Chapter 143: The Stalker

The world beyond the barrier is even more desolate than what Laura saw inside the barrier.

She was now in an unknown mountain range, with a black energy glowing on the ground, and the snow that should have been white and flawless had taken on an eerie pink hue.

The moment she left the enchantment, the space returned to normal, and she took out three reconnaissance drones and released them, connecting them to the Rachel sub-program on her helmet, and temporarily building a communication network.

"Scans within a radius of two kilometers have not found any signs of life."

"Nothing? Animal? Plant? Fungi? Bacteria? Virus? ”

"Second scan confirmed, none."

According to what Shou Lao said before, there were originally native creatures on this planet, the ruling race was a humanoid species, and there were countless other creatures, and it seems that a lot of things have happened in the past thousand years.

"Keep up with the search at maximum power!"

After Laura gave the order, she first flew around the sealing barrier, but again found no signs of life.

"Old man, you wait inside first, I'll be back soon to save you."

Standing in front of the barrier and taking the oath again, Laura reflexively flew away.

After flying at full speed for more than half an hour, the life detector was still blank, as if she was the only living person on the planet.

"Warning, there's an unknown weapon locked! It is advisable to avoid it immediately! ”

The moment Laura heard the warning, she subconsciously stopped, and at this moment, a thick pillar of light struck a meter in front of her.

In fact, with her current physical strength, even if she takes a shot, she will not break the defense, but it is inevitable to turn a few heels.

Laura jerked down and rushed towards the place where the energy beam was fired.

"What the hell is this?"

Dodging an attack again, the true face of the attacker finally appeared in front of her.

It was a mechanical creature that looked a bit like a spider and a bit like a scorpion, and the previous two attacks had been fired from its glowing tail, along with its glittering six mechanical legs, and the two kinetic weapons near its head, all of which indicated that it was a true killing machine.

Judging from the snow bulge around it and the broken snow on its body, it was believed that the thing had been sleeping under the thick layer of snow before, and it should have been activated again as Laura approached.

Originally angry that she had been attacked, she wanted to take it away with a hot eye, but after thinking that it was rare to come across something that could move, she should be able to get some useful information from it, so Laura took out two battle axes from the space.

The metal on this mechanical creature was similar to Tony's original build, and it couldn't resist the power of the artifact Battle Axe, and even though it had been greeting Laura with its most efficient attacks, she had chopped off six of its legs and removed all of its weaponry two minutes later.

Looking at the sneak attacker who had been cut into a large iron mass, Laura carried two axes and came up.

"Rachel, check if this thing's system is artificial intelligence, or mechanical intelligence, and whether it sends signals to the outside world."

"After scanning, the machine identification number is DGD7079 'Stalker', there is no autonomous intelligence unit, only a simple instruction set, and the locked goal is to search for and hunt all carbon-based creatures on the planet, and the last time it uploaded and exchanged data was before 8975:33:51."

Laura stood there and thought for a moment, then she decided to let Rachel continue to crack the secret inside the guy while she studied the various weapon parts that had been removed.

The energy cannon used to sneak up on her was similar to Iron Man's palm beam cannon, but the type of energy used by Laura had never been seen before, and the kinetic weapon in the weapon bay near her head was similar to the Gatling on Earth, but the ammunition it fired exploded and sputtered a corrosive liquid.

Rachel also completely cracked the Stalker's firewall at this point, sweeping away all the data stored inside it.

Laura looked at the analysis data sent back by Rachel, and the more she looked at it, the worse her face became.

This thing was indeed manufactured, and it was made in batches, and according to the number on its body, there were at least 7,000 ghosts of this model before it.

Don't look at Laura just beating this guy like a joke, but if they are a whole army of people rushing up, let alone more than seven thousand, there are hundreds of them, she can only rely on the advantage of flying to quickly flee for her life.

After Rachel finished storing the data analysis of the stalker, Laura split it in half with an axe.

A pale green can was removed from the area where its head was encased, and there was an engine-like device near it, so it appeared that the liquid was its fuel.

Rachel quickly completed her initial analysis of the fuel, but Laura was shocked by the results.

"This thing is biofuel?!"

She couldn't help but be surprised, and in doing so, she had a bold and terrifying guess about why she hadn't been able to find creatures in the neighborhood--- they were all "eaten" by this thing and their companions!

So, Laura asked Rachel to record the guy's signal signature, and then combined with three unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to start a large-scale scan.

An hour later, Rachel completed a biological and mechanical scan of a 10-kilometer radius, and found no signs of the creatures, with sixty-five other stalkers of the same model in the range.

Laura highlighted their markers inside the helmet, luring out and disposing of five of them, but the message was not much different from the previous one, that they had abruptly cut off communication with the center one day more than a year ago, and then continued to mechanically carry out their factory-set goal --- hunt creatures.

Considering that it would be a waste of time and a low reward to dispose of all the remaining sixty, Laura deliberately avoided their sleeping places and staggered all the way out of the snowy mountains.

After leaving the snowy mountain, there was no blizzard that obstructed her vision, and Laura only felt that her eyes lit up, and she suddenly became brighter.

"Boom!"

"Warning, new mechanical creations have been discovered, life forms have been discovered!"

A loud bang was heard not far away, and Rachel's scouting report came on the back foot, and the last point made Laura quite excited, and immediately transported energy and quickly rushed to the place where the explosion came from.

After flying over a cliff, a fierce battle appeared in front of her.

Dozens of strangely dressed humanoids are besieging a giant bird-like mechanical artifact with bows, crossbows, and small trebuchets.