The lunar base - strictly speaking, it is not a base, but the entire lunar surface is completely covered, reinforced, and armed, this natural satellite has been reduced to a steel fortress after thousands of years of continuous construction, it is coldly suspended in the vast universe, with a forest of guns and heavy armor pointing in the direction of the home star, which has to be said to be a kind of sadness.The exiles who have been expelled from their homeland have been looking in the direction of their homeland for thousands of years, hoping that one day they will return to the land where they once thrived, but they have to wear their nerve and point all their weapons in the direction of their homeland, which has become their enemy.The survivor society established and maintained under such circumstances can hardly have the vigor and vitality that a normal civilization should have.The entire Lunar Base is a huge, disciplined barracks, with factories and barracks accounting for seventy or eighty percent of all the facilities, and a long stretch of steel is full of mining supports and production centers for assembling war machines, where highly intelligent mechanical cyborgs called "Substitutes" are constantly being built and sent to the constellation Zenith after a short period of adaptation and rearmament - after a short period of time, Half of them will be filled as consumables in the shredder on the home planet that will never be filled.It's almost a miracle that a Proxy like the N-4 has been in service for more than a decade, and more often than not, like the N-6, was counterattacked by the eldest son during a bombing mission, and then easily shot down, crashed, and turned into a pile of fragmented wreckage on the home planet.If Hao Ren and his party hadn't been encountered, N-6's existence would have ended at that moment.Carefully dodging a group of patrol planes flying over the avenue, N-6 poked her head out of her hiding place, but somehow these inexplicable thoughts came to her mind: about the world she lived in, about the life of the agent, about her own fate.It was the first time she had thought about her own fate, and to be honest, Miss Walker felt that it was a bit of a waste of power.Perhaps this is what the "emotional problem" is often referred to by those who have served for more than a certain period of time?
N-6 was a little curious to check the operation of her logic circuits, knowing that there would be a big difference between those who had been in the service for a long time and those who had just left the factory, even if the former did not download new logic programs from the big think tanks, and this difference would appear over time.N-4 had talked to herself about this topic, and they referred to it as experience accumulation and emotional development, but N-6 had never been able to understand these things, and now she felt as if she was about to understand.It turns out that after surviving for a while......
The logic circuit will start to generate some code that has nothing to do with the main program."
There's automation everywhere," Lily looked around curiously, her golden eyes reflecting the steel buildings in the distance, "Deserted......"
"This is normal," Hao Ren nodded, "This society doesn't have any entertainment activities, and there is no need for livelihood industries, what we saw along the way were either factories or barracks, and the newly produced soldiers and war machines were all stored in their respective warehouses, and they were sent directly to the front line by transport planes when they went out to fight- It's hard for me to imagine a society with a busy street scene and pedestrians wandering around. ”Vivien frowned, "But the surrogate is actually emotional......
At least N-4 has a lot of feelings, and N-6 is actually not bad. ”Izax nodded: "Yes, they have the foundation to build a normal society, but they don't have the margin. ”Hao Ren did not continue the topic, he raised his head and looked in the direction in which his group was heading: a huge "mountain" was ahead, and it did not look very far away, that is, the "fortress" in the mouths of N-4 and N-6.The fortress is a round steel fortress, when viewed from the air, it looks like a round cake with regular edges and a slight sunken interior, and at the edge of the fortress is a neatly arranged black cube structure, from which huge metal pipes and corridors extend, connecting with each other and pointing to the central structure of the fortress, where they meet, you can see an alloy column hundreds of meters high, the doorless and windowless, prison-like black cylinder is the place where human beings live, the palace of the end.It is not really like a palace for the Creator to live in, but it is the place of faith and belief of all the substitutes.The black cubes neatly arranged at the edge of the fortress are actually part of the mastermind, they are the superstructure of thirteen giant servers, under the steel earth, these black cubes have a larger body and a more complex array of secondary servers, and all these things are centrally connected to the final palace, according to N-4, there is also a computer room inside the final palace, where there are also thirteen servers, which is the location of the masterbrain's interactive interface and control center.It was useless to simply touch or destroy those black cubes on the edge of the fortress, and the destination of Hao Ren and his party was in the final fortress, the most central computer room.The road map to the fortress is clear and unambiguous, but it is not so easy to get close to it without even noticing.Although the eldest son (the Devourer of Planets as the Surrogate Walker speaks) never performed complex tactics such as sending spies or sabotaging internally, the humans who originally designed and built the lunar base still set up layers of checkpoints and patrols around the fortress according to their habits, and these designs were inherited and carried forward by the masterminds who later took over the management of the lunar surface.Hao Ren and the others saw a lot of patrols and sentinels along the way: there were Surrogate Guards in small combat vehicles, and there were electronic monitoring stations fixed in certain places that constantly scanned the surroundings, but more often than not, there was a small thing called a "patrol plane", which was a disc-shaped intelligent aerial vehicle, they were only the size of a basketball, usually in groups of three or six, and they were distributed all over the lunar surface, especially around the fortress.They are the eyes and ears of the mastermind.It is not difficult to eliminate these "eyes and ears", a well-cultivated husky and a brick that can be attacked from afar and defended can kill all the outposts, but this is bound to cause a storm of the entire lunar base. move, by that time, the overwhelming Agent Legion may be enough to completely overwhelm the small team led by Hao Ren.Hao Ren is indeed leading all gold medal fighters, but in this place, gold medal fighters are not invincible, even if Vivien's small bat can stun a hundred ordinary agent soldiers, she doesn't have 10,000 small bats to throw when she really meets a million army......
