Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 59 Purple Sun

The moment Sun Simiao saw those three dazzling light spots, goosebumps all over Sun Simiao's body stood up.

He quickly ran to the stele, and shouted loudly to the candidates who hadn't landed yet:

"Come down quickly! The 'Rooting Hunter' is coming! Hide in the underground tunnel, or it will be too late if you don't hurry!"

Hearing his shout, the candidates who were still a little hesitant to give up also jumped off the rock wall in a panic.

"What about the other people who are still on the second floor rock wall?"

Someone grabbed Sun Simiao's arm and asked.

But he was picked up by the young man with the hedgehog head:
"It's too late! There are too many people! They are too late! If you want to blame them, blame them for not listening to my reminder!"

Even though Sun Simiao said so, he felt a little regretful——

"It has been three years in a row that the patrolling hunters have not been dispatched... Is it because the temperature is rising too fast this year? Or are there too many people who have not chosen to give up?!"

But no matter what the reason was, they still ran to the underground plaza in a panic.

Inside the underground plaza, there is an escalator less than two meters wide, leading to a deeper underground tunnel.

And their destination is there.

The moment he walked into the escalator tunnel, Sun Simiao turned his head to look in the direction of the stele for the last time——

"Those who haven't returned to the bottom of the tiankeng have no chance..."

"They'll either die... or they'll have to go to the top—"

"In that case, they still have a chance!"

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The boys on the industrial floor shouted, and when looking towards the courtyard above, Jiatu also looked back and saw the three unusually bright falling spots of light.

At first, he thought it was just the halo of the sun.

It wasn't until the three light spots got closer and bigger to him that he suddenly realized that they were three man-made objects flying with jet propulsion!

"An artifact of the 'outside'? Isn't that..."

At that moment, Jiatu's blood became extremely cold.

And the teenagers under him also realized that something was wrong, and climbed down the cliff in a panic.

But before they had climbed a few steps, the three light spots had already quickly descended to them.

Three huge non-humanoid machines roared and rushed past them.

Set off a huge sonic boom and plow through like a storm.

Jiatu's hair and cloak were blown away by the shock wave, and the situation of the industrial youths below him was even more miserable——

Someone was washed away from the cliff by the raging airflow, screaming and falling to the bottom of the tiankeng.

And those three non-humanoid machines also re-suspended in front of the boys with the help of six jet engines.

The flat hexagonal armored engine emitted a deep purple brilliance and set off a huge roar.

The three non-humanoid machines, more than ten meters high, had no heads on their mottled shells, only a spindle-shaped chest connected to slender skeleton-shaped appendages.

Just by taking a look, Jiatu knew that they were definitely the legendary artificial intelligence!

Each of their thoracic vertebrae is connected to three pairs of slender appendages like praying mantises, holding a huge electromagnetic gun four to five meters long like a spider, and a wheeled magazine compartment like a "Buddha's light" hangs on the back.

There is no place to carry people in the whole body!

And as the three unmanned machines stopped in front of him, the kind boy Jiatu had dealt with before read their names tremblingly——

"Raytheon Industries... Tour Hunter!"

Until then, Jiatu saw a lightning symbol surrounded by a circle at the thoracic vertebrae of the three drones.

The three roving hunters didn't care about the shock of the human teenagers, but raised the electromagnetic cannon in their hands.

As the light flashed, the huge roar squeezed the air at the muzzle of the gun, and a series of white shock waves erupted.

The shock wave flew over a distance of more than [-] meters, and instantly hit the rock wall, startling the teenagers on the industrial floor.

They screamed and hugged their heads.

However, amid the roaring sound like an explosion, three cylindrical ammunition with a length of four to five meters were spun and flew out.

Jiatu, who was standing tens of meters above, could see clearly——

That is not a "column ammunition" at all!
Rather, he has seen countless "I-beams" in the past three days!
"How come... these I-beams are actually ammunition for artificial intelligence..."

Jiatu watched this scene with a cold face.

The I-shaped steel that was bounced off drew arcs, spinning and falling towards the bottom of the tiankeng.

Under the action of gravity, three I-shaped steel beams were inserted into the ground with a roar, causing water splashes and gravel——

Among the blue forget-me-nots flying all over the sky, like a tombstone, it is firmly inserted at the bottom of the tiankeng!

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

The teenagers on the rock wall screamed and cried.

But it wasn't until the I-beam hit the ground with a roar that they realized that they were not dead!
"What's going on...why is there nothing...how are you?"

The teenagers clutched their chests and checked the situation of their companions everywhere.

Including myself, everyone else is intact!

"What's going on...why are we okay..."

The teenagers looked at the artificial intelligence in front of them with some hesitation.

The unmanned machine, which was floating more than 20 meters away from the stele, calmly loaded the second round of ammunition as if it had no emotion.

