Agents are not "species" born on the parent star. At least agents like N-6, which are highly intelligent and have a similar image to humans, were actually developed in the era of space exile. If it is really necessary to set a legal "homeland" for these artificial intelligences, then their homeland is actually the laboratory in Zenith and the production base on the moon—no matter how you look at it, they do not belong to the mother planet group.
Those who really regard the mother planet as their homeland and yearn to return to their hometown should actually be the human beings who created the agents.
However, human beings poured a lot of emotion into creating agents. Facing the doomsday pressure brought by Galactus, they are like parents educating their children, imparting everything they know and have. Tell the agents how to think, tell the agents how to fight, they instilled the latter with human ideas, human culture, and... the "hometown" of human beings.
In the thousands of years of standing together through thick and thin, the agent has integrated the knowledge he learned from the creator into the depths of his own logic circuit, and learned and absorbed all of this in his own way. Therefore, even though they were not born on the mother planet, each of them knew that the hometown referred to the mother planet.
It's just 300,000 kilometers away, but it can't go back.
Hao Ren decided to fulfill the desire of these exiles to return home, but before that, he first had to enter the fortress and have a face-to-face conversation with the ruler of the survivor civilization. That mastermind that may have malfunctioned and become an unstable factor.
"It sounds like the fortress is well-defended, but this thing is definitely not fully enclosed now." He glanced at N-6, knowing that the robot lady must have a follow-up story, "At least now it is still serving as an assistant on the moon." Command Center function, it must maintain the necessary connection with this planet - which connection can we enter and exit?"
"That's right, the fortress is indeed not fully enclosed—although most of its structure is wrapped by activated metal and repulsive force fields, it still needs to maintain physical connections with the various information nodes of the lunar base, and at the same time Relying on several nearby reactors to provide energy, these energy ducts and cable ducts should come in handy," N-6 said, but at the end he reminded, "But I am just a representative of mass-produced combat type. Knowing this, what you will encounter after drilling into those pipes is entirely up to you.”
"Don't worry, adaptation is my specialty," Hao Ren smiled confidently, "You may not believe me, but I have an even more awesome boss on top of me, and my boss is in charge of random situations all year round. , I am responsible for contingency... "
N-6 blinked innocently. As a serious artificial intelligence, she said that she didn't understand the meaning of Hao Ren's cold joke at all.
Hao Ren touched his nose in embarrassment, and abruptly returned to the topic: "Okay, let's go—the mastermind should have received the report from the maintenance center by now."
A modified Zenith fighter plane landed on the moon—this news cannot be concealed forever, and soon the upper AI in the maintenance center and barracks area discovered the fighter plane returning from the Zenith battlefield, and found After discovering the traces of the internal modification of the fighter plane, this information was reported to the mastermind immediately, so a server of the mastermind that was operating normally quickly judged that there was an intruder.
The alarm sounded through every communication channel, and the guards near the fort came out in full force. The monitoring network ten times stricter than before was activated, and the surrounding of the fort almost instantly became a quagmire that made it difficult for intruders to fly.
However, at this time, Hao Ren and his party had already entered the inside of the fortress through a secret passage.
This is a channel for transporting materials. Its entrance is located at the base of the fortress wall. Hao Ren got in without anyone noticing after tearing down the protective wall near the channel. This passage is wide and dark, and there are several tracks neatly laid inside. On those cold tracks, self-driving freight vehicles run back and forth, sending boxes of supplies into the fortress.
Hao Ren used the data terminal to hack the main engine of one of the freight trains, and hid with others in a cargo box of the train. N-6 pointed to several cans neatly stacked in the back half of the cargo box: " In addition to consuming a lot of energy, the Mastermind’s server also needs to consume things like K/N medium solution, and some important chips in the server are soaked in these solutions.”
Vivienne asked casually: "Isn't the fort a self-sufficient facility? Why do we need external supplies?"
"It does have the ability to be self-sufficient, but when it is on the moon, it still relies on the logistics system of the lunar base to maintain its operation," N-6 explained, "The fortress' self-sufficiency is used to deal with worst-case scenarios , we will not use them when it is not necessary."
At this time, Hao Ren suddenly felt a squirm in his clothes, and then the little mermaid poked his head out from his collar. The little guy stared straight at the direction deep in the fortress, a pair of bright eyes sparkling in the dim environment shine.
