Chapter 583 Mutated War Tools

"You are my only hope."

Recall, it seems that as long as this sentence or something similar appears, it will not be good, especially when it is said by a beautiful woman, it is as regular a curse as returning to your hometown to get married. How many heroes and heroes are let This sentence is deceptive, and it means that you will go through fire and water to the death, and the implication is: This brave man, you die for us!

Translated into the vernacular, that's it.

The queen girl in front of me just said these shocking words so openly. Not to mention hesitant and embarrassed, she didn't even blink an eyelid - in fact, more than an hour has passed since the beginning of the conversation. The Queen, whose name is so long that it could be a chapter of its own, has blinked more times than Qian Qian has calmed down.

"You really praise us. You usually decide national affairs with such a hasty attitude, Her Majesty the Queen..."

With an unbearable expression, I pressed my temples and said, "Can't you say something creative?" And saying this line in front of someone else's girlfriend is so ambiguous that it's easy to raise a flag. Although that girl is just a stupid girl with no clue, what if she suddenly becomes sharp and bites someone?

"My judgment will not be wrong," Young King Wang did not hear the teasing in my words at all. "For the first time, sixty-seven thousand logical terminals have reached a completely consistent conclusion. You are the most powerful so far. , the army most likely to turn the situation around. You have the power to stand up to the Shepherd alone, high-tech warships that are on par or even better than the Queen's fleet, and shield technology that can resist the Shepherd's destructive weapons. Your appearance may be the long-awaited miracle of the kingdom. If anyone else wants to leave this abyss-like universe, then you will be the only one to lead the way. What I just told is actually not that confidential information. Sooner or later you will I can explore all of this in my own way, and that just shows my sincerity.”

"Defeat the shepherd," my sister said noncommittally, "do you really think it's possible?"

Two hundred Xiling motherships nearly annihilated the Queen's fleet of tens of thousands of warships. Under such a disadvantage, it is incredible that the Queen would have such a wish.

"Escape from the cage is the initial and ultimate goal of the establishment of the Gotak Free Kingdom. We do not expect to defeat the shepherds. What we want is just to escape from this universe, and for this, we need any possibility for world travel. The technology, the extra-worldly technology from the New Trekkers, and the mysterious technology from the Shepherds are all what we desire, and to get the latter, we must be powerful enough... Our research on the Shepherds has already been carried out After hundreds of years, they paid a price that other countries could not understand, and finally relied on the super-advanced technology they stole to become one of the most powerful countries in the star field. But this was not enough. The Shepherds could tolerate the Free Kingdom for hundreds of years. existence may suddenly wipe out the entire kingdom one morning. Their unpredictable behavior is the sword that always hangs over the head of the kingdom. Therefore, I hope to get your help. This is the common goal of 67,000 logical terminals. conclusion."

"You are a little too accustomed to using those logical terminals to think for yourself," I sighed and stood up, "Of course, maybe this is the characteristic of your race... I will help, of course, the reason may be the same as you imagine. It’s not the same (in order to destroy the empire’s ‘rebels’), so let’s go back and make a summary first… Wait, I almost forgot.”

The moment I was about to leave the room, I remembered a question I had been curious about before. I stopped and looked at Her Majesty the Queen, who was expressionless and always sitting on the throne like a sculpture. I touched my chin: "What are you talking about with those people?" I found out when the Emperor ***, the Shepherd you call me, was fighting. They never killed your flagship. You yourself should know that without our joint shield technology, you can only rely on your It’s impossible for the fleet’s force field effect devices to be able to withstand the salvos of their two hundred main guns, right?”

"Sorry, I can't answer this question. The shepherd's behavior cannot be judged logically."

...Forget it, I won’t tell you anymore. As the head of the empire, am I just looking for trouble?

A door leading to the outside suddenly appeared in the completely sealed room. Just like when we entered, I left this weird throne together with several high-ranking officials in the empire who were thinking a lot - except maybe Qian Qian. I couldn't see anything, but my intuition told me that Her Majesty the Queen's "eyes" followed us until we were blocked by the door.

Biberu was still waiting outside the door. The shining silver ball prime minister did not ask what the queen had said to us. On its fully reflective mirror surface, I could see the expressions on our faces. It’s not very pretty, everything is cloudy.

Well, Qianqian is excluded again.

In this way, a group of us returned to Elsword with our stomachs full of thoughts.

"It's really, really bad."

In the officer's lounge, my sister was lazily leaning on the sofa, looking up at the ceiling and mumbling to herself.

"Lin Xue seems to have known something for a long time. It is really not a good idea to appear as an emperor in front of the natives of this world." I rubbed my temples, "Who is the emperor of this world?" What's going on? There are no signs of being contaminated by the abyss, but it's like going crazy... Pandora, do you think the Xiling Apostles will have this kind of collective mental illness?"