With the sound of the motor turning in the magazine compartment behind it, a brand new I-shaped Gundam was loaded into the electromagnetic gun!
The kind-hearted boy hesitated for a moment, then gradually came to his senses——

"Run! The second attack is coming!"

Although he didn't know what happened, he knew very well that if this continues, he and others will definitely die here——

The devastated I-shaped steel on the second rock wall is telling everything!
"Climb quickly! Climb upward! There are not many I-shaped steel on the third rock wall!"

The boy's words reminded Jiatu.

Although he was a little worried about the situation of the teenagers, he still climbed towards the third rock wall.

While climbing, he looked down worriedly.

At this time, these teenagers helped him attract the attention of artificial intelligence——

The hunters hadn't noticed him higher up!
And as the second round of the H-shaped Gundam bounced off again, the third round of the H-shaped Gundam is already on the line!

This time, Jiatu finally saw clearly what had happened.

The moment the I-shaped steel dragging the shock wave rushed in front of the teenagers, a pale white light film suddenly appeared one meter away from them.

This film of light that should not exist in reality is like a wall full of toughness, and all the I-beams that are approaching in an instant are bounced away!

But with the continuous attacks of unmanned machines, the power of this film is getting weaker and weaker!
There are even cracks!
finally!Under the fourth round of blows, with a clear cracking sound that seemed to come from the depths of the soul, a young man was hit by a steel bullet, and instantly turned into blood foam all over the sky!
The companion beside him was splashed all over by minced meat.

He screamed loudly in fright.

But in the next second, he also followed in the footsteps of the former, and was hit by the I-shaped Gundam. In the splashing gravel, he was inserted into the stone wall like a donut!
"Climb! Climb!"

The kind-hearted boy kept urging his companions around him.

But Jiatu realized that it was too late.

With the appearance of the No. 2 and No. [-] victims, the protective power of the film has been far inferior to before!
Almost in the next second, the boy's other two companions also turned into blood foam all over the sky!
Jiatu saw the well-meaning boy raised his head in despair and looked at him——

In the next second, the boy who was hit by the steel beam flew out.

Only one arm and half of the chest remained, connected to the boy's head with eyes and eyes, and fell towards the bottom of the tiankeng.

Jiatu looked cold all over.

He realized that he was the only one left on the rock wall at this moment!

After eliminating all the boys on the industrial layer, the three unmanned machines had a blue light flashing on the spindle-shaped chest cabin, and then two unmanned machines flew towards the tiankeng, and the other one flew upwards.

Jiatu glanced at the third rock wall, which was still ten meters away, and his whole body was icy cold.

But he felt a little strange.

Why do "two" of those patrolling hunters fly "downward"?
Is it because they don't need two hunters to hunt themselves "one person"?

But he remembered the scene when he was wearing a closed mask a few days ago——

The climbers in gray cloaks were very blurry in his vision. If he didn't know where they were in advance and moved from time to time, he couldn't distinguish them from the rock wall at all!
Could it be that……

Jiatu's body was very cold, but his brain was very hot.

Even in this desperate situation, he did not give up struggling to survive.

He gripped the rock wall hard, wrapping his cloak tightly around his body.

Just as he guessed, the unmanned machine roared and flew past him. It didn't stop, but flew to the top of the stele, and from there it began to fall in a circular motion.

"It didn't notice me... It should be that the optical system was deceived by the cloak... As expected of the expedition team... It really has a way to survive in the 'outside'..."

Jiatu carefully watched the movement above, and moved little by little to the rock crevice more than ten meters away.

The speed of unmanned mechanical inspection of the rock wall is very fast.

But Gator climbed faster.

Having unleashed his full potential, he quickly climbed to the third rock wall at a speed that he did not expect.

Looking at the rock crevice in front of him, Jiatu took a deep breath, and at the same time resisted the discomfort from recurring, and swallowed the blood back into his mouth.

His mouth was filled with the smell of blood, and his vision was in a mess, as if he was crying, with blood foam everywhere.

Not fortunately, Jiatu saw the unmanned machine above his head flying towards him.

He hastily repeated the same trick, and once again clung to the crack in the rock.

The unmanned machine whizzed past Jiatu, and he could even hear the huge roar.

His cloak was blown constantly, and he felt the roar behind him tremblingly:

"Damn it... just ignore it!"

He shouted loudly in his heart.

And the unmanned machine also hovered slightly, and gradually moved away from him.

Jiatu realized that this difficulty was overcome by him!
But he still didn't dare to slack off his eyes, secretly revealing one eye, observing the movements of the patrolling hunters, hoping that they would leave quickly.

He saw that the itinerant hunter kept turning back after passing him, skimming ten meters ten meters down the stone wall.

Suddenly, it stopped in front of a rock wall that Jiatu looked familiar to.

Through his own perspective, Garto could not see its vision.

