137: Chapter 137 The Fragments of Revelation Go Out of Control! Adam, not even ashes remain!

Pangu Laboratory, Level B2, 10:09 AM.

On the main screen, the energy spectrum curve of the "Divine Revelation" facility in the Atacama Desert was still spiking.

Su Che folded the handwritten assignment list, stuffed it into his pocket, and turned back to the screen.

"Can the Yiren AI Core remotely intervene in that facility?"

"The ports don't match." Jiang Yingxue swiped on her tablet a couple of times. "The communication system of 'Divine Revelation' is completely incompatible with existing Earth protocols. The Yiren AI Core can only passively monitor its energy radiation."

Su Che set his water cup on the left side of the console.

Adam had taken everything the Eagle Sauce had gained from decades of reverse engineering and run back to the lair of the apocalypse fragment; his direction was clear—one last stand.

"The growth rate is wrong." Jiang Yingxue's speech quickened. "It's risen by six percent in the last eight minutes. It's no longer linear growth."

The curve took a turn and shot up vertically.

The value on the screen jumped from 99.7% to 99.9%.

Then the numbers began to jitter.

It wasn't a malfunction; the Yiren AI Core's sampling precision couldn't keep up with the speed of the energy change.

Su Che pulled the keyboard over and issued a command to the Yiren AI Core: Full-band passive monitoring, record all data, do not perform any active detection.

"It's going to explode," Su Che said.

"How can you tell?" Qin Lan raised her body from in front of the terminal.

"The energy growth rate has exceeded the device's own heat dissipation limit." Su Che leaned back in his chair. "No matter what the apocalypse fragment is, the container holding it is man-made. The superconducting coils, magnetic confinement chamber, cooling system—they're all Earth-made stuff. Earth's containers cannot hold that level of energy density."

The curve on the screen jumped another notch.

"Doesn't he know?" Qin Lan asked.

"Of course he knows." Su Che watched the screen. "But he has no choice left. The gravitational wave base is ruined, the Rods from God are cleared, and the fleet has been crippled. He only has this one card left in his hand."

Qin Lan didn't ask again.

The only sounds in the hall were the exhaust from the atomic layer deposition equipment and the low-frequency rumble coming from the automated workshop in the distance.

Eight seconds later, the energy curve on the main screen disappeared; the signal source was gone.

The Yiren AI Core popped up a line of text.

["Divine Revelation" facility energy signal zeroed out. Final record: Energy output exceeded sampling limit within 0.3 seconds and then cut off. Characteristics consistent with uncontrolled chain release.]

Jiang Yingxue switched to the real-time image channel of the commercial remote sensing satellite, and the screen refreshed twice.

Deep in the Atacama Desert, the valley shielded by the circular mountain ridge had turned into a vitrified crater four hundred meters in diameter.

The bottom of the crater was smooth as a mirror. Under extreme heat, the sand had sintered into a dark brown glass-like substance. The inner side of the ridge had been sheared off, the cross-section neat, with no debris scattered about.

The buildings were gone, the equipment was gone.

Adam was gone too.

Not even ashes remained; at that temperature, organic matter vaporized instantly.

Jiang Yingxue zoomed in on the satellite image. Heat was still rising from the sand at the edge of the crater, and the high-temperature radiation had churned the air within two kilometers into visible distortions.

"The Chilean Seismological Service should be reacting." Qin Lan opened her terminal to check. "They already have. A magnitude 4.8 shallow earthquake occurred in the Atacama region, with a focal depth of zero kilometers."

A focal depth of zero equals a surface explosion.

Su Che tapped the desk twice.

"That makes things easier."

He didn't look at the crater much longer. Adam was dead, the apocalypse fragment had exploded, and the last card in the Eagle Sauce's hand had burned to ash.

There was no longer any force on Earth that possessed the apocalypse fragment technology.

Su Che closed the satellite image window and switched the main screen back to the 3D assembly progress chart of the ten-thousand-ton verification version luan bird.

The frame was there, the stealth coating was applied, and the Xuan Nu drones were lined up on the production line.

But the interior of this aerial fortress was still an empty shell.

