Chapter 1554: Concealing the Truth
The lunar base is already aware of the fierce battle taking place at the Zenith space station - it is not that there is a problem with the signal blockage of the drone group, but that as long as your eyes are not blind, you can find that patch of space in space by looking up from the lunar base There are a large number of light spots flickering around the bright spot, and slightly sophisticated optical observation equipment is enough to clearly observe that the space station arranged in the high orbit of the mother star is being "besieged" by a group of war weapons of unknown origin.
War is an obvious thing - at least in the eyes of the people at the lunar base, they are suffering from a new war.
In fact, the moment the drone swarm blocked the Zenith communication network, the lunar base issued a very high-level security alert, and then thousands of optical observation stations and radar antennas turned in that direction. The residents of the moon tried to figure out what happened. However, except for optical observations, other communication methods-including all secret channels and emergency communication channels were only clutter, and the radar transmissions were completely incomprehensible. Identification of distorted signals.
Without convenient means of communication and radar observation, the agents on the moon found that they could only rely on their eyes to understand the situation on the distant battlefield. These artificial intelligence life forms representing advanced technology felt as if they had suddenly fallen into In some ancient times, the most primitive means must be used to collect intelligence and formulate strategies based on this intelligence - just as recorded in the great think tanks, humans in the medieval savagery era relied on waving flags, lighting fireworks and " "Look at my eyes and act" to convey the signal, and the agents at this moment are similar, which makes the lunar society that has always been orderly feel a little panic.
However, under the control of the mastermind located in the fortress, order was quickly restored. Subsequently, a series of response instructions based on the current situation were issued from the fortress. A large number of space fighters took off from the lunar base, and space warfare was rarely initiated. The fast gunboats also roared away from the star port: according to the results of optical observations, the enemy that besieged the Zenith was an extremely agile mysterious enemy. The bulky battleships and heavy gunboats were probably useless against them. The continuous firing of rapid-fire cannons can effectively attack those monsters, so the troops that take off from the lunar base are basically this type of fast units.
Of course, the more important reason is that the agents have few heavy battleships available: in the fight against Galactus, the heavy space battleships that can only perform space bombing missions are almost useless. As early as a dozen centuries ago, these heavy space battleships were of no use. The old antiques have almost been eliminated.
The support troops that kept taking off from the moon naturally fell into Hao Ren's eyes.
The cleverly camouflaged attack aircraft (Lily gave this aircraft a temporary name as "Trojan Horse") was approaching the moon according to its predetermined trajectory, although it did not make direct contact with the support troops that took off from the moon. But with a large number of aircraft taking off from the moon, there was such an injured one landing on the moon. It would undoubtedly look very eye-catching - so Hao Ren had been worried about whether this "Trojan horse" was from the beginning. He would be found out soon, but as time passed, he found that his worries seemed to be unnecessary.
The aircraft is successfully passing every identification checkpoint: even though it doesn't even have an actual pilot.
In the cockpit of the aircraft, what is placed on the seat is actually a data terminal. The latter projects a vivid holographic image, which is exactly the image of the original pilot of the aircraft: this is to cope with certain inspection platforms. automatic image acquisition equipment. On the screen in front of the driver, the conversation records between the lunar surface safety system and the onboard computer are constantly displayed:
"XX tower calls flight unit No. XXXX and submits the identification code."
"No. XXXX responded, the identification code has been submitted, and the request passed barrier No. 1."
"XX Tower is asking flight unit No. XXXX to record the reason for your behavior."
"Response No. XXXX. This aircraft was attacked on the Zenith battlefield and lost its ability to fight back. Because the space station was blocked by the enemy group, it was unable to return to the station for repairs. Therefore, it urgently went to the lunar base to perform maintenance procedures."
"XX Tower conveyed instructions that Zenith constellation-related information has been listed as high-priority information by the mastermind. Please upload the battlefield recorder data."
"No. XXXX understands that the battlefield recorder data is being uploaded..."
On one side is the shipboard computer whose core program has been modified by the autonomous machines, and on the other side is the customs AI of the lunar security system. The two computers, which are not very intelligent, are chatting animatedly using an automatic question and answer program.
Hao Ren had expected early on that the fighter jet that had escaped from the Zenith would be highly valued by the mastermind on the moon, so he prepared a carefully prepared battlefield record in the onboard computer in advance. Now it seems that this Battlefield records also came in handy.
