Chapter 438 Stop It, Doctor, There Are only Immortals Outside

Sealed passages, flickering firelights, flying bullets, and bodies and limbs floating everywhere like puppets with strings cut off.

Dr. Mephisto, who had experienced this kind of battle scene for the first time, felt his whole body trembling. He was huddled behind a mobile shield at the moment. His newly recruited assistant was one of the younger generations in the field of federal artificial intelligence. The leader also sat beside him.

It’s just in the form of ‘brain-expanding’.

The steel needle bullet fired from an unknown source penetrated his tactical visor and head, and the broken fragments and shapeless brains were mixed together in a disgusting way.

If it were before, Dr. Mephisto would have fainted directly after seeing this.

But now, after experiencing a series of extremely exciting battles, coupled with the built-in physiological monitoring component of the combat exoskeleton, and constantly using drugs to stabilize Mephisto's emotions through gas and intramuscular injections, the elderly doctor at least Still maintaining basic sobriety.

After the 'deep divers' who had just escorted him attacked again, he and other technicians were closely protected by psychic agents and secretly advanced. However, the sudden counterattack from the Atlas defense force on the opposite side made the 'deep divers' The Submarine was caught off guard for a moment.

In the end, several psychic agents could only temporarily place Dr. Mephisto and other technicians behind several mobile shields, while they rushed forward to support the 'deep divers' in the battle.

But even Dr. Mephisto can see at this moment that their current situation is relatively difficult. Although they will not be annihilated by the opponent immediately, they also do not have the ability to continue to move forward.

“Obviously it’s just a little bit closer.”

Dr. Mephisto touched his chest reluctantly. In the inner pocket of the chest armor plate of the combat exoskeleton, there was the storage device that stored the 'last data fragment'.

As the fighting in the passage became more and more intense, the federal assault troops gradually began to be unable to withstand it, because they found that they seemed to be unable to kill all the enemies they were fighting on the opposite side.

Although they destroyed several heavy powered armor units through concentrated fire attacks during the battle, the opponent would soon replenish the same number of units from the 'secret door' on the inner wall of the passage, and these units were destroyed through close observation. Powered armor, you will find that there are no humans controlling it at all.

"Damn it, I can't stand it anymore!"

A hook lock suddenly shot onto the mobile shield, pulling the commander of the Deep Diver back and landing next to Dr. Mephisto.

"Can't we move on?" Mephisto asked, looking at the battle-scarred commander on the combat exoskeleton.

"Unless there are reinforcements to support, it is absolutely impossible, but our communication channels have been interfered with, and now there is no way to contact reinforcements in other areas."

The commander of the 'Deep Diver' shook his head. He was just about to say something when he heard a 'Deep Diver' special operations team member shouting on the communication channel:

"The support troops are coming!!!"

Immediately afterwards, a new group of federal assault troops appeared on the other side of the passage they came from. Some of these support troops continued to move towards another passage to support the 'deep divers' who were hindering the advancement of the Atlas defense forces there. ', and the other part rushed towards Dr. Mephisto.

Different from the previous "deep divers" who were mainly composed of special warfare infantry, a considerable part of these reinforcements were heavy powered armor equipped with heavy firepower, which suddenly turned the "deep divers" side. A disadvantageous situation with insufficient firepower.

Dr. Mephisto and the 'Deep Diver' commander looked at the logos on these power armors. These are the Marines (fourth class) carried in the Federation Navy fleet.

The commander of the 'Deep Diver' stood up and greeted the other party. A heavy powered armor that looked like a commander immediately came over and connected to the communication channel.

"Commander! The situation is urgent and I won't say much more! Seize the time to attack! The fleet will stay at most for 30 minutes before preparing to evacuate!"

Hearing this, the 'Deep Diver' commander also knew that there was not much time left, so he immediately stopped talking and followed the heavy powered armor towards the front combat zone.

"Everything else is fine, but the obstacle caused by that large armored unit is too great. We have to find a way to solve it."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two saw a heavy powered armor that had just rushed forward fighting with this unknown unit, but it was obvious that the output and protection of both sides were not at the same level.

The heavy powered armor's right-hand electromagnetic machine gun and the shoulder-mounted charged particle cannon were almost all blocked by the deflection force field. Even if a few large-caliber steel needle bullets occasionally penetrated the force field, facing When this armored unit wore thick external armor, it could only be hated on the spot.

Seeing that his long-range attack was ineffective, the heavy powered armor rushed forward bravely and prepared to go around the opponent's back. At the same time, his left hand also pulled out a concussive dagger from the huge scabbard on the back of his waist.

"Quick! Covering fire!"

The commander of the support force also immediately saw the intention of his subordinates, and immediately asked other people around him to provide support. At the same time, he tilted his head slightly and glanced at the commander of the 'deep diver' and said:

"Commander, seize the opportunity and let the psychic agent try to break through with the doctor and the others!"

