After settling near the obelisk, Lu Xiao finally had time to read the information that Alethea had found in the ruins of Gaia.

Just like Lu Xiao guessed, Ted Farrow is the kind of person who will be at a loss at a critical moment.

The clue that Alethea found was a suicide note left by Farrow before he "died".

Gaia was indeed prepared to upload Elizabeth's consciousness to the network in advance, and secretly researched the corresponding technology.

Elizabeth's self-sacrifice left Gaia very sad, and although she continued to do her best to fulfill the mission she had given her, for a while, she lost interest in everything else.

It was during this time that Ted Farrow struck out, clearing the records of the Apollo subroutine, smothering all members of Team Alpha, and stealing the consciousness upload technology from the absent-minded Gaia.

This is a technology that has never been tested in any way, and with the killing of the members of Alpha's team, there are only a handful of humans left in the entire Gaia Vault, and Farrow does not dare to let others try it easily, so as not to be stolen from what should have belonged to him.

He is such a selfish and short-sighted person, if Elizabeth hadn't helped him when he was at his worst, this guy would have gone bankrupt and slept on the street.

Unsure of whether the consciousness upload would be successful, Farrow left a suicide note in his anxiety and hesitation, and this suicide note became the most powerful evidence for Lu Xiao to determine his whereabouts.

Gaia is an artificial intelligence, her computing power is by no means comparable to that of humans, and her rigor in scientific research is not comparable to those "experts" who like to cheat on funds.

It turns out that Gaia's research consciousness upload technique is real and feasible.

Ted Farrow uploaded his consciousness to the Internet, slipped out of the shelter without Gaia's knowledge, and hid and slept for a long time.

Although there is no conclusive evidence that Faro was behind Hades's rampage, Lu Xiao's sixth sense from the Isu people locked on to the target in advance under the guidance of a variety of clues.

Here's the problem. ’

Standing on the high mountain where the obelisk is located, Lu Xiao squinted his eyes and thought, "Where did Ted Farrow hide?" ’

For the electronically conscious Faro, the artificial intelligence Gaia is the only one who can threaten him.

Gaia had self-destructed and disappeared more than a decade ago, but Farrow did not rush to take over the world, but allowed Hades to erase the civilization built by a new generation of humans.

'What's that guy's purpose?' Could it be that your brain was burned out in the process of uploading your consciousness? ’

"Altheia, activate the amplification mode of the signal tower, with Meridian City as the center, and scan the remaining network nodes of the entire world with high power."

"Understood, the amplification begins."

"Hum~"

The pitch-black obelisk emitted a faint humming sound, and the ripples that ordinary people could not perceive spread outward with the obelisk as the center, and soon swept across the entire Meridian City, and were spreading further outward.

While the Obelisk was in full swing, Alethea and Consus were temporarily unable to distract themselves from other things.

Before getting further information, Lu Xiao had been sitting next to the obelisk, silently waiting for news from Aletheia.

While the mechanical army was ready to step into the forest, Nora reinforcements also bypassed Meridian City and entered the Sunset Forest.

The forest is the home of hunters, and the Nora tribe, who are good at hunting in the mountains and forests, resort to guerrilla raids.

"Whoosh!"

A special arrow with a concussive peeling effect strikes a saboteur in the back with precision, stripping its radar from its body.

In the forest, a large number of primitively dressed hunters could be seen moving rapidly.

According to the information left in Gaia's ruins, Lu Xiao and the others have a deeper understanding of the mechanical beasts made by Gaia using Hephaestus subroutines.

Only three of all automatons have radar systems on board, the most common being the medium-sized automacha-saboteur, and the other two being large machines.

The Oversized Automatron Giraffe is not aggressive, it only patrols certain areas, and was originally designed to assist Gaia in observing the health of the local automatons and monitoring the progress of the local ecological recovery.

After Gaia self-destructed, the giraffe lost its purpose and wandered aimlessly from area to area.

Lu Xiao had also encountered a giraffe in the wild before, and it really didn't have any desire to attack, nor did it carry any weapons.

Hades may not have had an interest in this harmless, oversized automatron, and did not consider giraffes when reversing the automatron's arithmetic logic.

The last type of mechanical beast equipped with radar is more troublesome, and it is the overlord of the ground mechanical beast - Thunder Fang.

The good news is that there aren't many of the Thunderfangs, and with careful planning, you can get rid of their radar systems one by one.

This task is more difficult and is carried out by elites such as Yongzhen and Aloy, while the larger number of saboteurs are handed over to ordinary warriors of the Nora clan.

"Aloy, get ready."

On one of the large trees in the forest, Yongzhen filled the Japanese longbow in his hand and aimed his special arrowhead at one of the Thunder Fangs, which activated the radar to search around.

Aloy, who was standing on another tree branch a few hundred meters away, also drew his bow and aimed at another target.

“3、2、1！”

"Whoosh! Sou! ”

The two arrows flew out almost at the same time, and the arrows shot by Yongzhen, who was much more powerful, were significantly exceeded, hitting the radar on the target's back first.

"Bang!"

The radar element was stripped away by the shockwave, and the thunder fang reacted quickly, and the weapons on his body immediately strafed in all directions, trying to kill the enemies who attacked him.

However, Yongzhen retreated from the spot at the same time as the attack hit, and although the bombardment of Thunderfangs cleared a large area of nearby woods, it did not pose any threat to Yongzhen.

Aloy's arrow also hit another Thunderfang far away, and at Yongzhen's command, she immediately retreated backwards, leaping forward on the branches.

The hill where the obelisk is located is the highest altitude in the vicinity, and Lu Xiao can see the dust stirred up in the forest through the eagle's pupil.

"Yongzhen, Aloy, how's it going?"

Through Focus's contact channel, the three of them can communicate unhindered even if they are far apart.

Yongzhen: "The last two Thunderfang's radars have been removed, and it's up to the Nora Warriors to do the next." ”

Lu Xiao: "Very good, Yongzhen, you withdraw first, just in case, I need you to protect me when I am accumulating." ”

"Understood."

Hanging up the contact, Yongzhen turned his head sideways and said to Aloy, who was also moving at high speed: "I'll leave it to you here, remember not to be reckless." ”

"We've waited long enough, O'Cella's reinforcements have just entered Meridian City and are installing heavy weapons at various defensive points along the walls."

"One day at most, all the preparations will be completed, and you can get the Nora warriors ready to evacuate as well."

There are no undead wars in this world, and even if you are careful enough, the Nora warriors will inevitably suffer losses when they engage in guerrilla warfare with the automatons.

Of the more than 130 fighters who entered the forest, only 50 remain, many of them wounded.

Aloy breathed a sigh of relief, this period of forest guerrilla warfare had also caused her a lot of psychological burden, it was the first time she had taken on such an important responsibility, and the death of each of her clansmen would make her heart ache.

"I know, I'll retreat with my people overnight after dark."

After saying goodbye to Aloy, Yongzhen crushed the teleportation rune stone and returned directly to Meridian City.

Towards the end of the teleportation, Yongzhen looked at the dust raised in the forest and frowned, thinking, "Where the hell did Siris go?" Why wasn't he seen in the rear of the machine army? ’