Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 926

The hound's estimate was completely accurate. On the other hand, Ke Lan had already crossed the jungle hunting ground and entered the western half of the upper city.

It seems that Nieto's reserved control authority is really only the part of the jungle hunting ground. After Ke Lan left the hunting ground, he was not hindered by any obstacles, and his journey was unimpeded.

Compared with the eastern half of the high-end villa area, the western half is more like a heavily guarded military fortress. The outermost circle of "city walls" alone is 30 meters high-you know, the most magnificent in ancient times In a small city, it is difficult for the height of the outer wall to exceed 20 meters.

This circle of city walls is made of reinforced concrete as the base, and three layers of composite armor plates are added on the surface. When necessary, the outer armor plate can be directly connected to high-voltage electricity to prevent the enemy from using suction cups or Props such as hooks and ropes climbed to the top of the city.

With such a city wall, even if everyone in the bottom nest and the lower city unite, they may only be able to drink their hatred under the wall.

The city walls are even equipped with flamethrowers. Even if the corpses of the besiegers are piled up to the height of the wall, the fire can still burn these corpses to ashes. Chance.

Judging from the military perspective before modern times, this is a fortress that cannot be breached from the front.

But there is also a famous saying in history: "The strongest fortress is often breached from within."

Although this famous saying generally does not describe a "fortress" in the true sense, this fortress in the western half of the area obviously perfectly confirms this famous saying-there are almost no traces of battle on the outside of the city wall, but when Ke Lan When climbing to the top of the wall, the scene in the city was a mess.

As far as the eye can see, it is almost impossible to find a complete building. There are ruins and scattered bricks and stones everywhere. Even the skeletons of houses supported by Nino alloy that can last hundreds of thousands of years are not It was twisted into a twist.

This is not the damage caused by the passage of time. Inside this fortress, a very fierce battle once broke out... Moreover, judging from the remaining traces, one of the parties in the battle is definitely not human.

As soon as Ke Lan walked onto the street, the floor tiles under his feet turned into powder, and the cracked lines spread rapidly from the soles of his feet, and soon covered the entire street—these floor tiles had already been vitrified. It barely maintained its original shape tens of thousands of years ago.And when Ke Lan stepped on it, the balance of external and internal stress was instantly broken, and the floor tiles on the entire street became shattered in an instant.

"The vitrified floor tiles...is it because of the high temperature?" Ke Lan bent down and dipped his fingers in some glass powder - the particles of these powders are extremely small, as if throwing a whole piece of glass into the grinding mill of a food factory In the machine, the grinder is still on the gear with the finest output.

As far as the current level of human science and technology is concerned, there are two types of weapons that can vitrify floor tiles. The first is the famous nuclear weapon, and the second is the plasma weapon that is used as the main gun of the battleship.

The nuclear weapon will also have the characteristics of ground vitrification at the core of the explosion, but this place should not have suffered a nuclear explosion-if the ground is all vitrified, it is impossible for the surrounding buildings to retain these ruins. This area should be It should be completely razed.

Then there are only plasma weapons, and they should be small plasma weapons that can precisely control the strike range.

Ke Lan was not surprised at all that Hive Civilization was able to miniaturize plasma weapons—fortunately, Nieto could not control the defense facilities here, otherwise Ke Lan's advancing speed might directly become a turtle speed.

The power from that "body" cannot be used lightly unless it is absolutely necessary, and the strength that Ke Lan can display within the "safety category" is somewhat difficult when facing this level of weapons... Okay, To be precise, it is very difficult.

The plasma cluster fired by a plasma weapon, commonly known as plasma, has an internal temperature of several million degrees Celsius. Even if the temperature of the plasma drops rapidly after it is fired, it can still maintain an extremely high temperature of more than 100 million degrees, and can instantly It heats the surrounding air to tens of thousands of degrees.

Except in a vacuum environment like the universe, using plasma weapons in any other place is a kind of move of "killing one thousand enemies and damaging yourself eight hundred"-plasma artillery is a real AOE weapon, and it still has that kind of killing radius Weapons with greater range.Even if a plasma cannon for individual use can be developed, this thing cannot be fired by hand.Because, the moment the "cannonball" was released, the person carrying the plasma cannon was already vaporized by the high temperature.

There will not even be an intermediate stage of "carbonization", and the launcher will not feel any pain during the whole process-like the barrel, the launcher is also a one-time consumable, unless he has a sufficiently powerful armor, For example: Blasphemer Mech.

The last thing Ke Lan wants to face is this kind of covering strike weapon. Even if the plasma cannon can't hit him directly, the high temperature spreading out is enough to vaporize Ke Lan's whole body within a second... He's not sure , after being vaporized, can my body return to its original appearance...

Ke Lan didn't want to try, and didn't dare to try.

For 50 years, no corpses have been found on the streets.Unless those corpses can be buried in the soil and turned into fossils, it is possible to preserve them. As for those exposed to the outside, it only takes a few years for them to be completely decomposed and weathered, and become part of the dust covering the ground.

It is very unrealistic to find the corpses of both sides in the battle, and Ke Lan can only go straight forward according to the map in his memory-if the positions of Nieto in the upper city and the lower city are vertically opposite, then the upper city and the lower city are vertically opposite. Nieto in the city should be located in the deepest part of this fortress.

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Ke Lan walked for half an hour before arriving at the "deepest part" - this was originally a tower building, but now only the part below the second floor is left. As for the section above the second floor, it is Scattered in the surrounding open space above.

The internal structure of the tower has been completely corroded, and only the shelves containing Nino alloy are still stubbornly attached to the broken wall. Ke Lan just touched it lightly, and the wall rustled like a crispy biscuit. Dropping the slag down, he reckoned that if he pushed lightly, he might not be able to overthrow the several-meter-high wall in one go.

