Normally, it might take Elena a long time to come into contact with other normal humans before she can awaken the emotions of living things.
But the creatures on the surface would surely be afraid of Elena, a life form born from machines, and would treat her extremely badly, right
After all, no matter where the religion is, it seems that no one recognizes the legitimacy of "mechanical life" -
They believe that only life born from the womb is the orthodox life in the world, and that is why the people of Eden are so helpless.
But... His Majesty Yang Hao, who came from the surface and didn't care about Elena's background at all, didn't look like a native of this world at all, but he gave the people of Eden hope.
They not only expect His Majesty Yang Hao, as the head of the United Nations, to help Eden overcome difficulties.
They all hope that His Majesty Yang Hao can act as a "companion" and help Elena become a real "person" rather than a machine that only knows how to work.
That's why Alexander ordered Elena to protect Yang Hao. She must protect him - this is not only related to Eden's future, but also to Elena's future.
"Let's get started."
The seawater flooded the top of the artificial magic reactor.
With the pale blue light coming from the core, the reactor officially started. After the artificial magic reactor emitted a sharp and crescendoing sound that made one's ears ache, it fell silent after a "clang".
Seawater is broken down into particles in transparent glass storage tanks and then transformed into artificial magic in artificial core reactors.
These rich artificial magic powers will gradually fill the entire reactor in the next half hour, and then begin to be transported after the automatic debugging of the magic network is completed, until finally a stable magic circulation ecosystem is re-established on the floating continent.
Alexander nodded to Elena, then he sat on the ground and entered a dormant state along with most of the magic dolls.
Now almost all artificial magic has stopped functioning. Except for Elena and a few magic puppets responsible for security, other Eden people have entered a dormant state to reduce the loss of artificial magic during the reactor restart.
Everyone was waiting for the time when the final artificial reactor would be restarted, and Elena ordered the remaining magic puppets that could still move to guard this most important heart, and then she left here on foot.
She still remembered Alexander's advice - although she still couldn't understand why one of her "fathers" would think this way, if it was them, Elena was willing to listen to their opinions.
What's more, she was indeed very curious about Yang Hao - she didn't understand Yang Hao's true background and wanted to study where the knowledge in his brain came from.
She wanted to see what the current situation on the surface was like, and she also wanted to ask Yang Hao in private to find out where he was from.
Elena wants to learn more.
But such a future will have to wait until the war is over, right
With this thought in mind, Elena left the underground, looking for Yang Hao while sorting out her thoughts.
And in the distance, at the forefront of the United Nations, the people of the United Nations are using the achievements of past development to fight against the ancient demons.
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In the second minute after the artificial magic reactor was officially started, the front line of the United Nations was dealing a heavy blow to the demons under the coordinated command of two commanders.
The first line of defense has about two thousand soldiers from the United Nations, of which only one-fifth are elves. There are a large number of cheap stone and soil golems and barbed wire as the vanguard to resist the offensive of the demons. There are also heavy machine guns and machine gun golems as the backbone, and a large number of howitzer golems behind them to provide fire support.
Under the almost uninterrupted firepower network, although the demon wave has an absolute numerical advantage, they have to pay an extremely heavy price for every step forward.
BOOM—
Another grenade exploded over the demon's head.
The magic-resistant skin that the demons evolved to fight the Eden people seemed meaningless when facing physical damage.
Their flesh and blood were blown to pieces. Even the high-level demons who had pulled out their air bags and regained their special abilities were badly beaten to a pulp, not to mention the young demons whose defense capabilities were already low.
Each grenade could create waves of broken corpses in the demon wave, and each incendiary bomb could make the demon group scream earth-shatteringly, but even so, the demons still did not stop their advance.
"I seriously suspect that demons are actually a kind of biological weapon that has been specially researched..."
Standing on a high place, Yang Hao, with the help of Fen and others, was observing the battlefield in the distance, while he was muttering something to himself with a grim face.
