Chapter 1556 Tau Guards

Agents are not a "species" born on the home planet. At least agents like N-6, who are highly intelligent and have an image close to humans, were actually developed in the era of space exile. If we really want to set a legal "home" for these artificial intelligences, then their homes are actually the Zenith laboratory and the production base on the moon - no matter from which aspect, they do not belong to the parent star group. .

Those who truly regard their home planet as their homeland and long to return home should actually be the humans who created the agents.

However, humans poured a lot of emotion into creating the agents. Faced with the doomsday pressure brought by Galactus, they taught their children everything they knew and had, just like parents educate their children. Tell the agents how to think, tell the agents how to fight, they instill in the latter human ideas, human culture, and... the "hometown" of human beings.

During thousands of years of ups and downs, the agents integrated the knowledge they learned from the creator into the depths of their own logic circuits, and learned and absorbed it all in their own way. Therefore, even though they were not born on their home planet, each of them knows that their hometown refers to their home star.

It is three hundred thousand kilometers away, but there is no way back.

Hao Ren decided to fulfill the exiles' wish to return home, but before that, he first had to enter the fortress and have a face-to-face conversation with the ruler of this survivor civilization. He wanted to meet the humans who had survived to this day, and even more so. That mastermind may have malfunctioned and become an unstable factor.

"It sounds like the fortress is very well defended, but this thing is definitely not fully enclosed now." He glanced at N-6, knowing that this robot lady must have more to say, "At least it is still on the moon now. To function as a command center, it must maintain a necessary connection with the planet - which connection can allow us to enter and exit?"

"Yes, the fortress is indeed not fully enclosed - although most of its structure is wrapped in activated metal and repulsive force fields, it also needs to maintain physical connections with the various information nodes of the lunar base, and at the same time We need to rely on several nearby reactors to provide energy, and these energy pipes and cable pipes should come in handy," N-6 said, but finally reminded him, "But I am just a mass-produced combat agent. This is all you know, what you encounter after drilling into those pipes depends entirely on your response."

"Don't worry, adaptability is my specialty," Hao Ren smiled confidently, "You may not believe it, but I have an even more awesome boss above me. That boss is responsible for random changes all year round. , I am responsible for contingency..."

N-6 blinked innocently. As a serious artificial intelligence, she said she didn't understand the meaning of Hao Ren's joke.

Hao Ren touched his nose awkwardly and abruptly brought back the topic: "Okay, let's go - the mastermind should have received the report from the maintenance center by now."

A modified Zenith fighter jet landed on the moon - this news could not be kept secret forever. Soon the superior AI in the maintenance center and barracks area discovered the fighter jet that had returned from the Zenith battlefield, and Traces of modifications inside the fighter plane were discovered. This information was immediately reported to the mastermind, and a server in the mastermind that was functioning normally quickly concluded that there was an intruder.

Alarms rang through every communication channel, and the guard troops near the fortress came out in full force. A surveillance network that was ten times tighter than before was activated. Almost instantly, the area around the fortress became a quagmire that made it difficult for intruders to fly.

However, at this time, Hao Ren and his party had entered the fortress through a secret passage.

This is a passage used for transporting supplies. Its entrance is located at the base of the fortress wall. Hao Ren demolished the protective wall near the passage before sneaking in without anyone noticing. This passage is wide and dark, with several neatly laid tracks inside. On those cold tracks, self-driving freight vehicles rush back and forth, delivering boxes of supplies into the interior of the fortress.

Hao Ren used a data terminal to hack the host computer of one of the freight trains, and hid it with others in a certain cargo box of the train. N-6 pointed at several cans neatly stacked in the back half of the cargo box: " In addition to consuming a lot of energy during operation, the main brain's server also needs to consume things like K/N dielectric solution, and some important chips in the server are immersed in these solutions."

Vivian asked casually: "Isn't the fortress a self-sufficient independent facility? Why does it need external supplies?"

"It does have the ability to be self-sufficient, but when it is on the moon, it still relies on the logistics system of the lunar base to maintain operations," N-6 explained. "The fortress's self-sufficient ability is used to deal with the worst case scenario. , we will not use them unless necessary."

At this time, Hao Ren suddenly felt a squirming movement in his clothes, and then the little mermaid poked his head out from his collar. The little guy stared straight into the depths of the fortress, a pair of bright eyes shining in the dim environment. Shine.

The baby fish was very well-behaved along the way and almost never showed his face, so Hao Ren was a little surprised at this time: "What's wrong?"