But then it suddenly lifted the spindle-shaped thoracic vertebrae and looked towards the third layer of rock.

Jiatu suddenly realized that it was the place where he stayed before!
"Damn... it's blood..."

Cato realized the still-dried blood and exposed himself.

The unmanned machine flew up again.

This time it no longer passed at high speed, but at a very slow speed, it probed the rock wall in front of it 1.1 meters.

Jiatu realized that there was absolutely no way he could hide this time.

He planned to give it a go and climb towards the top of the third rock wall at his fastest speed——

"Even if I die! I will die on the way forward!"

Jiatu shouted loudly in his heart.

He was very unwilling, but there was nothing he could do.

He knew that the gap between his own strength and that of the itinerant hunters was too great, and he had no possibility of resisting!

However, the moment he was about to get up, he was stopped by Hei Yin——

[Wait a minute, don't move. 】

Jiatu's left hand that had just been raised froze immediately, and he asked in confusion:
"what happened?"

[Don't move, the unmanned machine is very close this time, and we have a chance to destroy it. 】

Following Heiyin's reminder, Jiatu glanced at the unmanned machine.

He did see that the unmanned machine was clinging to the rock wall four or five meters away, and it seemed that it did not intend to let go of any rock cracks, exploring 1.1 meters away.

But his heart is still full of despair:
"So what if it can be destroyed? There are still two machines at the bottom of the sinkhole..."

However, Heiyin denied it:
[There are only a few I-shaped steels on the third-layer rock wall. Except for the few trainees who can climb this distance, I suspect that the protection effect of the third-layer rock wall is relatively complete. 】

"The protective effect of the third rock wall?"

Jiatu asked curiously.

【right. 】

Heiyin replied:
[I said before that the previous "Life Stele" cannot be destroyed. 】

[Whether it is a [-]-kg aerial bomb or a tail fin armor-piercing projectile fired by a main battle tank, it cannot destroy its rock wall. 】

[Even if the "Life Stele" is destroyed like this, judging from the weapons equipped by the "Rouring Hunter", it is very difficult for them to break through the protective ability of the stele——]

[That's why they used I-shaped steel ammunition that is not considered a weapon at all. 】

"so?"

Hearing Heiyin's eloquence, Jiatu's heart gradually calmed down, and he was no longer so desperate.

He took the initiative to ask Heiyin.

[So, if we can take this opportunity to destroy one of them, coupled with the protection effect of the "Life Stele", you will have the opportunity to climb to the top of the third rock wall. 】

Hei Yin replied in one breath.

"Is it just a chance..."

Jiatu took a deep breath and said regretfully.

But the panic in my heart was gradually dispelled.

[After all, I don't know the performance of the enemy's weapons, everything is based on "possibility". 】

Heiyin replied calmly:

[Being able to find "limited answers" in "infinite possibilities" is where we humans are better than artificial intelligence. 】

"Okay, tell me what to do."

Looking at the approaching unmanned machinery, Jiatu knew that he and Heiyin's time was running out.

【It is very simple. 】

Heiyin replied calmly: [When the enemy mecha approaches you less than five meters away, point your left hand at it and read this sentence with me—]

【"Light! Devour it!"】

Jiatu shook his hand and almost fell off the cliff——

"What kind of middle school line is this!"

【Secondary two?This is indeed our popular masterpiece in those days. 】

Heiyin admitted with some confusion, but she quickly turned her attention away from such small problems:

[All in all, this is the activation command of "To Alice", you can think of it as something like a "spell" - I used it to kill "Thousand Arms" before, and it should be enough to deal with Drone Armor used. 】

"Can you kill "Thousand Wrists"... that is indeed enough."

Jiatu retracted the sense of absurdity in his heart and nodded.

He took a deep breath and looked at the drone armor approaching in the distance.

He didn't intend to use this ability immediately, because the wandering hunters might not actually be able to spot him.

[By the way, by the way. 】

Heiyin continued in Jiatu's mind.

"What's wrong?" He asked while distractedly observing the situation of the enemy.

[The devouring ability of "To Alice" can only be used once within ten days, and you can only use this trick after two weeks. 】

"Is there only one chance..."

Jiatu nodded and understood Heiyin's meaning.

【Yes, good luck to you. 】

After saying the last sentence, Heiyin's voice fell silent again.

Jiatu also looked at the drone armor approaching in the distance.

This time, he did not turn his back on his back and handed over his back and life to fate.

He stared at the appearance of the drone armor, even the patent leather on its thoracic spine, he could clearly see it.

The engine roared, and the Drone Armor slowly pushed forward in front of Jiatu.

Jiatu could even see that its "line of sight" gradually met his own.

Then, one person and one machine, after thousands of years, they looked at each other again.

This time, Jiatu raised his right hand without hesitation—

"Light! Devour it!"

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