Chapter 19: The First Battle
Two hours later, Zhou Xin's head was covered with notes, he looked at Spred next to him, and found that there were a lot of notes on his face, and as for the researcher who was pulled next to him to make up the numbers, his head was no different from a mop head. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ info Zhou Xin looked at Ralph with a clean face and found that he was preparing to start the next game with great interest.
Seeing Zhou Xin's expression, Spred said: "I think it's almost time, the battle robot should have arrived, let's play here." β
Ralph looked surprised: "Eh! Two hours? No, we've only been playing for a while. β
Zhou Xin then spoke: "Yes, it's been two hours, and-" He looked at the mop head, "If I continue to play, I see that there is no place on his head." β
Ralph then looked at the researcher who had been playing with her for two hours, and after one look, she laughed, "Haha, have you already lost so much, hahaβactuallyβ" She clutched her stomach, "Actually, you look good like that, haha." β
Zhou Xin rolled his eyes, "Okay, you still make fun of him after playing with you for so long." β
"But, haha," Ralph continued, laughing, "it's pretty, haha." β
Zhou Xin tore off the note on his face, and at the same time motioned for Spred and the researcher to take the note off his face, and then said, "Okay, clean up, it's time to get down to business." β
Chang'e next to her came over and cleaned up, and while Chang'e was cleaning up, Zhou Xin asked the Voyager, "Has the combat robot arrived at the predetermined location?" β
"They're going through that weapon tunnel." The Voyager replied, "Expect to reach the location of the alloy gate in 5 minutes." β
"Hmm." Zhou Xin nodded, "Let's release their images." β
The screen in front of them lit up, and at the same time as it lit up, Zhou Xin and the others heard a sound of neat footsteps, which was the sound of the battle robots advancing collectively. Zhou Xin quietly looked at the familiar passage in front of him and didn't say a word.
After waiting quietly for 5 minutes, they saw the alloy door again. At this moment, the entire team of battle robots stopped, and then the Voyager reported: "Your Excellency, the battle robots have arrived at the predetermined position and are waiting for your orders. β
Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then ordered: "Let's all go in, follow the route of the previous battle robot, stay vigilant, and pay attention to the opponent's attack when you reach the attack position." β
As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, the battle robots began to enter the gate in order, and Zhou Xin saw that after entering the gate, the battle robots quickly lined up in battle formation. After a while, when all the robots were inside, the whole team of robots began to move along the previous route.
After a while, the battle robots approached the attack site, they advanced a few steps, and then Zhou Xin heard the sound of objects flying over, and sure enough, flashbangs were thrown on the opposite side, but this time there was more than one, and several flashbangs fell to the ground and exploded. However, this time the combat robot was ready, and took a few steps back at the same time as the flashbang exploded, followed by a dozen plasma grenades, which evenly landed where the robot had stood before and exploded, scattering arcs of electricity all over a large area of the ground. Because the robots retreated in time, the subsequent laser beams were not emitted.
At the same time as the flashbang exploded, the Voyager activated the strong light filter, so this time Zhou Xin and the others saw the entire battle process, and because of the explosion of so many flashbangs, they finally saw what the attacking robot was.
It was also a group of mechanical creations similar to combat robots, they were very short, only about a meter, and below them were four slender mechanical legs, which were about a meter long, with two joints on them, and a structure similar to the soles of the feet at the end of the mechanical legs touching the ground. Supported by the mechanical legs was a normal platform with a laser emitter previously seen in the tunnel, now facing the direction of the combat robot. Next to the laser emitter is a large cylinder that looks like a bomb-throwing device, and behind the laser launcher, there is a crate-like thing. Seeing these rudimentary mechanical creations, Zhou Xin and them were a little surprised.
"It's also called a robot? It seems too simple. Ralph exclaimed in surprise, "This is too far from the robot on the ship, is this really a robot made by the other civilization?" β
"Rather than being combat robots, I think they're more like weapon launch platforms," Spred said. β
Zhou Xin nodded and agreed with Spred's statement, and then he continued: "It seems that our opponent has been determined, it is these weapon launch platforms, I counted them a little just now, there are about fifty of these weapon platforms, it seems that our number is superior." He breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good that they're just machines, not creatures of this civilization." β
"But we can't take it lightly." Spred reminded him, "They're using more advanced weapons than we do. β
"I know." "But now there's a question, how exactly can we attack those weapon platforms?" β
"How else can you attack, attack with weapons." Ralph said casually.
Zhou Xin glanced at Ralph, "I mean how to hit them, they are not fixed to the wall like the weapons in the passage, how do we determine their position." β
"Radar."
"Have you forgotten?" Zhou Xin reluctantly reminded, "The magnetic field in this place is very strong, and the radar cannot be used because of interference." β
"How did the other side find the location of our robots, and also confirm the number of robots for an appropriate attack." This time it was Spred who spoke.
"I'm weird too." Zhou Xin said, "It stands to reason that they should be subject to the same interference as us, how did he find the combat robot." β
Just as they pondered over the question, Leia, who was watching quietly from the sidelines, woke up the dreamer with a word.
"Is it the light on the robot?" She asked softly.
