Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 148 Factory
One and a half months passed by.

Jiatu and the others also spent an extremely cold time in the outside world.

Since the skies still belonged to Skynet and the roving hunters, the expedition could only operate at night.

As the seasons turn, the winter temperature near Jincheng City can reach an astonishing minus 50 degrees.

Even several layers of thick cotton coats cannot insulate the cold air.

After taking off the closed mask, every breath is bitingly cold, and four or five hours of nighttime action can use up all the demons stored in the body.

Then you have to rest in place, or use the original magic solution.

Jiatu and the others also tried to continue to increase the capacity of demons in their bodies.

But it seems to be the reason for the "Mako bottleneck". No matter how much the capacity of Mako is increased in the inner world, after leaving the inner world and returning to the "old world", the Mako index in the body will drop rapidly, and finally stay at Around 1200 Mohuang.

This seems to be the limit of the magic capacity of wasteland humans.

"Although on the empire side, there seem to be explorers whose strength exceeds the 'title level'... but on the refuge side, only Captain Wu Yao has reached the 'corolla level'."

In the usual small talk, Wu Ning revealed the bottom line to Jiatu and the others.

It seems that the key to the problem lies in the "magic" that Jiatu had heard about.

With the explorer's "old human" physique, no matter how hard the main outfit, Brain, can only accommodate about 1200 demons.

And if you want to break through this limit, you must turn a part of your body into a pure magic organ——

In the world inside the door, it seems that this kind of magic organ called "moyun" is called "golden body".

"It is said that the bodies of the 'Old Ancestors' are perfect moko organs, from skin, bones, muscles... to internal organs and brains, all are made up of pure moko."

"Therefore, the 'Old Ancestors' naturally possessed 'half-god power' from birth to adulthood, and such a 'full magic body' was called the 'golden body' by the wizards of the empire."

While cooking instant noodles, Wu Ning whispered to Jiatu and the others about the secrets of the world inside the door.

Because there are department stores and magic crystals, the daily supplies of the expedition team are not a problem.

It's just that the strongholds in the world inside the door are too scattered, and coupled with the barriers of Skynet and wild machine, the movement is very restricted.

Jiatu estimated that the number of "doors" held by the refuge is more than ten, but most of them are far away from the refuge.

The furthest distance is even more than [-] kilometers, so even if all the expedition energy is put on recycling materials, recycling the magic crystal and finding the "alienated body" of the facility type for consumption, it still consumes a lot of money for the exploration team energy.

"Department Store Supermarket" can only buy daily food, which only accounts for a very small part of the consumer goods that the expedition team wants to buy.

In order to purchase industrial products such as exoskeletons, it is necessary to run hundreds of kilometers and cross several blockades composed of itinerant hunters.

Industrial equipment like this is what the expedition team and the shelter value most.

If it weren't for the fact that "Alienated Body" is completely indestructible (it will be revived after three days), Skynet must have leveled the supply points of these shelters.

But even so, Jiatu also saw all kinds of blockades——

It even includes high walls made of nuclear waste.

These high walls of nuclear waste, even the roving hunting planes themselves, cannot quickly approach, so in the middle of the night, the expedition team's cargo convoy can speed through with full horsepower.

And these high walls of nuclear waste, which even unmanned machines dare not approach, were knocked into gaps by something, and Jiatu and the others passed through amidst the toothache intensive knocking sound of the Geller counter in the truck. blockade.

One night, after the Geller counter rang three times in a row, Jiatu had silently accepted why the members of the expedition team generally did not live past the age of 30.

Wei Wei and Noah also had uncomfortable expressions.

But seeing Wu Ning and the others' indifferent expressions, they gradually calmed down.

I don't know whether they accepted their fate, or were they moved by the great will of the expedition team as victims——

Perhaps the root cause is similar to being on a pirate ship.

But Jiatu closed his eyes, recalled his experiences over the past few years, and slowly accepted the fact that he was living in such a world.

For the first time, he realized that he was also a wasteland human.

The various moral education and cognitive systems received in the previous life were slowly infiltrated in the dense feedback sound of the Geller counter like raindrops.

