Chapter 413: Constructing the Queen Bee

A barren mountain outside the capital, overlooking the entire battlefield.

The originally flat land turned extremely black under the ultra-high-density bombing, and there were horrible body fragments everywhere. Endless rebel soldiers rushed through the death minefield like a tide, rushed to the top of the capital city and fought bloody close combat with the enemy.

After more than eight hours of fierce fighting during the day, it was already dusk, and the setting sun reflected the bodies of the soldiers on both sides of the attack and defense, as well as the weapons in their hands.

The sound of artillery fire, shouting, and the clanging of weapons hitting each other intertwined to form a bloody symphony, and the two warring parties fought fiercely on the city wall.

The battle became extremely bloody at the beginning, because the distance between the two sides was too close, and the guns could not be used, and they directly engaged in a meat-crushing hand-to-hand combat.

The rebel soldiers rushed to the city wall like a tide, killing efficiently in silence, using their own bodies as weapons to continuously crush the enemies in front of them.

The soldiers of the capital were also fighting back, holding sabers or engineer shovels, waving them wildly at the heads and bodies of the enemies, and shouting and roaring from time to time.

The soldiers of both sides were like two counter-currents, colliding and entangled with each other. Countless people died every minute and every second, and lives were ruthlessly harvested like grass. The wind was even stained with the smell of blood, which became extremely pungent under the mixture of gunpowder and smoke.

Su Mo and Su Motong were standing on the top of the mountain at this time, watching this scene from afar.

Su Motong's state was different from usual. Her dark eyes were full of sharpness, revealing maturity and coldness beyond her age.

Deep in her pupils surged a majestic and strange energy vortex, as mysterious and unpredictable as the undercurrent under the deep sea, as if it was going to swallow everything in.

At the same time, she was still mumbling something. If you listen carefully, you will find that it is a kind of whisper that does not belong to the human language system.

"KasiLorHbvMyt"

Strange syllables kept coming out of her mouth, and the frequency of change was not high, but every time she spoke, the attack mode of the rebel soldiers in the distance would be adjusted to a certain extent.

The queen bee is controlling her worker bees.

Su Mo looked at Su Mo Tong, and his mind was full of thoughts.

That's right, none of the rebel soldiers who participated in the battle in the capital this time were human, all of them were constructs.

In the past three years, the future has restored the mass production method of extraordinary power based on the relevant knowledge in the "Human Documents", completely breaking through the blockade of giant companies.

Su Mo has also been using the ground-flight technology used during the beast crisis to enter the underground node based on his memories of the game, and recover the construct manufacturing technology left there.

When the Edge Building was greatly expanded downward, the "humans" secretly manufactured in the culture dish were constructs.

This mass-produced construct belongs to the "worker bee" in its population structure. Their body functions are several times that of humans, roughly equivalent to the entry-level extraordinary people who have reached the first stage of extraordinary power.

The individual strength of the worker bee constructs is not very strong, but they are huge in number. In the past three years, there are more than two million constructs born under the Edge Building. In the old days, it was the size of a large country's active army.

They can enter a dormant state when they are inactive, greatly reducing energy loss, and can stay dormant for up to one or two years.

If they need to eat, they can also draw the required energy from silicate substances, in the most popular language, that is, eating stones.

So in the past three years, even though there are so many constructs hidden under the Edge Building, Su Mo has never worried about supply issues, after all, stones are everywhere.

Apart from the physical strength that exceeds that of humans, the most important thing is undoubtedly the characteristics of these constructs.

The construct is a population built with hive consciousness. The "worker bee" individual has no self-thinking and only executes the instructions input into the consciousness by the "queen bee" or "main brain".

This means that they will not be afraid, despair, or happy on the battlefield. In the true sense, there is no emotional fluctuation at all, just like machines.

Charge at all costs under artillery fire and mines like just now, and send more than 600,000 lives in 8 hours, no army in human history can bear it.

But for the constructs, death or life, fighting or dormancy, it is the same for them, just executing orders.

Even if that kind of charge is suicidal, it is just a duty engraved in the bones of the worker bees, and it will not be shaken and cannot be shaken.

And the "Queen Bee" who controls them is Su Motong.

