The Record of Unusual Creatures

After a few hours of time-space navigation, the giant turtle rock platform finally broke away from the hyperspace state in a brand new star area. With a sudden light that illuminates the space, the warped space opens, and the silver-white examiner ship slowly emerges from the space door.

"After arriving at the l-b-35 outpost, the automatic navigation is terminated."

Nolan's voice awakened Hao Ren from the star map. He looked up and saw that the analog projection around the bridge was gradually opening. The external monitor projected the panoramic view outside the spacecraft to the perimeter of the control platform.

He found that the spacecraft had arrived in a strange airspace surrounded by dust clouds. The space background here shows a slight lavender, perhaps with a thin, primitive air mass that fails to form a galaxy, and in the distance of the space background, you can see a series of bright gray bars with sharp outlines. Belt, that is where the new star is brewing. In front of the navigation direction of the Giant Turtle, he saw the landing point where the drone group was built.

There is a huge and weird metal fortress floating in space. It looks like a persimmon with a few protrusions. It is a nearly circular structure with a radius of several kilometers and a central depression. This huge fortress is gray and dark in color, and a lot of metal and rock are piled up together to make it look like a weird civilization. A lot of flashing lights can be seen at the edge of the fort. There are many things like pipes that come out of the most densely populated areas. Some busy drones come in and out of those pipes, like busy worker bees.

In the sag of the center of this huge fort, you can see several huge antenna-like structures placed in a protective net of self-defense artillery and surrounded by combat drones, although this All firepower is "civil level." But they still look full of majesty.

This is the nest built by the drone group. It is not in line with human aesthetics. It looks like a huge ant nest that is piled up with metal and stones. The machines just built this thing according to the principle of convenience and ease. But they don't know how to decorate their home. This fortress is the larger one in the lair of the drone group. It took a long time for a group of outpost drones to build a base of this size. But the l-b-35 sequence of the crew was fortunate enough to find an asteroid of suitable size and hardness, so they hollowed out the celestial body and built their own proliferation plant and facilities.

The giant turtle rock platform slowly flew toward a large platform on the edge of the weird fortress. Nolan’s voice continued to be broadcast on the bridge: “Automatic navigation to the drone’s lair, the welcome and guidance signals have been identified. In the port entry process, the main propeller stops, and the auxiliary propeller runs, saying that I have to report these things to you in such a stupid tone every time?"

"Don't insert anything else when reporting the state of the spacecraft," Hao Ren glanced at the small Nolan projection that was floating on the navigation map. "Would you follow the instructions?"

Nolan pouted and waved his hand. From her first point of view, the giant turtle Yantai is slowly approaching the strange fortress like the nest. A large number of drones include the original lb-35 fleet and the unmanned people who just ran from several nearby nodes. The planes flew around her, like the insects in the vicinity of the nest. Nolan’s tone couldn’t help but be a little weird: “I feel this place is scary, especially in front of the nest, like a nest.”

Lily also said a lot about this: "How could I not know where these drones are so gloomy?"

In fact, Hao Ren’s attention was mostly attracted by the weird drone nest: this is the first time he saw the nest.

Although he originally released the aircraft of these drones and gave them instructions for expansion and investigation, he never only met with the group of wandering out of the universe, or simply communicated directly with the crew on the communicator. In some cases, he has never personally come to see what these drone breeding factories look like today.

The fleet has expanded to this day. He only saw the first built nest node. To be honest, the appearance of this nest is indeed a bit different from what he expected.

He thought that this thing should be more like a coffin. After all, the technology side items that the Greek gods sent down are basically coffin-shaped.

The giant turtle rock platform slowly stopped on the platform under the guidance of the traction signal, and a group of mechanical devices floated from under the platform to hold the spacecraft firmly. Then Hao Ren and his entourage left the ship and stepped into the depths of the nest through a conduit.

In order to meet the "fleet commander", the nest was self-adjusted after receiving instructions from the superiors. It built a temporary inner atmosphere and a constant temperature system so that Hao Ren could be comfortable when they walked inside. There are two small rolling drones coming out of the nest core to greet their owners. They are two "lost explorers". This small body does not move in outer space, but is specially set up in a place like a nest or a post for internal inspection and mechanical maintenance, just like inside the giant turtle rock. The self-regulatory machinery is the same.

