“Boss, the roof and the first floor are surrounded!” Lü Meng came over and asked in a low voice, “Should we find a safe place first?”

Jing Xi shook his head. “This is the safest place.”

Over there, Li Yuan was reporting the situation he saw from the other end to Chi Yao.

He held his rifle and clicked his tongue, shaking his head. “This isn’t going to be easy.”

Chi Yao glanced at the time and said calmly, “If we have to, we’ll just hide behind the Major General.”

Li Yuan glanced at the serious-looking Jing Xi and asked in a hushed voice, “Are you serious?”

Chi Yao smiled. “Only a fool wouldn’t grab onto a good thing when they see it.”

The Flying Dragon team had arrived at the Cygnus constellation a few days ago. After the network was connected, he sent the location to Jiang Feng. By his calculations, they should be arriving soon.

Outside the window, over a hundred fighter jets were parked around the Happy Tower. Fully armed men in black were continuously disembarking. Without exception, all of them wore black masks with a white pattern.

They were from the Ghost Legion.

Jing Xi wasn’t even surprised. He turned around and, with his long legs, returned to the system control panel.

The AI had been disabled, but all the facilities could still be operated manually.

“If you hadn’t rushed me, we wouldn’t be in this much trouble right now,” Chi Yao said, leaning his back against the control panel, his voice lazy and drawn out. “Do you need my help?”

Jing Xi quickly familiarized himself with the control interface and activated all the mechanical facilities inside the Happy Tower with a single command.

“Not if it’s not free.”

Chi Yao chuckled, mocking him, “When did a prodigal like you become so stingy?”

Jing Xi’s fingers moved quickly on the control panel, his expression blank. “I learned it from you.”

Then, he added, “Chi the flayer.”

Chi Yao: “…”

You’re asking for it.

The metal doors on the first floor were airtight. The only two glass doors were shattered by Chi Yao, and the reinforcements who arrived all rushed toward this one opening.

But just as they reached the entrance, the sound of machine guns shooting rang out from above.

“Ah—!”

Some people were caught off guard and were injured by the bullets.

“Fall back!”

A man in a gold mask stood inside the fighter jet with its hatch open, his gaze sweeping over the fifth floor of the Happy Tower.

All the windows on that floor were open, and the muzzles of the shooting devices were all pointed outside.

The man in the gold mask pondered for a moment, then gave an order to the people below: “Bomb the fifth floor first.”

The men in black masks replied, “Understood!”

The man in the black mask who was locked in the stairwell suddenly heard an explosion from upstairs, and the entire tower shook violently.

The next moment, his communicator rang.

“You’re here?”

A man in a gold mask appeared on the virtual screen.

“They’ve taken the control room?”

The man in the black mask was silent for a moment before saying in a hoarse voice, “I thought it was just a regular—”

“Idiot!” the gold-masked man roared. “You couldn’t pay back today’s losses even in ten lifetimes! This is a sensitive time for the two armies to be transferring command. If we’re discovered, you’re dead!”

A beta in black stood beside him and heard their conversation clearly.

Now that things had escalated, the Happy Tower couldn’t be saved. Perhaps the entire amusement park would have to close and relocate.

This was a major mistake, and the higher-ups wouldn’t let their boss off the hook easily.

If the boss was removed, could he take advantage of the situation and take his place?

After this thought flashed through his mind, the beta’s heart beat faster, and a murderous glint flashed in his eyes as he glanced at the man in the black mask.

In the control room, Jing Xi manipulated the game props on each floor to their designated positions.

The games here were serious, using real guns and ammunition.

Jing Xi: “Xiao Hei, Xiao Lan, Xiao Hong, follow my instructions and stop them from coming up.”

Xiao Hong crawled out of the inner pocket of Chi Yao’s jacket, and a virtual screen popped up from its head.

[Can I bully them a little?]

Jing Xi thought for a moment. “You can act in self-defense, but you can’t attack them first.”

