Through secret channels, Gundam Rasiel quietly entered space and returned to Ptolemaios.
"Welcome back, Myer," Christina greeted.
"Hmm, is everyone doing well?" Yang Hui asked.
"Yeah, everyone is fine, but…"
"What's wrong?" Noticing Christina hesitating, Yang Hui asked in confusion.
"Tieria's condition is a bit…"
"You're back? Come with me! I have something to ask you!"
Before Christina could finish, Tieria rushed over and grabbed Yang Hui, pulling him forward at top speed to the operations meeting room.
"Tieria, if you can't give me a perfect reason, I'll make you relive 'The Coach's Love'," Yang Hui said with a strange smile, veins bulging on his forehead.
Just back in space, and you won't even let me rest or hug my wife, and you drag me away? Am I too old to wield a sword? Or have you been floating away while I was gone?
Normally, when Yang Hui showed such an expression, Tieria would instinctively back down, but this time, Tieria remained unaffected and solemnly questioned Yang Hui: "Why are we loading a brand new independent system?"
"Huh? Is that it?"
"VEDA's assistance is perfect and necessary. Why are we abandoning VEDA?"
"…" Yang Hui covered his face in frustration. After all this time, this guy just wanted to ask that? I thought something serious had happened.
"Of course, this is to prepare for combat after VEDA goes offline," Yang Hui replied.
"What!? Impossible! How could VEDA possibly go offline?"
"Sigh, if I'm not mistaken, at this very moment, the traitors should have found VEDA's core and started cracking its security permissions."
"What!?" Tieria exclaimed, turning to run out of the operations meeting room.
"What are you doing?" Yang Hui yanked Tieria back.
"Going to stop them…"
"Don't go, it's already too late, and this was part of the plan from the beginning," Yang Hui said.
"Hmm? What do you mean?"
"Similar to the technology of the Quasi-GN Drive and GN Drive, VEDA was originally intended to be handed over to Earth through the traitors. Do you really think the super-large quantum computing system was only prepared for Celestial Being?" Yang Hui countered Tieria.
"…"
Seeing Tieria fall silent, Yang Hui continued, "The Celestial Being plan was originally meant for all of humanity. We, Celestial Being, are merely the guides and pioneers. The ultimate goal is to lead humanity towards unity, preparing to face the unknown from the universe. So everything we do now is ultimately to be entrusted to all of humanity. Innovator, GN Drive, GN Drive, all of it, do you understand?"
"...I need to calm down." Tieria's expression darkened; his convictions were shaken, but he couldn't refute the essence of what Yang Hui said.
"Tieria." Just as Tieria was about to leave, Yang Hui called out to him.
"Is there anything else?"
"I hope you remember, the one who fights alongside us, lives with us, and risks life and death, is not Gundam, not VEDA, but you, a person named Tieria Erde."
"..."
Tieria left in silence, and Yang Hui wasn't sure if he had absorbed it. He just hoped he wouldn't lose his fighting spirit when VEDA went offline.
"I say, old man, aren't you going to give me that thing?"
"Do you think now is the right time?" Aeolia Schenberg's image reappeared on the screen.
"If now isn't the time, when will it be? The final battle is about to begin! The Trans-am system is fine, I can use it right away, but the Twin Drive technology is different; it requires a lot of debugging. You wouldn't really let me go into battle with a half-finished product, would you?"
Although Gundam Rasiel was equipped with two GN Drives, Yang Hui had never obtained the Twin Drive technology. Thus, while the two GN Drives enhanced the GN Particles output of Gundam Rasiel, it was fundamentally different from Twin Drive. Twin Drive enhances GN Particles output in a squared manner, and the current "1+1" mode was simply incomparable.
The most intuitive manifestation was that it couldn't directly block GN Particles beams with GN Particles flow, nor could it achieve quantumization of the body.
Most importantly, Innovator's Brain Quantum Waves communication could achieve large-scale direct communication in high-concentration GN Particles fields. Without the Twin Drive system, the concentration of GN Particles simply wouldn't meet the standard.
Yang Hui was confident he could pilot the current Gundam Rasiel to defeat Sergei's Beiwei or Graham's Flag Bearer. He designed both machines himself and knew their performance well, as well as Sergei and Graham's piloting skills. But…
He could already foresee the scene of these two not playing fair, and… he might get beaten badly…
Although both would definitely not go all out, and after winning, they would let him and the two GN Drives leave, but… how embarrassing would that be? He had always dominated them in MS battles, and now it was reversed. Would they really return all the taunts from back then?
And during the battle, if he got carried away, what if he couldn't hold back? Would he end up losing his life?
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
"...Alright, now is indeed the time."
"You agree to unseal it early?" Yang Hui was overjoyed. After all these years of fooling this old man, was he finally going to succeed?
"No, it's because I'm going to die."
"Ah?"
Before Yang Hui could figure out what was happening, Aeolia Schenberg's image went dark, then suddenly lit up again, but this time it was no longer a real-time communication, but a pre-recorded video.
"Someone has come here with malice, indicating a fact. Unfortunately, it seems the world I sought has not arrived. Humanity remains foolish and warlike, attempting to lead the world to destruction. However, I still believe in humanity and wish to entrust my power to them, for the world… and humanity… must change!"
As the video ended, the systems of the six Gundams in the hangar were activated simultaneously, playing another video along with the bridge, entertainment room, and meeting room of Ptolemaios.
"To those who hold GN Drives, I do not know if you are the inheritors of my will, but I am willing to entrust the last hope and all the potential of the GN Drives to you. May you fight for true peace, to eradicate war, not for the Celestial Being organization, but with your own will, alongside Gundam…"
The video ended, and the Trans-am icon appeared on the screen.
"Heh, old man, even pretending to be dead has so many tricks." Yang Hui shook his head with a bitter smile.
At that moment, the door to the operations meeting room opened, and Sumeragi rushed in with everyone.
"Yang Hui, what was that just now…"
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