Hearing this, Zhou Xin and Spred looked at each other, and then Zhou Xin smiled bitterly: "Yes, why have we been thinking about such a simple answer for so long, isn't it an obvious question, how can we not see the opposite side of the light where the robot is so obvious, we have been thinking about it for a long time." β
Spred also smiled wryly, "This is the so-called 'dark under the lamp', obviously the answer is in front of us, we just didn't find it." β
Zhou Xin continued, "It seems that our combat robot also needs to be modified, how can such an obvious loophole be left on the robot." He said to the Voyager, "In the future, don't install obvious signs such as lights on the combat robots, this is simply a live target." β
"Actually, the combat robots didn't have these lighting devices on them." The Voyager replied, "It's just that the environment of this exploration is special, and many of the exploration equipment can't work well, so this ship has temporarily installed lighting equipment on these robots." However, we did not expect any trouble with these lighting equipment, and we are very sorry for this. β
"That's right." Zhou Xin understood.
"Now that you've figured it out." Spred said, "So what do we do now, should we turn off the robot's lights?" β
Zhou Xin nodded, "Let's try it first, and then find a way if it doesn't work." β
So Zhou Xin ordered the battle robots to turn off the lights and move forward, after all the robots turned off the lights, most of the screens in front of Zhou Xin and them were darkened, and only a small map representing the location of the robots was still lit, with more than a hundred dots on it, each of which represented a robot or detector. Zhou Xin and the others saw that a group of dots gathered on the screen began to move in one direction. However, these dots only moved a few steps, and Zhou Xin and the others heard the sound of objects flying over again, and then, the screen that had just dimmed was lit up again in an instant, and at the same time, these dots hurriedly moved in the opposite direction, and then, Zhou Xin and the others saw the familiar blue arc on the screen.
Zhou Xin and Spred glanced at each other, and Zhou Xin asked, "We have all turned off the lights, how did the other side find us?" β
"Maybe they have other ways to detect it." Spred guessed, and then he said, "Since it's useless to turn off the lights, let's turn them on, so that we can judge the situation more easily." β
Zhou Xin nodded, motioned for the robot to turn on the light, and then, he looked at the screen in front of him that lit up again and fell into deep thought. After thinking for a while, Zhou Xin opened his mouth and asked, "Voyager, can't our existing detection methods find the launch platform opposite?" β
"I've tried electromagnetic waves and infrared rays, but it didn't work."
"Didn't it work?" Zhou Xin said to himself, "Then is there any way to find the opposite position." β
"This place is really troublesome, dark, distracting and bad, it's a real nuisance." Ralph grumbled from the side.
"Darkness, interference, positioning, darkness, interference......" Zhou Xin repeated it a few times, and then had an idea, "Darkness? Positioning? Voyager, is there an ultrasonic positioning device installed on the combat robot? β
"Yes." The Voyager replied, "However, the device has not been activated for a long time, and the range of ultrasonic positioning is only about 50 meters, and the accuracy is also very poor, so this ship did not consider this device." β
"Let's try it, even if the accuracy is low, it can be positioned normally." Zhou Xin said.
After signaling the combat robot to turn on the ultrasonic positioning device, a new picture appeared on the screen in front of Zhou Xin and them, at first the picture was still black, and after a while, some simple lines began to slowly appear on the black screen, and then those lines began to become complex, forming a shape similar to a table, and there seemed to be something on the table, and then, Zhou Xin saw more than 50 table-like things appear on the screen, and these tables were still moving, as if looking for something.
Looking at those table-like objects, Zhou Xin breathed a sigh of relief, "I can finally find them, at least it's fair." Then, pointing to the half-shown picture behind him, he asked, "What is this, and why is it so strangely shaped?" β
"The location was already beyond the maximum range of ultrasound positioning and was not shown." Voyager replied.
"Is that all there is to it?" Zhou Xin frowned, and then he said with relief, "Forget it, now you can at least see their location, get ready to fight, destroy these weapon platforms first." Zhou Xin gave the order.
After receiving the order, the battle robots began to move again, and after a few steps, the attack from the opposite side came again, but this time knowing the location of those battle platforms, the robots successfully dodged the first wave of attacks and continued to advance. Seeing that the robots had dodged the first wave of attacks, and the battle platforms on the opposite side also began to move, Zhou Xin saw that those platforms were scattered, the platforms on the forward path of the combat robots were retreating, and the platforms that were not on the forward path of the combat robots were approaching the team of the combat robots from the side, and these platforms had a faint tendency to surround the combat robots. As they move, they continue to attack the battle robots. Due to the attack from multiple directions, the combat robots have been hit by lasers from time to time, and more than a dozen have begun to be damaged, and one has even stopped acting because of the damage, but the combat robots are also constantly fighting back, Zhou Xin and they have clearly seen that three or four platforms have been hit, one of which has been hit in the leg, and now it has completely stopped.
The battle lasted for more than three minutes, and the battle robots also advanced more than 20 meters, at this time, through the detector Zhou Xin, they had already seen the wall behind the battle platform, according to this battle speed, in another five minutes, those retreating platforms were about to be forced to the wall to face the battle robots.
Another three minutes passed, and the battle robots were only about 20 meters away from the wall in front of them, and Zhou Xin and the others could even see the outlines of those battle platforms under the robot's light. Suddenly, those silhouettes disappeared, Zhou Xin and the others flickered slightly, and then subconsciously looked at the screen of the ultrasonic positioning device, and they found that the combat platform on the path of the combat robot had indeed disappeared, and the combat platform on their side was still attacking them.
While they were wondering, the combat platform on the side of the combat robot suddenly intensified its attack, and the lasers they fired were more dense, and more plasma grenades were thrown, and the grenades exploded to cover a large area, gradually compressing the range of movement of the combat robots.
This made Zhou Xin a little overwhelmed, and while he was moving towards countermeasures, Ralph shouted in a panic: "Look at the screen, those platforms that disappeared have reappeared......"