Xiao Hong: [Awooo.]

Chi Yao reached out to grab it, but Xiao Hong escaped.

He was very dissatisfied. “Don’t assign work to my robot.”

After setting the program, Jing Xi looked up at him. “Where’s your face?”

Chi Yao: “You made me lose it.”

Jing Xi: “…”

The three miniature robots floated to the fifth floor. Xiao Hong tried to assign tasks to the other two.

[Master said we can only act in self-defense.]

The three of them hovered in the air for 0.1 seconds before scattering.

A moment later, Xiao Lan assembled ten machine guns and, with the help of a mechanical crane, put together a simple mech gunner. It brazenly extended out of the window.

Almost instantly, a clanging sound came from the mechanical crane.

Xiao Lan: [Locking onto targets—locked onto the 28 grandsons who attacked me, preparing to launch a counterattack in self-defense.]

Xiao Hong attached itself to the only laser eye on the fifth floor.

This was part of the Happy Tower’s defense system.

Xiao Hong: [Connecting to laser eyes on all floors—connected—attacking my brother is attacking me, I can fight back.]

Xiao Hei burrowed into a humanoid household robot in the pantry.

[Invasion successful, rebuilding the neural system—rebuilding is in progress—]

The robot moved, agilely grabbed two machine guns, and jumped out of the window.

It was riddled with holes the moment it landed on the first floor, and its gelatinous skin was full of bullet holes.

Xiao Hei: [Initial assessment: all the trash on-site can be cleared.]

As it walked out, it fired at the crowd, and a virtual screen popped up above its head.

[To those who hit me in the face, headshot warning.]

The people around it who were aiming at it looked at the screen.

Someone, refusing to believe it, specifically aimed for its face and was shot in the center of their forehead the next second.

The morale of the Ghost Legion was suppressed, and they had to retreat, relying on the fighter jets above to break through.

However, the fighter jets hovering above were attacked by laser beams as soon as they approached and couldn’t get close at all.

In the control room, Li Yuan was a little dumbfounded.

“Is that Jing kid controlling this? Are those three little yellow beans that powerful?”

Lü Meng rolled his eyes when he heard this. “They’re super intelligent bodies. They’re crazy powerful! Put them in any mech, and they’re the core AI. What do you know?”

Li Yuan still didn’t believe it.

“If they’re as powerful as you say, why didn’t you guys use them before?”

Lü Meng was so angry he laughed.

“Our boss developed them to deal with high-level mutated beasts. Are you one?”

Li Yuan rubbed his nose and only realized what that meant after a long time.

It meant that the Flying Dragon team had never used their full strength against them before?

Who are you looking down on?

They were talking so loudly that Chi Yao couldn’t help but overhear.

“To deal with high-level mutated beasts?” he asked.

Jing Xi observed the surveillance from all angles and casually said, “Fifth-level mutated beasts have unknown abilities. Like Xixi’s infrasound, even if you’re hiding in a mech, you can’t completely avoid the attack.”

Chi Yao leaned against the wall with one leg bent, his eyes fixed on Xiao Hei, who was charging into the enemy.

“You want to replace humans with super-intelligent bodies and have them completely operate weapons on their own? You must have considered the risks involved.”

This was, of course, the primary concern.

No one could definitively say whether the existence of super-intelligent bodies was good or bad.

If they were to lose control, humanity could be controlled in turn.

Jing Xi: “They’re just test subjects. I’m only using them as regular miniature robots. I have no plans to make more for now.”

Chi Yao: “…”

No, this wasn’t the result he wanted.

Chi Yao: “Make a few for me first.”

Jing Xi looked at him. “Do you think I’m making toys?”

Who was the one just talking about the high risk?

Chi Yao: “Then give me these three.”

Jing Xi: “Impossible.”

Outside the window, after being briefly suppressed, the Ghost Legion quickly adjusted their strategy.

