170: Chapter 170 Cyber ​​Shura Field

Lin Li looked at the wild Men of Iron before him suddenly acting crazy, a row of black lines hanging over his forehead.

"Why do I feel like these words sound so familiar?"

Lin Li muttered inwardly, "Could it be that these Men of Iron left over from the Golden Age have some brain issues from living too long? When I first met Iron Man 73, it was the same! It started off by painting big pictures for me, constantly talking about the Great Crusade, the revival of humanity, and so on."

"But Stone Man Hong, who is also from the Golden Age, is perfectly normal after waking up. She's focused entirely on scientific research. Why are all these metal clunkers acting like pyramid scheme leaders?"

Lin Li turned his head to glance at Iron Man 73 following behind him. 73 remained shrouded in that wide black robe, silent.

Lin Li cleared his throat, his tone somewhat helpless: "Ahem... Look, I might really be that 'only pure-blooded human' you speak of. But that grand plan you mentioned just now is really hard to believe."

Lin Li paused, then said very clearly: "I don't deny that the weapons you have are strong, but I don't necessarily have to work with you."

When he first met Iron Man 73, Lin Li was unarmed and had no choice in the heat of the moment but to agree to activate Shelter. But the situation is different now; Lin Li holds the trump card of the The Fourth Calamity, and he is fully confident enough to reject a dangerous, unknown Men of Iron.

U-999's massive metallic body trembled slightly. Its logic module, loaded with an emotion-sensing core, immediately captured the resistance in Lin Li's words.

"Creator, your words have caused a slight damage feedback in my emotion core." U-999 stood up, its tone becoming urgent, "But please believe in my computational ability! Now, please allow me to formally introduce myself. I am a U-999 type combat Men of Iron belonging to the interstellar exploration sequence, I..."

However, U-999 hadn't finished its sales pitch when Iron Man 73, who had been standing behind Lin Li, suddenly stepped forward! 73 walked directly between Lin Li and U-999.

"Put away your ridiculous deductive logic, frontier-type Men of Iron!" 73's electronic voice was no longer the usual cold reporting tone: "Back in the Age of Strife, it was because you frontline combat Men of Iron, with your well-developed limbs and low-level computational power, foolishly thought your logic was superior to the Golden Men, that you launched that mechanical rebellion which destroyed everything! You smashed the wonderful Golden Age to pieces!"

"The Creator not trusting your plan is a very rational choice!" 73 even extended a mechanical finger, pointing at U-999's heavy armor, "Furthermore! Currently, the Creator has me, a top-tier management Men of Iron, as his chief aide. In terms of macro-scheduling and logistical construction, I can achieve the goal of revival much more easily than you!"

Only then did U-999 notice the short, black-robed robot standing beside Lin Li. It immediately activated a spectrum scan to deeply analyze 73's data.

Although 73's body was only recently pieced together using scraps from Shelter, appearing somewhat shabby, this metal head was a genuine product of the Golden Age! The light in U-999's eyes flickered. It quickly reached a conclusion.

"You're actually a top-tier management AI?" In U-999's synthetic voice, there was a distinct hint of sourness and reluctance: "So that's it. No wonder the Creator isn't interested in my proposal. Indeed, in terms of certain capabilities regarding base construction and logistical coordination, your computational power is indeed stronger than my combat model."

"But!" U-999 puffed out its chest, showing off the gravity collapse cannon on its left arm and the high-frequency claws on its right, "Your ridiculous physical combat ability is simply insufficient to assist and protect the Creator in this dangerous universe! With just that ion gun hanging on your body? You can't even kill a high-level bug!"

"Vulgar logic!" 73 retorted coldly. Lin Li stood to the side, watching these two top-tier AIs from the Golden Age arguing in the street like a couple of shrews, all to compete for the position of chief aide in his camp.

Listening to the thick jealousy in U-999's words, a hilarious sense of déjà vu suddenly popped into Lin Li's mind. "Good grief..." Lin Li muttered crazily in his heart, "Isn't this exactly the classic Shuraba scene from harem novels where the heroine and the new girl fight for favor the first time they meet?!"

"But why is it that other people's harems are either delicate, soft-voiced lolis or busty empresses? When it's my turn to transmigrate, my harem ends up being two metal clunkers reeking of machine oil and spewing data streams? This art style is all wrong!"

Meanwhile, the players who had followed Lin Li to watch the plot, seeing this tense scene, all had eyes shining with excitement, as if they were watching a show.

"Good stuff!" Flash hugged his shoulders, clicking his tongue in wonder from the side, "I've been playing games for so long, and this is the first time I've seen AIs having a Shuraba over vying for favor! Who wrote this plot? It's so freaking avant-garde!"

Liver Emperor stroked his chin and analyzed seriously: "According to the traditional, orthodox plot progression of harem anime, at this moment, Cain, the machine-oil guy representing technology, should step in and say 'Stop arguing, the most important thing is for the three of us to live well together from now on.'"

"Wrong, wrong." Slaanesh retorted, "At this moment, the beautiful Stone Man Hong, who is in charge of biochemistry, should suddenly pop out from the spaceship and say resentfully: 'Creator, did I come at a bad time?' Then our boss should domineeringly reply: 'No, you came at exactly the right time!' That would be the perfect plot!"

"I can picture it! I can picture it!" Miracle Walker, who hadn't spoken until now, didn't participate in the nonsense at all. He directly raised the pv terminal on his wrist and snapped photos furiously at the two bickering Men of Iron, preparing to take them back to the forum to post and earn traffic.

Seeing that if the two Men of Iron kept arguing, it might trigger a local computational overload, Lin Li quickly coughed twice and stepped in to interrupt this hardcore Cyber Shuraba.

