Chapter 357: Jiang Yu's Revenge_1

"I knew it! You definitely didn't have good intentions!"

Jiang Yu withdrew his gaze from the sky and spotted Ai AA, who had somehow burst forth from nowhere.

After Cheng Xin entered the deterrence center, Ai AA had not left. She had witnessed the one-sided battle that had just taken place. Because she was deemed a non-threatening target, she was not attacked by J135.

She believed that this was a war Jiang Yu had initiated in order to control the deterrence center.

This was unlike the PDC rotating chairman and the chief of staff of Fleet International, who had long since run off without a trace.

Ai AA, determined and prepared to die if necessary, hoped to negotiate terms with Jiang Yu to spare Cheng Xin's life.

She pointed at The Waterdrop, which was approaching closer and closer, "This is your weapon against Cheng Xin, right? She..."

"Idiot!" Jiang Yu couldn't help but curse, "Didn't you see this thing is coming for me?"

Ai AA also realized the object causing the violent air explosions was not heading for the deterrence center but was indeed coming towards Jiang Yu.

Among the thirty-six J135s, one robot had a yellow shell on its left shoulder.

This was the commander of the combat squad, and this battle did not need Jiang Yu's command at all, but was directed by this commander through extremely fast radio communication.

Compared to voice command, electromagnetic waves were faster, able to convey a detailed order in nearly one-hundredth of a second.

Six robots stepped forward and raised their hands quickly, their palms suddenly sprouted three extra fingers, eight "fingers" in total, arrayed evenly. They gripped together and began to rotate rapidly like a lotus flower.

The sound of the air explosions caused by The Waterdrop already sent Ai AA's mind reeling, and she involuntarily took a step back.

Suddenly, she seemed to sense something, and the hairs on her body stood on end.

Before those six robots, it seemed that a transparent barrier had formed.

Ai AA's mouth fell open as she looked back at the imposing presence of The Waterdrop. Were they preparing to take it head-on?

The Waterdrop's intimidating force grew more alarming, shaking the earth to the point where the nearby vehicles were nearly bouncing.

Yet Jiang Yu and the robots remained immovable.

Jiang Yu had been in hiding too long for this day; understandably, he wanted to seriously test the fruits of his labor over the years.

It wasn't that he was arrogant; rather, he knew clearly that the Solar System State now possessed the strength to battle the Trisolarans.

Ai AA had forgotten to flee, watching as The Waterdrop collided with that transparent barrier at an extremely fast speed.

And a miracle occurred!

With such speed and force, The Waterdrop, like a marble, was deflected in another direction, altering its trajectory!

On that transparent barrier, only ripples spread from the point of impact, and two of the robots' arms damaged.

Ai AA asked, "This... what exactly is this?"

Even with her doctoral degree, unaware of how far the solar system's technology had advanced, she didn't understand what that barrier was.

In fact, it was an application of gravitational and repulsive forces, which, compared to the JY101 machine produced by Jiang Shiliu years ago, had improved its use of these forces by hundreds of times!

The so-called "quantitative change leads to qualitative change", that visible barrier was not gravity itself but a huge repulsive force propelling the basic particles in the air, causing the refractive phenomena of light.

This phenomenon, akin to when a gravitational pull is strong enough that not even light particles can escape, is a sort of extremely extreme physical manifestation.

The most crucial aspect was that once this massive repulsive force had formed, it didn't require a point of application for support; in other words, its point of support lay in the ruin-like fourth dimension.

That is to say, their very existence was the point of application of the force; J135 didn't need to provide a point of support for them.

It was this force that fended off The Waterdrop, not J135 stopping The Waterdrop.

The two damaged J135s were broken because of excessive power output, not because of the impact's force.

Neither the robots engaged in combat nor Jiang Yu had the time to pay attention to Ai AA.

Jiang Yu took the telescope from the robot, and the intelligent tracking software quickly captured the trace of The Waterdrop.

The collision didn't destroy The Waterdrop; it merely bounced off, losing control of its trajectory.

The direction in which The Waterdrop was repelled featured a long river of magma, created by the heat from the halo at the tail of The Waterdrop.

Everything it encountered in its motion turned to gas or liquid.

In just a moment, The Waterdrop had been flung tens of kilometers away, but quickly it regained control of its trajectory and turned back to charge at Jiang Yu—though now its speed was much slower.

Jiang Yu clapped his hands and laughed, "Come on, come on, I'm right here waiting to avenge the grudge from sixty years ago!"

For some reason, Ai AA thought that Jiang Yu was a bit mad at this moment, but also brimming with heroic spirit.

She too refused to run away and prepared herself to watch this spectacle.

As if responding to Jiang Yu's call to battle, The Waterdrop suddenly burrowed underground, clearly intending to attack from beneath, since rocks presented no resistance to it, whereas they posed a significant obstacle for J135.

A J135, carrying Jiang Yu, immediately took flight, and Ai AA, not being foolish herself, instantly jumped onto a vehicle that had also left the ground.

Eighteen J135s, while hovering, quickly took guns that looked like small cannons from their backs, and loaded palm-sized, oval "bullets" from their portable backpacks.

The other J135s were creating force fields to prevent The Waterdrop from injuring Jiang Yu.

In just two or three seconds, Jiang Yu and the combat robots "floated" to a height of about twenty meters in the sky.

The Waterdrop burst forth from the ground, and nine J135s fired the "bullets" from their guns toward The Waterdrop from various directions.

Realizing something, The Waterdrop abandoned its pursuit of Jiang Yu as soon as it broke through the ground and swerved sharply to dodge the "bullets" fired by J135.

These "bullets," upon contact with the ground, didn't explode, but scattered like water, turning metal, rocks, weeds, insects—all within a ten-meter radius of the bullet—into an extremely fine dust of various colors!

With an electron microscope, one would have seen that each particle of this dust was the size of a molecule.

This weapon, designed specifically to attack The Waterdrop, was named "Avenger" by Jiang Yu; the name carried a straightforward meaning, intended to seek revenge for the attack Humanity suffered from The Waterdrop over sixty years ago.

The principle behind the Avenger was to utilize the JY201 series products, specifically designed for high-speed launch to target the swiftly moving Waterdrop.

However, the nine J135s' first round of attack was completely evaded by The Waterdrop.

Then, the J135s began rapid-fire in teams of three, shooting from tricky angles, forcing The Waterdrop to dodge the Avenger by swiftly altering course back and forth.

For a time, it seemed unable to break free from the encirclement!

Ai AA, witnessing this scene, momentarily became lost in thought.

The Waterdrop, which once inflicted profound psychological trauma on Humanity, was now being driven into a desperate flee.