They had a large number of people and a full supply of military equipment. Even with the most low-level human wave tactics, it was only a matter of time before they invaded the Happy Tower.

Jing Xi glanced at the time and issued instructions to the three robots.

“Hold on for a few more minutes.”

Xiao Hong and Xiao Lan were fine, but Xiao Hei was already so battered that it couldn’t be used anymore.

It threw away its weapons and, with its one remaining leg, jumped onto the nearest fighter jet, pulling the pilot out.

[Emergency shell integration—]

All the household robot’s joints opened and embedded themselves into the fighter jet.

Xiao Hei: [Network invaded, external shell linked—]

The men from the Ghost Legion watched with their own eyes as the robot flew the fighter jet into the sky.

“What the f*ck!”

“F334-13 is out of control!”

“F334-59 is out of control!”

Dozens of nearby fighter jets suddenly moved on their own, all sticking together to form a huge base.

Xiao Hei controlled its fighter jet and landed it on the base.

[Scanning for targets—no need to scan, clear them all out, heh.]

The men from the Ghost Legion watched as a virtual screen flickered on top of the fighter jet, and the firepower from dozens of jets all aimed and fired at them.

“F*ck! Boss, what do we do?!”

“What is that thing?!”

“Is there a person inside that robot?!”

At first, they thought it was just a household robot being controlled, but then they thought it was a player wearing a household robot suit. Now they were completely baffled.

What kind of monster was this?! Why were their fighter jets being controlled?!

The gold-masked man punched the control panel, his voice vicious. “Bomb it for me!”

The base was bombed, and a fire blazed. Metal fragments and pungent black smoke scattered in the air.

Xiao Hei: [Three damaged, already replenished—four damaged, already replenished—]

The other fighter jets flew uncontrollably toward the bombed area, filling in the gaps.

“Boss, it’s not working! We bomb them, and they fill in the gaps! It’s endless!”

“We can’t hit that robot. It uses other fighter jets as shields every time!”

“We’ve already lost twenty fighter jets!”

The gold-masked man was so angry that he kicked a metal wall, breaking his toe.

“Hiss—F*ck! Just bomb the control room directly!”

Losses or no losses, they couldn’t worry about them now.

If they didn’t catch these few rats, the losses would only get bigger!

In the control room, Jing Xi’s eyebrows furrowed slightly.

Military-grade metal did have good defensive capabilities, but it couldn’t withstand high-frequency attacks from thermal weapons.

In just a moment, a large part of the side wall was dented and was quickly pierced through.

Amidst the huge explosion, Chi Yao instinctively bent down and protected Jing Xi in his arms.

Jing Xi was stunned. He looked up, his eyes meeting Chi Yao’s.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Chi Yao’s voice turn cold. “Now you know what it feels like for me to be protected by you?”

It really wasn’t a great experience to have the ability to protect oneself but to be protected by one’s nemesis first.

He didn’t feel anything when he did it himself, but now that the positions were reversed, Jing Xi felt an awkwardness that made him want to fight but couldn’t, and wanted to argue but couldn’t.

Jing Xi: “I didn’t mean to protect you.”

His body just moved on its own.

Chi Yao: “Oh, but I did it on purpose, so we’re even.”

Jing Xi: “…”

Chi Yao straightened up. “It’s better if we keep things on a clear-cut basis between us.”

Jing Xi: “…”

A large hole with a diameter of over four meters was blown open in the metal wall, and the smell of gunpowder instantly filled the control room.

Eight ropes hung down from above, and the men in black climbed down them.

“They’re really persistent.” Chi Yao leisurely took off the ring on his middle finger and scoffed. “I can’t even let them off the hook.”

Two people were climbing the fastest, and they were about to swing into the hole.

Their eyes suddenly flashed with a reflection from the metal. They only felt a sudden loss of grip on their hands and fell straight down to the ground below the tower.

