Yang Ming let go of Bly's arm, and the two looked at each other. Bly closed his eyes and carefully sensed the surrounding environment.
"It was very chaotic outside and there were riots, but the panic was not too high.
"In the 100 square meters closest to us, there is a formation of about 200 people. They probably want to gather troops on the middle level and then go to the upper level to support them."
"This elevator can only take about twenty people at a time, right? So many people gather here..."
Yang Ming raised his head and glanced at the elevator shaft, which was so deep that he couldn't see the end.
It seems like they missed a utility.
But it doesn't matter, falling doesn't consume much mental energy.
Yang Ming made a gesture of wiping his neck to Bly.
Bray nodded with a smile, closed his eyelids, opened his hands, and released his mental power without restriction.
Yang Ming stepped forward and kicked the elevator door away. More than a dozen soldiers standing in line outside were knocked away by the metal door!
A lightsaber, a layer of coating, and an acceleration distance of only two meters, made Yang Ming rush out of the elevator door frame like a cannonball, throwing out a thick stack of concussive thunder blades in his hand!
The soldiers reacted quite quickly. Facing the high-speed moving enemy, they quickly set up their guns and fired.
At this moment, the soldiers in the first two rows suddenly turned around and fired laser beams at their teammates.
Bly's face was full of sternness, and his hands raised forward were trembling slightly.
His mental power was like tentacles, wrapping around the brains of the dozen soldiers in front, synchronizing their thinking!
Bly wants to keep up with Yang Ming's fighting rhythm. He wants to prove that he can be a trustworthy fighting partner for his master;
But when the soldier controlled by Bly completed two shots and fell to the ground and fell asleep, Bly looked up again and saw corpses all over the ground.
Yang Ming held an ordinary lightsaber in his right hand and a laser rifle with an empty energy storage magazine in his left hand.
The two new lightsabers on his lower back were not activated.
Yang Ming put away the lightsaber and turned around to greet: "Let's go, they should have discovered the abnormality here. We are looking for the elevator shaft going down."
Bly smiled bitterly and turned off his shield generator, followed behind Yang Ming and ran forward along the circular corridor.
Bly has always said that his physical fitness is not good, but he is a super reformer compared to Catherine; his fighting level can also be equivalent to 0.8 Captain Gris.
Mechanical riots also occurred on the twelve middle floors of the fortress, and almost everywhere fell into chaos.
However, in the twelve floors in the middle of the fortress, there are not enough robots, not many mechanical guards, and there are not that many automatic weapon storage warehouses. The overall situation here is that human soldiers have the upper hand. Not only have they suppressed the rioting machines, but they also have enough power to deal with them.
reinforce.
There are more than 300 elevators between the outer layer and the middle layer, and Yang Ming and the others can only deal with a very small number of reinforcements among them.
Yang Ming hid the lightsaber in his jacket while running, holding the laser rifle and moving forward.
A large number of soldiers poured out of the corner ahead.
Bly was about to release a mental shock immediately, but Yang Ming suddenly staggered two steps and screamed in a strange New Federation dialect:
"Help! Robots! Lots of robots!"
Yang Ming did not receive any instructions from the Imperial Guard system.
He just determined that the monitoring system in this huge fortress was no longer operational, and the empire's national defense system had already taken care of the middle-level monitoring.
really.
The leading officer immediately moved forward to support Yang Ming:
"How many robots are there? How is your squadron doing? What's going on with the explosions here?"
Yang Ming:……
Hanton's foreign language reserve in memory is really limited.
“There are many!”
Bly spoke anxiously beside him, using a pure "Minter accent" in New Federalese:
"They rushed out of the elevator and are now rushing in the other direction! We are all injured!"
"Oh! Damn it!"
The new federal officer growled:
"The communications are all down now!"
"The empire is carrying out an omnic attack on us! They may launch a general attack. We need to find a way to let the fleet know what is happening here!"
