Natsu's death is abrupt, weird, and confusing.

Regardless, the power of the Order is back in Qin's hands - he is the last founder of the Order, and although he was expelled from the Order before, those who expelled him are all dead, and he is the only one alive.

Fierce fighting broke out again within the Order, and the Revolutionary Union regained its independence and began to launch a fierce attack on the Order, and the Order's retreat was not long before it was on the verge of collapse - there were less than twenty Vaults left in the hands of the Order, and the number of people in these Vaults was less than one percent of the world's surviving population.

Many of the big conglomerates that were originally attached to the organization defected and joined the Revolutionary Union, choosing between the option of participating in the Utopian Project and death.

However, for Qin, these are no longer important, when he took over the control of the organization, he had already drained all the resources of the organization within two days, and what was thrown to them was just an empty shell.

And all these resources that have been taken away are used to repair the super battleship called "Kowloon......

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A month later.

"I don't think you're at all like an organization leader who has been branded as a family by the Revolutionary Union, and you still have the leisure to grind coffee beans here?" Qi Lin, who was heavily armed, walked into the room, unceremoniously picked up a cup of hand-ground coffee that Qin had just brewed, and drank it all.

"You don't look like a soldier about to be sent into battle." Qin poured out another cup from the coffee pot and took a sip gently.

This is the most authentic Blue Mountain coffee, and unlike the counterfeits on the market that claim "Blue Mountain Coffee", each of these beans is produced in the St. Andrew, Jamaica region, which was an expensive and sought-after commodity in the old days, let alone in this era of scarcity.

"What's the matter...... I'm the only soldier on the battlefield anyway. Qi Lin took the coffee cup, walked around the table, and walked to the huge screen on the wall.

On the screen is an aerial image of a small island...... Or rather, an aerial view of a place that was once an island.

The island had been completely erased from this world, leaving only a huge hole in the sea, and the hole emitted a dark red light, and a large amount of seawater poured into the hole in a whirlpool, and then it was evaporated by the heat of the hole, and the white steam lingered directly above the hole for a long time, like an island made of clouds.

Twenty-four hours ago, Qin used the disc left behind by Dr. Horford and forcibly seized control of the satellite carrying the Sword of Damocles—just as Qin had expected, the mastermind had already sent the satellite into low-earth orbit.

Tungsten rods that fell from a height destroyed unnamed islands, caused an earthquake of nearly magnitude nine in the southern Pacific Ocean, and even set off a tsunami wave over 40 meters high off the western coastline of South America.

The sword of Damocles was enough to destroy half of the Indian peninsula, but it could not destroy the main brain body located more than ten kilometers deep underground, and after wiping the island from the sea, Qin poured all the nuclear bombs on the entire Kowloon into the huge hollow.

For a time, it was as if divine punishment had descended, and hell had appeared...... Those nuclear warheads have been modified by technicians, and the damage caused by the explosion will be confined to the smallest extent possible, and all the power will be used to penetrate the layers of defense, and there will be no spillover.

The launch of the bomb lasted six hours, but it wasn't until recently that the ionizing radiation above the hole dissipated enough for the drone to send back the surveillance footage.

The mastermind is still in motion!

However, due to the detonation of a large number of nuclear bombs, the entire cave has become a contaminated area of unprecedented radiation intensity – something that was more or less the case when Victoria Harbour was bombed.

No one can get close to this place, not even wearing the most radiating power armor, which will turn into scrap metal in a very short period of time due to the high intensity of ionizing radiation.

Only Qi Lin could get in - for him, not only could the radiation not be fatal, but would make this place his home turf.

"There are 249 layers of armor plates directly above the main brain body, we have exploded 244 layers, only the last 5 layers are left, you only need to break through these five layers of defense, you can see the main brain body." Qin said to Qi Lin.

"I know, then get to the heart of it, smash it." During this period of time, Qi Lin had read the design of the masterbrain ontology that Qin gave him that was thicker than "Ci Hai" countless times, although he was still in a state of half-understanding of the operation principle of the main brain, but he couldn't be clearer about what was the key point of the main brain.

"So...... Good luck. ”

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Southern Pacific Ocean, above the "maelstrom".

"We can't get any closer, the ionizing radiation has put the helicopter's balance system on the verge of spiraling out of control, and if we get caught in that steam, the whole helicopter will fall headlong into that big hole!" Sophia said from the driver's seat of the helicopter, wearing a fat, bloated radiation protective suit that filled almost the entire seat.