“Ah—!”

The extremely thin metal ring horizontally severed every rope before flying back into Chi Yao’s hand.

With no one getting in, the man in the gold mask ordered a new round of bombardment.

A roaring sound suddenly came from the sky.

The gold-masked man poked his head out to look.

Three large warships broke through the clouds and steadily descended above the Happy Tower. Their shadows covered the entire amusement park.

The fighter jets were instantly dwarfed.

The Ghost Legion saw that the situation was bad and quickly retreated.

“Boss, is that our fleet?”

“The warships have no markings!”

“Something’s wrong. Retreat first!”

The gold-masked man was also stunned.

The two warships on the side were new models that the black market arms dealer had just released last year. The one in the middle looked like it had been modified.

He was sure that the Ghost Legion did not have such modified warships.

Before they could figure it out, the hatches at the bottom of the warships opened, and a small fighter jet flew out.

The fighter jet flew over the Happy Tower, and a huge dog head suddenly appeared.

Yin Wei clung to the hatch, his head fur blown back by the wind. His eyes were sharp as he looked down, looking particularly intimidating.

Fang Liang patted the dog’s butt, signaling that he had taken protective measures.

Yin Wei received the hint and quickly locked onto the direction of the gold-masked man, baring his teeth and growling in a low voice.

“Awooo—”

The people below only heard a terrifying beastly roar, and they suddenly felt an intense pain all over their bodies, as if a pair of hands were trying to tear them apart.

“Ugh—!”

“It’s…it’s infrasound!”

“Quick, quick, back to the fighter jets—”

The gold-masked man was attacked head-on. His eyes suddenly went black, and he grabbed the handrail with all his might to keep himself from falling out of the fighter jet.

He hurriedly activated the infrasound blocking device, and the cramping pain all over his body lessened.

This device could block most infrasound weapons, but the penetration of a fifth-level mutated beast was too strong and could only block a portion of it.

A fifth-level mutated dog that could also use infrasound attacks.

Thinking of this, the gold-masked man’s expression changed.

It was actually the Extreme Shadow!

Why would they be here?!

In the control room, Chi Yao heard the dog’s bark. He gently flicked his finger, and the outer ring of the ring began to rotate.

The sound waves emitted from the collision of the outer and inner rings happened to be able to merge with the infrasound.

Fang Liang flew the fighter jet past the exterior wall of the Happy Tower. Yin Wei jumped directly into the hole.

“Awoo awoo~”

It wagged its tail and went straight for Jing Xi.

Jing Xi was almost knocked off his chair by the dog’s head rubbing against him.

Lü Meng was startled and almost jumped over to protect his master, but seeing that his master didn’t seem to be resisting, he held back.

“Who are you being a flirt with, you silly dog?”

Chi Yao’s cool voice came from behind. Yin Wei looked up in confusion, sniffed Jing Xi closely, stared at him for a moment, and then turned to look at Chi Yao.

Its eyes swept over Chi Yao’s scarred mask and the big black mole, and it suddenly gagged.

Chi Yao: “…”

You must want to be dried into jerky.

Yin Wei did a lot of mental preparation and reluctantly moved toward Chi Yao.

Before it could get close, Chi Yao grabbed its head and rubbed it roughly.

“You dare to look down on me?”

Yin Wei tried not to look at his face. “Awooo~”

Chi Yao: “…”

Catching a glimpse of the fluffy dog’s tail, Jing Xi’s fingers twitched.

To avoid losing his composure and lunging at the dog, he walked toward the hole.

Under the infrasound attack, the Ghost Legion was almost completely annihilated.

“Why did you call them over?” Chi Yao asked as he walked up to him.

Jing Xi: “Just in case.”

When the network was connected, their bodies were swapped, so he could only contact Fang Liang first.

Yin Wei walked over and rested its chin on Chi Yao’s head.

“Awooo?”

Chi Yao: “Get down.”

