A Boxing Champion's voice was still as cold as a machine's, but the brilliance flowing out of his crystal eyes was mixed with the heat similar to that of a human being. He warmed up his bony fingers, as if he were grasping the whole world, no, the whole universe, in his hand.
"Master A Boxing Champion, do you really want to go against Manjusaka?"
Although he had stated his origins, Han Te and the Coloured Glaze still could not regard him as a lifeless puppet. They still felt that he was a rather special person, just like 'Grandpa Yao'.
"I don't want to go against anybody."
A Boxing Champion said, "But my highest command is to grow stronger until I break the limits of my strength. It is the significance of my existence and the reason for all my actions.
"Since I was probably created by someone in 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky', and they have the entire Land of Sins under their control, Manjusaka must boast techniques, technologies, and magical equipment that are far more advanced than those in the Land of Sins. If I can blow it down, swallow its remains, and absorb its techniques and technologies, I will be even stronger!
"So, of course, I'm going to do that. Is there a problem?"
"There is."
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "Assuming that you are really a test subject of a certain … 'automatic spiritual puppet project' that Manjusaka projected, do the people in Manjusaka not have any way to monitor and control you?"
"In the beginning, there was indeed one. Although I did not know that I was from Manjusaka at that time, I could vaguely sense that there was a special secret command at the center of the logic circuits of my mind. It was like a 'back door' or a 'seal'."
A Boxing Champion pointed at his iron skull. "However, I almost destroyed 99% of the cores of my crystal processor in the gory battle a hundred years ago. After I arrived at the underground shelter, most of the chips and components inside my crystal processor were replaced and upgraded over the past hundred years. The version of the data analyzer alone has been updated 524 times. Forty-four years, five months, and twenty-eight days ago, I erased the secret command. The result of the self-examination is that no external force can control me anymore. Right now, I am only driven by the highest command, which is to grow stronger!"
"How is this possible?"
Li Yao found it hard to believe. "You can erase the control instructions that the creator imprinted in your logic circuits?"
"Because it's in conflict with my highest command."
A Boxing Champion said calmly, "My highest command is to 'become the strongest.' But if there is someone who can control me at will, then what kind of 'strongest' am I?
"The so-called 'strongest' should at least be able to do whatever they want without any restraint or control, right? Every definition I've gathered is like this.
"Since the highest command says that I can 'do whatever it takes', as long as I can grow stronger, not just erase a secondary command, I can even dismantle Manjusaka and kill all my creators, right?"
Li Yao: "Uh, sure, sure, sure. I have no objections, bro!"
"From that day on, the real Lei Zonglie died, but 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie was born. I returned to the ground with his hope, his fury, his hatred, and his ambitions."
"You know everything that happened later," A Boxing Champion said. "I made a name for myself in the Land of Sins under the name of 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie. Then, I established the 'Godly Fist Union', recruited more people, and expanded my forces, hoping to declare war on the sky after seizing a few Elysian Worlds!
"I knew that the sky must be monitoring the ground in a certain way. Therefore, I could not expose my real identity and purpose. So, I showed up as' bold but not smart '.
"I thought that I would be erased by the sky after seizing a few Elysian Worlds. I did not know that the sky's control over the ground was so strict and powerful that it was not something that I could resist right now.
"I failed!"
A Boxing Champion finished his sentence in a hoarse voice. Looking at his fragile hands in a daze, he said, "Although you saved my crystal processor core and preserved my main database and logical thinking framework, I still lost more than half of my strength and became a common spiritual puppet again."
The Coloured Glaze could not help but touch his iron shoulder softly. "Don't be sad, Master A Boxing Champion. You are still alive after all."
"Sadness is a feeling of human beings. Although I can simulate it vividly when I play the role of 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie, I do not have the ability to feel 'sad' in real logical thinking."
Looking at the girl's hand on his shoulder, A Boxing Champion said solemnly, "The fear of death is something that I cannot understand, too. I am not sad, frustrated, or scared. Since I am still alive, the mission must continue. I still need to find a way to grow stronger again, to the point where I can blow down the City in the Sky and the existence in the entire universe that is stronger than me."
While talking, he stared at Li Yao with his glittering eyes.
