Assimilation requires binding to the divination crystal, and binding to the crystal requires the person to be near the crystal.
This was no problem for Liu Kai, because he could clearly sense the location of the crystal.
Hidden away in a deep underground bunker, nothing new.
The surrounding area was heavily guarded, but the inside was unguarded.
When the time comes, we'll secretly take out the real one and make a fake one to deceive everyone, so no one will find out anything.
Of course, binding the crystal requires one last step: my consent.
There's absolutely no need to worry about that.
Even without threats of violence, those high-ranking foreign officials would certainly succumb to temptation and agree to any question.
Liu Kai never expected that watching Qin Luofei fight would yield such an unexpected gain.
Suddenly, the long wait didn't seem so boring anymore.
Once you have the right mindset, time will pass by faster without you even realizing it.
The "Qiling" prototype followed Liu Kai's orders and prioritized stability.
So an hour and a half passed, and the military firewall didn't detect anything unusual at all.
The remaining half hour might not be so calm.
The prototype just did the first step, disguising itself as harmless data.
The most crucial step now is to crack the code.
This puts the prototype's intelligence to the test, requiring it to respond extremely quickly and accurately.
Even the slightest mistake will trigger an attack alarm on the firewall.
Even Liu Kai, who had always maintained a relaxed attitude, couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat at this moment.
Of course, there is also good news.
That is, Qin Luofei at the Kennedy Space Center, 80 kilometers away, is making good progress.
Liu Kai dared not engage in any more "immersive experiences," but simply observing the images was still not dangerous.
Following Qin Luofei's line of sight.
There was no survivor in the entire space center, and a huge hole had been cut into the roof of the rocket assembly plant.
She stood in the central control room amidst corpses, her smart glasses flashing incessantly on the main computer.
As the countdown reached zero, a "success" message lit up on the virtual screen of the glasses.
At the same time, alarm lights flashed inside the rocket assembly plant.
However, the alarm bells that should have sounded simultaneously went silent, without making a sound.
Soon, the police lights went out.
Without any hesitation, Qin Luofei immediately issued the order to take off.
With a muffled rumbling sound, the floor of the central control room began to tremble slightly.
That was the start of the massive engine of the Artemis lunar probe rocket igniting.
Although there is a launch pad inside the rocket assembly plant.
However, it lacks the water-filled flame guide groove found on a standard launch pad.
The enormous, scorching tail had nowhere to spread, violently sweeping in all directions.
The wind blew many loose parts into pieces.
Moreover, the exhaust flame brought intense heat, instantly raising the sub-zero temperature inside the factory to hundreds or thousands of degrees Celsius.
This long-silent, empty area was instantly engulfed in flames.
Not far from this rocket, there are two more identical rockets that have been assembled.
Under the intense heat of the tail flame, the outer skin continuously peeled off and melted.
It will likely be long before the internal fuel is ignited, causing a massive explosion.
Liu Kai had previously considered launching a three-pronged attack.
After all, having an extra rocket means having an extra layer of insurance.
However, simulation results show that doing so would cause the wake to become more violent, severely affecting the launch trajectory.
At that point, let alone firing all three arrows at once, the probability of even managing to break through with just one arrow will plummet to 12%.
Therefore, the final plan remains to launch only one.
The other two could only be left to perish in the inferno of their tail flames.
As the exhaust flames grew increasingly violent, the recoil finally took effect.
The massive rocket roared off the launch pad and finally slowly emerged from the huge opening in the top of the factory building.
Freed from the constraints of the factory, the engine's enormous roar finally resounded across the wilderness at this moment.
It spread in all directions.
Suddenly, a burst of intense firelight appeared on the flat ground, illuminating the earth through the continuously falling snowflakes.
Liu Kai knew that the strange noises and bright lights at the aerospace center wouldn't stay hidden for long and would soon attract the attention of the surrounding troops.
But he remained completely calm.
Because the rocket will eventually reach the first cosmic velocity of 7.9 kilometers per second to enter space.
That speed is equivalent to Mach 23!
Not to mention that almost all of America's hypersonic missiles are on the front lines.
Even if there are deployments nearby, a speed of only Mach 4 would absolutely not be able to catch up with the rocket.
The only real threat comes from the Chinese Aerospace Force, which is equipped with laser weapons.
At this time, however, the Aerospace Forces were almost entirely concentrated in the skies above China, fighting fiercely.
Even if we can't dismantle the global brainwashing apparatus, we should at least try to purge the part of China that's above our heads.
Moreover, it's just a lunar probe rocket; even if China discovered it, it really wouldn't be interested in hunting it down.
As the rocket accelerated into the air, the data returned was all normal.
At that moment, the temperature inside the assembly plant on the ground finally reached the critical value.
The outer shells of the remaining two rockets were burned through, eventually igniting the internal fuel.
The energy released by the explosion was comparable to that of several large thermobaric bombs.
And so, a blinding flame once again blazed across the frozen wasteland by the sea.
Amidst the flames, the assembly plant was the first to be hit, instantly shattering into countless flying fragments that scattered in all directions.
The shockwave, accompanied by deafening noise, spread out once again.
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