Hao Ren was a little surprised by Nolan's report. He couldn't help remembering that he had talked about this topic when he was chatting with Nolan just now—it has been six days since his group fell on this planet, and those survivors living in the sky But he didn't come down to take a look at all. He thought it was quite wrong at the time.
Well, now they're finally here, after six days of being late, with guns blazing.
"How many people are there?" Vivian frowned and asked Nolan.
"Only 18 people, carrying all kinds of light and heavy weapons and detection equipment, their transport plane stopped in the forest and did not move, it seems to have established a temporary simple camp. This seems to be a well-trained reconnaissance team with a clear purpose force."
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "Are you sure they're after us?"
Nolan nodded: "I'm sure—they just pointed at me with radar and other things, but I turned the antenna to flash with them, shaking their radar 'blind'."
How does this sound like driving on the road and encountering the headlights on the other side and throwing a wave of sun punches angrily... Does Nolan usually go too much with people
N-6 looked at the humans in front of her without knowing why, and suddenly became serious, and then began to communicate quickly. This time, she couldn't understand what the other party was saying—because Hao Ren and his party turned off the interpreter plug-in during the internal discussion— She finally couldn't hold back her curiosity: "What happened?"
"Ah, I was just looking for confirmation from you," Hao Ren looked at N-6, "I mean, you haven't sent some kind of recovery signal, have you?"
Although he felt that even if N-6 had sent a recovery signal just now, the survivors and rebels in the sky would not be able to teleport over so quickly, Hao Ren still asked casually to confirm the situation.
The robot lady shook her head: "I haven't had time yet..."
"Then it seems to be just a coincidence," Y'zaks said in a muffled voice, "There is a wave of armed men approaching here outside, and they should come from the same place as you."
"Troops from Zenith?" N-6's eyes widened in surprise, "How could there be ground troops..."
Seeing the reaction of this robot girl, Hao Ren was a little surprised: "Is the ground force strange?"
"Apart from sending recyclers, Zenith rarely sends ground troops to the surface of the parent star, because ground troops have almost no role in the war against the planet devourer," N-6 shook his head, "Insufficient data, unable to analyze Which echelon are they from, I need to get in touch with them."
What Hao Ren was waiting for was this sentence: "Of course, only you can handle this matter. Come with us, and we will take you to the exit."
In the dense forest, N-4, as the temporary commander, led her team members who had just gathered together and were not even familiar with each other to advance cautiously. She held the electromagnetic assault rifle tightly in her hand, but this powerful weapon Individual weapons can't give her more sense of security at this moment—the ground of the home planet is full of dangers, and landing on the home star is almost equivalent to giving up half of the chance of survival. This is the consensus of all agents, and at this moment, She felt this more deeply.
Especially after the team's radar equipment was destroyed by an energy pulse of unknown origin, the danger factor in this place soared.
"Left, safe." "Right, safe." "Communication with the camp is normal." "There is still one kilometer to 'that thing'."
The members of the team quickly exchanged information through the short-distance radio, and everyone kept their voices very low. Even though their sensors could not detect any real enemies at all, a heavy pressure still made everyone more vigilant. .
N-4 bit her lip. This behavior, which is too close to humans, shows that she is an "elite body" whose service age is much longer than her peers. Her longer service age and more military exploits allow her to download updates from the "big think tank". more humanization data packs, which allow her to think more like a human, and possess more advanced emotional and ambiguity processing capabilities, and it is these characteristics that make her—and the improvised team members—participate in the that action.
And finally fell into this field.
Don't you... have a little regret
The voice of a team member brought N-4 back to his senses: "Captain, it should be right ahead."
N-4 nodded. Although she was a little distracted before, the agent's logic circuit will not be affected by this level of distraction. The part of the thread she uses to perform tasks is still faithfully executing various field instructions. , so she was aware of the target's appearance before the team members sounded the reminder. She signaled the team members to hide in the nearby bushes, then looked past the few sparse plants and looked at the behemoth not far away.
It was lying quietly in the middle of the forest. The huge shock wave created when it fell directly "cleared" a large area of the forest into a big pit. The trees on the edge of the impact pit were tilted to this side, and inside the impact pit, only a lot of charred objects could be seen. Due to the passage of several days, the high temperature in the impact crater has already faded away. The only thing that can prove that a spaceship crash occurred here is the ship that is quietly dormant at the bottom of the crater.
The style of that ship is unheard of. Its main part is silvery white, its long axis exceeds 500 meters, and its widest point is about 200 meters. All kinds of external equipment that have never been seen before, and there is also a striking and weird painting on the upper deck of the spaceship—it is a portrait of some alien creature, that creature has sharp fangs and extremely serious and cold eyes, a triangular shape. His ears stood on the top of his head like the most vigilant warriors, and he looked like a hero among predators.