"The whole team is moving forward to support you! You two!"
The New Federation officer glared at Yang Ming.
The blood on Yang Ming's body was still dripping, but for a while there was no visible wound.
At this moment, the officer did not know whether he and the group of soldiers around him could survive for another half hour. It only depended on his next words.
"Go to the infirmary for treatment quickly," the officer warned, "Don't go to the automated infirmary! The medical robots have gone crazy!"
Bray and Yang Ming nodded gratefully, stood in the corner and stood in the way of the passage, watching the group of soldiers rush towards the area where the explosion had just been heard.
The two looked at each other, Yang Ming raised his chin, and Blai understood and took the initiative to run ahead.
Their information has been overwritten in the fortress database, and both of their acting skills are passable, and there are soldiers running around everywhere. After Yang Ming took the opportunity to change into cleaner military uniforms, their actions became more...
More smoothly.
As Yang Ming predicted before the war, with the help of the great mechanical thinking body secretly, it would not be difficult to invade the fortress.
This is the absolute gap in technology.
Unexpectedly, the New Federation, which has always boasted of being advanced, could suffer such a big loss in terms of omnics.
Effortlessly, Yang Ming and the two found the descending stairs set up in the 'inner ring' on the middle floor.
The access control recognition system, which had long been controlled by the 'Emperor Guard', allowed the two of them to pass easily.
This spacious elevator showed its excellent craftsmanship. It had constant pressure, constant temperature, simulated gravity, and the loads caused by acceleration and deceleration were offset by the simulated gravity field. It only took ten minutes to reach the core center level of the fortress.
Yang Ming said in a deep voice: "Let's try our best to mix around later. Our mission is to find the fortress's weapon control system and access port, not to eliminate the soldiers here."
"As commanded, my Lord... requires idols."
Bly bowed slightly, with a slightly sick smile on his face.
Just as Yang Ming and the two were about to enter the central level of the fortress, in an elevator from the surface to the middle level, the three of Gris looked at the more than ten mechanical guards in front of them, quietly waiting for the next battle.
Catherine grabbed the lightsaber and protective shield. Her military uniform was already stained with blood, and her snow-white skin looked even more beautiful against the touch of blood.
Their original plan was to go to the middle level to find various types of research institutes, plug network interfaces into confidential terminals that were not connected to the Internet, and steal the research results of these institutes.
But now, they don't have to be sneaky anymore.
——You can completely rob it openly.
The elevators speeding downwards are crowded with combat robots developed by the New Federation. Their silver-white bodies are dyed with bright red blood, and their electronic eyes are flashing with 'wisdom' and 'self'.
Above these rapidly descending elevators, drones are swooping down synchronously.
Omnic, attack.
…
When the generals of the New Federation heard the news of an omnic crisis breaking out in the New Federation's most powerful movable fire fortress, they immediately thought that this might be an attack method used by the Empire.
What happens next?
Almost all the top officials of the new federal military have made unanimous predictions:
The empire is about to launch a full-scale offensive.
Sure enough, the Imperial Expeditionary Force, which originally stood still and continued to gather troops, began to sail forward and completed a collective jump in half a galaxy!
The Imperial Expedition Fleet has fully invaded the star system where Minte City is located!
New Federation probes spread across the star system began to send back various images.
According to quick statistics, there are about 9,400 medium and large warships of various types, escorting seven imperial dreadnoughts in the form of seven battle groups, arriving in the airspace near the star of 'Minter City', and scattered fleets will follow.
forward.
——The bulk fleets of the vassals of the Sherman Empire were not directly integrated into the imperial command system.
The war is about to break out.
At this moment, the largest of the three firefortresses has completely lost contact!
All communication channels in this fortress are completely blocked!
At the moment of the war, a sharp sword was broken first, and the top brass of the New Federation military became anxious.
They dispatched fleet formations, landing craft, and the most elite Cyborg troops to the fortress, but the entrances and exits of the fortress were completely locked.
