A metal structure as huge as a mountain stands in a vast hollow. On the silver-white surface made of an unknown alloy are hung one after another oval dormant cabins. You can see where the cabins are connected to the silver-white alloy surface. There is no trace of cracks or welding, and it looks like it is part of the giant building itself, natural and seamless.
Lines and conduits responsible for transporting energy are connected from the ground of the giant building. Like the blood vessels of living things, they are connected to the oval dormant cabins that stand one after another above, continuing to provide them with energy to support the operation of the stasis field. The translucent, eggshell-shaped stasis force field thinly covers the oval device. Water-like ripples are slowly rippling on the surface. It looks like transparent amber, but the ones embedded in amber are not common. They are not beetles or flies, but ferocious and terrifying insect-like creatures covered with barbs and wearing golden armor.
No one knows how long these bugs have slept, and no one knows how long they will sleep again. It has been decades since people discovered this place, but they have been sleeping peacefully here without any sign of waking up.
But it's not dead here.
Many small drones that look like mosquitoes shuttle around the dormant cabin, like busy bees. Sometimes they cast a light curtain on the dormant cabin to scan for numerical changes in the stagnation field, and sometimes they extend slender mechanical limbs to dismantle the dormant cabin. Open the outer armor of the dormant cabin and perform routine maintenance on the precision components inside. .
Without exception, these little mosquitoes are self-regulatory machines. Behind them, there is a set of quite sophisticated automatic programs that control every move of these self-regulatory machines. When their designers enter the stasis dormant state, the daily maintenance and hidden dangers of the entire stasis area Maintenance work is then handed over to automated programs.
Obviously, a discerning person can see that whether it is the sleep cabin, stasis field or these self-disciplined maintenance machines, they are all technological creations created to overcome the long waiting time during the journey.
Although their civilization has been able to get rid of the shackles of gravity and set sail from the cradle toward the stars and the sea, the interstellar voyage on a cosmic scale is too long. Even if their biotechnology allows them to have a long life that is almost non-aging and normal death, The journey across the sea of stars is still too long for them. In order to save consumption during the journey, they created this device that can create stagnant time and space, as well as the supporting automatic operation device.
In theory, these devices and systems are designed to operate automatically for a long time. They can operate normally for hundreds to thousands of years without any problems. Even if something goes wrong occasionally, it will be repaired quickly by autonomous machines. It should not It's just too big of a problem.
But today, there is a problem with this system.
Still a big problem.
warn! warn! Abnormal operation of stasis field detected! The stasis effect is rapidly losing its effectiveness!
Sharp alarms rang throughout the energy tower, and dazzling flashes of light echoed through the corridors. The moment the alarm sounded, the autonomous machine responsible for daily maintenance also went into chaos.
The stasis fields on the surface of several dormant cabins began to flash wildly following the alarm. As the stasis fields continued to flash and shake, the sleeping monsters in the dormant cabins also showed some signs of waking up, and their carapace began to emerge. It was beautiful and had a luster of vitality, and its body was trembling slightly. It looked like it was emerging from a long sleep and gradually returning to wakefulness.
In one of the dormant chambers, eight small cracks appeared in what looked like the insect monster's head. As the cracks in the carapace continued to become larger, eight orange-yellow vertical pupils that resembled beast eyes slowly opened. At first, it was a little confused about the current situation, as if it didn't understand why it was awakened in an abnormal state, but after a while, it seemed to be irritated by something, and its eyes were suddenly filled with a violent and ferocious look.
Hiss!
The insect monster's unique three-petal mouthparts split open, revealing the layers of fangs inside. At the same time, the vocal organs on the back and abdomen vibrated at high frequencies, emitting a burst of piercing screams that broke through the stasis field. At the same time, he raised his long claws as sharp as a knife and slapped the stasis force field in front of him hard!
The unimaginable force slapped hard on the translucent eggshell-like film, which had previously been caused by the abnormal operation of the stasis field.
System, the stasis effect has been weakened to a very weak level. Coupled with the insect monster's angry slap, the stasis force field immediately reached its load-bearing limit and exploded into pieces of light like broken glass. Come.
warn! Stasis vessel rupture detected!
