Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 615 Moving the Plot
"And running fast may not necessarily be able to avoid it... Those multiple light walls are often moving towards each other, and will sandwich people in the middle." Ghost Owl continued.

"How about upwards? What is the height of the light wall? Can it be avoided by flying?" Layton couldn't help asking.

With the technical support of Ye's consortium and a nearly unlimited budget, his cyborg prosthetic body has undergone several major changes recently. He even installed a flight module with a power seriously exceeding the standard, so that he has the ability to fly in the air. The ability to stagnate for long periods of time.

"Flying inside the Bronze City is purely suicidal—even low-altitude flying over the ground. Although we have not yet figured out what the trigger mechanism for the horizontal light wall is, the vertical light wall trigger rate is almost [-]%." ​​Ghost Owl After a pause, he continued, "No matter how high you go inside the building, as long as there is a ceiling above your head, the light wall will not appear. But if you are in an open space, as long as you are more than five feet above the ground Meters, the vertical light wall will always be triggered - it will press down directly from above you, the speed is much faster than the horizontal one, and you can't dodge it at all."

"Five meters high...that is to say, if you jump too high, it will also trigger the light wall, right?"

"Correct."

As if to verify what the ghost owl said, when the group of hunters in the video turned into a small alley, a wall of light appeared in front of and behind them at the same time. Seeing this, the hunter with the mechanical prosthesis climbed up the wall of the building—at the moment when he was more than five meters above the ground, a light curtain was pressed down from directly above at a speed that ordinary people could not react to. The hunter only had time to let out a short exclamation before most of his body was engulfed by the light curtain.

His body was instantly vaporized, leaving only some melted and deformed prosthetic parts scattered on the ground, emitting a crimson light.

But everyone was relieved that the light curtain was only pressed down to five meters from the ground and stopped... Although the hair of other hunters was curled by the heat from the light curtain, but At least they temporarily escaped the fate of being wiped out by the group.

The video got stuck at this point. It seems that the internal components failed due to the impact and high temperature. A black and white snowflake flashed on the screen, and the screen cut back to the shot of the ghost owl.

"What happened later?" Ye Yan asked, his breathing was a little short, "How did you escape?"

"We were lucky. We found the entrance of a building and hid inside the building before we were caught by two light walls." Ghost Owl said, "The light walls will only clean up the streets outside, not the streets." Causes damage to creatures inside the building..."

"That means the building is safe." The hound said to himself while stroking the stubble on his chin, "but now the ruins of this city have been occupied by heretical sects, and they will definitely take most of the buildings The entrance is sealed...even if it is not sealed, it is probably only a trap left by them."

"According to the official records, the Gray Bird Hunting Group was the first team to discover the 'Bronze City Ruins' moving light wall mechanism... Could it be that the previous hunters didn't encounter this thing?" Ivan asked .

"It starts with the structure of the ancient copper city ruins." Ghost Owl took out a sensor pen and drew a circle on the screen. "The ruins of the Bronze City is a perfect circle, with the center of the circle as the intersection point, and six straight lines running through the entire circle divide the circle into twelve fan-shaped areas of equal area. Inside the circle are two more The perfectly equally spaced concentric circles divide the site of the Bronze City into three areas - according to the depth, or the distance from the center of the central circle, these three areas are called the 'inner ring', the 'middle ring' and the 'outer ring' '...

Of course, the geometry I drew looks simple, but the actual terrain is much more complex.All kinds of streets and lanes in each block are criss-crossed, each block is equivalent to an independent maze, and each independent maze is related to each other through ingenious design... That's why I combined it with The "array" in the legend of China is connected together. "

"The city branch of this ruins looks very similar to the Ark... I just don't know if the housing prices in the 'Inner Ring' are the same as those on the Ark, dozens or even hundreds of times that of the 'Outer Ring'... grunted the Hound.

"The reason why the previous explorers did not encounter these light walls and light curtains is because we are the first hunter team to go deep into the 'Central Ring' area." There are several marks on the sketch, "We are entering the third sector of the middle ring from the third sector of the outer ring—"

The sensor pen was swiped on the screen, and a striking orange line appeared on the sector marked with the number three on the sketch, passing through the dividing line of concentric circles from the outer ring area and entering the middle ring area.

"We lost a total of nine hunters before we managed to escape from the middle ring area to the outer ring area..." Ghost Owl said, "But we didn't notice until we came out that we came out from the eighth sector of the outer ring area." of……"

"Did you go all the way from the third sector to the eighth sector in a panic?" Layton scratched his head. He didn't know why the ghost owl had such a complicated expression on his face—it's not normal to take a detour in the ruins thing?
"No." The ghost owl shook his head, "The routes we move are all recorded, because the appearance of the light wall is completely random, so we all choose the route as close as possible-even if there is a slight deviation, then we should be It is only right to come out from the adjacent second or fourth sector... With our travel distance, it is absolutely impossible to go around that far to the eighth sector... unless we cross the entire ancient copper city Ruins."

"Maybe you really traversed the entire ruins... In the maze built by the Alpha civilization, no one is reliable, whether it is the compass, the radio positioning device, or the human's own sense of direction," said the hunting dog.

"I can be sure that we did not cross the ruins, because there is a very clear dividing line between the outer ring, middle ring and inner ring of the Bronze City ruins. If we enter the inner ring by mistake, we will definitely cross that dividing line …but all along, we have been operating in the middle ring area, and we have never seen the dividing line between the middle ring and the inner ring.”

"If you haven't entered the inner ring area, then the shortest route you want to take from the third sector to the eighth sector should be like this—" Ivan also took out a sensor pen, and drew a line almost close to the The arc of the edge of the inner ring.