The baby fish was very obedient along the way, and almost never showed up, so Hao Ren was a little surprised at this time: "What's wrong?"
The little mermaid didn't answer, but shook her head lightly, tightly clutching Hao Ren's collar.
"News from the 'Battlefield' of the Zenith," said the data terminal suddenly, "The resistance of the Zenith guards is getting stronger and stronger, and the follow-up troops of the drone group cannot rush to the battlefield for the time being. Lethal weapons, the fleet is almost unable to maintain the blockade of the battlefield."
"It's almost time for the support troops from the lunar base to arrive," N-6 said. "You don't really want to turn this into a war, do you?"
"Of course not," Hao Ren laughed. "The mission objective of the drone group has been completed, and they were just a cover for our operation. Terminal, notify Nolan, let her take the group to retreat temporarily—but Don't run too fast, it's best to pull the troops of the Zenith seat around the high-level track for a few circles, and try to keep the main brain's attention for a while."
"learn."
While speaking, the automatic train transporting materials made a roar of mechanical friction, the body shook, and then entered the deceleration process, and the data terminal that was establishing a wireless connection with the train host immediately flew into the air: "We have arrived at the destination. The machine downloaded the basic information of the cargo loading and unloading station from the database of the train host. After a while, this machine temporarily interferes with the nearby monitoring equipment, and we leave the train through the left passage.”
"From here onwards, it is the defensive area of the Titanium Guards." N-6 picked up the electromagnetic assault rifle from the side—this gun was handed to her by N-4 when they set off. The agents of the production type are not at the same level at all, and they are directly controlled by the main brain, and their combat skills and consciousness are far stronger than the conventional army. Although you are also very strong, I still suggest that you should not be careless."
Vivienne smiled: "Don't worry, we have also dealt with various enemies, and we will never underestimate the enemy under any circumstances. And you don't have to be nervous, your new body is stronger than before, you know that of."
The automatic train slowly stopped beside a metal platform, and a large number of mechanical claws and a transfer platform suspended in mid-air immediately rose on the platform. These mechanical devices began to busy unload the goods on the train, and at the same time, several The swift shadow flashed between these busy machines.
According to the map information deciphered by the data terminal, Hao Ren and his party successfully found the passage leading to the deeper part of the fortress.
There are only limited lights in the passage, which makes this cold steel corridor look more gloomy and lonely. Just like other places in the moon base, the interior of the fort is also extremely deserted. The low sound of mechanical operation or the hum of electricity came from various corners, but such sounds could only make the place seem even more dead silent.
But the hallway wasn't empty—there were Tau guards guarding the passage.
"There are guards ahead," Lily, who was walking in front, stopped first, and mouthed back, "Three."
Hao Ren poked his head out from the corner of the corridor, and sure enough, he saw three figures with guns standing guard in front of a gate in front of him. They were bionic soldiers who were taller and bigger than N-6, but they were similar to N- 6 is different, the body surface of the three soldiers glowed with a cold metal light, they did not have bionic skin, replaced by the original steel shell, and a faint white light wandering through the gaps in the steel shell.
The data terminal quickly scanned and found that these soldiers not only had a stronger body structure, but also wore a layer of shields.
Sure enough, it is an elite body that is several times more advanced than ordinary agents.
From here on, all the security systems of the fortress are directly controlled by the mastermind, and no matter whether it is injecting viruses or interfering with the monitoring system, it is impossible to hide from the eyes of this fortress.
But the action team has also successfully entered the interior of the fortress, and now there are only a few corridors and a few layers of alloy protective walls left between them and the mastermind.
So Hao Ren decided to say hello to the mastermind.
"Vivienne, you deal with the one on the left, and I deal with the one in the middle. Old Wang, you deal with the one on the right. Lily and N-6, you don't act, stay put to prevent accidents."
After assigning combat missions, Hao Ren immediately took out his inspector's gun from the portable space, and was the first to rush out from the hiding place.
Move, aim, and shoot in one go, and you are a hero in the bombing.
Followed by Vivienne's bat plasma bomb (that is, ball lightning) and Y'zaks' face-blurring fireball of fel energy.
Three Tau Guards just fell—one blasted into a cloud of crystalline dust, one shattered torso by an electric current, and one half-molten by a fel fireball.
Hao Ren immediately felt something was wrong.