Paint the image of the Predator as a spaceship, which should be some kind of totem symbol, which may mean that this ship comes from a civilization full of fighting tendencies.
But no matter what, the elegance and beauty of the ship itself cannot be denied.
Although he had seen this thing from blurry intelligence photos before, N-4 couldn't help but sigh in admiration when he saw it with his own eyes: "It's really... a beautiful spaceship."
Six days ago, this aircraft of unknown origin suddenly appeared above the atmosphere of the parent star, and then crashed on the surface of the planet. The high-energy pulse generated when it crashed instantly destroyed several detection satellites that happened to illuminate this area. Sensing system, so that the superior command nodes did not confirm what the real body of the "crashed object" was until three days ago.
But what is even more abnormal is the reaction of the higher-level command nodes after that: the "mastermind" in the fortress did not intend to investigate the "crashed object" at all, and even rejected all applications for remote exploration of the planet's surface. The unknown spacecraft seems to have become a "forbidden zone", and the mastermind orders that all actions must be avoided.
If it hadn't been for what happened later, N-4 would have faithfully followed orders from the Mastermind, and she wouldn't have come here at all.
"This ship... seems to be different from what was reported earlier." A team member noticed the abnormality and said in a low voice.
N-4 carefully observed the spaceship hitting the bottom of the crater, and she also found the same problem.
The ship... doesn't look like it's hurt at all, which isn't normal.
Since the mastermind blocked all information related to this spacecraft and stopped all detection operations, N-4 only had a blurry picture in hand. That picture was that the mysterious spacecraft had just crashed on the surface of the parent star. The picture captured by a satellite at that time (the satellite was subsequently burned to scrap iron by the energy pulse), although the picture definition is not high, you can still see the miserable appearance of the crashed spaceship, which can almost be said to be truncated. , Multiple disintegration-level horrific injuries, it is no exaggeration to say that it has turned into a pile of wreckage, but the one in front of me...
N-4 squinted her eyes. She felt that the ship in the center of the impact crater was almost brand new. The injuries in the photos were gone, and the main body of the spaceship was completely repaired. No equipment.
It's almost like another ship.
"Over there—Captain, look what that is!"
A team member pointed to the stern of the spaceship and exclaimed in a low voice. Through the shared information link, N-4 immediately noticed the detail: she saw a distorted armor plate falling off the stern of the spaceship, and then a new armor plate It squirms and grows from the inside of the hull like a biological regeneration...
"The ship is alive!" N-4 exclaimed shortly. "It keeps regenerating!"
She immediately thought of the radar that had been burned by an unknown energy pulse before—that radar was suddenly damaged when the antenna was turned to the vicinity of the crash site of the spacecraft. Now it seems that this is a very obvious hostile signal!
A "living" ship that has been dormant for several days on the surface of the planet has now almost completely regenerated, and it also shows obvious hostility, and the ship is painted with a painting representing the tendency of fighting (Lily photo), the information was collected in an instant, and N-4 immediately realized that he and his team members were in danger.
However, retreating was not a wise move—thinking of the burned-out radar, N-4 knew that his group of people might have already been targeted by this living spaceship.
And was listed as an enemy.
The logic circuit is deduced quickly, the best solution is to keep some people to attract the attention of the spaceship, and the others withdraw to the camp and quickly leave here for the funeral. This plan can guarantee the highest safety, and the alternative is to try to establish a spaceship with the spaceship. Contact, bet on whether this space visitor can communicate. This plan is irrational and too naive, but it is still an option.
However, just when she was about to announce plan one, there was a sudden movement on the ship.
She saw a hatch on the side of the spaceship open, and then a figure walked out of it.
A team member whispered: "Captain, that seems to be N-6."
N-4 poked her head out, and her logic circuit produced a little garbled code. She saw N-6, who should have died in the last mission, standing there. Although there was something wrong with her body, her appearance It's basically the same as before, and more importantly, she releases the identification signal of N-6.
but…
N-4 suddenly grasped the electromagnetic assault rifle tightly. From the identification signal emitted by N-6, she found the data that did not belong to the agent. N-6 sensed many abnormal energy fluctuations, and the intensity of those energy fluctuations even surpassed that of the Titanium Guards!
N-6 has been hijacked by aliens! N-6 has been transformed by aliens! N-6 is not N-6 anymore!
"Take up your weapon!" Miss N-4 quickly completed all reasoning, "That's just a parasite stuffed in the body of N-6! N-6 has been replaced by the alien life in the spaceship!"
"Ready to fight!"