Chapter 293 Crash
Should I wake him up or not?
After a long debate that lasted half an afternoon, neither side was able to reach an agreement.
Even though both parties contacted the Dragon City headquarters and asked the city lord's faction to participate in the discussion, they were unable to convince the other side.
What Sun Lang said seemed to make sense, but it was only from his personal perspective. He was a naturally adventurous person, but the same could not be said for the sleeping aliens.
Just like that, half an afternoon was wasted.
In the evening, Su Xia sat on the edge of the rift and said to Li Feng beside him: "In the past, was this how matters were discussed in Dragon City?"
Li Feng smiled bitterly and replied, "Yes."
"What can we discuss if we keep arguing?" Su Xia shook her head. "It's just a waste of time."
"We have been aware of this matter for a long time, but we have no solution, so the quarrel came over like this."
“That won’t work.”
Su Xia decisively denied the current situation of Longcheng and said, "In extraordinary times, we must use extraordinary means to resolve internal conflicts. What's the point of making such a fuss? No wonder Longcheng has been trapped in a corner for so many years."
"That's what the commander taught me."
Li Feng was helpless. He didn't want to do this, but there was really no other way.
The biggest problem with Longcheng is that the three forces have almost the same power, and no one can overwhelm the other two, resulting in arguments over any simple decision.
In this case, how should Longcheng make effective decisions?
Not to mention sending troops against the mechanical race... with this level of efficiency, they can't even solve their own problems.
The efficiency within the Mechanical Clan is extremely high. Once an order is given from above, someone below will immediately do it, and there will be almost no objection.
A comparison between the two sides shows that humans’ defeat was not unfair.
"How long do you think they will have to argue until they reach a conclusion?" Su Xia asked.
"It's impossible to get a result in the next few days." Li Feng said truthfully, "In the past, when faced with such a big problem, everyone basically compromised slowly in the quarrel, each giving in a little bit, and finally got a relatively moderate intermediate result."
"So, they will continue quarreling tonight?"
"Yes."
"Well, I still have things to do and time is tight, so I won't argue with them anymore." Su Xia stood up from the rift and patted the grass leaves on his body. "If there are any small problems with this spaceship, you can go directly to Hal to solve them. If there are big problems, go to the camp and contact Cheng Ping'an."
"Commander, you are..."
"I need some private time."
He has been waiting for Su Xia to break through for a long time.
The enemies are becoming more and more numerous and stronger, especially in Coral City. He increasingly feels that his own strength is not enough.
Due to recent events, Coral City has gradually become the center of the storm.
All forces on the continent have sent people to this city.
Just now in Coral City, a strange fourth-level creature entered the pharmacy and bought a batch of fourth-level potions from Su Xia.
Although that person hid his psychic fluctuations very well, Su Xia still saw through it using the game system.
The more powerful strangers appear in this city, the more unstable it becomes.
"Time waits for no one, seize everything."
Su Xia stood on the wreckage, looked at the setting sun in the sky, and slowly took a few deep breaths of the fresh mountain air.
Tonight one is a good breakout time.
He found Hal and said a few words to him.
Afterwards, he found Zhang Fang, Xiong Wei and others and told them some things about the wreckage.
Finally, he found Cheng Ping'an and asked Cheng Ping'an to deal with the outside interference on his behalf.
"Ping An, everything is up to you!"
Su Xia asked for a large, empty warehouse for himself, just like the old base in the Oasis Camp.
There was only an old soft sofa, a long table, and a mirror in the warehouse, and the rest of the place was empty.
He put down most of the nanorobots and activated the self-defense system of these small robots to guard around him.
"It should be about the same."
Su Xia took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and waved, and more than a hundred intermediate psychic potions appeared on the long table in front of him.
He extracted this from the glands of dead insects during the night when two insect nests were fighting.
In the dark warehouse, each medicine flickered with a faint blue fluorescence, lying flat on the table like dark blue light tubes, beautiful yet a little weird.
"Will my body be able to bear it?" Su Xia whispered to himself as he looked at the huge amount of medicines in front of him.
Every promotion comes with great pain.
Su Xia slowly sat down on the sofa and couldn't help but think of what Yu Tuo said to him yesterday.
yesterday……
Around the same evening, while watching the fight between Fan Lu and Mo Se, Su Xia and Yu Tuo talked for a long time about the use of psychic energy.
Through Yu Tuo's words, Su Xia roughly understood why Yu Tuo chose to embark on the path from flesh and blood to machinery.
