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"That's right, why not run away? Didn't you do the same thing before? Sometimes running away is not shameful and can be very useful. After all, you may not be the same person as the guy in your memory. From a philosophical point of view of self-comfort, the you in the past and the you today are not the same you... Of course, this is a very negative philosophical attitude, I am just making an analogy."
After seeing Lao Yang frowning madly, Kong Yuguang quickly added.
In the private channel, he kept telling Lao Yang that he wanted the "child" not to get stuck in a rut, not to be an irresponsible guy.
"Does that make you feel better?"
"...I don't have to pay for the karma I have accumulated in the past?"
Dan Heng hesitated.
In the fight with Kong just now, he could feel Kong's martial arts language - it was a very wonderful and free and easy style.
It’s as if he doesn’t care much about the weapons and techniques he uses, but how can a person who cares so much about the past and has preserved so many memories be so free and easy?
"It depends on you. But Dan Heng, unless you are a person with a greater sense of responsibility than yourself, you can also try to explore your past. My suggestion is just to give you an excuse. Otherwise, what will you do after you find the enemy in your dream? Will you let the other party kill you to atone for your sins?"
Sora put on a more serious expression, "What is the reason you can distance yourself from your past self? Did you selectively forget what you did in the past and create a new personality to make yourself feel better? Or have you already died once in a biological sense and feel you have made peace with your previous body? Or have you been reincarnated but are troubled by the memories of your previous life? There is a huge difference here."
Kong simply gave a few examples and Dan Heng's "determined" expression became more subtle again.
"……I don't know either."
"Then we can only go back to my original advice... You're living a good life now, so there's no need to look for trouble with your former self. If someone who recognizes your former self wants to kill you, then you just have to deny and resist like crazy. You have to be thick-skinned."
Sora pulled his face and stretched it out to signal him.
"…Thank you, Sora. I've figured it out a little bit now."
Although it did not completely resolve Dan Heng's troubles, Kong's rogue attitude of "my past mistakes have nothing to do with me now" made Dan Heng ashamed, and he also felt that... it seemed like a helpless solution:
"...But I think the Great Saint's spearmanship is more suitable for me. When I use the spear, I can vent the evil spirit accumulated in my dream. The sparring just now made me feel...relaxed."
"Then use it. You don't have to follow my ideas."
Sora nodded: "You are different from Sanyue. You have your own understanding of martial arts."
"Hey, why do you have to take me with you?"
Sanyue next to her immediately started to grumble in dissatisfaction.
The psychological barriers created by these "kids" are one level higher than the other.
But they are sensible, which has already made many of their peers feel relieved, and also made Kong feel relieved.
"...Teacher Dan Heng, your eyes are shining when you look at the sky."
After observing the strange atmosphere of identification between Kong and Dan Heng, Sanyue looked unacceptable: "You are not in love with Kong too, are you?"
"...?"
Dan Heng put on a stern face again:
"Don't say something that could be misunderstood."
"No, I'm serious, Mr. Danheng, you look like a comic book protagonist who is obsessed with a beautiful girl. Ah, it hurts!"
Kong gave Sanyue a knife.
"Why are you so proud? Are you ready? Ten bow trainings--"
Kong had a dark face and picked up the bow that Ji Zi gave to Sanyue with ill intentions. He worked on it and soon made the string hard enough to take Sanyue's life.
"For every time you miss, you have to run 20 laps around the training ground. Do you understand?"
124. Estelle is your defender!
"Mr. Yu, I want to place an additional order. Do you have any leftover materials or channels after you prepare the suit for Dr. Kong? The day after tomorrow, I want to make an appointment with one of your female designers to measure my full body data."
While Kong helped Danheng to untie his knot, and Sanyue's face turned red from trying to pull the bow ten times, Estelle had quietly stopped shooting and was leaning against the edge of the training ground to make a phone call:
"Yeah, I also need a set of tactical equipment. Eh? Is this the last phase module left? Oh, then, what about the optical camouflage? Anti-biological radar system and optical camouflage, as well as the tracking projector, I need these configurations. Of course, of course, the ejection backpack is also needed, the grappling hook... Okay, add them all."
