According to N-4, it was not difficult to deduce that the First Born of this planet had lost its brain after the strange meteorite shower.
However, could a mere meteorite shower so easily deal with a First Born that had entered the mature stage?
The robot lady mentioned that at the end of the war, which was called the "turning point", the First Born had opened the crust and mantle and exposed its "core". But it would be a big mistake to think that the First Born's defense had been reduced at that time. First of all, the First Born did not have a core that could be called a "weakness". The so-called exposed core was just its deeper tissues and organs. Those organs had a large number of backups, so even if they were damaged, it would not be a problem. Second, the First Born's defense was not entirely dependent on its physical body. Its more powerful means of defense was the control of various force fields. Its tentacles could open a repulsive force field that was enough to resist celestial impact. This force field was enough to protect its body from attacks from outer space. Just like when the meteorite that Y 'zaks summoned over Beinz was intercepted in mid-air. At that time, it was just an underage First Born that intercepted the meteorite.
Compared to the First Born's force field protection and strong physical fitness, the planet's crust was just an insignificant layer of 'additional armor'. It made no difference whether it was there or not.
So the meteorite shower directly ignored the repulsive force field of the First Born. Or rather, it easily penetrated the force field and caused a devastating blow to the First Born's thinking organs? How could there be such a powerful meteorite in the world?
"Why did the First Born open the crust for no reason?" Nangong Wuyue, who was watching from afar, thought in another direction. "Just to suddenly open its belly and scare people?"
Nangong Sanba leaned over and whispered, "I guess it's a preparation for a big move. Maybe it's going to do a Hadouken of Murderous Will …"
Although the Nangong siblings had lowered their voices, every word still reached Hao Ren's ears. But he was not interested in the reason why the First Born opened the crust. The First Born might be planning to throw away its cumbersome planetary shell, or it might be preparing to unleash a more powerful strategic weapon. More likely, it was simply stretching. For a mature First Born that had grown to the level of a planet, its casual action could cause such a result. And the First Born of this planet had already gone mad. There was no point in guessing the actions of a madman.
"Did that meteor shower penetrate the Devourer's defenses?" Hao Ren rubbed his forehead and asked about the details of the incident three thousand years ago. "Didn't the Planet Devourer do anything?"
"The specific details cannot be confirmed." N-4 shook her head. "The big think tank has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. Nearly 60% of the data has been lost in hundreds of disaster emergency copies, and the history before the Turning Point Battle was the most severely damaged. We can't confirm how the meteor shower destroyed the Devourer's power core, but there's one detail that we can investigate … "
N-4 began to recite the description of this paragraph from the Great Think Tank.
"… All radars and optical observation equipment did not capture the trajectory of these celestial fragments. They seemed to appear out of thin air above the mother planet's atmosphere. The initial images recorded by the optical equipment showed that the light in that area was distorted. The starlight from space was bent into a large number of crazy curves at the edge of the atmosphere, and the various satellites in low-Earth orbit were malfunctioning. Then a meteor shower appeared. They glittered under the sunlight as if they were made of metal or ice … "
Hearing this description, Hao Ren's heart skipped a beat. He could not help but look at Vivian next to him, and the latter looked back.
"They appeared out of thin air, and there was a phenomenon of light distortion near the place where they appeared, and there was a high-energy release process," Hao Ren nodded slightly. "That's right, this should have just ended the warp process … Those so-called 'meteorites' came through hyperspace transmission."
"I suspect that those 'meteorites' are still stuck in the First Born's body, deep in the mantle or near the earth's core," Vivian said. "We can look for them, maybe they can reveal all the secrets."
"Of course, but before poking the hornet's nest, I'm more interested in the society in the sky," Hao Ren nodded, staring at N-4's eyes that looked almost identical to a human's. "Now can you tell us about the changes in the Zenith and the lunar base? About … the information blockade and so on. "
Something had happened to the Zenith and the lunar base. N-4 did not elaborate on this before, but it was not difficult to guess it from her words. This survivor society, composed of 99% artificial intelligence and 1% human, was not, as Hao Ren had guessed, a mechanical group that had lost all intelligent units and only relied on low-level artificial intelligence to maintain its operation. On the contrary, whether it was the legendary human beings living in the fortress or the two artificial intelligence girls, they all had their own thinking and judgment. Therefore, their indifference to the Petrachelys was particularly strange. Even if the artificial intelligence was more rigid and more obedient, their commanders should have realized how important a spacecraft that crashed on their home planet was.