Yin Wei: “…”

It wagged its tail and reluctantly half-crouched down.

Jing Xi glanced at it and subtly moved over, petting its back.

The large one felt much better to the touch.

If Yaoyao could grow this big—

Just as he thought that, he looked up and met Yin Wei’s vigilant eyes.

Jing Xi: “…”

Caught in the act, he pretended to be calm and held out his palm behind Chi Yao’s back.

Yin Wei’s eyes widened, and it glared at him fiercely. Its nose twitched, and it obediently placed its front paw in his palm.

Jing Xi immediately grabbed it and squeezed it.

The dog was so big, but its paw pads were soft. It felt so nice.

When Chi Yao looked away from below, he saw his dog and his nemesis getting chummy.

They were getting along so well, leaving him, the master, all alone.

Chi Yao said lazily, “Do you know why it suddenly isn’t rejecting you?”

Jing Xi tilted his head and met his eyes.

Chi Yao pointed to the location of his gland, a mischievous smile on his face. “Because your whole body is covered in my scent now.”

Jing Xi suddenly recalled the incident in the maze when he was attacked by the beastly child.

He reached up and touched his gland.

The bite marks had long since disappeared.

“It’s not a mark.”

Chi Yao knew he had misunderstood. He crooked his finger and leaned close to Jing Xi’s ear, lowering his voice. “It’s the smell of my saliva.”

Jing Xi’s eyebrows twitched. The feeling and temperature of Chi Yao licking his gland seemed to still be there.

His ears suddenly felt hot.

“Chi Yao!”

Having successfully angered his nemesis, Chi Yao moved away, feeling satisfied.

Outside, the gold-masked man had recovered and looked up at the hole in the control room, where he saw the two men and a dog.

The only person who could command a fifth-level mutated beast was the Extreme Shadow’s leader, Chi Yao.

“F*ck!”

He cursed under his breath.

While they were messing around, Chi Yao noticed the gold-masked man’s gaze. He chuckled and simply took off his eye patch and tore off the black mole.

He had been recognized, and it would be a disservice to his image to keep the disguise.

His casual smile was a complete provocation in the eyes of the gold-masked man.

“Go and capture Chi Yao for me!”

But he called out twice, and only a few people struggled to get up from the ground, clearly having lost their ability to fight.

With Yin Wei as a large-scale weapon, they no longer had any reservations and walked out of the control room.

Seeing that Chi Yao had also torn off his fake scar, Jing Xi glanced at his chest. “Aren’t you going to tear off the chest hair?”

Chi Yao casually brushed the strands of hair from his forehead back. “For warmth.”

Jing Xi: “…”

In the stairwell, the man in the black mask and the beta in black heard almost no sound from outside and felt increasingly uneasy.

If reinforcements had arrived, they would have come to rescue them immediately.

But after so long, there was no movement at all.

Footsteps suddenly came from above. The beta in black’s scalp tingled, and he immediately reached for his gun.

“Awooo—”

“Ugh—so painful!”

The beta in black immediately knelt on both knees, shrinking into a ball. “Wh-what’s going on?!”

The black-masked man wasn’t in much better shape.

But he almost immediately knew who had arrived.

When the pain subsided a little, he looked up, and the person was already right in front of him.

The black-masked man clutched his chest and gasped for breath. “We and the Extreme Shadow have always kept to ourselves. Why are you here to crash the party?!”

“Someone hired me to deal with you guys. I’m helpless, too,” Chi Yao said with a confident smile. “I can’t exactly say no to money, can I?”

The black-masked man: “Who hired you? I’ll offer double the price!”

Chi Yao: “Double? Do you think that little amount of money can buy the Extreme Shadow’s reputation?”

Li Yuan rushed out at the right time and shouted, “What’s the matter, looking down on our Extreme Shadow?!”

The beta in black looked up and saw the savage face of a muscular man in heavy makeup. He was completely rattled.

