After several hours of trans-space, the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace finally broke out of hyperspace in an entirely new star sector.With a light that suddenly lit up space, the warped space opened, and the silver-white censorship slowly emerged from the space door."
Arrive at L-B-35 Outpost Lair, autopilot terminated."
Nolan's voice woke Hao Ren from the star map, and he looked up to see that the simulated projection around the bridge was gradually unfolding, and the external monitor projected a panoramic view of the outside of the ship onto the perimeter of the control platform.He discovers that the ship has arrived in an unfamiliar airspace surrounded by clouds of dust.The space background here is a faint lilac, perhaps shrouded by some kind of thin, primordial air mass that has not yet formed galaxies, while in the distance of the space background, a series of sharply outlined bright gray bands can be seen, where new stars are brewing.And in front of the direction of the Giant Turtle Rock Terrace, he saw the foothold where the drone swarm had been built here.There is a large, eerie metal fortress floating in space, which looks like a persimmon with several protrusions, a near-circular structure with a radius of several kilometers, with a central depression and bulges around it.The massive fortress is grayish-white and dark black, with a large amount of metal and rock piled together, making it look like some kind of strange remnant of civilization.A lot of flickering lights could be seen at the edge of the fort, and there were a lot of pipe-like things poking out of the densest places of light, and some busy drones were coming and going through those pipe openings, like busy worker bees.In the hollow in the center of the massive fortress, you can see several massive antenna-like structures, housed in a ring of self-defense artillery nets, surrounded by combat drones patrolling and guarding, all of which are "civilian-grade" but still look majestic.This is the nest built by the drone swarm, it does not conform to human aesthetics, it looks like a giant ant nest made of metal and stones, and the machines have built it according to the principle of convenience and use, but they don't know how to decorate their homes.This fortress is one of the larger nests of the drone swarm, and it would have taken a long time for a group of outpost drones to build a base of this size, but the L-B-35 series group was lucky enough to find an asteroid of the right size and hardness, so they hollowed out the celestial body and built their own breeding factories and various facilities in it.The Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace slowly flew towards a large platform on the edge of the eerie fortress, and Nolan's voice continued to broadcast from the bridge: "Autopilot to the drone lair, welcome and guidance signals have been recognized."
Entering the port process, the main thruster stops, and the auxiliary thruster is running - do I have to report these things to you in such a stupid tone every time?
”"Don't insert anything else when reporting the status of the spaceship," Hao Ren glanced at the trumpet Nolan projection that was floating on the navigation map, "Shall we follow the manual?"
”Nolan pouted and waved her hand, watching from her first hand as the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace slowly approached the strange ant-nest-like fortress, and a large number of drones—including the original L-B-35 swarm and the drones that had just come to her aid from a few nearby nodes—flew around her, like a swarm of insects guarding the lair.Nolan's tone couldn't help but be a little strange: "I feel that this place is strange and scary, especially the nest in front, like a worm nest." ”Lily also had a slight comment on this: "How did I not know that the place where these drones gather is so eerie?