"The most body-fitting optical camouflage needs to be implanted subcutaneously? Is that possible? You say it's not suitable? You suggest using a dot matrix on the surface of the skin instead of implanting it? Why? Is this what Dr. Spacetime chose?"
"Yes, I see. I'll follow your advice then... Since you can collect the Immortal Ship goods, please help me find a Hacking Dagger. The price is negotiable—"
After Ester hung up the phone, March had just finished her tenth bow, but her face had already turned red, and her arms had no strength to continue holding the bow. She was half paralyzed in the chair, letting Kong next to her hold a small fan to help her cool down.
“I’m dying, my arms will be so sore after a day! So using a heavy bow is so painful—”
"How do you think those archers in ancient times were trained? Those who could shoot the bow ten times were considered elite troops, and their arm strength would not lose to professional infantry in close combat."
Kong looked at Sanyue who was screaming and shouting in torture, and while he felt distressed, he continued to maintain an unkind expression. After all, this training task was decided by Ji Zi and Lao Yang, and they were very ruthless. As an instructor, he had no reason to let her go.
"Okay, I think you've consumed enough energy today, so I'll let you go for now. But you have to maintain this every day - use this bow weight ten times in the morning and ten times in the evening. Don't let me down. Do you understand?"
"Eh?? But what if I have a field mission??"
"Then do the mission first. When you are done, if I determine that you have enough strength, I will continue to supervise your practice until you can handle a heavier bow. Only then will I teach you some different hunting archery techniques."
Kong handed the small fan to Danheng, signaling him to continue to help Sanyue dissipate heat, and then he leaned towards Estelle with some secret joy.
The joy brought by tormenting the younger generation is still irresistible, but he does not want to ruin March, so he has to combine work and rest and prepare to let someone else continue to torment.
"Oh, Sora, you're just in time. I just ordered two sets of Pilot combat uniforms - but I don't have the design drawings of the Titan. Can you tell me how to build a Titan?"
The little rich woman's eyes lit up:
"I really like that Vanguard! I want to build one or two to use as my go-to helper."
"You want specific Titan designs?"
Kong was stunned when he heard this:
"I can give it to you. It's not a particularly difficult machine to make. But it's not an easy task to replicate the level of artificial intelligence in the late BT era."
This world's research on artificial intelligence has suffered a very devastating blow - Kong had noticed before that the system in the space station lacked humanity, and the robots did not have dedicated modules for analytical services, and they mainly relied on human programming to complete their work.
This is because the cosmic "Iron Man Rebellion" caused by the "Emperor" caused severe damage to the galactic organic civilization. However, thanks to the efforts of ScrewGum, the organic civilization finally coexisted with the inorganic civilization, and did not evolve into a situation like the Human Empire completely abandoning advanced AI.
Harmony in diversity is the concept that Screwgoom has always advocated. He was able to receive the highest praise from the Black Tower because of his gentle and tolerant nature and style of doing things - his fellow tribesmen on his home planet also hold almost the same philosophy. Therefore, instead of independently developing an artificial intelligence that can drive Titan, it is better for Ester to find a ready-made artificial intelligence to form a partnership.
With her skills and the company's resources, there must be members of the "mechanical tribe" who are willing to write their consciousness into the Titan mecha to "play" with Estelle.
"Artificial intelligence..."
Esta then leaned forward slightly, looked up at Sora and said coquettishly, "Can you export BT-7274 from Sora's memory? I like him very much."
"I'm afraid not. BT is an individual with independent consciousness, not data living in my memories. Esta, even if I copied it through my subjective impression, it is not BT itself."
Sora shook his head.
"so……"
Estelle was a little disappointed.
"Then it seems that I can only cultivate my own BT..."
"Have you decided to pursue a career in Piloting?"
Sora's focus was more pragmatic. "Unlike ordinary fighters and mecha pilots, Pilots and Titans must be able to integrate their spirit and body, while most Defenders are not that extreme. Although you have good qualities, the training required to become a Pilot will take a longer time. The first thing to do is to increase your nerve reflex speed to ten to twenty times that of an ordinary person. This requires the help of infiltration training and body modification, which will be very painful."
“If you want to do something, you must do it the best! Whether it is shopping or honing yourself.”