I got a huge eye roll in response.

"My lord, I'm sorry for the sudden interruption, but perhaps you will be interested in the results of our research."

Just when I was thinking about where to start with the strange situation in this universe, a window suddenly popped up in the air, and Tavel's blurry mass projection appeared on it, "Please come to the lower Gnaku. We have made a major discovery about the power of Xiling in this world."

The lower Gnaku of Ellight, a warehouse-like area that originally stored Protos psychic crystals, was semi-abandoned after the Mother Ship was replaced with a psionic reactor. Now it has been transformed into Tavel's research facility. , when he led Qian Qian, who was just joining in the fun, to Gnaku, a large mechanical component was being cut. Tavel's mass projection was hovering in the air, directing a group of people who had just been transported from the Imperial Admiral. The Xiling technician who came over further disassembled some mechanical fragments that were dismantled into a pile on the ground.

At first glance, it looks like a scrap collection station.

"What the hell is this?" This was the first time I saw such a research site. I had a lot of trouble jumping through the metal parts on the floor. I had to be careful not to step on an unlucky researcher. Xiling technicians were all like that. This kind of guy makes people go crazy when he gets into working mode. I guess even if I stepped on them, they would have to wait until after work to react. "Tavel, have you changed your profession to waste recycling?"

"These are several Xiling individual fighters we captured, as well as the core compartment of an assault ship that was recovered. They have now been completely dismantled. My technicians are manually separating the mutated control devices of these things. .”

"Captured?" I was stunned for a moment, and then I was overjoyed. "This is really not easy. I thought they all blew themselves up after the main force retreated."

"Where are the soldiers who rebelled against the Empire?"

Huesca was concerned about another thing. The little guy threw the cannon all over the place (look at our quantifier, all over the place!), with an excited look on his face ready for torture and confession. Pandora was also beside him. Almost the same, except that what she threw was a floating cannon that reached the ceiling.

Since we have captured a single fighter plane, it means that we have captured the pilot in the fighter plane. Even if the opponent is a combat puppet with little independent consciousness, we can also pry the rebel intelligence from their memory core. This is very simple. logic.

But Tavel's answer surprised everyone: "There is no driver, not in the individual fighter planes, and not in the cockpit of the assault ship. None of these imperial vehicles have drivers. These are their control systems - —Theoretically."

Tavel adjusted his glasses and pointed at a piece of part on the ground that was almost intact.

"They are all such weird terminals that cannot accept external control at all. These war weapons control themselves, but they are not artificial intelligence, but a more peculiar automatic device that can react almost the same as artificial intelligence. There is no independent consciousness in itself," Tavel said, picking up a curved part from the ground. The moment this part came into contact with the mass projection composed entirely of energy, violent sparks erupted, and then dimmed, " They reject any form of energy contact, so it is difficult for us to analyze these fragments with conventional instruments. It can be said that in addition to their appearance, these imperial vehicles have completely mutated into something else inside - this is the theory. .”

Qian Qian slowly bent down, picked up a disc-shaped part marked with a yellow mark, looked at it over and over, frowning and thinking from time to time.

Just when I thought this girl had discovered something, Qianqian threw the thing out with a "swish" sound. Two seconds later, a researcher's exclamation of being knocked over came from the distance.

"Wow! Sorry, I thought it could fly back like a boomerang!"

...Do you dare to be more boring?

"Ahem," Tavel continued to report, almost as usual, ignoring his mistress's foolish behavior, "We separated a complete set of control centers from an almost undamaged individual fighter plane. It has been Completely mutated, but still retaining a basic storage device that conforms to the Xiling technology architecture. Before it was stimulated to self-destruct by external energy, we read some strange codes from it. These codes are very strange. They do not conform to any existing A well-known and reasonable language structure, and full of redundancies, should be unorganized strings with very low execution efficiency, but when they are executed as a whole, they are highly rational..."

"Can you pick something I can understand?"

After resisting for a long time, I finally found that the words in Tavel's mouth had become something from another dimension in my ears.

"...To sum up, these abnormal imperial vehicles have formed their own language system, have their own self-discipline rules, and the possibility of communicating with their controllers and seeking solutions has been completely ruled out - in theory That’s right.”

"Vehicles, their own language system, are really old-fashioned science fiction horror themes, Enha," I looked at the surrounding analysis platforms and the war weapons spread out in the dismantling area, "Could it be that Xiling's man-made highly intelligent weapons Will there also be such bloody glitches like the artificial intelligence revolution?"

"No, they are not faulty, and Empire technology will not produce such loopholes similar to the Matrix," Tavel obviously knew about The Matrix. This may be the result of Paopao's continuous uploading of various film and television works to the entire information link. , "All these mutated vehicles show no signs of intelligence. At least these low-level units do not have the ability to think. My subordinates just mentioned that their control systems are not artificial intelligence. All abnormal vehicles are in a Under the control of complex behavioral templates, it may be some kind of rules defined by the common language between them. If we can decipher this illogical language, maybe we can find the reason why the universe emperor is out of control—— That’s the theory.”

