Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 150
Compared with a year ago, the Great Expedition team that set off again did not stay near the shelter, but went directly to the "Factory" to resupply.

During this process, they continued to send expedition team members to determine the course of action and the deployment of artificial intelligence forces.

The entire Golden City is roughly marked by the city ring line, which is divided into six layers inside and outside.

The streets of every city ring are full of bombed overpasses and radioactive waste.

In order to cross the blockade of artificial intelligence, it is necessary to clean up the nuclear waste buried in the ruins.

And this process is difficult to complete through purely mechanical.

Because electronic signals and information components are more susceptible to nuclear radiation than humans.

So when the expedition team left the shelter, they also brought out some elderly people over 60 years old——

The old mourner, whom Jiatu had met once, was in this gray-haired team.

And one of Jiatu's daily tasks is to send these old people to the blockade that even unmanned machines dare not approach easily, and watch them wear purely mechanically driven auxiliary exoskeletons to dig out the blockade bit by bit. Take, clean up nuclear waste.

According to Wu Ning, this kind of mission has been going on for hundreds of years. Without the efforts of these old people, the expedition team would not be able to cross the blockade by themselves and the supply truck no matter what——

As for why Skynet didn't use the hunting machine to repair the blockade after discovering that the blockade was damaged, that's what Jiatu and the others didn't know——

Perhaps that is the advantage gradually gained by the physical body of carbon-based life and the mechanical body of artificial intelligence in the race of a hundred years.

At least according to Skynet's calculations, it is absolutely not worth paying the price of sending out thousands of roving hunters or even destroying a human team of only about 150 people like the Exploration Team——

Jiatu and the others might not be able to defeat thousands of patrol hunting planes, but under the scanning of the hunting planes on the front desk, it is not difficult to hide and avoid their searches.

And a human explorer team of about 150 people can quickly clear at least a mechanical squadron composed of 12 patrol hunters, so the minimum number of patrol hunters per search team cannot be less than [-] tower--

Otherwise, it is very likely that they will be completely wiped out by the explorer team before other hunter-killer teams come to support them.

And this is the tactic of the explorers——

A constant war of attrition measured in millennia.

And now is just the time when this millennium war is about to blossom.

"Phew... it's up to you next..."

After five minutes of continuous work, the white-haired sweepers responsible for cleaning up the nuclear waste had to exit the radioactive zone.

Then the expedition team will use the magic technology to treat them simply.

The location of the blockade is far from the shelter, so all personnel are prepared to die here.

Among them was the old mourner whom Jiatu knew.

"Do you remember me?"

When delivering water to the old man, Jiatu once asked him subconsciously.

As a result, the old man just glanced at him sideways——

"You also crawled out of that waste pit..."

After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes and continued to seize the time to rest and breathe.

The work of the cleaning team is very intense.

Most of the members are "volunteers".

There are not many old people in the refuge, but starting from the age of 50, people will join the expedition team one after another and become "sweepers".

Because of his position, the old man has not let go of his heavy burden until today.

But Jiatu could see that he was not confused.

It seems that instead of dying in the tunnel of the refuge, like a soldier, before the ruins of the collapsed blockade, it is his dream destination.

As the sweep strip progressed, the last bits of nuclear waste were exposed.

Its packaging was completely shot through to prevent it from being cleaned up.

The semi-solid nuclear waste flowed all over the ground like sand.

And the old mourner greeted his white-haired companion, and took the lead in the final sprint——

Jiatu watched from a distance as they raised their shovels, shoveling the nuclear waste into the fault zone next to the overpass.

Some people fell down while walking.

Then those who returned from the front took the shovels in their hands and continued to walk forward.

Garto had not seen the last of the old Undertaker.

For no one can look long into the majestic silence.

It's just that when about one-third of the cylindrical nuclear waste with a diameter of more than one meter and a height of about two meters remained, the sweepers of the white-haired cleaning team had all been exhausted.

In the face of the last third of the nuclear waste, Wu Ning and his older members of the exploration team stood up.

"Leave the rest to me."

Wu Ning stopped the former trainees who wanted to get up with her.

