Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 819 Rebellion
“No response from the Fool yet?” The female voice that had been silent all this time suddenly said, “The progress of things has completely deviated from the original plan. Logically speaking, he should be more anxious than us.”
"I suddenly begin to doubt, has the Fool really woken up?" said the voice that had argued with Zeus before.
"Apollo, what do you mean?" Zeus asked coldly.
"You don't have to talk to me in such a questioning tone." Apollo replied in the same cold tone, "I just simply feel that the vote that belonged to the Fool during the previous vote was not cast by him."
"Absolutely impossible! You know the infrastructure of the core brain better than me! No one can impersonate the Fool, his authority is the most special!" Zeus rejected it outright.
"Don't be so decisive. Nothing is absolute." Apollo sighed. "Aphrodite, what do you think? Among us, you should be the one who has spent the longest time with the Fool. You know him better than any of us."
The female voice that had been changed belonged to Aphrodite, the sixth member of the Undead Crew who had taken Ke Lan to contact the core brain.
“Have you ever thought that perhaps this was all part of the Fool’s plan?” Aphrodite whispered, “The Fool has never truly trusted us… In his eyes, we are just pawns. Pawns only need to do what they are supposed to do, and there is no need to know the entire plan.”
She went offline after saying this, and the holographic projection sitting in the corner, whose enchanting figure could not be concealed even with a large cloak, gradually went out.
The secret room suddenly fell into silence.
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Yagunakotor, the core power room.
"Joker." Ke Lan said.
"What did you say?" Thirty-three looked at Ke Lan in confusion.
"Joker... I found that there are memories related to this body in my mind, but there is only one name, his name is 'Joker'." Ke Lan said.
"Joker? Does it mean Joker? Or does it refer to the Jokers in playing cards?" Thirty-three muttered, "Considering this guy's strength, I think the latter explanation is more likely."
"There is another explanation." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "Sequence Zero corresponds to the first card of the Major Arcana, 'The Fool', which symbolizes the beginning of everything... but it can also be the last card of the Major Arcana. At this time, it will change from zero to twenty-two, symbolizing the end of everything."
"Fool? Isn't that the zeroth seat of the Undead Crew..." Thirty-Three opened his mouth in surprise, "You mean... this body is the zeroth seat? But didn't you say that he had voted in the voting meeting?"
"But he never showed up...he never even spoke." Ke Lan shook his head. "For voting, you don't have to be there in person. You just need to make the settings in advance and leave the rest to the core brain."
"Then...if this body is really The Fool himself, what are you going to do with it? Also, why does he look exactly like you?" Thirty-three looked at the "Joker" in the holographic image, then looked at Ke Lan, and asked.
"Perhaps there is a part of him in my gene sequence... As for how to deal with this body, let's solve the current problem first."
As soon as Ke Lan finished speaking, "Joker" disappeared from the spot.
The holographic projection lens also switched from inside the Yaguna Tor ship to outside the ship, and saw the disappeared "Joker" floating right above the Yaguna Tor, facing the semi-encircled black fleet, with a momentum of "even if there are tens of thousands of people, I will go".
However, he just raised his right arm, and the warships of the Black Fleet fell to the ground one after another, as if they were slapped down by an invisible giant hand.
With just one strike, the entire black fleet was wiped out.
"Zeluo, can you tell what kind of ability this is?" Thirty-three asked in astonishment, "Even with your spatial ability, it's impossible to shoot down an entire fleet from the air, right?"
"I can't do it." Ze Luo said truthfully, "But I don't think that should be a spatial ability . I can't see the changes in space."
"It's gravity." Ke Lan said, "This body has the ability to control gravity. I just increased the gravity applied to the Black Fleet's warships by a thousand times. The buoyancy provided by the warship engines is naturally impossible to support a thousand times their own weight... It was gravity that pulled these warships down from the air."
"A thousand times the gravity?!" Thirty-three gasped. "Is there any limit to this ability? How many times the gravity can be applied at most? Can it be applied to any target?"
"I don't know... My control over this body is not that precise. Just now, I was just thinking about destroying this fleet in my mind, and he had already responded on his own." Ke Lan shook his head.
"Does he have the ability to think for himself... or is it just instinct?" Thirty-three frowned and said, "You should have heard what Ze Luo said just now, right? Although this thing has terrifying power, it is also a hot potato... Not to mention that he is now related to the 'Fool' of the Undead Crew..."
"But now we must rely on his power to help Lao Gou and the others escape from danger." Ke Lan said, "Lao Gou, the threat outside has been eliminated. I will temporarily hand over the control of Yaguna Kotor to you and Layton. The two of you drive the battleship to the edge of the Gray Mist Forest."
Ke Lan did not say this in the "public channel" inside Yaguna Tor as before, but in a "private chat" that only a few people such as Hound and Layton could hear.
"Have you made up your mind... to break up with Ark?" The Hound said calmly, trying to lower his voice as much as possible so that even Layton who was standing next to him could not hear it.
But Ke Lan, who was in a neural connection with Yaguna Tor, could definitely hear it.
"The situation is very complicated. In short, if you continue to stay there, you will inevitably come into direct conflict with the Ark... I can't let you become hostages of the Undead Crew . Even if we want to negotiate with them, it must be under conditions of mutual equality..." Ke Lan explained.
"Okay, I understand." The hound responded, then glanced at the hunters and soldiers of the garrison in the distance and asked, "What about these people?"
Previously, these relic hunters and garrison officers and soldiers regarded the Black Fleet as unidentified invaders, and therefore stood on the same front with Hound and his men... But now, if they were told to drive away the Yaguna Tor, it would be tantamount to directly declaring rebellion against the Ark. How these people would react, Hound could not guarantee.
