books44 Chapter 76 A Big Loss
Chapter 76 A Big Loss
"Roar!" Suddenly, the sound of countless mechanical insects shouting came from the surrounding mountaintops.
Oh no! Jack immediately ran back, but those mechanical insects were flying very fast. Meiqi was very anxious watching them from inside the spaceship, but the Thousand-Jack was still too far away from Jack.
Rosa was alright because she was only a short distance away, but the jack transformed into a sports car and started running. However, some mechanical insect suddenly fired at the jack and hit it.
The jack was hit hard and almost crashed into a rock. By the time it adjusted and started flooring the accelerator again, it was too late; the mechanical insect at the front was about to grab it.
Rosa was just two steps away from the jack and was about to fire a shot to help the jack behind her when the spaceship suddenly took off and took aim. The spaceship then fired a missile at a mechanical insect that was about to grab the jack from its bottom.
Fortunately, Rosa's 100% empty-kick missile didn't activate at that moment (crossed out).
Anyway, they got into the jack. The jack gave a quick instruction and turned the engine up to maximum. Rosa sat down and held onto Meiqi, who was watching the swarm of flies in the rearview mirror used for filming.
"Whoosh—" A large swarm of mechanical insects flew behind the spaceship.
"There are just too many!" Jack shouted, still struggling to control the spaceship.
“We need to find a weapon with a larger blast radius!” Hearing this, Rosa was slightly taken aback and immediately asked if the Jack Hammer had any skylights or similar features.
"What do you want to do?!"
"I'll give them a big one!!" Rosa stood up, settled Meiqi in her seat, and then extended another hand, mostly made of flesh and blood, from her wrist—this hand was even easier to cut off.
Rosa cleverly used her body to block the 'extra' hand, climbed up the skylight opened by the jack, and began the process of squeezing the black hole.
"What are you doing?! No way, I have a box of grenades behind me, throw it..."
"I told you!" Rosa shouted, seeing that the black hole process in her hand was almost complete, and directly pinched the process to stop it.
"Give them a big one!!" With that, she severed the hand, which was mostly made of flesh and blood and a small amount of metal, and threw it out with all her might. Then she immediately retreated back into the spaceship and closed the skylight.
"Quick!! Increase the power!!" Rosa shouted at the jack while clinging to the back of the passenger seat. The jack didn't say anything and immediately turned the engine to maximum power.
"That's already the fastest!!" —BOOM—!!
The hand that was holding the black hole hindered its progress, causing it to gradually collapse and explode. In an instant, an incredibly intense blue light emanated from the center of the swarm of mechanical insects.
The blue light became brighter for a moment, then returned to its previous brightness, followed by a momentary surge of immense force that engulfed everything around it.
Under the intense blue light and the enormous shockwave, the jack almost lost control of the jack hammer, but fortunately, the jack hammer spun twice in the air due to the impact of the explosion and then wobbled and stabilized.
The spaceship continued to fly steadily, but a drop of condensation slowly dripped onto the head sculpture of the jack.
He'd gone too far with the stimulation, and now he didn't know whether to scold her or thank her. First of all, the mechanical insects were definitely out of the question; with that kind of power, they would all be wiped out.
However, along with the Thousand-Pound Hammer, and all those inside it, were almost wiped out.
"What did you lose?!" After finally stabilizing, the jack switched to autopilot and looked back at Rosa, who was still slumped over the back of the passenger seat.
"A black hole that hinders progress."
A moment of silence fell over the area.
Jack couldn't immediately figure out how the obstacle to the process was connected to the black hole, but he knew that if these two things were connected, it was definitely not a simple matter.
"That kid really got off easy." The jack thought for two seconds, then gave up and continued piloting the spaceship.
"What?" Rosa asked, puzzled. Jack immediately replied, "Nothing."
At least they returned to base safely. Jack was actually alright except for the shot he took. When they asked Rosa why she got involved in the incident, she had a perfectly good reason.
The matter should have ended there, and Meiqi quietly waited for the person in the partition to wake up.
But she didn't expect that after Meiqi woke up in the partition, in addition to caring about him, she also showed him the news that Hard Shell had been killed and even the video recording!
This happened the next day. Rosa saw it when she went to the hall to get supplies and also to check on the partition.
Meiqi also recorded the call, and she edited the call log and video footage together to create a video with sound.
Looking at the footage through the partition, he was somewhat shocked. He slowly looked up at Rosa and finally understood why the ambulance driver had told Rosa not to intrude on other people's property.
Invading others and then letting the enemy commit suicide—that's invincible.
Rosa reminded Meiqi not to let the ambulance know about this, because the ambulance had previously warned her not to invade living beings.
"Don't worry, just don't let him know." Meiqi waved her hand, and the partition nodded as well. He would keep it a secret too. Of course he knew who Rosa killed Hardshell for.
*Rosa is praying... Please, my dear, don't find out.
Rosa glanced at the ambulance in the lobby, where they were fiddling with something with Optimus Prime. After confirming that they probably couldn't hear what was going on here, she prepared to take the supplies and leave.
"Rosa? You're here, just in time." Rosa, who was about to sneak away, was startled by what the ambulance said, but quickly returned to normal after realizing it must be something else.
The ambulance driver pointed to several other supplies and said to Rosa, "Everyone else has already taken theirs; these are yours."
Rosa tilted her head in confusion, "Is this portion...?"
“Not quite right? Of course.” The ambulance driver, with one hand on the land bridge control panel, answered first, then made way for Rosa.
Standing next to the main control panel of the base was Optimus Prime. He looked at Rosa gently and made room for her.
"Rosa, we're going to teach you the basic encryption techniques for the Ironforge database so you can get started cracking the entire database more quickly."
The ambulance next to them added, "The Iron Fortress Archives uses a specific method of encryption; otherwise, even Soundwave wouldn't have needed to see Optimus Prime's decryption process to deduce the decryption method."
Rosa felt that she probably didn't need to be taught, but she didn't refuse their kindness. After all, when she came in, she saw Optimus Prime and Ratchet tinkering with this, so it would be better to listen.
After watching Optimus Prime decipher a section, Rosa could roughly discern the pattern from the deciphering methods and was eager to try it herself.
"Any ideas?" Optimus Prime had been secretly observing Rosa's micro-expressions. She could tell that Rosa was slightly impatient, yet also a little eager to try.
"The next one should be the third one in the top left corner." Listening to Rosa's words, Optimus Prime slowly clicked on the third phrase in the top left corner. This was correct, Optimus Prime knew very well.
"It's all yours now, you're a hero. If you get tired of the energy body, we'll get Fuller to haul you a few truckloads of gasoline or something." The ambulance driver, seeing that Rosa seemed to be alright, patted her on the shoulder.
"Just tell me what you want. The coordinates for the sacred artifact are yours." With that, the ambulance left the onlookers and went back to adjust the medical equipment for the partition. After that, the partition would begin its rehabilitation.