Nolan's report came as a surprise to Hao Ren. He could not help but recall that he and Nolan had just talked about this topic. They had been on the planet for six days, but the survivors who lived in the sky had not come down to take a look. He thought something was not right at that time.
Well, here they were at last, six days late, with guns and cannons.
"How many people are there?" Vivian frowned and asked Nolan.
"Only 18 people, carrying a variety of light and heavy weapons and detection equipment. Their transport plane stopped in the forest and did not move. It seems that they have set up a temporary camp. This looks like a well-trained reconnaissance force with a clear purpose. "
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows. "Are you sure they are coming for us?"
Nolan nodded. "I'm sure. They were pointing something like a radar at me just now, but I turned the antenna around and flashed it at them. Their radar was blinded."
It sounded like driving on the road and encountering a headlight on the opposite side, so she threw a punch. Nolan must have had too much fun with people.
N-6 looked at the humans in front of her and suddenly became serious. Then they began to communicate quickly. This time she could not understand what they were saying because Hao Ren and his team had turned off the translation plug-in during the internal discussion. She finally could not hold back her curiosity. "What happened?"
"Ah, I was just about to ask you to confirm," said Hao Ren, looking at N-6. "Have you already sent the recovery signal?"
Although he felt that even if N-6 had just sent the recovery signal, the survivors in the sky could not have teleported here so quickly, Hao Ren still asked casually to confirm the situation.
The robot girl shook her head. "I haven't had time …"
"Then it seems to be a coincidence," Y 'zaks said in a muffled voice. "There is a group of armed men approaching here, probably from the same place as you."
"Troops from the Zenith?" N-6's eyes widened in surprise. "How can there be ground troops?"
Seeing the robot girl's reaction, Hao Ren was a little surprised. "Is the ground force weird?"
"In addition to dispatching recyclers, the Zenith rarely sends ground troops to the surface of their home planet because the ground troops are almost useless in the war against the planet devourer." N-6 shook her head. "There is insufficient information to analyze which echelon they are from. I need to contact them."
This was what Hao Ren was waiting for. "Of course, only you can handle this. Come with us, we'll take you to the exit. "
In the dense forest, N-4, as the temporary commander, led her newly assembled and unfamiliar team members cautiously forward. She clenched the electromagnetic assault rifle in her hand, but this powerful weapon did not give her any sense of security at the moment. The home planet was full of danger, and landing on the home planet was almost equivalent to giving up half of the chance of survival. This was the consensus of all executors, and at this moment, she felt it more deeply.
Especially after the team's radar equipment was destroyed by an unknown energy pulse, the danger level of this place soared.
"Left, safe." "Right, safe." "Communication with the camp is normal." "One kilometer away from 'that thing'."
The team members quickly exchanged information through the short-range radio, all of them keeping their voices low. Even though their sensors could not detect any real enemies within their range, a heavy pressure still made everyone raise their vigilance.
N-4 bit her lip. This action, which was too close to a human, showed that she was an "elite body" far older than her colleagues. Her longer service years and more combat achievements allowed her to download more human-like data packages from the "Great Think Tank." These data packages allowed her to think more like a human, with more advanced emotions and fuzzy processing ability. It was these characteristics that allowed her, and the temporary team members, to participate in that operation.
And finally ended up in this situation.
Was there … a little regret?
A team member's voice brought N-4 back to her senses. "Captain, it should be in front."
N-4 nodded. Although she was a little distracted before, the logic circuit of an executor would not be affected by this degree of distraction. The part of the thread she used to perform the task was still faithfully executing various battlefield instructions, so she had already noticed the appearance of the target before the team members warned her. She motioned for the team members to hide in the nearby bushes, and then looked over a few sparse plants at the behemoth not far away.
It lay quietly in the middle of the forest. The huge shock wave created when it fell directly "cleared" a large area of the forest into a large pit. The trees on the edge of the impact pit fell, and only a large number of charred rocks and carbonized tree trunks could be seen inside the impact pit. Since several days had passed, the high temperature in the impact pit had long since faded. The only thing that could prove that there had been a spaceship crash here was the spaceship lying quietly at the bottom of the pit. The style of the spaceship was unheard of.
The style of the spaceship was unheard of. The main part of the spaceship was silver-white, with a length of more than 500 meters and a width of about 200 meters. The spaceship was wide in the middle and closed at both ends. It had heavy armor and a variety of external equipment that Hao Ren had never seen before. On the upper deck of the spaceship, there was a striking and strange painting. It was the portrait of some alien creature. The creature had sharp fangs and extremely serious and cold eyes. Its triangular ears stood on top of its head like the most vigilant warrior. At first glance, one could tell that it was a hero among the predators.
