Chapter 69: It's time to settle accounts
A moment later.
"I didn't expect there would be such a place in Fire Moth."
Ai Yue sat in the darkness and talked to himself.
A few minutes ago, he was escorted by a team of soldiers to a facility somewhere underground in the Fire Moth. There were strict guards and airtight cells here. The walls and ceilings were made of thick alloy plates. A faint stench could be smelled inside. Rather than a cell, it looked more like the lair of some ferocious beast.
In fact, his guess was not wrong, because this place was previously used to imprison the Honkai beasts as experimental subjects.
But now it is used to imprison an ordinary human being. It can only be said that the top leaders of the Fire Moth were indeed frightened by some previous events.
"Prometheus, Aponia and the others..." Ai Yue was stunned in the middle of his words, "They all forgot that those people didn't even let go of my belt."
Although Ai Yue had hidden Prometheus's extension in the artificial imaginary space of the belt buckle in advance, the soldiers did not miss anything suspicious on Ai Yue's body when they searched him, including the delicate-looking belt buckle.
Therefore, Ai Yue had to hold up his pants all the way to the room, which was quite embarrassing.
Without the reliable Prometheus, Ai Yue felt a little empty. In this dark room, even the passage of time became blurred. He didn't know how much time had passed, and whether Kevin and the others had acted according to their plan...
'Come to think of it, has there been some kind of noise since a while ago?'
Ai Yue frowned. In the darkness, his hearing became sharper, so he soon realized that there seemed to be some small creature crawling back and forth above his head.
He was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Pardofelis?"
Although there were guards outside, given the thickness of the walls and door panels of this room, Ai Yue was not worried at all that they would hear any movement inside, so the noise was not small at all.
Soon, the movement above his head seemed to lock onto Ai Yue's position and became clearer and clearer. Finally, a familiar voice reached Ai Yue's ears: "Brother Yue? You are really here!"
Who else would call him by that name if not Pardofelis?
Soon, accompanied by a series of footsteps, a figure accurately captured Ai Yue's position and hugged him: "I heard from Sister Mei that you were treated as a prisoner by the people above, what's going on!"
"It's okay, it's just a small problem." Ai Yue patted Pardofelis' back and comforted her. "Shouldn't you be on a mission outside? Why are you in the base?"
He had specially arranged for Pardofelis to go out and perform a minor and insignificant task in a safe area a hundred thousand miles away from the Great Eruption, in order to prevent her from getting involved. As a result, it seemed that his plan had failed.
"I was lucky and completed the task ahead of time..." Pardofelis explained briefly, but still couldn't help asking, "Are you really okay? But if you were okay, why would they lock you up here?"
Without waiting for Ai Yue to explain, Pardofelis continued, "Why don't we run away, Brother Yue! Run to a place like Twilight Street where no one can find us! Then we can..."
She stopped talking halfway because Ai Yue had already held her head down and said in a gentle but firm voice: "No."
"Why?"
"Because I want to create a world that is no longer threatened by the Honkai." Ai Yue said calmly, "In such a world, everyone can live the life they like, so for this purpose, I absolutely cannot escape."
Pardofelis didn't say anything. After a moment, Ai Yue felt her raise her head and said, "In that case, is there anything I can do?"
"There is one thing that only you can do." Ai Yue laughed, "Do you remember where my room is? I hid something in the closet in my bedroom..."
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"So, you don't agree with the decision to send Ai Yue to the United Nations Supreme Court?"
In the conference room, Vill-V was talking to several projections.
"Of course I don't agree. To put it simply, I don't recommend you to transfer Ai Yue." Vill-V said seriously, "During the transfer process, variables are most likely to appear. Once the other party escapes, it will be extremely difficult to catch him with Ai Yue's ability."
Seeing the projections on the other side deep in thought, Vill-V added, "I'm sure you all know that if we can't take this opportunity to completely solve Ai Yue's problem, then if he really escapes, you will be the ones who will have a headache in the future."
"Ms. Vill-V, you seem to have a lot of problems with Ai Yue?" one of the projections asked, "I thought you two had jointly researched artificial intelligence, and your relationship would be very good."
"In fact, I only provided hardware support. The AI part was almost completed by Ai Yue alone." Vill-V said naturally, "The funding of Fire Moth is limited. If Ai Yue continues to grow, then one day I will be driven away, right?"
The projections did not react on the surface, but in their hearts they agreed with what Vill-V said—this was a ruthless person who dared to keep blowing up her own workshop in order to ask for funds. What would she not do for her own benefit?
However, at this moment, the idle camera in the conference room suddenly lit up, and soon a new projection was connected to the room: "So lively? It seems that the news is correct, some people are planning to eat alone."
"Why are you here?!" In the first projection, someone made a surprised voice, "Damn it, who leaked the news..."
"Don't even think about it. Everyone knows about it." Another projection appeared in the conference room. "It's impossible for you guys to keep such a big thing secret. If some people weren't so stingy and had informed us earlier, things might not have developed to this extent."
As more and more projections appeared in the conference room, the entire room was filled with all kinds of voices. Countless forces were scheming against each other in order to gain more benefits, trying to gain the right to speak and thus gain greater benefits—even though these benefits have not even been obtained yet.
Just as the entire conference room was gradually turning into a bargaining market, a violent knocking sound suddenly attracted everyone's attention.
Vill-V tapped the table with her fingerless metal glove until everyone's attention was drawn to her. Then she spoke calmly, "Ladies and gentlemen, since things have developed to this point, I think it's better to be more solemn."
"Why not gather all decision-makers and hold a public, grand trial against Ai Yue?"
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