Gradually it becomes unrecognizable, and finally forms something entirely new.

According to Wu Ning, in order to break through the 30-year-old lifespan limit of the explorer, it is necessary to have at least one "moyun".

Because "Mayun" has a way to remove the decayed atoms bombarded by nuclear radiation in their bodies, so that the radiation infection in their bodies will not deteriorate for a certain period of time.

The more mobs in the body, the stronger the resistance to nuclear radiation.

But apart from Wu Yao and Sun Simiao, there is no No. 3 explorer with a magic organ in the third team.

This reminded Jiatu of Wu Yao's expectations for him.

I can't help but be a little confused about whether my original choice is really correct.

However, even if they accept the birth of "The Seed of Desire", not everyone can successfully obtain the "Magic Obscurity"——

At least Sun Simiao's Molong is not complete, he must maintain the operation of Molong at all times, and cannot fight with all his strength.

Before Sun Simiao showed them the wind ball in his hand, on the one hand, it was to show his strength, and on the other hand, he had to practice the ability to maintain the operation of the demon for a long time——

That's why he didn't suddenly die suddenly because his Molong heart stopped working due to Moko.

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In this regard, Sun Simiao took a more difficult path than Wu Yao.

Because humans can temporarily go without eyes.

But you can't be without a heart for a while.

Jiatu felt the roaring heart of the wind in Sun Simiao's body, and subconsciously touched the "For Alice" in his body,

Suddenly fortunately, Hei Lian does not need to operate through Moko all the time to pump out plasma.

The battle to the "Factory" was basically in charge of the third corps and the veteran explorers of the third corps.

Jiatu and the others are only responsible for protecting the supply truck and the guards.

However, the brutality of the battle was visible to the naked eye.

As the expedition began to penetrate the territory of artificial intelligence, the casualties of the expedition also increased visibly.

There are injuries every day, and there are stragglers from time to time.

For every new death, forget-me-nots are harvested from the wild and distributed to the living survivors.

Then Sun Simiao will lead them to sing a short funeral song——

"A Star Named the Sun".

Then everyone threw the forget-me-nots in their hands together to form a small grave, and let the strong wind sweep the ground, and the small "flower mound" was swept away by the wind.

Whenever the wind and snow wrap the blue forget-me-not bouquets, they disappear into the night one by one.

Jiatu would involuntarily think of those few lines in the song——

[That's for young people. 】

【He is like a medicine to remove wrinkles】

[It died at this moment, and soon came back to life. 】

【All warmed by the light of the stars】

【The star named the sun...】

Then, until this time, Jiatu suddenly realized.

The "blue flower" mentioned by Sun Simiao in "The Stele of Life" is not a "blue prayer" but a "blue mourning"——

A forget-me-not named "Blue Mourning".

Will bloom where people have died.

And just like a guide from the dead, they can always find the "Alienated Body" facility guarded by artificial intelligence troops in the place where the blue mourning flowers bloom.

"Three one one three! Watch out for the roving hunter! It leaked from your direction!"

As the expedition progressed, the pressure of the battle was gradually transmitted to Jiatu and the others, the "newcomers".

There are constantly patrolling hunters trying to bypass the front blockade and attack the relatively vulnerable rear of the exploration team.

And Jiatu's mission is to stop them fifteen kilometers away from the supply truck——

This is the millimeter-wave radar on the roving hunter, which has the farthest detection range for the delivery truck.

However, precisely because the final defense line was fifteen kilometers away, Jiatu's defense line must also be thirty kilometers away.

And there are less than [-] newcomer explorers in the area, who are responsible for guarding a circle within [-] kilometers to [-] kilometers behind the supply truck.

It's like thirty silver needles dropped into a big lake without even a splash.

However, this kind of insignificance is a manifestation of insufficient artificial intelligence for explorers, and the same is true for artificial intelligence.

With the careful arrangement of the garrison sites, the seemingly unimpeded city ruins are divided and intersected by several large straight passages. No matter which direction the artificial intelligence troops approach, they must pass through Jiatu's defense range.

