Chapter 20: Thrilling Lifting
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At the same time that Ralph rushed out of the command module, the combat robots had already begun to exchange fire with the combat platform. And the first wave of attacks made Zhou Xin a little worried, in the first wave of attacks, a combat robot was directly hit by the opponent and lost its combat ability, while the combat platform was not lost, and the next fierce battle began.
The battle lasted for more than five minutes, and Zhou Xin saw that the current situation was not optimistic at all. Although the battle is located on the plains, fighting on this uncovered terrain can slightly negate the intelligence advantage of the weapon platform, while the battle robot is still on the defensive side, which is another advantage over the weapon platform as the attacker. However, the gap in weapons cannot be bridged, as long as the combat robots are hit by the laser of the weapon platform, they will lose their combat ability, they will be destroyed by other lasers after hitting unimportant parts, and they will be directly hit by the core and shut down. As for combat platforms, they do not lose their ability to move after being hit in unimportant parts, they can also calmly launch counterattacks, and only the wheel parts are hit to lose their ability to move, or the core parts are hit and lose their combat ability.
This asymmetrical weapon power causes the Combat Robot to prioritize dodging lasers from the weapon platform before finding a way to counterattack, while the weapon platform only needs to avoid attacks fired at the core. Different evasion tactics cause the combat bots to counterattack weaker, and weaker counterattacks allow the opponent to spend less time dodging, so the weapon platform attacks are more violent.
This is not so obvious in the position of the engineering ship, because although the engineering ship needs to be protected, the robots are still able to use the huge size of the engineering ship as a cover to fight back. However, in the lifting position, the combat robot must not only avoid the opponent's attack, but also protect the safety of the engineering robot and the lifting device behind it. Engineering robots are okay and can dodge some lasers that shoot at them, but the lifting device is different in that it is fixed to the ground, so some lasers fired at the lifting device also rely on combat robots to resist. The battle only lasted more than five minutes, and more than thirty combat robots were lost in this place, and the remaining robots began to continue the battle with the more than thirty combat robots that were shut down as cover, although the number of robots decreased, but because of the existence of cover, they were able to block the opponent's attack, but as the battle continued, this balance of power could not be maintained for long.
Looking at the battle on the surface of the planet, Zhou Xin couldn't help but worry, he didn't know if the combat robot could hold on for ten minutes, at this time, there was a sound of the hatch opening behind him, and then Ralph hurriedly walked in with Christy from outside the door.
The first time he came to the command cabin, Christy was obviously a little cramped to see so many strangers, but Zhou Xin obviously didn't have time to introduce her again, so he motioned for Christy to come to his side.
Seeing the familiar people, Christy's mood relaxed, and she walked to Zhou Xin's side and asked, "I heard Ralph say that you met our combat troops on the planet?" ā
Zhou Xin smiled bitterly and pointed to the screen, "Not only did they meet, but they also started fighting, do you have any way to contact the other party to make them stop?" ā
Christy just glanced at the screen and understood, she said helplessly to Zhou Xin: "It should be impossible to contact, these combat machines are not controlled by the Atlanteans, their full name is 'Multi-functional Intelligent Weapon Combat Platform', which is a completely programmed combat machine, it is useless to communicate with them, there is only one person who orders above them, and you can only make them stop attacking if you contact him." ā
"Can you get in touch now?" Zhou Xin asked.
"How can I contact him without a communication device?" Christy's expression was also helpless.
"Are these weapons platforms able to receive information?" Spred asked.
"That's fine, they can take what we send, but only the people behind the orders will respond to our messages."
"Shall we do an all-channel communication of these weapons platforms?" Spred asked, "As long as they can take our message, right?" ā
"It's not going to work." "Our communication devices are encrypted, so you can't contact them without a password. ā
"So what to do?" In the course of their conversation, the battle lasted for another five minutes, and within these five minutes, Zhou Xin had already seen obvious signs of defeat from the battle robot, and he began to become a little impatient.
Christy thought for a moment and replied, "Although my planetary car's communication device is broken, it seems that the identification device is still there, or you can try to send my identification signal?" However, although this can mislead the identification of combat machines for a while, it is useless once they react. ā
"It's a while to mislead." Zhou Xin said anxiously, "Just hold on for a few more minutes." ā
"Alright, I'll go get the identification device." Seeing that Zhou Xin was very anxious, Christy didn't say a word, and turned her head and walked out of the command cabin directly.
"I'll go along." Ralph also ran straight after Christy.
Zhou Xin had no choice but to anxiously look at the battle situation on the screen, the battle has continued until now, the loss of the combat robots has been more than half, and now they are completely unable to carry out effective counterattacks, and can only dodge back and forth behind the destroyed robots to attract the attention of the weapon platform. On the other side of the lifting device, in addition to the engineering robots necessary for the lifting station, other engineering robots have joined the defense, and the situation is already very critical.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin was completely disappointed, and he even thought that this recycling work should have failed. And in this case, in addition to engineering ships, robots in the vicinity should not think about retreating. However, what Zhou Xin didn't expect was that in this critical situation, the combat robot held out for more than a minute until he waited for a message from Christie.
"Don't say anything else, send me the identification code." When Christy sent the communication, Zhou Xin said directly.
Christy, in the communicator, hurriedly operated on the panel in her hand, and after a few clicks, a prompt came from the Voyager.
"A string of unexplained messages from the communicator has been detected, and the ship cannot judge the safety of the information and whether it needs to be received."
