Chapter 136: Chapter 120: The General’s Transformation!
Translator: 549690339
It was Harrison Clark who first discovered her successful implantation. That day, as usual, the two played two games of chess, taking an hour in total. As Harrison Clark’s chess skills improved, it became increasingly difficult for Nora Camp to precisely control their games.
It was difficult for her to control her moves as well as she did in the past. Often, she would unintentionally exert too much force while pondering her calculations, forgetting to control the amount of slack she gave him, and quickly defeating Harrison Clark within a few moves.
In both games, Harrison Clark lost before reaching the endgame.
As they finished, Harrison Clark complained, “I’m feeling more and more left out of these games. Can you please control yourself a little more, let me last a bit longer?”
Nora Camp shook her head and smiled, checking her watch as she said, “I had good control. You admitted defeat in thirty minutes and eight seconds and thirty minutes and six seconds, respectively.”
Harrison Clark was silent for a long time, finally whispering, “You mean you calculated not only the chessboard but also my psychological changes?” Nora Camp suddenly looked up, her eyes bursting with unprecedented confidence, “Yes. I think I had an epiphany yesterday.”
“You had an epiphany?”
“What do you mean by that?” the General frowned.
“No, nothing, it’s just a bit surprising,” Harrison Clark managed to hide his astonishment.
He thought that logic and the mysterious epiphany were incompatible, making it strange for someone like Nora Camp to mention it.
It seemed Nora Camp was a bit angry, “If you don’t believe me, I’ll challenge the Intelligent Al again. You should know what level my chess skills were at before, right?”
“You used to lose to Al by three points, no more, no less, with the same result every time,” he said.
“Yes.”
Two hours passed.
In this long-awaited battle between man and machine, Nora Camp lost by just one point.
Harrison Clark’s mouth hung open, “Did the Al hold back?”
“Of course not!”
“Then you really have improved.”
Nora Camp snapped her fingers, “Come on, let’s celebrate.”
As she prepared to lead Harrison Clark inside, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.
He broke free of Nora Camp’s hand, “Before we deal with that, you should go check if you’re pregnant.”
After checking, it was indeed the case.
As they left the infirmary, Nora Camp asked Harrison Clark how he knew.
He smiled and merely said it was a wild guess.
Of course, he knew the real reason, but now was not the time to reveal it. After returning to his dorm, Harrison Clark suddenly remembered that he forgot to do his main task that day.
Since implantation had already occurred, missing today’s opportunity meant waiting for the next life.
He felt a bit regretful, but he could still accept it.
Harrison Clark began to look through a large amount of information, preparing his persuasive spiel. The upcoming conversation with Nora Camp would be crucial for determining success or failure.
Meanwhile, as Harrison Clark immersed himself in his schemes, Nora Camp was using her newfound abilities to wreak havoc in the war simulation system training for commanding officers.
In addition to holographic simulation training for soldiers, deputy commanders, captains, and commanders of fleets also have their own simulation training systems.
Nora Camp’s ranking in the commander simulation training system has always been in the top ten, never dropping.
Today, an unsuspecting commander opened the training system to randomly match an opponent, expecting to enjoy a one-sided beating and improve his mood before going to sleep, while also slightly raising his ranking.
He was matched with Nora Camp, who was in the top ten.
Initially, he was a bit nervous, but soon calmed down and felt an intense fighting spirit.
Competing against a strong opponent greatly improved one’s own skills; even a defeat could bring benefits.
Less than 20 minutes into the simulation, the brother, fully focused on commanding his forces, was suddenly declared the loser.
His command flagship had been destroyed.
It took three or four replays of the footage for him to find the reason.
At some point, Nora Camp had hidden a massive mine in the area of intense engagement between the two sides.
Following that, she fired a barrage of shots, the light and energy fluctuations of the lasers masking the mine’s presence, allowing it to stealthily approach. She used the barrage to create interference, disturbing detection equipment and the intense changes in formation to distract the enemy’s attention. Finally the mine, with enough power to destroy a flagship, revealed its Trickster Mine-style attack.
The loss was not unjustified.