"If the demons in the underground are fighting to the death because they have "nowhere to retreat", then are the demons in the Kingdom of Eden too motivated
They ignored their own casualties, the enemy's firepower, and the fear of their own death... They ignored all the emotions that a living being should have. Compared to "living things", most demons are more like "machines"..."
Is this really a living thing? Even if it is an ant colony, when faced with an almost impossible-to-break through firepower net, it should choose a roundabout tactic to attack with fewer casualties, right? Isn't this too strange
If I had to compare it to something, it would be like the soldiers in those strategy games on Earth who would just keep moving forward after receiving orders and would not change their minds... Are they really normal creatures? Even golems seem more normal than them, right
Yang Hao's confusion made Fen nod thoughtfully. But before the little elf could say anything, new changes occurred on the battlefield ahead.
The original demon came into contact with the stone golem in the front. Under the iron fist of the stone golem, wave after wave of demon larvae were defeated.
The demon larvae tried to destroy those cheap golems in various ways, but after discovering that destroying the "core" of the golem would cause the golem to fall apart, the demons began to destroy the "limbs".
"They realized that if they could save those golems, they would have room to 'leap' further into our position through cover." Fin frowned.
"It's a very clever tactic... You see, some of the stronger larvae are even trying to push the remains of the golems forward - the golems with only their bodies left don't have the ability to kill the demon larvae, and their huge bodies will prevent our soldiers from shooting directly... This is not good."
"But fortunately, our golems all have built-in "bombs", right?"
Yang Hao turned around and looked at Naluga, then looked at Black Dragonia who also had a serious expression.
"The people of the Ling tribe can actively destroy the core of the golems, turning them directly into dust... But in the end, what we should worry about is not the golems being used as "covers", but the fast-evolving "minds" of the demons - they evolve too fast. Too fast. "
The demons are evolving too fast.
They were still passively taking the beating in the first two minutes, but in the third minute they began to use golems as cover, and deliberately only attacked the limbs without hurting the core. They even learned the tactic of "jumping" back and forth between cover to approach.
It’s hard to imagine that these demon larvae could only charge forward three minutes ago. What’s even harder to imagine is that these demon larvae seem to be becoming more and more “intelligent”…
In order to prevent the golems from turning into dust due to core collapse, they began to actively reinforce the "captured" golems.
Although their actions became meaningless labor after the powerful performance of the Ling people, the rapid change in their way of thinking still made the gathered people feel scalp tingling...
Fortunately, as their "intelligence" increased, most demon larvae became weaker.
If the young creatures that could only charge forward at the beginning could withstand two 12.7×108 mm standard rifle bullets, then the current demon young creatures would be killed by just one bullet.
At this stage of their evolution, they can only choose one direction - this is a blessing in disguise.
Yang Hao is already considering whether to further adjust his own research and tactical training on demons after the war.
Judging from the current situation, the "full" demon and the "unfull" demon under Bayer-Jans's ass at that time are completely two different creatures...
Combined with the fearlessness of their weapons, Yang Hao had reason to suspect that they were specially produced weapons - but before proving this speculation, did he really need to capture a few living individuals for research
He was thinking, and at this moment, clouds of white smoke appeared on the screen shown by Finn -
It seems that the demons are approaching within 300 meters, and the soldiers of the United Nations have begun to carry out smokescreen operations according to previous orders.
At this dangerous distance, the demon might be "learning", using smoke to block the vision of both parties at the same time, and then using its own firepower advantage to carry out fire coverage strikes.
This is the tactic Yang Hao used to prevent demons from learning.
But whether this tactic can achieve actual results still depends on what countermeasures the demons will take...
They solemnly watched the fierce battle in the distance, watched the grenades fired by the howitzer golems rain down in the air, and also watched the high-level demons standing by in the direction of the demon's nest.
The senior leaders above are observing the battlefield, and the soldiers fighting on the front lines will naturally not let their guard down.
Under the cover of the elves, the soldiers of Bayerjans are replacing the ammunition belt for the Gappa 1405 heavy machine gun.