So Hao Rendu walked very cautiously along the way, the N-6 could guide the team to bypass the main surveillance equipment, and the data terminal constantly sensed the patrols wandering nearby, and issued an alarm in advance, relying on these two major helps, they were able to get so close to the fortress without danger.Hao Ren originally wanted to try to let the data terminal fly a certain distance and then take everyone away through space teleportation, but the moment the terminal activated the space equipment, it sensed at least seventy radar signals coming together, so this idea had to be abandoned.Obviously, although the agents have not yet been able to point out the chrono jump technology, their radar is not blind, the abnormal energy fluctuations and electromagnetic radiation before the opening of the space door are enough to arouse the alertness of the main brain, considering that the temporary dizziness and perception disorder after the completion of the space teleportation will cause everyone's combat effectiveness to decrease, Hao Ren must give up this overly risky method of rushing.Thankfully, however, the "good show" arranged by Hao Ren in the constellation Zenith had its due effect, and the mastermind's attention was almost entirely drawn to the battle in space—along with the large number of troops left behind on the lunar base.Although there are still a significant number of Legions of Agents remaining on the moon to maintain the necessary force for the base, their numbers have been greatly reduced.Hao Ren and his party crossed the road to the fortress without danger, and the dark and heavy steel building finally appeared in front of them."
The fortress was built on the basis of a crater, originally just an underground bunker with an alloy shield excavated at the bottom of the crater," N-6 said with pride as he looked at the towering black barrier in front of him, "but it has undergone countless transformations and enhancements, large and small, over thousands of years, and now it is basically impossible to see what it once looked like except for this circular outline."
Its outer shell is littered with the Mastermind's sensors and electronic eyes, and the entire black wall is made of activated metal, and any contact with the outer wall will be transmitted to the Mastermind in real time - what are you going to do with this?
”Izax looked at the black fence not far away: "What about the air or underground?"
”N-6 shook his head: "There is a layer of repulsive shield in the air, although it is not as good as your shield technology, but the repulsive shield itself is 'sentient', and the main brain can also sense something entering its fortress through the shield, and it is not feasible to go underground, because the underground is wrapped in a hemispherical activated metal shell, and it is impossible to sneak into it quietly." ”Vivien thought for a moment, "It sounds like the entire fortress is wrapped in a barrier......
This structure gives the impression that it can detach from the lunar base at any time. ”N-6 looked at her and was silent for two seconds before saying, "You guessed it, the entire fortress is indeed designed to be a separate structure from the moon at any time, this great project was completed three thousand years ago, and subsequent improvements and corrections continue intermittently to this day.It aims to save the last light of survivor society when the situation is desperate and irreparable: if the lunar base falls and the Zenith station is destroyed by the Planet Devourers, then the fortress will lift off and fly into space as a new 'Zenith Ark', where humanity and the mastermind still have a glimmer of hope to find a home in the vast universe."
At the same time, the Surrogate has planted enough annihilation reactors inside the Moon to propel the entire planet into orbit, and if the fortress does come to the point where it will have to flee home again, the Surrogate will detonate those annihilation reactors after the fortress lifts off, and the Moon will then change its orbit and eventually crash into the parent star.We don't know if this will eventually destroy the Devourer of Planets, but at least ......
We can go home. ”This plan made people gasp, and Lily's eyes widened even more: "Are you crazy?"
”"We just want to go home."