When the top generals of the New Federation decided to blast open the fortress's portal... the fortress' outer protective energy shield slowly completed opening.
The strong fortress they had built with their own hands now left them helpless.
Only by using a dreadnought can the conventional energy protection layer of the fortress be destroyed.
In that case, they would lose the energy storage of a dreadnought ship and the strategic fortress with the most powerful firepower.
The Imperial fleet is rapidly approaching.
This kind of temporary irreparable loss is unacceptable to the top generals of the New Federation.
But fortunately, according to their analysis, the current omnic riot inside the fortress should be caused by a powerful replicating virus that has invaded the internal network of the fortress.
It shouldn't be a big problem.
The generals can only hope that there are millions of federal soldiers and countless weapons reserves in the fortress. They will definitely be able to resolve the internal omnic turmoil before the imperial fleet arrives!
The seven major battle groups of the empire are advancing at full speed, and the New Federation has deployed a battle array that has been rehearsed several times.
This giant fortress, which could not be mobilized due to the temporary loss of communication, had now become an obstructive and unsightly piece of metal.
In addition, the New Federation has made full preparations for this battle.
On the surface of the 'Mingte City' star, hundreds of large-scale prevention and control arrays were activated one after another.
There are densely packed planet-synchronous orbital defense cannons on the outer edge of the planet's atmosphere, numbering in the millions.
Important cities on the planet's surface have opened independent protective shields.
This is the defensive power of Mingte City, and its firepower can offset the three battle groups of the empire.
It is also the last hope that the New Federation relies on!
The biggest shortcoming of the planetary defense system is that maneuverability in outer space is limited. If the Empire adopts the tactic of edge encirclement and suppression and gradually encircles the New Federation fleet, the New Federation fleet will eventually have to go to the edge of the atmosphere to deploy.
As a result, the fierce air battle is bound to cause huge damage to the 'Pearl of the Galaxy Minter City'.
Eighty percent of the planet's surface is covered by the ocean, and the land has basically been developed into residential areas. Under the ocean is the high-tech industrial park that the New Federation is proud of, with countless automated factories and mountainous areas dotted with it.
The mansions in the city are called the wealthy areas of the Milky Way.
There is wealth everywhere here, and now, this wealth is depreciating rapidly.
During the period before the close combat, soldiers on both sides felt tremendous pressure.
The coordination displayed by the empire's major battle groups stunned the top brass of the New Federation military.
There are more than 10,000 warships of various types in front and behind, and seven battle groups, at this moment, they are like a whole!
Each main ship can find a suitable position to deploy its own firepower. The arrangement of shield ships continues to undergo slight changes. Each change forces the New Federation to adjust its warship distribution.
The most outrageous thing is that the empire can actually do it, keep all ships in sync and advance effectively, and make effective tactical changes.
This shows that seven battle groups, more than 10,000 battleships, and more than 20 million soldiers are now integrated into one command system!
Incredible.
incredible.
Theoretically, limited by many factors such as the quality of the soldiers, differences in the ships themselves, and the reaction speed of the commander, a command system with a supercomputer-level master brain providing non-delay computing power can only accommodate 300 to 600 warships of various types.
Only in this way can the combat effectiveness of these battleships be fully utilized.
Being able to directly command thousands of warships in large-scale battles is already an extremely outstanding commander.
Now, more than 10,000 medium and large warships in the empire are preparing for war and advancing simultaneously, and the calculation results of the New Federation are that these warships in the empire are all at effective firepower points...
"Crazy Empire!"
The supreme commander of the New Federation Fleet let out a slightly desperate roar.
The generals of the New Federation know that now, even if the New Federation has the same number of main battleships with the same firepower, they cannot confront the Empire's invincible fleet head-on.
They made a prompt decision and ordered all major fleets to fully retreat and enter the left and right orbits of Minte Star.
