When all the drones released their accumulated energy according to the program, the powerful pulse of waste clutter immediately caused an unprecedented EMP explosion in the space around the Zenith. The chaotic pulse signal instantly flooded all communication channels, causing the communication network between the Zenith fighters to collapse due to overload. Then, the energy swept across the space and destroyed the fragile radar and antenna systems, physically eradicating the possibility of the communication network returning to normal. The shock wave even formed a visible discharge phenomenon. Fine, hair-like electric arcs burst out from the drones and swallowed the entire Zenith. Electric sparks swept across the surface of the space station and destroyed all communication devices in the wake of the sparks.
A large number of Executors, who were not well-protected, also went down.
The energy level of the EMP was precisely calculated. Based on the data collected from N-6, Hao Ren and Nolan determined the resistance of the logic core of the Executors to the energy shock. So when the shock wave swept across the space station, the most serious damage to the Executors was the burning of their external circuits. The Executors would not really die because of the damage to their logic circuits.
The communication network around the Zenith had turned into a dead desert, and the communication between the space station and the lunar base had been cut off because of the EMP. The fighter jets and battleships that had lost their ability to move continued to drift into deep space. But the drone swarm had begun to move. They began to use tractor beams and their robotic arms to catch things that floated past them to prevent the space station defense forces from colliding with each other while they were drifting around.
In this brief and strange silence, Nolan quickly caught up with a Zenith fighter that was drifting away in front of her and used a tractor beam to drag the 30-meter-long aircraft into her garage.
"Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!" "We only have ten minutes. The big space station won't be destroyed by this EMP." Hao Ren said as he ran toward the garage. "We only have ten minutes. The space station won't be destroyed by this EMP."
As if to confirm Hao Ren's words, the Zenith in space began to move again after a few minutes of silence. Some of the hidden armor plates slowly opened under the traction of the robotic arms, and spare ports, radars, and weapon systems poked their heads out. More defense forces swarmed out of the new channels. Some of them began to "salvage" their immobilized comrades, while others launched a fierce attack on the drone swarm.
The warp jump and EMP gave the drone swarm the advantage of a surprise attack. Although it could catch the opponent off guard, it was difficult to take down a super war fortress like the Zenith. Even if the war fortress's technological level was far behind that of the drone swarm, it was not defenseless. At least under the protection of the perfect internal shielding layer, which was used to resist various cosmic ray bursts, the Zenith forces were almost unscathed.
Now, these unscathed second-echelon troops rushed out of their fortress, ready to fight the "invaders" that suddenly emerged from space.
The drone swarm did not care about damage, at least not until the damage was severe enough to affect their thinking network. Even if tens of millions of descendant drones were killed, it was just a number and a bunch of metal components that could be manufactured at any time. So in the face of the Zenith's crazy counterattack, the drone swarm could only put up a powerful shield and continue to release various high-intensity interference waves to continue to block the Zenith's communication system.
Hao Ren and his team had no time to pay attention to the "battle" in space. They were anxiously preparing for the "ticket" to the lunar base.
A dozen force field beams fixed a heavy attack spacecraft from the Zenith in the garage. Autonomous robots flew around the spacecraft like a swarm of bees around a flower. Bright cutting beams and the light produced by the molecular fusion device flickered on the shell of the spacecraft. Some of the equipment that was not needed was dismantled to provide more passenger space, and some equipment was replaced. The whole process was tense and orderly, and the progress was more than half.
As for the original pilot of the aircraft, his power had been temporarily shut down.
"Don't ruin the appearance. Even if it's just an empty shell," Hao Ren said. "Dismantle everything that is not needed inside."
One of the autonomous robots cut open part of the outer shell of the spaceship and stuffed various shielding and interference devices into the belly of the spaceship. Another autonomous robot dug out its navigation computer and identification signal transmitter from inside the spaceship. These two devices were quickly dismantled into a pile of parts, and after modifying the core chip, they were reassembled.
N-6 looked on blankly. She still felt that Hao Ren's plan was a bit whimsical. "Are you sure you can fool the Cortex Prime? The Cortex Prime's identification system is extremely advanced. "
"But our unit's technology is the best in the world," Hao Ren said, waving his hand confidently. "My drone swarm has completely blocked the Zenith's communication system. Even if someone here finds a captured fighter, they will not be able to report to the Cortex Prime. The lunar base will only think that we have retreated for maintenance."
