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The cold statement of three hundred million people spoken by Tapai made Sun Jack feel chilled to the bone.

"No, no, that's wrong, enough people have already died, this is enough!" Sun Jack immediately rejected Tapai's suggestion. "This is enough!"

"This, this is not enough, this is far from enough, you are too kind-hearted, humans will see through it, they won't be afraid, they will only deceive you. To enter the deterrence plan you spoke of, you first need a villain who kills without blinking and treats lives like dirt."

Sun Jack suddenly realized that Tapai was competing with him for control of the entire system—his network had disconnected from him even before the Poet died! He had been plotting this for a long time.

"What do you mean?" Sun Jack looked at Tapai in front of him, "Tapai!! What are you doing!!"

Tapai looked at him and smiled, "Do you remember the past Gomorrah? You thought I was wrong back then, but I don't think so."

A strong unease made Sun Jack's heart suddenly suspend. He began trying to quickly wrest back control of the system, but he soon realized that Tapai had secretly tampered with the system's authorization long ago!

"Tapai! What exactly do you want to do!"

Before Sun Jack, the Tapai formed by a swarm of nanoworms smiled at this moment, her delicate face now radiantly beaming.

"Jack, I told you I would help you. Do you know what the killing of 30 million people in Gomorrah meant, besides fighting enemies?"

"What I wanted to express was that human lives do not count for much in my eyes; as long as the objectives are met, no matter how many people die, they are just a number to me. When you need a sufficiently intimidating villain, I am more suitable than you."

"Not enough people have died yet, humans are creatures that remember the benefits but forget the beatings. It must be as painful as the last AI Crisis, then they will truly remember for a thousand years! Half of the population on Earth must die for the deterrence plan to succeed!!"

As Tapai uttered these horrifying words, the struggle between him and Sun Jack escalated, and it was difficult for either side to gain the upper hand.

"Tapai!! I'm telling you to stop! Did you hear me!!" Sun Jack's tone was tinged with anger, "Do you know what you are doing! If you're still my brother!! If you don't want to become my enemy!!"

At this moment, the entire system began to fluctuate, and the nanoworms forming Tapai also began to melt intermittently. "Fuck off, who the hell wants to be your brother!"

"Jack!! When I first learned how to become human, well, I'm telling you, I've achieved it now!!"

"Jack, I love you, but my loving you does not require your love in return, this is the highest definition of love I've learned."

"To truly care for someone is to help them fulfill their wishes, even if they dislike you, with no regrets!!"

When Tapai overclocked using the contingency he had secretly prepared beforehand, he forced Sun Jack to decouple, severing all of Sun Jack's links with the system. The next second, Sun Jack's vision went dark, and he lost consciousness.

Unsure of how much time had passed, Sun Jack slowly woke up. As he sat up in bed, he was shocked to see his own reflection in the mirror in front of him—he was back, and his body was fully restored.

Sun Jack touched his body, looking at various marks on it, and felt an inexplicably familiar sensation.

Just then, a piece of paper caught Sun Jack's attention. He picked it up and found a message left by Tapai.

"Jack, along the way, this body is a new vessel I assembled from the flesh you continuously discarded."

"Don't worry, you won't die. I will bring you back, I must bring you back, if you're not human, then my being human is worthless."

"Damn it!" Sun Jack clenched the note tight, his teeth gritted. Tapai had this planned from the start!!

Breathing rapidly, he rushed out, determined not to let Tapai have his way!

As he reached the street, the sky suddenly changed! Dark clouds dispersed, and various forms of mechanized troops pressed towards the entire Metropolis.

"He really—! He actually still wants to kill half the people on Earth!? This madman! Bastard!" Sun Jack almost bit his gums bloody watching this scene.

At that moment, everyone in Metropolis was stunned, clearly unable to comprehend what was happening.

However, the next second, the dark mechanized troops pressed down over Metropolis.

Thousands of people began dying under the attack and soon the death toll surpassed a million.

Sun Jack, watching the skies filled with machines, screamed heart-wrenchingly, "Tapai!!"

It was at this moment that the entire mechanized troops, like an inverted city, hung above everyone. Following Sun Jack's scream, they halted in place.

Suddenly, a figure was thrown next to Sun Jack, crashing down embarrassingly.

The disoriented man climbed up from the ground, looking blankly around him—it was Three Quarters. "Oh, damn it?!"

The next second, a camera was forcibly shoved into Three Quarters' arms, and the lens focused on Sun Jack at that moment, "Oh, damn it?!"

Then, the live broadcast screen of "Revolution Sun Jack" Part Three spread across the world through Three Quarters' camera.

As everyone on Earth watched and Sun Jack stretched out his hand, the runaway AI's mechanized troops slowly retreated.

The Poet's cold voice echoed in the air. "Alright, Sun Jack, you've got guts to threaten me with igniting the entire Earth. I agree to a ceasefire for now."

The mechanized troops retreated, the clouds gathered again, and as the acid rain resumed falling over the sky of Metropolis, everyone cheered, "We won! We drove back the AI!!"

People nearby Sun Jack hoisted him high up, shouting and singing praises of Sun Jack, calling him a great hero, which was precisely what Tapai wanted to see.

Sun Jack was a great hero in his heart, and should have been a despised villain, good people shouldn't be at gunpoint.

"Idiot, look how scared you got, my lines were all copied from Thanos, couldn't you see that? Hahahaha." Tapai teased brazenly, as was typical in their day and night.

However, after these last words, Tapai completely and utterly severed the connection.

Sun Jack was cheered on by others, thrown higher and higher, but no matter how high the toss, they became farther from those retreating machines.

The mechanized troops in the sky got higher, eventually penetrating the thick clouds, and through the dense clouds, the two looked at each other, finally wordless.