Chapter 358: Chapter 246: In the Name of Justice, Committing the Act of Harboring and Sheltering !
Translator: 549690339
Wouldn’t that just turn me into a giant human-shaped hard drive?
Having a brief moment of unparalleled computing power, but forever losing the room for progress, which is better or worse? There’s no need to even ask.
Even if I lose this time, I may not win next time. Who knows when I can win?
It’s better to preserve the infinite possibilities and continue to fight for that faint hope of life.
Radium: “Have you figured it out again?”
Harrison Clark: “Yes.”
“That’s great. Humans really are good at comforting themselves.”
“Of course, I’m one of the best at that.”
“Well, just remember your promise to me. It won’t be forgotten. Now, I’m going into a silent state. I need to completely remove your genetic information and complete my further self-repair.”
Harrison Clark put on his full battle armor and slowly drifted out.
His mood was unexpectedly relaxed.
I won the bet.
I’m the winner who takes it all!
Once Radium wakes up, her scientific achievements and her precise battlefield command abilities…
Everything will be mine!
Wait, what would the people outside think if they knew I’d turned Radium into an ally?
I guess their feelings would be really complicated.
But Harrison Clark had a different personal opinion.
It might be extremely selfish, but also extremely selfless.
Actually, in his view, Radium didn’t really do anything wrong.
If placed in her position, her actions were flawless, just like how humans eat meat, cut grass, and pick tomatoes.
When she learned to say sorry and realized that she wasn’t Carrie Thomas, she had actually completed the ultimate repentance of an intelligent life form.
It’s just a shame that there wasn’t enough time for Harrison Clark and humanity to give Radium the endless life to atone for her non-existent sins.
“Radium.”
“Hm?”
“From today on, your name is Star. This is the first step for you to break free from Carrie Thomas’s shadow.”
“Star? Does it represent the beautiful vision you’ve been pursuing all your life?”
“Yes.”
“Alright!”
In Harrison Clark’s heart, her tone sounded a bit happy.
But it could also be that it was just Carrie Thomas’ natural tendency to obey him.
Mr. Clark thinks that, after returning next time, if he tried to convince Carrie Thomas that the sun was square, she might even believe it.
Anyways, Star made another step forward.
Actually, Harrison Clark really wanted to ask about the battlefield situation outside.
But now that Star was in a dormant state, he would have to check for himself.
Hopefully, it wouldn’t be too bad.
He initially wanted to make direct contact with the outside, but found that near the Earth’s core, quantum, radio, and wireless signals were all blocked.
Gravitational wave signals should be available, but humans haven’t yet developed miniaturized portable gravitational wave communication devices.
He broke through the magma and flew nearly a thousand kilometers with full propulsion before finally receiving close-range quantum communication signals from the outside world.
About ten minutes had passed by then.
“How’s the situation?”
He first tried to contact Needham Brown, but received no reply.
Harrison Clark’s heart skipped a beat, and he tried contacting Mitchell, still no reply.
“How are you right now?”
He contacted Nora Camp, but still didn’t hear her voice.
Harrison Clark’s heartbeat accelerated instantly.
But after about a second of silence, he heard the responses from both Mr. Connor and Scott.
Scott: “Ceasefire! You made it!”
Mr. Connor: “Chen… uh… Harrison Clark, you succeeded! Radium’s battleship and all combat units have stopped attacking us! They’re falling back towards the ground!”
Harrison Clark’s feelings were mixed and complicated.
If everyone inside the Giant Wave Flagship was still alive, then the girl’s mother should be fine. It’s likely that her habitual fainting self-protection mechanism had just kicked in again.
Thank goodness. Although it took quite a lot of time, Radium was finally “convinced” just before the Freedom Front’s collapse.
But what does that “ancestor” from Mr. Connor’s mouth mean?
You’re a shameless 170-year-old man, calling me an ancestor. Are you implying that I’m old and won’t die?
I’m not even 25 yet!
Forget it, I have to accept the lies I’ve told, even if it means crying.
The reason for Mr. Connor’s change in address wasn’t hard to guess.
As a devout scholar, he had always admired the Harrison Clark from a thousand years ago. Now that Harrison Clark had truly kept his word and singlehandedly defeated Radium by diving deep into enemy territory, he had turned the tide and saved all of humanity.
Upon hearing Harrison Clark’s voice, Mr. Connor couldn’t help but shed tears of excitement. No address seemed suitable for Harrison Clark, so he changed his address to “ancestor.”
The temporary deputy officer of the Giant Wave Vertical Team interjected, “Captain Clark, here’s our battle report. Please take a look.”
As Harrison Clark read the battle report, Mr. Connor was choking with sobs and sighs.
“In this battle, we lost 19 million battleships, 130 million Eagle Strike Warriors, and nearly 800 million people. But we won! You gave meaning to everyone’s sacrifices! History will remember this day! You led humanity a thousand years ago, and a thousand years later, you saved humanity! Your name will forever echo in the Milky Way Galaxy! We will break out of the Solar System under your leadership!”
Hearing these words, Harrison Clark silently closed the battle report.
His expression was complicated, incredibly complicated.
The original Freedom Front Alliance had 3 billion people. They lost 500 million during Radium’s all-out surprise attack, and now they lost another 800 million, leaving only 1.7 billion people.
What a brutal loss.
All this was the bitter fruit planted by Radium before becoming Star.
It was easy to forgive her from a rational standpoint, but Harrison Clark didn’t realize how hard and heavy it would be to emotionally forgive her.