Leaving aside how long the wreckage of the tower, like a candle in the wind, can stand, Ke Lan searched around, but couldn't find Nieto's body.

Nieto's body in the lower city is placed in the center of the square, which is an extremely eye-catching location, just like the large advertising screens on the ark that stand in prime locations.

Considering that Nieto's original image was a black long straight beautiful girl rather than the kind of horrible rotting meat, it seems that there is no problem in placing this super biological computer in the most prominent position-as if the god is for people to look up to , as the "agent" owned by the Hive City, Nieto also has such a symbolic role.

And the nobles in the upper city obviously don't need to look up to Nieto, and Nieto naturally doesn't have to be placed outside like a god... Ke Lan thought about it, if he was the designer of the upper city, he should put Nieto on the In this tower...

"and many more!"

Ke Lan seemed to have thought of something, and walked quickly into the tower that might collapse at any time.

A thick layer of dust was piled up on the ground of the tower, covering the original floor. Without thinking, Ke Lan took out his engineering shovel and dug on the ground. Not long after, a closed tunnel leading to the ground The secret door appeared in front of Ke Lan's eyes.

"So it's hidden underground..."

Ke Lan inserted the edge of the engineer shovel into the gap of the secret door, and pried it hard, and the secret door was pried open, but at the same time, a large group of pink things rushed out from under the secret door, and rushed towards the secret door. Ke Lan!

Ke Lan took a big step back calmly, and at the same time swung the engineering shovel in his hand quickly, smashing the pink thing that was rushing towards him - at the moment when the pink thing appeared, Ke Lan had already passed by and stopped to see clearly Its true face: this is a mass of rapidly proliferating biological tissue, its texture is between human muscle and fat, there is no bone inside, but it is densely covered with blood vessels and nerves, which are sprayed out from the parts smashed by the engineer shovel A large amount of blood, like a punctured balloon filled with blood.

Under normal circumstances, the proportion of water in the composition ratio of this kind of rapidly formed tissue is definitely much higher than that of solid matter, and it can even be "exploded" directly with a pinch... These fan tissue does not have For any lethality, even if Ke Lan didn't dodge and let it pounce on him standing still, it would have nothing to do with Ke Lan.

It couldn't even scare Ke Lan.

It is very difficult for this thing to kill a person, even if it is wrapped around a person's neck, it cannot be strangled... Its texture is too soft and fragile, even if it is tightened hard, it is estimated that it will wrap around the person before it makes people feel suffocated. The pink tissue on the neck exploded first... Those muscled meat foams that can jam the blades of the meat grinder may have a stronger physical strength than it.

The only way it can kill people is probably to get into the nose and mouth of a person and block the airway, but in fact, with a little force, the pink tissue that got into the airway can be blown out like blowing your nose...

Ke Lan looked at the squirming pink tissue in front of him, and suddenly remembered the slime that often appears as a monster in Xinshou Village in works of different worlds... No, maybe slimes are more powerful than this thing.

"You...are Nieto?" Ke Lan asked tentatively.

"So what if you found my real body?" Nieto, who had been silent for a while, finally spoke again, "I admit, I can't do anything against you...but you can't kill me either. , after accepting the gift of the great god, I have been infinitely close to his original source..."

"I'm curious about one thing, since you worship that god so much, why don't you simply sacrifice yourself, and in this way, your long-cherished wish will be fulfilled - to become a part of the 'great god'." Ke Lan took a step forward, swiped the engineer shovel in his hand, cut off a large piece of bloody tissue from Nieto's body, and crushed it with his foot.

"I lack one thing..." Nieto replied, "I am different from human beings. I am a program. The so-called intelligence is just the appearance simulated by the program... I lack the 'soul' of human beings, so I cannot be like a human being." Like those sacrificers, they were completely integrated with Him... Nieto in the lower city also survived for this reason."

"Your level of intelligence is very high..." Ke Lan wondered, "You have obviously developed self-awareness. Although you are a human creation, you have become a new form of life... Otherwise, why would you Belief in that great god? AI will only obey orders, and only with self-awareness can it make its own choices."

"Belief in the great god is an instruction written in my source code." Nieto replied, "The meaning of my existence is to find sacrifices for him."

"..." Ke Lan twitched the corners of his mouth speechlessly. He finally understood that it was a program that communicated with him all the time, but the emotional module of this program was too realistic, which made him feel a kind of This intelligent program produced the illusion of self-awareness under the influence of "He".

But in fact... Nieto showed this state only because someone modified the personality of this intelligent program into a fanatic who believed in that god.

Carefully recalling the previous communication with Nieto, Ke Lan now realizes that there are many common-sense logical errors in Nieto's language. He originally thought it was a "bug" that appeared after Nieto's sanity was eroded, but After knowing that it is still just an intelligent program, these logical errors can be fully explained scientifically.

The bottom-level instructions of Nieto's program are to be loyal to the great god and help the great god search for sacrifices. These two instructions are the highest priority, and any instruction must give way to these two, and when there is a conflict between the instructions Sometimes, instructions with low priority will be discarded, which makes this Nieto give people a feeling of madness and abnormal brain.

But in this way, another question was born: Who modified Nieto's underlying program?
One thing Ke Lan can be sure of is that the person modified Nieto's underlying program in a hurry, just hard-coded these two instructions, and did not proofread it with other instructions... If Nieto is regarded as a giant program If so, this giant program is full of bugs almost everywhere because of these two new instructions.

In order to allow these two instructions to run, that person probably deleted many "safety measures"... so that Ke Lan, as long as he does not violate these two highest priority instructions, most of his questions Nieto will answer. Knowing everything - Ke Lan thought it was a trap set by Nieto at first, but now it seems that it is pure artificial mental retardation.

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