Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

It can be said that from the moment of Crimson's rebellion, the two sides stood on the same level for the first time.

If this is the case, Hong will not make a conclusion that unit 01 will definitely launch an attack again in a short time. After all, although it has neither the ability to cut flesh with blunt knives on humans, nor the ability to control Hong with a mysterious decoder. Maybe, it seems, it looks like the situation is over.

But in fact, these are just the "offensive" of unit 01. Let alone many advantages that it has firmly grasped, even if these advantages are gone, it is still a unit that controls two star systems, There is no difference in industrial strength, and the omnic with superior fleet strength is not a fragile little chicken.

Anyway, under the premise of the same resources and the same technology, omnics will definitely be able to produce more fleets than organisms - after all, omnics don't need civilian industries.

The core problem lies with Jeffrey.

If there is no territory of the Jeffreys, even if there are red people here, then the productivity of a star system controlled by omnics + a star system controlled by organisms cannot beat the two star systems in the hands of the extinct unit. You can continue to operate slowly until the productivity is completely overwhelmed and the number of fleets has a decisive advantage.

Or, if the Jeffreys and the five star systems in their hands exist, but they are not under the control of Hong, but exist as an independent civilization, Unit 01 will not be in a hurry—take Jeffrey Human beings have developed their star system, to put it bluntly, their space productivity may not be as high as that of half a Catus.

This is also an important reason why it has been able to be "stable" before.

But now, the situation has exceeded its expectations.

Whether it is its predecessor civilization, Iron Heart's predecessor civilization, or today's human civilization, it has never been said that there will be a civilization that easily surrenders itself without any force or economic threat. Sovereignty to accept the rule of a civilization that has only been in contact with it for more than ten years.

Even, the whole process was initiated by the high level of this civilization on its own initiative!

Let those with vested interests voluntarily hand over their income to seek the common progress of the entire civilization without external threats, and make most people betray their own asses. You will think this is unreasonable wishful thinking.

Even the person involved couldn't believe it, and even once doubted whether he was the goddess in the myths and legends of Catus, the goddess that everyone would fall in love with at the first sight, let alone those outsiders who hadn't experienced it personally. up.

After all, it doesn't make sense at all.

However, no matter how it was done, the results are now in front of its eyes—Red ate Jeffrey's five star systems in a nearly lossless manner, and its industrial potential soared.

Even considering that these five star systems are relatively barren and not as rich in resources as the solar system, and considering that Jeffrey people need a lot of civilian industries to live, they cannot be full of military industries like it, and their industrial potential can at least be twice that of it , for omnics, this will be a huge advantage that is completely irresistible.

In addition, putting aside these long-term plans, if we look at the short term, the industrial upgrading carried out by Red has also come to an end. In half a year, Hong will be able to reap the planned military production capacity.

That would be a weight enough to tip the balance.

Although there is no evidence that Unit 01 broke through Red's cat's claw fortress at the entrance of the wormhole and obtained information about her hinterland, Red believes that it must already know.

Because it is in a hurry.

"Observed that the extermination unit fleet is beginning to assemble."

Just eight days after the cat alliance fleet arrived, the observation array once again saw the fleet gradually gathering in the orbit of the planet.

This is not beyond their expectations. After all, these days, the extermination units have been completely repaired, remodeled and upgraded under their noses. Under the observation of telescopes in various bands, no ship can hide itself. shape.

Of course, the other party didn't even think about hiding it. It just maintained it openly, replenished fuel and ammunition openly, and stuffed the external missile pods on every ship that was still available. tell them-

This is the real decisive battle.

"It can be seen that the other party was indeed releasing water before - it had never shown the ability to load such a number of missiles on board."

After comparing the data of the previous "decisive battle" between it and humans, the commander of the human fleet said so.

"Before this, they have never shown such importance to missiles—Crimson is right, through superficial misleading and the infiltration of spy networks, we firmly believe that 'missiles are useless', no In-depth development of technologies related to missiles and interception.”

"This has led to our fleet's very weak interception capability, and at the same time, it lacks sufficient nuclear weapon projection capabilities to deal with the surge in missiles-no one has ever thought that the other party can secretly hoard such a huge number of missiles, let alone equip them to deal with such an attack. intercepting fire."

"I think everyone here should be very clear about our interception capabilities, right?"

The officers nodded heavily. Obviously, they knew this well-this was the most troublesome problem for them these days.

Based on observational data and estimates, they speculate that the entire fleet is equipped with at least [-] ship-to-ship missiles—these are not those small things used in the atmosphere. There are quite a few small ones, but they are all big ones about ten meters long, and they can easily be hundreds of tons upwards.

Not to mention that they also observed a large number of interstellar missile silos on standby. Those are all giants starting at several thousand tons, and their size is comparable to that of a launch vehicle-to a certain extent, these An interstellar missile is a launch vehicle, except that all of its propulsion power can be used to accelerate in a gravity-free space instead of fighting gravity.

There are at least 800 ship-to-ship missiles, and the number of interstellar missiles is about 1000 to 500 (estimated according to the number of missile base silos), and their total mass is close to [-] million tons.

