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

The disappearance of gravity was abrupt.

Old Wai's hands, which were pushing the control lever, suddenly slammed forward due to inertia.

I almost pushed the console out of shape.

His mouth was wide open, and yellow fluid was still seeping from the blisters on his face.

He was stunned.

It wasn't just him.

The pilots of those tens of thousands of stacked mechs below.

Those soldiers whose mouths and noses were bleeding from being squeezed.

They all felt a lightness on their shoulders.

It was as if that towering black tower weighing 30,000 tons had turned into a weightless goose feather.

"What's going on? Why isn't the tower moving?"

On the city wall, Li Shimin rubbed his eyes vigorously.

He looked up.

Looking up at the massive, tilted tower of Jianmu, one can see tens of thousands of meters above the stratosphere.

The color of the sky changed.

The sky, which was originally shrouded in the shadow of the Black Tower and was gray and hazy.

It was torn apart by a dazzling, burning, eerie blue light.

That's not the aurora.

That was the ultra-high intensity ion tail flame spewed out by the Ark engine.

The heat of the tail flame instantly ionized the surrounding air, turning half the sky red.

A giant warship, a thousand feet long and entirely black.

Hovering above the Jianmu tree.

It has no wings and no propeller.

It defied aerodynamics and remained firmly anchored in the stratospheric gale.

Black Titanium Quantum Ark.

Li Chengqian's car.

This time, he didn't hide in a basement in Hawaii and type remotely.

He personally piloted this industrial mothership, which represents the pinnacle of Tang Dynasty technology.

It underwent a violent transoceanic space jump.

It landed directly above Chang'an City.

hum-

The hatch on the belly of the ark opened.

There were no missiles, no artillery.

Twelve enormous, dark blue quantum traction beams shot straight out from the bottom of the cabin.

The beams of light resembled twelve invisible giant hands.

It accurately grasped the carbon nanotube core load-bearing ring at the very top of the Jianmu Tower.

Click click click.

The space emitted a series of teeth-grinding, distorted sounds.

Thirty thousand tons of heavy metal were dumped.

Faced with this high-dimensional force that can even alter the local gravitational field.

The downward momentum was abruptly stopped.

They even started to be pulled back little by little in mid-air.

The hatch of the Ark command module slowly slid open.

The fierce winds from high above swept in like knives.

The wind caused the holographic projection in the cabin to flicker.

Li Chengqian stood at the cabin door.

He wasn't wearing that glittering gold Supreme Transmission Suit.

She was still wearing the same floral shirt that had been half-soaked with Coke in Hawaii and was all wrinkled.

The legs of the shorts fluttered loudly in the strong wind.

They were even barefoot.

The low temperature at high altitudes made his toes turn red.

But he acted as if he didn't feel anything.

He took off his signature black-rimmed sunglasses.

Eyes bloodshot.

They didn't look at the ordinary people of Chang'an who had narrowly escaped death.

He didn't even see Li Shimin, who was so excited that tears streamed down his face on the city wall.

His gaze.

We passed through layers of clouds and mountains.

Cold and extremely penetrating.

They locked onto Rome in the far west.

"I finally got approval for an infrastructure project."

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth.

The sound, amplified by the Ark's sound system, resounded tens of thousands of meters above the ground.

The tremor caused the clouds below to disperse.

"It's one thing if my tractor gets dismantled."

"You dare to dismantle my space elevator?"

He gripped the metal edge of the hatch tightly with both hands.

The knuckles have turned white due to excessive force.

The fingernails even scratched several shallow white marks on the black titanium alloy.

That furious feeling stemmed from the repeated interruptions to his vacation and the near-theft of his home when he finally managed to embark on a major project.

It boiled completely in my chest.

Like a dormant volcano that has been suppressed for thousands of years, it is about to erupt.

"Tian Shu! Increase the power! Straighten it up!"

Li Chengqian roared in anger.

The twelve anti-gravity engines at the bottom of the ark emitted an even more dazzling blue light.

The thrusters emitted a deafening roar.

The leaning wooden pagoda.

Driven by this irrational violence.

It began to emit a dull metallic scraping sound.

One inch.

Two inches.

one meter.

ten meters.

A giant column of carbon nanotubes weighing 30,000 tons.

It was forcibly straightened little by little from the angle of falling death.

The mech pilots below were dumbfounded.

Old Wai sat in the cockpit, which was covered in engine oil, and forgot to wipe the yellow liquid off his face.

He looked at the black tower that had been straightened back to its original shape as if by divine intervention.

He swallowed hard and muttered something.

"This is fucking divine... this is truly divine."

"Welding troops! Charge!"

On the city wall, Li Shimin was the first to react.

He pointed at the straightened wooden base and yelled wildly into the communicator.

"Your Highness, straighten the tower! Weld it shut for me!"

Xu Xiao immediately controlled the mecha and charged forward.

"All engineering mechs! Activate the plasma welding torches!"

"Use the spare black iron plate to seal up those corroded cracks tightly!"

Tens of thousands of mechs swarmed like ants smelling blood.

It lunged at the base of the Jianmu tree in an instant.

Countless blinding blue welding arcs lit up.

Molten iron at high temperatures was roughly poured into the cracks in the carbon nanotubes.

Accompanied by hissing white smoke.

The originally shaky base was welded together into a solid iron block by layers of tens of thousands of thick metal plates.

ugly.

But it's absolutely sturdy.

Half an hour later.

The last spark from the welding went out.

Jianmu, the cyber tower that pierces the stratosphere.

It stands upright once again on the Guanzhong Plain.

As stable as Mount Tai.

midair.

The quantum traction beam at the bottom of the ark slowly retracted.

Li Chengqian stood at the cabin door, the cold wind ruffling his hair.

He looked down at the base, which was welded together like a honeycomb.

He exhaled a breath of stale air.

He turned around.

Barefoot, I stepped onto the cold metal deck.

I walked back to the command center step by step.

The hatch closed silently behind him.

It isolated us from the strong winds and noise outside.

Li Chengqian walked to the large control panel.

There is no keyboard on it, only a huge pure black glass touch screen.

He braced himself on the table with both hands.

His eyes were fixed on the blinking cursor in the center of the screen.

"You want to play with biological poisoning, huh?"

Li Chengqian tugged at one corner of his mouth, revealing a chilling smirk.

"I'll make sure you don't even have any ashes left."

He extended his right index finger.

Tap heavily on the screen.

"Tian Shu" (天枢).

Commands were issued without any emotional fluctuation.

"Utilize 100% of the idle computing power of the Datang Tianshu system."

"Load physical tracing protocol".

"We will conduct a global reverse genome mapping of the corrosive fungal strains outside the city."