After watching his own footage, the commander returned to the lobby only to receive news of another battle.
A top-five-ranked expert in the entire army had also been defeated.He checked the time, only fifteen minutes had passed.
This expert had lost even faster than him.
So, the two of them studied the video together.
Twenty minutes later, another top ten excellent commander in the army also quickly fell.
The three of them exchanged their findings and discovered that Nora Camp’s tactics for defeating opponents were different each time.
Her style of combat had become more diverse, sometimes fierce and sometimes vicious.
She was not only able to use exquisite operations to quickly erode her opponent’s military strength in frontal battles, but also deploy precarious troop maneuvers to make her own flagship appear suddenly in the heart of the enemy’s formation, annihilating the command battleship with a single blow. Nora Camp’s personal strength seemed to have broken through the bottleneck overnight, becoming as unfathomable as Harrison Clark, who was unparalleled in the field of individual soldier strength.
Subsequently, the three commanders simply formed a team and jointly challenged Nora Camp.
One hour later, they looked at each other in disbelief.
They attacked Nora Camp with three times the military strength, but in the end, the combined r5o battleships of the three were all annihilated. Nora Camp only lost 13 ships destroyed and 17 damaged in the process.
But it didn’t stop there.
Nora Camp immediately issued a public challenge, inviting teams of four to fight against her with four times the military strength.
The simulated battle continued.
Eventually, Nora Camp lost to an opponent with seven times her military strength.
This was an unprecedented situation since the invention of the commander simulation training method.
The next day, Harrison Clark had just gotten out of bed when he was called by Nora Camp who was waiting outside his door. The two of them took a shuttle to the space station located on the outer edge of geosynchronous orbit.
The giant space station, which can accommodate millions of people, exhausted human resources and was the highest technological achievement of mankind. It is also the true headquarters of the military and the World Government.
The two of them were received by the leader and promoted at the same time.
Harrison Clark was promoted to Colonel, while Nora Camp became the youngest Major General in decades.
Harrison Clark was confused the whole time until Nora Camp casually showed him the appointment letter, only then did he find out what had happened last night.
He couldn’t help but secretly marvel at what she had done to others.
General Camp’s improvement was too terrifying.
Just by slightly awakening her emotional instincts, her command ability had soared to such an extent.
Humans truly have amazing potential for war.
In the lush-tree-filled residential area of the space station, the two of them sat together on the large terrace of a cafe.
Down below were people coming and going.
Aircraft shuttled to and fro in front of the terrace.
Above the transparent canopy was the eternal and glittering starry sky. Gazing at an oblique angle, they could see the massive sun and Mercury, and Venus.
The sunlight was not dazzling, as a solar energy transmission film as thin as a cicada’s wing but incredibly large, covered the sky of the space station.
Further out in space, there were even larger solar energy films.
This film wrapped around the Earth in a complete circle, its orbit almost perpendicular to the Earth’s orbit.
From a distance, the film appeared to trail backward, looking like a stretched and deformed Saturn ring, or a comet tail that had been chopped down to only half its length.
The solar film technology, which is a culmination of Dr. Sergey’s research achievements, has completely replaced fossil fuels and nuclear fission and fusion energy sources, becoming the most important primary energy supply source for humans.
“A friend of mine is coming over soon. She wants to talk to me. We’ll go back to the base together after our talk. The fleet will set off next week, so we won’t be able to return to Earth by then.”
Nora Camp took a bite of her sweet and gooey strawberry cheesecake, flicked with her fingers, and a holographic chessboard appeared on the table, “Take advantage of this free time, want to play another round?”
Harrison Clark shook his head, “No.”
“Why not?”
“I won’t be playing chess with you in the future.”
“What do you mean?”
“You shouldn’t play chess either in the future.”
“Hmm?”
Harrison Clark leaned forward, looking down at her, “The friend who’s coming to see you should be Martha, right? She’s noticed your change. I think you should also be aware of your own transformation. You’re not the same as before.”
Nora Camp was silent for a long time, “Yes.”
“Think about your old self, and think about the defeated opponents of the past few days. What’s the biggest difference between you and them?”
Harrison Clark began asking questions one after another..