From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

After listening to the responses from his comrades, Payne pondered for a few seconds and said, "This place is not as crazy as Minova. There must be abandoned places, but they are not easy to find. We can first check the situation in the residential area before making plans for the sewer.

What about you? Magnus, do you have any better ideas?" Payne led the topic to Magnus.

"I agree to go to the residential area first." Magnus did not object.

"Okay! Let's go."

With the convenience of stealth equipment, everyone began to quickly travel between factories.

In fact, without the outline of friendly forces provided by the screen, Magnus can also use psychic perception to accurately locate Lieutenant Payne and the hunters.

He can also sense the emotional fluctuations of others, and then judge whether they are lying or hiding something. Of course, this does not work for his father.

But Magnus prefers the assistance of technology, which is convenient and worry-free.

The screen now showed him various data, such as the oxygen content in the vicinity increased by 3%, carbon dioxide and ammonia decreased by 1% and 2% respectively, and the temperature remained at minus 36 degrees.

It seemed to be a little better than the area where the space gate was located, but ordinary people still needed breathing masks and cold-proof clothing if they were exposed to such an environment to work and walk.

So while walking through the factory, Magnus saw that the workers were wrapped tightly.

He also found that there were also engineering mechas here to assist, but the opponent's engineering mechas were all about ten meters, and the roaring noise of the engine and the black exhaust gas sprayed out indicated that the opponent's mechas were diesel-driven.

Not long ago, the hunters of Group A collected and shared a lot of intelligence, revealing that the technological development of the alien race was completely different from that of humans.

After going deep into the steel city, Magnus believed that the 06 humans in the early stage of the war had the strength to confront the alien race head-on, after all, the heavy industry was very developed, but the unfavorable war in the later period and the retreat to the South Pole may be due to wrong decisions and lack of some luck.

And luck is also part of strength.

Afterwards.

It took them more than two hours to gradually pass through the vast industrial area and come to the buffer zone connecting with the main city.

From here, there was finally some life.

There were buildings of more than 40 floors on both sides of the main road. There were also a lot of signs outside the door windows with words such as "Classic Cangzhou Noodles" and "Old Soldier BBQ never uses synthetic meat, it is rat meat!" Some paths were even filled with pink lights.

Through the analysis of clothing, more than half of the people walking along the main road were workers, and the rest should be local residents and outsiders from other areas.

It seems that this buffer zone is not only a place for workers to relax and have fun, but also the main source of "currency" for local residents.

Even in the end of the world, in order to maintain the normal operation of such a super-giant city and the stability of social order, a unique economic system must be established to motivate people to work and create value, as well as to promote transactions and economic activities.

In the face of the uncertainty of being attacked by giant beasts at any time, people need to spend the "currency" they have accumulated to relieve pressure.

Demand drives supply. Over time, the areas that workers passed through during shift changes have developed into today's buffer zones.

The flow of people and gray industries have also led to poor security and a mix of good and bad people in such buffer zones, which is conducive to the hiding and infiltration of Payne and Magnus.

In the Antarctic, which is in polar daylight, it is difficult to distinguish between day and night, and the helmet screen shows that the local time is "23:12", which is considered a late night period. Correspondingly, the number of pedestrians on both sides of the main road has also decreased.

Then, Magnus and his party chose to leave the main road and came to the path between high-rise buildings.

This place is more prosperous and lively, with crisscrossing skybridges and platforms in the sky, and stairs outside the buildings leading directly to different consumption places, but they have no time to wander around, they are only concerned with collecting useful intelligence and looking for places that can serve as temporary bases for them.

Everyone dispersed.

Magnus, who was at the entrance of the alley, released his psychic perception and looked for a suitable observation target.

"I'm hungry."

"I regret it."

Instantly, countless emotions and superficial thoughts flooded into his mind, which gave Magnus a slight headache.

"I want to smoke."

However, not long after, he noticed a middle-aged woman passing by, hugging herself tightly with her arms, as if she was resisting some kind of addiction.

So he followed the woman, took the stairs to the overpass at least 60 meters above the ground, and passed through an automatic pressure-maintaining door to enter the middle-floor lobby of an old-fashioned giant building;

"Hand-knitted sweater! Scarf!"

"Authentic banmian! Little girl, you just got off work, do you want to drink some hot soup and eat some noodles?"

Magnus heard the owner's voice shouting, trying to attract people to come and patronize, and saw that in this "U"-shaped hall, there were stalls selling all kinds of goods and restaurants with different flavors.

And the data displayed on his helmet screen showed that the temperature and air quality in the hall had reached a pleasant level.

So when the woman came in here, she lifted her hood, took off her breathing mask, and ignored the stall owners and shop owners who were soliciting customers. She walked straight to the stairwell at the end and headed to the "market" on the next floor.

After passing through the open door, Magnus, who came here with him, felt a brief shock.

The stalls on the right hand side alone were openly displaying weapons and ammunition, indicating that the nature of this layer was not much different from the black market in the main universe, and it was very likely to be controlled by the mafia.

Continue to follow.

The woman finally stopped, then walked into a store selling old world cigarettes and alcohol, and went straight to the point: "Give me five Camels."

"Okay, a total of five hundred."

The clerk took out a sealed box with the Camel logo from under the counter, opened it, took out five cigarettes, and put them in a small plastic sealed bag.

Seeing this scene, the woman quickly took out a stack of plastic cash from her pocket and handed it to the other party.

The clerk took the cash of different colors, carefully verified and counted it, and confirmed that everything was correct before smiling again, "Thank you for your consumption, and take care."

"Yeah."

The woman nodded repeatedly, picked up the cigarettes and rushed out of the store, disappearing, as if she was ready to find an empty corner to enjoy it.

