I am Noble

“You just have to be honest about what you saw. I assure you there will be no penalty. ”

Private Lake swallowed a dry needle. He was brought here because he was the last person to see three new armored cars in the garage in a row while working, and he was the only soldier to see them return to the base at the same time.

I guarantee there will be no penalty, but I can't help but be afraid. I've done nothing wrong, and I know nothing about it. That's how it works in the military.

“I was working on that visual wiring. The tracks were out of date and were being replaced. And then I saw three MP-3 centuries moving. ”

“And?”

“I thought we were going somewhere to train. I just glanced at it once. I remember it took me a while to get a new wire from the warehouse because it fell out during the wiring replacement. ”

“How long did it take? ”

“I remember it took me maybe three hours to finish the job. When I was almost done, I saw three MP-3 centuries coming back from the outside. ”

“Here's a report that says you didn't see the driver get off. What happened to this? ”

“When I finished, I went to put the equipment back in storage. There's a warehouse across the street from the garage, and you can see MP-3 entering the garage. After work, I took a break while biting a cigarette in front of the warehouse, but I hadn't seen anyone come out of the garage in a long time. ”

Horse relaxation is practically a blessing. I was cautious because I didn't want to brag in front of the inquisitor, but I was even more afraid of what would happen if I lied.

Fortunately, the interrogator showed no interest in playing hooky.

“Why didn't you think it was strange? ”

“I heard MP-3 is a new armored car with complete unmanned control. I thought I'd left remote control training without a pilot, but then I didn't really care. ”

“Did you notice anything unusual? ”

“…… I mean, normally, even with remote control, when you put it back in the garage, it's a bit strange to think that no one was there until then. ”

“Well done. You're free to go. ”

Private Lake wasn't the only one under investigation. The person who had just witnessed was summoned and interrogated intensively.

Not a penny or two, but a $20 billion crystal robbery. We don't know if the perpetrator jumped into the sky or died on the ground, and the only clue is a fully autonomous armored car used to do it.

However, the armored car was owned by the U.S. military in charge of protecting the Crystal Warehouse, and it returned to its senses after being attacked. It was crazy for the U.S. military.

“We have to do whatever it takes to find him! If I'm being sarcastic, I'm under the impression that there's a thief in our unit! ”

That was the biggest problem. Each of them was raising suspicions that some reactionaries were behind the crime inside the jurisdiction base.

It was an unbearable doubt as a valued American soldier. It was better to question the responsibility of neglecting weapons management, but it was unacceptable to be treated as a den of criminals who had plundered our country's property.

“How's the MP-3 disassembly going? ”

“Well, it's completely clean. There are no traces left. ”

“Even the black box?”

“Yes. Computational records show that three MP-3's had no record of leaving the garage that day. The only evidence involved is the fuel consumed, the soldiers who witnessed the entry, and the ground in the field on wheels. ”

All ‘analogs’ indicate that MP-3 was involved in a crystal theft. However, every ‘digital’ has never done that.

No CCTV, no computer records, nothing. In the United States, it is possible for such a perfect hack to be so extensive.

“Any word on Colonel Fieldover? ”

“They're denying that they've ever given such an order. If you look at your bank statements, your subsequent actions, it's really clean. He was trumping with his colleagues at the time of his arrest. Rather, he was confused about what was going on. ”

“Then isn't the checkpoint control lying? ”

“The controller was clearly the voice of Colonel Filover. ”

The more I dug, the more I dug, the more I fell into the maze.

On the day of the incident, MP-3 cleared the barricades with Colonel Filover's phone instructions to let the checkpoint control out. The barricades had to be operated by human hands, not by computational control.

The troops, of course, assumed Colonel Filover was involved in the attack, arrested him and interrogated him. But he was denying it completely. His past military experience was clean, and his actions at the time of arrest were difficult to see as a perpetrator.

I dug thoroughly, but all I got was confusion.

“Ghosts sing. ”

* * *

"Crystal Acquisition Successful. Meets manufacturing work required resources.

Blitzrank evaluated its objective ability. As a result, it is determined that there are few combat qualifications accompanied by force.

It was originally designed and built as an auxiliary working robot for researching closed modules. He successfully injected more than 5,000 crystal energies and brought in his self and data as RPX-1, but his combat abilities were virtually absent.

The computational logic is superior to any other device (to the extent that comparing itself is insulting) but lacks combat capability. With no arms and legs to be instruments of combat in a cold manner, there is only a brilliant brain.

That's why Blitzrank decided to build a combat tool that would be your hand and foot first. Crystals were necessary to do so. After repeated calculations, Blitzrank concluded that it was not impossible to forcibly reproduce the changes that occurred to itself.

"We need to acquire a large number of objects that are specialized in mobility and combat skills, not computational accidents. Impossible to reproduce changes and equivalents to the subject. However, it is possible to cause some similar changes.