Yu Tuo felt that spiritual energy was always a type of energy that could not be fully carried by the flesh and blood body.
Just as oil can only exert its greatest strength in steel.
He believed that it was a wrong path for flesh and blood creatures to absorb spiritual energy.
This has nothing to do with racial stance, it's just personal understanding.
This made Su Xia think of the fact that on Earth, some people injected oil into their muscles to make them stronger, and some even injected oil for beauty treatments.
This kind of thing seems extremely incredible and crazy to ordinary people.
After thinking about it carefully, Yu Tuo felt that a flesh and blood body could not bear the energy, so turning himself into a body of steel did not seem so incomprehensible...
"Let's try it."
Su Xia slowly lay down and put aside all the distracting thoughts in her mind.
He took a few deep breaths, rolled up the sleeve of his left arm, then picked up a potion and plunged it in.
“Buzz——”
My brain went blank in an instant and my body shook violently, as if I had been electrocuted. I lay on the sofa, shaking uncontrollably.
The reaction this time was much more intense than the previous times. Veins bulged on the entire arm, and countless dark blue veins visible to the naked eye appeared.
After a while, Su Xia completely lost consciousness and lay motionless on the sofa.
I don’t know how long it has been…
It was as if I had fallen into the deepest sleep, drifting unconsciously in the dark void, like a cold ghost, without purpose or direction.
Such loneliness and darkness lasted too long, as if it would last forever, until... Su Xia suddenly heard a loud noise in her ears.
“Boom——!”
The dark world shattered in an instant.
Su Xia suddenly opened her eyes and found herself inside a spaceship.
Warning lights were flashing, sparks were flying, circuits were collapsing, and the screens in the spacecraft's command room were all flashing, some of which were already shattered.
What happened?
Before Su Xia could react, she heard a familiar voice:
"Doctor, the pull-up failed. Get ready, we are about to face a second impact!" It was the voice of the female robot, who was right next to Su Xia.
It was obvious that Su Xia had once again transformed into Dr. Aigar in his hallucination.
However, this time he lost the ability to control this body. Like a passerby, he could only watch Dr. Aigar and the female robot beside him deal with everything.
"Damn it, how could those natives see through our invisibility?" Dr. Aigar spoke. The voice was not young, but middle-aged.
At this time, the Doctor has been traveling in the starry sea for more than ten years. Although he suffers from headaches and hallucinations, he still does not stop this brilliant journey.
Soon, Su Xia gained a memory.
This is no longer the star field controlled by the Seventh Empire, but another chaotic star field - the Heinlein star field.
In the star fields controlled by the Empire, many planets with life have been developed into scenic spots, and there are traces of the Empire's uncivilized tourists everywhere. The Doctor has complained about this in his diary before.
So he chose a farther, more remote and more dangerous star region to continue this adventure.
Dr. Aigar and his female robot assistant discovered a planet with life in the Heinlein star field, so they drove a small survey ship on the spacecraft to approach the planet, preparing to find a place to land and investigate the planet's human environment.
"There's not even an artificial satellite outside this planet, so I guess the level of science and technology should not be very high."
Judging a planet's technological capability to support life by whether it can launch artificial satellites is a small experience the doctor has summarized over the years.
However, what he didn't expect was that the natives of the planet actually saw through the stealth function of the survey ship and hit the ship with a missile.
“Drip—drip—drip—”
The shrill alarm sounded continuously in my ears. The entire survey ship was damaged, all functions failed, and its integrity was less than 20%, so it had to make an emergency landing.
The first forced landing failed, and the roar of the ship hitting the ground was heart-wrenching.
Su Xia opened her eyes at that moment.
The female robot assistant tried to pull up, but the ship's power system had been destroyed and the pull-up failed, so a second collision soon occurred.
"boom!"
The ship crashed into the ground at an angle and was completely damaged. It was in tatters and rubbed against the ground violently under the action of inertia. Metal fragments were scattered all over the ground behind it, and finally a horrific trail hundreds of meters long was dragged out.
The doctor and his assistant were faced with a terrible realization - they crashed on the indigenous planet.
Fortunately, both of them were fine.
The female robot made a prompt decision and said, "Doctor, put on your armor quickly. We have to leave this ship."
"good!"
The doctor immediately took off his protective gear, forcefully opened the twisted cockpit door, ran to another cabin, and put on a set of Tier 4 power armor.
The female robot was also equipping herself, with three compressed psychic guns on her back, two semi-automatic pistols on her waist, and a heavy plasma gun in her hand.
He carried both energy and kinetic weapons, and also took with him a large bag of bombs and half a bag of food.
