Gundam: From Piece to Player

"It's not as simple as just defeating them. There are many Reverse A units, almost all of which are buried in the thick rock layers beneath the earth. Moreover, their attacks are characterized by indiscriminate attacks... They will decompose anything that is detected as human creation. This is led by the artificial intelligence of one unit and has a certain level of intelligence."

“Although this thing is very powerful, it’s still dormant,” Anna said. “So I need to force as many civilians as possible to leave Earth, move to the moon, and hide in a colony. As you’ve seen, senior, nanoweapons and Reverse-A type mechs actually have their operating temperature limits.”

"You want to give it the strength of Earth?"

Karma recalled the destruction he had caused during the battle on Mercury, and he knew what Anna was up to.

By stimulating the planet's core and inducing violent volcanic activity, the "sleeping reverse A" could be erased from the Earth.

"No."

“The price we’re paying is too high,” Kalmar said. “We can’t destroy such a beautiful homeland just to destroy the stupid setup of an ancient civilization. We can defeat this thing.”

"Yes, after the battle with you, senior, I'm confident that you can definitely win."

Anna said, "But as I said before, there are 20 billion people on Earth. Not to mention the huge casualties that would be caused to civilians if we fought against the Reverse A, the Moonlight Butterfly's ability to decompose man-made objects alone necessitates evacuation before the battle, otherwise it would lead to famine and death."

That's why Anna is doing such seemingly villainous and inhumanly absurd things; she wants to scare all the people on Earth into space.

Explain it properly.

Who would believe such a thing?

If you randomly pick an ordinary person and tell them that there are actually ancient civilization weapons buried underground, and that once humanity leaves the solar system, it will trigger an operation to annihilate human civilization, would anyone believe you?

Karma would believe it because he was a time traveler, and he knew that there was a high probability that such a heaven-defying thing had been buried. The Moonlight Butterfly must have also done something like restarting civilization.

As for verifying it... Karma can step on the gas and head out of the solar system right now. If it's true, then he can try it and die.

“Actually, there is a third option, which is for humanity to never leave the solar system and control all spacecraft,” Anna said. “To let humanity remain a species within the solar system forever.”

“Impossible.” Karma immediately shook her head.

Regardless of the future of the Space Alliance, which is bound to be a vast expanse of stars, and the idea that one day it will fly out of the solar system and reach a higher level of civilization.

If inhumane elements were to learn of this intelligence and attempt to storm the checkpoint in their spaceship, it would trigger a horrific mass extinction without any prior warning.

"Then I'll continue directing my subordinates on the moon stripping project, and continue to drive all the Earthlings into space, unless you, senior, can come up with a better plan?"

Anna's words reminded Karma of the intense battle they had just experienced on Mercury.

Her real purpose is to force people into space, which is a proactive defense strategy.

There's no need to push the moon at all; simply installing a reactor on the moon and demonstrating the possibility of pushing it would be enough to scare people on Earth into space.

If they still refuse to go up, then we can only leave some supplies behind... to see if we can survive when the Moonlight Butterflies "wash" the Earth.

The moon butterfly probably didn't include living organisms in its "cleaning" scope, but what about people on Earth without the support of current industry?

Until we can convince the inhabitants of Earth that there is a world-destroying machine underground.

This approach may be the least harmful, but deception done to save more lives cannot balance procedural justice with outcome justice.

Thinking about it this way, Karma won the battle, but ultimately lost to Ana.

In the end, we followed Anna's instructions.

This feeling of being completely manipulated... needs to be taught a lesson.

Upon noticing Karma's aggressive gaze, Anna pounced on him like a kitten and snuggled against him.

“Let’s go to Neptune, senior. I also have a base there.”

Chapter 397 Even the Super System Can't Pass [?]?

After arriving at the base.

The two couldn't wait to start exercising... Appropriate exercise can help maintain physical and mental health and avoid various forms of stress.

But at least Karma's body has been in use since she was born in 0059, even after 35 years of hibernation, and she has used all sorts of top-notch biochemical components and technologies.

Anna's body had hardly been modified, which is why she appeared to be a particularly weakling.

After the workout, Karma helped Anna tie up her messy hair... Her blonde hair looked really good.

"Anna, you don't exercise much, do you? You sit most of the time every day?"

"I also have many research projects to promote. Do you prefer my second body?"

I like them both.

Karma actually prefers the original one, but in terms of everyday interactions, the current one is more pleasing to the eye.

Any photo you take can be used as wallpaper.

How's this hairstyle?

Anna shook her head as she looked at the pigtails Karma had styled for her.

"This hairstyle is too childish, it doesn't suit me."

"Hmm, that makes sense."

Karma wanted to switch, but Anna stopped her.

"Stop messing with my hair. Time is precious. Let's go to the archives."

Their base wasn't orbiting Neptune, but rather a spaceship orbiting Triton.

It is approximately the same size as the Jupiter-Triss class.

