Hao Ren and his team had only been on this planet Laherien for a few days, and because they were locked in the atmosphere, Nolan's various planetary-level observation equipment could not be used, so they could not say anything about this planet. Learn more, those musty ancient books are full of inaccurate modifications and specious annotations, and it is difficult for Nolan to provide valuable clues in the information collected by probes, so in the face of a sudden outbreak of It can be said that Hao Ren is completely confused about the "natural disaster".
But he was 10,000 percent sure that this Laherien was facing a huge crisis.
If it doesn't erupt sooner or later, it will only erupt when he leads the investigation team into the arena. The timing is right, it's like walking on a watch.
This fact made him think of his own physique for the first time—since this physique has been affirmed by Raven 12345, the female psychopath who can't follow the law, he must face it squarely, no matter how nonsense it sounds. so it is.
But in the second moment, he began to seriously think about the explainable reasons behind these "on-time" disasters.
"Things are forced" is of course a good explanation, but it does not provide any reference value. Hao Ren firmly believes that the development of everything has its own internal laws, even the way Raven 12345 speaks is based on that. Based on a complex mathematical model and her old man's work certificate, the sixteen large cracks that are opening on the land of Laherien must have a reason, and since they choose to erupt at such a special point in time—he has With the investigation team entering the field, and just using the BUG little weak chicken to spy on the truth in the big tunnel—then it is necessary to associate these two things together.
As a qualified investigator, one must not give up any clues that have even the slightest possibility.
Could it be that this matter... has something to do with the Great Tunnel
Although the cracks that appeared on the surface did not directly lead to the Great Tunnel, and I personally confirmed in the underground palace that there was no change in the Great Tunnel itself when the disaster broke out, the timing of the two incidents was so coincidental that Hao Ren couldn't help it. Don't think about it. Could it be that what the little weak chicken observed with the probe caused these changes on the surface? Or…
It is the "observation behavior" itself that stimulates a certain mechanism deep in this world...
All these questions flashed through Hao Ren's mind, but he didn't have the energy to delve into them one by one, because the more urgent situation was in front of his eyes: those "flame men" who had drilled out of the cracks on the earth's surface seemed to be trapped Candy attracts ants to human (and non-human) settlements everywhere.
He had to find a way to do something about it.
"Nolan, can you destroy those monsters?"
"Yes," Miss Jianniang replied immediately, "but it will be connected to this plain—Boss, this ship is now trapped in the atmosphere. For a star warship, no matter how high it flies within this range, it is considered Flying close to the ground, and the weapon system of this ship is used to deal with space combat, firing at the surface at this distance is no different from the extinction of the area, even at the minimum power."
Hao Ren actually knows this himself. Nolan is an interstellar warship—although she is classified as a "civilian frigate" by the Xiling Protoss, what kind of thing is a civilian frigate of the Protoss in the world of mortals? Personally, I still have a B number in my heart. The design concept of the firepower system of such a public service ship is to allow the inspectors to deal with any opponents that threaten them when they are performing tasks in various worlds. Things are not common in the universe.
They usually have cutting-edge armor hundreds of meters thick and shields of the same strength to be worthy of Nolan's firing.
And the weapons that can cope with this kind of scene are facing the unobstructed plains, and they are still close to the face... Anyway, when Hao Ren was in Holleta, he drove the spaceship on a high orbit and used the secondary gun Irradiating the surface of the planet with the minimum power melted the entire Beinz Parish.
"Send the self-discipline machines and armed drones in the spaceship Ganakuri to help the locals defend against those monsters," Hao Ren said, "Do your best."
"What about the covert operations protocol?"
"The stealth operation of the spaceship will continue," Hao Ren quickly replied, "There is no way for those released combat machines. But anyway, monsters covered in fire have come out from the ground, and a group of them will fall from the sky to stand beside him." The UFOs on the sidelines are not bad, and if there are too many lice, there is no need to worry about debts, so let the experts, scholars and public opinion platforms in this world figure it out for themselves.”
"Nolan understands. Also, do you need to broadcast beacons?"
Hearing the last thing Nolan mentioned, Hao Ren had to think about it seriously.
"Large-scale" battles did happen, and the armed conflicts that broke out on the planetary level exceeded the combat power of the action team he led. According to the previous plan, it was of course time to broadcast the beacon. However, the problem is that Lahiri En is completely different from the situation in the dark field that I had expected before.
The dark realm he imagined is a fragmented cosmic space, at best there are a lot of celestial body fragments floating in it, even if he and his party land on a larger celestial body, they can run to the open space of the universe to open the portal, so he initially The two reinforcements arranged by the UAV Legion and the Guardian Legion came in accordance with the standards for implementing interstellar wars.
At that time, no one thought that the brash investigation team would be trapped in the planet's atmosphere...
A cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops come to meet each other - this is true, but where do you put those thousands of horses? Hao Ren estimated the thickness of the atmosphere in Laherien. If the size is neat, it might be able to squeeze Salaman's Guardian Legion in, and remove the antenna system of those giant ships and the energy deflectors like sails. Maybe some aisles can be left out, but Salaman probably won't be happy, and as for the drone army...they can't be crowded, and it's hard enough to find a storage expert who strengthens the company.