Jing Xi waved at Lü Meng. “Take control of them.”

Lü Meng was about to go over, but Li Yuan suddenly stood in front of him.

Their eyes met, and sparks immediately flew.

Jing Xi looked at Chi Yao. “I’ll take the people.”

Chi Yao played with his ring, his smile casual. “Can I trust you?”

Jing Xi swept his gaze over the few people and the blood on the ground, his expression serious. “I won’t go back until this is over.”

What ‘this’ was, and where ‘back’ was, Chi Yao understood without him having to say it.

The Cygnus constellation had been officially handed over to the Flying Dragon team.

Having just taken over such a large star system, staying here to handle internal affairs during this time would not be suspicious.

Chi Yao waved at Li Yuan, signaling for him to move aside.

Li Yuan frowned. “Boss!”

Chi Yao: “It’s fine, they’re on our side.”

Li Yuan: “…”

Who’s on our side?!

The door to the stairwell was opened from the outside, and Xiao Lan and Xiao Hong floated in.

Jing Xi wiped their shells clean and put them away in his communicator.

This made Chi Yao so jealous.

“The people are yours, the robots are mine.”

Jing Xi: “…”

As they walked to the first-floor lobby, Jing Xi compromised. “You can borrow Xiao Hei for a few days.”

When Lü Meng heard that his boss was going to lend out the general with the highest combat intelligence, he immediately became anxious.

“Boss, General Hei has never been away from home. He’s…shy around strangers.”

Chi Yao, however, was not happy with the offer. “That one has a bad personality. I want Xiao Hong.”

Jing Xi’s lips curved into a slight smile, and he said in a low voice, “You’re quite self-aware.”

Chi Yao: “?”

Just then, Xiao Hei, having received the command, also flew back.

When it heard someone say its personality was bad, a virtual screen popped up from its black head.

[You think you can just have Xiao Hong?]

Chi Yao glanced at the arrogant words and suddenly changed his mind.

“You’re the one. If I can’t train you to be submissive in half a month, I’ll switch to Xiao Hong.”

Xiao Hei: [Heh, who’s training who?]

Jing Xi: “…”

Things seemed to be heading in a strange direction.

Outside, Fang Liang was already getting his subordinates to clean up the mess.

Seeing them come out, he walked over.

“Are we taking these people back directly this time, or…?”

Chi Yao raised his chin. “Leave them to him to handle.”

Fang Liang looked at Jing Xi, his gaze lingering on the black mole and straw-like mustache on his face for a moment before turning away as if nothing had happened.

“There are a lot of defective products among these people. I’m afraid it’s not suitable,” Fang Liang said in a low voice. “If they’re not handled well, there will be trouble.”

Defective products again.

Jing Xi said indifferently, “I’ll arrange a separate place for them. I’ll have Jiang Feng consult with you about the details then.”

Fang Liang said without being arrogant or humble, “Consult? I wouldn’t dare. I’m just a space pirate. I’m afraid I have nothing to teach.”

Jing Xi walked toward the gold-masked man. As he passed by him, he said calmly, “Just a space pirate? I don’t think so.”

Fang Liang’s eyes flashed. He glanced at his back and then looked at his boss.

Chi Yao smiled, said nothing, and also walked over.

The gold-masked man was held down by several people. When he saw Chi Yao approaching, he sneered. “Our people will be here soon. If you know what’s good for you, get out of here!”

“Your people?” Chi Yao let out a scoff of disdain from his nose. “Look up. Are those your people?”

The gold-masked man’s heart tightened. He immediately looked up.

A massive fleet was suspended high in the sky above the amusement park.

They were all state-of-the-art models currently in service in the military. The emblems on their shells were very distinct.

It was the Flying Dragon?!

Below the fleet, there was another, much smaller fleet with a smiling face emblem on its shell. It looked like it had been taken control of by the Flying Dragon team—