The little mermaid didn't answer, just shook her head slightly and held Hao Ren's collar tightly.

"News from the Zenith constellation 'battlefield'," the data terminal suddenly said, "The resistance of the Zenith constellation guard troops is getting stronger and stronger, and the follow-up troops of the drone group are temporarily unable to arrive at the battlefield. In addition, the use of drones is prohibited. Destructive weapons, the aircraft fleet is almost unable to maintain the blockade of the battlefield."

"It's almost time for the support troops from the lunar base to arrive," N-6 said. "You don't really want to turn this into a war, do you?"

"Of course not," Hao Ren laughed, "The mission of the drone swarm has been completed. They were just covering our operation. Terminal, notify Nolan and ask her to temporarily retreat with the fleet - But don’t run too fast, it’s best to pull the Zenith troops in a few circles on the high-altitude orbit, trying to divert the Mastermind’s attention for a while.”

"learn."

As he spoke, the automatic train transporting supplies made a roar of mechanical friction. The car body shook, and then entered the deceleration process. The data terminal that was establishing a wireless connection with the train host immediately flew into the air: "We have arrived at our destination. The machine downloaded the basic information of the cargo loading and unloading station from the database of the train host computer. After a while, the machine will temporarily interfere with the nearby monitoring equipment. After we leave the train, we leave through the left channel."

"From here on, it is the defense area of ​​the Titanium Guards." N-6 picked up the electromagnetic assault rifle from the side - this gun was given to her by N-4 when setting off. "The combat effectiveness of the Titanium Guards is comparable to that of us." The mass-produced agents are not at the same level at all, and they are directly controlled by the mastermind, and their combat skills and awareness are far stronger than those of the regular army. Although you are also very strong, I still recommend that you don't be careless."

Vivian smiled: "Don't worry, we have dealt with all kinds of enemies, and we will never underestimate the enemy under any circumstances. And you don't need to be nervous, your new body is stronger than before, you know this of."

The automatic train slowly stopped next to a metal platform. A large number of mechanical claws and transfer platforms suspended in mid-air were immediately raised on the platform. These mechanical devices began to busy unload the goods on the train, and at the same time, several Swift shadows flashed between these busy machines.

According to the map information deciphered from the data terminal, Hao Ren and his party successfully found the passage leading deeper into the fortress.

There are only limited lights in the passage, which makes this cold steel corridor look even more eerie and lonely. Just like other places in the lunar base, the interior of the fortress is also extremely deserted. Only occasionally someone can be heard in the deep and long corridor. The low sound of mechanical operation or the hum of electricity came from every corner, but such sounds only made the place seem even more dead.

But the corridor is not empty - there are Tau guards guarding the key points.

"There are guards ahead," Lily, who was walking in front, stopped first, turned around and mouthed, "Three."

Hao Ren slightly poked his head out from the corner of the corridor, and sure enough he saw three figures armed with guns on guard in front of a gate in front of him - they were bionic soldiers that were taller than N-6, but they were different from N-6, which completely imitated human appearance. -6 is different. The surface of the bodies of the three soldiers is glowing with a metallic cold light. They do not have bionic skins. Instead, they have original steel shells and a faint white light that travels between the gaps in the steel shells.

The data terminal quickly scanned out that these soldiers not only had a stronger body structure, but also had a layer of shields.

As expected, it is an elite machine that is several times more advanced than ordinary agents.

From here on, the entire security system of the fortress is directly controlled by the mastermind. Whether it is injecting viruses or interference into the monitoring system, it is impossible to hide it from the eyes of the fortress.

But the action team has successfully entered the fortress, and there are only a few corridors and layers of alloy protective walls between them and the mastermind.

So Hao Ren decided to say hello to the mastermind.

"Vivian, you deal with the one on the left, I'll deal with the one in the middle, Lao Wang, you deal with the one on the right. Lily and N-6, don't take action, stay put to prevent accidents."

After assigning combat tasks, Hao Ren immediately took out his prosecutor's gun from his pocket, and was the first to rush out from his hiding place.

Move, aim, and shoot in one go. He is a hero among bombers.

What followed closely was the bat plasma bomb (which is ball lightning) thrown by Vivian and the evil energy fireball used by Yzaks.

The three Tau guards fell like this - one was blown into a sky full of crystal dust, one had his torso shattered by electric current, and one was burned into a semi-molten state by the fel fireball.

Hao Ren immediately felt something was wrong.