543: Chapter 543 The Shocked Prince An

Amidst the sea of clouds, a cool-looking aircraft was shuttling through. Its fuselage presented a perfect streamlined shape, with the nose to the body resembling a water droplet, while the tail was relatively slender. Its wings were spread out, looking somewhat like the wings of a hawk. Its flight speed was extremely fast, and slight sonic booms appeared at the tail, a sign that its speed exceeded the speed of sound...

Prince An sat on an incomparably comfortable seat, looking at the nearly transparent deck beneath his feet and the porthole in front of him with a nearly 360-degree field of vision. He was completely dazed!

This feeling was truly superb, as if he were flying on a sword himself, yet he didn't need to consume spiritual power to protect himself from the high-altitude astral winds. He could completely relax and leisurely enjoy a pot of good tea along with several plates of delicious snacks while admiring the breathtaking scenery around him...

The key was that the speed was more than ten times faster than his own sword flight!

“My God, how could an aircraft of this level appear on Blue Star? Oh no, it's a qilin war chariot!” Prince An roared in his heart, but he concealed it well, and his expression remained relatively calm.

Suddenly, he noticed some light spots flashing on a light screen to the right and couldn't help but ask curiously, “Long Yuan, what’s the situation with those light spots?”

Long Yuan took a look and said, “That is a Life Phased Array Radar System built into this chariot. It can observe the life status within a radius of ten thousand kilometers. Look at the numbers next to those light spots; 4 represents a Rank Four lifeform, 5 represents Rank Five. There are no 6s, which means the only slightly threatening lifeforms within a certain range are just some Rank Four and Rank Five birds. As long as they don't come to harass us, we don't need to worry about them.”

“It can even detect this? And while in flight?” Prince An was shocked.

“Hehe, not only can it detect them, but if we want to clear them, it’s just a matter of a single thought!” Long Yuan said with a hint of pride.

“Oh? How do you clear them?” Prince An asked curiously.

“Take that Rank Five bird for example...” Long Yuan pointed at one of the Rank Five numbers and then tapped it. Two choices popped up on the light screen: first, disperse; second, clear. He tapped the second choice, clear!

Prince An saw what seemed to be a flicker on the light screen, and immediately after, the number 5 representing the Rank Five lifeform vanished with a 'swish'. However, in a corner of the light screen, another number 5 began to pulse...

“Has it been cleared already?” Prince An asked in surprise.

“Cleared! That bird has been collected into the chariot's recycling bin!” Long Yuan nodded.

“Recycling bin? You mean from such a distance, you not only killed it but also brought it onto the chariot?!” Prince An said incredulously.

“Uncle An doesn't seem to believe it. Why don't we go to the recovery space and take a look?” Long Yuan laughed.

“Sure, but can we leave? Aren't we controlling the chariot's flight right now?”

“It’s fine. The chariot is actually in an automated flight state; we don't need to worry about it at all!”

Long Yuan led the bewildered Prince An to a corner at the rear of the chariot. There was a door labeled 'Recovery Space'. He pressed a button on the door that said 'Display items within space', and a light screen popped up, showing densely packed spatial grids. One grid flashing with a faint light was quite obvious; the time displayed on it was exactly the moment just now, and the name was written as 'One Rank Five Black Eagle Exotic Beast'!

“It really was captured?! How was this done?!” Prince An cried out with wide eyes.

With a wave of his hand, Long Yuan pulled the Rank Five Black Eagle out of the grid space and threw it onto the deck. Pointing at a charred wound on it, he said, “Uncle An, look. It was killed in one hit by the chariot's built-in Fire-attribute weapon, and then the chariot has an enhanced capture System that can shift it into the recycling bin!”

“Wow...” Prince An exclaimed, his whole body unable to stop trembling slightly...

A Rank Five Black Eagle, that was a powerhouse at the General level, enough to dominate a patch of sky, yet it was killed in one hit and instantly vanished from its original spot, thrown into a trash heap!

Its strength was much greater than a single General of the Human Race. If it were a human, they would surely have been deleted in one hit. What a powerful and cold weapon System!

A bolt of lightning suddenly flashed through his mind, and he realized, “I understand! So those Sea Race experts shot down on the Linhai City battlefield were the work of your qilin war chariots!!! It wasn't some passing expert who intervened!”

Because the wounds couldn't be more obvious. He and Sabado had checked them together last time; those deep, charred holes on the ground were exactly the same as the wound on the Black Eagle before him. The residual fiery aura was even more identical, enough to prove that both were caused by the qilin war chariot's Fire-attribute weapon System.

Long Yuan smiled and said, “Indeed! After our squad took out those Sea Race experts, I received orders to reinforce Shanhai Pass. Fearing we would be blocked by you, we transformed into the flying vehicle state to leave quickly...”

“So that's how it was! To think that just two of your chariot squads solved such a major problem for us. And it should be the same over at Shanhai Pass. It seems the entire Great Ming owes you its thanks!” Prince An said with deep emotion.

He had now figured out the connection between the events occurring on various battlefields. To put it bluntly, this war with the Sea Race had been secretly controlled by Long Yuan all along. Whether it was the preparation phase, the war phase, or the current aftermath phase, if Long Yuan hadn't been helping the whole time, the current Great Ming would likely already be a land of devastated lives and rivers of blood...

“We are all people of Great Ming; there's no need for words of thanks. However, this matter cannot be let known to Sabado. Just let him keep guessing!” Long Yuan laughed.

Prince An nodded in agreement. Sabado was actually a pawn planted in Great Ming by the Tianji Pavilion. Once he knew about many things, it meant they would be known by the Tianji Pavilion. Then Blue Star would have no secrets to speak of before the Tianji Pavilion.

As the two walked back, Prince An observed carefully along the way and found many things on the chariot that he didn't understand. In particular, the crystal-clear spherical object in the middle of the chariot gave him a strange feeling, as if it were a living being. He couldn't help but ask again, “Long Yuan, this sphere seems to be breathing...”

Long Yuan nodded and said, “It is indeed a product of bionic technology. Given enough time, it might birth a consciousness and become an AI! If placed in the Cultivation World, it would be equivalent to an artifact spirit!”

“AI? Artifact spirit? You mean, it is the brain of this war chariot?” Prince An asked incredulously.

“Correct! In fact, the recovery of that Rank Five Black Eagle just now was automatically controlled by it. First, it used the chariot's fire-attribute Laser gun to insta-kill that Black Eagle, and then it used stored Soul Power, which was enhanced to form a Soul Net, to sweep it into the recycling bin in one go... Additionally, it is also controlling the chariot's autopilot System!”

“My God...” Prince An was so shocked he was speechless, his eyes filled with awe as he looked at the sphere before him.

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