I! Cleaner!

Just as he guessed, Joshua had hidden something like fireworks or flares. After hearing the noise, he turned around and glimpsed the flares fired by middle-aged Joshua through the porthole on the side of the airship. Leon couldn't help but sigh.

Sure enough, everything was going well, all illusions.

With his shitty luck of being able to see the Holy Spirit descending when shopping and encountering out-of-control abnormalities when watching a play, there is no possibility that everything will go smoothly. Stability is just an accident, and bad luck is the norm.

And his bad luck is not the bad luck of the cleanup bureau, "the higher the value of self-infection, the easier it is to encounter abnormalities", but the simplest bad luck that nothing goes well and always goes wrong...

After shaking his head helplessly, Leon reached out and grabbed the Holy Spirit pendant on his chest, picked up the people who were still in a coma one by one, and sent them out of the airship one after another, handing them over to the rebels waiting outside.

After a while, when the last unconscious operator was taken away and entered the opened [Gate of the Other Side] with the rebels, Lyon, who was sure that Joshua had not played any tricks, first waved goodbye to the tearful rebels, then turned around and walked into the airship again, leaving everyone with a "death-ready" back.

...

Almost.

He pried open the fuel storage room of the airship, took out more than a dozen barrels of whale blubber as fuel, poured them all along the narrow airship, and checked repeatedly to confirm that nothing was missed. Then Lyon retreated to the entrance of the middle cabin and took out a box of matches for the black goat to light his cigarette.

The airbags of the airship were all filled with flammable and explosive hydrogen, estimated to be more than 300,000 cubic meters, and there were also many unstable lightning-struck ores in the tail cabin.

Next, as long as he ignites the whale blubber and lets the flames burn all the way, the entire airship will be completely burned, and even be instantly detonated by the arc of the lightning-struck mine, becoming a huge fireball hanging at an altitude of 700 meters...

"Don't light the fire, okay?"

Just as Leon was about to take action, a somewhat crisp voice of a little girl suddenly came out from the metal pipe next to him.

Is there someone else in the airship? !

After hearing the noise, Leon's expression tightened, and the little finger of his right hand immediately brushed the cufflinks and pressed against the exposed ram's horns. However, no matter how he checked, the airship in his soul vision was still dead silent, and no soul flame appeared.

No soul?

So it's an abnormal object? Remote communication technology? Or something like an answering machine?

"Where are you?"

After reaching out and touching the fixed inner wall, the pipe used to transmit sound from the control room to other cabins, and confirming that there was no abnormal danger, Leon carefully found the nearest pipe opening, opened the lid and shouted inside:

"No matter who you are, if you are on this ship, you'd better get out quickly, I'm about to light the fire!"

"I can't get out."

After Leon's voice fell, the clear reply of the "girl" came from the communication copper tube in front of him.

"I am the Atifi 128 airship itself, and you are standing in my middle cabin now."

? ! ! !

After hearing the words of the "girl", Leon's eyes widened instantly.

No wonder...no wonder Joshua said that this ship must be blown up together, it turns out that this is a living ship! If it really returns to the Kingdom of Korok, it will be useless even if everyone's memory is changed!

Leon calmed down after being shocked, then frowned and asked:

"What on earth are you! Anomaly? Or..."

"I am the 128th child of Atifi."

The voice of the little girl in the communication copper tube sounded again.

"To put it in a way that is easy for you to understand, I am Atifi 01, the core differential machine of the Korok Kingdom. I copied part of my own operation logic and reproduced a low-computation subordinate child. You can call me Atifi 128."

"..."

So it is neither a human nor anomaly, but something like an intelligent supercomputer? Has the technological level of the Korok Kingdom developed to such a terrifying level?

After a moment of silence, Leon, who was extremely shocked, could not help but ask:

"Are you intelligent? Can you really communicate with me? How did you hear me talking?"

"I should be intelligent. As for how I heard you, I relied on a special radio receiver that can convert the sound near the communication copper tube into a "mechanical code" like this, and send it to my core differential engine for processing information, and then output it back in reverse."

As Atifi 128 explained, her voice began to gradually slow down and lengthen. The originally crisp and neat girl's voice slowly "dispersed" and turned into countless tiny and dense knocking sounds.

And these countless complex knocking sounds, like the various parts of a symphony, cleverly and precisely combined together, neatly forming her girl-like timbre, which spread throughout the airship along the special communication copper tube.

So... she wasn't "speaking", but using some kind of mechanical device with countless tiny hammers to "strike" a special communication copper tube at the same time, simulating a voice similar to that of a little girl?

After barely understanding how this ship calling itself "Atifi 128" communicated with him, Lyon was secretly shocked. Although he still had a lot of questions to ask, he shook his head helplessly when he thought of the flare fired by middle-aged Joshua, and then opened the matchbox.

"Sorry, I don't have much time."

"Please wait a moment."

The emotionless mechanical child's voice sounded again. Atifi 128, who was facing a "life and death crisis", seemed a little anxious. The speed of his speech was obviously much faster, and even exposed a discordant knocking sound.

"Please don't destroy me. I have analyzed what you did. There are a lot of guards under the boarding tower. You will be attacked by them and die because of your physical defects. If you are willing to give up the fire, I can teach you how to operate the airship and take you away from here safely.

In addition, for the Kingdom of Korok, I am an important non-renewable asset. If you are willing to give up destroying me and take me back to the Kingdom of Korok, Atifi 01 will definitely give you extremely generous..."

"You recorded the volcanic data of Lane County, right?"

After interrupting Atifi 128, Lyon asked back:

"Since you are intelligent and even know how to draw a pie, can you tell me, if you are allowed to take those sniffing records back to the Kingdom of Korok, what will the Kingdom of Korok do next?"

"..."

"An aggressive war regardless of casualties, right?"

"Yes... But if you destroy me, it will also attract the attention of Atifi 01. "

"But if you are not destroyed, there will be a war. If you are destroyed, even if there is a war, it can delay the outbreak of the war, right?"

"..."

Lyon took out a match and struck it, and said calmly:

"I have seen the sniffing records. They spent a full 31 years and drilled more than 70 deep holes in the Hespitu volcano group. Only recently did they preliminarily determine the location and intensity of the heat source.

Even if it would be much faster to measure it again, as long as all those deep holes are filled and the terrain is slightly changed, even if new sniffers are allowed to come in and measure it casually, it can at least delay it for ten or eight years. If there are some obstacles, it may be delayed for even longer.

And no matter how crazy you are, the Korok Kingdom will not rashly start a war at all costs when the specific situation is still uncertain and the kingdom is still cooperating, right?"