On the other hand, Magnus, who had a complete overview of the entire process, did not continue to follow the woman, but chose to wander around the black market, and by the way, he also thought of a general plan to integrate into the city.

The scale of the Steel City is quite large. Long before the reconnaissance mission began, the company predicted that the total population should be between 160 million and 190 million through the heat source reaction photographed by Eunice 006 at high altitude, which shows that there is a complex and diverse power structure within the city.

There are conflicts of interest between different forces, and the black market in front of us, and the gang members who maintain the security of the black market, are just a microcosm of this phenomenon.

Conflicts of interest will cause disputes, and will also affect human unity and lead to the collapse of trust.

Magnus has already known that the Steel City still retains cash transactions, and has also discovered that tobacco and alcohol are hard currency, which gives the company an excellent opportunity to intervene.

Thinking of this.

Magnus immediately opened the communication and said, "Lieutenant Payne, I think I have obtained enough intelligence here, it's time to discuss it."

"We too, let's meet here first."

Hearing this, Magnus saw the location just marked by Payne through the thumbnail map on the helmet screen, and then responded, "Okay, see you later."

The command center of the front-line base.

Sui Yang summarized the information as usual and marked it on the three-dimensional map presented on the central console. The left and right sides seemed a bit empty, after all, his son who was with him was also sent out.

Magnus is good at psychic power and has a similar "mind reading" to him, which helps to place the company's power in the steel city of Zero Six Humanity.

Sui Yang, who sorted out the coordinates and all the information, was still thinking about whether to invest a large amount of research and development funds and resources in the artificial intelligence and bionic human project he opened a year ago.

"Terminator" and "I, Robot" are just movies, but the debate on "whether artificial intelligence will betray its master" has never stopped, because once artificial intelligence has self-awareness, its evolution speed will surpass humans exponentially.

However, human development is always inseparable from "computing". Although Sui Yang had ordered the research department to carry out research on quantum computers as early as when he obtained the mass production means of Bose-Einstein condensate, he still cannot ignore the importance of artificial intelligence.

Bionics are closely related to artificial intelligence, but they are different concepts. There are also betrayal and attacks in film and television works, such as Ash in "Alien 1" and David in "Alien: Prometheus".

However, there are also characters who insist on standing on the side of humans, such as the Bishop and Annalee Cole in "Alien 2" and "4", and Annalee Cole is still thinking about solving the threat of aliens for humans and preventing humans from being implicated and harmed even after gaining self-awareness.

As for the influence of the subspace

Sui Yang had heard of "Electronic Daemon" before crossing over. In fact, it is the "code" and "virus" used by the Chaos forces to disintegrate the facilities and ships of the human side after the human beings in "Warhammer 40k" entered the Empire Age.

I also learned that some artificial intelligences in the dark technology era also have the ability to purify the corruption of the subspace, such as the "Tabula Myriad" stored on Mars.

So in addition to conducting research on artificial intelligence and androids, it is necessary to improve and establish a sound "law" framework to restrict them based on their fundamental operations and logic.

Secondly, the intelligence sent back by Hunter Group A shows that the Pioneers are using human genes for experiments and even mass-producing some small-sized biological weapons.

Combined with this, Sui Yang has more reason to believe that the Pioneers have infiltrated the Iron City. Maybe there are already many traitors or humanoid spies among the high-level people of Zero Six.

Sui Yang knew some of the Pioneers' weaknesses in advance through the movie "Pacific Rim". In addition, Atlas also has "green and pollution-free" tactical weapons such as metal hydrogen bombs, so the Pioneers' threat is not very serious.

In contrast, Sui Yang is more afraid of the Pioneers hidden in the Steel City.

In order to avoid compatriots from being implicated and to accurately find the "parasites", Atlas must infiltrate the Steel City without exposing itself, become a "dark side" force, and look for opportunities to perform "elimination surgery".

Beep-beep-.

At this time, two reminders caught Sui Yang's attention.

It turned out that the hunters of Group A were about to complete the disinfection measures. At the same time, the latest news came from Group B where Magnus was located, and they also made a request to arrange for a batch of bulk tobacco and alcohol produced by the company and to dispatch personnel to transport it to the Steel City. , to help them better integrate into local society

"approve".

After reviewing the application, Sui Yang responded.

Immediately afterwards, he sent an invitation for video communication to the Department of Biology. Soon, Alexia with long hair appeared on the holographic screen and proactively asked:

"What's wrong? Is there something urgent?"

"It doesn't matter. It's just a thought."

Sui Yang sent the graphic and text information he had compiled to Alexia, but before he could continue speaking, he heard a burst of hurried and angry words from the other party:

"Is this...wait? Shet! If I read correctly, those creatures bred by aliens definitely mixed our human genes!"

"It's most likely so." Sui Yang nodded lightly, seemingly without any emotion, and didn't comment too much.

In fact, Atlas is also using alien creatures to conduct experiments and weaponize them. However, as a human being, from a human standpoint, he deeply understands Alexia's anger because he also has the same emotions. .

"And I speculate that they even combined their own genes to cultivate humanoid biological weapons, so after listening to my ideas, you may turn your anger into motivation." Sui Yang did not have any intention of showing off, and sent Zero The zombie virus files of Universe Five were displayed and said:

"The biological samples brought back by the hunters will be sent to you soon. At that time, you can conduct analysis and research, and try to restore the genetic information of the alien creatures. If that doesn't work, I will send a hunter to secretly capture a living sample.

No matter what, you can use this virus to try to develop a variant that only targets alien creatures, so that they can experience real fear. How about it? "

"Since we can use the genes of different organisms and races, and then combine them with our own genes to conduct experiments, it shows that they can also be infected by viruses. Of course, we are extremely happy!"

Alexia had no objection at all, and even wanted to say that her boss was indeed better and more "creative" in the field of destroying enemies.