After the protective shield was closed, several spaceships, which the other party called the receiving ship, attached to the outer wall of the fortress from several directions, and hundreds of what seemed to be pipes and mechanical feet were separated from the hull and inserted into the fortress structure, spreading all the way to the depths of the fortress.

In an instant, the central control system in the fortress was taken over by aliens as if it were completely unguarded, so that the humans inside completely lost control of their own spaceship.

Then there was a black tide like a sea of smoke surging from the outside, and at the same time, an invisible vibration came from all directions where the receiving ship was located, so that the large and small hatches in the outer shell of the fortress were instantly opened, and the large black tide poured into it and ran to all parts of the interior.

Humans were obviously aware of all this, and they became panicked when they found that the central control system was out of their control, and when the traffic system in the fortress also stopped and locked itself, so that they were trapped in the darkness in this place where they could not find the village and the store, the panic began to spread rapidly in the crowd invisibly;

Suddenly, shouts such as 'Shet', 'Even-maiga', and 'Halihuya' continued to come from the darkness, and occasionally a few sobs rang out from the mouths of the young ladies.

"Damn Jack, you've hurt us! I know you shouldn't let these monsters board the ship to check it! ”

"Woo, what should I do. I don't want to die yet."

"They. What the hell are they doing? It's not the same as saying yes! ”

In the midst of endless complaints, cursing, and confusion, a bright light was emitted from the crowd A calm middle-aged man with a Chinese face, wearing a close-fitting spacesuit, and wearing a transparent breathing mask, spoke in the center to attract everyone's attention.

"Calm down! Calm down, everyone! Soldiers are on guard and civilians are waiting in the middle, we are the only remaining spark, and we must not mess with ourselves at such a time; ”

He looked around at everyone with a serious face, and said solemnly,

"Hold on no matter what, as long as you survive, there is still hope!"

Well, I don't know if his words played a role, or if there were other factors at play, but the scene here calmed down shortly thereafter, and everyone seemed to be instantly detached from the shadows, and really began to do their jobs according to his words.

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In all directions, about a million kilometers away, dozens of pitch-black shuttle spaceships are quietly suspended in deep space, these specific performance of the shuttle spacecraft is not very large, a total of only about 15 meters in length, the widest part of about 5 meters in the cross-sectional width, after removing the power and offensive and defensive structures and other structures, there are about 100 cubic meters of space available, but because there is only one unit responsible for control and not too narrow;

At this point, the infiltration detection system, which had been shielded by the ship's shield, had begun to work, and the real-time information inside the spacecraft was sent to the base further back of the spacecraft using these ships as a springboard;

In the base, where the location is unknown, there is an inexplicable creature of different shapes and sizes, using various tools to analyze this information;

Here, language and sound waves don't seem to be the universal means of communication

In any case, the communication between them is unimpeded, because the communication information sent by each individual is first transformed into a conventional information medium through the device they possess, worn on the head, on the hand, or in any strange place, or even swallowed in the abdomen, and then through the terminal into the content understood by the individual.

[Erect, outer limbs, single center, unrecorded surface race, suspected to be a mixed-base organism (to be confirmed); 】

[Intense ultra-heavy metal radiation detected, suspected to be of bone origin (to be confirmed);] 】

[Emotions are relatively rich, but the expression is single and inefficient, and it generally uses sound waves in specific frequency bands to communicate, and three unregistered sound wave languages have been detected; 】

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'Boom! ’

The kinetic gun shattered the outer wall of the trackless hovering car with a single blow, and then several tall soldiers rushed out of the car that had long ceased to hover, and vigilantly raised their weapons and erected light red single shields to launch a guard on the periphery;

"There is no situation for the time being, but what next? Can we take back control of the fortresses and drive them out? ”

"Then you have to try it, you can't stay here and die, can you?"

At this time, the resolute man with the national character face also drilled out of the broken hole, and spoke in an attempt to cheer people's hearts,

"Absolutely! As long as you work hard, it will pay off! ”

Behind him, more than sixty more non-combatants stepped out for the first time, and then turned forward under the escort of more than forty combatants, as if intending to fight a war in the fortress.

But before they could take a few more steps, there was a sound of 'squeak' like footsteps coming from all directions, and the slightly panicked people first looked back and saw that a huge arthropod monster covered in armor was rushing towards it, and there were hundreds of other small monsters flying or walking in the gap between its abdomen and feet;

They turned back and forward, and another group of monster legions of the same formation gradually appeared in the shadows, and then there was a 'bang, bang, bang' sound from all around;

Immediately, the up, down, left and right barriers quickly dissolved in bursts of violent tremors, and the place where they were was turned from a traffic corridor tens of meters wide into a large cavity with a diameter of 100 meters;

The crowd's feet were empty, and they slammed down under the crowd of arthropods, and they were about to fall into the crowd of enemies that were also waiting below.