Amidst the system warning, the freed insect monster had already climbed out of the cabin with great agility. It grabbed hold of the dormant cabins hanging from the metal structure one after another like a rock climber, climbing all the way up in the blink of an eye. Go to a protruding alloy platform.
The bug monster skillfully passed the certification on the platform, and the alloy gate slowly opened in the voice of successful certification, but the scenery revealed was not an empty corridor that stretched to the end of the field of vision, but a group of fully equipped and loaded guns standing behind the door, waiting. tactical team.
The bug monster was stunned for a moment. Maybe it didn't understand what was going on. Why was there a bunch of guys blocking the bedroom door just after it woke up? The chairman, who was sitting on the throne of control and remotely controlling these people, issued the attack order.
Fire!
Fierce firepower poured out from the muzzle, and the overwhelming bullets formed a barrage storm that instantly engulfed the insect monster!
Although the entire bug monster was stunned by the sudden fire suppression, the equipment he was wearing would not be ineffective just because he was distracted. When the tactical team with live ammunition fired, the few pieces of gold he wore were The armor made a vibrating buzz, and the crystal embedded in it burst out with crystal clear light. Then, the armor spread out a shield force field around him under the vibration resonance, and met the first opponent in the electric light. The firepower poured out.
He stood in the hail of bullets without dodging, and faced the baptism of the metal storm composed of bullets openly.
No bullets hit him.
Not even one.
The rapid expansion of gases produced by the rapid burning of gunpowder pushes the pointed bullets out of the barrel. These bullets are like the deathly scythes of the God of Death. Only after they hit, a burst of blood mist will explode, making it impossible to dodge the bullets. There is no way to defend, but after approaching the insect monster, these high-speed moving warheads quickly stalled for some reason, and became like bullets fired underwater, cutting a long and thin trajectory in the air, and the speed became slower and slower. Finally, it fell to the ground due to stalling.
It felt as if some means had been used to absorb the kinetic energy of the bullet.
Conventional kinetic energy weapons fail, use rockets!
The chairman immediately discovered this problem. After discovering that this was a spacecraft from an advanced civilization that could travel through the universe, he was mentally prepared for the weapons technology to be suppressed by the opponent. After realizing that kinetic energy weapons such as bullets might not be able to After producing the desired effect, he immediately issued the command to switch the attack mode.
咻咻
Two rockets trailed out with slender tail flames, and then the high-temperature fireballs caused by the two explosions exploded on the platform as the platform shook and shook unsteadily.
But in the next second, the flames and thick smoke were torn apart by a flash of light, and a swift black shadow rushed out from it. A few meters away in an instant, several arcs of light quietly passed over these people. When the insect monster stopped, He was already standing more than ten meters behind those people.
Wow!
The firearms in the hands of the tactical team members turned into a pile of flat parts and fell to the ground in pieces. Then the perspectives of several ports went offline one after another, and contact was completely lost.
What happened at that moment was so fast that not only the members of the tactical team, but also the chairman who controlled them at the other end of the port were hit before they could take effective evasive actions.
Hiss hiss hiss hiss
The insect monster once again vibrated the vocal organs on its back and abdomen, and made a hissing sound of unknown meaning, which seemed to be mocking and admonishing. Then it turned and left, and then the last port fell into the darkness of being disconnected.
The chairman, who was sitting on the throne of control, slowly opened his eyes. The electronic eyes flashed with a strange red light and could not see the joy or sorrow.
Attention all units, the probing team has been wiped out, Target A has awakened, and is approaching the first line of defense.
Conventional kinetic energy weapons are ineffective, and the opponent
It is suspected that there is a force field shield that weakens kinetic energy weapons. The main focus of the next battle will be weapons dominated by chemical reactions.
Logistics Group A, transporting chemical reaction weapons and hybrid anti-personnel weapons
Based on the calculation of the target's athletic ability, it is initially determined that the opponent's athletic ability is at least six times greater than the human limit. Fighting in the open will be overwhelmingly disadvantageous, and it is necessary to set up trenches and maneuvers.
The engineering team urgently set up defensive positions.
There are still more targets awakening. Immediately assign personnel to set up defense lines.
Time passed by minute by second, and he issued instructions one after another in a hurry. Under his control, the entire residents of Night City operated like precision gears meshing together.