How powerful are the natives of this planet?
The two of them didn't know, so they could only arm themselves as best as possible and take one step at a time.
The mothership driven by Dr. Aigar is just outside the planet. They can no longer contact each other at this time. The mothership's automatic response system will send a small unmanned ship to find them after 24 hours.
As long as they can hold on for 24 hours, they can go back alive.
"Doctor, I've said before that the response time shouldn't be set at 24 hours. Two hours is more reasonable." The female robot said as she armed herself. " Do you think we can survive 24 hours in the hands of these natives?"
“Isn’t 2 hours too short?”
Dr. Aigar spread his hands and said, "Storm clouds on some planets can interfere with signals. Sometimes we're gone for most of the day. Does that mean the mothership has to send out unmanned ships to find us every time? Maybe the intelligent butler of the mothership's response system will find us annoying and say bad things about us behind our backs to other intelligent butlers."
"Doctor, are you still in the mood to joke?"
"Relax, it's not the first time you've crashed."
“But this is the first time we’ve been shot down by the natives!”
The female robot seemed even more anxious, her body almost fully loaded with weapons, and she had obviously calculated the worst-case scenario in her mind.
Dr. Aigar may feel that there was an "accidental" element to the crash.
He really didn't believe that the creatures on this planet that didn't even have ordinary satellites could see through the invisibility of his spacecraft.
"Doc, go!"
The female robot opened the shabby hatch and jumped out first.
They have to find a safe place to hide for 24 hours before the natives arrive.
Even if they hide for 24 hours they are not necessarily safe, as the small unmanned ships sent out by the mother ship to search for them may also be destroyed.
Only after three or more ships are destroyed in succession will the mothership automatically enter a higher-authority response system.
That means the two of them may need to hold on for 72 hours or even longer.
"What's this planet like?" asked the Doctor.
"It's similar to the previous test. The atmospheric pressure is appropriate and the air is suitable. Doctor, please come out directly."
"good."
Dr. Aigar put on the black humanoid armor and walked out of the crashed spacecraft.
The two found that they had crashed in an area similar to a slum.
The sun was scorching, the soil was red, and the ground was littered with garbage. Dirty white plastic bags and yellowed newspapers were flying in the wind, and flies were buzzing in the smelly ditches.
Before my eyes were countless dilapidated, low-rise houses, with skinny people walking out of the houses.
Looking at the female robot and the doctor, there was confusion, panic and fear in these people's eyes.
“Don’t be afraid!”
The female robot changed more than ten languages in succession, but found that the people in front of her could not understand it at all, and they retreated in fear.
Moreover, gunshots were heard in the distance, and it was obvious that the defense forces in the area had arrived.
The two looked around and found that there were similar slums everywhere.
"Doctor, there's nothing we can do. Let's run away first. Run as far as we can!"
In this way, the two men fled all the way, as if they were on the run for their lives, and it took them more than five hours to escape the search.
They took refuge in a filthy garbage dump.
Using the piles of garbage as cover, they hid in the foul-smelling environment for a whole night.
The next day, the doctor left the armor in the garbage mountain, put on tattered clothes, pretended to be deaf and dumb, and left the garbage dump with a mechanical device given to him by the female robot.
He walked for a long time in this endless slum, using body language to communicate with the skinny poor people, and after half a day he finally found a kind family willing to take him in.
“Ah…ah…”
The Doctor danced around, pointed to his mouth, and touched his belly.
This family is considered to be well-off in the slum, and they even have an .
They gave the doctor some food and hot water.
The doctor quietly split the mechanical device given to him by the female robot into two halves, placing one half next to the TV and the other half facing the TV screen.
Soon, the TV screen began to flicker wildly. Strange clips flashed by one after another, and countless strange words emerged with the clips. The female robot began to learn the language of this world based on the clips corresponding to the vocabulary.
It didn't take long for the female robot to learn almost everything.
Just then, a group of soldiers walked into the house.
The doctor's face changed, realizing that something was wrong: "Oh no, this family sold my information. How did they recognize me?"
"Doctor, you look very plump, which doesn't fit in with the barren environment here. It's normal for you to be suspected." The voice of a female robot came into his ears.
"What now?"
"Don't worry, I will come to save you." The female robot said, "Doctor, just pretend to be nice to them first. I believe they won't do anything to you in the short term."
"What if they want to slice and study me as an alien?" The doctor was a little panicked.
"Doctor, you're still in the mood to joke, aren't you? Smile first, don't look so sad."
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