However, a 'buzzing' sound was emitted from the spacesuit of the person who fell, and although more than 100 figures looked more panicked, they were still temporarily suspended in the air in the flickering of electric light all over their bodies, and then adjusted their posture and slowly landed in the open space below;

But surrounded by thousands of monsters and monsters, they were still in a dilemma of almost unable to move at this time.

And the reaction of those monsters is also a little strange, they neither carry out a mouth-killing attack on the spot, nor urge everyone to disarm and surrender as soon as possible, they just maintain a posture of encirclement without saying a word, resulting in a silent confrontation that does not match the strength of the scene to be formed.

"All of them are mechanical creations without independent thinking, and they should be self-propelled or remotely controlled weapons;"

In the crowd, a scholar wearing a pair of glasses inside a transparent breathing mask said, trying to use the device in his hand to make some attempts,

"I'd like to see if I can hack into their controls, if that works."

"Don't mess around, it might anger their controllers;"

A polite man who wore gold-rimmed glasses in his mask and still wore a delicate oily back even at this time, hurriedly spoke out and dissuaded,

"It's better to wait for the real person in charge, since you didn't choose to attack us at the first time, then the other party must have a certain desire to communicate, maybe it's all just a misunderstanding?"

"Shut up!" One of the red-haired warriors turned around and glared at him, and shouted angrily, "Do you still want to surrender without a fight, if you want to kneel, go up and kneel yourself!" ”

"Oh, stupid and unknowing."

The well-mannered young man subconsciously wanted to push his glasses, but his outstretched index and middle fingers were blocked by the breathing mask, so he had to stop this movement, and turned his head to look at the resolute middle-aged man before and said,

"Sir, this is our last bit of fire, do we really have to risk almost certain death to ask for a revenge?"

The middle-aged man frowned as if he was contemplating, but where did he have so much time to think carefully at the critical juncture? It turns out that the choice is out of human hands all along, as the situation that follows changes almost instantaneously

At one point, the Legion of Machines acted as if suddenly commanded, and a giant entity immediately emitted some kind of strong compound fluctuation, and in less than a breath, the individual shields of all humans disappeared as if they were foaming;

Then, hundreds of extremely precise purple-red rays shot out from the surrounding points, striking straight at every activated or unactivated weapon in the human hand, in the leg, and in the waist, causing them to melt and drip like magma in the heat emitted from the inside out;

This wave of attacks came very abruptly but very efficiently, and did not hurt the spacesuit or the human subjects inside, like some kind of extremely restrained order enforcer style, and thus made some hope on the faces of individuals such as the resolute middle-aged and the young man with his back;

But before they could really breathe a sigh of relief, there were sharp shockwaves from all directions, which caused everyone who had lost their shields to fall to the ground one after another in a relatively short time;

Then there was a tidal wave of black mist from all sides, and they densely penetrated into the spacesuits and masks, and almost unhindered, penetrated directly into the human torso.

After only a moment of silence, the hundred-plus humans stood up and walked forward spontaneously without a word, although their spacesuits were still undamaged, and their movements seemed to be extremely smooth at this moment, but the closed eyes and thoughts that did not fluctuate in the slightest seemed to be narrating some kind of state similar to that of a 'walking corpse'.

Then, they continued to march in silence all the way, all the large and small automatons in their way out of the way, allowing the ignorant humans to walk towards the outside of the fortress;

At the end of the road, a so-called 'receiving ship' is quietly waiting

After leaving the main target of the trip, thousands of mechanical legions broke through to the inside of the fortress in their first formation, and conducted a carpet search in a pattern that almost did not miss every corner;

In fact, they are not the only ones, there are still millions of machines of different sizes and almost countless unknown Kuroshio in the fortress at this time, which are also performing similar but different tasks.

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In the relatively distant headquarters of the Republic and the more than 100 large and small bases along the relatively close distance, one by one, Nesta, Azshara, and the rest of the virtual and real elves who were united or separated, were constantly watching and perceiving everything that was happening inside and outside the Black Hole Exploration Ship, and there were sporadic sounds of communication between various individuals;

"Good fellow, is it actually such a 'lead'?"

"Yes, it seems that the follow-up is going to be carried out in the plan of Plan 1."

"The means of defense are not yet known, but at least the attack and interference level shows the technological side, and the expressiveness does not seem to be very exaggerated?"

"What can you see if you're just a mechanical golem, but what's not necessarily going on the master's side. But that kind of meat worm really kind of makes me panic."

And in the midst of this, one or more of Azhara was looking suspiciously at their partner, and asked with some curiosity,

"How idle are you?"

