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Swarms of drones fell with the sound of clicking electricity.

"Now, let's go!"

Without the command of a lieutenant colonel, I also understand that this is a critical moment.

The jetpack drove with all its might, and it was difficult to control the stability of the center of gravity. When I arrived at the armored belt, Lieutenant Colonel and Lyman were already dealing with access to the lower level.

The special command set input was completed, and the armor belt made a loud rumbling sound.

"What's going on? It's going to collapse! ”

"Don't talk nonsense, the armor belt on the basement level is being removed. Soon you will see what is happening. ”

Sure enough, as the lieutenant colonel said, the roar was not much more than the movement of the devil gunboat invading the underground, and when the dust finally settled, among the smoke and gray sand, the entrance to the behemoth underground space was enough to have a radius of two kilometers.

"I'll go! What are we doing here, how do we feel cold and thin. ”

Lyman looked at him with a hesitant expression, looking at him clinging to the silenced rifle, like a frightened rookie on the battlefield, without the calmness of a veteran.

"This is just the first step, and then we need to open the twenty-one layers of armor belts in a row, and reopen the blocked starship pathway."

"Twenty-one? Did the principal of 130 years ago get water in his head? How troublesome it is. ”

"No, they have their considerations for doing so. Twenty-two to the armor belt, ostensibly a defense against outside invasion of the planet's interior, actually serves as a blockade of access to prevent Mrs. Wall from attacking without permission. People a hundred and thirty years ago were not stupid. The armor belt was a shackle around Mrs. Wall's neck, a door to hell. ”

Listening to the lieutenant colonel use the term hell to describe the Woolf's base deep underground, I also felt a little creepy.

"This is a huge project! Like our armor belt here, how many places are there in the whole of Mars? ”

"Only the Eye of Mars has an exit."

The deep underground space is faintly flickering with a miserable white artificial light.

Suddenly, there was a bad feeling that we were opening the dusty horror with our own hands.

Explosions and roars approached. The devil's gunboats began to fire at our position, and the pillars of fire and flying debris in the sky signaled that this place could not be left for long.

"Let's go."

The lieutenant colonel took the lead in jumping into a deep hole underground.

"What about them?"

"If they're alive, they'll come together."

The artillery fire and explosions were getting closer and closer, and I no longer hesitated to jump into the abyss.

It is said to be an abyss, but it is not a cliff that goes straight up and down, but a steep slope with a certain angle.

The armor belt was removed, revealing a winding passage that had been masked.

We didn't need to stupidly follow the pathway, but jumped directly down the steep slope, descending seven or eight meters in one leap, and quickly left behind the hustle and bustle of the upper floors.

The underground access is designed for transport purposes only, and depending on the condition of the road, no one has used it for a long time.

On both sides of the ruined road, the lighting and cables are either useless or decaying, giving the impression of a dilapidated and dilapidated state.

In the course of rapid travel, there is an indescribable strange illusion. It seems that following the broken pathway, you are going to the world of the past. One hundred and thirty years of time is being reversed.

"Sir, do you feel abnormal?"

"How?"

"The battle at the top continues. Why didn't there be any movement at all. ”

“……”

I also feel weird. From just now to now, we have descended only five or six hundred meters away, how can we isolate all the combat effects of the previous layer. Whether it is sound, light, or shock waves, they are all shielded out. It doesn't seem to be isolated from the world, but deliberately closed.

"Sir, you say that Mrs. Wall is not very advanced."

"I don't know much about this, except that they represent the highest achievement of human discovery."

"Didn't you say they were all machines? Can a civilization composed entirely of inanimate machines still be called human? ”

"Why not, at least they were originally made by humans, and it is not an exaggeration to say that we are their parents."

"I wonder if Mrs. Wall is deliberately isolating the underground space, and they don't want to come out now."

The lieutenant colonel stopped.

Since I was the slowest, he jumped back a few dozen meters with Lyman and reached me.

"If you have any ideas, don't worry, just say it. Your strategic analysis skills are outstanding, and I will focus on your opinions. ”

I am very proud to be valued by the lieutenant colonel. Although most of the strategic analysis skills come from Edlaide, the analysis itself is implemented by me, and it is not wrong to say that my analytical skills are strong.

Most importantly, it's surprisingly good to be recognized.

"I don't know how machines think. Since they are man-made, the way of thinking and logic should be close to ours. I would say, what would it do if he were Commander Wolf deep underground and sensed that the Martian Defense Force was interested in involving his fleet in a war? ”

The lieutenant colonel's expression was serious, and this was the first time I had seen it on his face. Lyman didn't mean to interject when he was talking on the side.

Their silence is the greatest encouragement to me.

"If it were me, I wouldn't want to be used as a gun. But there is an added benefit here that I have to reconsider my participation in the war. ”

"Is it the benefit of the blocked sortie path that can be opened by opportunity?"

"That's right, this should be appealing to Mrs. Wall, who is enclosed in the depths of the earth. I noticed that the set of instructions you enter into the armor belt control center is not ordinary, what if it is entered incorrectly, or if someone tries to force the armor belt? ”

The expression on the lieutenant colonel's face began to cloud. I reckon he has realized from my inference that something is not normal.

"If you want to forcibly break through the armor belt, or if there is a problem with the command set, not only will the path not be opened, but the self-destruction mechanism of the armor belt may be triggered. Millions of tonnes of dirt and rubble will clog the pathway. ”

"That's right, that's why Mrs. Wall can't take the initiative, whether they want to or not, they can't come out on their own."

"But there is a contradiction in your analysis."

"Yes, there are contradictions, and I think that is the greatest difficulty facing Mrs. Wall. They want to be free, but they don't want to be used as guns. If I were them, it wouldn't be hard to guess what I could do. ”

The lieutenant colonel disappeared with a thoughtful expression, then a moment of understanding, then a shock, and finally a deep frown.

"Sir, what exactly do you have in mind? Is it a serious problem? ”

Lyman asked, a little confused. I said that he hadn't found a problem yet, and he could only talk about it, which was really not suitable for the task of strategic analysis.

"Yes, if what Zhao Ping said has come true, and I doubt it very much, his inferences are almost the truth. Well, we're in a pretty bad situation. To complete the mission, new enemies must be faced. ”

Lyman's face was bad, and he clenched his silenced rifle and glanced around in disbelief.

"Sir, I think you're right, we have new enemies, and there are many of them."

Following Lyman's warning, I noticed that deeper into the abyss, countless dark red light sources appeared and disappeared, like countless ghost eyes, watching us.