different from a child's toy model.

In fact, the difference in scale between the two was far greater than that.

After the interstellar battleship appeared, the hatch at its bottom gradually opened.

Just as everyone was stunned by the interstellar battleship before them.

Liu Yan was the first to take action.

His fingers curled instantly, and the disc-shaped experimental data appeared at his fingertips.

At the same time, countless smoothbore guns stood in the air behind him.

Almost any vehicle requires someone to pilot it.

Liu Yan's idea was simple.

After learning the names of the pilots inside the interstellar battleship.

He would use the smoothbore guns to kill them instantly.

By now, Hafke's army had been completely wiped out.

This battleship must be Jacob's final trump card.

The experimental data instantly spread outwards in ripples.

However, when the ripples reached the interstellar battleship, Liu Yan's brows knit together tightly.

Dense piles of names were stacked together, completely forming garbled text.

Liu Yan turned his head; above the heads of the Xia Country Operatives, each person's information was also displayed.

There were still tens of thousands of Xia Country Operatives left.

Yet, even with the information of those tens of thousands of people stacked together, it was not as massive as the information floating out from within the interstellar battleship.

On the other side, as the hatch slowly opened, Sayyid sniffed hard a few more times.

This time, the look of despair on his face beneath the mask was even more intense.

His voice was also uncharacteristically anxious.

"Su Mulan! Leave here quickly!"

"Don't forget what you promised me!"

As Sayyid spoke anxiously, he grabbed Su Mulan and reached into her backpack.

Soon, in Su Mulan's backpack, Sayyid found the crown that had been prepared long ago.

On the crown, a perfectly intact ruby was prominently embedded.

"Old Sai, something's wrong! I heard so many..."

Before Su Mulan could finish, Sayyid had already shoved the crown into Su Mulan's hands.

"Remember what you promised me!"

Crack——————!!

After saying this, Sayyid grabbed Su Mulan's hand and instantly crushed the ruby.

And the moment the ruby shattered, Su Mulan's figure completely vanished from the spot.

Seeing Su Mulan disappear, Sayyid slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

From the beginning, what he worried about most was that Su Mulan would act on her own impulses at a critical moment.

Fortunately, Su Mulan's strength was ultimately her greatest weakness.

If Su Mulan hadn't been right beside Sayyid.

He really wouldn't have been sure he could make Su Mulan leave here obediently.

At this moment, the bottom of the interstellar battleship's hatch was about to open completely.

Sayyid's heart rose to his throat as the hatch opened.

The scent, so familiar that he would never forget it, became even more intense.

Beside him, Liu Yan's expression was equally serious.

Among this information, which was too vast to even look through, which ones were the battleship's pilots?

With this quantity, even if Liu Yan brought out all his smoothbore guns, it would be far from enough to kill them all.

And once he failed to eliminate the pilots among them.

This single interstellar battleship alone would leave them with absolutely no possibility of victory.

Compared to this battleship.

The previous battles, and the strength Hafke had displayed.

Without a doubt, were no different from playing house.

The opponent indeed had the goal of having everyone join them...

Otherwise, they wouldn't even have known when the war began.

Everything would have already been over.

Just like how Jacob had wiped out an entire country with a single sentence back then.

Liu Yan shook his head, casting aside all these chaotic thoughts in his mind.

As Liu Yan lightly curled his finger, a heart of africa appeared in his hand.

"I wish to obtain the names of all the pilots of this battleship."

At this point, trying to obtain the names using experimental data without wasting a heart of africa.

Was already an impossibility.

As the heart of africa vanished from Liu Yan's hand.

A series of names flashed through Liu Yan's mind.

After obtaining the answer, Liu Yan quickly used the smoothbore guns to call the roll one by one, like Yama checking his register.

But after a few rounds of smoothbore gun fire, Liu Yan's brows gradually knit together.

Liu Yan could still find those pilots' names through various means.

Just then, the bottom hatch of the interstellar battleship opened completely.

Bang———————

The hatch hit the ground, causing a dull thud.

This massive sound attracted Liu Yan's attention.

When Liu Yan turned his head to look again, his pupils had completely shrunk to pinpricks.

Among that chaotic information.

Liu Yan saw a few names he was all too familiar with.

Wang Yuhao, Kai Silva, Elie de Montbel.

And a name that had lingered in his ears from the day he was born until now...

Liu Yan...

Before Liu Yan could recover from his astonishment, the sound of countless power propulsion devices rang out at this moment!

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh————————!!

Countless figures, like hornets from a poked nest, flew out from within the interstellar battleship in all directions!

And among them, a figure he was all too familiar with arrived before him in just an instant...

That figure was himself.

It was his past self...