"What's wrong?" The Nestas looked back or tilted their heads to express their confusion.

Since then, these inquiries and responses have been directly confined to one place, and different actions have begun again in the rest of the locations.

"I've just heard at least three logical languages, none of which belong to any of the families on the home planet, and the falsified historical and cultural materials that look too much like that."

It is also a little strange to say that although most of the human beings in the fortress are like their hometowns, the language and culture deliberately created have never seen traces of their hometowns, and they are all processed European and American languages, as well as the added European and American base simulation culture;

The linguistic aspect has been reproduced at will with idle thinking over the years, while the cultural aspect has been created with hundreds of millions of threads in the moment, although it is more or less different from the previous life, but it can be generally regarded as complete and self-consistent;

And what Aishara is asking at this time is, of course, this unknown system that has never appeared in this world

Only in that time, although she did not fully learn in the comparison of speech and behavior, she also interpreted about forty or fifty percent, and could understand its seriousness and completeness, not to mention that she did not hide from the elves when filling in cultural materials, and she could also see the relatively close connection.

"Haha~"

Nesta, who didn't want to lie to her, but didn't want to tell the truth at the same time, just smiled noncommittally and turned the conversation away.

He closed his eyes, and observed the progress of things in the distance through some of the molecules he had reserved, and said at the same time in hundreds of places, against different targets,

"You see, although the other party has divided some forces to transmit those materials, it seems that they are still more attentive to searching for something? It's the first time we've met. What are they looking for, or are they just checking the level of technology? ”

The elves looked at each other and began to wonder if they had neglected it

Instead of breaking the casserole and continuing to dwell on the previous topic, Aishara smiled and brought it over and thought about what might be 'ignored'.

The strength of the caster's thinking lies in the multi-threaded parallelism and the ability to review one or more events, and may not enjoy the other increase in imagination and creativity except for the speed and breadth of thinking, but it is quite efficient when it is necessary to 'remember' as it is now;

So not long after Nesta asked the 'question', various answers were produced simultaneously across the regions, and Azhara's speculation was one of them.

"Remember, the meat worm showed a noticeable abnormality in the first communication with us, did the question arise in the listening of everything? The thoughts of the beastmaster will be carried in any information medium emitted by it, such as sound waves, electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves, etc., and if there is a translation method, what you hear is the roar of the beast, and if you don't, what you receive is clutter; ”

Just listen to her,

"But it will directly act on the consciousness of intelligent life, and the external manifestation of this ability is indeed too obvious, if I were an alien creature, I would definitely feel curious and cause a desire to explore and even plunder. Of course, it may be the same as the story of the king's golden hoe, which is just my speculation. ”

"Beastmasters, near-gods, spell-like spells, aliens. Under the same starry sky, maybe there will be similar creatures on their side, but these few words of communication alone are not enough. ”

"Well, it's up to you to do things over there, what are you going to do?"

After thinking for a moment, Nesta shook her head and said,

"The remains of the Beastmaster have been completely eaten by me, and even if I don't eat them, I don't want to take them out, and you don't know how stingy I am in this regard."

"Then wreck the ship as soon as possible, just say it's a lot of equipment picked up along the way or some other reason, in any case the thing has been destroyed because of their recklessness."

"Okay, then I'll start it, by the way, look at the strength of those mechs, and find out what they are in terms of materials."

At this point, the mechanical creatures that boarded the ship had roughly transmitted the forged information, and the combined clones of themselves and the other spellcasters had left the fortress and entered the 'Reception' ship;

Sensing the right moment, Nesta activated the latent cellular structures from a distance, triggering a pre-arranged arrangement in more than a hundred fusion reactors and arsenals;

Only a few moments later, the fortress ship, which was 500 kilometers in diameter, rapidly expanded in a series of chain reactions, and turned into a silent but tangible giant burst of fireball in deep space, shining like a small sun against the dark cosmic background.

Led by Nesta, all the elves with cells near the explosion point were still watching, only to see several receiving ships then break through the plasma flames and enter the outside world, and continue to move forward as if unharmed;

Immediately afterward, the countless large and small mechanical monsters also shined out from the small sun, and continued to merge into the former's big belly along the way.

Behind them, the exploding fireball also showed its own heat as it spread, and quickly dimmed due to hypothermia.

In this situation, the faces of the elves on all sides were a little solemn, at least the other party's ability in terms of materials should not be underestimated.

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The receiving ship broke through the fire cloud and went straight forward, and more than 100 human bodies rose and fell in the liquid black tide like rotten wood swallowed by a swamp;

Most of their consciousness activities have been stopped, and only the very small cells are emitting mental power to test the control props in their bodies.

(End of chapter)