CXnovel #514 - Red leaves all over the mountains
#514 - Red leaves all over the mountains
"Xiao Wu, how is the artificial intelligence on that spaceship? How much longer will it take to crack it?"
"Reporting, Master, Xiao Wu estimates that it will take another week to seize the highest authority. The technological level of this artificial intelligence is actually only average; it wouldn't even be considered mainstream in Xiao Wu's era.
However, its creators initially bound it tightly to the control system of the spaceship. To ensure that the AI program wouldn't self-destruct the ship in extreme circumstances, it's taking a bit longer."
"Mm, taking a little more time is fine. It's better to be safe than sorry."
"Xiao Wu understands!"
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As an intelligent optical brain from an advanced technological plane, Liang Yue had to expend a precious Infinite Lottery Ticket to acquire the AI Xiao Wu.
Although he wasn't entirely sure how advanced the technology in that advanced technological plane actually was,
the current DC universe, a mixed bag of gods and demons, probably hadn't reached that level of advancement.
At the very least, its technological level shouldn't be that high.
And while Krypton was considered an advanced civilization in the DC world, its own technological level clearly hadn't exceeded a certain limit.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have stood by and watched their home planet wither and self-destruct, completely without a way to repair it.
Therefore, almost as soon as he obtained the Kryptonian spaceship, Liang Yue ordered the intelligent brain Xiao Wu to fully crack its control system.
As for whether it would succeed, he had never doubted it from beginning to end~
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Three more days passed. After receiving a message from Senior Saeko that someone had delivered a letter informing him that the exchange meeting selection was about to begin, Liang Yue returned home.
After carefully reading the invitation letter delivered by the messenger, he learned that the selection would take place today, and the venue would be in the mountains in the northwestern suburbs of Beiping City.
It was now the season when autumn was gradually deepening, and the mountains were full of red leaves, like blood-stained flames, appearing particularly magnificent under the morning light!
Occasionally, a few clusters of plants that were still slightly yellow dotted the landscape, adding to its enchanting beauty.
In the early morning, shrouded in a thin layer of frost, Liang Yue walked easily, and soon after leaving the city gate, he began to use his Qinggong, flying and leaping along the way, arriving at the selection site in just a few minutes.
Although he had encountered many like-minded people on the way, when he actually arrived at his destination, he found that the selection site was already bustling with activity.
In order to organize this Sino-Japanese Extraordinary People Exchange Conference, Yuan Datou was sparing no expense, spending a lot of money and gathering tens of thousands of laborers to work on this mountainous area for several months.
Now, this project had begun to show initial results.
At this moment, Liang Yue stood on a high hill, overlooking the magnificent scene that seemed to gather the spiritual essence of heaven and earth, and couldn't help but feel a sense of inexplicable emotion.
He saw that a mountain that was slightly lower but covered a wide area was directly cut off at the waist, surrounded by overlapping hills.
A flat area of more than a thousand meters was cut out.
Roughly calculated, it was equivalent to the total area of seven or eight football fields.
The exposed land was compacted bit by bit, making it extremely flat.
This, presumably, was the main venue for this exchange meeting.
Around the arena, in the four directions of southeast, northwest, there were also twenty or thirty steps of semi-meter-high open-air stands, and a rostrum stood on the east side of the arena.
In addition, in the intervals of the stands, four huge white marble stone sculptures were still in a semi-finished state, with piles of carving and scaffolding tools scattered around.
From the outlines of these stone sculptures, it was not difficult for people to see that the originals of the four stone statues should be the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku, and Xuanwu, the four guardian beasts.
At this moment, surrounded by mountains of red leaves, figures were eagerly and enthusiastically jumping and moving forward from the surrounding hills, and in the shouts and whistles echoing through the mountains, they landed on the competition field one after another.
The fiery atmosphere and momentum quickly dispelled the mist that shrouded the mountains.
A stream like a white jade ribbon quietly flowed out from the distant valley, dividing into two at the foot of the mountain below the arena, surrounding it for a week, and then quietly disappearing towards the other side of the mountains.
Liang Yue stood in the distance and observed the direction of the arena for a long time. In addition to the many Jianghu people who were rushing to participate in the selection competition, he also found a group of spectators with a distinct style on another mountain surrounded by red leaves.
Some of them were wearing suits and leather shoes, some were wearing dark samurai costumes with swords hanging from their waists, some were wearing kimonos, holding round fans to cover half of their faces, some were bare-chested and bald, and their bodies were wrapped in several circles of metal chains...
Although he knew that this group of people were alien people sent by the island country to investigate the situation, Liang Yue didn't care at this time.
After just taking a few glances and remembering those faces one by one, he turned his head and observed the crowd in the arena.
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Just like that, about another hour passed.
When the electronic clock of the intelligent brain Xiao Wu just reached eight o'clock, a convoy composed of eight military jeeps suddenly arrived from a temporarily built road between the mountains.
It took nearly twenty minutes to drive from one side of the hill to the foot of the mountain where the arena was located.
Later, the car doors opened, and a group of more than twenty people came down one after another.
Among them were middle-aged monks with prayer beads, middle-aged Taoists with beards, martial artists in long robes and mandarin jackets, and strong young men in Zhongshan suits.
At this moment, they were guarding a slightly bloated man on the side.
After stretching a little, they walked slowly along the bluestone avenue in the mountains towards the arena.
After carefully looking at the man in the middle, with a kind and amiable expression on his face, and confirming that the other party was the main character, Liang Yue did not hesitate any longer.
With a movement of his feet, his whole body drew a smooth arc in the air, and fell lightly from the depths of the red leaves onto the arena.
In fact, Liang Yue's behavior was not abrupt, because he was not the only one doing this in the arena.
Like him, there were seven or eight people who had been waiting around and had not arrived yet.
However, with Liang Yue's current experience, he couldn't really tell whether they were here to participate in the selection competition, or whether they were here one step ahead to clear the field and eliminate potential threats from the official power.
About a quarter of an hour later, Yuan Datou, panting heavily, supported by a young man, walked in from one side of the arena with a smile on his face, his forehead full of sweat.
Then, he clasped his fists all the way, greeted everyone, and walked enthusiastically towards the direction of the rostrum.
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