Alien Relic Hunter

"How could this happen?" Mo Jue's eyes were widened, and there was surprise on his face that could not be concealed at all.

"These people...these corpses, they should have been alive not long ago." Ke Lan murmured, "Otherwise, the manual emergency procedure would not have been activated at all."

At this moment, there was a sudden slight vibration on the ground of the bridge. Then, the originally dark screens lit up one after another, and several beams of blue light shot down from the center of the ceiling, forming a A huge holographic projection screen, with various complex parameters constantly flashing on it.

"What's going on?" Mo Jue took a few steps back in a panic and raised the bolt gun in her hand - but the moment she raised the muzzle of the gun, she hesitated...

She didn't find the source of the abnormal movement at all, and she didn't know where the enemy was hiding. Where should she aim her gun? Is it possible to shoot at this holographic projection screen?

"This battleship has been activated." Ke Lan said solemnly, "But we did not activate it..."

"But isn't our original purpose to launch this battleship..." Mo Jue said with some confusion, "Since 'they' can launch the battleship, why do they have to seal the bridge? There should be a gap between 'them' and us. Can’t they be considered enemies?”

"No, it wasn't 'them' who started the battleship...but these things." Ke Lan looked at the vines crawling everywhere in the bridge - these vines not only killed the debris in the bridge, but also kept It extends to the inside of the central control computer.

Although Ke Lan couldn't figure out how the vines were connected to the central control computer, it was obvious that these strange plants had completed the invasion of both the real and virtual worlds at the same time.

Ke Lan and the others were still a step slower.

The connection between the "Genoa" and the Gray Mist Forest, which was originally cut off by the Blasphemer mecha, has now been "repaired."

Thirty-three's voice also came from the communicator, with a chaotic sound of electricity: "Hello? Hiss... hiss... hello?! Ke Lan?! Can you hear my voice? I'm telling you , something seems to be wrong! Hiss... hiss... hiss... I haven't reached the power cabin yet... hiss... the main engine of this battleship has started... hiss... now the entire power cabin is locked. No, I can't get in at all...hiss...is there something going on on your bridge?"

"It won't be clear in the communicator for a while. Don't worry about the power cabin for now. Come to the bridge quickly." Ke Lan replied.

"Hiss... Okay, I know... Hiss... I'll be here right away... Hiss... In addition, I also discovered something... Hiss..."

"What's the matter?" Ke Lan asked.

"The originally motionless vines in the battleship seem to have come to life... hiss... I see... hiss... new shoots are starting to sprout in many places... hiss... if these fog vines revive... Hiss... the inside of this battleship will probably be filled with thick fog soon..." Thirty-three seemed to be running wildly, the soles of his hard rubber boots stepping on the metal corridor floor, and he kept making sounds. A crisp snapping sound.

"I know... the actual situation is actually worse than you thought." Ke Lan said, "I suggest you be mentally prepared."

"Don't worry... I've been through even the worst situations." Although Thirty-three said this, the frequency of his steps suddenly accelerated a lot, "Is there any danger over there now? Can you still persist?"

"Not yet. But I think... the situation is a bit beyond our control." Ke Lan thought for a while and told Thirty-Three the truth through the communicator, "The will of the forest has regained control of this battleship. Quan, it is not us who restart the battleship, but the Gray Mist Forest."

"I've...his...guessed it a long time ago." Thirty-three said. Suddenly there was a burst of intensive machine gun fire from his side. It was obvious that the automatic defense facilities inside the battleship had been activated.

"Are you OK?"

"It's not a big problem, just... hiss... just a few broken cannons." Thirty-three replied, "But I'm afraid I won't be able to communicate with you for the time being... hiss... hiss... wait for me , at most...hiss...five minutes, I'll be there...hiss..."

Before Thirty-three finished speaking, the communication was interrupted.