The four Academician working groups had just received their assignment plans. For the three areas of propulsion, Anti-gravity, and weaponry, there were ready-made technical reserves and mature subsystems to draw from. Only the most core piece—the command and control system—was still a blank slate.

Without a command and control center, the luan bird was just a whale sleepwalking from beginning to end.

Su Che fished out an unbroken pencil from the desk and drew a square on a blank sheet of paper, writing three words inside: Master Control Brain.

As soon as he put the pen down, the blue-white panel popped up in his mind right on schedule.

[Ding! Core construction requirement for the Nantianmen Project detected, main quest triggered!]

[Quest Name: She has the bones, the claws, and the clothes, but she still lacks a brain!]

[Quest Content: The luan bird aerospace carrier is a mobile aerial fortress. Without a command and control center, she is just a pile of flying scrap metal! Please develop an integrated command and control system for the ten-thousand-ton verification version luan bird aerospace carrier to equip her with a real brain, allowing her to see, think, fight, and command!]

[Quest Reward: 20,000 skill points, unlock redemption rights for [Aerospace Global Situational Awareness Technology] + [Multi-platform Collaborative Command and Control Technology] + [Aerospace Combat Intelligent Decision-making Technology] + [Global Data Fusion Technology], redemption cost 12,000.]

[Current host has accumulated 21,400 skill points. Redeem?]

A 20,000-point reward, setting a new high.

The four core technologies were the lifeblood of the command and control system.

Su Che pressed confirm in his mind.

[Ding! 12,000 skill points consumed. Successfully redeemed [Aerospace Global Situational Awareness Technology] + [Multi-platform Collaborative Command and Control Technology] + [Aerospace Combat Intelligent Decision-making Technology] + [Global Data Fusion Technology].]

[Current host has accumulated 9,400 skill points.]

The full view of the four technologies flooded into his consciousness simultaneously.

Situational Awareness—integrating multi-source data from terahertz anti-stealth phased array radar equipped with quantum chips, electronic reconnaissance, and optical remote sensing to piece together a real-time battlefield situational map covering a 360-degree sphere.

Collaborative Command and Control—connecting the carrier itself, the Xuan Nu swarm, the Anti-gravity load-bearing platform, and the Sky-Breaking Bow Quantum Communication network into a central node for hierarchical scheduling.

Intelligent Decision-making—generating tactical suggestions automatically based on non-human logic inference from the Yiren AI Core.

Data Fusion—compressing massive signal streams of different frequency bands, formats, and latencies into a unified data format and feeding it into the main screen of the command and control console.

Massive.

More complex than the frame and stealth coating combined.

This wasn't a job of welding a few pipes or sticking on a few plates; it was about building a complete nervous system for a ten-thousand-ton aerial platform.

Su Che set the pencil down and closed his eyes to digest it for about twenty seconds.

When he opened them, Lin Waner walked in carrying a large stainless steel tray, on which sat a row of steaming paper cups.

"Fifty-six cups of tea are ready: thirty cups of green tea and twenty-six cups of black tea." Lin Waner placed the tray on an empty table. "Academician Li said he only drinks plain boiled water, so I poured him a separate cup."

Su Che glanced at her.

"How did you know who drinks what?"

"I asked them one by one."

Su Che twirled the pencil twice.

"Go hand them out. By the way, tell Dean Liu to come find me after he finishes lunch. I want to go over the overall architecture of the command and control system with him first."

Lin Waner picked up the tray and walked out, pausing at the door to look back.

"What are you having for lunch?"

"Whatever."

"Then it's pork ribs again."

The door closed.

Su Che pulled the keyboard over, created a new engineering document, and typed four characters as the title: Brain of the luan bird.

The development of the command and control system wouldn't be finished in a day or two.

The situational awareness module needed to integrate the Sky-Breaking Bow's quantum state scanning network and the traditional phased array radar array onto the same data bus;

The collaborative command and control module needed to allow the Yiren AI Core to simultaneously manage the real-time communication links between the carrier itself and hundreds of Xuan Nu drones;

The intelligent decision-making module needed to create a new inference logic layer within the core specifically for aerospace combat.