Qi Lin grabbed the hatch of the helicopter and looked down, only to see that there was a bottomless pit like a sinkhole in the huge whirlpool, the hole emitted a dark red light, and tons of seawater poured into the hole majestically, and then turned into steam and soared into the sky - in many of them, the so-called gates of hell were nothing more than that.

"This hole may look terrifying, but in fact we've destroyed 99.9% of the Mastermind's defenses, and the resistance you'll encounter will be negligible." The person in the passenger seat turned back to Qi Lin and said, under the brown resin mask, his half of his completely ruined face looked extremely hideous.

Ghostface...... This officer who organized the ground dispatch troops, it seems that there is really a lucky god in the dark who is protecting him, he has experienced so many things, so many people have died, but the ghost face who participated in every large-scale battle of the organization has survived until now, except for losing half of his face, he has not even lost a little finger.

Looking at the hole that was like the "Gate of Hell", Qi Lin took a deep breath and couldn't help but think of a sentence-

"When you look at the abyss, the abyss is watching you."

Qi Lin knew that at this moment, the mastermind located deep underground must also be staring at this helicopter, but for some reason, it did not make any offensive moves, and seemed to have completely given up resistance.

But Qi Lin didn't think much of it...... Although he doesn't know the mastermind, he knows Cooper, he knows the way artificial intelligence thinks, and in their thinking mode, there is never an option to give up, unless you unplug them and smash their core processors-

And what Qi Lin is going to do now is this thing.

He jumped out of the helicopter, spread his arms and wings attached to his side, sliced through the reverse air flow at an oblique angle, and crashed swiftly towards the "Gates of Hell".

The temperature inside the cave entrance is very high, roughly estimated to be more than five hundred degrees Celsius, this temperature can even melt many metals with low melting points, but fortunately, the equipment he wears has an excellent thermal insulation effect, which allows Qi Lin to ignore the increasingly high temperature.

As Qin said, the island had been completely hollowed out, and as far as the eye could see, there were large broken metal components, and the inverted seawater fell from them, drenching on these reddish components that emitted high heat, making a loud "snort" sound.

Qi Lin retracted the wing membrane used for gliding, and used a hook to attach it to a steel component that had cooled to the original color of metal, and descended gently to a deeper level.

Soon, he was in front of the last five layers of armor.

Taking out the laser cutting machine, Qi Lin slowly and methodically cut up the heavy alloy armor plates, each piece of this equipment is four meters thick, and the cutting progress is very slow, but Qi Lin is not in a hurry at all, what he has is time - as for the supply of energy, the entire cave is full of rich radiant energy, and the concentrated energy vortex has already spun rapidly.

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Four hours later, Qi Lin finally saw the main brain body that was like a city.

The machine that once held the fate of all mankind lay there quietly, and those exposed chips and cables made Qi Lin feel that this thing was so fragile, like a human body covered in bruises.

"You're finally here." The voice of the main brain sounded in Qi Lin's ears, this voice seemed to be close at hand, and it seemed to be far away in the sky.

Qi Lin didn't pay attention to him, but ran towards the core of the main brain according to the design in his memory.

In the past few years, the main brain has made countless large and small changes to itself, but no matter how it changes, its main framework is fixed, and the position of the core is not unchanged, just like its insurmountable first law.

"You're going to destroy me, aren't you?"

"Yes, so, if there are any last words, hurry up, and if there are any final hole cards, I'm in a hurry." Qi Lin replied casually, he had seen the core of the main brain, which was a giant spherical object full of sockets, and it was filled with sophisticated chips, these chips were the pinnacle of human technology, and each piece was priceless.

And on the outside of this sphere, it was shrouded by an even larger tempered glass cylinder, Qi Lin launched a small instantaneous explosion, shattering the tempered glass cylinder, and slowly walked in.

The Mastermind didn't resist, it just stayed there quietly, like a fish to be slaughtered.

This feeling...... It's not weird, he always feels that there should be a vigorous decisive battle, in this battle, either he will blast the core in front of him, or the mastermind's artillery will blow him up-

It's not that he was looking forward to this decisive battle, in fact, Qi Lin had long been tired of the war, not only tired of it, but even hated it...... But after going through so much, these last few steps turned out to be unusually smooth, which made Qi Lin feel a strong sense of unreality.

It seems that so much effort and sacrifice before is completely unnecessary and meaningless, and he doesn't even know why those who died died.

For freedom? Or is it faith?

But what about the end? The Mastermind stayed there silently, waiting for Qi Lin to smash its core to pieces.

"Whatever...... Just smash this thing...... It's all over......" Qi Lin closed his eyes hard, then opened them again, his palms clenched into fists.