"Even this shortest route is much longer than the distance you traveled when you escaped, right?" Ivan asked.

"That's right." Ghost Owl nodded, "Even if the positioning equipment will be disturbed, it is impossible for a mechanical pedometer to make mistakes. Even if the calculation error is expanded to more than five times the standard value, the distance is still far away." not enough."

At this moment, Ke Lan, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly tapped the table in front of him lightly, and said to the hunting dog: "Old Dog, do you still remember the 'Nine Stone Chambers' we encountered in the bottomless sinkhole?" ?”

"Nine stone chambers... I remember it, but isn't that thing our dream?" The hound nodded, "Actually, we have been lying in that cave all this time, and we have never been anywhere."

"Although the nine stone chambers are a dream, theoretically speaking, they can be reproduced in the real world... I suspect that there may be a similar structure in the Bronze City."

"You mean...a movable block?" The hound was stunned for a moment. "I don't think it's strange that the stone room can move, but the whole block can change places without anyone noticing...is it impossible?"

"It doesn't have to be a whole block, it may be a street, half a square or even a single building... As long as the city adopts a modular design, then these are all possible. As long as the gray bird hunting The buildings within the field of vision of the group's hunters have not changed, and the displacement of the external plates is difficult for them to perceive."

Ke Lan paused for half a second, and then continued: "Besides, in the state of being chased by the light wall and running around, even if the plate under their feet is moving, as long as the moving range is not particularly large, they may not be able to notice it. "

The ghost owl was silent for a full 1 minute, and then nodded seriously: "Captain Ke Lan, your analysis is very reasonable. In my memory, there is really no landmark building in that area that can be used as a benchmark. , the clouds in the sky are also very thick, and there is no independent cloud group that can be used as a basis for judging the direction... If the ground is moving slowly, we really can't find it..."

"Good guy, a city that can change the position of each module at will like a Rubik's cube... What a big project!" The hound couldn't help sighing.

Although the Ark also adopts a modular design, the plots in each area are fixed on the base... If you want to make these plots mobile, it can't be solved simply by adding a few engines and pulleys things.

"Block changes, module movement..." Ke Lan's index finger tapped the table rhythmically, "It's really a bit like the 'maze' with strong fantasy colors in the legends."

The so-called formations are actually the formations arranged by the army when marching and fighting. People are alive, so the army formation is naturally alive-an army formation that cannot be changed is easily broken by the enemy. , all of which are unpredictable and difficult to find flaws... Even if there are some unavoidable flaws, you can quickly change the formation to turn the "weakness" into a "trap"...or even a decision The ultimate move of victory or defeat.

When people are alive, stones are dead——Zhuge Kongming used huge stones to set up a gossip formation to block tens of thousands of troops from the Eastern Wu Dynasty. This kind of story can only appear in novels like "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" with a lot of fictional plots. ... Unless, these boulders can move.

"If calculated according to this, let alone the eighth sector, it is possible for you to come out from any place in the ruins... Hiss." The hound pulled out a thick and long stick while talking. Nose hair, "You should be lucky that you were not sent directly to the inner ring... The middle ring is so dangerous. After entering the inner ring, I am afraid that few people will be able to get out."

"Now the ruins of the Bronze City have been controlled by heretical sects. Assuming that the city's blocks can really be moved at will, the way of manipulation must be in their hands." Layton said with a look of embarrassment, "Don't say that." Let us break into the ruins and seize control, as long as those bastards of the heretic sect have some brains, we will never be able to reach the core area of ​​the ruins."

"There are worse things." Ivan sighed, "Suppose we just killed a defender of a heretic sect, maybe the ground under our feet will bring us into a group of mutants in a second Li - they don't even need to move, they just need to wait for the moving plate to send the prey to the door, not to mention the overwhelming light curtain chasing after them..."

"Entering this ruins, we are like turtles in the middle of something, we can only be slaughtered by others." Layton echoed.

"It's like a turtle in a urn...you don't know how to use idioms, big guy, so don't use idioms, okay? Our hunting group can't afford to lose this man." The hound turned to look at Ke Lan like Layton, "Ke Lan, what is this?" The difficulty of the task is much higher than that of exploring S-level ruins. It is not an exaggeration to say that there are ten deaths and no lives... But I also know that we have no way to refuse this task. Look, why don't you persuade the above People, let them change their tactics?"

"How to persuade?"

"To deal with this kind of target, don't use force to attack it... Just use long-range firepower to saturate the attack, and raze this ruin to the ground?"

Before Ke Lan could speak, Layton spoke first: "Old man, aren't you more embarrassing than me? Do you think it's an ordinary settlement of exiles? It can be blown up with a few missiles? That's an Alpha civilization. It is a fortress, and it is a fortress whose defense facilities have been fully activated! Our human weapons can only be regarded as a tickle for it, even if it is fully fired... Don't say anything else, let's just say that this covers the whole city Do you know how powerful this system is if you use it as an external defense cover?"

"How big is it?" the hound asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Do you still remember the 'Kirin' that killed Leviathan? If you use the 'Kirin' to hit the energy shield of the Bronze City, until the entire battleship is vaporized, it is impossible to hit the city. Any structure! I can only think of two things when trying to break shields this way."

"What's the difference?"

"Noah's Ark and Yaguna Ketor - only their mass and volume can ensure that they can penetrate the shield without being ablated clean." Layton immediately asked, "Do you think the above Is it possible for policymakers to adopt such a tactic?"

(End of this chapter)