I don't want to conquer witches anymore.

Dr. Ye Qiao said with a hint of bitterness:

“Mr. Duke, you can never expect a short-sighted race to make any visionary decisions.”

"...Your viewpoint seems to be completely out of step with ants, doesn't it?"

“I’ve been a freak among ants since I was a child.” Ye Qiao sighed. “Because of this freakness, I have achieved my current position, but also because of this eccentricity, I was recently expelled from the staff team.”

The ant's decision-making team's bizarre behavior even surprised the well-informed Duke, who sincerely remarked, "Your Ant Federation is qualified to be featured in the next episode of 'Bizarre Little Countries'."

"what?"

“Don’t worry about the details.” Duke waved his hand, not intending to explain the joke he’d made, but instead narrowed his eyes. “But it sounds like you’re sure you can control the nuclear weapons, right? That way, you don’t have to worry about the world heading towards the worst possible outcome.”

"...That's true, but I still feel uneasy, like the dinosaur world is hiding something from us."

Duke looked at Ye Qiao through the screen and couldn't help but sigh:

This is a sensitive ant.

Not only is it sensitive to the international situation, but it is also sensitive to friction between races. It is rare that it can remain calm amidst the fanaticism of its compatriots... However, Dr. Ye Qiao is also limited by its own intelligence and cannot change the overall situation.

Only a powerful outsider like him can change the overall situation.

Then, he looked down at what he was holding.

[Item Name: Tome of Truth]

[Item Description: All the truths of the world are recorded here.]

[Item Effect: The Tome of Truth will automatically analyze the "Truth" of its surrounding space. The skill "Truth" allows the user to ask the tome a question; if the tome can answer it, it will guide the questioner to the specified page. (Cooldown: 666 hours)]

Since acquiring it, Duke has only asked it a question once. Although that question only elicited a very riddle-like answer, it ultimately allowed him to complete the Cinderella Game and thwart Talia's plot for the first time. Since then, it has remained in a cooldown period, until now.

Duke turned off the speaker, stared at the open book of truth in his hand, and pondered for a moment. The chaotic knowledge on it made his brain throb. Duke endured this discomfort and searched for a long time, but he did not find any useful information, or even much information related to this alien space.

But he realized he should be asking the right questions—not about the core gameplay, not about what the dinosaur world was hiding from the ants. Some of these questions might be misleading, while others would point to too much information, so…

"What are Alexander and Millie planning to use against us?"

He asked his question softly, and soon the scriptures of truth revealed the answer:

"The last meteor shower witnessed by civilization."

"The only focal point of the world's bipolar confrontation."

"Fragments that have jumped from distant stars."

"The future is destroyed by being frozen in time in the past."

Duke stared at the four lines of "prophecy" for a long time, until Dr. Nightjoy shouted in confusion. Only then did he look up in realization and mutter, "An asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs, huh... What about the promised antimatter attack?"

No one heard his muttering, nor did anyone know what he had learned from the book of truth in his hands. He simply turned on the speaker and said to Dr. Nightjo, "I roughly understand the situation, Dr. Nightjo."

"What do you think should be done, Mr. Duke?"

"I think... I think we should continue with the original plan."

"what?"

Duke smiled slightly, and the Mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex also grinned:

"I will launch in Gundam form!"

"Dragon Ant Summit: An Immersive Start!"

"what???"

Dr. Ye Qiao was completely dumbfounded.

……

The Dragon Ant Summit has begun.

From the very beginning, the representatives from the two dinosaur empires stole the show, demonstrating their dominance as always and maintaining a tit-for-tat stance, with neither side willing to show weakness.

However, this head-to-head confrontation changed instantly when a third major power intervened.

When the ant federation presented its demands, the dinosaurs immediately changed. They united against the common enemy and stood together to protect their common interests.

