"It's nothing, it's almost done, ready to go back."
"……good."
Since Tang Jiumin didn't say much, Liu Ziyun didn't ask further questions. In short, based on his understanding of Tang Jiumin, the other party should have made new discoveries.
However, as long as the other party can lead everyone to complete the mission and return to Disaster Island, it is normal to have some secrets.
Before leaving, Tang Jiumin raised his head and took a deep look at the mountain peak where the Eye Clan's base was located.
Before, when leaving the airdrop pod, he always felt that there was something inconsistent with this mission, but he couldn't detect what it was at the time.
And along the way, some subsequent intelligence collected also proved that the strangeness was not an illusion.
But now, he finally knew what was wrong.
Human race? Gods?
This is really interesting.
However, not long after the two left, Tang Jiumin stopped again. He stopped Liu Ziyun next to him, "Wait a moment, don't leave yet. What do you see over there?"
"What?"
Liu Ziyun was thinking about other things when he heard Tang Jiumin's voice. He subconsciously raised his head and followed the direction of the other person's gaze. He looked over carefully and found that many robot remains were piled up in front of him.
He was surprised, "Robot wreckage?"
"By the way, this is right around the Protoss base, so are those things abandoned by the Protoss? There's no way to turn on the lights here. I didn't notice it when I came here."
"What a waste of your enhanced vision. Don't be careless. Go over and check carefully. I feel something is wrong."
The two walked to the pile of machine debris.
Various broken robots, as well as fallen parts and equipment.
"It doesn't seem like there's anything wrong?" Liu Ziyun looked around and found nothing suspicious about the robot's remains.
Tang Jiumin didn't answer. He just squatted in front of the pile of robot remains, inspected them carefully, and occasionally stretched out his hands to fiddle with these things.
Seeing his behavior, Liu Ziyun sniffed and couldn't help but curiously asked: "Why, is there something wrong with these wrecks?"
"The problem is not a small one, my Officer Liu, come here quickly!"
Liu Ziyun came closer, and Tang Jiumin held a black object in his hand and reached under Liu Ziyun's nose, "Smell, what does this smell like?"
"It smells a bit like engine oil, isn't that right?" Liu Ziyun didn't quite understand, but in just half a second, his whole body suddenly fell into shock, "Wait? This is so wrong!"
"yes."
Tang Jiumin retracted his hand and his eyes deepened, "Isn't the war on Edge Star over a long time ago? According to the background given in the mission, the war on Edge Star has been over for decades. How can the energy used for fighting still smell? "
Thinking of this, Tang Jiumin picked up the tablet with an image of a robot on it.
What the image shows is that not far from them, there is a robot wreckage, and the exposed oil pipe is dripping this liquid drop by drop.
Obviously, the remains of this robot should have appeared recently.
The two immediately looked at each other.
has a problem.
Tang Jiumin noticed more clues. He took two steps back and looked down at the ground.
There are many footprints, many different from human footprints. If you follow the footprints, you will see that they are footprints that go around from a certain road nearby.
"The footprints are still wet. If you look carefully, there are even some fresh grass blades. The owner of the footprints must have not been far away."
The two of them looked in the direction where the footprints left. They looked at each other, let the robot follow them, and followed the direction in which the footprints left.
As they walked, they discovered that this was a road leading to the front of the base.
And as time slowly passed, some explosions came from the direction of the main entrance of the base in the distance.
Soon, the sound of gunfire began to appear and became clearer, accompanied by a slight burnt smell. Tang Jiumin and the two reached the finish line.
As expected, it was the main entrance of the base, and a battle was breaking out here.
In order to avoid being discovered, Tang Jiumin operated a small robot to observe the situation.
This is a battle between the Cyr Protoss and robots. Various robots are attacking the main entrance of the Protoss base.
From a vague glance, the number was at least hundreds.
What was fighting against the robots were turrets one after another, with blue energy balls emitting from the top, bombarding the robots rushing past.
This blue energy ball is like a cannon and will explode into blue flames wherever it hits.