Looking at the lady in front of me, who can be said to be the busiest and most dedicated lady in the entire empire, I suddenly felt a little ashamed: "Yeah, it seems like you have to work hard again, and I can't help you in this regard - by the way, Shan What did Dora say? You should have uploaded the situation here to the Shadow Fortress, right?"

"Yes," Sister Eyes nodded, "Her Majesty Sandora believes that these mutations should be related to some kind of infection, similar to the abyss infection, which causes system disorder in the normal imperial war machine and self-proliferates these contradictory control modules. , this conjecture is also one of our research directions, I hope this is not the case."

I nodded, convinced.

An abyssal infection is enough to cause a headache. If you want to have a viral flu that will catch all Xiling people, we will be prepared to suffer from headaches in health and epidemic prevention until death.

"Let's go, girl, stop playing. Let's go back to the upper area." Seeing that Tavel and her researchers were about to get into a new round of busyness, I shouted loudly to a certain energetic girl who no longer knew where to go. After returning home, before leaving, I suddenly remembered something. I turned around and reminded Tavel, "Tavel, let the researchers pay attention and try to minimize the exposure of Xiling characteristics in front of the aborigines of this world. Although the latter may see We can only rely on the Imperial battleships to identify the 'Shepherd' when we go up there, but it's better to be careful to avoid trouble."

"This subordinate naturally knows," Tavel nodded. "These researchers received special training from Commander Sicaro before they came here. They are very good at covert operations and disguise."

I:"……"

I kind of know what that guy from Cicaro meant when he said "there will be a successor" when I put him on duty on the Imperial Admiral.

I don’t know if everyone who is related to me has the physique to attract trouble, or if Lilina is naturally black and is born to cause trouble. I originally thought that after arriving in this world, just take that girl back and everything will be fine, but I didn’t expect that here. Will encounter unprecedented complex situations, and even Sandora admitted that she was helpless about the matter here. When leading Qianqian and Pandora sisters back to the upper level of El Light, Fina and Tavel's words always I was whirling around in my mind. One was the innocent trekkers who were wantonly played and killed by the cruel and chaotic "Shepherd". The other was the imperial vehicle that had mutated like an infection and seemed to be staging an artificial intelligence revolution. I didn't care. I dare to imagine what else I will encounter in the future. I really need to contact Lilina quickly at this time. In this weird and dangerous world, the girl disappeared not long after she came here. I hope nothing happens to her.

Such chaotic thoughts troubled him all the way, and then stopped abruptly when he arrived at Lingwang Square.

"Cheers!!! Long live Avalon!!! Long live Crystal!!!"

The moment I stepped out of the lift, the oncoming cheers pushed me back.

What you see in front of you is a group of demons dancing wildly, and what you see is a boiling sky. I know the truth, but you have to change it for someone who doesn't know. Come and see which monster's cave you thought you were entering!

The entire Crystal Square was packed with emperors and generals from all eras. At first glance, it looked like an open-air banquet! The ground is full of tobacco, alcohol, tea and sugar, flowing water is Sichuan, Yue, Ganlu, and almost two miles of shops selling cuisines and drinks from various eras, ethnic groups and regions. Where you can see the heroes are drinking, playing cards, chatting and bragging, standing and lying down, drinking and shouting five drinks and six drinks. Liangshan, where one hundred and eight professional hooligans dare to shout heroes when calling friends, is really weak compared to these ancient heroes. Are you ready to dismantle the ship?

"Celebrate, celebrate. Such a great battle has been won, and the morale is high. We should celebrate grandly to show the majesty of our emperor. You guys, don't keep a sullen face. I am very happy today, and I will especially honor you to drink with you." Two cups are also okay~~~”

I lowered my head expressionlessly and looked at the King of Heroes, who was only 1.5 meters tall including his stupid hair, standing on tiptoes and patting his shoulders as hard as a little adult. My eyes suddenly flashed, and I grabbed her collar and walked away. stand up.

"Put this king down! You untouchable! Put this king down! Oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm still a wounded person!"

Why didn't you say you were a wounded person when you were holding half a catty of Maotai and blowing on the bottle?

"Zelatul, if you want to cry, you can cry."

I casually threw the dancing Gil girl aside and asked her to play with Sasaki. Suddenly, I noticed a bleak figure squatting in the corner. When I went over, I saw that it was Zeratul.

The latter silently raised his head, looked at me, and whispered: "As you can see, being without a mouth is indeed a very troublesome thing..."

I:"……"

Finally, have you also been corrupted? The serious Uncle Z in the past? Get serious! The holy land of your clan has turned into the Erliqiao vegetable market, right?