Chapter 1243: The Reaper and the Stalker
Ghosts have two major abilities that make people frightening.
One of them is called elusive.
The second is the upper body.
The core selling points are the unknown that is difficult to discern, so it attracts the most primitive horror in people's hearts.
A huge ship like this, which can often be measured in kilometers, is actually a very suitable haunted environment.
One of the reasons why its interior is complex enough.
On top of that, lighting, as well as most other convenient functions, is too dependent on the proper functioning of the equipment.
People in the cyber era are too reliant on equipment, and when something goes wrong with the equipment, they are basically lame, which is in line with the saying that 'the strongest point is also the weakest point'.
Kane is no stranger to starship adventures in the thrilling and terrifying winds.
When he was a reincarnation, he participated in this kind of operation as a rescuer and adventurer, and fought against strange spirits, including spirits.
Now that I think about it, it is weird and terrifying, but it is terrifying to the human heart, and the blackened human who combines strange abilities is the most dangerous and impressive starship horror he has ever encountered.
Weirdness can only rank third, the second is the environment, generally a starship haunted by the supernatural, like a half-natural and half-artificial mechanism maze, those abnormal passages, those access controls, those unstable equipment, and the external deadly space environment, can be traps, and if you are not careful, it will become deadly.
Looking back on it now, such as some impressive routines, I also think it's quite interesting, and it's almost inevitable that it will pit people.
Just as Kane was contemplating whether to throw such a horrific death party on this battleship, a message spoiled his 'Yaxing', which was an internal notice from the ship, that the ship would arrive at its destination in 12 minutes, and that all the personnel except the duty team would leave the ship.
"It's too short a time to play. Kane pondered the destination of the battleship, which had a total voyage of less than half an hour. If it's a high-orbit space station, it's fine. The space station plays supernatural events, which is also very interesting.
However, Kane was unlucky this time, this military warship, its destination was a hidden base.
After Kane learned about the situation through Miranda, he felt very disappointed, and finally chose to disembark with the flow of people, as a hitchhike.
He is also too lazy to make trouble in the secret base of the military, after all, these martial artists, frugal and running a dark business, it is not easy to save some belongings, once they are destroyed, they can't go through normal channels for reimbursement, and they will get into trouble, so it's better to leave some private money for these guys who are not very good at making money.
When I left the base, it turned out to be a large garbage dump.
The garbage dump here makes Kane a little nostalgic for the ordinary garbage dump in his hometown, which is dominated by white pollution and domestic garbage.
Materials such as plastic are more valuable to the people of this planet, so even if there is corresponding garbage, it will not be here.
As for the garbage from rotting food, let's put it this way, the recycling rate of organic matter is too high, and even if there is, it is quickly digested, and it is still a relatively profitable business. So there will be no either.
There are mainly metal waste and e-waste with silicon as the main material. The production of these two substances is relatively large, and the recycling and reuse is not as low as the production of asteroid belt mining + space factories.
Of course, there are differences. For example, alloys containing high-value elements, and even ordinary metals, still have the value of refurnace reuse, and those that are discarded are the kind of pollution that is more troublesome, such as radiation pollution.
When it comes to radiation, most earthlings always think of nuclear radiation, but in this world, when it comes to radiation, the first thing people associate with it is often cosmic rays, and then various battery solutions or something.
Therefore, this big garbage dump presented in front of Kane's eyes can be said to be a forbidden area for life.
However, the evil god cells have a forced qualification, transforming all energy, and the violent and violent radiation energy like a gamma ray explosion is no problem, and the rest is even drizzle.
And in addition to Kane, in this big garbage dump, there are also workers who take their lives to resist radiation.
Since the workers didn't care about making a rumbling noise, Kane didn't have much trouble finding them.
Brain in the tank + non-human form of mechanical prosthesis, these workers look like a spider, ant, centipede three-in-one, multi-legged, long-bodied, with a big belly and more than one, and when they find garbage that can be used, they stuff it into their stomachs.
'Communism does not allow it to become a spirit, it turns a ghost into a man. Capitalism, democracy and freedom, let people become ghosts. The scene of the workers scavenging reminded Kane of this sentence.
After watching them work silently for a while, he left. He doesn't need this kind of scene anymore to tell others how huge the gap between people can be.
