"What?! There's a fight outside?! "
After hearing Nolan's report, Hao Ren jumped out of his chair with a "are you f * cking kidding me" expression on his face.
Nolan seemed to have guessed that Hao Ren would react like this. Her expression did not change at all. "Go out and have a look if you don't believe me. It's still very lively."
"Why did they suddenly start fighting?" Hao Ren knew it was true when he saw the look on Nolan's face, but he still could not figure it out. "Isn't 6 in cahoots with those people out there? I even sent her out to do diplomacy. How did they end up fighting? What's the situation out there now?"
"The ship's shield is on, and N-6 has not left the shield's range. So now the situation is that a dozen militants outside are piercing my shield with something as powerful as a water gun, and N-6 is standing behind the shield with a confused look on her face. It's quite chaotic, but no one is hurt."
"… Go out and have a look."
N-6 did not come out of the spacecraft alone. Hao Ren had arranged for the Nangong siblings to accompany her. The original plan was for N-6 to greet her compatriots and get them to lay down their weapons and agree to communicate. Then the eloquent Nangong Sanba and the approachable Nangong Wuyue would be the first to make contact. Finally, Hao Ren and his friends would make their official appearance. But the plan did not work from the beginning. The Nangong siblings did not even read the first word of their speech before the enemy launched a surprise attack. Fortunately, the shield system of the Petrachelys had regenerated, and all the firepower was blocked outside. But the sudden attack still scared the poor siren girl into a ball. When Hao Ren rushed over, she was shivering behind the hatch.
A dozen armed men in black combat suits were hiding in the forest on the edge of the crater, shooting at the side armor belt of the Petrachelys from a commanding angle. The weapons they used were electromagnetic rifles and light plasma cannons. These weapons were powerful weapons for ordinary planetary civilizations, but for the thick energy shield of the Petrachelys, they were as harmless as the tip of Wuyue's tail.
They could only create a large number of light and shadow effects in the air tens of meters around the spaceship.
N-6 hid in the hatch as soon as the attack began. She herself was bewildered by the sudden change, and her logic circuit almost overloaded and burned. She saw a familiar face among the attackers and tried to shout for them to cease fire, but her efforts were futile.
"What's going on?" Hao Ren came to N-6's side and asked in confusion.
"I don't know." The robot girl shook her head. "They suddenly opened fire when they saw me. I tried to talk to them, but they ignored me."
Vivian frowned. "Do you know them?"
"I know a few of them." N-6 cautiously looked out. "The leader is N-4, who is in the same combat echelon as me, and TD-22 and TD-26, who I often meet."
Nangong Sanba scratched his head in shock and looked at N-6 strangely. "How are you usually with people?"
"Relationships?" N-6 seemed a little confused by the word.
"That is to say, have you ever done anything like digging holes, smashing walls, or blowing up toilets when you were in your base? So much so that people who know you would shoot you in the face when they see you," Hao Ren said as he glanced at Nangong Sanba. "To be honest, I don't think you should take this question seriously."
"Anyway, we have to ask them to cease fire first." Vivian frowned and looked out of the spaceship. The attacks of those armed men were no threat to the Petrachelys, but they did not weaken their offensive, which was a little annoying. "God knows what they are thinking … Let's talk to them first. If it doesn't work, we can only anesthetize them one by one."
Hao Ren nodded and walked toward the hatch with Vivian.
In the bushes on the edge of the forest, N-4 was unloading the empty steel nail magazine and pushing a new magazine into the buckle of the electromagnetic rifle while looking anxiously in the direction of the spaceship.
The spaceship had a powerful shield system, which was unexpected, but it did not make N-4 panic. From the beginning, she did not expect to fight against a seemingly advanced spaceship with a dozen or so individual weapons. She just wanted to confirm the state of N-6, but the confirmation only made her more worried.
The "thing" with the body of N-6 shouted for a ceasefire at the beginning of the attack, but the special identification key that N-4 sent later did not get a response. Not only the key that she sent, but the team members also did not get a response after executing the emergency identification protocol in turn. All the signs could only mean one thing: the thing that came out of the spaceship was indeed a "fake" modified by aliens.
The aliens had obtained the wreckage of N-6, but they could only imitate her appearance and shallow memory. They did not know the existence of the emergency identification protocol, so they let the cat out of the bag.
Miss N-4 thought that her judgment was completely correct.
