Yu Yuheng argued loudly, "The reason you’re still alive after those 46 minutes is by sheer luck that the blizzard stormed into the cockpit without frying your brain, plus the secondary engine supported the weapon program. You being alive until now is completely because of your big luck!"
"If we have to sacrifice the mecha, I’d rather go up. At worst, I’ll take that pest with me in the blast. It’s better for two of us to die than for two teams to gamble with their lives!" Chen Wei roared.
After speaking, he stared at Yu Yuheng with a stern gaze and said word by word, "I know the Emperor Plan treats me as an important asset, but do you not know what the highest program of the Phoenix Society is?"
Yu Yuheng, being stared at, had a constantly changing expression. He trembled, adjusting his glasses, and hysterically said, "I told you, this is a technical issue, not to be considered from the asset perspective. Doing it this way will only..."
Chen Wei grabbed Yu Yuheng’s collar, clenched his teeth, and slowly said, "I am not afraid of death; I’m only afraid of living disgracefully."
For a moment, the atmosphere in the tent turned icy.
"Alright, alright, you both stop talking."
At this moment, a light female voice interrupted their argument. Everyone looked over and saw KIKI standing in the corner, arms crossed, speaking to Chen Wei:
"Although you have a bad temper, you do have guts, which I admire, but I still have to tell you, he’s right. Your plan can do nothing besides being hot-blooded, and will only result in a pointless death."
Chen Wei coldly glanced at KIKI: "What did you say!?"
"I said, you will be dying pointlessly." KIKI, unafraid of his gaze, confidently spoke quickly: "From a technical standpoint, apart from the main brain being damaged, there’s another issue: extreme cold. It has been shutdown for over 24 hours. Aside from the power core, the other engines, including the drive and joint hubs, need a full restart, which requires complete operation and de-icing! Under these conditions, starting it is many times harder than fighting in the driving mode you persisted in before."
"To put it bluntly, even if the two of you go up, within an hour, you probably can’t even stand up. Your brains will be fried like eggs by the feedback from millions of neural nodes, not to mention a whole heap of other issues. Having personally piloted it, you surely understand the difficulty of driving this thing. Are you sure taking that inexperienced person can resolve the problem?"
KIKI’s words left Chen Wei speechless. He opened his mouth, looking at Yu Yuheng.
Yu Yuheng broke free from Chen Wei’s grip, adjusted his glasses and said, "I’ve already told you many times, why I haven’t considered your plan entirely from a technical perspective. No one knows this mecha’s problems better than me. Both of you going will just die pointlessly and waste our time."
"And you, don’t get happy too soon, your plan also doesn’t work; it’s completely theoretical and impractical."
When everyone thought the debate had finished, who knew KIKI would unexpectedly point things at Yu Yuheng, leaving everyone puzzled.
"Me?" Yu Yuheng was surprised.
Everyone then turned their puzzled gazes to KIKI. Earlier, Yu Yuheng’s plan was logically feasible, and he prepared three contingencies, although they sounded grim, indeed it was a feasible plan.
Upon hearing Yu Yuheng’s query, KIKI sighed: "Your work probably seldom confronted Abnormal Bodies, nor experienced such dangerous moments?"
Yu Yuheng was slightly disgruntled: "What do you mean? Are you questioning my experience?"
"Not experience, but common sense."
KIKI raised her finger and said, "Regardless of the device drawing monsters or the blood of monsters, you overlook one crucial fact: these monsters have eyes, noses, and ears, capable of locking onto us in the dark, even possessing certain intelligence. We’ve encountered Abnormal Bodies countless times at night, either fleeing, dying, or we took them down, but when have you seen these monsters miss their target?"
Yu Yuheng was momentarily stunned, Chen Wei slightly tightened his focus.
"And, the two-route split you mentioned, this plan is simply groping in the dark. Knowing we can barely fend off their attack relying on our position combined, why assume scattering might allow escape? Do you know how many Snow Demons and Snow Monsters are across this snowfield, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions? To these monsters, we’re invisible, forgetting splitting into two, even splitting into twenty teams faces endless Monster Tides, only resulting in quicker deaths."
KIKI continued in a questioning tone: "Also, there’s another black worm’s corpse three kilometers away, what makes you certain there’s only one black worm underground?"
On hearing this, Yu Yuheng was at once rendered speechless, and Shi Deyuan, Qian Deli, and the others were equally gloomy upon hearing it. These were the ones leading the caravan, naturally soon grasping the problem within this plan.
"So, according to you, are we just left waiting for rescue here?" Chen Wei asked harshly, KIKI’s words were like cold water, extinguishing everyone’s hope, they hadn’t even acted yet and were already becoming downcast, a behavior he, from military background, felt indignant about.
"KIKI, Lin Brother, do you have any other ideas?" Shi Deyuan had been quietly observing Lin Xian and KIKI standing at the crowd’s edge from the start. Seeing KIKI rejecting every plan, he immediately perked up, looking at Lin Xian, his tone somewhat anxious.