Alien Relic Hunter

"Then... what should we do now? Are we going to find someone else?" Mo Jue seemed a little confused at this time - although she has been working as a "lumberjack" for many years, she has never reached such a deep area. , and have never encountered such a bizarre thing.

What's more, this happened to me.

This is like a swimmer. Although her water quality is excellent, the deepest point of the swimming pool she faces all year round is no more than two meters, and the water quality is so clear that she can see the white tiles at the bottom of the pool - but if When this swimmer looks directly into the pitch-black, bottomless abyss of the ocean, he will probably feel terrified. At this time, if a pair of scarlet eyes suddenly lit up in the depths of the ocean and looked into the eyes of this athlete, a person with a slightly inferior psychological quality would probably be frightened and faint.

"More than two hours have passed. With the speed at which they are moving, I'm afraid they are far away from us now." Ke Lan said, "What's more... they left in several different directions, plus Those weird phenomena in the forest... It’s as difficult as going to the sky to find them.”

"What should we do?" Mo Jue's breathing was very rapid, and she could even hear her heart beating in her chest.

"Instead of running around like headless flies in the forest... it's better to continue to move forward according to the original goal." Ke Lan said solemnly, "I believe that after they regain their consciousness, they will make the same choice. of."

"Are we going to continue moving forward?" Mo Jue was stunned for a moment and looked at Ke Lan in disbelief.

"What else? Should we exit the forest now?" Ke Lan asked, "I have a 'navigator', but they don't... For them, escaping from this forest is probably more difficult than going to the core area... After all, we are only a dozen kilometers away from the core of the forest, and if we want to get out, it will be more than twice the distance."

"But... the further you go, the more..."

Mo Jue originally wanted to say, "The further you go, the more dangerous it becomes," but the words got stuck in her throat... because she realized that the current situation was bad enough, how could it get worse?

The "Shaojiang-class" frigate's plasma main gun, the overwhelming biological weapons, the strange thick fog and the deleted memories... After experiencing these things, she suddenly felt that the terrible memories and memories deep in the forest had been in her mind. The impression seems to be gradually fading.

"One more thing, if there is really a big secret hidden in the core of the Gray Mist Forest, even if we are the only ones who reach that place, we may be able to use this secret to rescue other people trapped in the forest."

This is like playing a game. As long as your teammates are not dead, even if they are trapped in a maze and cannot escape, as long as one person in the team defeats the final BOSS and clears the game, then these teammates will naturally survive.

Assuming that the Gray Mist Forest is a "relic" built by Alpha Civilization, then as long as we can seize control of the core area, we may be able to directly release the people trapped in the forest.

"But your 'navigation' can only reach a depth of thirty-five kilometers. If we go any further, we will lose our way!" Mo Jue said.

"So, we have to collect clues first."

"Clue? What clue?"

"With such a big warship here, we can't just ignore it." Ke Lan said as he dragged Mo Jue forward.

Ke Lan was not sure whether his memory had been deleted, but at least his position had not changed significantly. After taking a few steps forward, the wreckage of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate appeared again in front of Ke Lan. within the field of vision.

The beast tide has receded, and the thick fog has completely swallowed up the entire wreckage of the battleship.

Borrowing Ze Luo's ability to push away the fog, Ke Lan and Mo Jue carefully looked at the battlefield not long ago - the corpses of those biological weapons had long been completely degraded and turned into nutrients that were absorbed by the soil and fog habitats. They don't even leave their bones behind.

The main component of the bones of most animals on the earth is inorganic salts mainly composed of "calcium". When the organic matter in the bones is decomposed by microorganisms, the remaining parts can often be preserved for a long time. But these biological weapons are different. Although their bone composition is similar, when an individual dies, the body will secrete a substance that can dissolve this type of inorganic salt during the degradation process, turning it into a liquid state, along with other nutrients. absorbed by the soil.

This is the ultimate recycling efficiency. As long as the forest is not completely destroyed, these biological weapons can be continuously produced. And as long as the bodies of these biological weapons fall within the scope of the forest after death, it cannot be regarded as a waste at all. loss.

The Gray Mist Forest only needs to consume a very small amount of resources to "resurrect" these dead biological weapons in a brand new manner.

For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly thought of a fungus called "Enoki Mushroom" that he had eaten the day before and could often be seen in the toilet the next day.

Although this metaphor seems a bit disgusting, the essence of these biological weapons is actually very similar to the enoki mushrooms that cannot be digested by the human stomach.

If the Gray Mist Forest is a big melting pot, then they are weapons used to defend this melting pot. If the weapons are damaged in the battle, as long as the metal quality of the weapons is not reduced too much, rebuilding them will not consume many resources at all - - Even if Ark sends an army of the size that attacked the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City into the forest, it will only end up being overwhelmed by the endless sea of ​​monsters.

Fortunately, these biological weapons must abide by the rules of the gray fog forest - they will only attack intruders who are within the scope of the forest but are not overwhelmed by the thick fog.

Using Ze Luo's ability to push away the thick fog is actually taking advantage of a loophole in the rules: as long as the scope of the fog is not too exaggerated, it will not attract the attention of the "Forest Will", and naturally it will not attract biological weapons. s attack.

"This warhead... I just fired..."

Mo Jue bent down and picked up an iron-black warhead from the ground that was thicker than her thumb. It was a tungsten core armor-piercing projectile. The warhead was not armored, but was completely forged from high-strength tungsten alloy. With the support of a large-caliber anti-material sniper rifle such as the TAC-50, this warhead can easily penetrate a half-meter-thick solid wall made of high-grade concrete at a distance of one hundred meters, but in those biological weapons The one in front of him was deflated, and even the originally cone-shaped warhead had been squeezed into a flat button shape.