”In fact, most of Hao Ren's attention was drawn to the strange drone nest: it was the first time he had seen a nest.Although he was the one who first released the mother planes of these drones and gave them expansion and reconnaissance instructions, he had never only met with the swarm formations that roamed in the universe, or simply communicated with the swarm consciousness directly on the communicator, and he had never seen in person what the breeding factories of these drones looked like like today.It was only today that he saw the first nest node built.To be honest, the appearance of the nest was a bit different from what he expected.He also thought that this thing should be more like a coffin, after all, the technological side items issued by the Xiling God Department were basically coffin-shaped.The Giant Tortoise Rock Platform slowly stopped onto the platform under the guidance signal, and a group of mechanical devices stepped into the depths of the lair from a conduit on the platform.In order to welcome the "fleet commander", the nest adjusted itself after receiving the order from its superiors to visit, and it built a temporary inner atmosphere and thermostatic system, so that Hao Ren and the others could be more comfortable when they walked inside.Two small round drones come out of the core of the nest to greet their owners, they are two "Wanderer Explorers", these small planes do not operate in outer space, but are specially set up in places such as nests or outposts for internal patrol and mechanical maintenance, just like the autonomous machines in the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace.Hao Ren walked down the pipe corridor under the Wanderer's Detector, originally inspecting the lair as a casual move, but he didn't expect to see such an interesting thing here.The inside of the drone lair is as eerie as its exterior, devoid of human aesthetics, and the machines have only built wide tubular passages and reinforced brackets as needed, so that the metal and the primitive asteroid rock are entangled without embellishment, making the inside of the fortress look like the digestive system of some kind of giant steel monster.It's brightly lit, and the busy fleet is constantly shuttling through holes and conduits.Lily looked at the scene and muttered, "It feels like the villain's base." ”Before Hao Ren could say anything, a rigid voice suddenly came from all around: "It's just just similar, ma'am." ”Lily let out a "wow" as she saw a large, amorphous face appear in the air in front of her, projected in a pale blue glow, surrounded by countless small streams of light.It turned out that everyone had unconsciously arrived at a large nest chamber, where several main pipes intersected, forming a huge oval-shaped space, and many mechanical devices were running in this chamber in a low voice, these machines all had Xiling characteristics, but because they were placed in such a place like a hive, everything seemed a little weird."
Yo, the group," Hao Ren greeted the face, although he also thought that the atmosphere of this nest was weird, but he had consulted all the relevant information in the examiner's manual before releasing the drone, and had consulted many colleagues about the group later, so he seemed very calm, because he knew that this thing was like this, "Anyway, this is the first time I have seen your 'nest'." ”"The group said it was honored," the huge face quivered, and an ever-changing smile appeared, but the voice remained rigid, "I didn't expect the Commander to suddenly enter the lair himself, so I hastily built the environment, hoping that it would still be comfortable. ”"Well, it's good," Hao Ren scratched his hair, "I just thought about coming to see it, but I didn't expect it to make you so troublesome." ”"The fleet doesn't think it's 'troublesome,'" said the big blue face stiffly, "and it's within my reach, so it's a regular load." ”"Okay, let's not talk about this," Hao Ren knew that the thinking of the group was relatively rigid, so he directly brought up the topic, "Is there any update on those lens traces that were tracked before?"
”"Less than twelve hours have passed since the initial discovery of those traces, and no further information has yet been sent back from the probes.The search is being expanded and further discovery is expected to take as little as 24 hours. ”"Well, as I thought, it's really not so easy," Hao Ren muttered as he touched his chin, but he didn't get impatient, because after seeing the drone's lair, he suddenly found that there were also many things here to kill his time, and it seemed that he wouldn't be bored while waiting for news about this "frontier outpost", "Then wait, it just so happens that I finally have a chance to learn about the work of the drone swarm."
By the way, you just mentioned 'just just happening to be similar'?
Do you know what Lily is talking about?
”Immediately around the chamber there were a large number of holographic projections, which were filled with a variety of film clips from humans or other alien races, movies, TV series, animations, games, and plain video clips depicting the mutiny of various drone swarms or the rampaging of intelligent robots.Some of them are clearly fantasy, but others are unsettling: they look a bit like realistic documentaries.Everyone watched these short films that were suddenly displayed, and they didn't know what to say, but except for Lily, who was more nervous, the others seemed very calm: because these guys don't watch science fiction movies at all, and Izax didn't even know what an AI rampage was......
The corners of Hao Ren's mouth twitched: "It turns out that you can still collect these......
Anyway, don't you think it's weird to look at these things?
”"I can connect to the Imperial Data Network, and collecting these cultural works is my personal hobby, they embody interesting parts of the thinking process of the basic native race, and some of them embody the 'civilization form'," the group consciousness replied with a glance, "The mutiny of the drone swarm and the plot of the continuous development of AI leading to the loss of control are interesting and discussable, and they seem to be serious non-fiction, but there are overhead romantic parts, which are hot topics on our forum." ”Hao Ren was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and the last sentence of the group consciousness made him stunned: "Your ......
Forum?
What's your forum?
”He suddenly found that even though he had read a lot of manuals and asked a lot of homework with his peers, he still knew very little about the drone empire he had created.This increasingly powerful AI has become more and more like a living person.
(To be continued.) )