She pointed to the ulcer on her arm and said with a smile:
"The future belongs to you, and we will help you carry it forward."

Saying that, she jumped off the radiation bunker together with the team members around her.

Jiatu instinctively wanted to stop her, but none of the team members around him got up——

Because they know very well that as long as Skynet exists in this world for one day, sooner or later they will have to face the same thing——

It's just not their turn yet.

Sweep the last third of the nuclear waste into the fault zone, and small construction machinery can enter the field——

Although they were quickly harassed by Skynet and roving hunters, the expedition's presence near the blockade worked.

Amidst the violent explosion, Jiatu and the others shoveled away the last boulder in the blockade.

The exploration team covering the supply truck quickly passed through the gap in the blockade, leaving the remains of the shelter and the members of the cleaning team far behind——

Garto wondered if this could be called "Return of the Bones."

But hopefully one day, this city can be called the land of human beings again.

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After taking over from the cleanup team to eradicate the last nuclear waste, Wu Ning and the others developed a high fever.

Sun Simiao did not let Jiatu and Wu Ning continue to contact them, but only transferred the explorers who had been exposed to nuclear waste to another medical bus.

Theoretically, as explorers, they have higher resistance to nuclear radiation——

But who knows, if Mako's healing effect is so good, why didn't the explorers go to clean up the waste.

Jiatu and the others silently prayed for Wu Ning and the others, and took over the task of the third team of the No. [-] Squadron.

In the third year of entering the expedition team, he became the backbone of the team——

Although in the history of the expedition team, there are not no such cases, but they are also very rare.

Before Jiatu and the others could recover from their apprehension, they encountered a large-scale attack by a swarm of hunter-killers.

"It seems that the other party didn't expect us to leave the blockade...but this is also the last difficulty. If we rush over, we will be able to reach the edge of the cross-sea bridge."

Facing the dense drone clusters on the radar, with more than tens of thousands of units, Sun Simiao looked very calm.

Because this was the expedition team's last fight—

Whether it is 150 people, 100 people, or even 50 people... ten people...

They are all going to scatter into the ruins of the city like running water, seeping out from the siege of Skynet——

Then how many people can be there in the end, and finally arrive at the agreed destination, it is up to each individual.

"Whether 'human' or 'artificial intelligence' will have the last laugh... depends on us!"

After a final fist bump with all members of No. [-] Squadron, they jumped off the supply truck.

It was like airborne soldiers scattered into the night, flesh and blood bodies wearing gray shadow cloaks disappeared into the cold night.

Only the heavy trucks and the huge convoy were left, and under the leadership of Captain Wu Ning, they turned into the most conspicuous bait to open the way for them.

Jiatu finally glanced at the silver spear penetrating the sky in the distance, and disappeared into the ruins without hesitation.

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"Do you think anyone will be able to reach the destination in the end?"

In Cyber ​​City, far away from Jiatu, a large-scale gambling game was also held at the same time.

Xu Yang was dragged by Dai Qi Na'er and forcibly dragged out of Baiyun Restaurant.

They came to the previous cyber casino again.

This time, what they participated in was not the small gamble of two or three kittens before——

It was a huge gamble with more than a thousand people held for the Great Expedition——

It was only then that Jiatu realized that just like himself and Daikina had gained control over the explorers from Jiatu and Hena, they had been in the entire expedition team for decades—or even hundreds of years. Here, the explorers in the refuge have also attracted the attention of thousands of cyber gods.

Therefore, at this critical moment when the third corps launched its final charge against artificial intelligence, it naturally attracted the spontaneous attention of thousands of cyber gods.

And the casino organizers are naturally happy to organize a super-large-scale gambling game for this purpose——

Among them are participants such as Jiatu and Daikina.

Originally Jiatu didn't intend to personally participate, but Daikina's eyes were red with him for the hundreds of thousands of loans——

After all, she owed money to the bank with a credit card, mainly because of her, not Jiatu.

So in order to turn around in the gambling game, Daikina and Xu Yang participated in the casino in Cyber ​​City.