After the Tieyang Battle, the human soldiers in the rebel army had withdrawn from the battlefield at Su Mo's instruction.

The soldiers who took over the combat duties and sacrificed on the battlefield instead of humans were the worker bees controlled by Su Motong.

In the previous Inland Sea Battle, it was not submarines or frogmen who launched underwater attacks on the Inland Sea Fleet, but these constructs with body structures beyond human.

The tactics are actually very simple. Each construct has a special explosive implanted in its body. After approaching the enemy ship from the bottom of the sea,

hit it.

It will explode directly after hitting the enemy ship.

If one is not enough, ten.

If ten are not enough, one hundred.

It doesn't matter if the enemy ships' torpedoes and depth charges kill a thousand of them, there are still ten thousand or a hundred thousand left.

The Inland Sea Fleet's more than three hundred main battleships and more than half a million naval officers and men were destroyed by these constructs.

And now, the army of constructs has crossed the Inland Sea, replaced humans as sacrifices, and thrown into the meat grinder of the capital.

Su Mo had a special talk with Su Motong about how she viewed her fellow human beings being treated as consumables.

Su Motong's reaction was similar to that of the "good line" in the original plot of "Dawn".

This "construct larva" grew up with humans, surrounded by her loving parents and relatives and friends, and had a happy and beautiful childhood.

Later, she absorbed all the humanistic knowledge in human documents, knew all the mysteries known to humans, and became a rational and emotional existence.

Apart from the special physical aspects, Su Motong had long regarded herself as a member of the human race from the bottom of her heart, and was willing to fight for the better future of mankind.

As for the construct

Sorry, I'm really unfamiliar with it.

In Su Motong's eyes, the construct is just like a "coin". When it dies, it's just like spending money.

She only considers whether the coin is worth spending and whether it makes money, and she doesn't ask whether the coin has the so-called "coin rights".

It is precisely because of this attitude that "Dawn" players often jokingly call Su Motong, who is on the good line, a "smart person" and a "construct traitor" when discussing the plot.

Of course, this is just a humorous joke, and the players have no ill will towards it.

After all, players outside the game are all human beings. Unless they deliberately play the evil line, most of the time they consider the problem from the perspective of humans.

It's enough for humans to live well. I don't care whether the constructs live well or not.

Su Mo's attitude towards this issue is the same.

The life of the construct is also life?

Maybe.

But what does it have to do with me?

You are just tools made by me. The meaning of tools is to serve as consumables, do the dirty work that humans don't want to do, and fill the lives of my fellow comrades.

What's more, the existence of this kind of "worker bee" itself is a tool.

If they can think like normal humans, have emotional fluctuations and love and hate, then there may be room for discussing the right to survive.

Worker bees, who have no independent consciousness at all, are born with the meaning of giving everything to the higher will, including their existence itself.

When Su Motong used the queen bee consciousness to control the army of constructs, Su Mo did not disturb her and looked at the group of people walking behind her.

The leader was Fenrir, and the rest of the top extraordinary combat forces such as Dongdong, Xibel, Nuobai, Chu Nanyi, and Shangguan Li were also among them.

They were all fully armed, and behind them was an airship equipped with optical camouflage and reconnaissance shielding modules, as if they were going to carry out some mission.

Su Mo asked: "Are you all ready?"

Fenrir: "Well, the decisive battle with the strongest seventh-stage players in the giant companies will be left to us."

Su Mo took a deep breath and cast his eyes in the direction of the capital, his eyes fell on the Shangting Council headquarters in the most central position in the city.

This time he decided to attack the capital directly, the main reason was naturally to end the war as soon as possible, which was good for both sides.

With a large army of constructs in his hands, he could certainly fight more safely from other directions.

But if the battle line is too wide, more people will die in the war.

His comrades are humans, and the enemy soldiers are also humans, but they are just standing on different positions.

If necessary, Su Mo will kill the enemy without hesitation.

But if he could reduce the number of casualties, he would not choose a method that would leave corpses everywhere.

The purpose of attacking the capital directly is this, to make a decisive battle in one go.

Many people will definitely die in this offensive and defensive battle, but compared with the protracted war, it is already the smallest sacrifice.

