It was actually very simple to deal with the situation before he left. It was nothing more than to pretend that all the people in the facility had died in the crash, and that the entire facility had suffered logical damage during the crash, so as to completely cover up the truth of the "login unit" — this was a necessary quality for a Best Actor.
It was not difficult to pretend that the people were dead because Hao Ren and his buddies did not show up in front of the festered. So the festered had no idea who was controlling the drone cluster. All the drones and autonomous robots on the surface of the Naqdal fortress were of various types. If the festered had monitored the surface of the fortress, they would only have seen those mechanical lives.
So, all they had to do was to leave a bunch of empty shells of autonomous robots and drones in the command station.
Before coming here, Hao Ren had asked Nolan to use the factory module in the Petrachelys to produce a large number of autonomous robots and initial drones without the central chip. Hao Ren had placed these things in various areas of the command station to create the illusion that they were the operators of the facility.
At the same time, he had erased all traces related to humans in the central control room. The ergonomic seats and handles, as well as the manual control panel, were all burned to ashes by the pre-set automatic meltdown program. These things were the only traces of humans in the entire command station.
The plan was well-thought-out from the very beginning. Only drones, autonomous robots, and guardian giants were active in front of the festered. The real controllers, such as Hao Ren, were still 'ghosts' that had never shown themselves in front of the festered legion. The monsters would never have thought that a group of infiltrators that they had never seen before had landed on their planetary battleship, and the clues that they could find in the command station would cover up this fact even more.
After disguising the "personnel", Hao Ren ordered all energy in the command station to be shut down and activated the countdown bombs that had been set in advance at various support points. When these bombs detonated, the entire command station would collapse and disintegrate, erasing the fact that the inertial suppressor protected the core area.
They finally stood on the land of Amantir.
Considering the complexity of the planet, all kinds of accidents could happen, and all kinds of professionals were needed to prepare for any possible situation. So, except for Lil Pea, who was too small to stay on the Petrachelys, Hao Ren had brought everyone with him. Under the cover of the huge fissures and uplifted rocks near the crater, the group first distanced themselves from the gradually collapsing wreckage of the island. Then, they found a slightly higher place nearby to overlook the entire area.
The land of Amantir seemed to be stained with dark blood, and the entire surface had an unsettling and depressing dark-red hue. On this dark-red land, ravines and canyons were everywhere, and toxic steam and smoke constantly spewed out of these cracks, shrouding the entire area in a hazy mist.
Through the thin but poisonous mist, Hao Ren saw many huge black silhouettes standing on the distant horizon. Those were the anti-space cannons or temple spires used for combat. These once sacred things had now been transformed by the power of madness, and the chaotic energy inside had destroyed hundreds of thousands of drones and guardian warships. Even now, some of the black silhouettes were still glowing, and there were flashes of light at their tips. They were still pursuing the retreating drone army and guardian warships.
On the other side, the terrain was clearly sunken, and a bright red light rose from the horizon as if the sun was about to rise. Countless black dots that looked like mosquitoes danced in the background of the red light. That was the location of the "equatorial rift" that almost cut the entire planet in half. Those black dots that looked like mosquitoes were actually the army of festered giants and biochemical monsters.
The surface of Amantir was not barren. In fact, there was a thriving "ecosystem" here, but all life had been distorted by the power of madness into a hideous form. On the dark red land, tangled giant plants protruded out of the ground like swollen limbs, trembling and wriggling in the poisonous wind. There were also many strange mushroom-like things growing among the rocks and gravel, and their huge umbrellas could almost cover a house. Amantir once had the same green mountains, rivers, and flowers as the other two planetary fortresses, but after the power of the Mad Lord spread, all the surviving plants had become distorted and weird.
But these giant plants were not useless, at least … they could be used as cover.
"Disgusting …" Lily covered her nose as she looked at a wriggling ribbon-like plant nearby. The thing had broad leaves and thick stems, but the leaves were covered with bulges that looked like blood vessels, and the whole plant was wriggling on the ground like an animal. This SAN SAN thing made the husky maiden's hair stand on end. Even with the life-support collar, Lily still covered her nose as if she smelled something disgusting. "I feel like I can't write a novel after I go back to this planet …"
"Since when did you write a novel?" Vivian was also quite disgusted with the environment on Amantir, but she could not afford to lose in front of the husky. "Don't think I don't know that other than writing reviews of dog food tastings, you are also writing about two men kissing each other. If you call it a novel, the whole world will be clean!"
