Chapter 54: Now is the stage of showing financial strength
Hua naturally didn't know what Ai Yue was thinking; she was just a little surprised that the other party was so sure of her.
"You're too kind. In fact, there are many people who are stronger than me." Hua lowered her head. She always made this gesture habitually when talking about herself. "Besides, you should have a good relationship with the fusion warriors, right? Maybe we should ask them for help for a mission like this."
"Fusion warriors have things to do." Ai Yue couldn't change Hua's lack of confidence in the short term. "Besides, in this mission, there is not necessarily any difference between fusion warriors and ordinary people."
Hua heard something behind Ai Yue's words and couldn't help but look up at him: "Is it a very dangerous mission?"
"The Eighth Great Eruption has broken out," Ai Yue did not directly answer the question, "but there is no information about the Herrscher yet."
"This..." Hua was stunned for a moment, "The eighth great eruption broke out?"
Within the Fire Moth, soldiers like Hua can only be considered at the bottom. Although with her qualifications, she is actually qualified to become the captain of a team of soldiers and thus be promoted to a middle-level manager, due to her personal character, the girl prefers to be a soldier who obeys orders.
It was precisely because of this that she was not aware of the situation. After all, Dr. Mei had not yet spread the news as she was not sure about the situation of the Eighth Herrscher. Currently, only a small number of people within the Fire Moth knew the news.
"So are we going to look for the Herrscher now?" Hua reacted quickly. After realizing what happened, she quickly deduced the result based on what Ai Yue said. "But why would such a thing require a scholar like you to do it?"
"Because it will save a lot of trouble if I do it." Ai Yue smiled, "This way, we can also reduce unnecessary sacrifices, right?"
At this point, he suddenly changed the subject and looked at Hua: "However, I am well aware of the risks of this mission, so if you don't want to carry it out, you still have a chance to withdraw."
"I don't have such plans." Hua glanced at Ai Yue, then looked outside the cabin, "Besides, it's actually too late now, right?"
Ai Yue said that there was still a chance to withdraw, but the plane had already taken off, so how could she withdraw?
"I believe you won't back down." Ai Yue patted her shoulder and pointed to the backpack next to her. "Of course, if you really choose to leave, there is a parachute here."
Thus, this simple yet abrupt encounter came to a temporary end, and they all needed to take a short break before reaching their destination.
Three hours later, the plane finally arrived at its destination and landed on a wasteland on the outskirts of a city. But what surprised Hua was that this was a calm city. Not to mention the Honkai beasts, there were very few pedestrians on the road.
"Would a Herrscher hide in a place like this?" Hua said doubtfully, "It seems that there may not even be a Honkai disaster here."
"The Herrscher may not hide here." Ai Yue replied, "But the Herrscher's antenna are here."
'antenna?'
Hua couldn't understand what the word meant for a moment, but her long-standing habit made her stop asking questions.
"Let's go, let's go take a look. Hua, you take this box." Ai Yue jumped off the plane and did not forget to instruct, "Kalpas, you stay here."
"Oh." Kalpas, who hadn't said anything along the way, finally said the second sentence after Hua saw him.
"Come to think of it, I didn't seem to hear the driver talking along the way?" Hua finally realized something at this time.
The driver seemed to have never shown up from the beginning, and didn't even say a word on the road, which made him seem a little too silent.
Although Kalpas, who was sitting at the other end of the cabin, was the same, there couldn't be two people with that kind of personality on the plane, right?
"It's her first time flying a plane, so she's a little nervous." Ai Yue opened the cockpit door, revealing the empty main driving seat. "Come on, Rose, say hello to Hua."
"Empty?" Hua finally revealed a more obvious expression. She looked at the cockpit in astonishment, unable to believe how she got here. "This, when did the Fire Moth have an unmanned aircraft?"
"It's not unmanned, but driven by artificial intelligence." When Hua was stunned, a shadow appeared in front of her. A girl with a gray double-drill ponytail bowed slightly to her and said, "Hello, Miss Hua, I am the artificial intelligence 'Prometheus', the pilot of this voyage. Please rate my service, 1 is very satisfied, 2 is very satisfied, 3 is extremely satisfied."
"Uh, then let's go with 1." Although Hua looked confused, she still responded subconsciously, "Wait, artificial intelligence?"
Is there something more outrageous than driverless cars?
"You actually answered this question so seriously. It seems that your personality model needs some modification." Prometheus said expressionlessly, and then looked at Ai Yue, "Dr. Ai Yue, the specific coordinates have been sent to your mobile phone, please check it out."
"OK, let's go."
Ai Yue stretched out his hand to the dashboard in the cockpit, and Hua only then noticed that there was a black object embedded in the dashboard, with many segmented objects extending from it connected to the control devices. It seemed that Prometheus should be using this thing to fly the plane.
After Ai Yue took it off, the black thing actually changed its shape automatically, fitting on Ai Yue's forearm and turning into something like an arm armor.
Hua stared at the scene in a daze, and for a moment she thought she had returned to the time when she first joined the Fire Moth.
When she was a college student at that time, she looked at the high-tech equipment inside the Fire Moth with the same eyes, right?
'But this thing looks too high-tech! When did Fire Moth have something like this?'
"It's a little bit of nanotechnology. It's still in the experimental stage, and its performance is not very perfect." Ai Yue put down his sleeves to cover the Prometheus extension, and seeing Hua's eyes, he explained, "Do you want it? When the technology is mature, I'll give you a complete set."
"Ah?" Hua probably didn't expect Ai Yue to be so enthusiastic. After a moment of hesitation, she quickly shook her head and said, "No, I won't use it... I don't need this kind of thing either."
Ai Yue just smiled and didn't say much.
'Not interested? It doesn't matter. There are many interesting things in your brother's house.'
At this moment, Hua did not know that Ai Yue's enthusiasm for her was all for ulterior motives, and his purpose was to make her willingly become his subordinate.
Unfortunately, it's too late to run now.
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