None of the surveillance cameras or radars noticed the attack craft leaving the battlefield and flying toward the moon. In fact, even if the equipment had not been destroyed by the massive EMP attack, the chaos on the battlefield was enough to overwhelm the Zenith soldiers. Although the droid swarm did not use lethal offensive weapons, these high-tech gadgets had the ability to influence the battlefield. They used short-range hyperdrive and inertial suppressors to perform high-speed maneuvers that defied common sense, exhausting the space station's fighter jets. At the same time, they continued to release powerful jamming signals, causing the Zenith's communication network to be overloaded due to data congestion. This further undermined the command and coordination of the defense forces. But that was not all. As time went on, the engineering droids mixed in with the armed droids caused more chaos and panic.
These engineering droids were destroying the Zenith's command system and communication network in a more thorough and violent way.
These little demons, with their slender insect-like bodies and multiple robotic arms, were dismantling everything that was detected to be transmitting and receiving signals. They even cut open the outer shell of the space station and drilled into the Zenith through the internal pipes and support beams. They were destroying the space fortress's command system and communication network hardware with astonishing efficiency. Wherever they went, everything went silent.
Nolan called this process "physical deletion."
Crippling the Zenith's command and communication system and removing the combat power of the space station was another important task that Hao Ren had assigned. The role of the droid swarm was not only to cover Hao Ren and his team's covert operation, but also to keep the troops stationed in the space station occupied. In this way, even if the Cortex Prime on the moon base went berserk, Hao Ren could ensure that at least half of the Executors were kept in orbit.
Meanwhile, in the attack craft that was flying to the moon.
N-6 sat nervously next to Hao Ren. Thinking of the scuffle near the Zenith, she suddenly wondered if she had made the right choice. The alien beings in front of her were not human beings from their home planet, and they had shown their strength. They had also summoned a group of battle robots to besiege the Zenith. Although it was a siege based on zero casualties, it would not change the fact that they were besieging the Zenith. Now, these alien beings were going to the lunar base, to the common holy land of humans and the Executors, to the impregnable fortress.
Their reason was that the Cortex Prime had malfunctioned, and they had to investigate and repair it. N-4 had confirmed the malfunction of the Cortex Prime.
But this did not lessen the conflict in N-6's heart. Although she was just an artificial intelligence, her logic circuit was still tangled like a human, and her power consumption skyrocketed.
"Are you all right?" Vivian looked at the robot girl curiously. "There are several heating sources on you. Did we forget to install a radiator when we repaired you?"
N-6 shook her head and said, "I think you are a great threat to us."
"Of course, if we have the ability to seriously damage or even destroy your civilization, we are almost a natural disaster to you, no less than the Planet Devourer that once devoured human civilization," Hao Ren admitted frankly. "In fact, judging from this operation, if we have malicious intentions, your Cortex Prime and the Palace of Destiny will be exposed to danger. Because we have obtained a spacecraft with an identification code that can land directly on the moon. We have also obtained a map of the route to the fortress and even part of the internal structure of the fortress from N-4. But the Cortex Prime knows nothing about all this. The Zenith, the only place that can send a warning, is blocked by the drone cluster. Not even a message can be sent out."
N-6 did not react to these straightforward words. She just looked at Hao Ren quietly, her eyes full of inorganic feeling. "If you want to do this, then you don't have to tell me all this. Even if you really want to do this, I can't stop you. I'm just curious why you are interested in a civilization like ours. From your spacecraft and the drones you summoned, I can see that you have technology far beyond ours. We and our planet are of no value to you. "
Hao Ren glanced at the robot girl who was in a dilemma and smiled softly. "N-6, you don't understand. That's because of the year-end bonus …"
"N-6 doesn't understand. N-6's society doesn't have this concept."
