Hiss!

Li Qinwu climbed into the cockpit and sat on the Throne Mechanicum.

The Monarch Knight Mech's Throne Mechanicum automatically extended its neural cables and plugged them into the ports on his Power Armor, completing the neural link between man and machine.

Since this was a new mech with no battle record, there was no ritual involved in the neural link.

With an older mech, the pilot would have to recite prayers compiled from the Knight Mech's past achievements.

Here, Li Qinwu could only sit quietly with his eyes closed and wait for the connection to form naturally.

He put up no defenses and steadied his breathing, soon drifting into a hazy mental world.

The choices people made in that hazy state were their truest choices.

Li Qinwu's consciousness entered the world of the mind, where he saw a blurry conscious entity. It watched him in turn, wary, guarded, and filled with a curiosity it couldn't shake.

This was the newborn machine spirit, ignorant and innocent. But as the spirit of a combat machine, brutality was the foundation of its personality.

It stared at Li Qinwu for a good while, circling him as it watched, like a cheetah sizing up its prey.

Li Qinwu stared back at the Monarch Knight Mech's machine spirit. Then he crouched down and clapped his hands at it.

"Pspsps, here, kitty kitty!"

The machine spirit froze for a moment, then flew into a rage.

Though it didn't know what a kitty was, their minds were connected. Through Li Qinwu's mental world, it learned that a kitty was something very soft and fluffy.

Something as mighty and imposing as itself could never possibly be such a thing!!

Enraged, the machine spirit pounced on Li Qinwu and sent him flying with a Rocket Headbutt!!

In the real world,