Unlike the Fighting Earth, there is plenty of rain here. It is even so abundant that the sky almost never clears.
This is also part of the manifestation of natural disasters caused by man-made disasters.
As Kane walked, it began to rain, and the rain grew heavier, blurring his vision through the mist of water.
With Miranda's guidance, Kane won't get lost, so Junk Town is in sight soon after he gets drenched in the rain.
The garbage town is no better than the pit town, where there is no capital to settle in, and the waste picking industry cannot support the livelihood needs of too many people. This in turn makes it more in line with Kane's aesthetic.
There are no megastructures, no brilliant neon signs and projection advertisements, and the lights here are not displayed in the form of light pollution, but like a sign of civilization, against the backdrop of bleak and desolate scrap iron mountains, bringing warmth to people's hearts.
However, the people here are decidedly less friendly to outsiders.
"Why, do you think I'm here with bad intentions and some intentions, what if I'm just a passerby?" Kane sipped his wine and glanced at the various prosthetic bodies that looked like dancing demons.
This is the Junk Town Bar.
The functional facility of the bar is simply a soul building in this world, and there is no bar without a town, and the poorer you are, the more you need such a place to anesthetize yourself.
And at this moment, none of the people in the bar have a good face for Kane.
Perhaps, Kane's decent normal human form has already stabbed them deeply, making them think that he cannot see him as us, but as another class, and as an antithesis, the class that exploits people like them.
Even the bartender said unceremoniously: "There is only one way out from here and outside, and that is the garbage flying boat that departs every three days." ”
"So what, don't you think my plane crashed nearby? Pour wine, it won't cost you money. ”
"We're not going to do your business!" roared one of the drinkers, the bartender in charge.
The bartender didn't speak, and another drunken drinker yelled in a tattered voice with more electronic sounds than normal human voices: "Get out!"
Kane snapped his fingers, and a group of eight-member cyber golems turned off their optical camouflage to reveal their shape, and the bar suddenly looked crowded, but silent.
After all, cyber puppets are the elite of the raiders who fought with the sand bandits before, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are armed to the teeth, even if they have never seen the market again, they can taste the strength of these puppets from the fierceness and fierceness of the shop.
"And now?" Kane had neither ostentatious arrogance nor contemptuous banter, just a calm common phrase.
"You're really uneasy and kind, come, and make a noise for grandpa to fight here, anyway, grandpa has already lived enough!" a drinker howled rather sadly.
'Bang!' The drinker was blown off half of his body in the burst of gunfire.
It was Kane who fired the shot, using a modified elephant hunting rifle with the nickname 'hand cannon' and a point 50 caliber.
This kind of live-ammunition weapon is an antique in this era, and it is very stylish, and Kane also learned from the famous Jim Rayge theology, of course, as usual, no one understands this stalk.
Putting the gun back into the holster at his waist, Kane asked, "Are you sober?"
"Yike...... Don't kill me, don't kill me!"
"Looks like I'm awake. Kane ignored the sparkling drinker and turned to the bartender, "Where's my wine?"
The bartender poured Kane a drink with a blank face.
Some of the drinkers below were panting, while others were sad and angry, desperately restrained.
There was no way, it was pointed at the muzzle of the black hole, and it was a Gauss rifle with a hundred rounds, one such weapon was enough to sweep everyone present, and there were eight of them.
Kane took a sip of moonshine, which was privately brewed, and it was unexpectedly good, so he praised it. Then he turned back to the drinkers and said:
"To be honest, I don't understand your mentality. I know you're having a fucked up life, miserable, and you can only numb yourself with alcohol. And that's mostly the fault of the black-hearted businessmen or tax collectors. I can understand that you hate these kinds of people, but why does this justify the exclusion of outsiders? Don't you know that the more you close, the less chance you have?"
"Outsiders are liars!" one drinker couldn't help but roar.
"Well, that's fine. But even scammers have given you some convenience. Even being deceived itself is a kind of skill mastery, which can be regarded as paying tuition fees in disguise. When you become savvy, if outsiders want to make money from you, they have to take the dry goods of the past that they can say. But if you don't let people who are willing to come to a ghost place like yours take advantage of this, you will have to scavenge for generations, children and grandchildren. Closure is precisely the situation that some people want to see the most. ”
No one spoke now.