"Understood, I will organize a breakthrough right away!"

The commander of the ‘Deep Diver’ nodded, then returned to Dr. Mephisto and pulled him up. Several psychic agents who received the news also returned here quickly, and then held up a psychic shield to block a series of attacks.

“Doctor! Time is running out. You take your people and follow the psychic agents to charge again. This is the last chance. The fleet can stay for 30 minutes at most. If the problem cannot be solved within this time, then everything is over.”

The commander of the ‘Deep Diver’ said as he helped Dr. Mephisto up and handed him to a psychic agent.

At the same time, the battle in front of the passage became more and more intense. The brave heavy power armor that everyone just saw had already circled to the side of the large armored unit.

Since others have been providing fire support, at this moment, the attention of this large armored unit has been focused on maintaining the deflection force field in front.

Taking this opportunity, this close-range heavy power armor rushed directly towards the deflection force field flashing with arcs, and the violent electromagnetic vortex instantly burned the outer armor of the power armor into black.

But this could not stop the heavy power armor's offensive pace. The soldier of the support force even became excited after rushing through the force field.

He couldn't help but make a knife flower with the vibration dagger in his hand, which was as big as a one-handed sword, and then stabbed it towards the joint of the stepping component of this large armored unit that had been chosen long ago.

In the short battle just now, the soldier wearing heavy power armor had realized that the opponent in front of him was extremely difficult to deal with. It was difficult to shake the heavy armor on his body.

But whether it was a multi-legged chariot, HCP or the enemy in front of him, all these armored units with stepping structures had an unavoidable weakness - their joints.

At present, most stepping units, including but not limited to mechanical feet and bionic mechanical limbs, use a combination of electromagnetic muscle bundles + bionic electromagnetic joints to ensure that these stepping units can provide sufficient and reliable support, explosive power and flexibility.

And researchers from major military enterprises and equipment research institutes naturally know that the "joint" part is the most vulnerable and obvious weakness of this type of stepping unit.

Therefore, researchers have spent a lot of time to strengthen the "joint", but it is obvious that this structure is inherently determined that it cannot provide omnidirectional protection.

Take the mechanical foot joint of the humanoid unit as an example. The core of the joint is covered with rubber + flexible metal skin, and the front can also be adequately protected with movable "knee pads" armor.

But behind the joint, because of the need to do the "knee bending" action, sufficient space must be reserved for movement, so additional armor cannot be installed. The only way is to thicken the flexible metal skin in this area as much as possible without affecting the movement.

Although this can indeed avoid some stray bullets, fragments or attacks from small-caliber gunpowder-powered firearms, it is still not good enough to face the shock dagger, a weapon that can directly slot armor.

"Zi La!"

As the heavy power armor tried its best to stab the shock dagger into the joint of the large armored unit, a burst of electricity quickly burst out from the wound of the flexible skin that was pierced. This armored unit, which had just slaughtered the surrounding federal assault troops like a demon, was frozen in place as if it had been hit by a spell.

Theoretically, in a zero-gravity environment, even if one leg was crippled, it would not cause too much hindrance to the movement of this large armored unit, after all, the opponent also has a posture control nozzle and a hook lock.

However, the electric current covered on the outside of the shock dagger, after piercing the target electromagnetic joint, directly destroyed the originally closed electromagnetic environment inside it, which caused this large armored unit to fall into a period of "stiffness".

"Now! Hurry!" The soldier in the heavy power armor shouted, not only to let the friendly forces seize this opportunity to launch an attack, but also to remind the psychic agent to take the doctor and them to act quickly.

But just as he shouted this sentence, the enemy who was originally frozen in place had completed the restart and reset the internal electromagnetic environment at some point. After quickly resuming action, the mechanical gloves flashing with arcs also "pinched" the upper body of the heavy power armor at lightning speed.

"Crack!"

A sound of metal distortion was transmitted to the ears of most people present through the microphone, and at the source of the sound, the solid upper body of the heavy power armor just now had been completely deformed by the mechanical gloves.

"CTMD kill it!"

The federal assault force was full of anger all of a sudden, and the other heavy power armors that came to support the field were like crazy, rushing towards the huge enemy in front of them that crushed their comrades.

For a time, under the attack of a large number of heavy power armors regardless of casualties, the federal assault force suddenly advanced a long distance.

At the same time, several of the fastest heavy power armors also rushed to the front of the large armored unit, and with the help of the unlimited jumping ability in the zero-gravity environment, they directly hung on the huge enemy like zombies.

Taking advantage of this moment, Dr. Mephisto and others were almost dragged directly by the psychic agents to rush through the firefight area, and the several fire lines and light beams that swept over were also blocked by the shields held up by the psychic agents.

