"To be honest, the behavior of a girl walking outside and throwing up and cursing at the same time is really unsightly..."
"But this girl's body is a boat, and what she spits out is all system waste. This picture is subtle and acceptable."
"However, if you think about it carefully, your ship is strictly speaking a ship girl, a ship girl! This picture is really too unsightly!"
Nolan rolled his eyes and looked at his captain with a blank face: "Boss, you've been talking about it for a long time, can you take a break?"
Hao Ren: "...Forget it, let's get on with business."
Everyone's attention is still focused on the scattered remains of corrupted monsters that have been dismantled.
The analysis of these wreckages was quite fruitful. Hao Ren figured out the original appearance of quite a few of the monsters, figured out their mutated power levels and special abilities, and figured out how the power of the Mad Lord The effect on these creatures, and the general process of their mutation to the point where they are today - each piece of information is precious, and it is the few direct information about the Lord of Crazy that Hao Ren has obtained from his activities in the Dream Plane until now. Intelligence, the last time he obtained this level of precious information was when Kolo World was dealing with Lokmarton.
But in the end he couldn't figure out why these monsters suddenly showed "discipline" at the last moment of the battle.
Corrupted monsters lack discipline, and act almost entirely on instinct except for swarming in groups. This is their biggest weakness. If they are properly mastered, even if they are at a disadvantage, they can fight against these monsters. However, once this weakness disappears, the threat of these monsters will increase exponentially. The number of monsters is huge, they are not afraid of death and pain, they have strange abilities, and as the battle progresses, they will continue to pollute and corrupt everything on the battlefield. Hao Ren was even more willing to duel with Raven 12345 - at least the latter could be more eye-catching, right
According to the calculation of the data terminal, if these monsters in the previous battle showed the same organization and discipline as at the last moment from the very beginning, then the difficulty for the drone swarm to win will rise sharply, although relying on the continuous reinforcements from the rear to forcibly pile up Quantity could still win in the end, but it would be a bitter one, never quite as easy as the previous fights.
However, according to the analysis of the wreckage samples, these monsters really do not have complete thinking organs. Their brains have long been rotten, and it is impossible for them to make such exquisite coordination and surprise actions on the battlefield before.
Vivienne tapped the armrest of the chair lightly with her fingers, while looking at Hao Ren: "Do you have any ideas?"
"I just thought of something," Hao Ren said frankly. "Do you think these monsters are remotely controlled? They don't have the ability to think, but they act rationally. 'Remote control' is the best explanation." Yes. On the battlefield before, they were in chaos at the beginning. They only knew how to bow their heads in disorder. When they were about to be wiped out, they suddenly reacted and organized to break through... This gave me the feeling that the opposite commander F2 Wave Soldier A came over, because the goblins had no ability to resist at all, so this Commander A didn't care when he came over, and after a while, he saw the population falling down, and then he suddenly reacted, and quickly cut to the rescue, but it was too late... "
Hao Ren's new way of thinking is really reasonable and logical. Vivian slapped her hands after thinking about it carefully: "Because I haven't played games before, I can't understand what you're talking about."
Hao Ren: "...then you still look like you've realized something!"
"Okay, okay, I was just joking, I understand what you mean," Vivienne waved her hand with a smile, "I think what you said is a possibility, but this possibility is all based on speculation , there is currently no tangible evidence, so this is just... "
Before she finished speaking, the data terminal suddenly jumped out: "Wait a minute, if you want to see and feel the evidence, you already have it now."
Hao Ren and Vivian turned their heads to look at the terminal at the same time: "What evidence?"
The data terminal flew in front of the two and turned on its own holographic projection. What appeared on the projection was a black battleship distorted by parasitism of biological tissues—this black battleship was obviously restored and synthesized by technical means, because it was restored and synthesized by unmanned There would never be such a complete wreckage left on the battlefield where the aircraft fleet raged—as the screen switched, the internal structure of this analysis diagram became more distinct, and some dark red mesh structures and large groups of color blocks Flooded in most areas of the spaceship.