Kane didn't care about the cold either, and ordered Miranda: "Kill all the non-scavengers in Junk Town." ”
Those are just clerks, errands. Well, it seems that sin does not lead to death, but Kane has no mercy, and he wants to express an attitude through it, both for the inherent exploiters and for the exploited here.
So on this cold and rainy afternoon, more than a dozen people died in the rain.
What's going on, if you see more, you'll become numb, and the same goes for the dead.
The waste pickers in Junk Town are indifferent to the death of more than a dozen people themselves, but they are indifferent to Kane's killing of the representatives of the exploiters in one go.
Kane's sentence: "Since I killed them, it means that I will not kill you easily." The explanation made them not know whether they should be happy or not.
But Kane's other remark made them certain something.
Kane said, "This place is mine, and you will all have to listen to me from now on." ”
There are no conditions for escaping, and if you can't walk out of the garbage mountain, you have to die.
The battle was unbeatable, Kane had sixteen cyber golems armed to the teeth, and the scavengers' homemade weapons, even without taking ammo into account, would be out of sight at thirty meters away.
As for death, these people's will to survive is still relatively tenacious. Habit can be a kind of power, and for these people, they can still live patiently. Many people who grew up in garbage towns even regard ordinary people's lives as a good pursuit, and they are not bitter if they become habits.
Tough-willedness, this is precisely the wealth that Kane values.
As for the temperament that has been roughened, the state of not learning and not learning, and all kinds of bad problems, Kane is confident that he will be adjusted.
And then what?
These people are then treated as 'clones', and thus active in various types of scavenging fields.
This set of technology is derived from the SC (StarCraft) universe, and of course, the specific version is not the one sent back by the secondary doppelganger Kane Zhao.
Kane felt that it was more suitable for this world, so he adopted it.
The disadvantage of such a clone-based war bug system is that it requires constant fine-tuning and high maintenance costs, and even so, after about a hundred years, it will inevitably awaken itself and no longer be a voice worm that says what it says.
The advantage is that there is no fear of anti-puppet systems.
This can be regarded as Kane's extra attention.
He believed that the god knew about his prowess at puppet war bugs.
The saying 'the strongest is also the weakest' applies to him.
If the old god had planted a foreshadowing in this world against his strengths, and disliked the rebellion at a critical moment, then he would probably have been on the wax.
But if you change to a cloning system, it will be difficult to be beaten by one move and not be able to turn over.
In his previous life, he later chose the puppet system, mainly because of his limited energy, so he used the echo bug to avoid the problems caused by free will.
But he now has the ability and experience to deal with a large number of problems at the same time, and with Miranda's assistance, he is technically mature to manage a true civilization.
Then take this opportunity to get on.
Of course, the specifics are still flattering. For example, the cultivation and shaping of these types of clones.
These clones will be the leaders of all walks of life and cultivate the basic atmosphere of the industry.
This kind of guidance is softer, less resistant to the governed, and in many respects, it is better than restraint management to achieve the goal.
Therefore, occupying the garbage town is both spontaneous and deliberate. It seems that he is doing something in the east and in the west, but he has not jumped out of the scope of the big plan, and for his enemy, this kind of behavior seems very fascinating, after all, he himself, before noon today, has no concept of making such a stronghold, how can his opponent predict it?
Ava didn't predict, she was in a daze again.
Relying on the inspiration of the almost special function, she finally found Kane who changed his appearance again.
Naturally, its whereabouts were quickly traced.
She even found out the makeshift camp of the sand bandits, even the secret base of the military, and the high-orbit space warfare of the raiders.
However, in the face of the collective disappearance of meat tickets that the sand bandits couldn't explain, she couldn't help it.
Her interrogation was more efficient than a lie detector, so she quickly determined that the bandit was not lying.
The discovery of the two sides of the military and the sand bandits and the secret base, and even the tearing between a group company and the sand bandits and the military, can be regarded as a harvest for the bigwigs of the UPL Standing Council. If these handles are properly used, they can all be settled in profits.
However, the bigwigs still have their hearts on Kane, asking Ava not to be distracted by other affairs and to target Kane with all her might.