It's just that compared to Daikina who put all her attention on winning or losing in the casino, Jiatu's attention was mainly on her own life——

Because he realized that this time is different from the time of the Monument of Life. Before him and Cyber ​​City, there was no time difference that could be used to create a gap in information!

Therefore, apart from investing as much chips as possible on himself, he has no speculative operations!
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And after leaving from the fast-moving supply truck, Jiatu was separated from the others——

Under the constant attention of Skynet, any act of turning on the radio is tantamount to death.

This is not the interior of the blockade that has been cleared over and over again by the expedition team for hundreds of years, but a brand new isolated world. No one knows the completeness of the Skynet system here.

Just considering the extremely cold environment, Skynet probably won't be able to fight them for too long.

Therefore, every explorer scattered into the ruins is likely to be abandoned by Skynet because of "poor efficiency".

And this is the guerrilla tactics of the expedition team.

It's just that this strategy of individual action will also be a great test for every member of the expedition team——

Because in the severe cold of more than fifty degrees below zero, any mistake they make is very likely to be fatal.

So after Jiatu left the supply truck, he immediately walked towards the road deep in the city.

The larger the area patrolled by the roving hunters, the less likely these "stragglers" would be discovered by Skynet.

And after going deep into the ruins of the city for about 15 minutes, he heard a violent explosion in the distance——

That should be the sound of the delivery truck being destroyed.

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This is a tactic that can only be used when the "Great Expedition" is completely suspended by the shelter——

Because it intends to close the country, the obvious goal of the supply truck no longer has the effect of motivating the residents.

In the original plan of the First Corps and the Presbyterian Church, the "outside" would become a "taboo", and most of the ordinary upper-level residents, including most of them, would gradually regard it as an unrecognizable and untalkable object.

The world outside the refuge will be completely erased from the perception of the residents of the refuge.

Only with the shelter's current supplies and a small number of "believers" sent out to explore the wilderness, try to maintain the survival of the shelter as much as possible.

"Survival" will no longer have a purpose.

Just "alive".

However, in the plan of the First Corps, "alive" is not just "alive".

Instead, he gave up "one's own efforts" and entrusted "one's own future" to others.

To put it bluntly-

If everyone can save the world, why "us"?
The shelter just needs to wait for the "savior" to appear.

They are no longer trying to be "saviors".

Cato wondered if that was true.

It's just the youthful instincts in his body that are screaming and telling him——

I haven't given up yet!

Dodging the pursuit of two spider-type hunting machines, Jiatu turned over and got into a narrow ventilation duct.

Because even the exoskeleton equipment was abandoned, Jiatu returned to the original state of a set of clothes, a backpack, a gun, and an exterior brain.

It's just the materials in the storage space, which made him calm down——

Because among the explorers present, who is more likely to survive to the end and successfully reach the target location.

Then it must include him!

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After avoiding the pursuit of the spider-type hunting machine, Gator fell asleep wrapped in a gray shadow cloak——

Because the first night is the most dangerous.

The roving hunter corps will go out collectively against the severe cold of more than minus 50 degrees, strafing and bombing every suspicious target on the street.

Jiatu, on the other hand, chose to use rest to escape this difficult time.

This is his own decision.

Perhaps others will have a different choice.

And no one can predict what choice everyone will make.

Therefore, in Skynet's computing system, every explorer's choice is chaotic.

Because of chaos, it is unpredictable.

Therefore, it can only use the limited options in its hands to make limited attempts among the infinite possibilities.

And in this limited attempt, there are always several possibilities that it will miss——

And Jiatu's choice of "resting in place" was a fish that slipped through the net.

Throughout the night, Jiatu did not encounter any small hunting machines——

Compared with large hunting aircraft, the energy supply system of small hunting aircraft is more fragile.

The spider-type hunting machine encountered before was already the limit of the size of the hunting machine that Skynet could send out.

In fact, after climbing out of the ventilation duct, Jiatu saw the two spider-type hunting machines chasing him——

They were already lying on the door of the ventilation duct, completely frozen by the extreme cold of over minus [-] degrees in winter night.

　I'll write a summary when I'm done
　　
　
(End of this chapter)