Whether out of loyalty to the Ark or for self-preservation, these soldiers and relic hunters would certainly not be willing to become exiles. Even if those men in black had just tried to kill them, it would be impossible for them to completely break away from the Ark and mainstream human society just based on this point.
Even if due to various factors (including but not limited to persuasion, coercion, and intimidation by force) these people are willing to leave with Yagunakotor, things will inevitably change in the future.
The garrison troops on Yagunakotor, the relic hunters, the logistics staff and the people sent by the various cooperative consortiums of the exploration project, add up to at least 20,000 to 30,000 people. Among them there must be spies planted directly by the Security Bureau or even the Undead Crew. It is too difficult to manage these 20,000 to 30,000 people with just the Hound and his men...
Even with the absolute force of suppression like Yaguna Tor, it would not work.
Since ancient times, it has not been difficult to occupy a city through war, but the security war after occupying the city is the real test for the occupier.
In ancient times, the Mongol Empire's expedition to Europe could be described as a bloodbath... The reason why the Mongolian cavalry chose to massacre the city, although it was also for the purpose of "rewarding" the soldiers and plundering wealth, the main purpose was to ensure their own supply lines for the expedition and the stability of the rear during combat.
The current situation in Yaguna Kotor is very similar to the expedition, with a lone ship fleeing and supplies being a big problem... Almost all of Yaguna Kotor's supplies come from the Ark. Every three days, a transport fleet will transport a large amount of supplies from the Ark to Yaguna Kotor. If the supply is cut off, the supplies on Yaguna Kotor will not last more than a week.
In short, the Hounds cannot manage these 20,000 or 30,000 people, nor can they feed them.
What's more, if the Yaguna Tor is allowed to leave the anchor point, it will most likely face pursuit by the undead crew members. At that time, we can't rely on these people to fight against the Ark's troops, right?
"We can't... just kill all these people, can we?" Zhuo Ligetu whispered. As a descendant of the Mongols, he immediately thought of the things his ancestors had done.
"If all else fails, find a place to drop these people off, and leave them some supplies and beacons... I think the Undead Crew will not do anything to these people, and at most they will take them back for investigation and interrogation." Hound suggested, "Like the previous Zero Fleet, after it withdrew from the combat airspace, didn't the Black Fleet pursue them?"
"Well, then we'll do as you say, but we have to wait until it's safe before we let the people down. As for now..." Ke Lan thought for a moment, then said, "You guys, go back to the core power room first, and leave everyone else in Block 1. To prevent any accidents, after you leave, I will immediately close the passage between the core power room and Block 1, and put the 20,000 people under house arrest inside Block 1."
"Yes," Hound nodded. "There are a total of eleven frontier exploration bases in Block 1. Although the supplies stored in each base are not much, if we collect all of them, it is still enough for 20,000 people to consume for half a week."
"There is no time to lose. Take action now while the Undead Crew is still silent!"
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Outside the combat airspace, Fleet Zero.
The actual commander of Fleet Zero, Major General Alexander, stared at the black fleet that was "single-handedly" resolved by the figure floating in the air, and his mouth opened wide for a long time.
Not only him, the expressions of the crew members on the bridge of "New Dawn" were equally wonderful... This kind of power has exceeded the limits of human beings in their imagination, and such a thing only appears in novels or movies.
That thing floating in the air is not a human...it is a "god"!!
"Zoom in!" Twenty seconds passed after the destruction of the Black Fleet before Major General Alexander reacted and gave the order.
As for what the camera was zooming in on, he naturally didn't need to waste his time explaining it.
The body of the young man wrapped in a linen robe appeared on the big screen. Just when Major General Alexander felt that the back figure seemed familiar, the young man seemed to sense the spying from the "New Dawn" and turned his head to glance in this direction.
With just one glance, all the external monitors on the New Dawn exploded, and the screens suddenly turned into a black and white snowflake.
Major General Alexander felt as if his heart skipped a beat. He sat down on his seat, gasping for breath.
The moment the young man turned his head, he saw half of the other person's face.
"Then it seems... to be Ke Lan?"
Major General Alexander knew that Ke Lan had very powerful abilities, but as powerful as those abilities were, they were at least within the scope of "understandable by normal thinking"... Apart from anything else, at least when he was dealing with the underground strongholds of the heretical sects before, he still needed the help of the firepower of Fleet Zero.
But now, he just raised his hand and directly destroyed the mysterious black fleet that had been suppressing Fleet Zero... This can no longer be considered an ability.
It should be called "divine power"!
Major General Alexander was an atheist. He scoffed at the religions of the old era and did not believe that the "great god" believed in by the Alpha civilization really existed. In his opinion, the so-called gods were just some powerful creatures or civilizations with highly developed technology... But just now, he suddenly felt that he was wrong...
If there really is a creature that can do this, then there would be nothing wrong with calling it a "God", right?
At this moment, the screen in front of Alexander suddenly lit up, and a message suddenly appeared in a secret communication channel that only he had the authority to view.
This is a direct message from the Undead Crew. Generally, this communication channel will only be activated when the situation is extremely urgent.
Of course, Major General Alexander fully agreed that this was a "very urgent" situation.
He tried to calm himself down, then stretched out his trembling fingers and clicked on the message.
But the next second, his fingers began to tremble again.
The content of the message was very short, just one line.
"It has been confirmed that the Yaguna Kotor has mutinied. It is expected that the ship will flee the airspace soon. It will be immediately included in the list of hostile targets and a pursuit operation will be launched."