Anna turned on the room lights. Karma had expected it to be a densely packed library or something similar, but instead, she found a room filled with electronic devices—mostly storage devices.

"Books take up too much space. We new humans have special compilation capabilities and can compress information. I remember it took me five years to release all the compressed information."

Were you a very learned person before you time-traveled?

Karma looked at the storage disks around her and thought to herself, "This capacity is incredible. It's all information projected through 'time travel'."

"At the time, we planned to colonize other star systems, and the more knowledge we brought, the better. The amount of knowledge we have is actually quite impressive."

Anna said, "Unlike Meixi and you, senior, I am not good at mechanical and electronic things. I used to be in the development of new human abilities. I only learned biological science after I transmigrated here. The reason why our new federation's technology has developed so rapidly is because I memorized a lot of things and then compiled the knowledge into books."

That's where they mainly study magic.

In her previous life, Karma had read many time-travel novels, one of which featured characters who could obtain various advanced technological blueprints after completing missions.

Just follow the blueprints directly, that's so much better, unlike him who has to imagine everything when it comes to technology.

Before Anna sat down at the control panel, she entered the password. A white interface appeared on the large screen in the room, containing a search engine.

"Senior, what would you like to know?"

She pressed a button, and a floating chair emerged from the platform beneath the control panel, allowing Karma to sit next to her.

"I'd like to know if Reverse A has any other weapons besides the Moonlight Butterfly?"

After hearing this, Anna typed a "?" into the computer.

After searching for a while, the monitor displayed information about "Multipath Support System" and "DOC (Device Operation Control) Base System".

"Actually, the Reverse A is not invincible on an individual level. We used guerrilla tactics and ambushes to capture one of them. We then used that machine to hack into one of the information terminals and obtained information about an ancient civilization."

"It's actually easy to fall into a misconception. Destroying civilizations doesn't rely on Reverse A. Reverse A stands for System-?99, which means the 99th unit of the [? system]."

"Another system-based warfare tactic," Karma thought to herself.

Winning a war is not about the outcome of one or two pieces... that's about tactics. Ultimately, the one who wins is the one who takes down the opponent's "king".

Anna continued, "What we ultimately need to defeat is the entire AI and base system behind it. Among the civilizations destroyed by Reverse AI, there were individuals whose individual combat power surpassed that of Reverse AI. Would you like to see the relevant footage?"

"Yes, let me see it."

Anna entered her search query into the paginated list, and another video popped up.

Just then, I witnessed Reverse A being slammed into fragments by a giant MA resembling a Gundam, which clasped its hands together.

However, the hordes of submachine guns continued to surge forward like a human wave tactic, and the MA continued to dominate with its fists, each punch capable of destroying a mass-produced Reverse A machine.

(【?system】)

After being reduced to dust, the reverse A underwent molecular-level recombination through nanomachines somewhere.

While the machine was sweeping away the enemies in front of it, Reverse A suddenly teleported behind it and threw a nuclear warhead at it.

Then teleport away.

The performance resembles a combination of Flying Thunder God and a nuclear bomb throw. Karma can only associate it with the quantum jump technology used in the GNT-00 Gundam—who knows, this thing might even have learning capabilities.

The nuclear bomb instantly covered the MA, and theoretically, the temperature at the center of the nuclear bomb should be hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius.

"Is he dead?" Kalma asked.

“Keep reading,” Anna said.

The MA was actually still alive. Although it was tattered and battered, the "qi" burning on its body was repairing it.

The battered and bruised Devil Gundam still wants to "revive" through sheer willpower; this is the power of the [DG Cell].

Karma recognized it—it was the Devil Gundam from Mobile Fighter.

No wonder, this is a super robot – it can dismantle a Gundam with its bare hands.

However, an overwhelming swarm of Moonlight Butterflies had already arrived and begun their nano-erosion.

This is a battle between regeneration and decomposition.

Its regeneration rate ultimately couldn't compete with the decomposition rate of the nanomachines, and Reverse A emerged victorious.

(Devil Gundam)

Even the super system can't beat the reverse A... No, it should be said that a "martial arts master" in a head-on collision in a high-level martial arts world can indeed win, but the [? system] has the flexibility and ruthlessness unique to AI.

It's common knowledge that martial arts heroes can't defeat armies.

We certainly don't lack powerful military force now, but to completely defeat the ancient civilization's [System], we would need to mobilize the entire solar system's war resources to coordinate the operation.

Looking back, you can understand Anna's actions. The New Federation can now relatively cheaply produce a high-quality New Human force for war, equipped with something like the [Somo] series currently used by the Space Vanguard to complete the line-filling task.

Then, send high-powered units such as the Antimatter Gundam to destroy enemy nodes and even command posts, completing the chain of command decapitation and casualties.

“Anna, can’t I use antimatter drones to hold off the other units of the [System]?” Karma thought for a moment and looked at Anna.