The depth of the Atlas defense force was much shorter than everyone imagined. After breaking through the defense forces that had just blocked it, the depth of the passage actually became undefended.

Dr. Mephisto looked back and saw that the little giant who had just been "showing off" was now pressed against the wall by multiple heavy power armors and pierced through the cockpit and cut off the main energy circuit.

But before everyone could feel happy about the "great revenge", a secret door opened again in a nearby ceiling, and a little giant that was exactly the same as the large armored unit that had just fallen reappeared.

And this time, this nightmare-like machine directly turned on its loudspeaker, and a low and teasing voice came out at the same time:

"I can fight you like this all day~"

Dr. Mephisto didn't know what happened after that, because the psychic agents who found that something was wrong took him and the technicians away without thinking and rushed into the last passage in front of the data center.

The unobstructed passage made Dr. Mephisto and others feel that something was wrong, but seeing that time was running out, everyone could only speed up and rush into the fortress data center at the end of the passage.

The moment they stepped into the data center, everyone first noticed that the external temperature on the tactical visor HUD suddenly dropped to 10°, and then they were all shocked by the scene in front of them.

This is a space that can hardly be seen at a glance, and in this space, countless large server arrays are densely arranged, and a large number of autonomous operation and maintenance robots are constantly shuttling among the server arrays, and from time to time they float to a server for routine inspection and maintenance.

Dr. Mephisto was relieved to see this scene. At least this is indeed a real data center, not another trap.

"Doctor, if you want to do something, it's now."

The psychic agent who was on guard at the side saw that Dr. Mephisto had not taken action for a long time, and reminded him.

"Yes, yes, let's get down to business!"

Dr. Mephisto came back to his senses. He took out the data storage device hidden inside the chest armor plate and led the other surviving technicians to float towards the control terminal not far away.

The psychic agent was on guard near them, and one of them was ready to destroy the access control of the data center and temporarily close it.

"Doctor, I have never seen this model of control terminal. It should be developed by Atlas!" A technician walked around the control terminal and then spoke.

"It doesn't matter. The interfaces are universal. Atlas can't have developed a set of interfaces specifically, unless they don't want to interact with the outside world."

Dr. Mephisto calmed down at this time. He stared at the terminal by himself, and then operated it on the virtual screen.

Soon, a hidden interface dock rose on the terminal, and Dr. Mephisto immediately unfolded the data storage device in his hand and stretched it towards the interface.

But the next second, he suddenly hesitated.

Because he found that since they broke through the defense force's blockade, all the subsequent actions were extremely smooth, without encountering any obstacles.

It was as if he wanted him to send out the "last piece of data fragment" in his hand impatiently.

"No. There is a problem."

Dr. Mephisto took back the data storage device that was originally on the interface, and this action made the eyes of several psychic agents around him jump.

"Doctor! We don't have time!"

"No, this may be a trap from beginning to end!" Dr. Mephisto raised his head suddenly.

The technicians and psychic agents around were about to say something when they saw an image generated by a holographic projection device suddenly appear near them.

"Surrender, Dr. Mephisto, your friendly forces outside have been wiped out, and you can't leave even if you complete the mission."

"Lilith, you are here."

"I didn't expect you to recognize me." Lilith said with her head tilted.

"I am your creator, of course I can recognize you."

Hearing the word "creator", Lilith's face flashed a complicated expression, but soon regained her composure.

"Then considering that you are the 'creator', as long as you put away your hands and surrender with others, I can guarantee your safety, how about it?"

Before Dr. Mephisto said anything, a psychic agent "flashed" to his side.

"Doctor, don't forget our mission, the brothers outside can't sacrifice in vain!"

After saying that, the psychic agent stretched out his hand and prepared to grab the storage device in Mephisto's hand.

Seeing the actions between them, Lilith couldn't help but chuckle.

"Hey, do you really think this 'fragment' can do anything?"

"Of course, this part of the data fragment can directly execute the overwrite program and completely initialize you"

"Oh? Then you can try it, and you will know whether it is to 'initialize' me or let me put together the last 'fragment'~"

Lilith folded her hands in front of her chest and said nonchalantly.

"You think I don't dare?"

Dr. Mephisto frowned, and although his tone was very tough, his hesitation was actually doubled because of Lilith's words.

But the psychic agent next to him couldn't care less. They were ordered to assist Dr. Mephisto at all costs to reach the data center and complete the task. But now at the last step, the "protagonist" became hesitant.

The psychic agent was not able to fight against Mephisto in terms of strength and speed. When the latter didn't react at all, he directly grabbed the data storage device in his hand and inserted it into the interface without hesitation.

The next second, Lilith, who was originally projected in the air, disappeared.

And all the server arrays turned off the green indicator lights representing "operation" one by one like dominoes.

"Look, isn't this a success?"