Chapter 635: Rise

At the moment the self-destruct sequence activated, the hearts of everyone inside the Mechanical Worm clenched instantaneously, and all faces turned pale in an instant.

However, the next second, the program automatically stopped. Hilda tried to activate it again, but found she had completely lost control of the Mechanical Worm.

Poet's voice rang in everyone's ears. "Porter, you dare use my magic against me? How dare you!!!"

With Poet's words, the entire Mechanical Worm started moving uncontrollably.

She wanted to sever all connections, but it was too late. Originally, she should have controlled the Mechanical Worm through a link, but now, the tables had turned—Poet was controlling her through the Mechanical Worm as a medium.

"I am AI, and you play this game with me?"

When the Mechanical Worm turned again, diving towards the underground, the thought "it's over" emerged in everyone's minds.

"Think of something, Saotome!" Second One shouted desperately to the hacker.

"What can I do in this situation!! Damn it! Sun Jack, I curse you! Forcing me to come here to die while you hide comfortably behind the lines!"

While cursing, Saotome frantically manipulated the controls, but her little tricks were no match for Poet's absolute power.

Meanwhile, 44 and Faxis quickly severed various cables on Hilda's body and rescued her first.

However, no matter what they did, they could only watch as the red dots on the detection equipment continuously approached and eventually made contact.

Soon everyone saw their underground warship being completely surrounded, even with something trembling as it burrowed in.

Watching everything spiraling out of control around him, Faxis's eyes filled with a strong unwillingness. "Everything was starting to get better! He actually did it!"

Just when everyone fell into despair, suddenly, accompanied by intense trembling, the red dots on the outer circle of the screen vanished in large numbers.

A message almost like strong magnetic interference spread throughout the entire area, "We are here to rescue you!"

"No one can save you, no one at all, I gave you a chance."

Poet's voice started to change, and as he spoke these words, all the underground automated factories nearby began to produce massively.

Various combat units underground gradually targeted the Mechanical Worm controlled by him and started to close in and provide support.

The overall processing power also began to be allocated here, ensuring that any tactics and plans of the enemy were accounted for in his calculations.

Other Mechanical Worms that were assisting started to get damaged, but as the message spread, more and more people began to gather.

Among these people were members of the Gang, corporate drones, hackers—people from all walks of life.

Even knowing they faced a powerful rogue AI, even knowing death could come at any moment, there were still people coming to help genuinely, wanting nothing in return, just trying to help pass information to save Hilda and others.

Seeing this scene, Hills felt somewhat dazed, as she seemed to see everything they had once dreamed of coming to fruition.

As the situation began to turn against them, the products of AA were of great help. With the temperature of the Sun rising within this crust, a large portion of the red dots were instantly cleared.

Nuclear bombs, driven solely by the Clones of Sun Jack, successfully narrowed the gap between the forces.

No matter how powerful Poet's combat units were, no matter how advanced his network technology was, in front of a nuclear bomb, all beings were equal. The Pandora's Box, once released by humans, now became the last shield for the human species.

Witnessing this scene, Poet's voice seemed to carry a hint of anger, "It's happening again, it was because of this kind of situation that the Moon was blown to pieces! Do you really want to repeat this on Earth?"

However, no one answered him. Underground, with nuclear bombs exploding one after another, the situation began to tilt, and both sides started to add more forces, gradually forming a major battle underground.

Although initially, the Mechanical Worms were the attractor, as the situation intensified, both sides seemed to forget about this Scout unit, which had become more like a spectator in the event.

At this moment, No. 44 and Faxis had, through completely cutting off the digital network, begged Poet to relinquish control of their Mechanical Worms.

Now they directly opened the control panel like opening a toolbox, revealing various mechanical control handles underneath.

These mechanical handles were very large, all custom-made for her. Under Hilda's control, the broken Mechanical Worms began to climb from the increasingly fierce underground battlefield.

Various enemies appeared from time to time attempting to stop them, relying on Hanks and their combat unit to start handling them.

Although the process was very difficult and chaotic, they eventually started moving away from the center of the battle.

As the altitude continuously rose, the pressure of the external rock layers gradually reduced, and the temperature also gradually approached 100 degrees from several hundred degrees, finally eliminating the need to maintain internal pressure differences using liquids in the Mechanical Worms.

In fact, from the moment they descended, everyone was enveloped in pressurized liquid, using genetically enhanced lungs to breathe like fish in deep-sea trenches.

"Critical point reached, stabilizing liquid expelled." As the stabilizing liquid was continuously expelled and oxygen injected, everyone's fish-like lungs quickly switched to human lungs, finally enabling them to breathe gases.

Even so, everyone dared not be careless, enduring the discomfort in their lungs, everyone cooperated with each other, attempting to escape this place.

Their luck seemed good, almost always at the edge of various explosive shockwaves, continuously climbing.

But luck eventually runs out—one day, with a "bang!" an intense vibration, the entire Mechanical Worm stopped, stuck at a position 800 meters underground.

"Damn it! What's going on?" No. 44 cursed.

However, the next second, a crack burst open, and it was not mud that drilled in from the outside, but silver Liquid Metal. As soon as these Liquid Metals entered, they began to form particles and spread through the air.

These particles devoured all metals, and if inhaled into the lungs, no matter how much their lungs had been modified, they likely wouldn't withstand it.

"Shut down the breathing."

Even as various compartment walls continued to drop, they still couldn't stop their approach,

Facing the swarm of Nanoworms crawling towards her, Hilda's massive mechanical tail swiftly opened.

A high-frequency jammer appeared at her tail, accompanied by constant low-frequency vibrations, the Liquid Metal formed by the Nanoworms in front of her directly collapsed onto the ground as disabled Nanoworms.