Thus, what was originally just a dinosaur squabble among themselves turned into a full-blown argument. Dinosaurs were arguing with each other, and ants were arguing with each other everywhere... The chaotic scene turned the place into a marketplace. Gradually, the ants' low status in the dragon-ant civilization began to take effect, and the dinosaurs' voices gradually grew louder.

This solidified the ant representatives' resolve.

They are about to launch a "final judgment"!

But at that moment, a loud bang rang out, and then the ceiling of the Dragon Ant Summit was ripped off. The delegates present looked up at the same time and saw a... massive mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex that blotted out the sky.

In a short time, the dinosaurs and ants put aside their prejudices against each other and said in unison:

"Holy crap..."

Chapter 208 A Fake Decapitation

"Holy crap..."

When the massive, mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared in their field of vision, the dinosaurs, who rarely witnessed such a sight, experienced the same sense of awe as the ants. Or rather, the dinosaurs experienced an even stronger sense of awe than the ants, after all, they had long been accustomed to looking up at the colossal bodies of dinosaurs for tens of millions of years.

But now the tables have turned, and it's the dinosaurs' turn to experience what it's like to look up at a colossal creature.

But the ants didn't relax, because they were unaware of the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex's existence. This was simply unbelievable to the blindly confident ants—could there really be a mechanical creation in this world without the participation of ant workers? How could that be?

When did these cunning dinosaurs create such a colossal creature?

But who could have known that the dinosaurs thought the same thing?

They were long accustomed to the fact that ants, with their small brains, could only participate in "simple" manufacturing tasks, almost incapable of independent invention, and could only wait for the wise dinosaur inventors to design entirely new inventions before they could process and manufacture them. But at this moment, upon seeing such a behemoth, the first possibility that came to their suspicious minds was, "Is this an attack from the enemy's empire? No, impossible, their technology is not advanced enough to create such a thing!"

The second possibility is, "Could it be that this was made by ants?!"

All the attendees at the Dragon Ant Summit were terrified by the enormous mechanical dinosaur.

However, the dinosaurs and ants soon realized each other's fear and from that fear they understood that the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex did not belong to the other.

"Could it be a human?!"

The emperor of one of the dinosaur empires roared out the correct answer. He turned around abruptly and yelled at the dinosaur marshal beside him, "Where are the guards?! Where are the troops we deployed in advance?!"

"I ate them all."

As the electronic speaker of the bottle rang out, the deafening roar sounded like an earthquake, causing the dinosaurs present to wave their forelimbs, trying to cover their ears but unable to. The ants present were even more shaken upside down by the huge sound waves, as if they had really experienced an earthquake.

"Eate it?"

The emperor stared in astonishment, scrutinizing the monster's body before him. After a long while, he noticed something amiss—he saw traces of his empire's machinery on this enormous mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex, such as distinctive cannon barrels, welded armor styles, and even half of their empire's symbols.

After realizing what the giant mechanical monster meant by "eaten," its expression turned even uglier, and it quickly turned to look at its old rival, another dinosaur empire's queen.

The beautiful female Tyrannosaurus Rex also stared wide-eyed at certain parts of the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex. Clearly, traces of her Imperial machinery were also left on this massive mechanical creation. Realizing this, she too lowered her head and looked at her old rival.

The Emperor and Empress exchanged a glance, then simultaneously looked down to search for the Ant President, who had been blown away by the sound waves, and roared to the sky, "Is this scientific?!"

"I don't know if this is scientifically sound, but Your Majesties," the Ant President's voice, carried by the chemical scent translator, rang in the ears of the Emperor and Empress. They still couldn't locate the Ant President, remaining only able to hear his voice but not see him. "This isn't something the Dragon Ant Civilization could create, is it?"

Their metalworking technology is simply incapable of supporting the emergence of such a monster. The numerous complex joint designs pose a significant challenge to precision parts—its complexity is many times greater than that of airplanes and tanks. However, whether the final result can match the difficulty is questionable.