Although the in-ship communicator can use the metal structure inside the battleship to conduct "wired communication", this communication has almost no protection means and is easy to be intercepted and interfered. Since the forest will that controls the battleship has discovered three Thirteen also used an automatic cannon to attack it. Naturally, Thirty-three would not let Thirty-three maintain communication with Ke Lan and the others through the ship's communicator.

"Then... what are we going to do now?" Mo Jue looked at the bridge with vines everywhere in confusion and asked Ke Lan, "Try to... take back control of the battleship from these fog vines. right?"

The diameter of the thickest vines in the bridge is almost the same as the trunk of the fog tree at the red line. There are at least twenty giant vines like this... What are separated from the giant vines are sub-level branch vines. Although It is said to be the next level, but it is as thick as a python. The number of vines at this level is already a bit hard to count...

What grows from the "python-level" vines is a fog vine that is similar to the thickness of a human arm. This diameter of fog vine is also the most commonly seen in the forest outside. For "lumberjacks", this thickness A single strand of fog vine can be cut with a chainsaw equipped with a Nino alloy blade, but if a dozen or even hundreds of strands are entangled together, even heavy machinery will be unable to do anything about it.

The casing of the computer room where the central control computer is stored has been pried open by these vines. More than a thousand fog vines have penetrated through the gaps and are connected to the central control computer in a way that humans cannot understand. .

Logically speaking, as long as these fog vines are cut off, the connection between them and the battleship's central control computer can be interrupted. However, the consequence of doing so is that there is a high probability that the central control computer of the "Genoa" will also be destroyed.

In this environment where resources are extremely scarce, even if the team of engineers who designed this central control computer are here, they can't guarantee that they can fix it.

Not to mention people like Ke Lan who know almost nothing about this.

"Let me give it a try." Ke Lan responded, quickly ran to the captain's position, and pulled the operation panel that was tilted to one side.

Ke Lan first tried to wake up the military AI in the central control computer. Generally speaking, the military AI manufactured by Ark is very sensitive to unrecognized external data intrusions - especially intrusions through physical means like Kiriteng. Once the AI's self-protection mechanism is triggered, the central control computer will be locked directly. Not to mention starting the engine to make the warship fly, even the lights used for lighting in the bridge will not be turned on.

As long as you can get in touch with the AI, it shouldn't be a problem to regain control of the battleship...

But Ke Lan soon discovered that no matter what he tried, the AI ​​seemed to have been deleted from the system of the central control computer and completely disappeared.

"This is impossible... deleting the AI, what's the difference between destroying the central control computer?" Ke Lan's fingers rose and fell rapidly on the virtual keyboard, but the instructions he entered one after another seemed to be lost in the sea. get any response.

At this time, Mo Jue suddenly said behind Ke Lan: "I saw that those vines seemed to have destroyed a host just now..."

"What?" Ke Lan looked up at the computer room under the steps. He saw a few vines as thick as pythons directly wrapped around a data processor with a paint color that was completely different from other machines, just like a real python. Like strangulating prey, the three-meter-high data processor was crushed into a pile of scrap metal...

"Fuck..." After entering the "Genoa", Ke Lan finally couldn't help but uttered his first curse word, "This machine... is the host of the central control computer AI! These vines... this forest ...Are you crazy? Is it trying to prevent me from getting in touch with the AI?"

Although the AI ​​of the central control computer is only an artificial intelligence that exists in the virtual world, it also has an "entity" in the real world. The data processor that was just crushed by the vines is its entity.

The destruction of the host computer is equivalent to directly erasing the AI ​​of the central control computer from the physical level. And judging from the degree of damage to the host computer, even if it can be repaired, the original AI of the "Genoa" can be "resurrected" , it is almost impossible.

But... without military AI to assist in processing the huge data information collected into the central control computer, it would be impossible for this warship to move...

No, that's not right! Ke Lan soon realized that he was wrong...The importance of AI is only for humans. But for the gray fog forest, the entire forest has been connected to the battleship and the battleship's central control computer. Although Ke Lan doesn't know how the plants are connected to circuit boards, transistors, and silicon wafers. , but the fact is right in front of him, even if he can't understand it, he can only accept the reality.