Although one can hope that "the teleported fleet will be 'squeezed' out of the atmospheric blockade due to some unknown protection mechanism, and become the lucky ones to jump out of the map", Hao Ren does not intend to gamble on his own character on this . In all fairness, ever since he knew the virtue of his goddess, he no longer believed that he would have a good character...
But there are thousands of troops waiting to be dispatched outside, and it is not a pleasant thing to watch a planet open a copy of the cataclysm. Hao Ren changed his mind and asked Nolan: "I remember when I was in the Beacon. There is a reserved information margin in the broadcast system, which is prepared to deal with complex and unexpected emergencies, and it should come in handy at this time."
This was just a prudent move at the beginning, but now it seems that this prudence is really necessary.
"There is such a setting, but the information we can send out is very, very little," Nolan replied, "Due to the particularity of the dark field, beacon broadcasting is a very delicate process, and there is almost no extra bandwidth for leaving messages. This ship feels that the few bytes we squeezed out are not enough to explain the weird things that happened in this weird world... "
"Salaman is a soldier, drones are weapons, and obeying orders is the bounden duty of both of them, so we don't need to explain clearly," Hao Ren said. "Just a few words in the message: The fleet is on standby, and the ground troops are here."
"Nolan understands."
After arranging the matter of broadcasting the beacon, Hao Ren's heart was half settled, and the next step was to return to White Maple Leaf City as soon as possible. Although people like himself couldn't transform themselves into tens of thousands, it was still possible to help a city defend against monsters.
When everyone came, they rode on horseback and traveled for two days and two nights, but there was no such emergency at that time, and in the current situation, it is naturally impossible to continue to choose this slow moving method.
The first thing Hao Ren thought of was the space transmission function of the data terminal.
I believe that under such a fatal situation, Leah would not be too concerned about why a group of "down and out adventurers" have valuable group space transfer props.
However, the data terminal reported an explosive message: "Partner, the transmission cannot be activated."
"What?" Hao Ren was taken aback when he heard this, "Your teleportation is also locked?!"
The first thing he thought of was the "lock-in" phenomenon that Nolan couldn't escape from the atmosphere.
The data terminal replied in the mental connection: "It does seem to be locked. Although this machine successfully obtained the coordinates, it was found that the coordinates could not be brought into the real space when the transmission module was activated. This kind of lockup is probably the result of It exists—it's just that we haven't teleported through space until today, so we never discovered it."
The small-scale spatial transmission of the data terminal was restricted, and Hao Ren's first thought was Nolan's jump engine—could that engine not be used anymore? When Nolan was asked to do the test before, he only started the jump engine halfway, maybe the same interference will also affect the engine of the Giant Turtle Rock!
Unable to escape the atmosphere, and unable to activate teleportation, this situation is getting worse and worse.
But the bad situation doesn't seem to be enough.
Just when Hao Ren thought the situation was bad enough, Nolan reported something completely out of plan: "Boss, there is no response from the Beacon radio."
"What?!"
"The reason is unknown, but no response signal was received after the broadcast beacon, and no sign of the establishment of a space channel was observed. It is initially estimated that the signal failed to penetrate the dark field."
Hao Ren almost had the urge to scold the street at this moment: "Damn it... I really should check the almanac when I go out. These two days are not suitable for business trips!"
But after enough bad news, there is always some good news. After a while, Nolan sent the latest battle report she observed: "Boss, those monsters that came out of the cracks have begun to attack human cities, but the locals The reaction was quick, they opened the city's protective barriers, and the local defenders also began to organize defenses."
Hao Ren had already accepted the fact that the beacon had failed, and began to think about possible reasons and solutions. After hearing Nolan's new report, he frowned slightly, and followed the team to move out of the Black Forest calmly while Asked in the spiritual connection: "How do you judge the combat effectiveness of the two sides?"
"I don't think you need to worry for the time being," Nolan's voice seemed to be relieved, "Although the disaster happened suddenly, the residents of this world seem to be no strangers to fighting, and neither are the monsters that came out of the cracks. Invulnerability—the defense organized by the locals has been very effective, and it seems that they would not be finished without our help. Of course, the premise is that those cracks will not continue to do any more moths."
Hearing Nolan's new information, Hao Ren couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although the incident happened suddenly, since the Laheriens were able to hold on, there was no need for him to be so nervous.
But they still had to rush back as soon as possible, there was nothing they could do in this burning black forest.
At this time, the group had already run to the edge of the forest. Nangong Sanba quickly found the place where the horses were tethered according to his perception of runes, but those poor animals had already fallen to the ground.
A small crack appeared right at this place, and the flames and thick smoke gushing out of the crack easily killed ordinary horses, and on several nearby trees, the runes left by Nangong Sanba had been extinguished for a while. Mostly.
These runes are only used to defend against wild beasts and weak monsters, things like cracking the earth are obviously beyond their scope of action.
Looking at the fissure that was still emitting flames and thick smoke, Liya subconsciously clenched the staff in her hand: "What the hell... what's going on?"
"No matter what's going on, I think we have to solve the problem at hand first." Hao Ren said with a frown, and as far as he could see, some humanoid creatures burning with flames were flying one after another. Surround me.