The clever Dinosaur Emperor and Dinosaur Queen understood this, as did the Ant President, who was extremely knowledgeable about factory operations.

Not to mention the clear traces of mechanical creations from the two great empires on its surface.

If the pilot of the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex wasn't lying, then it had just "eaten" the tanks parked outside and then "integrated" them into its body, transforming them into its current size.

Self-evolving artificial intelligence life.

"They're insane, those humans are truly insane."

"Why do I say that, Your Majesty? Only by demonstrating such power can you listen to me calmly, isn't that right?"

Suddenly, the loudspeaker blared, and the dinosaurs and ants looked up to see a large screen light up on the chest of the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex. Then, the upper bodies of two humans appeared before them. They couldn't quite make out the features of these strange apes, but they could vaguely recognize that it was a man and a woman.

The one who spoke first was the man among them. He introduced himself with a smile in front of all the creatures:

"Hello everyone, my name is Duke."

……

"Duke...Duke! Duke!"

Millie, hidden in the Dragon Ant Summit, stared intently at Duke on the screen. Her eyes were bloodshot with hatred, her teeth grinding together, and her clenched fists were so tight that they broke and bled.

She wished she could transform into a legendary powerhouse, kick that useless mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex away, storm into the cockpit, and kill the enemy who murdered Talia. Unfortunately, Millie wasn't a legendary spellcaster; she wasn't even a hero-level spellcaster. Among elite spellcasters, she was only mediocre. It was questionable whether she could even win a one-on-one fight against Duke, let alone with a genuine near-legendary figure standing beside him.

Millie alone has no power to take revenge.

But achieving one's ideals in this world isn't limited to brute force; intelligence can also be used. While Millie isn't particularly bright, Alexander is exceptionally intelligent, and with their familiarity with this world as a trump card… if everything goes smoothly, they could absolutely threaten Duke and Cecil's lives!

The premise is that everything goes smoothly.

In Alexander's plan, the Dragon Ant Summit, which was supposed to ignite internal strife within the Dragon Ant civilization, was disrupted by this enormous mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex. Whatever Duke's intentions were, he was likely trying to ease the tensions between the Dragon Ants… Wouldn't all their efforts be in vain if this happened?!

“The second brother said that if things get to the point where there’s no other way, even if we can’t provoke conflict among the dragon ants, we should at least kill the two dinosaur emperors and decapitate the dinosaur civilization…” Millie muttered to herself, then turned around and said to the androids behind her, “I order you to assassinate the dinosaur emperor and dinosaur queen at all costs, do you understand?!”

The androids nodded in unison, and then simultaneously vanished from Millie's sight.

Chapter 209 Contact Within Cannon Range

"Hello everyone, my name is Duke."

Duke's smile appeared on the LCD screen on the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex's chest. This image allowed all the creatures present to recognize him at the fastest speed, while also prompting a few less bright ants to raise questions:

Why is this hairless monkey so big?

"Because it's a close-up shot, you idiot!"

"Oh, I see, I understand what you mean... but why is this monkey so big?"

"???"

Duke watched the chaotic scene with great interest. Although he was still in the cockpit of the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex, he could still clearly see the expressions of every creature in the room through the Zombie's cameras—though he couldn't understand the expressions of dinosaurs and ants...

In just a short time, the Zunlong mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex was completely different from the previous Zunlong. Its size had increased dozens of times, and even dinosaurs looked incredibly small in front of it.

In the technological world constructed by the Dragon Ant civilization, the one who thrives most is not the powerful Cecil, nor Duke with his memories of his past life, but Zun, an intelligent magical mechanical creature capable of modifying itself and evolving using any mechanical material. Duke couldn't even imagine what kind of monsters it would create after devouring and utilizing this entire alternate dimension.

Even now, Duke doesn't dare let it evolve at will. He only lets Zun use materials to create an external Zun Dragon, while its original body is still the previous small baby dragon.