212: I'm anxious to gain merit and improve my strength.

After two soft sounds, a voice, also mechanical but more human-like than Tiangong's, rang out inside the Crimson Mecha.

"Hello, Comrade Yang Dian."

"How may I help you?"

Yang Dian pointed at the blazing golden flames in front of the Crimson Mecha:

"I found the Fire Flame Turtle."

"The Fire Flame Turtle is not a turtle or a sea turtle; it's an undersea volcano about to gain sentience, an undersea volcano shaped like a turtle!"

"I just tried to break its core and kill it before it fully gained sentience, but as I was about to strike, I saw two scenes."

"First, if I don't kill it, the undersea volcano erupts in 10 days, causing a tsunami."

"Second, if I kill it, the undersea volcano erupts immediately, causing an even larger tsunami, and subsequently leading to continuous earthquakes and other natural disasters."

"This was guidance from Earth's Will, for which I consumed one-tenth of Earth's Favor."

Speaking of this, Yang Dian exhaled deeply:

"Don't we still have Bureau 749?"

"Aren't they going around nailing formed rocks and setting up power towers?"

"Can they come here and drive two nails into the Fire Flame Turtle to delay, or even prevent, its emergence?"

Taichu was silent for a long time:

"After calculation, they are powerless to do so."

"Also, did you not fully describe the 'future' scenes you saw?"

Yang Dian raised his eyebrows.

'As expected of the intelligent terminal for all artificial intelligence; it can even calculate that I didn't finish speaking?'

While his thoughts churned, Yang Dian recounted the scenes he had seen, exactly as they were.

Not long after he finished speaking, Taichu's voice rang out again in the cockpit:

"After calculation, the Fire Flame Turtle has similarities to the Crystal Lizardman you encountered in the Alien Planet Dimension Crystal Mine."

"You can consider the Crystal Lizardman as the guardian beast of the Alien Planet's planetary core."

"The Fire Flame Turtle, on the other hand, is the guardian beast of Earth's ecological environment."

"Both were nurtured by their respective planets and exist to protect them."

"Therefore, we should not impede its birth; we should even protect it, allowing it to awaken smoothly."

After hearing Taichu's calculation, Yang Dian frowned:

"What about the coastal residents then? Can they be evacuated in time?"

"Yes," Taichu affirmed:

"With 11 years of preparation, we are fully ready, with enough manpower and resources to evacuate coastal residents, and ensure they can lead normal lives in the new areas, or rebuild the disaster areas in a short time."

After answering Yang Dian's question, Taichu added:

"Next, I will dispatch underwater operational robots to explore the undersea volcano area, and then formulate a detailed evacuation plan based on the scenes you predicted."

At this point, Taichu also projected a slightly rounded mechanical figure onto the control panel via an in-cabin projection.

Then the mechanical figure saluted Yang Dian:

"Thank you for your contributions to Huaxia and its people."

Yang Dian twitched the corner of his mouth.

He was a Huaxian; when did it become Taichu, an artificial intelligence's, turn to thank him for everything he did for Huaxia?

"I only did what I should do."

After replying to Taichu, Yang Dian looked again at the ten-meter-high golden flames in front of the mecha:

"Also, Taichu..."

"Even if you can evacuate the coastal residents on time, I still have a bad feeling about the tsunami in ten days."

"I always feel like something will happen that day."

"If possible, please make thorough preparations."

The small robot on the operating panel looked up at Yang Dian, mimicking his expression, and frowned humanly:

"A Martial Artist's intuition is always very accurate."

"As a Grandmaster-level Martial Artist, this is even more so for you."

"Logically, your intuition should not be wrong."

"But your intuition contradicts the guidance of the Mother Planet's Will..."

As the small robot murmured, its body transformed into countless data streams and began to flow.

Three minutes later, the data stream projection transformed back into the small robot, nodding at Yang Dian:

"I will communicate your conjecture to the Think Tank and formulate a detailed plan, as well as prepare at least three backup plans just in case."

After receiving Taichu's reply, the sense of crisis that had inexplicably arisen in Yang Dian finally lessened, but did not completely disappear:

"You must formulate a detailed plan, the more detailed the better; I can still feel that sense of crisis."

The small robot nodded:

"I understand."

"I will notify the Think Tank to hold a meeting now."

With that, the small robot transformed into a data stream and disappeared in front of Yang Dian.

Yang Dian took one last look at the golden-yellow flames and began to control the mecha to ascend.

But before ascending a few meters, he suddenly stopped and looked down at the golden flames.

Vaguely, he detected a sense of intimacy from the golden flames.

"It really developed sentience?"

Blinking, Yang Dian again controlled the Crimson Mecha to ascend, only speaking after leaving the volcano's crater:

"Tiangong, you stay here and prevent any other potential creatures from harming the Fire Flame Turtle."

"Okay," Tiangong responded and then opened the hatch.

Looking at the murky seawater, which was isolated by an energy field, Yang Dian didn't hesitate; he took off his helmet and jumped directly out of the cockpit.

He looked back at the Crimson Mecha, which had closed its cockpit and taken up a guard position at the volcano's crater, then swam towards the surface without looking back.

'Although I don't know what will happen in 10 days.'

'However, it's definitely not wrong to desperately improve my strength during this period.'

Thinking this, Yang Dian, who had surfaced, pulled out his phone and called Taichu:

"Hello? Taichu?"

"I know you're going to award me that Interstellar Pioneer medal..."

"Yes, yes, I know it's in three days."

"I'm not in a hurry for the medal; can you give me the merit points first?"

"I'm in a hurry to buy rare treasures with the merit points to improve my strength..."