Ava naturally began to 'draw circles' in the context of the interruption of clues.
The temporary camp of the sand bandits is the centerpiece of a circle.
The high-orbit space station of a group company is also the core point of a circle.
And the secret base of the military is still the core point of a circle.
Take it as a point to continuously expand the search radius and discover new clues.
Ava has a high estimate of Kane's strength.
Therefore, she prioritized the investigation of the space station, including the shuttles and space ships that traveled to and from the space station during this time, which were the targets of her investigation.
This naturally requires high information channels, manpower and material resources, etc., but Ava is a UPL special search officer, with powerful hardware and professional algorithms, and can also mobilize a professional search team when needed. As a result, the operation was carried out quickly and efficiently.
The military's secret base is her secondary target. She felt that according to Kane's personality, it was more likely that she would use the channels of the two to get through the confusion and go to a new destination.
As for the missing hostages, she believed they had fallen into the hands of Kane's gang. As for how to do it, she explained it to the UPL bigwigs like this:
"I don't know, but there are already a lot of 'miracles' that these people have done so far, and it's not surprising to have one more, isn't it?"
To be honest, the UPL bigwigs are not happy with such an explanation.
But they are still willing to give Ava enough trust and power.
They believe that Ava is on the right path so far.
And there is no better option.
It would have been impossible for anyone to dig Kane out of the crowd, but Ava did, and based on the information available so far, Kane was indeed the most suspect.
Ava's professional personality shines through this and is worth betting.
Then Ava found out to Junk Town.
It just so happens that the exploiters in Junk Town are annoyed by the loss of contact with their subordinates. Something like, 'How dare you not answer my phone!'
Before the exploiter could put into practice the idea of 'going to inspect with armed forces', Ava appeared.
Then the idea of this exploiter continued to be implemented, but it was added.
Ava didn't play any more close-up contact this time, but arranged a powerful capture operation.
The special forces that carry out the operation are not an exaggeration to say that they are the strongest combat power in UPL, and the all-star lineup that has been run-in is also equipped at the laboratory level.
However, the Garbage Town has very powerful detection equipment, using the exploiters as bait to attract them head-on, and the capture team's sneak attack and one-hit fatal tactics are declared unsuccessful, and the people of Garbage Town do not hesitate to take the lead in firing, and the exploiters and their guards are still killed on the spot despite the covert reinforcement of protection.
Thus, the sneak attack turned into a strong attack.
Seeing the victory of the capture team and the rapid advancement, the nuclear explosion suddenly occurred.
And it is a controllable nuclear explosion that professionals have never seen, and the electromagnetic binding force field makes the energy of the nuclear explosion shock wave be bound, that is, there is no secondary damage, only a large plasma fireball with a radius further increased by more than 50%.
What is even more shocking to professionals is that even light radiation is controllable. It was as if it were a cloud, blocking out the light radiation that should have been highlighted, making the explosion look like there was a crust of smoke circulating. The color is dark red and purple, and I don't know what ingredients are added.
In addition, the duration and power of the explosion have been further increased. After the explosion, the two mountains of semi-scrap iron in the area were melted into huge iron mounds.
The personnel of the capture team have naturally all been lost, and the technology of this cosmic human civilization has not yet been so good that it is not afraid of plasma fireballs.
And even so, Ava still analyzed some valuable information.
She believes that the waste pickers in Garbage Town have been transferred by Kane's gang, and that the capture team is fighting with equipment impersonating waste pickers. Although their acting skills are not bad, for various reasons, they have not been able to leave a corpse that can be used to see if there are brains in the skull, which is a loophole in itself.
Ava also pointed out that Kane's gang did not simply absorb the population. It's a very targeted screening.
This means that the disappearance case in the pit town is by no means simple. And even if it is checked now, it is not too late, professional miners, and the kind of people who are willing to work hard to improve their lives and don't care who rides on the head, are the targets of Kane's gang.
Ava suggested, instead, passively wait to be absorbed, don't play smart, the other side is likely to have anti-reconnaissance, anti-communication and other technologies that surpass your own.
So, the agents first lurked, and then the agents built their own locators, thus confirming the location of the target base, as well as communicating, if possible.
In this way, the Workers' Mutual Aid Association, and the town of Paradise behind it, began to surface......