Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 15 Horror Planet

The professor walking in the front was habitually clearing the bushes, and suddenly found a plump fruit that had fallen on the ground, and subconsciously prepared to let the fat man who was familiar with various alien plants come to identify it.

But when he turned around, he suddenly found that there was one person missing from the team.

"Where's the fat man?"

Hearing his question, everyone was stunned for a moment before realizing that the fat man had disappeared.

The professor suddenly had a bad premonition, and quickly directed everyone to go back, looking for the fat man who had fallen behind.

And not far away, they saw the fat man sitting slumped on the spot, trembling as if he was frightened by something.

Cowper quickly shouted: "Fatty! What are you doing!" and then walked forward quickly.

But in the middle of the journey, his body froze, and there was a look of fear in his eyes.

I saw a huge "spider" standing on top of the forest, with eight appendages deeply inserted into the soil, supporting its heavy body.

Under the bright red eyes, there are mouthparts that are constantly twitching, and saliva flows out of them, dripping onto the bewildered fat man's head below.

Everyone didn't know how the fat man provoked this terrifying alien creature, but the professor was the first to react and took out the laser cutter that he carried with him.

This kind of high-energy laser used to cut metal can also kill creatures within a certain distance, and it is also one of his few weapons.

He pointed the sight at the spider, and then shouted: "What are you doing in a daze! Bring the fat man here!"

The others suddenly came to their senses, and hurriedly prepared to drag the fat man whose legs couldn't move back.

The professor also fired at this time, causing the green cutting beam to hit the spider.

However, after the high-energy laser that can easily cut through ordinary alloys was shot at the spider, nothing happened like nothing happened.

The spider didn't even report being irritated, but after seeing the fat man being dragged away, some wanted to chase him back.

The professor's expression changed again and again. This cutter was already the most powerful weapon in his hands, but at this moment he couldn't do anything to this alien creature.

He had no choice but to follow the students to escape while pulling out the flare gun.

In his years of alien exploration, he knew that the best way to deal with such large alien creatures was to make them feel intimidated.

And light and flames are the best weapons to intimidate primitive creatures.

In addition to emitting light, the signal bomb is also a good source of combustion. If it explodes on the ground, it will form countless ignition points and spread rapidly.

The forest here just provided fuel, so the professor aimed at a dense bush and fired a signal flare.

The eye-catching intense light suddenly lit up, and even the giant spider stopped for a while.

Then came the scattered accelerants and the forest that was set on fire.

The fire suddenly became bigger and soon formed a burning wall. The high tongues of flames burned straight into the sky, blocking the path of the giant spider.

The professor was also happy because of this, and felt like he had escaped from the sky.

However, the next moment, not only did the giant spider not retreat, but seemed to be enraged, it directly swept away the burning trees and came straight towards them.

The "dong dong dong" sound of the giant moving echoed in the forest. This time even the professor was frightened and ran away desperately.

But no matter how two legs can run faster than eight legs, the distance between them is still shortened rapidly.

The young man in the penultimate position turned cold, and took a sneak peek at the fat man who was running in a panic at the end.

"...This alien creature seems to be provoked by Fatty. If you hand him over, you may be able to escape." Under his expressionless face, there is a maliciousness that no one can detect. .

Seeing that no one noticed him, the young man quietly slowed down a little, kept the same position with the fat man, and then tripped over the fat man.

Fatty, who was running away in a panic, could not have expected this kind of change. He fell to the ground when his center of gravity was unstable, and he rolled a few times before he could barely stop.

In some dizzy eyes, there is a smile of the young man's scheme.

The others didn't notice that someone had fallen behind, and the fat man's body stiffened suddenly, because a thick appendage had already been firmly inserted into the soil beside him.

He raised his head tremblingly, aiming at the suddenly enlarged mouthparts.

"what--!!!"

Fatty's scream pierced everyone's ears. When Cooper turned his head, he saw Fatty whose body was half swallowed by a giant spider.

His heart sank, and his eyes swept over the young man who was running away without leaving a trace.

