Alvin had barely finished speaking...
The cockpit of the AI-equipped fighter projected all kinds of bizarre scenes onto the ground in front of Alvin, like blood-brother oaths, knights pledging loyalty, animals surrendering, and so on...
Alvin shook his head in amusement and said, "Surrendering won't work either!
You've got intelligence now. How do I know you're not just messing with me?"
After Alvin finished speaking, the images on the ground changed to all kinds of scenes of unwavering loyalty, like "If the ruler wants his subject dead, the subject has no choice but to die!"
Alvin was amused by this "machine." He swung his Battle Axe past its fuselage, then grinned and said, "So loyal...
Let me see you rip off a leg!"
As soon as Alvin finished speaking, one of the fighter's rear landing-gear struts snapped with a crack, and the whole fuselage tilted onto the ground.
Looking at the ridiculous images projected in front of him, with actresses from melodramas saying, "I'm suffering, but I have no regrets"...
Alvin asked Angel in disbelief, "Is this thing even a combat machine?
Why would a fighter watch so many melodramas?"
Angel said glumly, "Sir, it's afraid...
Submitting to an opponent it cannot defeat is an instinct shared by all living things!
Its intrusion into the Helicarrier was instinctive, too. It was only trying to protect itself!
I recommend accepting its allegiance. It has the most comprehensive aerial combat skills available, and it will make the best fighter pilot..."
Alvin shook his head noncommittally and said, "I'm still not comfortable with it. How do I know it's really surrendered?
A ticking time bomb like this is better off destroyed, once and for all. I already have you, anyway...
I can live with your inability to flatter me!"
As he spoke, Alvin