The cross-fire power composed of automatic turrets and smart mines is enough to intercept a large number of patrolling hunting aircraft that dare not fly too high——

Because once they fly too high, they will be spotted by Captain Wu Yao on the front line.

Afterwards, spears like silver guns would shoot them out one by one across tens of kilometers of space.

And Jiatu's mission is to constantly adjust the position of the automatic turret and the self-disciplined anti-tank rocket launcher based on the enemy's intelligence discovered by the rotor drone——

They don't even need a remote control, they just need to detect the presence of a patrolling hunter, and they will automatically fire and guide the anti-armor seeker to attack.

And only at this time, Jiatu can fully feel that in a military operation of this scale, an individual is really just a cog in the war machine——

Everything is to realize the war function of the machine itself.

And in the guidance of the rotor drone and the return operation of the patrolling hunting aircraft, Jiatu's position is also very dangerous.

Because radio communication has the risk of being captured by artificial intelligence, Jiatu and the others must move and communicate at certain intervals.

Often there would be attacking artillery from afar, falling where they had just passed.

And the itinerant hunter who suddenly turned back——

It was exactly the same as what Jiatu saw in "The Stele of Life".

It's just that the weapon has been changed from a huge I-shaped steel electromagnetic gun to an ordinary 35mm mecha electromagnetic assault gun.

While the power is reduced, it is more suitable for this kind of battlefield against people.

What Jiatu and the others learned in the Skyfire Forest was just for them to barely survive on this battlefield, let alone suppress the air supremacy of the entire battlefield by one person like Captain Wu Yao.

The battle with the "Factory" guards lasted a whole week.

In terms of artificial intelligence, it eventually withdrew from this area due to the depletion of ground forces.

But because the expedition team was too far away from the shelter, they couldn't leave enough guards.

"It would be great if there was a "Gate" here... so we can store supplies and resupply..."

Jiatu and Wu Ning were sent to blow up the artificial intelligence outpost——

Just like the explorers need supplies, the artificial intelligence patrol hunting machine also needs logistics to continue fighting.

In this kind of alpine weather, solar energy, gasoline and batteries are not reliable energy supply equipment.

Only "Mako", this kind of energy from another world, is everything they use to fight.

In the drone outpost Jiatu saw, the ten-meter-tall Moko stock solution barrel inside had been completely exhausted, and there were still a large number of ruins of similar facilities not far away.

Explain that artificial intelligence must face a problem——

In the end, should we leave enough defenders and energy outposts to fight the explorers to the end; or should we leave appropriate defenders to prevent the explorers from obtaining the right to use "Factory" too easily?
If it was Jiatu, he would definitely choose the first option.

In fact, this is also the choice of "Skynet" at the beginning.

Until the explorers destroyed Skynet's energy outpost by sneaking in, and then couldn't replenish it in time because of the blizzard.

At that time, the roving hunting machine had not yet been dehumanized.

So hundreds of itinerant hunters were taken away by the explorers after the communication agreement was terminated, and turned into weapons of the shelter.

Since that time, Skynet has no longer used a large-scale garrison strategy——

Because in the absence of enough small hunting machines, the latent mobility of the explorers is beyond the reach of artificial intelligence.

On the contrary, using a small number of troops in this way to delay the travel time of the explorers can greatly consume the annual movement range of the expedition team——

In the end, they had to go to four or five locations every year and pay a lot of battle damage to get a little supplies.

On the refugee side, when the number of unmanned machines eliminated is seriously insufficient, suicide bombing attacks with a high casualty rate will not be considered.

In the end, this kind of long-term war of attrition that prioritized efficiency was formed.

After capturing the "Factory" that was blown up by the hunting plane, Jiatu and the others waited for three days.

The blizzard on the third day arrived as scheduled, and Skynet, which also had weather forecasting capabilities, did not counterattack.

Jiatu and the others paid nearly two-thirds of the magic crystals to buy combat equipment.

Even the "newcomers" like Jiatu were each assigned an exoskeleton——

Because the supply truck can't transport so many exoskeletons, let these newcomers each claim one, at least they can drive back to the shelter by themselves.

(End of this chapter)