Chapter 845 - 356: Cowhide Rope and Whip_4

"That’s true..."

KIKI pouted and nodded, then turned around with Lin Xian to look at Silent City. After a moment of silence, she said,

"I heard that many residents of Silent City have uploaded their consciousness to the cloud. A few have their own conscious memories. I noticed that some fleets in the Joint Fleet might have their own thoughts..."

"Are you saying they want to join Silent City?"

"Yes."

"It’s understandable," Lin Xian replied candidly. "If it were me, I’d want to as well. With doomsday threats everywhere, it’s the dream of many ordinary people to have the protection of such a Mobile City. It’s perfectly normal."

He looked at KIKI, "Are you thinking that someone might have similar thoughts in Infinity?"

KIKI shook her head, "No, I can understand people no matter what they think. It’s just you..." She glanced back at Lin Xian, her eyes shimmering with a twinkle like stars.

"I think you’re too tired, so I was thinking that if Mochizuki Masashi asks you to stay, perhaps... you might consider it..."

"That wouldn’t work."

Lin Xian detected a hint of warmth in KIKI’s words, felt a faint stirring in his heart, then took a deep breath and said, "Silent City is determined to fight against the Heavenly Veil at Yongcheng Port, and there’s less than a year left to the world’s end, time is pressing. How could I just idly wait? Besides, Mochizuki Masashi reminded me that even if he gave me the blueprints of Silent City, all I could do is create another Silent City. But the problem is, Silent City currently can’t handle Star Abyss and the Abnormal Bodies, nor can it break through the Heavenly Veil..."

"Phoenix Society can’t solve this either, it’s not just Silent City’s problem," KIKI replied without hesitation.

"But... there is something I might be able to achieve."

"What is it?" KIKI looked at him.

Lin Xian’s eyes flickered as he looked at the launch engines of the gigantic Floating City, "To integrate all of humanity’s technologies, including Silent City, Dawn City, Phoenix Society, Xinghua Heavy Industry, the interstellar army, and then..."

"Explore!"

The night wind howled, swallowing Lin Xian’s words into the starry sky. Beside him, KIKI looked at him with eyes brimming with light, then a smile curled up at the corner of her lips.

At this moment, in her eyes flashed a scene from long ago, when she had just been rescued by Lin Xian and woke up in the car gorging on bread, caught red-handed, and in confrontation, angrily denounced his Infinite Train project as unreliable. She recited a string of mind-blowing frontier technologies, yet instead of being flustered, Lin Xian pulled out a small notebook with a serious expression and started taking notes.

"Lin Xian."

"Mm."

"You’re amazing."

"How amazing?"

KIKI spread her arms wide, chuckling as she shouted, "Thaaat amazing!"

Lin Xian smiled faintly and pulled out the Photon Storage Device, "Wait till I finish making this, then I’ll be even more amazing."

"What’s inside?"

"Interesting stuff," Lin Xian said, reaching out to grab KIKI’s small hand and led her back, "There are many tutorials on making little people inside; surely you’d be interested."

Upon hearing this, KIKI’s face turned red, and she immediately stopped, looking at Lin Xian in shock, "Wha... what little people, what are you planning?!"

Lin Xian turned back, saying seriously, "Small robots and nano armor, space-based weapons, aren’t you interested?"

Hearing this, KIKI knew instantly she was being teased by Lin Xian and gave him a fierce glare, her cheeks puffing out in exasperation, "Small robots are called little people? You think I’m a fool, do you? See if I don’t smack you!"

Lin Xian hurried to escape, shouting, "If small robots aren’t called little people, what should they be called, tiny bits and bobs?"

Under the starry sky, the wind was gentle, carrying a faint metallic taste, along with the distant fragrance from the synthetic botanical garden. Occasionally, a flying device swept over the cloud deck of Silent City, its engine’s low hum filtered by the city’s sound barriers, leaving only a slight buzzing, like the flapping wings of an electronic hummingbird.

At this moment, it seemed like a rare and luxurious peace since Lin Xian began his escape.

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