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"This altitude isn't enough!" Li Yichen shouted into the communication channel, tapping the control panel three times with his right hand. "Ling'er, full power thrusters! Let's reach the threshold of space!"

The miniaturized cold fusion engine on the back of the dark gold armor roared deeply. Its exhaust plume stretched for over ten meters. The armor transformed into a sharp sword, slicing straight through the stratosphere and soaring into the sky.

20,000 meters. 30,000 meters.

The clouds were left far behind. The sky changed from azure to deep blue, and finally faded to a pure, unblemished black.

A slight tremor came from the outer shell of the machine. A feeling of weightlessness spread throughout my body.

Li Yichen broke through the last shackle of Earth's gravity and plunged into the vacuum.

He hovered his armor in orbit. Turning around, a massive planet radiating a deep blue halo stretched across his field of vision, filling his entire retinal screen. White cyclones swirled above the sea, and the outlines of land were clearly visible.

"The equipment I built myself can practically make the universe my backyard!" Li Yichen laughed heartily, his voice echoing inside his helmet. "While that reliable guy is still playing with mutated mice in the mud, I'm already standing at the starting line of the stars!"

There is no air resistance in space. He completely let loose, pushing the thrusters to their limits.

The dark gold armor sped through near-Earth orbit, becoming a streak of light too fast for the naked eye to follow. It moved at speeds exceeding Mach 100 without hesitation in the vacuum. It circled the Blue Star three times.

Along the way, it casually cut into the orbits of a few American military satellites, brushing past their solar panels. The powerful wake caused their attitude sensors to deviate by more than ten degrees.

We played for more than two hours.

"That was awesome! How about we stop by the moon and check out those Terminators digging?" Li Yichen calculated the remaining fuel; the energy from the cold fusion reactor was enough for him to fly in space for half a month. He then prepared to adjust his course.

A voice access request popped up from the quantum communication module on my wrist.

Three words popped up on the screen: Xiao Yuqing.

This frequency band is encrypted at the highest level, and only a very close group of people have permission to connect directly. Li Yichen answered the call, just about to make a few teasing remarks.

The sound coming through the receiver was a suppressed sob, accompanied by heavy breathing. In the background, there were also bursts of gunfire and wild, animalistic roars.

The smile faded from Li Yichen's face, and his brows furrowed.

"What's wrong? Who bullied you?" His voice was deep. "Don't cry. I'll hold up the sky if it falls. Tell me slowly."

"Yichen..." Xiao Yuqing's voice trembled uncontrollably, mixed with desperate sobs, "I...I'm in New York."

What are you going to New York for?

"I came here last week to buy a batch of rough diamonds. I was planning to stay three more days for a vacation." Xiao Yuqing sobbed, her teeth chattering. "This afternoon... a monster suddenly appeared on the street... over five meters tall, with yellow muscles all over its body..."

Li Yichen's brow twitched. The Yellow Giant? Wasn't that thing supposed to be eating sand in the Nevada desert? How did it end up on the East Coast?

"The American fighter jets drove it into downtown Manhattan, and then they didn't dare drop bombs anymore," Xiao Yuqing described incoherently, her breathing becoming increasingly rapid. "The National Guard was exchanging fire with it in the streets. It was complete chaos! Tanks were overturned, buildings were smashed down. The entire block was covered in blood... I saw several people trampled into mincemeat with my own eyes..."

A dull thud came from the background, followed by the loud crash of a collapsing building. Xiao Yuqing screamed, and a screeching sound came from her phone's microphone.

"Where are you now?" Li Yichen raised his voice.

"I'm hiding in the underground parking garage of a bank on Fifth Avenue." Xiao Yuqing huddled in a corner, her hands tightly covering her mouth, afraid to make a sound. "Everything outside has collapsed. There are gunshots everywhere. I heard that monster demolishing buildings up there..."

Another loud bang. Dust fell down from the ventilation ducts.

"Yichen... I might not be able to go back." Xiao Yuqing's sobs were filled with death. "I'm so scared... I just want to hear your voice one last time before I die..."

Li Yichen was furious. Just two hours ago, he had said he wouldn't get involved in any of the ridiculous nonsense, and now this anger had turned against his own people.

"Hold back your tears!" Li Yichen raised his voice, sternly interrupting her dying words, "With me here, even if the King of Hell came with a sedan chair carried by eight men, he wouldn't be able to take you away today!"

He switched communication channels, speaking extremely quickly: "Ling'er!"

"Here!" The holographic projection popped up at the edge of her retina, and the little girl put away her usual playful smile, her expression becoming serious.

"Take control of Xiao Yuqing's phone! Hacker all of New York City's surveillance cameras, traffic cameras, and military tactical networks!" Li Yichen issued the order. "Plan an absolutely safe escape route for her!"

"Understood! Cracking the NORAD underlying protocols, taking over the Manhattan Skynet system." A blue waterfall of data cascaded down in Ling'er's eyes. In less than three seconds, a 3D map of Manhattan unfolded before Li Yichen's eyes.

"Xiao Yuqing's coordinates have been located. The Yellow Giant is 30 meters away from her." Ling'er pointed to a red dot on the map. "The National Guard on the outskirts has been routed. Two Apache helicopters were just shot down by it using lampposts. This monster is tearing apart the bank's load-bearing walls."

Li Yichen switched back to Xiao Yuqing's channel.

"Listen carefully. From now on, my personal AI will take over your phone." Li Yichen's tone was icy, exuding an unyielding domineering air. "If she tells you to go left, you absolutely cannot go right. If she tells you to lie down, don't even lift your head. Do as she says, and I guarantee you'll come back alive."

"But... the door to get out is blocked..."

"I'll open the door for you." Li Yichen ended the voice call.

He hovered in near-Earth orbit, his gaze piercing through the atmosphere, locked onto a coordinate on the east coast of North America.

"You're so reliable, your dog bit one of my men." Li Yichen cracked his neck, his knuckles popping. "Ling'er, bring out the Titan-01 from the precision testing building!"

"Titan-01 is fully activated! Cold fusion engine preheating complete!" Ling'er reported quickly.

"Open up a stratospheric route, full speed ahead to New York." Li Yichen piloted his nanotech armor, turning the nose around, the attitude nozzles spewing out eerie blue flames. "Today I'm going to teach them a lesson on demolition!"

In space, the dark gold armor transformed into a fireball, plunging into the atmosphere. The intense heat generated by friction enveloped the armor in a layer of plasma. Li Yichen pushed his speed to the limit.

Manhattan, New York.

The once bustling Fifth Avenue is now a ruin. Burning car wrecks block the street. Fire hydrants are broken, sending jets of water shooting dozens of meters high.

A five-meter-tall yellow giant stood in the middle of the intersection. His dark yellow skin was covered in dust and blood. He gripped half of an armored vehicle chassis and swung it forcefully, smashing it against the exterior wall of a nearby building. The glass curtain wall shattered into pieces, crashing to the ground.

National Guard soldiers, hiding behind sandbags, opened fire wildly with their rifles. Bullets struck the Yellow Giant, ricocheting off in circles of sparks.