Hao Ren walked in the pipeline corridor under the guidance of the rogue explorer. The original inspection of the nest was just a casual move. But he didn't expect to see something so interesting here. The interior of the drone's nest is as strange as its exterior. There is no human aesthetic. The machines only build wide tubular passages and reinforced brackets as needed, so the metal and the original asteroid rocks are unmodified. Entangled together, the interior of the fortress is like the digestive system of a huge steel monster.

It is brightly lit, and the busy fleet is constantly moving through the holes and ducts.

Lily looked at the scene and picked it up: "I feel like the base of the villain."

Hao Ren didn't say anything, a rigid voice suddenly came from all around: "It's just similar, madam."

Lily "wow", she saw a huge, indefinite face floating in the air in front of the face, this face is projected with a light blue light, surrounded by countless rushing small rays of light. It turned out that everyone had arrived in a larger nest room without knowing it. Several main pipes meet here, forming an oval large space. Many mechanical devices whisper in this chamber. These machines They all have the characteristics of Xilin, but because they are placed in such a place like a nest, everything seems a bit weird.

“Hey, the fleet,” Hao Ren said with this face. Although he felt that the atmosphere of the nest was weird, he consulted all the relevant information in the examiner’s manual before releasing the drone, and later Many of my peers consulted about the issue of the fleet, so he seemed very calm, because he knew that this thing was like this. "This is the first time I saw your 'wolf'."

"The fleet said it was a great honor," the huge face shook, showing a changing smile, but the voice was still rigid. "I didn't expect the commander to suddenly enter the nest personally, so I rushed to build an ecological environment, hopefully. This environment is also comfortable."

"Amount, very good," Hao Ren grabbed his hair. "I was thinking about it and I didn't expect it to be so troublesome."

“The fleet doesn’t think it’s 'trouble’,” the blue big face said rigidly. “This is within my ability, so it’s a regular load.”

"Well, don't talk about this," Hao Ren knew that the thinking of the fleet was rather rigid, so he took the topic directly. "Is there any news about the lens traces that were tracked before?"

"The distance from the initial discovery of those traces has just passed less than twelve hours, and there has not been a probe to send back more information. The search is expanding, and it is expected that it will take another twenty-four hours to find further."

"Well, as I thought, it was not so easy," Hao Ren touched his chin, but he was not so anxious, because after seeing the drone's lair, he suddenly found that there are also many things that can be made here. I spend my time killing myself. It seems that I won’t be bored when I’m going to “open up the post”. “Then wait, just that I finally have a chance to get to know the work of the drone group. I’ve just mentioned that’ Just exactly like '? You know what Lily is saying?"

A large number of holographic projections emerge immediately around the chamber. The projections are a variety of film and television clips from humans or other alien races, movies, TV series, animations, games, and simple video clips. The story of a drone group or a robbery of an intelligent robot. Some of them are obviously fantasy, but there are some that are very disturbing: they look a bit like a realistic documentary.

Everyone looked at the short films that were suddenly displayed, and suddenly they didn’t know what to say, but they were very calm except for Lily’s nervousness: because these guys didn’t look at science fiction, Izaks I don’t know if ai is going away...

Hao Ren’s mouth twitched: “You can still collect these... I don’t think it’s strange to see these things?”

“I can connect to the Empire Data Network. Collecting these cultural works is my personal hobby. They reflect the interesting parts of the basic racial thinking process, while others reflect the 'civilized form'.” The fleet consciousness replied in a glance. "The rebellion of the drone group and the growing development of the ai are very interesting and have a discussion value. It looks like a serious documentary, but there is an overhead romantic part, which is a hot topic in our forum."

Hao Ren listened to the glimpse, the last sentence of the fleet consciousness made him stunned: "Your... Forum? Your 啥 forum?"

He suddenly found that even if he read a lot of manuals and inquired a lot of homework with his peers, he still knew very little about the drone empire that he had created.

This ever-increasing ai has become more and more like a living person. (To be continued...)