"The autonomous machines disassembled the wreckage of seventeen black warships, and finally restored a complete enemy ship after piecing together the data of these wreckages. Look at these network structures—every wreckage has them, and from the structure to the The principles are similar, they are a mixture of metal data lines and biological nerve tissue, like a neural network throughout the entire body of the spaceship, this machine guessed that this thing is the electrified control network of the original spaceship, after the mutation of the spaceship members, this control network This is how it merged with the biological tissue. These dark areas are the nodes of the 'neural network'. These nodes are obviously the result of later hyperplasia. They are all swollen and deformed sarcomas. Judging from the shape of the sarcomas, they should be those of the corrupted giants. Ontology…”
Some disgusting biological tissues appeared on the screen. Even Hao Ren, who is so well-informed, felt his scalp tingle at this moment. Those biological tissues were obviously swollen and deformed giant corpses, but the corpses had already melted like wax to the point where they were almost gone. It is impossible to distinguish any details, and around these rotten flesh-like flesh and blood tissues, there are a large number of tubes extending out, which is the so-called "neural network".
"The neural network and these corrupt giants together form a control system. The former is a command transmission unit, and the latter is equivalent to an antenna. This machine has discovered that this system has the function of receiving remote commands, and also has a certain degree of autonomous control. If Without external orders, it maneuvers its ships for combat—of course, in which case they would be extremely inefficient, as demonstrated in the first half of the previous battle."
"Sure enough, it's remote controlled..." Hao Ren rubbed his chin, "Are these spaceships the only ones with this kind of structure?"
"Smaller-scale 'neural remote control systems' were also found on other wrecks, but they are significantly different from those in the black spaceship. This machine speculates that those small units may not be directly commanded by the highest level, but serve as wingmen or escorts. Controlled by the black spaceship—but when the black spaceship itself is in autonomous combat mode, the operational efficiency of these cannon fodder units is obviously not much higher."
The organization of these corrupt monsters and the way their armies operate has finally been revealed.
"Pyramid... or a tree-like control network?" Vivienne frowned, "So they were in automatic combat mode when they were chaotic before, and then they suddenly showed discipline because they were directly controlled by the superior unit... It seems that this 'superior unit' is a very tricky thing."
"Judging from the performance in battle, the superior units of these corrupted monsters have a completely different level of intelligence from ordinary crazy derivatives. It or they have a high degree of discipline and tactical thinking, and can formulate quick and rational strategies based on the current situation. coping strategies, and more importantly…”
Before Hao Ren finished speaking, Vivian picked up the second part of his sentence: "More importantly, they already know we're here."
"It's unavoidable," Hao Ren waved his hand. "Such a large-scale battle cannot be covered up. Now I am only worried that the controllers behind these monsters have learned about our strength—they are at the end of the battle. I just extended my will, so I'm afraid I didn't see many things directly, but I just don't know if there is a "memory cache" mechanism in the nervous system or command system of these monsters. Things like battlefield records are uploaded, then we will expose a lot of things."
Nolan's voice came from the side: "The huge number of drones is a hard advantage. What we are facing is only the derivatives of madness, not the lord of madness or the goddess of destruction, so as long as we can achieve the number Absolutely crushing, exposing part of the fleet data is not a problem."
Hao Ren nodded: "What you said makes sense. Notify the general consciousness of the fleet to call in all the reserve teams outside the X star cluster, and adjust the production priority of armed drones to the highest priority in the cluster lairs in the X star cluster. In addition , don’t stop sending troops to this area until I give the order to terminate or the crisis of the X star cluster is resolved. My request is simple: after the war, no matter how big the enemy’s position is, my fleet must fill 90% of their field of vision Nine's space."
"Nolan understands."
"Also pay attention to the active defense and scanning of this area," Vivienne reminded, "Our existence has been exposed, and they may send a second wave of troops over."
After arranging matters related to local defense and drone production, Hao Ren planned to continue to observe this "testing ground" for a while, but from "Nakdar Continent" (this is the new name given to the planetary fragments, after all It had a name when it was a fortress), and the information from it forced him to return early.
The analysis of the "Navigation Crystal" finally came to fruition.
As the navigation computer of the Nakdar planetary fortress, the mysterious huge crystal contains a huge amount of data, but the encryption of the crystal by the goddess of creation makes most of these data undecipherable, but this does not mean that It is completely impossible to analyze anything from it—after Vivienne activated the crystal once by accident, the latter changed from the original "dead" state to a semi-active standby state. The encryption system is still in operation, but Hao Ren... Well, it was actually discovered by the data terminal. The data terminal discovered that the information stored in the crystal is layered. Although a considerable amount of data is sealed, apart from these mysterious data Besides, the rest seems to be decipherable by conventional algorithms...
So Hao Ren asked the data terminal to design a system specially used to crack the crystal encryption. During this time, the crystal was placed in the control center of the Nakdar Continent, and it was constantly being read and deciphered.
The superficial information of the crystal has been deciphered, which means that the real coordinates of the "hub" have been revealed.