The rescue continues.

Homemade stretchers were carried back and forth between the security zone and the core area, transporting the wounded into medical equipment.

The combat team joins the rescue team after encountering it.

However, they are still trying to find a soldier named Xialiu.

But after looking around, I didn't find the girl.

Their emotions that had been active at seeing so many survivors had now fallen silent.

This is true on the side of the combat team, and the same is true for Lin Ling.

But she is worried about the imminent energy shortage.

Even if technicians had activated backup units to maintain the energy supply, it was estimated that it would not last more than two days.

They discussed and found Lin Ling.

It stands to reason that these things should have been handled directly by their superiors, but they considered that no superior with command authority had woken up from a coma until now, so they directly approached Lin Ling, who had initially curbed the panic and organized the search and rescue of the personnel.

In their opinion, this armored man who stabilized people's hearts as soon as he came can be regarded as a good candidate for a temporary leader.

Lin Ling looked at the few people in front of her, "You want to go to the central room to repair the central system?" ”

She felt a pain in her head as she thought of the central console she had smashed.

She didn't regret destroying the console, because at that time when the monster had merged with the console, there was only one way to do it.

Although she had mentioned that the matrix in the central chamber had been cleared when she rescued them, she did not tell them that the console in the central chamber had been smashed by her.

Now, it makes her a little unbearable to speak.

[Host, you promise them, let's go together!] 】

As soon as Lin Ling turned around, she saw a ball hiding in the corner and winking at her.

It's a blink, but it's actually a crazy flash, and it's like a neon sign.

Restraining her desire to pretend to be invisible, Lin Ling finally agreed to the idea of these people at the request of the system, and explained the situation of the central room together.

However, to Lin Ling's surprise, these people were not disappointed, and they proposed that they could use the backup background to make slight modifications.

While it is not enough to completely repair the central system, it can at least allow the energy and area isolation systems to be back in operation.

Finally, a technical team consisting of nine technicians and two non-humans, the human team officially set off.

On the way, Lin Ling asked the system in her mind, "System, why do you propose to go together?" ”

[Host, I have just conducted a full-scale investigation, and found that there are people in other activity areas and weapons areas, if the central system is not repaired, it may not only be us, but also the survivors in other areas, especially the facility area, may be in danger of life. So we have to take advantage of the console ......]

Listening to this, Lin Ling interrupted the system's answer, she didn't understand whether the system was listening carefully to her and other people's conversations just now.

"I know, but the problem is that the console has been destroyed, what else can you do?"

【Forehead...... This one...... Isn't there still me! 】

"You?"

Listening to the answer coming from her head, Lin Ling turned her head and stared at the system around her suspiciously.

The system showed a "grinning" expression, and the expression was quite proud.

[Yes, me, host, don't forget how I appeared in front of you in the first place!] 】

If Lin Ling is not mistaken, the system should have popped up suddenly at that time, and the ontology was also inexplicably in her brain.

And at the time she didn't notice it at all.

If it weren't for curiosity, maybe she would have pinched the system to death on the spot.

Thankfully, she didn't......

[Now I can also use the same method to enter this central system, and then tamper with the control inside through data rewriting, and then I can freely control the planetary fortress even if I don't rely on the console.] 】

As he spoke, the system straightened up his sleek little body.

But in the eyes of others, it's just too high an angle, plus a little bit forward.

[I'm smart, right?] 】

It looked at Linling, full of anticipation.

However, the latter only subconsciously touched his head, "My brain has not been tampered with, has it?" ”

Although her own mind was not actually controlled by this body, she couldn't help but feel sick to her stomach at the thought of the circuitry in her brain being altered.

[You think too much, I can only target data programs, and you are not a robot. 】

Listening, Lin Ling didn't doubt too much, "Okay." ”

She believed in the system as always.

But how much she believed in her heart was still only known to her.

"Here we are."

After reminding the system in her head, Lin Ling stopped and looked at the passage in front of her.

Rotten flesh and stumps covered the floor.

Walking forward, Lin Ling also saw other branch passages that connected to other activity areas, and there was the same blood in them.

But none of them have access to the facility area.

This also means that humans in other areas of activity can be transferred through the Nexus, but not in the Weapons Zone.

The outer facility area is more responsible for the berthing of ships and the maintenance of planetary weapon systems than the active area in the inner layer of the planetary fortress.

Now the collapse of the central system has left the personnel who were originally working outside basically trapped in place.

Although they will not fall under the siege of alien lifeforms like the active area, they are still in a very dangerous state, especially in the case of problems in the internal circulation system, their situation is far more dangerous than that of Lin Ling and others.

"How long will it take you to get control of the central system?"

[About 3 hours, conservative estimate is 5 hours.] If I could, I could shrink ......]

"There's enough time to get shortened, let's go."

The time consumed is still within Linling's tolerance, but she still wants the system to act on its own safety.

Following the technicians into the passage and avoiding the ambulance personnel, Lin Ling walked to the platform.

She saw the wounded who had been evacuated one after another, and she saw the dried blood on the walls around her, and the filamentous pieces of flesh still clinging to them.

Putting her head aside, Lin Ling stopped watching.

Let the platform rise and lift her and the technical team to the front of the central chamber.

Although everyone was vaccinated in advance by Linling, they couldn't help but be shocked when they saw this scene.

The central chamber, filled with rotten flesh and blood, was unfolded in front of everyone.

The massive console shell had shattered, and the filamentous film of blood that had emerged from it hung from the machine, exposed to the air.

A broken egg shell is lying in it.

Someone in the team suddenly let out an exclamation and ran straight out of the team to the console. "This ......"

"By the time I arrived, the matrix had become one with the console." Lin Ling kindly reminded.

"No, that's not the problem."

The technician knelt on the ground, took out the gloves from his arms, put them on, and ripped out the blood film inside.

The remaining egg shells glued to the motherboard caught everyone's eye.

"After the motherboard leaves the factory, in order to protect the data, it is all sealed, and it is impossible for foreign objects to enter the motherboard, but this egg is obviously fused from the inside out."

The man with the eyes looked at Lin Ling, his eyes full of horror.

"In other words, it was incubated from the inside from the start!"