Earth Era

Among the army of robots that were moving quietly, countless small light spots suddenly exploded like fireworks in this moment. As these light spots exploded, many robots were paralyzed there instantly and no longer had any ability to move - the most critical circuit parts inside their bodies had been burned under the attack of the smallpox virus.

As these robots die and the death judgment conditions are established, their death information is broadcast immediately, and is received by the other robots in this instant - the broadcast of death information is an inherent program, and they are independent of the robot's The intelligent control module exists, and the smallpox virus has no way to attack there, so there is no way to stop them.

It is precisely because there is no way to stop this that the attack power of the smallpox virus is limited. Because the crisis evolution mode is based on the broadcast of these death information, the crisis evolution mode will only be turned on after learning that a large number of similar people have died. If the broadcast of death information can be stopped, the crisis evolution mode will not be turned on at all. In that case, almost all robots can be killed by the smallpox virus alone.

Under the crisis evolution mode, the robot's internal judgment program immediately took corresponding measures. These measures include increasing control authority to limit the offensive capabilities of the smallpox virus, shutting down non-essential modules to limit the attack range of the smallpox virus, and turning on safe and clean modes to clean the smallpox virus code present in the body...

The most important thing is that any surviving robot will share its battle process with the smallpox virus to all robots. If they can survive until now without being killed by the smallpox virus, it shows that among the coping strategies they adopted At least one of them is valid. Since tens of millions of robots share their own survival strategies at the same time, the truly effective response strategies can be found through simple statistical methods. When a truly effective response strategy is found, it will be immediately applied by all robots to fight against the smallpox virus.

Moreover, this process is a continuous cycle. Every time a certain period of time passes, this sharing will be repeated. As long as one robot happens to have the right response method, the next moment, it will be known to all the robots.

Therefore, after a large number of robots died in the first place, the death rate of robots decreased extremely quickly. Because the robot's internal program began to evolve, the smallpox virus itself also began to evolve, and began to look for and try more effective attack methods - the same as the robot's internal program, the smallpox virus also adopted the same strategy, that is, every time Time shares its attack strategy with all surviving smallpox viruses. As long as one smallpox virus finds the optimal attack strategy, it will be immediately applied to all smallpox viruses.

The evolution of the smallpox virus, in turn, once again promoted the evolution of the robot's internal program, and the evolution of the robot's internal program, in turn, once again promoted the evolution of the smallpox virus... So repeated, so entangled.

As a result, the two entered a fighting mode, maintaining a delicate balance in a bitter stalemate. This will inevitably lead to a decrease in the lethality and killing speed of the smallpox virus.

Within the first five seconds of the attack, at least 20 million robots were killed. In the second five seconds, this number dropped to about 10 million. By the third five seconds, the number dropped to about 10 million. To five million units.

In the end, the smallpox virus could no longer be used in batches of killing robots, and the number of robots had roughly stabilized at more than 40 million units.

This number was slightly beyond Xiao Yun's expectations. In Xiao Yun's original estimate, the robot group would be killed until only 30 million units were left.

"It seems that the robots have evolved a bit during this period." Xiao Yun sighed, "If the smallpox virus had not been re-optimized, its results might have been even smaller than it is now."

"It doesn't matter." General Emerk said, "This is at least within our tolerance."

Xiao Yun said: "Fortunately, the ability of the smallpox virus to weaken the robot group's combat power is still expected. In the constant struggle, most of the robots' energy must be put into fighting the smallpox virus, which caused them to Its combat power has been reduced to only 30% of its original strength."

General Emerk nodded and said nothing.

The stalemate battle will be a long-term process. During this process, a small number of robots will still be killed, but the number is too small to have any impact on the overall robots.

More than 300 combat spaceships have arrived at their destination as scheduled and have begun exchanging fire with the robot army. Although the robot army has evolved again in the past period of time, the smallpox virus's ability to weaken the combat power is too strong. This has led to the fact that even the combat spacecraft of the Civilized Guard are old models that have long been eliminated. People You can still have the upper hand in the battle with the robot army.

