Chapter 342 The Navy Has New Warships, and the Army Has

For the Federation and Empire armies fighting fiercely on Pyra IV, and the civilians who were separated from their normal lives and in a state of panic because of the war, the appearance of Atlas was like lighting a bright light in the chaos.

Especially after Atlas really played the "projection light" in the sky, it attracted the attention of everyone near the airdrop zone.

In the memory of the civilians of the Pyra IV Empire, they used to see the huge star dragon emblem projected in the sky or the giant dragon animation soaring in the sea of ​​clouds during festivals.

Over time, after getting used to this spectacular "performance", it is actually difficult for atmospheric projection to arouse their enthusiasm.

But today, when they saw the huge red cross in the sky and the Atlas logo that appeared many times in these days, these people found that their hearts were excited.

Although most people may have never heard of Atlas before, at this moment, they all had something called "hope" in their hearts.

And this is also due to the previous statement and corporate promotional video released by Atlas.

Although most of the communication networks on Pyra IV have been interrupted and the communication is basically in chaos, there are still some public regional network bands that can be used.

These things similar to local networks are usually inconspicuous, but at this time they have become a way for refugees in the region to find organizations to unite, or to inform everyone to avoid the war zone.

Some time ago, these local network bands, which are theoretically isolated from the network outside the planet, inexplicably began to spread these two contents.

No one knows how these two high-definition videos were spread into the local network, but this does not prevent them from spreading like a virus among refugees.

Sometimes, the power of word of mouth should not be underestimated.

When many people meet other refugees while foraging near the warring cities, the first sentence they say when they meet is: "Hey! Have you seen the video in the local network?"

"What video?"

"It's the propaganda film of 'Atlas'!"

"Oh, I watched it! Alas. It's probably just a show. I don't know if they will come to us."

The last sentence is also the common thought of these refugees who have watched the propaganda film.

But now, when this LOGO appeared in the sky with a red cross, the refugees of Pyra IV finally realized that the enterprise in the promotional video had really come.

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"Fuck you! Something is falling again!"

"Hey, it looks like eggs are being laid."

In a small town near a drop zone where most of the buildings collapsed, people gathered in an open area on the edge of the town, watching a series of "meteors" falling from the huge red cross in the sky.

In addition to them, the two armies fighting near the drop zone were also conducting strict air surveillance at this time.

Although the commanders of both sides have restrained their troops, at this juncture, their front-line troops are still very nervous.

Whether it is the air defense unit or the HCP, they have locked on to these falling unidentified objects at this moment. If there is any abnormal situation, no one can say whether someone will rashly open fire.

Fortunately, Atlas has no plans to do anything for the time being, and these falling "beehives" are landing honestly along the established route.

When they were hundreds of meters away from the ground, the reverse thrust engines of the black hexahedrons, which had already thrown away the insulation cover, began to operate, and the attitude control nozzles on other surfaces were also activated simultaneously, and these black hexahedrons landed smoothly on the ground during continuous deceleration.

"'Salamander' squadron calls 'mother ship', 'beehive' has landed. Repeat, 'beehive' has landed"

The HCP squadron near the airdrop zone also quickly rushed to the landing point of these 'beehives'. After confirming that these 'new toys' were in normal condition, they also reported to the fleet on orbit at the same time.

Soon, an activation command from the fleet was sent to the autonomous unmanned mechanical control terminal of these code-named 'beehives'.

And these hexahedrons that fell on the ground also 'came alive'. When the outer surface armor plate was unfolded, the autonomous unmanned machinery that was 'wrapped' layer by layer with a special configuration was revealed.

Starting from the outermost unmanned machinery, green lights symbolizing "start-up" lit up one by one. These things that were originally like square boxes unfolded their curled-up mechanical legs, turned into spider-shaped robots and crawled onto the ground.

These spider-shaped robots, with a diameter of one meter and a maximum length of 3 meters after the mechanical legs are extended, are the new toys of the Atlas ground forces.

As the basic component of the unmanned combat system "Beehive", these small robots code-named "Worker Bees" are also the first unmanned units in this system to appear in the war zone.

In addition to the mechanical legs and auxiliary wheels for walking, they also have four mechanical arms that can replace components, and can also act as temporary porters after the load-bearing module is installed.

After the completion of the initial construction tasks, in addition to some worker bees who will continue to be responsible for the daily maintenance and expansion tasks of the base.

Other worker bees will mount additional armor plates and sensor units on their own after the subsequent equipment boxes land.

The tools on the mechanical arm are replaced with weapons such as electromagnetic rifles and small charged particle cannons, and the "worker bees" are transformed into "soldier bees", becoming auxiliary combat and reconnaissance units of ground forces.

According to the current settings of the "beehive" unmanned combat system, a group of "beehives" is generally composed of twenty autonomous unmanned mechanical control terminals, that is, those hexahedrons.

In addition to the core terminal components, each control terminal can also load 50 worker bees in a special "package mode" as the most basic working unit.

When these "beehives" land, they will start the preliminary construction work according to the scheduled tasks, just like now.

While the HCP squadrons in each airdrop zone are responsible for vigilance, these worker bees began to quickly gather the core control components scattered around, and with the help of cutting guns, welding guns and other tools on the mechanical arm, they used the remaining frames and armor plates of the hexahedron to protect these cores.

Immediately afterwards, some worker bees neatly dismantled a pile of material boxes that were thrown down at the same time, and used the infrastructure materials and material box bodies loaded inside to start the basic camp construction.

Another group of worker bees gathered around several airdrop material boxes loaded with "worker bee special tool boxes", replaced the tools on their mechanical arms, and then began to open up a large landing field in the airdrop area.

Behind the worker bees' efficient collaboration ability is a set of "Queen Bee" controls developed by Lilith based on the cluster thinking ability of her "clone".

This set of "Queen Bee" controls allows all unmanned units under the "hive" system to act as one under the control of each group of hive cores, and these hive cores are actually the "simplified version" of Lilith's clones in theory.

This also means that this strong artificial intelligence can access these hive cores at any time and directly control the unmanned units under the cores