Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 799 Connection Recovery
"How could this be?" Mo Jue's eyes were wide open, and the surprise on his face could not be concealed at all.

"These people...these wrecks, they should have been alive not long ago." Ke Lan murmured, "Otherwise, the manual emergency procedure would not have been activated at all."

At this moment, there was a sudden slight vibration from the ground of the bridge, and then, the originally dark screens lit up one after another, and several beams of faint blue light shot down from the center of the ceiling, forming a A huge holographic projection screen, with various complex parameters constantly flashing on it.

"What's going on?" Mo Jue took a few steps back in a panic, and picked up the bolt gun in her hand—but the moment she raised the muzzle of the gun, she hesitated...

She didn't find the source of the change at all, and she didn't know where the enemy was hiding, and where was her gun aimed at?Could it be that a shot was fired at this holographic projection screen?
"This battleship was activated." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "But we didn't activate it..."

"But isn't our original purpose to activate this warship..." Mo Jue said with some puzzlement, "Since 'they' can activate the warship, why should they close the bridge? Between 'them' and us, there should be Can't be considered an enemy?"

"No, the battleship was not activated by 'they'... but these things." Ke Lan looked at the vines crawling everywhere in the bridge-these vines not only killed the corroded remains in the bridge, but also kept Extended to the interior of the central control computer.

Although Ke Lan couldn't figure out how the vines were connected to the central control computer, it was clear that these weird plants had invaded the real and virtual worlds at the same time.

Ke Lan and the others moved a step slower.

The connection between the "Genoa" and the foggy forest, which was cut off by the Blasphemer Mech, has now been "repaired".

33's voice also came from the communicator, with a messy electrical sound: "Hello? Hiss... hiss... hello?! Ke Lan?! Can you hear my voice? Let me tell you, the situation Seems like something is wrong! Hiss... hiss... hiss... I haven't even reached the engine compartment... hiss... the main engine of this battleship started... hiss... now the entire engine room is locked, I can't get in at all... Hiss... Is there something wrong with your bridge?"

"It won't be clear in the communicator for a while, don't worry about the power cabin, you hurry to the bridge." Ke Lan replied.

"Hiss...Okay, I see... Ss... I'll be here right away... Ss... Also, I found something... Ss..."

"What's the matter?" Ke Lan asked.

"The vines that were not moving in the battleship seem to have come alive... Hiss... I saw... Hiss... Sprouts began to emerge in many places... Hiss... If these fog vines revive... Hiss... the interior of this battleship will probably be filled with dense fog soon..." 33 seemed to be running wildly all the way, the hard rubber soles stepped on the metal corridor floor, making crisp sounds. snap.

"I know...the actual situation is actually worse than what you think." Ke Lan said, "I suggest you be mentally prepared."

"Don't worry... I've been through even the worst situations." Although 33 said so, the frequency of his footsteps suddenly accelerated a lot, "Is your side in danger now? Can you still persist?"

"Not yet. But I think... the situation is a bit out of our control." Ke Lan thought for a while, and told 33 the truth in the communicator, "The will of the forest has regained control of this battleship. It is not us who restarted the battleship, but the foggy forest."

"I...sigh... guessed it a long time ago." 33 said, there was a sudden burst of machine gun fire from his side, obviously the automatic defense facilities inside the battleship were activated.

"Are you OK?"

"It's not a big problem, it's just... hiss... a few broken cannons." 33 replied, "but I'm afraid I can't communicate with you for the time being... hiss... hiss... wait for me, at most ...Hiss...5 minutes, I'll be there...ss..."

Before 33 finished speaking, the communication was interrupted.

Although the in-ship communicator can use the metal structure inside the battleship to carry out "wired communication", this kind of communication has almost no means of protection, and it is easy to be intercepted and interfered. Now that the will of the forest that controls the battleship has discovered 33 And using the automatic cannon to attack it, naturally 33 will not be allowed to maintain communication with Ke Lan and the others through the in-ship communicator.

"Then... what are we going to do now?" Mo Jue looked at the vines all over the bridge in a daze, and asked Ke Lan, "Try to regain control of the battleship from... from these fog vines. right?"

The diameter of the thickest vines in the bridge is almost as thick as the trunk of the Mistroost tree at the red line. There are at least twenty giant vines like this...the ones separated from the giant vines are secondary branch vines, although It is said to be the second level, but it is as thick as a python. The number of vines at this level is already a bit hard to count...

The fog vines that grow from the "python-level" vines are about the thickness of a human arm. The fog vines with this diameter are also the kind that are seen the most in the forest outside. For "lumberjacks", this thickness A single vine can be cut with a chainsaw equipped with Nino alloy blades, but if a dozen or even hundreds of strands are entwined, even heavy machinery can't do anything about it.

The casing of the computer room where the central control computer is stored has been pried open by these vines, and more than a thousand fog vines have drilled in from various gaps, connecting with the central control computer in a way that humans cannot understand .

It stands to reason that as long as these fog vines are cut off, the connection between them and the battleship's central control computer can be interrupted, but the consequence of doing so is that there is a high probability that the "Genoa"'s central control computer will also be destroyed.

In such an environment where resources are extremely scarce, even if the team of engineers who designed this central control computer were here, they would not dare to guarantee that it would be able to fix it.

Not to mention Ke Lan and his group who know almost nothing about it.

"I'll give it a try." Ke Lan replied, quickly ran to the captain's seat, and pulled the operation panel that was tilted to one side.

