Hardcore crisis

The gray-black metal coating of the shell gleamed faintly in the dim snow, like a metal demon coming out of hell, stepping closer and closer to the snow step by step.

"Woo..."

A metal pole slowly rose and lowered from the thick snow. Just as the "Metal Demon" came, the rotating top automatically aligned with it, and a beam of blue light scanned up and down in a circle, and then gradually returned to the same state. It settled.

"Is this here?"

Wearing the Foxhunts-1 (Foxhunts) exoskeleton armor, the neuromechanical interface in front of Lu Yuan sent a signal of arrival at the destination.

Antarctica is in a state of polar night. The sky is very dark in many areas. In addition, the snowstorm in this area is also increasing. With temperatures of more than 80 degrees below zero, ordinary humans cannot carry out activities here at all. Even if they are Lu Yuan himself also had to wear an exoskeleton armor with automatic temperature adjustment in order to move freely.

During the Antarctic polar night, most normal scientific research activities are suspended, and few people dare to come to this place where blizzards are raging. Lu Yuan saw no trace of human activity along the way. Even if someone had been here, the terrible blizzard would have buried all traces.

After walking a few steps forward again, suddenly, the ground began to shake. Lu Yuan was not in a hurry, and waited quietly for the shaking to intensify, until suddenly the snow surged away, and a metal box like an elevator rose from the ground. Snow rose up.

"ID has been authenticated, iris scan verification completed, open the protective door..."

The metal lattice box is about 3 meters high, and the doors on both sides rotate open, revealing the space inside for people.

Lu Yuan didn't hesitate and stepped in first.

As soon as he entered the "elevator", the sliding doors on both sides closed again, and the entire metal box quickly sank. In less than ten minutes, all the traces caused here will be covered up by the snowstorm, and there will be no difference at all.

The "elevator" settled very quickly, but it took more than forty seconds to reach the end with a "ding" sound.

Outside the opened door was not the full view of the base that Lu Yuan had imagined, but a platform similar to a subway. A silver-decorated maglev "bullet" train stopped in front of the platform. It was only about ten meters long. Lu Yuan walked over in surprise, and the train's doors automatically opened to both sides.

"It's really okay."

Lu Yuan was a bit self-deprecating. He absorbed a lot of raw materials from the worlds of "Mechanical Enemy" and "Never Ending", but he didn't expect that Sonny would hide some of his manipulations. Especially after it openly rebelled, it unscrupulously spent a lot of resources on other places.

One is the construction of three additional bases. Although the scale is definitely not as large as the South Pacific submarine base, Lu Yuan still felt quite scary about building three bases within half a year without telling Lu Yuan.

Automated robots are indeed quite powerful in this regard. If Sonny is given enough resources and time, it may be possible to build a small base on the moon in less than five years. After all, in the world in "Mechanical Enemy", technology is enough to allow regular communication between the Earth and the Moon systems, and a large-scale colonial base has been built on Mars.

The maglev train slowly started to accelerate, and in this claustrophobic tunnel it quickly increased its speed to 300 miles per hour. In just over ten minutes, the surrounding tunnels suddenly turned into transparent vacuum tubes, and the entire train actually traveled under the sea. .

Lu Yuan looked at the left and right portholes of the train. In the dark and lightless depths of the ocean floor, only the light from the side of the train came through, breaking the silence of the underwater world.

But these rays of light only scattered less than twenty meters before being swallowed up by the surrounding seawater. Therefore, to be precise, the train is not traveling on the seabed, but in the seawater, which is thousands of meters deep. In the abyss of the sea, no matter how strong the light is, it cannot shine directly into it.

"What the hell did Sonny do to this base?"

Lu Yuan's doubts did not last long. Soon, he saw the appearance of the Antarctic base with his own eyes.

On the neuromechanical interface, the fully 3D modeled Antarctic base is a circular metal sphere with a radius of 150 meters, suspended in the seawater 50 to 200 meters below the ice. A building of this scale is very important to today's humans. It is said that it is incredibly large, but compared to the South Pacific submarine base, it is not even one-tenth the size.

According to the information left by Sonny, the remaining two of the three bases are used as production bases for robots and other equipment. The NS-5 cannot be autonomous because the body requires too many high-precision parts and chips. production, but other lagging models are good enough to produce on their own in mineral-rich areas.

Therefore, one of the two bases is located in central Africa, a country rich in metal minerals. The other one is located in Chile, hidden a hundred meters deep under the mountains.

The African base can independently produce 50 NS-1 robots or 100 crawler robots a day. These robots carry conventional thermal weapons. Their combat capabilities are mainly reflected on the frontal battlefield and are not suitable for special operations. The Chilean base specializes in producing drones and spider-type robots, which are suitable for unique street fighting.

But to be honest, if a few thousand of these robots are produced, they may be able to defeat some small countries, but they are not enough to defeat medium-sized or large countries, let alone the United States. In modern warfare, a superpower like the United States has a variety of extremely terrifying war weapons. Just facing a few cloud bombs or heavy artillery fire, these backward tracked robots will all be destroyed.

Lu Yuan didn't think much of these backward models of robots, so he quickly terminated the production tasks and turned them to other specialized and cutting-edge production tasks.

As for the last Antarctic base, it was Sonny's choice as a backup doomsday base.

Although the South Pacific base seemed safe before, after all, there was the remains of a prehistoric creature next to it. In addition, it housed many very dangerous creatures and conducted many biochemical experiments. Sonny was not completely reassured about this, so he did a good job Be prepared to evacuate in an emergency. This Antarctic base is a movable metal ball in the sea. Even if a nuclear war breaks out or even a more terrible disaster occurs, it can be used as a backup for evacuation and "comeback".

The maglev train began to slow down, and after driving along the vacuum pipe into the ball, it slowly stopped. Although this metal ball cannot be compared with the size of the South Pacific submarine base, the radius of 150 meters is quite large and can easily fit several aircraft carriers into it.

"..."

Silently, the train doors slid open to both sides, and Lu Yuan stepped out. What he saw were two NS-5 robots.

"No. 6 and No. 7?"

"Yes, sir, I am number 6."

"I'm No. 7."

Sonny selected ten robots as test subjects for human emotion simulation. Robots 1-10 are also the robots with the most emotions. They are definitely not comparable to Sonny. However, judging from the information left behind, Sonny seems to have already Found a way to activate emotions in artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword. If used well, it can play a very effective role. Once used improperly, Lu Yuan himself almost died is a good example. However, because of Sonny's rebellion, it is ridiculous and undesirable to abandon artificial intelligence and not use it, or even oppose artificial intelligence. With the development of science and technology, many fields will inevitably require the intervention of artificial intelligence. Whether in terms of efficiency or other aspects, artificial intelligence far surpasses humans.

On the one hand, if humans were to build this base, it would be impossible to complete it in less than ten years. The problems involved would be countless, and it is far less convenient and faster than using artificial intelligence.

Without artificial intelligence, Lu Yuan would not be able to manage global work. Without artificial intelligence, all robots and drones would be essentially useless. In view of this, Lu Yuan will not give up the use of artificial intelligence, but he must pay great attention to the development of human emotions through artificial intelligence. (To be continued ~^~)