Blitzrank also examined the possibility of a brute force hack to move U.S. military equipment directly into attack. But unless it was a very small number of state-of-the-art unmanned equipment, it was mostly man-made.

So the efficiency is too low. It can also only arouse suspicion that there is a hackable presence throughout the United States.

It is necessary to conceal the existence of the subject as much as possible.

Projecting force should create a situation where no human will suspect anything strange. The final conclusion of the Blitzrank was the raid on the beast.

[Manufacture of a small penetrating robot infused with crystal energy. Perform multiple monster acquisitions using penetrating robots. Initial run test preparation.

The ‘leased’ Blitzrank of an unmanned factory in one of the crystal industries was busy using the plant facilities. The giant robotic arm moves freely like the hand and foot of a blitz rank. Sparks bounced around, sparks blazing, and equipment manufacturing.

The Blitzrank was also not remotely controlled by the factory's automatic system. He went out on his own to do analog work that required human hands.

I don't have the combat skills, but I was able to do that much. This body was designed to do dangerous things in the first place for people.

Completion of the prototype.

Perhaps if you were a person, you would have trembled for a moment at the feeling of completing your first model. But Blitzrank was a machine with no emotions.

There was a large mosquito sitting on the bench. It looked like a mosquito, but it was actually a flying device made of metal.

"Running Experiment Required.

A human-handed aerial device, but inherently concentrates incredible advanced technology beyond human imagination. Perhaps if engineers had seen it, they would have turned on the lights and rushed in.

The amazing thing is that it achieved the perfect combination of crystal energy and metal devices. Humanity has still been able to utilize crystals only as fuel or parts. Direct control of crystal energy itself was only being tested in the laboratory. Like a closure module.

Blitzrank leaves the unmanned factory. The central system is already in his hands. Even if managers visit, they won't find anything different. I had to continue to use it.

"The search for red type monsters begins. Searching……. Navigation complete. Identify the appropriate subject.

Blitzrank finds a suitable Red Mob nearby. It was a quick search through the Raid Data Center.

The destination was a massive cliff about five kilometers away. The target is resting comfortably beneath the cliff. A giant bird-shaped beast.

"Hextol. Estimated crystallinity is 7,000. Raid record only once. Only the Prime Assault Force succeeded in hunting. Rare Objects."

With the exception of the Black Mob, he's known to be quite a handful of Red Mobs. He was hunted by the Prime Assault, commissioned by Germany earlier, and was also the first one to set out on the expedition Raid.

Using cold breath to freeze a wide area, and the ability to resurrect after a critical injury, no attacker dares to touch Hextol because the attack pattern is very tricky. That's why there are fewer than 10 people in the whole world.

However, Blitzrank needed such strength.

B-4 start.

A mosquito-shaped flying robot flew up. You land on Hextol's sleeping head, rapidly crushing his wings. The mosquito robot that landed on the feather, B-4, injected a nose-shaped tube from its head. The thin end of the tube glows sharply.

The tube struck Hextol's skin. The shield protecting the Hextol resists the glowing invasion. The straw-shaped tube turns red like a flame and crushes the fierce resistance of its shield.

Phase-job, Phase-job!

Finally, the coffin burrows through the shield. The moment the tube pierced the skin, Hextol felt a tingling sensation and flashed his head. But as soon as I saw nothing, I turned my attention off and lay down again.

Infusion of Cluster Machines.

Small invisible robots, which were inside the B-4, followed a swarm into the Hextol. There must have been at least a million.

A small robot that had been stored in the body, a B-4 that had been loaded with all the mass machines, flew back up and returned to Blitzrank.

Cluster machine control initiated. Scanning the body. Brain position confirmed. Attempted brain penetration. Penetrating……. Penetration complete. Body control secured.

Hextol opens his eyes and raises his head. He looks up at the Blitzrank on the cliff. The appearance of a blitz rank in Hextol's cornea was transmitted in real time to the Blitz rank itself through a clustered machine.

Blitzrank has ordered you to stand up. Hextol, who had his brain taken, stood up as Blitzrank instructed and flapped his wings wide. Blitzrank has flown. Hextol rises high and stops in the air, causing heavy winds to spread and shaking the plants.

"Successful Activation Experiment. Check the performance of B-4 and cluster machines.

The mosquito-like B-4 contains a myriad of tiny robots in its body. This is injected into the vessel of the monster, which controls the brain and the body itself. The beast that has been taken from control of the brain becomes the hand and foot of Blitzrank. Blitzrank commands movement on behalf of the beast's brain.

B-4 can be created again quickly in the body, even if it consumes a cluster machine. B-4 itself can also be produced continuously. It is possible to control the monster that exists in the world without restriction.

"Conduct power acquisition work. More red type monsters needed. Requires more B-4.

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Here we go, Yankee King. Do you have enough weapons?

- Just let me hit GG, hybrid.

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