A snake-shaped robot made a slight mistake and was hit in the torso. The seemingly hard body exploded into two ends on the spot.
Faced with this kind of firepower, the robot could not attack hard and had to dodge in all directions and fight back with relatively old-fashioned guns.
But the effect they achieved was much weaker than this kind of turret.
Because whether it is a rocket or any other artillery shell, once it approaches the turret, it will be blocked by a layer of blue light shield.
These blocked bullets are deflected under the influence of the photomask, and their impact on the turret is almost zero.
Tang Jiumin and the two looked at it for a long time. Except for one turret, which was shattered into ruins by the robot's concentrated fire, the rest were intact.
But, this is not the key.
The key is that the two of them finally saw the Ser Protoss. They were similar to the image in the book, except now they were in a fighting form.
There were four of them, covered in a complete set of white armor, and each holding a light blade.
These Cyr Protoss were at the forefront of the battle line, swiping left and right against the approaching dozen beast-shaped robots. The relatively powerful robots in Tang Jiumin's eyes did not have much counterattack power in front of the Cyr Protoss.
The effect of bullets is extremely low, because before the bullets hit the Cyr Protoss, they will be blocked by the same light shield as the turret.
With something similar to a protective cover, the robot's most powerful firepower threat is greatly reduced.
And close combat? As the book says, these Cyr protoss are all good at melee combat.
Facing these robots that mimicked claws and fangs, they moved left and right, barely letting the robots touch them a few times.
Even if they are hit, those light shields will only flicker for a moment and return to normal after two or three breaths.
Instead, they rushed into the robots and relied on the light blade to defeat the robots one by one.
With that technique, the knife cuts at the movable joints, and the probability of cutting off is at least 70%, and then the knife is inserted into the robot's head to kill the enemy.
At this moment, another energy bomb was fired from the turret, hitting one of the robots.
The humanoid robot, which was about three meters tall, exploded into two pieces on the spot, and its upper body flew out.
By coincidence, it happened to land less than fifty meters away from Tang Jiumin and Liu Ziyun.
Tang Jiumin's eyebrows rose, and he looked at Liu Ziyun, who happened to be looking over as well.
"Now that everything has been delivered to us, we have to find a way to drag the robot back and see what's going on."
Where did the robots fighting against the Cyr Protoss come from and why did they fight?
Needless to say, Tang Jiumin also knew the importance of this information.
"I'll do it." Liu Ziyun was about to bend over and stand up.
But Liu Ziyun was stopped by Tang Jiumin, who pointed to his feet.
Liu Ziyun is very strong, but for this kind of thing, he who has vampire boots is obviously more suitable.
So, with light and fast steps, Tang Jiumin cautiously groped forward, approaching the robot at the edge, dragging one of its arms, turned around and left immediately.
In the chaotic battlefield, no one would deliberately pay attention to a fallen robot, so Tang Jiumin safely dragged the robot back to the place where they were hiding and watching.
Sparks erupted from the entire surface of the body, and liquid like engine oil continued to drip onto the ground.
The robot that Tang Jiumin dragged back was obviously going to be scrapped.
Seeing this scene, Tang Jiumin immediately started to take apart the robot that was about to malfunction and take a look at its internal structure.
"We have to find out who sent the robots fighting against the Ser Protoss..."
As a result, Tang Jiu Min stretched out his hand halfway, but his whole body became tense.
In front of him, the already disabled robot suddenly grabbed Tang Jiumin's outstretched hand and struggled to get up.
Not only that, the robot turned its head and stared at Tang Jiumin. The sensor on its head kept flashing and made a sizzling sound of electricity.
Tang Jiumin was stopped by the robot. He stared at the robot warily, and at the same time, he quickly winked at Liu Ziyun next to him.
Tang Jiumin didn't need to say much, Liu Ziyun immediately pointed his gun at the robot.
Getting ready to shoot.
But at this moment, the robot made a sound.
"Zizzi...zizi..."
