Over the course of the next period of observation, the attackers who were still chasing the probe reacted exactly as Atlas had just made. Once the probes are out of the area of the ruins, no matter what the state of the pursuers behind them is, even if they are facing targets that are close in front of them and can be eliminated with just one more attack, the opponent will definitely stop attacking and turn away.

To further confirm this diagnosis, Atlas even had some of the probes that had just escaped the attack turn back into the ruins of the town. Sure enough, this behavior once again caused the other party to attack the probes, and they would not stop until the probes had left again. Zhou Xin even noticed that in order to prevent the probe from making any further provocative moves, the attackers in these directions patrolled the same place for a while after stopping the attack, confirming that the probe would not make any more outrageous moves before turning around and leaving.

"Is their purpose to get us out of that city?" Looking at the detector's temptation to the other party on the screen, Spred was quite puzzled, "But what is the purpose of driving us away?" When the other party attacked, they obviously didn't care about the destruction of the ruins. If it wasn't to protect the ruins themselves, could it be that in addition to what we can see on the surface, there are some important secrets hidden in the ruins of the city that we don't know yet? ”

"But it also doesn't make sense." Zhou Xin replied thoughtfully, "If there is really a secret hidden in the ruins, then why didn't they attack us immediately when we found the city, but only showed up after so long. ”

"But we found so many town ruins before, but they chose to attack this place instead." "It shows that there's definitely something special about this place compared to other towns." ”

"Could it be that one of our actions in the city triggered some alarm, so it caught the attention of the other party and launched an attack on us." Before Zhou Xin could respond to Spred's explanation, Dart speculated.

"Don't think about it so much, Brother Captain, what are we going to do now." At this time, Atlas's words interrupted the discussion, "Even if there are no important secrets hidden in that ruin, how can we investigate it when it is occupied by the other party?" Also, Brother Captain, what about the probes that are still in the ruins, but have not yet been attacked by the other side, do you need to evacuate them all? ”

After listening to the little girl's words, Zhou Xin thought for a while, and then ordered: "It's better to withdraw first, under the surveillance of the other party, even if we leave them inside, we will not be able to conduct any decent investigation." Remember, just get the probe out of the rubble, don't go too far. ”

"People know."

"In addition, let the probes in other places intensify their investigation of the ruins of their respective towns, so as not to be interrupted by a surprise attack by the other side." Zhou Xin reminded.

"And what about this ruin?" Dart pointed to the screen, "Since the other party has chosen to attack here, it means that this should be a very important place." Are we just going to give up? ”

"Now we have to wait." Zhou Xin replied helplessly, "They can't stay there all the time." ”

"What do you think the other person really is?" While waiting for the probe to withdraw from the ruins of the town, Spred asked curiously, "Could it be a high-level civilization with intelligence?" Could it really be a maritime civilization as Dart had previously guessed, as opposed to the extinct terrestrial civilization? In that case, why did they come to protect the ruins of this city, which once belonged to a terrestrial civilization? Could it be that there is some special connection between them and terrestrial civilizations? ”

"I'm afraid we'll only find out if we continue to investigate." Zhou Xin replied thoughtfully.

"Isn't it a high-level civilization that can build a machine that even our probes can't keep up with?" Dart said angrily, "If it weren't for the fact that the speed of the probes couldn't keep up with each other, we would have been able to figure out their true identities a long time ago." ”

"What's the solution?" Zhou Xin's tone looked a little helpless, "The other party has obviously lived in the marine environment for a long time, and it is not incomprehensible that he has an advantage over us underwater. ”

As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, Atlas's voice rang out, "Brother Captain, the other party has appeared again." This time there are a lot of them, and it seems likely that it will be collective action. ”

This voice drew everyone's attention back to the screen again, and in the lens of the probe, Zhou Xin and the others saw a large number of cylindrical black shadows, and they rushed in a dense formation in the direction of the probe as they did when they first appeared.

"Brother Captain, no, the probes in this direction have obviously withdrawn from the range of the ruins, why do they still appear in this direction?" Of course, doubts are doubts, and the little girl still ordered the probe to leave the direction of the other party's charge at the first time.

But even so, there are still some probes that do not leave the opponent's attack range. But the strange thing is that this time, the other party did not launch an all-out attack on the detectors fleeing in all directions, but only destroyed some of the closer detectors, and then rushed straight forward along the passage made by the detectors.

"Brother Captain, the place where the other party is rushing is the deep sea." Although their sudden appearance was a little unexpected for Atlas, because the other party's goal at this time was very clear, after the initial surprise, the little girl quickly determined the direction of their charge.

Although he had just made the judgment that the other party would not be stationed in the ruins all the time, Zhou Xin did not expect them to leave like this. However, in addition to the accident, he still gave the order at the first time, "Let all the probes leave the other party's charging route and let them go." ”

"But if you let them go like this now, I don't know when they'll reappear in the future." Atlas reminded reluctantly.

"What else can I do?" Zhou Xin smiled bitterly, "Keep them behind?" Didn't it just prove that our detector couldn't do it? At most, I can follow them, but I can try it......"