Chapter 164: Precipitous
"Aliens are different from us, they will make strange tools, let those tools do what they want, the key is why the aliens know about us......"
While leading his fellow clansmen to escape, Shachimaru explains to them how to use the aliens' power.
Behind them, the metal walls of the inner passage of the starport were pierced through as easily as paper, and these holes were always just right where the gatherers were standing a second before.
At the same time, in the baptized sieve channel, the scene is hazy and illusory, and the main reason for this phenomenon is that the destruction of the autonomous ship has broken down the metal body into powdery dust particles, which interfere with the light and form diffuse reflection.
If they stop or slow down for half a beat, the powder on the metal wall will end up being their future, and the real sense of the corpse will be broken!
"Damn! It's getting closer! Everybody, hurry up! ”
Noticing that the distance between them and the autonomous ship was shrinking, one of the gatherers desperately alerted them in the channel, and at the same time, the speed more than doubled at the cost of accelerating the consumption of biomass.
The Gatherers have adopted this method to increase their speed by a large margin, but this does not get rid of the pursuers, and the autonomous ships are still clenching, but the Gatherers' reserves are dropping sharply at a speed that is visible to the naked eye.
In this trend, death is only a matter of time, and they must think of a response before they do.
"Calm down, everyone, think about it! Although the power of aliens is powerful and strange, it still can't break out of the laws of the universe, and they must act according to axioms just like us! ”
In the life field channel, Shakyu told his thoughts to his fellow people present.
Individual power is limited, and the greatest strength of the gatherer is never a single blade or piercing impact, but a collective force, and the life field binds them together to form a vast and powerful intelligence matrix.
"I remember the will once said that there is a premise for any attack, and that is to lock on to the target!"
A collector prioritizes the publication of information that he or she recalls.
Then in the next moment, another collector announced the information.
"So, the aliens must be somewhere, using some method to lock us in! Then command their creations to attack us! ”
The truth is stripped out layer by layer, and all that remains is to eliminate the possibilities one by one, and the collectors intensify their analysis.
"Those high-speed objects can be ruled out, the starport is huge and the internal environment is complex, if they have that kind of efficient radar, there is no reason for them to notice the life field so late, so it must be some other way!
"That's right! Something, instead of the eyes of the aliens, is watching us! ”
The gatherers began to search around, and while they didn't quite think it was feasible, it was the only option, and there was no better way.
Luckily, they noticed it.
…… Eye...... Sphere...... Light-sensitive...... Creation......
It's all connected!
"It's the 'balls'!"
When a collector looks at a metal ball hidden in a corner, all gatherers realize the capabilities of these harmless alien creatures that have no ability to attack.
Once again, however, their minds have reached a dead end - how are they going to deal with these massive alien artifacts?
Obviously, their current material reserves, as well as their capabilities, are not enough to deal with so many spheres.
"Shakyaru, what are we going to do?"
Faced with this kind of question, Shakyu's mind was full of thoughts, and in the end, under the most rational thinking, the most rational answer was given.
"Sacrifice most of the money so that someone can return alive."
There is no way to break the alien lock, so the only way to do this is to make the alien think that they have killed all the gatherers.
Without much hesitation, the collectors unanimously agreed to the proposal.
This is the biggest difference between the gatherers and the aliens and humans, when faced with the sacrifice decision, the aliens and humans will hesitate, but the collectors will not, as long as it is for the collective, even if there is an abyss ahead, they will not hesitate to jump down.
It's just that before they could take action in response, a new change happened so suddenly.
The pipe in front of them was suddenly blocked by something, and then there was shaking, and the passage they were in shook throughout the section.
Through the crack on one side of the passage, they found that the whole passage was moving!
At this point, there was no room for much thought, and they had to leave the moving passage.
"Let's go here!"
Greeting his fellow clansmen, the shakyan crossed out of the crack in the wall of the passage on one side, and the other gatherers broke away one after another.
When they left the passage, their vision suddenly opened up, and then they realized that there was actually the huge cavity outside the passage!
The reason why the passage shook was that it had been 'plucked' from the wreckage of the starport, and the instigator was the unknown organism they targeted.
The unknown creature noticed the breakaway gatherers, and the strips that had been curled up to intercept the passage were directly crushed, as if stimulated to a frantic riot, the strips danced around like whips, and the fragments were scattered everywhere.
At this moment, the sphere probes that had been tracking the collectors all the way also caught up.
Although the probes arranged in the channel are basically wiped out, in the face of the huge base, this loss can only be a drop in the middle.
"Front and rear attack?!"
"We're finished."
There are tigers in front and wolves in the back, and their situation is even more dangerous.
However, that was only to the eyes of the gatherers, and in the eyes of the aliens, it was a different story.
"Commander, discover an unknown creature! They're coming together! ”
"So what are you waiting for? Kill them all! ”
In the eyes of the aliens, whether it is the unknown creature with an unknown body, or the gatherers like Shakyusa, they are all monsters.
Aliens do not perceive the life field, and the study of the life field only stays at the rather superficial cognition of whether the space is covered by the life field, and they cannot distinguish the difference between the life field.
It's like forcing a person with severe myopia to look at someone else's palmistry fingerprints.
Of course, the two sides fought, although the targets of the autonomous ship were gatherers and unknown creatures, but the size of the unknown creatures was too large, and in comparison, they were smaller than ants, so basically the attacks of the autonomous ships fell on the unknown creatures.
And the unknown creature is attacking indiscriminately in a frenzy, the autonomous ship is fast, the defense is high, the destruction is strong, and it itself is a mortal fetus, just like someone and a high-frequency vibration knife against each other, and it is a strange thing that the high-frequency vibration knife will be damaged.
As a result, the unknown creature can only fall into a situation of passive beating, which makes it very aggrieved, and it can only vent its anger irrationally everywhere in this way, referred to as 'impotent rage'.
However, this behavior of the alien does have some effect, and many of the aliens' probes have been destroyed, and once the probes are gone, it is difficult to lock on to unknown creatures in a complex environment like Starport, even if it is large.
How can you fight without sight in a fight?
As the target of the hunt, I watched the fight between the two sides, and I didn't know what to say for a while.
"We were saved by it?"
"What do you think? Don't you sense that your target is hostile to us? ”
"The goal should be to deal with the most threatening enemy first."
"Hurry up and get out now."