Li Yao's soul was soaked in cold sweat again. He hurried to say, "Don't look at me like that. In fact, I am very weak. However, I do know some real experts, such as' Sword Maniac 'Yan,' Primeval Heir 'Long,' Pirate Potentate 'Bai, and so on. They are all super experts who have traveled across the universe. I will introduce them to you if there is a chance. You can get to know each other better!"
"I'm done. It's your turn now. What kind of being are you exactly? Were you projected into the Land of Sins in the same experiment project as me, or are you something even weirder?"
A Boxing Champion tilted his head and stared at Li Yao carefully. "It's been a long time since I last met my own kind. If it were me a hundred years ago, I would've launched the fiercest attack the moment I saw you. However, after learning so many things in the underground sanctuary, I suddenly feel like changing the way of information exchange and upgrading. I also want to know if there are any other people of my kind who have met a lot of people and things in the long time that they have their own definition of 'stronger'."
The two little fellows focused their eyes on Li Yao again.
Scratching his iron skull with the drill, Li Yao thought for a moment and decided to tell the truth. "I'm really not an artificial intelligence. As for my past … there are many things that I can't explain to you right now. However, I did learn some shocking news on the battlefield yesterday. Han Te, Coloured Glaze, you'd better be prepared. Don't be surprised."
Li Yao told the two of them and A Boxing Champion about the intelligence that he had elicited from the player 'Liao Fei' the day before.
"The Land of Sins?
"Our world is just an enormous' trial field, amusement park, and laboratory '!
"There is a vast world outside with hundreds of planets, and the home that we live on is just a … 'safari park'?"
The two little fellows seemed to have been hit by a torrent of lightning. They were dumbfounded at first, before their faces turned blue and their bodies trembled violently. In the end, their eyes turned red, and they almost burst into tears.
"That does explain everything."
A Boxing Champion's voice was as emotionless as before. He was as calm as a block of frozen iron. "As it turns out, my war is just a game for them."
"Crap!"
Han Te was dazed for a long time. Then he suddenly jumped up from the mud and bellowed as if he had gone mad, "My sister — my sister went to Manjusaka! If — if Manjusaka is not a paradise, how is my sister right now? "
He was so anxious that he gritted his teeth and punched the metal tube next to him heavily, making the entire sewage pipe humming. "I'm going to save my sister. I'm going to Manjusaka to save my sister!"
"I — I'll go with you!"
Coloured Glaze grabbed Han Te's bleeding fist, letting the heat burn her palm too. "It's … too bad. Those people are too bad. Master A Boxing Champion is right. With such bad guys around, even if the entire Land of Sins is planted with Gold Barley, it will still be useless. Besides, they will not watch us spread the Gold Barley all over the desert without doing anything!"
"A Boxing Champion, what do you say?"
Li Yao looked at A Boxing Champion. "Are you willing to go to Manjusaka with us?"
"Of course."
A Boxing Champion calculated quickly. "The ground is closely monitored by the sky. Also, the resources here are scarce. The materials here are all garbage. However we upgrade ourselves, the best we can do is to upgrade to the form of 'Great Iron City'. We will still be vulnerable in front of the City in the Sky.
"Perhaps, if we sneak into Manjusaka in secret, find more advanced materials and magical equipment to strengthen ourselves, and sabotage the city from the inside, there will be a higher chance that we will blow down the City in the Sky!
"However, since the Battle of Liberty City is the focus of the angels' attention, they must've set up traps everywhere. How can we escape from Liberty City and sneak into Manjusaka?"
"About that …"
Li Yao's soul beamed out the ripples of a smile and projected a bright green light beam, which was the clear panoramic view of Liberty City.
Li Yao zoomed in on the picture. Below the skyscrapers were the dilapidated walls, below the dilapidated walls were the shabby alleys, and below the shabby alleys were the interconnected tubes that they were hiding.
The light on A Boxing Champion's chest was flashing, expressing his appreciation for Li Yao's amazing scanning ability.
In the depths of a pipe not far from them, there was a small shining dot moving quickly, like a sneaky little mouse.
"What is this?" Han Te asked curiously.
"This is Xin Xiaoqi," Li Yao said with a smile.
"It's her?"
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