"Let's go."

With just a few glances, Ke Lan was able to determine that there were no clues worth paying attention to on this battlefield, so he immediately called Mo Jue to go inside the wreckage of the battleship.

He did not choose other pieces of wreckage, but still placed his target on the bridge - firstly, to check the "corroded" corpse that had not been collected in time; secondly, because the bridge contained the most important parts of the entire battleship. The core component: central control computer.

The core power reactor is the heart of a battleship, and the central control computer is the brain of the battleship. Basically all operating instructions need to be executed through the central control computer. If the "Special Operations Fleet" was in the gray fog forest before, If anything is discovered, the automatic backup system of the central control computer will also completely record the data.

Not to mention that with the advancement of technology, many battleships' central control computers will be equipped with AI - this kind of AI is not comparable to the smart butler in Ke Lan's family. You know, any breakthrough in any technology will eventually The first to enjoy these technological products is definitely the military industry, not the civilian market.

Although civilian AI seems to be more personified, and therefore seems to be more intelligent, that is just because these civilian AIs are supported by big data on the Internet, and can find the dialogue closest to the current situation from this data. In essence, it is just An imitation of human interaction behavior. As for the core performance such as computing power and thinking logic, it is absolutely incomparable to military AI that looks emotionless and mechanical.

According to the files found on the Ark, the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Kai" is also equipped with an AI. The name of the AI ​​is the battleship's serial number "SX-016".

Ke Lan had paid attention to the central control computer on the bridge when he was communicating with the wreckage. From the outside, it seemed to be very well preserved... Apart from anything else, if the central control computer was seriously damaged, Not to mention controlling so many missile launchers and artillery, or even activating the plasma main gun, it is impossible to even balance the warship in the air.

The "Shaojiang-class" frigate has 32 main thrusters alone, and there are thousands of posture control nozzles on the whole ship. It is simply impossible to control the warship by manual operation.

The so-called "manual operation mode" actually relies on the intelligent command system of the main control computer - it seems that the helmsman used the joystick to make the warship turn around in the air, but in fact the simple instruction of turning around has enough steps. There are thousands of steps, even down to how many degrees a certain nozzle is turned in a certain direction, and how many percent of the jet output is adjusted to the maximum power... If the central control computer is damaged, it will be impossible for this battleship to fly. of.

The Walker mecha can be controlled by vines because the machine itself is not a huge thing, but a battleship several hundred meters long cannot be lifted into the air by the power of those vines alone.

Perhaps it was precisely because they knew the importance of the central control computer that the vines not only did not destroy it, but instead woven it into a huge protective cover, wrapping the entire central control computer in it.

With this "protective cover" in place, even if the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate crashes for the second time, the central control computer should not be damaged.

After all, the original protection measures for this thing are already very complete.

As long as Ke Lan can restart the "Shaojiang modified" central control computer, he can ask a lot of things from the military AI.

Why Captain Hruny Yang was transformed from a human into a "corrosion", what the special operations fleet discovered in the depths of the gray fog forest, what kind of experience the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate encountered in the forest after it crashed, The gray mist forest is like controlling a battleship through those vines - these problems that troubled Ke Lan will be solved. Thinking of this, Ke Lan couldn't help but speed up the pace.

On the contrary, Mo Jue, who was following him, seemed a little overly cautious. Especially when passing by the cabin doors on both sides of the corridor, his whole body became even more tense.

"Do you think there are monsters hiding in the wreckage of the battleship that haven't retreated with the beast tide?" Mo Jue asked in a low voice.

"Probably not. These biological weapons are different from aboriginal creatures. They have no self-awareness and are more like controlled robots. They will not hesitate when charging and will not be sloppy when retreating, unless it's the one you mentioned.' The will of the forest wants to ambush us in the wreckage of the battleship." Ke Lan said, "But even if there are biological weapons in these cabins, there are not many hidden. With the combat power of Ze Luo and I, even if these cabins are full, It’s full of biological weapons and won’t pose any threat to us.”

After saying this, Ke Lan couldn't help but twitch his lips - although he said "with the fighting power of Ze Luo and I", in fact, 99% of it was due to Ze Luo. As for Ke Lan himself , it is estimated that being able to deal with three or four biological weapons is already the limit.

"Sanwu Girl and I are responsible for killing randomly, she is responsible for killing, and I am responsible for killing. Well, there is nothing wrong with it. The two of us are really strong." Ke Lan complained to himself in his heart.

The three of them... or rather, two and one, quickly passed through the corridor and arrived in front of the bridge door. The hole that Ke Lan had cut in the air-tight door was still there.

However, Ke Lan looked along the entrance of the cave, and the body of Hruni..."The Erosion" was nowhere to be seen.

If you follow the plot of a horror movie, the disappeared "corroded" corpse will most likely be resurrected, and then hidden in a corner waiting for the protagonist to approach and then give the protagonist a "surprise"... But Ke Lan is not worried. "Corruption" was resurrected from the dead. Although that thing was very strange, its actual combat effectiveness was not high. He could suppress it alone without Ze Luo's help.

The combat effectiveness of "Corruption" is not even as good as that of a ghost-faced giant owl.

And judging from the traces left on the bridge floor, many biological weapons had visited this place not long ago. The "corroded" body was most likely swallowed or dragged away by these biological weapons.

"Huh... Ignore it for now. Restarting the central control computer is the most important thing now."

Ke Lan ignored Mo Jue's question of "Who should we care about first?" and walked quickly to the two-meter-high power supply of the central control computer. He used the power of space to peel away the vines wrapped around it and pulled away those with arms. Thick cables were exposed.