The image of a predator painted on the spaceship, which should be some kind of totem symbol, may mean that the spaceship came from a war-inclined civilization.
But in any case, the elegance and beauty of the spaceship itself were undeniable.
Although she had seen this thing in blurred intelligence photos before, N-4 could not help but whisper in admiration at the moment when she saw it with her own eyes. "It's … a beautiful spaceship."
Six days ago, the unidentified spaceship suddenly appeared above the atmosphere of the home planet and then crashed on the surface of the planet. The high-energy pulse it produced when it crashed instantly destroyed the sensor system of several exploration satellites that happened to illuminate the area, so the superior command nodes did not confirm what the "crash" was until three days ago.
But what was even more unusual was the reaction of the superior command nodes after that: the "Cortex" in the fortress had no intention of investigating the "crash" and even rejected all applications for remote exploration of the planet's surface. The unidentified spaceship seemed to have become a "forbidden zone", and the Cortex ordered all actions to be avoided.
If it had not happened later, N-4 would have faithfully carried out the orders from the Cortex, and she would not have come here at all.
"This spaceship … seems to be different from the previous report," a team member noticed something unusual and whispered.
N-4 carefully observed the spaceship at the bottom of the impact crater, and she found the same problem.
The spaceship … did not look damaged at all, which was not normal.
Since the Cortex had blocked all information about the spaceship and stopped all exploration operations, N-4 had only a blurry picture at hand. The picture was taken by a satellite when the mysterious spaceship had just crashed on the surface of the home planet (the satellite was then burned into scrap iron by the energy pulse). Although the picture was not very clear, it still showed the miserable appearance of the crashed spaceship. It was almost severed at the waist and disintegrated in many places. It was no exaggeration to say that it had become a pile of wreckage. But this …
N-4 narrowed her eyes. She felt that the spaceship in the center of the impact crater was like a new one. The injuries in the picture were gone, and the main body of the spaceship had been completely repaired. There was even some equipment that was not in the picture.
It was like another spaceship.
"Over there — Captain, look at what that is!"
A team member pointed to the stern of the spaceship and whispered. Through the shared information link, N-4 immediately noticed the detail: she saw a distorted armor plate fall from the stern of the spaceship, and then a new armor plate wriggled out of the hull like a living creature …
"This spaceship is alive!" N-4 exclaimed. "It has been regenerating!"
She instantly thought of the radar that had been burned by an unknown energy pulse — the radar was suddenly damaged when the antenna was turned near the crash site. Now it seemed that this was a very obvious hostile signal!
A "living" spaceship, which had been quietly dormant on the surface of the planet for a few days, was now almost completely regenerated, and showed obvious hostility. The spaceship was also painted to represent the tendency to fight (Lily's sticker). All this information came together in an instant, and N-4 immediately realized that she and her team members were in danger.
But it was not wise to retreat — thinking of the burned radar, N-4 knew that they were probably already targeted by this living spaceship.
And listed as an enemy.
The logic circuit deduced quickly. The best plan was to leave some people to attract the spaceship's attention, and the others to retreat to the camp and quickly get away from here. This plan would ensure the highest level of safety. The alternative was to try to establish contact with the spaceship and bet on whether this space visitor could communicate. This plan was irrational and naive, but it was also an option.
But just as she was about to announce the first plan, there was a sudden movement on the spaceship.
She saw a hatch open on the side of the spaceship, and then a figure came out of it.
A team member whispered, "Captain, that looks like N-6."
N-4 poked her head out, and her logic circuit produced a little bit of garbled code. She saw N-6, who should have died in the last mission, standing there. Although there was something wrong with her body, her appearance was basically the same. More importantly, she was releasing N-6's identification signal.
But …
N-4 suddenly clenched the electromagnetic assault rifle. She found data from the identification signal emitted by N-6 that did not belong to the Executor. It was a code injected by incomprehensible alien technology, and she also sensed many abnormal energy fluctuations from N-6, which were even stronger than the Titanium Guards!
N-6 was hijacked by aliens! N-6 was modified by aliens! N-6 was no longer N-6!
"Pick up your weapons!" Miss N-4 quickly completed all the reasoning. "That's just a parasite stuffed in N-6's body! N-6 has been replaced by the alien life in the spaceship! "
"Get ready to fight!"
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