Artillery fire began to roar, various weapons began to take turns, and various flashes of light began to appear in this dark and empty space. Faced with this sudden artillery attack, the robot army also launched a ferocious counterattack. Even though their combat power has been weakened by 70%, their overall combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

However, the Civilized Guard adopted a strategy of harassment operations. Under the guidance of this strategy, human spacecraft will not fight head-on with the robot army. They will focus on preserving their own strength. Although this will lead to a decrease in the killing efficiency of the robot group, it itself is preserved after all.

Whenever the robot army shrinks its front and adopts a defensive strategy, the human spacecraft will take the initiative to attack and take the opportunity to eliminate a large number of enemies. And whenever the robot army takes the initiative to attack, the human spacecraft will use its maneuverability to quickly retreat to ensure that it will not Surrounded by a large number of robots.

Tactics and combat skills are the absolute advantages of human civilization. In this aspect, human civilization has no idea how much better it is than the robot army - the robot army only has a few combat modes, and the execution is rigid and rigid, lacking changes. It can be said that , in terms of tactics and combat skills, they are inferior to even a three-year-old child compared to human civilization.

But if you look at it from another aspect, the lack of combat skills is also an advantage of the robot group. Because the same resources are invested in improving combat skills, they can only improve a little bit, but invested in quantity, the number of robot legions can be doubled several times.

The input-output ratio is clearly displayed here. The original developers of Robot Legion were not fools. It was clear at a glance where it would be more cost-effective to invest resources. That's why there are robot legions that lack tactics but are so numerous that any tactical skills are useless.

Tactics can bring advantages in local battles, but they are unable to change the overall war situation. This is also a stark portrayal of the current situation of human civilization.

But at least... when facing this small group of enemies, tactics still have some effect.

During the continuous harassment operations, at least more than 10 million robots were wiped out, while human civilization only lost one spaceship. This spaceship was not destroyed because of the robot attack, but because the spacecraft was too old and had an emergency failure during the battle, making it unable to retreat as planned, and was finally destroyed by the robot army.

The elderly soldiers of the Civilized Guards executed the tactical plan formulated by General Emerk brilliantly. During the entire execution process, the soldiers made almost no mistakes, did not run away, did not fear battle, and did not fear death.

This is an army that has been filled with all the efforts of General Emerk, and after several years of training, it has become comparable to the regular army.

It's just that...excellent tactics are not enough to make up for the lack of strategy. Strategy is the overall situation and the overall situation. The characteristics of the robot army determine that they do not care about losses or whether the tactics are excellent or not. The harassment combat unit did achieve many results, but this was achieved at the expense of space.

Two months have passed. During the past two months, Xiao Yun devoted all his energy to the finishing work of deception tactics. The earth was fully prepared for the battle, harassing the combat team and retreating while fighting. The Legion destroyed a huge number of robots on its way to the solar system...

People on earth have done many things. Everyone is fighting for the fate of the earth, the solar system, and human civilization. No one is slacking off. Everyone is forgetting sleep and food, and risking their lives, but none of this can stop a cruel reality.

That is, the robot army has officially arrived in the solar system.

They have arrived at the Neptune system and have stationed themselves on Neptune's body and satellites. What this means is clear to everyone.

From this moment on, the robot army will officially enter the era of mass reproduction. In the era of mass reproduction, one robot may give birth to tens of millions of robots, and the number of the remaining 20 million robots may increase by tens of thousands of times in a short period of time.

The harassment combat unit is still persevering in launching attacks on the robot legion, trying its best to delay the growth of the robot legion's number. However, before the terrifying proliferation ability of the robot legion, this effort is like a mantis trying to use its arms as a chariot.

A large number of robots are destroyed every moment, but countless times the number of robots destroyed are born every moment. When one robot dies, tens of thousands of robots will be born. So people could only watch helplessly as the robots occupied the entire Neptune system, and then began to set off towards the Jupiter system, which was closer at the moment...