And N-4 had casually mentioned the information blockade on the Zenith and the lunar base. This was even more strange.
N-4 closed her eyes slightly, and there was a slight buzz and electric noise in her body as if her logic circuit was making some complicated judgment. Finally, she seemed to have passed the logical "safety assessment." She opened her eyes and nodded to Hao Ren. "After reanalyzing the content of the negotiation, I judge that you meet the requirements of our mission.
"The Cortex Prime is in chaos."
Hearing this, the most surprised was N-6 sitting next to him. "This is impossible! It's not logical! "
"Yes, logically. The Cortex Prime is also an artificial system with rules to follow. It is possible for it to malfunction or be in chaos." N-4 looked at N-6 solemnly. Although the Cortex Prime was as important to the executors as their most beloved monarch and father, N-4 could only say this in the face of the facts. "In fact, the signs have appeared as early as a few years ago, but all the subordinate nodes have no access to the relevant data, so ordinary executors like us do not know the changes in the Cortex Prime."
"The signs have appeared as early as a few years ago?" Hao Ren was a little surprised. He thought it was the same as before, where things would go wrong wherever he went. He did not expect that the Cortex Prime had been acting up since a few years ago. "What happened in the sky? Ah, you'd better tell us in detail what the Cortex Prime is. "
"The Cortex Prime is the supreme ruling node of all executors. As you know, it is located in the fortress of the lunar base. Thirteen giant servers constitute its thinking device. At the core of the Zenith, there is a secondary hub of the Cortex Prime responsible for directly conveying the commands of the Cortex Prime to the space station fortress," N-4 said faintly. "The actions of the executors have always been under the unified command of the Cortex Prime. It sends the commands to the servers of the barracks and factories, and then forward them to each of us. For thousands of years, there has been no problem with the process.
"However, a few years ago, there began to be confusion in the instructions issued by the Cortex Prime.
"It began to frequently modify the battle plan against the surface of the home planet, adding a large number of unnecessary and even repetitive production tasks to the production program of the lunar base. It issued orders to greatly increase the number of attack echelons sent to the home planet, even though this blind increase would cause production and maintenance pressure beyond the capacity of the lunar base.
"There began to be contradictions in the information flow of the Cortex Prime. Although it was only a few times, it was an unprecedented phenomenon.
"All these signs appeared in the past few years."
N-6 stared at N-4 with her eyes wide open. "Why did I never know about these things? I don't mean the problem of authority. I am a combatant, but why have I never received these abnormal instructions? "
"Because seven of the thirteen giant servers of the Cortex Prime had withdrawn these erroneous instructions before they were sent," N-6 replied quietly.
Hao Ren's heart skipped a beat. In other words, these erroneous instructions were not actually sent out, but had been rejected by the Cortex Prime when it was circulating within the system. These unissued instructions did not have any real impact, but just left some system logs?
Then why would N-4, an ordinary "executor" with similar authority as N-6, know about these things?
N-6 was also curious about this. "N-4, how do you know this?"
"Because the Cortex Prime contacted us directly." N-4 pointed to her chest. "Not through those servers and relay stations, but directly into our logic circuits. I saw the system logs of the Cortex Prime over the past few years and received an order. "
Hao Ren and Vivian asked in unison, "What order?"
"It ordered us to come to the surface and find the alien spaceship that had crashed on the home planet."
"So that's why you are here." Hao Ren seemed to have finally figured something out. He leaned back in the chair and looked into N-4's eyes. "So did the Cortex Prime tell you what to do after you find the spaceship?"
N-4's answer was simple. "No."
"You don't even know the ultimate goal of the mission, and you just came?"
"The orders issued by the Cortex Prime must be obeyed because it represents the will of mankind." N-4's answer was so matter-of-fact that it made people speechless.
Hao Ren knew that N-4 was, after all, an artificial intelligence. Even if it was no different from humans, but in terms of logical thinking or worldview, it was still different from ordinary people. So he skipped the topic and threw out another question. "Then let me guess … before you came, it was your Cortex Prime that forbade others from coming to the surface of the home planet to look for the unknown spaceship?"
"Yes."
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