Now that ammunition belts still need to be loaded manually, each standard 100-round belt is particularly valuable, not to mention when firepower coverage is needed in smoke.
After all, it is impossible to cover all areas covered by smoke with bolt-action rifles alone, so now, the soldiers on the front line have never been as eager for more machine gun firepower as they are now.
"If only the rifles we have could fire continuously..."
A Bayerzas soldier muttered as he applied a piece of wool soaked in cold water to the barrel of his heavy machine gun to cool it down. He sweated as he looked at the smoke screen in the distance:
"Now that the smoke screen blocks our view, we can only shoot along the barbed wire line... Seriously, is this really necessary to prevent the demon from "learning"? "
"Of course it's necessary! You know, the reason why we can defeat the demons so well and even without any casualties is that they haven't learned our ability to use firearms!"
"But we can't see it like this, right? But demons can evolve... maybe they have evolved to the point where they can see through the smokescreen!"
"If that happens, we'll use magic to blow away the smokescreen - but for now, let's just keep firing as planned."
The elves urged the soldiers to finish loading the bullets quickly, and after the soldiers finished loading the ammunition, they immediately used their weapons together with the elves to shoot at all the places where the demons might appear in the smoke.
Along with the shooting of the Gappa 1404 rifle and the Bayer Janus rifle, and the suppression of the heavy machine gun and the machine gun Golem, the screams of the devil were heard from time to time in the smoke in the distance - but for some reason, the frequency of the devil's screams was getting lower and lower...
If dozens of shrill screams could be heard in the first ten seconds, now only a few insignificant screams can be heard in the current ten seconds.
It's not that the demon larvae have been reduced to a size that is beyond measure, but they seem to have realized the possibility of fighting in a smokescreen...
If the soldiers on the front line could go to the location of the demons and observe, they would be able to see the demons using the corpses of their own kind as cover and advancing stealthily.
Not only did they use their own dead bodies as cover, they also turned them into "stepping stones" on the barbed wire defense line.
Although it didn't have much effect in the face of hail of bullets and machine gun bombardment, the loss of the demon larvae could be said to be getting smaller and smaller as one thing increased while the other decreased...
In order to adapt to the living environment in the smoke, most demons chose to sacrifice their strength on the spot and evolve eyes that could see through the smoke.
With the red light representing temperature coming from their new eyes, they could clearly see that the humans in the distance seemed to be shooting with a strange "tube-shaped weapon". They huddled behind the bunker and observed. Finally, they began to try to imitate it.
At first it was just an ordinary tube formed by ribs - but a tube is just a tube after all, there is nothing inside, the walls of the tube are thin, and more importantly, the demon itself can't use the tube to shoot acid or anything else.
Because the pipes were too fragile - realizing this, the demons began to try to increase the thickness of the pipes.
After the thickness of the pipes increased to be enough to withstand the pressure when firing acid or crushing bones, they found that they seemed unable to shoot things as far as the enemy fired them, nor could they ensure their lethality after flying at a very long distance.
What is going on
The demon larvae began to think in light of the surrounding environment. They thought about their original method of spraying acid, and they realized that "air pressure" might be the key to shooting things fast and far, but what to use to increase the air pressure in the pipe was another good question.
Some fire-breathing demon larvae chirped and finally vomited out some small crystals from their mouths—
These crystals are byproducts of the flames sprayed by the fire-breathing demon larvae. They are easy to explode and are important consumables for them to kill armored units at close range.
But on the other hand, something that can explode can blow rocks away - if placed in a pipe, can it shoot something out in a direction
The demon larvae crouched behind rocks in the hail of bullets and began to try. And these attempts were bound to result in sacrifice.
There were successive explosions and screams coming from the demon's position. The soldiers on the United Nations position thought that they might have hit the right spot, so they shot even harder at the place they had aimed at previously.
