Deposed? I couldn't be happier! I wouldn't even be a dog to the crown prince.

Hawaii. Safe house in the basement.

The breathing light in the quantum hibernation pod is emitting a uniform blue light.

Li Chengqian had half his body submerged in the repair solution, with a hot towel covering his face.

Soothing white noise was playing in my headphones.

He was trying hard to suppress the frenzied killing intent in his mind.

Di-

The piercing security alarm tore through the white noise.

The lights in the quantum cabin turned red instantly.

The hatch slid open automatically with a "whoosh," and a blast of cold air rushed in.

Li Chengqian ripped the towel off his face.

It crashed into the silver tray next to it.

There was also half a freshly roasted garlic lobster on the tray.

"Tian Shu, didn't I say to cut off all external communications?"

Li Chengqian's voice clearly carried a hint of morning grumpiness.

He sat up in the cabin, repair fluid dripping down his chin.

The holographic panel was forcibly deployed in mid-air.

"Royal Code Zero detected, highest priority, cannot be blocked."

The synthesized soundboard of Tian Shu is perfectly aligned.

An urgent battle report from Wu Zetian popped up on the panel.

Also included was a surveillance video of the Liangyi Hall.

In the video, Li Shimin and the other two stood with their necks stiff as wooden stakes.

Cheng Yaojin's clothes on the back were soaked with blood.

There was also a countdown timer next to it: 39 minutes and 12 seconds.

This is the time when the 20 billion yuan in national treasury reserves will be completely liquidated.

Li Chengqian finished reading the battle report, which lasted only thirty seconds.

I feel the veins in my temples throbbing.

"Two hundred billion."

He stared at the number on the screen, his anger turning into a bitter laugh.

"I just smashed the rice bowl of the powerful families and replenished the national treasury a little."

"He just turned around and gave it to the Persians to behead?"

Li Chengqian slammed his fist on the tray.

boom.

The golden-brown Australian lobster was smashed to pieces.

Minced garlic and crab roe splattered onto the keyboard.

It's greasy.

"The Third Continent? A Value-Added Area?"

Li Chengqian grabbed a clump of lobster meat with its shell on and slammed it against the wall.

The shrimp shell hit the wall with a dull thud and fell to the ground.

"Did I fucking give him too much face?!"

Li Chengqian stepped out of the quantum cabin.

My bare feet left a trail of wet watermarks on the floor.

He didn't even bother to change his clothes, and sat back in the control chair wearing only his soaking wet shorts.

The metal surface of the control chair was icy cold.

This sent a chill down his spine.

"To welcome Chang'an."

Li Chengqian's fingers flew across the keyboard.

The keyboard clattered loudly, each strike sounding as if it were about to shatter someone's bones.

The large screen lights up.

Wu Zetian's slightly haggard face appeared on the screen.

"Your Highness, you've finally woken up."

Wu Zetian visibly breathed a sigh of relief.

"His Majesty and the two dukes' consciousnesses are trapped in the sandbox. In half an hour..."

"He deserved to die."

Li Chengqian's tone was as cold as ice shards.

"The old man courted death, what can I do? Go to Rome to collect his body?"

Wu Zetian did not respond.

She knew the Crown Prince was currently furious.

Give me the bottom deck.

Despite his cursing, Li Chengqian didn't stop what he was doing.

"These barbarians dare to touch my money? They're asking for trouble."

Just as Li Chengqian was about to forcefully decipher the Trojan Horse of the "Roman Colosseum".

The lights in the entire Hawaiian safe house suddenly flickered.

Not just safe houses.

The global market data curves connected to the Tian Shu system showed strange fluctuations.

"Tian Shu, what's going on?" Li Chengqian stopped what he was doing.

"Global broadcasting on an unknown frequency band has been detected."

"They are forcibly blocking our public channels."

The large screen was cut in half.

On the left is Wu Zetian's anxious face.

To the right, a dimly lit circular conference room came into view.

A dozen or so elderly people dressed in long robes sat around a long table.

A bottle of scarlet wine was laid out on the table.

The old Roman governor in the very center raises his glass and smiles at the camera.

Behind him were several elders of the Persian financial magnate.

Their faces were filled with arrogance and fanaticism.

"Your Highness Li Chengqian, the Creator of the East."

The old governor spoke, using standard Tang Dynasty Mandarin.

His voice was hoarse, with a metallic echo.

"This is our first official meeting."

Li Chengqian ignored him.

He casually pulled a cigar from the drawer and put it in his mouth.

"Your proud Tian Shu system is indeed powerful."

The old governor did not care about Li Chengqian's attitude.

He continued speaking into the camera.

"But the myth of the Tang Dynasty must end today."

He turned a miniature projector on the table.

On the global digital dashboard.

The red line representing foreign forces has suddenly begun to change.

What was originally an ordinary candlestick chart has been distorted and reassembled.

In the end, it transformed into strange, dark gold cubes.

These cubes slowly rotated on the holographic screen.

Each rotation was accompanied by a low, mechanical friction sound.

It was like the breathing of some ancient behemoth.

Li Chengqian bit down on the cigar with a little force.

The end of the cigar was bitten flat.

He recognized that voice.

In the lowest level of the abandoned database.

"What did you dig up in the polar regions?"

Li Chengqian suddenly spoke, interrupting the old governor's speech.

The sound wasn't loud, but it carried a chilling coldness.

The old governor's smile froze for a moment.

Then he laughed even louder.

"As expected of the creator of Tian Shu, his intuition is very sharp."

He clapped his hands.

The Persian elder behind him stepped forward and took out a black stone tablet.

The surface of the stone slab is covered with intricate, dark blue patterns.

This is not the code structure of Datang Tian Shu.

This is a more ancient and primitive logical arrangement.

"Your brain-computer interface, your metaverse."

"It's nothing more than a fortress built on the beach."

The old governor stood up and raised his wine glass.

"We found the true ancestral code beneath the polar ice caps."

"This is the ultimate power to rule the cyber world."

The dark gold cube on the holographic screen began to spin faster.

The ancient mechanical breathing sounds grew louder and louder.

It even drowned out the hum of the safe house's ventilation fan.

Wu Meiniang was pale on the other end.

"Your Highness, our defensive walls are being overwhelmed by computational power on a physical level!"

"They're not using a regular Trojan horse."

The global broadcast signal of foreign conglomerates reached its peak in an instant.

The old governor's hoarse voice spread like wildfire on the dark web.

"The world will usher in a new order."

"We have awakened the silicon-based primordial god of the old era."