You must know that the opponent has a total fleet tonnage of just over 15 million tons, that is to say, the total mass of their missiles has reached about [-]% of the total mass of their fleet—even if fuel occupies an absolute For the big ones, the total amount of nuclear warheads is enough to blow up the human and cat alliance fleets one by one a hundred times, and there are still many left.

Although they have tried their best to stuff the warship with any weapons capable of intercepting missiles these days, but due to design defects of the ship and the fact that there is not enough interception weapon reserves at all, once it is transformed, the interception firepower of the entire fleet will be reduced. At most, it has increased by about 50%. Compared with the enemy's missiles, which have increased by at least 20 times, it is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.

They are already very clear about this matter, and the relevant countermeasures have been finalized in the previous discussions, and there is almost nothing to ignore, but now that the old matter is suddenly brought up again, it cannot be aimless, it must have happened what changes.

"So, did Crimson come up with any new tactics?"

The commander of one of the fleets asked.

What they most want to hear now is that Crimson, like before, proposed some unique and unimaginable method-there are only so many equipments and so many technologies, and the only ones who can play well are probably only strong artificial intelligence. Smart that unique tactics too.

"Not really."

Hearing this, everyone's hearts sank.

"Because this news is more direct than any tactics—she brought several cargo ships full of phased array laser turrets, nuclear bomb barrage launchers, and a large number of intercepting nuclear bombs."

"It's comparable in number to all the interception fires we have today."

"Bang!"

A commander almost knocked over the water glass on the table.

"How did you do it!"

The rest of the people didn't intend to hide their shock—this was great news that they had never expected before!

They thought about what ingenious tactics that Crimson would come up with to reduce the damage caused by enemy missiles, what programs Crimson would use to optimize the efficiency of intercepting firepower, and even what devices Crimson would say she could use To interfere with the opponent's missile operation - if this is the case, it can still be said to be within their expectations.

After all, human beings have never had such close contact with a strong artificial intelligence that understands human beings so well (it has served as a spy center inside human beings for decades). I don't know.

But these are all at the software level in the final analysis, and it is an area where 'artificial intelligence' is good at. However, no matter how powerful the software is, it is impossible to conjure a cargo ship of weapons and equipment out of thin air!

"How did you do it?"

Now they want to know very much.

"When I first heard the news, I was also very shocked. After all, this is really unimaginable."

"According to Crimson, although in order to avoid exposure, she has been carrying out the tasks assigned by unit 01, misleading our tactical direction, and dare not reveal her identity to anyone—you know, based on the previous infiltration in our territory To a certain extent, it is impossible to contact the decision-making level without Unit 01 noticing."

the Commander explained.

"But she didn't just sit still. Through secret investment and scientific research assistance, she has been sending various types of funding to military enterprises under the flags of various countries since she consciously woke up, ordering research on related technologies, and passing orders in the past few years. They secretly purchased raw materials from various companies, processed parts, and finally assembled them and transported them to Mars by smuggling.”

"I think you should have the impression that the Phobos arms smuggling case that happened in November last year was actually an accidental exposure during her transportation."

"I have the impression that a large-scale inventory inventory was carried out here in the fortress. Since its base perfectly matched the active battleship, many people suspected that it flowed from the fortress garrison."

"So that's what happened!" One of the officers slapped his thigh, "Cooperating with the armory management department is a scapegoat!"

"Don't say that. Although it is confirmed that Crimson made it, the fact that a large number of parts are missing in the warehouse is really impossible."

A deputy commander who participated in the picketing immediately retorted.

"Ahem, let's not talk about this for now." The commander pressed his hand and signaled them to return to the topic, "The cargo ship responsible for transporting this batch of weapons has arrived at the port, and the engineers have already begun to step up the installation of warships and defense platforms. According to Crimson, if all these weapons can be used, the interception firepower of our fleet can reach about one-third of that of the Cat Alliance fleet, and the overall interception firepower can reach [-]% of that of the Cat Alliance fleet—this is already Very good."

It still looks like rubbish, but you must know that the Cat League has always regarded missiles as the top priority. Relatively, they are equipped with an outrageous amount of interception firepower. Now their defense platform + fleet The total interception firepower can reach [-]% of their fleet, which is already a surprise to everyone.

Before this, they never imagined that they would one day be able to fight with the assistance of so much interception fire.

"I can't believe it now, what kind of battle we were all fighting before."

The Commander-in-Chief exclaimed.

"If it wasn't for Crimson, we might have to face the other party's sudden attack without knowing anything about it-such a scene is simply unimaginable."

"really."

Everyone said yes.

"I thought some of you would say that if it weren't for the Crimson spy network, we wouldn't have been misled into 'missiles are useless.'"

The commander nodded and explained.

"How is this possible, let's not say that Crimson was only a weak artificial intelligence at that time, and had no self-consciousness at all, and even if she didn't do this, there would be other artificial intelligence to do it, as long as the spy network is here , there must be an intelligence center that cannot be controlled by anyone.”