After trying hundreds of experiments, the demons finally succeeded in evolving a new organ that was barely of practical value in the eighth minute after the artificial magic reactor was turned on: a hollow bone tube protruding from the throat. At the bottom of the bone tube, something called an "acid ball" would be placed at the shooting position. Then, underground at the set position, an evolved air bag would serve as the main source of power to spray out the acid ball.
It is still unknown how far this new type of demon can spray acid balls, but in order to evolve a structure that can spray sulfuric acid, they have to concentrate almost all of their body nutrients on the "eyes" for aiming, the "stomach" for producing ammunition, and the "body" for making shots.
This young demon, later called the "Jeter" demon, is very fragile.
They lost all their capital for close combat just to gain the ability to shoot at a longer distance. It is difficult to prove whether this is good or bad, but what is certain is that in this situation where they are suppressed, the demons are indeed in urgent need of equipment that can counterattack the Bayerjans.
After the demon larvae completed their preparations, they began to aim at the human body emitting red light behind the smoke screen.
They sprayed out a round of acid balls, and the recoil caused blood to spurt out of their entire bodies, but the acid balls exploded out of thin air, either shattered by bullets or directly shattered after hitting the barbed wire.
The jet demons began to adjust their posture. They realized that direct shooting was not a good thing -
Especially when the acid ball is large and easy to explode, it may be a better option to shoot towards the sky and then wait for the acid ball to fall naturally and kill the enemy.
Puff--
Another round of shooting. The difference was that this time they fired diagonally into the sky.
As the Jet Demon fell to the ground and struggled to get up, the faintly fluorescent acid balls flew to the highest point they could fly, and finally fell towards the United Nations position under the influence of gravity.
The soldiers of the United Nations did not notice this abnormality due to the obstruction of smoke.
They were still trying hard to shoot in the direction of the demon, but when they were most relaxed, the acid from the sky taught them a severe lesson.
"Where the hell did this come from?!"
The elves reacted quickly and used magic to stop the acid ball from falling from the sky.
Their faces were livid as they watched the acid sizzling on the magic barrier, while the unprotected Bayerjans soldiers cried out in unbearable pain because of the acid's corrosion.
"Stop yelling! I'm right here?! I'm here to cast a healing spell on you... No?! Why are you here again?!"
The elves were basically soldiers who knew basic healing spells. They were trying in a hurry to heal their companions' wounds caused by acid erosion. However, before they could start the treatment, green light began to flash in the sky again.
What on earth was going on?! The elves had to erect the barrier again, and just before the second round of attacks arrived, the soldiers of Bayerzas dragged their wounded companions directly behind the bunker, and the losses they suffered due to carelessness were finally suppressed.
"Where did it come from?!" someone shouted, "I think it fell from the sky - is there a flying demon in the sky?!"
"No, it's impossible! The smoke screen didn't spread to the sky at all. Those things must have been thrown up from the ground, just like the trajectory of our howitzer Golem!"
"Doesn't this mean that the demons have evolved the ability to see us in the smoke?! Now should we just blow away the smoke?"
Some people exclaimed, lowering their heads to avoid the third round of acid bombardment. They were right. After the demons had evolved organs that were more suitable for observation in the smoke screen, continuing to maintain the smoke screen would only bring trouble to the soldiers of the United Nations.
The commanders on the scene also reacted quickly and decisively. When they realized that the demons were using the smokescreen to launch projectiles, they immediately ordered the elven wizards on standby to release magic to blow away all the smokescreen on the battlefield.
As the smoke screen disappeared, the people of the United Kingdom finally discovered the culprit who launched them—a group of new demons that looked extremely deformed and even needed the help of other demon larvae to move.
But it was too late to discover their existence now. After many ejections, these new demons had gradually understood the direction of evolution.
They began to evolve their pipes and ammunition to become "bigger and bigger". In the end, these new demons even gave up their "individual" existence and chose to become an "external organ" that other demons could move at any time.
Just like the prosthetic limbs of the devil, a large number of agile devils began to carry these acid-spraying guys around, causing the United Nations soldiers who suffered losses to curse bitterly while also making it more difficult for the soldiers to perform sniping.