In addition to the goal of ending the war quickly, there is another extremely important goal in the capital.

That is the "sixth clearance item" under the headquarters of the Upper Court Council, which is controlled by the World Government.

This is the last clearance item among the seven clearance items that directly improves personal combat power after "Ancestor Blood Code" and "Faceless Enzyme".

Only by gathering these three combat power items can you truly reach the pinnacle of combat power, and any one of them cannot be missing.

Only in this way can you face the ultimate existence.

Su Mo raised his head and looked at the sky. There was a cloud layer of inestimable thickness at the far end. It was radiating in a ring-shaped explosion, like a gray giant ring suspended in the air.

That was the trace of "Sky City" accelerating here.

Human beings, as a species, are relatively weak in size, strength, speed and defense in the entire natural world, except for their excellent endurance and heat dissipation ability in long-distance movement.

When humans face those physically strong beasts, they rely on two things the most.

One is the ability to operate the five-finger structure of both hands.

The other is the advanced wisdom brought by the developed brain.

The ability to operate allows humans to skillfully use all kinds of tools, from a light pistol to a heavy mecha weighing tens or hundreds of tons, and they can be used as if they were their arms after training.

In the eyes of those primitive wild animals, the grasping action of human five fingers alone is basically equivalent to "magic".

The same is true for advanced wisdom. No other animal's brain can be as developed as that of humans, containing more than 100 billion neurons, and can plan various tactics.

It is precisely because of these two points that humans, with their weak bodies, have become creatures at the top of the food chain.

But now, when a creature with the same operating ability, advanced wisdom, and more powerful physical functions than humans appears, humans have encountered the most terrifying opponent.

When the army of constructs controlled by Su Motong rushed through the minefield and fire line and climbed up the city wall to engage in close combat with the soldiers of the capital, the battlefield had completely fallen into a sea of ​​corpses and blood.

Broken limbs, debris, and blood were flowing. Screams and cries tore through the sky. The soldiers in the capital roared their guns to the extreme. When the bullets ran out, they picked up the engineer shovel or saber to chop, and the structures that came in were riddled with holes, but they could not stop their offensive.

As time went by, a large area of ​​the city wall had fallen. Looking around, there were black waves of structures everywhere. The soldiers in the capital were forced to retreat to the defensive positions in the streets behind and fight the enemy in the "street battle" they had planned.

And this was the beginning of their nightmare.

In conventional wars, why is street fighting terrifying for the attackers?

Because the geographical advantage of the defenders is too obvious.

As the attackers, every house and every window they have to face may be the enemy's fortifications and shooting points. When attacking, they must check house by house, otherwise they may face bullets from behind.

But in fact, even if a comprehensive investigation is carried out, it may not guarantee safety, because the enemy can use various secret passages to penetrate the rear and launch attacks from those "safe areas" that they think have eliminated danger.

And in street fighting, due to terrain restrictions, it is impossible to advance with superior forces like fighting on the great plains, and it is difficult to cooperate with armored forces. Heavy equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles, and even Titan mechas will be restricted by the terrain and are easily ambushed by anti-armor weapons.

No matter how advanced your equipment is and how well you are trained, once you enter a street fight, you can only use your own body to fill your life, there is no other way.

Just imagine that your parents have worked hard to raise you for more than 20 years, spent tens of millions of savings to raise you into an adult, and devoted countless love and efforts.

In a street fight, a bullet costing only a few moon coins shot from the dark, destroying your growth of more than 20 years in a few tenths of a second, and your life and family were shattered in a snap.

That kind of cruelty is enough to make anyone feel terrified.

Originally, the Capital Army Group estimated that if the outer positions fell, they were ready to fight the rebels in street battles for "years".

No matter how strong the rebels' will was, in the unsolvable street battles, facing bullets shot from nowhere every moment, and dying every day and night, they would eventually collapse due to war fatigue.

But this assumption had a premise - the participants were humans.

Because only humans could experience the fear brought by street fighting.

But when the ones who entered the city to be minced were not humans who cried, felt pain, and collapsed, but worker bee structures without emotions and born to sacrifice everything,

then it was the defenders' turn to bear the fear. (End of this chapter)