Ke Lan first tried to wake up the military AI of the central control computer. Generally speaking, the military AI made by Ark is very sensitive to unrecognizable external data intrusion—especially the intrusion through physical means like Wuteng. Once the AI's self-protection mechanism is triggered, the central control computer will be locked directly, not to mention starting the engine to make the battleship fly, and even the lights used for lighting in the bridge will not be turned on.

As long as you can get in touch with the AI, it shouldn't be a problem to regain control of the battleship...

But Ke Lan soon discovered that no matter how he tried, the AI ​​seemed to have been deleted from the central control computer system and disappeared completely.

"It's impossible... Deleting the AI, what's the difference between smashing the central control computer?" Ke Lan's ten fingers quickly rose and fell on the virtual keyboard, but the instructions he entered one after another were like nothing. get no response.

At this time, Mo Jue suddenly said from behind Ke Lan: "I saw those vines seemed to have destroyed a mainframe just now..."

"What?" Ke Lan looked up at the computer room below the steps, and saw a few vines as thick as a python directly entangled a data processor whose paint color was completely different from other machines, just like a real python Like strangling prey, this three-meter-high data processor was crushed into a pile of scrap iron...

"Fuck..." After entering the "Genoa", Ke Lan finally couldn't help but burst out the first swearing, "This machine... is the main computer AI of the central control computer! These vines... this forest ...Crazy? Is it trying to prevent me from getting in touch with the AI?"

Although the AI ​​of the central control computer is only an artificial intelligence that exists in the virtual world, it also has an "entity" in the real world. The data processor that was just crushed by vines is its entity.

The destruction of the mainframe is equivalent to directly obliterating the AI ​​of the central control computer from the physical level, and judging from the damage of this mainframe, even if it can be repaired, the original AI of the "Genoa" is "resurrected" , is almost impossible.

But... without military AI to assist in processing the huge data collected in the central control computer, it is impossible for this battleship to move...

No, not right!Ke Lan soon realized that he was wrong... The importance of AI is only for human beings.But for the foggy forest, the entire forest has been connected to the battleship and the central control computer of the battleship, although Ke Lan does not know how the plants are connected to circuit boards, transistors, silicon chips, etc. , but the facts are right in front of his eyes, even if he can't figure it out, he can only accept the reality.

For the fog forest, the AI ​​of the central control computer is dispensable... Every fog roost is equivalent to a computer host, and countless fog roosts are connected together through the root system, which can provide the forest The "computing power" provided may far exceed human imagination.

And the information that the central control computer of a "Genoa" high-speed support ship needs to process is probably nothing in front of this majestic computing power.

It is also because of this that the foggy forest has the confidence to directly wipe out the AI ​​of the "Genoa".

"It's over, without AI, I can't communicate directly with the central control computer... Now I can only hope that the data on the part of the control authority has not been deleted or rewritten..."

Ke Lan entered several new commands, opened the background of the central control computer through the captain's exclusive terminal, and then entered his own biometric data.

"The data could not be recognized."

"No matching samples were found in the database."

"Your current permissions are: Unauthorized visitors, if they do not exit the background program within fifteen seconds, they will be automatically identified as intruders."

The frame of the screen has been illuminated with a dazzling red light that symbolizes a warning, and a striking countdown also appears in the center of the screen.

"Fifteen...fourteen..."

"It seems that the thing I was most worried about happened... Sure enough, I shouldn't have any hope. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment... From the beginning, I should imagine things as the worst situation..." Ke Lan was muttering nonsense, but his hands never stopped. He took out a lot of labeled memory cards and chips from his small bag, and many of them seemed to have strong nonsense. Widgets in official colors.

Since it is not feasible to use conventional means, it is only possible to use unconventional means.

"I didn't expect to be in the foggy forest... My hacking skills can still come in handy..." Ke Lan used an engineering shovel to pry open the cover under the operation panel, and pulled a few wires connected to the electrode pads from those small devices. It was pulled out and pasted on several contacts on the circuit board under the operation panel.

"nineteen……"

Immediately afterwards, Ke Lan inserted the chips, which were no more than the size of fingernails, into the reserved slots on these small devices in a certain order.

"Eight...seven..."

The countdown suddenly got stuck when it counted to "seven". After a short pause, the piercing siren sounded suddenly: "Illegal intrusion detected! Illegal intrusion detected! Emergency measures will be taken—"

"What's going on? Did you screw up?" Mo Jue, who was standing guard behind Ke Lan, asked nervously, "Isn't there still seven seconds left in the countdown? Why did you become an intruder directly?"

"It's not messed up, because what I'm doing now is the intruder's business." Ke Lan said without raising his head, "It's just that this machine is a bit stupid, if only it could respond so quickly when those vines invaded it .”

"Then can you handle it?"

"I'm trying. I don't dare to promise whether it will work. I can only say my best." Ke Lan replied quickly, "You just need to help me keep an eye on the back...Since the system has detected an intruder, then There will definitely be corresponding countermeasures. The firewalls of the central control computer have all been activated. While these firewalls stop me, they will also delay the restart of the battleship and buy us more time. The only thing we need to worry about is the system May take physical measures to deal with my 'intruder'."

"Physical means?" Mo Jue froze for a moment.

"Just like those automatic defense machine guns in the corridor, as long as the 'intruder' can be directly blasted into slag, wouldn't the matter be resolved?" Ke Lan said, "Look around and don't worry about damaging the hull now , as long as there is any weapon coming out, just blast his mother."

"Oh... well, I see!"

Mo Jue just raised his head, and before he had time to look around the bridge, he found that the rotten wrecks that were strung up in mid-air by vines, which should have been dead, suddenly struggled violently at this moment!
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