But at the moment of escaping, no one said much.

After running for a long time, everyone stopped to take a breath until they completely left the forest.

At this time, a dark cloud hovered over everyone's heads.

Fatty's tragic death was still vivid in his memory, it was obvious that they were too careless before.

"...'Under the long-term influence of high technology, explorers tend to ignore many dangerous factors that should be paid attention to, with arrogance and arrogance, and eventually die at the hands of the indigenous people'..."

The professor read out a line with a bitter face. This is a famous line from the popular interstellar book "Cosmic Crusoe", which tells the reason why explorers hate foreign lands.

After hearing this famous line, everyone was also silent for a while.

Although they attach great importance to this place on the surface, in fact, they still harbor the arrogance of being an interstellar civilization deep in their hearts.

Even if there used to be civilization here, they still feel from the bottom of their hearts that "it's just an antique, your technology is outdated."

Otherwise, they wouldn't have approached this planet rashly, and then inexplicably lost control of the spaceship, making a wrong step, until a companion died just now.

The rotation of the planet is still going on, and soon the sky here will step into black.

Everyone finally fell asleep in silence, but everyone's thoughts were different.

…………

In an artificial forest next to the guardianship core, the synthetic man controlled by Li Wenyuan was sitting on a tree stump and sighing.

On the other side, Lilian sat upright and obediently, but her eyes wandered to the game console on the side from time to time.

In order to teach a primitive man to speak, Li Wenyuan spent a lot of effort, using a three-inch tongue to explain the lesson plans in a dazzling manner.

In the end, it was concluded that he was not suitable to be a teacher.

It's not that he doesn't teach well, but that the students are so stupid that he doubts himself because of his ability.

"...Um, Master Guardian, can I go and play?"

"...Go, go, oh..."

Seeing Lilian cheering happily, Li Wenyuan supported his forehead and called out the scene from the other side of the earth.

A fat alien is entangled in what looks like spider silk and hangs upside down from a tree branch, unconscious.

In the picture not far away, a giant spider is active in the background, spouting liquid to extinguish the fire from time to time, or cutting off the fire source with its tall and powerful appendages.

"Hey, did the gardening robot move again?" Li Wenyuan was a little surprised when he saw this giant spider.

This giant spider-like "creature" is actually an old-fashioned robot. Its model in the database is much older than the synthetic human, and it is probably a museum-level cultural relic.

Just like its name, it is a gardening robot responsible for pruning, but the trees it usually repairs are tall trees with a height of 60 to [-] meters.

Its hardware was too old to establish a connection with the Guardian Matrix. When Li Wenyuan discovered it, it was in a standby state for an unknown period of time, buried deep under the soil.

Since he couldn't find a way to wake it up, Li Wenyuan simply ignored the gardening robot.

Unexpectedly, the group of aliens somehow activated it, and one of them was even caught, which made Li Wenyuan very interested.

So he called up the surveillance footage of this area.

But I saw these aliens walking carefully in this synthetic forest, constantly clearing the shrubs blocking the way.

Looking at it, Li Wenyuan suddenly understood how they activated the gardening robot.

The professor at the front felt that it was too troublesome to hurry in the forest, so he directly swept forward with the laser cutting machine, cutting off a large area of ​​shrubs and dozens of tall trees in an instant.

It must be convenient for them to hurry, but the gardening robot that detects that the gardening has been "destroyed" must not be happy.

So it woke up directly from standby, ready to arrest these "lawbreakers", but because of the fire caused by the professor, it temporarily switched its target and changed it to put out the fire.

And the fat man is just a person who was caught up by chance. He was hung on the branch by the gardening robot, waiting for its former owner to come to check on these "lawbreakers".

"I was so embarrassed on the first day, these aliens don't seem to be very good..." Li Wenyuan in the virtual world was a little bit depressed.

"Hurry up and drive them to the ruins, so that you don't have to spend a whole day dawdling..."

Thinking of this, he controlled a synthetic man and gradually approached Cowper's camp.

(End of this chapter)