"You don't need to understand. You just need to know one thing." Hao Ren shrugged. "If we were malicious, we would have already sent thousands of drones to flatten this galaxy. There are countless simpler and faster ways for us to attack the lunar base, but we don't have any of them. So you don't have to worry that we will do so in the future. N-4 has confirmed the failure of the Cortex Prime. The Cortex Prime is the foundation of the operation and maintenance of your society. If it is not repaired as soon as possible, even without external attack, the lunar base and the Zenith will soon self-destruct. In this case, we are at least a hope for you. Your logic system should be able to easily judge this. "
N-6 nodded. In fact, this was where she fell into a dilemma. Based on the existing data and foreseeable future deductions, the logical system determined that if the Cortex Prime continued to malfunction, the lunar base and the Zenith would be destroyed no matter what the Executors did. The group of "extraterrestrial visitors" with advanced technology and a certain degree of goodwill were the only factors that could change the course of this development. On the other hand, however, the emotional system worried her because she was not sure if the kindness of the "extraterrestrial visitors" was trustworthy.
She did not like this situation where she could not accurately calculate the future of the race. Leaving the future of the race to "probability" overwhelmed her logic circuit.
So after some hard thinking, Miss N-6 chose to enter power-saving mode.
"She seems to have cooled down suddenly." Vivian looked back at the robot girl with a little surprise. "What a strange life form …"
"Maybe you just blocked her cooling vent." Lily squinted at Vivian. "She was too embarrassed to talk about you."
"I didn't! I was at least a meter away from her! You, on the other hand, have such a big fluffy tail, and it's shedding. Maybe you blocked the air inlet of N-6 … "
Seeing that the two enemies were getting more and more quarreling, Hao Ren had to intervene. "You two are enough. N-6 has no cooling vent and air inlet. I heard from Nolan that she is liquid cooled."
"Mr. Landlord …" Lily looked at Hao Ren with a little contempt. "Most liquid cooling systems also need cooling vents."
Hao Ren was speechless.
He was actually despised by a husky! He was despised in the field of common sense and intelligence!
But he did not care about this with Lily because the spacecraft was gradually approaching the moon.
Hao Ren and his team were located in the belly of the spacecraft, which was originally a storage compartment for weapons, ammunition, and some redundant systems. But after the autonomous robots magically modified, this spacious space became a temporary passenger cabin. Hao Ren, Vivian, Lily, N-6, and Y 'zaks were the five main members of the operation. There was also a little drag who was not a regular member. She was hiding in Hao Ren's clothes, poking her little head out of Hao Ren's collar and looking around curiously.
The little drag was, of course, Lil Pea.
Originally, Hao Ren did not intend to bring the little mermaid with him, but the little mermaid suddenly got excited before they set off and begged to go with them. Considering that the little mermaid had actually participated in several operations with them and had always been obedient, Hao Ren reluctantly brought her along.
Anyway, he could put the little mermaid into the dimensional pocket at any time if there was a problem. Besides, even if she stayed on the Petrachelys, the spacecraft in the center of the battlefield did not seem to be a suitable place for the little mermaid to sleep.
Except for a few of them, the rest of the crew stayed on the Petrachelys, including N-4 and her team members.
After discovering that the two transport planes from N-4 had lost their identification authority, Hao Ren felt that the Cortex Prime was likely to have blacklisted N-4 and her team members, or even actively searched for them. So if N-4's team appeared on the lunar base, it would likely trigger an alarm. To avoid failure, Hao Ren decided to let them stay on the spacecraft. But he needed a guide, so he brought N-6 with him.
Through the monitor on the outside of the spacecraft, Hao Ren could clearly see the scene on the moon.
Thousands of years of development and transformation had changed this large, cold, and dead natural satellite beyond recognition. It was now like a wrinkled, dehydrated fruit core, covered with deep ravines and pits, and a layer of metal "coat" covered its land, which was the factory complex and residential area built by the Executors.
The entire lunar base did not have a clear city boundary. Its entire surface seemed to be a giant base connected as a whole. Countless factories, mining machines, domes, and reactors covered the surface of the moon, and crisscrossed tracks and pipeline systems connected these things together. In this endless base, there were several relatively dense clusters of facilities. If there was a city on the moon, it was probably those more dense clusters of facilities.
And above the moon, there were orbiting space stations and satellite clusters, as well as neatly arranged like soldiers, pointing vigilantly in the direction of the home planet.
The battered space attack spacecraft continuously decelerated, changed orbit, and smoothly and lightly passed these orbital cannons and monitoring satellites. Every time it passed a layer of monitoring circle, there would be a brief information exchange.
Identification, and then passed.
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