The Collection of The End

"Collect Doomsday ()"

——AD.2162.5.12——

The Omega Galaxy, the outskirts of the "Freedom Road" colony.

When Kangna actually came to the scene of the incident, she discovered that the location of the colony was very unreasonable.

There is no scenery, no resources, and it is not on an arterial road suitable for take-off and landing. Apart from living, there is absolutely no conditions for development and growth.

As for their purpose...

[Confirmation information: ‘Freedom Road’ Colony]

[Establishment date: March 22, 2162]

[Registered population: 39 people]

[Public information: The construction goal of this colony is to provide various transit services for the citizens of the "District Alliance" who are interested in immigrating to the "People's Alliance", hence the name "Road to Freedom". 】

Smuggling... No, this should be regarded as a transit service area, only dealing with immigrants who plan to pass through the Omega Star Gate.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for these people who are preparing to make great achievements to suddenly "immigrate" on their own.

"How's it going? What's the plan?" Gwen looked at the quiet colony for a while, then turned to Kangna and asked.

"From the outside, there are indeed no traces of an attack. If it wasn't for the 'infiltrators' having large-scale mental interference capabilities, or their very fast actions, the residents wouldn't even be able to fire a single shot," Kangna retracted Eyes, "But we still have to go in and conduct a detailed survey."

If it was caused by a strange robot, as a former android, I would definitely be able to find clues...probably.

Ka-chi-boom!

The shock wave from the explosion of the small homing missile shattered all the glass in a house module, and the flying debris caused the mass effect shield on Kangna, who was hiding behind the bunker, to flash wildly.

"Are you sure there are no clues here?!" Kangna shouted to Gwen who was hiding on the other side.

"I'll shoot those intelligence officers when I get back!" Gwen responded loudly.

The attack was not only sudden, but also well-prepared.

When Connor and Gwen first entered the colony, the building complex composed of housing containers was dead silent, as if the buildings were really empty. But the moment they arrived at the center of the colony, a vicious crossfire trap was instantly activated.

First, more than a dozen glowing red plasma grenades were scattered and thrown over, and then automatic turrets were erected on the roofs of various places with a fire range that completely covered the open space. Finally, the guard robots that were originally huddled in the corners were resurrected, and the The gun was pointed.

In this kind of ambush circle, even a well-trained N-series force will have its shield destroyed by grenades in an instant, the armor will be penetrated by the turret with enhanced armor-piercing projectiles, and finally it will be beaten one by one by those guard robots with large calibers. Pierce the head.

For this situation, Kangna only needs to use "Psychic Shield" or "Psychic Leap" to easily solve the dilemma. If she wants to be cool, she can even use "Psychic Interface" to convert all damage into psychic energy absorption. It's just that if you want to protect Gwen, you have to do some more operations.

But the problem is that she is the person in charge of making her own body. She must know exactly whether she can use her powers. If she does, maybe she will be "recalled from hell" as the imprisoned Dr. Wilson said. The idea of ​​"devil" will be seriously studied.

Fortunately, before these countermeasures could be implemented, Gwen had already cast her web, grabbed Kang Na by the waist and took her into a nearby housing module.

At that time, "Spider Girl" wiped her sweat and said a few words amidst the violent explosions and roars outside:

"I was almost killed by one attack, but luckily I'm better at it."

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Since the fire trap seemed to target a "team of explorers" as an imaginary enemy and could only be used once, after Conner and Gwen dodged the edge and went around, they easily destroyed the trap components one by one that could still fight independently. And successfully found the colony's main control room.

"Their programming has been modified, and the hostile targets have been replaced with 'human beings'.

"Gwen said to Kangna after checking various settings.

"Tsk...Reaper..." Kangna hesitated.

This familiar behavior of "replacing humans in set keywords" has already happened once in the "Omnic Crisis".

However, at that time, the android would still need to be "overloaded" and then receive specific words, and the "out of control" state would be completely unpredictable.

In contrast, these "infiltrators" have more direct, effective and lasting control over machinery, but they do not seem to be able to cause effects on androids - oh, I am not an android now, so that's okay.

"Looking on the bright side, the investigators were not attacked in the previous disappearances. Does this mean that some records that can confirm their action patterns are still preserved?" Gwen looked around.

"Yes, that's it." Kangna projected a surveillance screen on the wall: "This record will be deleted by the system in two days because it only stores records for a maximum of seven days. If we come back then, it will be completely impossible to find out. Any clues."

What is shown on the screen appears to be routine surveillance of the colony's landing field.

It can be clearly seen that a person who appears to be a manager is delivering a passionate speech to the twenty or thirty people in front of him. His tone is passionate and his gestures are powerful. However, because there is no sound, Kangna can only tell what he said from the shape of his mouth. .

There seem to be keywords such as "opportunity", "whole" and "development".

Finally, with a wave of his hand, the leader led all the colonists onto a transport ship.

These scenes look normal, that is, the residents of the colony left on their own because of some important matters. There was no forced behavior during the period, and the related incidents can even be closed directly - if there is no follow-up.

A few minutes after the transport ship's door closed, another figure appeared.

That was the leader who was giving an impassioned speech before, and he was being carried on a man's shoulders like a dead fish.

The person carrying the man was carrying an adult man, but he seemed quite relaxed. He carried the "leader" to the back door of the transport plane, and when he threw the man inside, his original face was revealed in the surveillance camera - the third "leader" ".

“Hiss—” Gwen took a breath: “Have these ‘infiltrators’ gone from merely pretending to be humans to collect intelligence, to replacing human leaders and abducting humans on a large scale?”

"Compared to 'civilization', although this kind of behavior will arouse vigilance, it is more effective." Kangna frowned: "We can only warn the Star Alliance and the Citadel to add perspective scanning at the entrances and exits of certain important facilities, instead of the original simple The face, voice and fingerprints were confirmed."

"What a good idea." Gwen began to operate his multi-purpose tool. "So, this search operation has been successfully completed. Oh, I really hate writing reports."

Um...wait?

If you are still using the bionic human body, after encountering the enhanced scanning method... will your true colors be revealed directly?

Has John made it this far?