Esta made up her mind in front of Sora: "I really like that feeling... of diving down from space to the surface of the earth. When the stars above my head gradually turn into a deep blue curtain... my soul seems to be sublimated--"
Esta seemed eager to improve her personal strength, not just to experience the pleasure of the fall of a Titan as she said on the surface - this caused Kong to worry a little...
But then Sora remembered that she was a ruthless person who "ran away from home" in pursuit of the secrets of the stars, so she must understand the importance of self-preservation.
Unlike Alan, she does need to improve her own strength and vigilance. After all, this is a special period, and Kong has a very negative attitude towards whether her family members will use some very "traditional" business warfare methods.
Once the train leaves the space station, the space station, which has a large flow of people and certain transfer functions, is likely to be invaded by some troublesome guys... Alan's security reform will take time.
"I asked Yuyun to help me get four turbolaser rifles, similar to the R-201 carbine! I saw in the light cone that it was your favorite primary weapon."
"Ah, Yuyun is indeed not a simple character." Kong couldn't help but complain.
I just said it casually at the beginning, but Yuyun actually got the arms. Money makes the world go round!
"Well, he also wanted me to convey that a sea patrol ranger found him and said he was willing to meet with you. Hehe, these four rifles are the gift from the ranger to us. How about that? I brought back two pieces of good news at once."
Esta looked cute as if she was here to reward me, and she turned around in front of Sora.
125. Black Tower. Deep Scar
"Thank you for your hard work, Esta... I'm thinking about how to reward you--"
Kong really wanted to stick close to the little webmaster, who looked twice as cute in this state, but the black tower puppet not far away suddenly gave him a "death stare", which made his hands freeze and he was unable to move forward or backward.
After noticing that Kong's strange movement paused, Ester turned around as if she had noticed something, and then puffed up her face at the Black Tower's doll - the sullen expression on her soft little face actually made Black Tower, who was secretly observing from the dark, waver.
The look on Esta's face when she got angry for the second time because Black Tower had disturbed her good thing was so cute that even Black Tower couldn't resist it.
Finally, after staring at Ester for a long time, Heita turned his head away - children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, and if you want to send yourself into the mouth of a prehistoric beast, I can't protect you.
After all, Esta had been busy helping her conquer Kong. Although he was not a good person, he could not do such a thing as abandoning the donkey after it had done its work for the time being.
After confirming all of Kong's methods, Heita concluded through rational thinking that Kong did not hint to Estelle to sell him some benefits or anything, and there was no persuasion or guidance throughout the process. He even emphasized that he was "old" and did not want Estelle to waste her youth on him, but Estelle still refused to turn back.
Ah, I fell into this situation as well, so it’s okay.
"Since you are so interested in the results of the APEX competition, I will expand the light cone so that you can see the rest."
It’s not that Kong didn’t have other ways of rewarding Esta that would make her blush and her heart beat faster, but he really couldn’t bring himself to pull her into his arms and ravage her in front of the Black Tower.
"Hey, is that okay? Sora is the best~"
However, just because Sora won't hug Esta doesn't mean the young stationmaster won't offer herself to him.
As if she was competing with him, she struggled to get into Sora's arms while continuing to look at the black tower through the gap in the side where her nose was pressed against Sora's chest muscle.
That look didn't show any confusion, but was full of boasting, with a kind of bad woman's charm. It was a pity that from Kong's perspective he could only see a tuft of pink hair.
In addition, she deliberately arched her body a little, and the curve of her body drooped along Kong's chest muscles to his mid-abdomen. When Heita moved his sight back, he felt a vein bulging on the top of his head.
A puppet can make its veins jump - Heita doesn't know whether to sigh at the young webmaster's ability to annoy people and step on landmines accurately or to praise how advanced Dr. Kong's puppet design technology is. The body structure of this construct can almost replace Heita's original body. It not only gets rid of almost all the shortcomings of flesh and blood, but is also "human" enough.
However, she immediately remembered that she had not received a light cone as a "gift" today... She was still the same as when she was young, so why couldn't she "sit at the children's table"?
...She seemed to have forgotten that she was the first person to be supplied with the light cone by Sora, and stared at Sora and Ester intently, hoping to receive a new gift from Sora or get Ester to restrain herself through her gaze.
"Call it a day... Ah, it hurts so much, if I keep training like this, won't I end up with a fat waist and deformed body?"