"Receive." Zhou Xin replied without thinking, and then quickly ordered, "After receiving this string of information, immediately send it to the robot in the combat position." Then he turned to the communicator and ordered, "All robots that receive the message sent by the Voyager should not verify the security of the message, and send this message directly to the full channel." As soon as Zhou Xin's words fell, a magical scene happened.
The weapon platforms that had been firing heavily stopped firing in an instant, and those that were less than fifty meters close to the hoisting gear even retreated. In just a few seconds, the battlefield that was originally fiercely fought was instantly quiet. Then Zhou Xin saw that many weapon platforms seemed to be confused after being stagnant for more than ten seconds, and they sometimes wanted to charge at the combat robots, but they didn't advance a few meters as if they were pushed back by an invisible force. After going back and forth a few times, the weapon platform simply spun in circles.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin immediately became happy, and he only said to Ralph and Christie, who were anxiously waiting for the result on the other end of the communicator: "Success." Then he quickly ordered: "The robot speed up, the enemy will not be confused for long, hurry up and complete the lifting work and leave that place." ā
After giving the order, Zhou Xincai had time to explain to the communicator: "The other party has successfully been confused by us, they have lost their target, and they are now spinning in place. ā
After listening to Zhou Xin's words, Christy hurriedly reminded: "But this situation won't last long, once their controller discovers this anomaly, they will change the identification information, so my identification information will be useless." ā
"I understand." Zhou Xin nodded, "I've already told them to speed up their work, as long as they hold on for another five minutes, it should be fine." ā
Not long after Zhou Xin said this, he saw that a car-sized shadow had been revealed in the ice crack, and the wreckage of the planet car had been successfully hoisted up, and the rest of the work after hoisting it was simple, just transport the wreckage to the engineering ship. Next, the hoisting device began to retract the fixed feet on the ground and slowly moved towards the engineering vessel. In the process of moving, the weapon platforms that stood between the hoisting gear and the engineering ship retreated one after another after the robots approached them within fifty meters, and after retreating to a range of fifty meters, they began to spin in circles again, which added a touch of joy to the originally heavy atmosphere of the battlefield.
But just as the move was about to be completed, an accident happened. The controller behind the weapon platform seemed to have discovered their strange course of action, and he modified the identification code, so that the weapon platform that had been spinning in place like a fool was restored, and they opened fire before Zhou Xin could react, and at the same time, they crossed the invisible limit of fifty meters and began to rush towards the lifting device.
At the moment when the weapon platform fired, the lifting device was only less than ten meters away from the engineering ship, but unfortunately, it was this ten meters distance that now seemed to have become a moat, horizontal in front of the lifting device. Although there was nothing to block between the lifting device and the engineering ship due to the retreat of the weapon platform, in this wave of sudden attacks, the laser fired by the weapon platform actually hit the track of the lifting device by chance, and after the track was interrupted, the lifting device barely advanced about five meters, and then was forced to stop less than five meters away from the engineering ship.
It wasn't until the laser broke the tracks of the hoisting device that Zhou Xin reacted to what had happened. Seeing such a situation, Zhou Xin suddenly became nervous, and at the same time felt a trace of despair in his heart, because at this time, behind the lifting device, the weapon platform was only thirty meters away from them.
"Is it just one step away from failure?" Such a thought flashed in Zhou Xin's heart, but although such a thought came up, Zhou Xinli still didn't want to give up, and in this short dozen seconds, he was still nervously thinking of a way. He stared at the lifting device on the screen, trying to find a solution to his dilemma from above.
Just when Zhou Xin swept the boom of the lifting device at a glance, a thought flashed in his heart, and now time did not allow him to think about whether the method he thought of could be used, so he blurted out his thoughts directly.
"All the robots are going to block the advance of the weapon platform, and they can hold back for a second. The hoisting device stretches out the boom towards the entrance of the engineering ship at the fastest speed, the fastest speed. After Zhou Xin finished the order, he sat down in his seat dejectedly, and he said it, as for whether it can succeed, it can only depend on the next luck.
At the moment when Zhou Xin gave the order, all the robots began to act, including the engineering robots, they all rushed towards the weapon platform close to the engineering ship, and in the process of charging, from time to time, there were robots that stopped on the way to the charge in order to block the laser shooting at the lifting device. In just a dozen seconds, about half of the robots have been destroyed, but the remaining robots still continue to rush forward fearlessly, and several engineering robots that rushed in front of the weapon platform even hit them directly with their bodies. But the charging robots did not die in vain, they managed to delay the lifting gear for a full half a minute.
After Zhou Xin's order was given, the immovable crane began to stretch forward with the wreckage of the planetary rover at the fastest speed. However, because the fixed feet did not have time to support the ground, and the hoisting device lost its track, so at the same time as its boom began to move, the whole hoisting device began to shake violently, shaking so violently that Zhou Xin was frightened. You know, as long as the boom of the lifting device is crooked, then their transportation work will be wasted. However, although the crane was like a critically ill patient, the crane arm finally delivered the wreckage of the planetary vehicle to the cargo hold of the engineering ship.
After completing its mission, the lifting device finally fell to the ground overwhelmed, and at the same time as it fell, the huge lifting device also stirred up a large number of snowflakes, and at the same time, there were few robots left to undertake the blocking task, and the remaining few robots were also deeply trapped in the formation of the weapon platform, thinking that it was impossible to return to the engineering ship, and some weapon platforms were already less than thirty meters away from the engineering ship.
"Leave the robot alone, the engineering ship takes off urgently." Seeing this situation, Zhou Xin hurriedly ordered......