Lily glared at her. "Who said that I only write about these? I have also written reviews of Missy the Buddha and Wuxia novels of the Republic of China! "
Vivian sighed with her arms crossed. "Can you stop talking about things before 1930?"
Hao Ren looked at the pair of enemies a little helplessly before looking up at a dark shadow in the distance. "According to the information given to us by Salaman, the control center of Amantir is over there. It is next to the equatorial rift, and a large number of festered are stationed nearby. The Amantir crystal is stored underground."
Lily scratched her head. "So many people are stationed here? How are we going to get in? "
Nangong Sanba looked at her, dumbfounded. "… Didn't you listen during the meeting?"
Lily put on an innocent face. "I can't do anything about it because I fell asleep."
Hao Ren sighed. "There are a few underground passages, which are actually the ventilation pipes of the facility. Considering the size of the guardian giants, these ventilation pipes are not the entrance at all, so the festered's monitoring of them should be very low. We can go in from there. "
Lily smacked her lips. "What a big loophole. Those monsters are not that smart."
"It's not a matter of whether they are smart or not. They have been fighting the guardian giants for a long time, and their thinking has long been fixed. They will not be able to think of such details for a while," Hao Ren explained. "It's like when you are playing hide-and-seek, will you think of looking for someone in a shoebox?"
Lily nodded. "Yes, Lil Pea usually hides in there. But my nose is sharp, and I can always find her."
Hao Ren was dumbfounded. He slapped his forehead. "… Why am I explaining so much to a husky?"
As they spoke, the group continued to move forward.
The landing point of this operation was carefully discussed and planned. It was not far from the destination, which was the control center where the Amantir crystal was stored. But it was also not in the area where the festered army's various defense facilities were concentrated. While it sounded cool to smash a large number of festered buildings from space, to avoid being surrounded by the swarm of monsters, they had to put the idea aside.
There was a hilly area between the landing point and the control center of Amantir. This area was open and lacked cover. If the monsters had organized a wave of aerial reconnaissance, the chances of Hao Ren and his team being discovered would be greatly increased. But the journey was ultimately a daunting one.
Because the festered army's attention had not shifted from the battlefield in space.
The drones and guardian legions had indeed retreated from the front line, showing that their fortress was heavily damaged and the army had given up attacking. But they did not completely retreat. Instead, they built a large number of space bunkers and firepower platforms in places where Amantir could see, ready to fight a protracted war under the enemy's nose. The festered had always had the upper hand in the war for thousands of years. When had they ever been in such a predicament where a force several times their size built bunkers at their doorstep? But the massive drone cluster had been patrolling on the edge of the battlefield, and the festered commander dared not attack rashly. So the attention of the Amantir defenders was greatly diverted.
As a result, the defense and monitoring of Amantir were inevitably affected.
But this would not last for long. Hao Ren always remembered that Amantir was a planetary battleship, and a battleship … could escape.
If the supreme commander of the festered realized that the guardians and the droid army were an invincible force and made up his mind to give up on the Heart, then no one would be able to stop the entire Amantir from charging into the depths of the universe.
But in the previous discussion, Salaman believed that even if Amantir eventually chose to escape, it would not be in such a short time. The festered had been tormenting the holy land for so many years. Just as the guardian's mission was to protect the heart, destroying the heart was also the "mission" of the monsters. The monsters would not easily choose to give up this place unless they were forced into a corner.
…
The magnificent temple building stood in the distance. All kinds of deformed monsters flew around the temple, patrolling the entire area.
While the battle in space had taken up a lot of their energy, the festered army could not afford to let down the defense of their headquarters. At this point, it was the limit of their operations on the surface.
Behind a pile of strange rocks that looked like scattered blades, they stopped. Hao Ren lowered his body and pointed to a metal gate that protruded out of the ground not far away. "That is one of the entrances to the ventilation pipe."
The MDT floated in the air. "I can sense a stable airflow. It should be open inside."
Hao Ren nodded. "Let's go in from here."
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