For the gray fog forest, the AI ​​of the central control computer is dispensable... Each fog perch is equivalent to a computer host. Countless fog perches are connected together through the root system, which can provide the forest with The “computing power” provided may far exceed human imagination.

The information that the central control computer of a high-speed support ship "Genoa" needs to process is probably nothing in the face of this majestic computing power.

It is precisely because of this that the Gray Mist Forest has the confidence to directly obliterate the AI ​​of the "Genoa".

"It's over. Without AI, I can't communicate directly with the central control computer... Now I can only hope that the data with control permissions has not been deleted or rewritten..."

Ke Lan entered a few new instructions, opened the backend of the central control computer through the captain's exclusive terminal, and then entered his biometric data.

"The data cannot be identified."

"No matching sample was found in the database."

"Your current permissions are: Unauthorized visitors. If you do not exit the background program within fifteen seconds, you will be automatically identified as an intruder."

The border of the screen has lit up with a dazzling red light symbolizing warning, and an eye-catching countdown has also appeared in the center of the screen.

"Fifteen...fourteen..."

"It seems that what I was most worried about has happened... Sure enough, you shouldn't have any hope. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment... You should imagine things as the worst case scenario from the beginning..." Ke While Lan was muttering to himself, he never stopped holding his hand. He took out a large number of labeled memory cards and chips from a small bag close to his body, as well as many that looked like they had a strong smell. Gadget in official colors.

Since conventional means won't work, unconventional means must be used.

"I didn't expect that in the gray mist forest... my hacking skills could actually come in handy..." Ke Lan used an engineer shovel to pry open the cover under the operation panel, and removed several wires connected to the electrode pads from those small devices. He pulled it out and attached it to several contacts on the circuit board under the operation panel.

"nineteen……"

Immediately afterwards, Ke Lan inserted the chips, which were no more than the size of a fingernail, into the reserved slots on these small devices in a certain order.

"Eight...seven..."

The countdown suddenly got stuck when it counted to "seven". After a brief pause, the piercing alarm suddenly sounded: "Illegal intrusion detected! Illegal intrusion detected! Emergency measures will be taken -"

"What's going on? Did you mess up?" Mo Jue, who was standing guard behind Ke Lan, asked nervously, "Isn't there still seven seconds left in the countdown? Why did he immediately become an intruder?"

"It's not messed up, because what I'm doing now is the intruder." Ke Lan said without raising his head, "It's just that this machine is a bit stupid. If only it could react so quickly when those vines invaded it. ."

"Can you handle it then?"

"I'm trying. I can't guarantee whether it will work or not. I can only say that I will try my best." Ke Lan replied quickly, "You just need to help me watch my back... Since the system has detected an intruder, then There will definitely be corresponding countermeasures. The firewalls of the central control computer have all been activated. While blocking me, these firewalls will also delay the restart of the battleship, buying us more time. The only thing we need to worry about is the system Physical measures may be taken to deal with my 'intruder'."

"Physical means?" Mo Jue was stunned for a moment.

"Just like those automatic defense cannons in the corridor, as long as the 'invaders' can be blown to pieces, wouldn't the matter be solved?" Ke Lan said, "Keep an eye on the surroundings, now you don't have to worry about damaging the ship's hull. , as long as any weapon comes out, just blast it."

"Oh...ok, I get it!"

Mo Jue just raised his head, and before he had time to look around the bridge, he discovered that the corpses that were strung up in the air by vines and should have been completely dead suddenly started to struggle violently at this moment!

[P.S. Thanks to lunyuet for the 10,000 starting coins, this book owner club has added another person. Thanks to Soyoung for the 1,500 starting coins; to Fengmeng for the 1,000 starting coins; to Jixun for the 200 starting coins. 】