This was the plan of Hao Ren and his team. Strictly speaking, it was Lily's idea, and the others helped to perfect the plan.
Hao Ren knew that whether it was for the purpose of investigating this survivor civilization or to collect information on the First Born on this planet, he had to go to the lunar base. But now there was a big problem with the Cortex Prime. Although humans were nominally the supreme rulers of this civilization, it was clear that the Cortex Prime was in direct control of the lunar base. So to visit the lunar base, they had to take a special route.
Hao Ren did not think that he would be welcomed by the Cortex Prime if he flew the Petrachelys to the moon. He even doubted that the Cortex Prime would be able to deal with the flow of time. So, sneaking in was the safest course of action.
But the Cortex Prime was not blind. The survivors who had been fighting against the First Born for thousands of years were not ignorant of the sky. The lunar base had a much tighter defense force than the Zenith and a complex identification system. Any unauthorized flying object that approached the moon would be destroyed (this was mainly to guard against the seed cannons launched by the First Born, although the First Born had not done so for thousands of years).
The Petrachelys might be invulnerable to the anti-aircraft fire on the moon base, but Hao Ren was worried about whether the malfunctioning Cortex Prime would have a more serious logical problem. After discussing with N-4 and N-6, he had confirmed the possibility: if the Cortex Prime found out that an indestructible alien spacecraft was coming for the fortress, there was a 50/50 chance that it would self-destruct or destroy all the databases in advance.
And even if the Cortex Prime did not do so, Hao Ren and his team would be caught in the endless and meaningless attack of the Executor army. It would be difficult for him to get close to the Cortex Prime, let alone investigate the cause of the Cortex Prime's malfunction.
So to avoid this troublesome situation, Lily proposed to get an Executor spacecraft and use the Executor's own identification code to get to the lunar base.
At first, Hao Ren thought of the two transport spacecraft that N-4 led when they landed on the home planet. Unfortunately, after N-4 tried to activate the communication system of the two transport spacecraft, he found that the two transport spacecraft had lost their authorization code. In short, the data network of the Executor had been removed. Or worse, if N-4 really drove the two transport spacecraft back to the lunar base, they would probably be shot down by the Cortex Prime.
Although N-4 received instructions from the Cortex Prime to investigate the home planet, it was obvious that the Cortex Prime itself had rejected this instruction. Now the members of N-4's team were blacklisted by the Executor system. Fortunately, N-4 had a heart of steel, or else she would have died of depression.
N-4's team and their transport spacecraft were on the Cortex Prime's blacklist, so Hao Ren could only look at the spacecraft in the hands of the Executor. It was not possible to use the Petrachelys to attack and capture the spacecraft because the Executor system would remove the destroyed or captured units. If he found a spacecraft on the surface of the planet and shot it down, Hao Ren would only get a pile of scrap metal without authorization code.
It was the military core of the Executors, the frontline fortress, the Zenith, that carried out this "removal" procedure.
So, Hao Ren and his team decided to do something big. They would rush up to the Zenith and force the Executors out. Then, they would let the drone swarm in and use the EMP to temporarily disable the Zenith's system and communication with the lunar base. While the Executors were blind and deaf, they would capture a spacecraft to "brainwash" so that no one would know that the spacecraft had been captured.
Even if the Zenith's computer detected an anomaly, the Cortex Prime would not receive accurate information due to the communication jam between the Zenith and the lunar base. The Cortex Prime would only know that the Zenith was attacked by unknown enemies and that the space station was surrounded and isolated. Other than that, all the details of the battle were unknown.
Under such circumstances, it was reasonable for an attack spacecraft to be sent to the lunar base because it was injured in the Zenith melee and could not return to the space station to perform maintenance due to the battlefield lockdown. It was also in line with the Executor military system's programming.
Amidst the chaos, communication jams, and bombardment of light beams, the Petrachelys suddenly rushed into a swarm of attack spacecraft that had lost power. The door of the hangar opened, and a seemingly ordinary attack spacecraft slid out of the hangar silently.
The surface of the attack spacecraft was mottled with scars as if it had been through a fierce battle. It floated quietly in space for a while until it naturally drifted away from the battlefield. Then, the engine at the tail of the spacecraft suddenly lit up and flew in the direction of the moon.
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