The moment the three Titanium guards were destroyed, Hao Ren felt the violation.
Because the opponent didn't respond.
Hao Ren firmly believed that the three titanium guards didn't react at all, rather than reacting too late - although he, Vivienne, and Izaks' attacks were very sudden, they were not fast enough to ignore the distance, at least Iza Max's big fireball hit the opponent after a delay of less than one-tenth of a second. During this time difference, even if the three guards had no time to dodge or counterattack, they would at least make some moves.
However, in fact, Hao Ren felt that what he hit was a fixed target. Until the attack landed on him, the three titanium guards didn't react at all.
Not only Hao Ren could sense this, but Vivian and Y'zaks, who had rich combat experience, also noticed the abnormality at the first time. Y'zaks immediately leaned down and whispered: "The situation is not right."
Lily also drew out her ice and fire claws, and pointed her ears in various directions sensitively while saying, "It seems that no alarm has sounded."
Hao Ren was on guard for a while, but he didn't see the titanium guards coming after hearing the news, and he didn't hear the sirens that should have sounded in the base. He exchanged glances with Vivian next to him, and the two nodded tacitly.
"Be vigilant, the atmosphere here is a bit weird," Vivienne said softly, "Boss, please pay attention to the movement behind."
The easy solution of the three guards not only did not make everyone feel relaxed, but made the atmosphere here even more weird. The group cheered up and continued along this lifeless steel corridor to the depths of the fortress. go.
After groping forward, Hao Ren suddenly saw several figures out of the corner of his eye. Almost at the same time, Lily, who had good eyesight, also exclaimed in a low voice: "There are titanium guards ahead!"
"Wait a minute," Hao Ren held down the husky girl who was about to rush forward brandishing her weapon, "Watch."
After speaking, he took out a metal handle from the portable space, and threw it vigorously to the floor in front of the titanium guards in the distance.
The metal block fell on the ground of the alloy corridor, and there was a crisp sound. In this dead and silent place, the sound was as piercing and loud as if it hit the heart of a person. The guarded Tau guards did not respond to this as if they had become deaf and blind.
After confirming this scene, Hao Ren propped up the rigid shield and boldly walked to the side of the titanium guards.
Iron warriors covered in cold metallic light stood upright on the sentry post, holding the special electromagnetic rifle tightly in front of their chests. Their faces made of alloy seemed to be covered with a layer of bright shell, and the eyes on the metal shell were only A narrow slit glowing white, this is the Titanium Guards, the most powerful elite fighters in the Walker society, their appearance is worthy of their sinister name.
However, they are now standing here in a daze as if their computer had crashed, turning a blind eye to the intruder dangling in front of them.
Lily also slid over with her tail between her legs, and after confirming that the titanium guards hadn't moved at all, she breathed a sigh of relief, flicking her tail with a proud face, she even poked one of the titanium guards' chest with her paw: "What, After working for a long time, there are a bunch of mock-ups! I was so scared that my hair exploded."
However, N-6 had a shocked expression on his face: "It shouldn't be like this... It's not logical! Titanium guards are the most vigilant fighters, how could they..."
Vivienne casually pulled the husky, who was weak and strong and cowardly, to the side, stepped forward, bent her finger and tapped one of the titanium guards' iron head: "It feels like... sleep mode? Or is it on standby?" ? They seem to still have energy, you can see that the lights on the eyes and body are still on."
"There must be energy. The data terminal has already detected the energy readings. It's just that there is no action signal, so it's just motionless." Hao Ren frowned, and stretched out his hand to push the Iron Warrior in front of him. The tall titanium guard just fell straight down. , making a loud noise as it hit the alloy floor, "Maybe we should take a look inside this thing?"
Y'zaks scratched his big bald head: "Maybe I should bring Elizabeth with me."
"Don't mention her, she was dismantling destructively, the motherboard was pierced through with a screwdriver," Hao Ren quickly waved his hand, and then took out a beam dagger from his portable space. The armor was removed, revealing the complex circuit structure inside and a cube core with a shimmering light, "Terminal, do you think you can read the database of this thing?"
The data terminal flew over upon hearing this, and connected itself with the core of the Titanium Guard with a scanning beam: "It should be fine."
Vivian reminded from the side: "As soon as possible, we don't have much time to waste on these iron lumps, if we can't crack them within three minutes, we have to move on."