Each item was a system-level project.

One month.

Su Che noted the estimated completion time at the end of the document.

He saved the document and sent it to Liu Huaqiang's terminal.

Then he stood up and walked to the "empty" spot in the center of the hall.

He reached out and placed his hand on the invisible frame.

The metal was cold.

The 252-meter giant lay quietly dormant here, wrapped in a black war cloak that swallowed light, waiting to be filled with flesh and soul.

...

One week later.

Pangu Laboratory, Level B2 had become a city that never sleeps.

The four Academician working groups occupied four independent workshops, working in three shifts around the clock.

The installation and debugging of the thirty-six engines for the propulsion group had passed the second round; the Anti-gravity group was conducting full-platform field strength balancing tests; the weapon group had completed the joint fire control debugging for twelve sets of directed energy arrays.

The progress of the command and control system was the slowest, but it was still moving forward.

Liu Huaqiang, leading a core team of fourteen, had dismantled the Sky-Breaking Bow's quantum state data bus and rewritten the interface protocols.

Su Che reviewed the plan once a day, finding three to five compatibility vulnerabilities each time, and they would continue running it after fixing them.

Thirty percent of the Yiren AI Core's computing power had been diverted to assist in the development of the command and control system, running simulations in the supercomputer background day and night.

Su Che had sat in front of the console for seven days, during which Lin Waner had dragged him away to sleep four times, the longest time being five hours.

The R&D was proceeding according to plan.

But the outside world wasn't idle.

Every morning, Qin Lan printed out the intelligence summary from the tactical terminal and placed it on Su Che's desk.

Su Che would glance at the title, never once turning to the second page.

The Eagle Sauce's President Trump flipped his stance at the negotiating table faster than turning a page. On the first day, he agreed to lift technology controls; on the second, he said it "required Congressional approval"; on the third, he changed his tune to "suspend military confrontation before discussing conditions"; and on the fifth, he had the Secretary of State declare that "the technical data of the apocalypse fragment falls under national security and is not within any negotiation framework."

Within the forty-six-nation coalition, the cracks had turned into a chasm.

The seventeen countries that had proactively submitted armistice notes had signed agreements and were preparing to go home, while the remaining thirty or so huddled together, refusing to bow their heads. Behind the scenes, they formed cliques, lobbying the countries that wanted to leave one by one: "Don't be in such a hurry to sign; the conditions set by the Dragon Country are too harsh."

Sakura Country was even more absurd.

Takaishi Sayuki had committed seppuku, and the surrender document had been signed, but the new Prime Minister, the old bureaucrat Yamanaka Ichiro, wore a face of "we are following legal procedures." For a week, he hadn't sent anyone to kneel and apologize at the Memorial Hall for Victims of the War of Resistance in the Dragon Country, nor had he handed over the first list of military facility transfers.

The Stick Country was even more despicable; while saying "We were coerced," they secretly sent two patrol boats to wander in the disputed waters of the East Sea.

The Philippines had resupplied that dilapidated grounded warship in the Nansha Islands twice.

Australia held a "routine exercise" in Darwin Port.

Vietnam's border defense forces "accidentally entered" two hundred meters onto the Dragon Country side at the land border.

Canada froze the North American assets of three Dragon Country enterprises.

A bunch of clowns.

Su Che pushed the intelligence summary Qin Lan had placed on the desk to the side and took the pork rib rice Lin Waner had just brought over.

"You're not going to do anything about it?" Qin Lan stood nearby.

"What's the rush?" Su Che shoveled a mouthful of rice into his mouth. "Let them make a scene first."

He tilted his chin toward the invisible frame in the depths of the hall.

"When she comes out, it will be time to close the net."

Qin Lan looked in the direction he indicated.

In the 252-meter space, thirty-six adaptive variable-cycle engines were already embedded in the tail truss, and the blue light of the Anti-gravity field flickered on the frame nodes.

Three more weeks.

In three weeks, the ten-thousand-ton verification version luan bird aerospace carrier will roll off the line.

By then, none of these jumpers will be able to escape.