My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 284 A Communication Across Time with Lin Xinzhu! (Fourth Update)
They were cold, steel behemoths.

Their length definitely exceeded ten meters; they were more like fighter jets than drones. Cold and solemn, they exuded a strong sense of killing intent and majesty.

They rested quietly hundreds of meters underground.

There are cylindrical robots maintaining these giant steel birds.

Chu Zhu held his breath and walked in, quietly scanning the surroundings. He felt as if he were not in a drone base, but in a gigantic fighter jet hangar... or as if he were in a steel graveyard.

Majestic, solemn, yet tinged with desolation!

"Hive! How many fighter jets are here?" Chu Zhu forced himself to keep his voice steady.

"Correction: These are Z-3 drones! Not fighter jets!" Hive calmly announced. "A total of twenty-seven! Initiating search... Initiating auto-start."

Chu Zhu paused for a moment, then heard a loud boom, followed by the appearance of an enormous fighter jet, its lights illuminating the entire aircraft.

"...So, everything else is broken?" Chu Zhu didn't know what kind of expression to make for a moment.

"Z-3, Unit 21! Requires thorough maintenance! Expected to be ready to depart for the mission in three days." The Hive's voice was as familiar as ever.

"Three days, and the daylily is already cold..." Chu Zhu pouted, but didn't feel angry or disappointed, and crossed her arms.

He was wondering if he should try to replicate the restoration-type supernatural power of a civil engineering guy.
Given the terrifying skill of this civil engineer—he can even fix a thousand-year-old cell phone… repairing these fighter jets would be a piece of cake, wouldn't it?!
Thinking of this, Chu Zhu felt his heart pounding uncontrollably. Drones, and judging from their appearance, these fighter jets were at least comparable to fifth-generation fighters in the real world, or even sixth-generation fighters...maybe even higher!

In this feudal era, what a terrifying force this would be!
"...The only problem is..." Chu Zhu suddenly smiled bitterly, referring to the weapon.

Simply taking flight is just calling it an airplane; a fighter jet, of course, is meant for combat...

In this situation, their most important thing... is missiles!
Chu Zhu believed that the base still had some stockpiles... but definitely not much, probably only enough for one or two wars! The consumption of weapons during war was terrifying...

Even if it were two bears, as the fighting went on, it gradually degenerated from exchanging fire with various high-precision weapons to the trench warfare of World War II! Why? Isn't it because modern warfare costs too much money and they simply can't afford to play it?
In other words...

"I guess we can only use them at the most crucial moment!" Chu Zhu sighed. Of course, when it really comes down to it, they'll probably be able to deliver the decisive blow! The sheer spectacle would be no less spectacular than the great magician Liu Xiu summoning a meteorite to smash into the opponent...

Chu Zhu shook his head, then his eyes flickered. If they wanted to use them regularly, unless... they could produce missiles in this era...

However, Chu Zhu quickly put this ridiculous idea out of her mind.

Is this the level of technology in the steam age?

To be honest, if you let the civil engineers take a hammer and slowly hammer it... the chances of making it by hand are higher than the chances of producing it with the technology of the steam age!

"Is this the surprise Lin Xinzhu was talking about?" Chu Zhu murmured wistfully.

"Ding! Keyword 'Lin Xinzhu' 'Surprise' detected!" The Hive's voice suddenly changed, replaced by a gentle and clear voice: "The one who triggered this must be Uncle Chu, right? Long time no see! Although... I won't see you anymore!"

Chu Zhu paused, realizing something, and fell silent. This was the first time he'd ever heard… his dear niece's voice, wasn't it?

"Let's not dwell on the past. After all, getting to this place... it seems Uncle Chu has run into some trouble!" The niece's voice carried a hint of playfulness: "Uncle Chu, are you thinking that these unmanned combat aircraft are a gift I left for you? Wrong, wrong, wrong! That's not it..."

"This is just a small gift left to you by my father! It's nothing much... Strictly speaking, they're all obsolete from this era... Their only advantage is that they're simple, crude, and bulky! They don't break easily..."

"After all, it has to be stored for such a long time! Although I can't estimate it, it must be at least several hundred years... This storage time has caused my father a lot of trouble! He has sifted through countless times before he was able to barely select this batch... Should be able to last this long?"

"..." Chu Zhu remained expressionless. She was wrong; the time interval between the two... was based on a thousand years!
Lin Xinzhu said calmly, "Besides, although I've installed some automatic maintenance devices inside, they can't handle overly advanced fighter jets... so we'll just have to make do with these!"

Chu Zhu: "..."

So that's how it is! That clears up one of his previous doubts.

However… Chu Zhu glanced around at the giant steel birds. "Make do with these?" Hiss!

Chu Zhu suddenly realized that she was almost forgetting the meaning of the word "make do"...

"But if I do this, in my next life, should I say something like, 'Actually, I can repair some of the more advanced airplanes?'" Chu Zhu thought for a moment, then decided to put the matter out of his mind. It's pointless! Like he said, airplanes aren't actually important! Because in this era, they're unimaginably advanced, capable of creating generational differences… What's important is logistics! It's the weaponry! It's the missiles!
"Ahem!" The gentle voice suddenly shifted its tone, "So you probably guessed it, right? Yes, now that I've talked about Father, what I'm going to talk about next is... the gift I left for you..."

As the sound faded, the floorboards in the center of the underground base slowly opened.

Then, a silver sphere, only the size of a fist, was slowly lifted out by the tray.

"...Ta-da! Antimatter annihilation bomb!"

Chu Zhu: "???"

Chu Zhu's expression froze at that moment; he almost thought he had misheard.

Antimatter… If he remembered correctly, this thing seems to exist in the real world… wait, in your time, this thing was already weaponized?!

"How about it?" Lin Xinzhu's voice carried a hint of pride, not at all like a high-ranking tycoon, but more like a carefree young girl in front of an elder. "When we were little, you often showed me Doraemon... Didn't you feel a sense of calm and security when you encountered an emergency and were at a loss, and then you saw me, Doraemon, pull out a gadget?

Chu Zhu paused for a moment, then smiled silently.

“After all, Uncle Chu is definitely facing a formidable enemy right now! This antimatter annihilation bomb... once it explodes, it can annihilate everything within a radius of twenty meters! Of course, I've also locked the distance to twenty meters! In other words, within this range, the enemy will surely die. Of course, if the other side can withstand the antimatter annihilation, emmm, Uncle Chu, you'd better pray for yourself…” Lin Xinzhu’s voice was strange.

"Uncle Chu must be facing a single, powerful enemy right now, right? Uncle Chu must be quite surprised that I realized this." Lin Xinzhu paused for a moment. "Hehe, of course it's not a prophecy! It's just a reasonable deduction, my good uncle... After all, if your enemy right now is an army, fighter jets should be enough!"

"...Thank you." Chu Zhu's eye twitched. Of the twenty-odd fighter jets, only one looked barely repairable. What kind of enemy army could they possibly fight with!

but……

"You were right..." Chu Zhu didn't know what expression to make for a moment. This feeling, as if a bullet from a thousand years ago had hit him right between the eyebrows, made him realize that it was no accident that Lin Xinzhu could become a giant leader in the face of humanity's impending extinction. His mental and computational power was simply terrifying!
"Although I don't know if it will work out, thank you in advance!" Chu Zhu stepped forward, gently grasped and lifted the strange sphere, which was only the size of a fist and shimmered with a metallic luster. "My dear niece."

(End of this chapter)