"It won't take that long, you know the performance of this machine... Although you guys usually use this machine to play movies," the data terminal muttered while starting the reading process, and it turned out that it took only a few seconds at the beginning Zhong it exclaimed, "Huh? There are only garbled characters?"
There is no logical program in the core of the Titanium Guard, and what the data terminal can read is only a large number of garbled characters.
Lily glanced at Hao Ren immediately: "Could it be demolished by the landlord..."
"I don't think so," Hao Ren frowned, and turned to look at N-6. "You mentioned before that the Titanium Guards are all directly controlled by the mastermind?"
N-6 nodded: "That's right."
"Then if the failure of the main brain reaches a certain level, will it lead to this situation in the titanium guards?"
N-6 didn't answer, but his eyes widened.
"It looks right," Hao Ren exhaled, and looked down at the titanium guard who was completely incapacitated and turned into a pile of scrap metal. "The failure of the mastermind is rapidly deteriorating, and his error code has broken through. The firewall built into the server has spread to the Titanium Guard. If no action is taken, sooner or later he will become a source of infection and pollute your entire agent network."
Leaving the TIE guards behind, the group accelerated toward the interior of the fortress.
"When do you think the abnormality of the titanium guards appeared?" On the way, Vivian asked N-6 curiously.
"I'm not good at judging," N-6 felt that her logic circuit was heating up, and the unprecedented sense of crisis made her completely forget her previous worries about Hao Ren, a group of powerful and unpredictable "aliens", "Fortress The lunar base and the outside are like two worlds. The security system established by the mastermind prohibits any individuals with insufficient authority from accessing the interior of the fort—usually only a large number of automated systems are responsible for maintaining the daily operation of the fort. The freight trains we saw before are these automated systems. Part of the system. The only ones who are allowed to move freely in the fortress are the Tie Guards and humans, but they never leave the place... ”
"In other words, agents like you have never been able to directly understand what happened inside the fortress, right?" Vivienne frowned, "so these titanium guards probably stopped their activities a long time ago, But people outside don't know at all... But according to N-4, shouldn't there be a group called 'maintainers' who are responsible for the regular maintenance of the mastermind's hardware? Didn't the maintainers notice the abnormality in this situation? "
Regarding this, N-6 could only shake his head: "I don't know about this part of the situation either. Although defenders will be active inside and outside the fortress, they don't often appear in front of ordinary agents, because they are also part of the fortress system. "
Along the way, Hao Ren and his party found more titanium guards in a state of shutdown.
These specially-made fortress guards became more and more common the deeper they went, but without exception, they all lost their mobility. Some titanium guards were still standing on their posts, but most of them were just lying in a corner. They seemed to be patrolling the route before being incapacitated, but a sudden system crash caused them to fall straight down and become a litter of waste.
There are various indications that the mastermind's system error reached a critical point at a certain moment—this critical point arrived so quickly that all the titanium guards in the fort stopped operating almost simultaneously.
This critical point should be the moment when the main brain's faulty server surpassed the normal server.
The system used to maintain various hardware facilities inside the fortress operates automatically under the control of low-level AI. This part of the thing is like the "vegetative nerve" of the fortress, which operates based on the underlying protocol, and this structure just allows them to escape. Therefore, the infrastructure in the fortress is still operating normally, including lighting and exhaust systems, but apart from these things, the functions of the entire fortress are actually close to a shutdown.
The guards are down, the monitoring system is offline, and there is only one out-of-control mastermind in this silent fortress, and a group of humans who have not shown their faces until now.
Hao Ren didn't know what the so-called human beings living in the final palace were doing, but he knew that the out-of-control mastermind was still issuing instructions one after another until now, even if some of the instructions were There are more and more logical errors, and the agents outside who follow the orders completely will not realize the changes in the fortress-or even if they are aware of the problem, they will be powerless to change everything.
The offline security system made everyone's tense journey seem extraordinarily stable. They crossed almost all checkpoints and gates carelessly, and finally arrived in a hall with a large number of cables, pipes and servers.
This hall is one of a large number of secondary server rooms supporting the mastermind's thirteen main servers.
Vivienne shook her head after seeing the situation in the server room: "It seems... we don't need to study why those maintainers didn't warn the outside world."
Between the closely arranged pipeline cables and servers in the hall, there are many mechanical wrecks that have turned into coke. Those things with alloy shells and shaped like beetles are the maintenance mentioned by N-6 and N-4. those.
They were all killed—by an internal deflagration caused by a strong electromagnetic pulse.
The hands that move the brain.