"There are survivors, survivors, survivors..."
The robot actually made a human voice in the end. It looked at Tang Jiumin and kept saying the word "survivor" in its mouth. It had no intention of attacking. This made Tang Jiumin and Liu Ziyun stunned.
Suddenly, there was a roar from the robot, an electric spark exploded, and black smoke began to emit from the entire upper body. Until the last moment before the indicator light above its head went out, it suddenly said something different.
"Humankind will survive forever!"
The robot let go of its hand and completely collapsed to the ground.
Tang Jiumin and Liu Ziyun looked at the robot on the ground and couldn't help but glance at each other, becoming very curious about this robot that suddenly made a human voice.
"It's interesting, but the robot is about to be repelled by the Ser Protoss. Let's take this robot away first. It may have clues we want to explore." Tang Jiumin raised his eyes and looked at the gate of the Protoss base, and then said to Liu Zi Yun ordered.
"Okay, I'll do it." Liu Ziyun replied in a deep voice.
The two of them wasted no time and dragged the robot quickly away from the battlefield. They stopped only when no sound was heard.
Liu Ziyun leaned the robot against the stone wall next to the mountain path.
"First remove its shell and see what parts are inside." Tang Jiumin immediately started, took out a wrench, and began to remove the robot's shell.
He got this from the underground laboratory. Since entering the trial, he has developed a good habit of taking advantage of others.
"It's all circuits and parts. It looks no different from other robots." Liu Ziyun looked at the densely packed parts circuits inside and frowned in confusion.
"Is it possible that the robot has been programmed with something in advance to automatically tune into a human voice when encountering survivors?"
"What's the purpose? What you said may indeed exist, but what is the purpose?"
Tang Jiumin stared at the robot and looked at it carefully, feeling more and more strange.
Liu Ziyun scratched his head and couldn't think of a specific purpose.
At this time, Tang Jiumin suddenly said: "I thought of a possibility, Liu Bodhisattva, hold it."
"possible?"
Liu Ziyun was stunned for a moment, held the robot's body up, frowned and shook his head.
He didn't understand what Tang Jiumin was thinking of again.
Tang Jiumin, on the other hand, groped for the head of the robot, pressed a screwdriver into the gap, and twisted it hard.
With repeated exertions, a two-finger-wide gap opened in the robot's head case, and the situation inside was visible to the naked eye.
"hiss……"
Liu Ziyun took a breath of air and stared at the scene in front of him with wide eyes.
Tang Jiu Min's eyes darkened slightly.
There is nothing like a chip circuit inside the robot's head. It is not an artificial intelligence brain, but a real human brain. It's just that several microchips have been inserted into the human brain, and the ends are connected to wires.
This is not a robot. According to the information they currently have, this kind of thing is called a semi-mechanical life form.
The entire body is controlled by the brain and has human memory, but except for the brain, the rest of the body's structures are all mechanical parts.
"Have you thought of it?" Tang Jiumin said.
"What?" Liu Ziyun was confused when he heard Tang Jiumin's words.
"There should be only one semi-mechanical life form in the entire Edge Star."
Liu Ziyun reacted immediately.
"You mean Dr. Hammer."
"The appearance of this robot is not accidental." Tang Jiumin said with a deep expression, "He should be the only one in the entire Edge Planet who has this kind of technology."
"Dr. Hammer is definitely not dead. He is still alive. He launched the attack on the Protoss base probably to regain the crystal, which is the mission goal of our identity this time."
Liu Ziyun on the side immediately fell into deep thought after hearing what Tang Jiumin said.
This is really chaos.
Not only do they have to complete the mission, but they also have to guard against the doctor and his robots.
Don't look at it, it's very difficult for them to fight against the gods, but if you want to attack them.
It's as easy as crushing an ant.
"It's almost done. Let's leave here first. There's no guarantee whether those Ser protoss will come over." Tang Jiumin said.
"good."
The two of them came to a conclusion, no longer hesitated, closed the metal of the robot's head, and left to return.