In the process, the "Trojan Horse" finally passed all the air control barriers, and slowly lowered its altitude and approached a building complex composed of a large number of hemispherical domes on the moon. One of the domes in the building complex received Requesting a signal to enter the port, the hemispherical dome immediately opened a circular hole large enough for fighter planes to enter, and a large number of operating mechanical structures could be seen inside the hole.
This is the automated maintenance factory built by the agents.
"I didn't expect it to be so easy," Hao Ren couldn't help but said to N-6 as the aircraft slowly fell into the dome building. "The entire process is controlled by an automatic system, and it doesn't seem to be particularly intelligent... …If you arrange some advanced AI, such as a bionic robot like you, to check in, I’m afraid it won’t be so easy to sneak in. At least you can ask some more flexible questions.”
"However, that will greatly reduce the efficiency and waste the service life of our logic circuits." N-6 shook his head. "The automatic system is sufficient, efficient and fast, and can batch process the data of the large army entering and exiting. If If it weren't for the emergence of people like you, whose technological strength far exceeds ours, the automatic identification system would not be so easily deceived - and if we encounter an opponent of your level, I believe that even upgrading the identification system will be useless. It’s easy to develop new responses.”
The robot girl's logical judgment was still so simple, straightforward and practical. She didn't feel embarrassed at all because her tribe was in a disadvantaged position. She seemed to be just stating the facts, but it made Hao Ren a little embarrassed.
"Ahem, actually if it is not necessary, we still hope to establish communication with a civilization of survivors like you through normal channels," Hao Ren touched his nose, "However, the situation forces me to really have no choice."
At this time, Lily glanced at the screen hanging in the cabin: "Landlord, we are flying in... It seems like something is approaching."
After entering the dome building, the control of the aircraft was automatically taken over by the building's maintenance system. In order to prevent an alarm from being triggered, the data terminal did not prevent this process. At this moment, Hao Ren took a look at the situation outside and saw that the Agent attack aircraft he was riding on was being grabbed by a set of powerful mechanical arms and sent to a metal platform - there were a large number of servo machines around the platform that were moving from Rising from the ground, the front end of each small robotic arm is equipped with an electronic eye that emits a red light. They move around the scarred attack aircraft to confirm the damage to the war machine and prepare to formulate a repair plan: If this continues , they can quickly discover the anomalies of this aircraft.
However, Hao Ren had already made arrangements for this. At the same time as the maintenance platform was activated, the attack aircraft's hatch opened a small crack, and a blue light rushed out from inside in the blink of an eye. Its speed was so fast that it was far away from it. The nearest robotic arm just tilted its steel head slightly, and the electronic eye installed on the engineering claw flashed twice, and then regarded the stream of light as a normal lens reflection.
However, the data terminal has quietly flown to the corner of the maintenance workshop. According to the information provided by N-4 before, it successfully found the hexagonal metal device installed on the wall: this is the control of the maintenance workshop. center, but it also connects all the automation systems of the entire nearby building complex.
The data terminal attached itself to the surface of the metal device. A large amount of data and patterns were immediately refreshed on the display on the front of the metal device. With the injection of foreign code, the threads on the screen changed from green for normal operation to green for error reporting. red, then everything returns to normal.
At least it looks normal on the surface.
"The virus has taken effect, partner," the data terminal sent back a message, "the scope of infection is expanding, you can come out."
There was a slight mechanical friction sound from the belly of the "Trojan Horse", and then the armor plate used for camouflage flipped over. Hao Ren led the others to jump out one by one: they were right under the eyelids of a lot of electronic eyes. It was moving swaggeringly underneath, but the mechanical arms around it showed no response.
Lily curiously poked the robotic hand closest to her with her paw, and the robotic hand moved sluggishly to the side, but other than that, there was no other reaction.
"Stop poking, these things won't react." Hao Ren patted Lily's head, making the husky's strong curiosity calm down a little. "The data terminal has injected information into all the systems of this maintenance center. Viruses now believe they are performing a complex but smooth repair procedure."
"The virus cannot provide cover for too long," N-6 reminded. "According to the prescribed procedures, the pilot of this attack aircraft needs to report to the nearest barracks within an hour and perform the combat data extraction process, so we only have An hour, and after that the agents will know something is wrong - and so will the Mastermind."
Hao Ren nodded: "That's enough, we just need to leave this place."
All systems in the maintenance center have been infected by the virus, and since the agent society is based on artificial intelligence and automatic control systems from top to bottom, all operations of the maintenance center are controlled by computers - therefore Hao Ren and his party left the place in an almost dignified manner. Apart from having to avoid some patrolling soldiers, they did not need to pay attention to any monitoring equipment.