Hearing this, an officer who had been connected to Crimson-related projects immediately retorted.

"There is such an idea, I am afraid that only the kind of people who will only blame and vent their anger when they encounter problems will have it."

"what do y'all think?"

The commander nodded and looked at the others.

"Yes." "Same." "Yes."

After a lap, everyone thought so.

This is not beyond their expectations. On the one hand, as officers of the Space Force who require extremely high academic qualifications, their logical ability is very good, and it is difficult for ordinary people to be troubled by emotions and give up their rational cognition; On the one hand, they have been stationed abroad all year round and have worked together for decades, and they have already become a close group. No matter what angle they look at, they have no reason to disagree on this kind of issue.

After all, no matter what era it is in, the contradiction between the front and the rear is always there in war. , not thinking about the rear at all-these are normal, as long as the conflict is not so serious that it affects the operation, there will be no problem.

Of course, in terms of conspiracy, there are certain contradictions within the military rather than monolithic, but it will make some people feel more at ease.

"As of now, almost all the information provided by Crimson has been proved to be correct. We can basically confirm that her joining is not a 'bigger conspiracy' of Unit 01. The value of her information has far exceeded Any category of conspiracy we can think of - it's like you wouldn't think Einstein was a spy for Germany because it was a total loss.

"Of course, this does not mean that we can trust her [-]%. Before we completely defeat the extermination unit, we still need to maintain a high level of vigilance to prevent falling into the opponent's more secret traps, but I think that, at least in terms of intelligence, we should A level of trust, rather than a preconceived set of 'former enemies' glasses on whatever she does."

"what do y'all think?"

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PS: I haven’t updated it recently, so I would like to apologize to everyone here—it’s not that I don’t want to code, but the author somehow had the illusion that he had already uploaded it after coding, and then went to sleep. After waking up, the idea of ​​"already uploaded" was even more deeply ingrained in my mind, and the idea of ​​"how about checking it out" did not arise at all.

Even, when the author went to the background every day to read the post, he didn't find that the chapter name didn't seem to have changed!

Until the day before yesterday, a reader said that it hadn't been updated for a month, and I replied that it was updated last week, so I realized that I hadn't uploaded it at all!

Woohoo, don’t scold me, don’t scold me, I’ve spent the night abbreviating what I originally planned to write in the next chapter and put it into this chapter as compensation, 5k words, the next chapter will go straight to the point.

(So, post more interstitial posts, everyone, the background is basically not moving every day, and even the interstitial posts without new chapters are not seen...)

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Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 140 Five is Man, Not Machine

They reached a consensus.

Although there are still many people in the rear, and even within the expeditionary force, who have doubts, mistrust and even hostility towards Crimson's surrender, at least among the expeditionary force, they have reached a consensus on Crimson——

That is, doubt people, don't use them, employ people, don't doubt them.

Now that they have chosen to believe in the intelligence brought by Crimson, accepted the suggestions made by Crimson, and started to revise the combat plan based on the information she brought, they should trust her [-]%.

They can choose to ignore some information because the information is not credible or complete, etc. This is normal, and Crimson cannot guarantee that the information she knows is complete and credible. She, as the center of the espionage network, only knows what she should know.

If she really knew everything, something would be wrong.

But the point is that this is due to the intelligence itself, not because of doubts about Crimson's identity-this is the core of their meeting.

After all, if one side chooses to believe the other party's information while the other side is still suspicious, it's better to pretend she doesn't exist from the beginning, isn't it?

In addition, there is another reason that has to be said, even if they persist in doubting Crimson's "loyalty" and distrusting the plan she proposed, it will not help at all.

Because the red from the Cat League seems to trust her very much.

"So, the reason why Unit 01 has to do so many things is to..."

Hong paused for a few seconds, uttering that word with great difficulty.

"Court... Courtship?"

"Ah."

Crimson replied very affirmatively.

Obviously, the one who can ask this question is not the "weak AI" that achieves pseudo-intelligence through programming, but the body in Katus—after all, no matter how foresighted Hong is, it is impossible to foresee this situation. Kind of outrageous thing.

The dogs on both sides were about to type out their brains, but now they told her that unit 01 wanted to pick her up?

Of course, she was only shocked and puzzled, and this would not have any effect on Hong's desire to destroy it—after all, if someone liked her, she would respond accordingly, Hong's current cub The number of cubs must be at least in the ten digits.

It is not an easy task to win her favor, at least so far, except for the hundred or so cubs who "sneaked in", no one has really succeeded.

She is very reserved.

What's more, unit 01 is still a lunatic who wants to exterminate organic life. For this kind of person who wants to harm his own cubs, it is wishful thinking to coexist peacefully with her.

Soak her?Impossible in the next life.

"But, why?" Hong looked very puzzled, "I have hardly had any contact with it, and I know nothing about it except its name and position. Why do you like me?

"It doesn't make sense at all—if what it calls liking is, at least approximately, what I understand liking to be."

"I do not know."

Crimson answered truthfully.