Nearly 20,000 small warships retreated below the planetary defense system to supplement the firepower of the planetary defense system.
The generals of the New Federation can only ignore the prosperous civilization on the surface of Minter City now. They must defend their own political system!
It was at this time that the fortress, which was on fire internally, restored communications with the outside world.
The top brass of the New Federation military were shocked, but then they discovered that something was wrong.
What the other party called in imperial language was...
"Imperial Fleet, Imperial Fleet!"
"This is the White Ghost Assault Team. The target fortress is already under our control. Please come and receive it quickly!"
White ghost?!
When the senior officers of the New Federation heard this name, many of them turned pale as blood.
Next…
The fortress weapons system is activated directly.
Hundreds of giant ion cannons were charging at full speed, targeting the nearby New Federation warship!
This fortress... was captured by the enemy for no apparent reason!
This is beyond the New Federation officers’ understanding of the fortress defense system!
They were originally extremely confident in their own safety technology, but now they could only watch helplessly as this giant fortress recharged its energy and fired its cannons. However, they could only issue an order for nearby warships to evacuate urgently.
The attack on the fortress was obviously not accurate enough. Only more than thirty New Federation warships exploded into balls of fire, and half of them were small and medium-sized ships.
Immediately afterwards, the new federation hollowed out the giant fortress that was built after six resource stars. It was used to protect the country's weapon of Minte City. It supplied all the energy to the outer protective shield and temporarily had the ability to withstand two bombardments by the dreadnought.
'Overflow' defense.
The New Federation has lost the opportunity to use the "Eye of the Sky" dreadnought to destroy this fortress.
The fortress's propulsion device was turned on at full speed, and a fearless charge was launched towards the direction of the imperial fleet...
In front of more than 100 million soldiers of the New Federation, the giant fortress began its defection journey in a swaggering manner.
The New Federation military immediately organized an elite fleet to pursue and intercept them.
Unfortunately, it is forced by the Imperial battle cluster in the airspace ahead, and this giant fortress has not participated in fleet mobilization before, and it is also the farthest away from Minte City...
The New Federation has been unable to stop this fortress.
The generals of the New Federation were stunned, and the fleet commanders were furious, but no one dared to give the order for the dreadnought to open fire.
——Normally speaking, this fortress cannot become the empire's combat power in a short period of time, and the number of times the dreadnought can fire in a battle is limited. A high-intensity war is about to break out, and all the firepower of the dreadnought must be used on the edge.
superior.
That day, White Ghost refreshed his own record.
The five-man team captured a 2,600-kilometer-diameter comprehensive firepower fortress of the New Federation, captured millions of prisoners, and became a highlight in the history of imperial warfare.
However, just when a battle was about to break out between the fleets of both sides, they defected to the weapons control center in the deepest part of the fortress.
Yang Ming folded his arms and Bray stood calmly in the corner of the control center with his hands behind his back.
There are human corpses everywhere in the hall, some service robots are cleaning the scene, and hundreds of mechanical guards are skillfully controlling various instruments.
Behind the omnic army is naturally the ‘Empire Total Defense System’.
Bly whispered:
"Isn't it bad for us to do this? We just did a little work to install the port, but now we have the merit of capturing a fortress."
"Didn't you listen to what the great god said?"
Yang Ming smiled and said:
"Everything she does is in service to the human subject, and she does not need to take any credit.
"Before we successfully invaded, she didn't know that there were so many automated equipment stored in this fortress.
"We are the human subjects of this plan...but we did get a big bargain."
Bray raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, and whispered:
"The New Federation probably would never have imagined that the automation industry they are so proud of would become the empire's easiest breakthrough."
"So, it is an extremely correct decision for the various political bodies in the galaxy to use conventions to restrict the development of omnics."
Yang Ming bumped Blai with his shoulder and said with a smile:
"Let's go. We have nothing to do here. Let's go join them and see what good things they find."