There were only two purposes for her to stay here. One was to confirm the state of N-6 and retrieve her if possible. The second was to cover the retreat of several members of the team so that they could inform the remaining members of the camp to leave as soon as possible. Now that there was no way to bring back N-6 on the spot, and the purpose of covering the retreat of others had been achieved, then she would retreat …
As soon as the idea of retreat came to mind, N-4 was stunned by a lightning ball falling from the sky.
Hao Ren looked at the female soldier who was stunned by Vivian's lightning ball in the distance and could not react for a long time. "Didn't we say to shout first …"
Vivian also looked a little embarrassed. "The gravity of this planet is not quite the same as that of Earth. The little bat did not calculate the path after throwing it out. I just wanted to blow it up next to them to scare them so that they would be quiet and listen to us …"
Hao Ren covered his forehead. "… Forget it, it's not a big problem. Anyway, it seems that we can't communicate peacefully this time. Let's just knock them out."
Vivian conjured a new little bat. The little bat then bloomed with bright electric light, like a dazzling ball of lightning. Vivian tossed the particularly dangerous thing up and down. "Don't worry, I found that electromagnetic attacks are particularly effective against these guys … But then again, Nolan said that half of them ran into the forest not long after the exchange of fire. Should we go after them?"
"No, just catch a few of them and bring them back for information."
The sudden fall of N-4 caused a brief moment of confusion among the operation team. They found that the people in the spacecraft were launching a counterattack, so they immediately turned from offense to defense and prepared to retreat. One of the team members came to N-4 and was about to take his captain away, but he had just run halfway when another lightning ball hit him in the face.
What followed was a lightning storm that plowed the ground with artillery fire.
Vivian's electromagnetic attack was very effective against these inexplicable attackers. In fact, Hao Ren did not have a chance to attack at all. He just watched Vivian floating in the sky throwing lightning balls at the people on the opposite side and could not help but sigh: Hessiana is really tough …
Several attackers were quickly tied up and taken to an empty cabin of the Petrachelys.
N-6 looked worriedly at her former teammates who were brought back to the spacecraft with black faces. Naturally, she expressed concern about their condition. "Are they … okay?"
"Don't worry, they are not dead. They just fainted from the electric shock." Hao Ren waved his hand. This brief conflict began in an inexplicable way and ended in a confusing way. He could not figure out what these guys were doing. What surprised him even more was the "essence" of these people: each of them, like N-6, was a robot — a team composed entirely of robots.
No wonder Vivian's electromagnetic attack was so effective on them — it was like an electronic device meeting an EMP. Although these high-tech artificial warriors also had protection against electromagnetic attacks, such as the core system with an electromagnetic shielding layer, their protection level was not enough to withstand the lightning balls thrown by Vivian.
Besides, even if they really raised their electromagnetic resistance to 99 +, it would not work. Not only did Vivian's lightning ball contain lightning, but it also contained a small bat that flew out at subsonic speed.
The coma of N-4 and several members did not last long. The EMP impact only triggered the emergency protection mechanism of their logic circuits, but did not cause too much damage to their bodies. The MDT commanded several autonomous robots to give these people electrotherapy and then successfully rebooted all the temporary "prisoners of war", including N-4.
As soon as N-4 opened her eyes, she saw a short-haired man with a smile on his face and a woman with scarlet eyes standing in front of her. The guy in the shell of N-6 was also standing with them, and behind them stood a few men and women who seemed to be watching the show.
She, on the other hand, was firmly fixed to a metal chair by some kind of strong binding device.
He was captured by a group of aliens who looked very similar to humans.
N-4 ran her logic circuit quickly and began to analyze the situation in front of her and was ready to make an effective escape plan — or a self-destruct plan if it did not work. But before she could speak, the smiling man in front of her said, "I'm sorry to greet you in this way, but you are not willing to talk to us calmly, so we can only force you to calm down."
N-4 stared at the man in front of her warily and said nothing.
Hao Ren felt a little headache. Another robot, and this robot did not look as easy to communicate with as N-6. He still remembered that N-6 had happily reached a consensus with them not long after she woke up. But the female robot in front of him did not even want to talk to him.
After all, the two encounters were very different. N-6 was rescued by him, and the process of contact between the two sides was full of selfless help from the alien race, the touching of resurrection, the trust of frank communication, and the glory of humanity. The other encounter was different. Its main content was electromagnetic rifle bullets, tens of thousands of volts of high-voltage electricity, and a subsonic bat.
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