"Alright, alright! Everyone shut up!" Lin Li put on the air of a leader and activated 'master of water-balancing' mode: "Since 999, you believe your frontal combat ability is stronger, and you also agree that Seven is better than you at logistical management."

"Then isn't this simple? Let's divide the labor and cooperate!" Lin Li clapped his hands, offering the perfect solution, "Seven will be responsible for helping me with production in the rear, and you will be responsible for helping me fight and storm positions in the front. We already have a large-scale underground industrial base at home with enough production equipment to support it."

"You bring your men to work with us. We'll combine our strengths, both civil and martial, and won't that allow us to achieve the great goal of human revival even faster?"

This simple, smooth-talking pacification tactic of Lin Li's seemed to be very effective on U-999's simple frontier-exploration logic.

"Creator, your logic deduction is perfect!" The red light in U-999's eyes gradually subsided, returning to a rational blue light, "Since that's the case, let's leave the work of infrastructure and resource coordination to this management-type Men of Iron."

"Now, please follow me, Creator, to see the armed achievements I have attained on this chaotic planet. And listen to that important plan I am intending to report to you; you will definitely be very interested."

After speaking, U-999 directly gathered all the rebel leaders controlled by it around the starport via internal frequency. In front of hundreds of gang thugs and rebel soldiers, this Men of Iron bluntly announced loudly: "Listen up! From now on, this pure-blooded ancient human will be your new supreme leader! Everyone must unconditionally obey his orders!"

Subsequently, U-999 didn't even give those rebel leaders time to ask questions, turned around, and walked toward the depths of the factory, signaling Lin Li and the others to follow quickly.

Lin Li stood in place, somewhat dumbfounded. He hadn't expected this Men of Iron to be so decisive. With one sentence, it had forcibly handed over this massive rebel organization and territory to him as a greeting gift.

The rebel leaders who had been holding guns and standing guard just a moment ago were even more confused. Inexplicably, their mastermind boss had changed? And it was changed to an ordinary human who hadn't undergone any mechanical modifications, which, in the culture of an industrial world, was equivalent to not being tough enough among greenskins.

Lin Li scanned the rebels who had been forcibly incorporated into his command. The composition of this group was complex to the extreme. There were bottom-layer laborers in ragged work clothes, technical workers covered in wrenches, gang members with fierce faces, and even defecting soldiers wearing uniforms who had clearly turned against the Defense Force.

Such a motley crew, without strong, iron-fisted suppression, would definitely have infighting within days due to uneven distribution of loot. And Lin Li's mind was currently full of how to take the players to fight Mobius; he had no energy to stay here and slowly sort out these gang affairs.

Lin Li pointed decisively at Iron Man 73 behind him. "From now on, the daily management and material distribution on this planet will be handled by him, representing me with full authority." Lin Li issued his first order to those rebel leaders.

The group of rebels, seeing it was a robot, were clearly much more convinced. Subsequently, Lin Li leaned in close to 73 and asked in a low voice: "Seven, that metal clunker voluntarily handed over power, can it be trusted?"

"Creator, based on the logic deduction data from just now, it is ninety percent trustworthy. Frontier-type Men of Iron are combat sequences designed for interstellar reclamation. It is worth noting that they are equipped with advanced emotion-sensing cores, and the underlying protocol of loyalty to humanity is deeply imprinted. As long as you do not commit acts of betrayal against the human race, it will basically not betray you."

Lin Li was curious: "What does 'betray the race' mean? I'm the only one in this race, how can I betray it?" 73 shook its head: "For example, if you refuse to mate and reproduce to expand the human race." ???

"Never mind that for now, let's go in and see how much of a fortune this metal clunker has accumulated." At this time, Cain had already taken the players and followed U-999 into the factory. Lin Li and 73 followed.

... The group followed U-999 deep into this massive forging factory. This heavy factory was an important stronghold that U-999 had just captured from the Governor's Guard with the rebels a few days ago.

This place was originally the core production area specifically for the basic transmission components of Astra Militarum Sentinel mechs. Because U-999 had established it as the main base for the rebels, there were no longer any slave laborers or Servitors performing assembly line production inside the factory. The huge factory building was garrisoned with dense crowds of armed rebel personnel.

Moreover, under the Men of Iron's coordination, their weapons and equipment were clearly much better than those of the gangs outside who were just fighting blindly. Soon, everyone arrived at the holographic control room located at the highest point of the factory. In the center of the control room floated a huge holographic tactical map of this industrial planet.

U-999 walked to the console and said respectfully to Lin Li: "Creator, for the great goal of human revival, I will exhaust all my computational power for you. These physical assets that have been captured naturally all belong to you."

U-999 began to skillfully report its assets: "Currently, the Truth Gang rebels directly controlled by me have 50,000 fully armed official members and 120,000 peripheral members responsible for logistics. Of course, their individual combat effectiveness is about the same as regular planetary Defense Force, and they can only be used as cannon fodder."

"In the garage, we also captured a batch of old-fashioned Leman Russ Tank, some Sentinel mechs, as well as some anti-aircraft artillery and VTOL fighter jets. These backward vehicles are obviously not worthy of your attention."

U-999 drew a large red area on the holographic map and continued: "In addition to this, we have currently completely controlled thirty-two percent of the administrative land of this industrial world!"

"This area includes three super-large food synthesis plants, over a dozen deep mining areas, and hundreds of light and heavy industrial processing plants. However, because I only sent people to successfully assassinate the Governor and destroy the temple a few days ago, order in this area is still being restored, so these factories have not yet been put back into production."

Lin Li listened to the report while carefully looking at the holographic map, and nodded.