Volume 15 Gray Fog Forest Chapter 768 Central Control Computer
"Then...what should we do now? Should we look for other people?" Mo Jue seemed a little at a loss at this time - although she had been a "lumberjack" for many years, she had never reached such a deep area, nor had she ever encountered such a strange thing.
What's more, this happened to me.
This is like a swimmer. Although she is a very good swimmer, the deepest part of the swimming pool she faces all year round is no more than two meters, and the water quality is so clear that you can see the white tiles at the bottom of the pool at a glance. However, if this swimmer looks directly into the pitch-black, bottomless abyss, she will probably feel scared. At this time, if a pair of scarlet eyes suddenly appeared in the depths of the abyss and looked at this swimmer, people with weaker psychological quality would probably faint out of fear.
"More than two hours have passed. With their speed, they must be very far away from us now." Ke Lan said, "What's more... they left in different directions. Add to that the strange phenomena in the forest... it's extremely difficult to find them."
"What should we do then?" Mo Jue's breathing was very rapid, and she could even hear the "thump thump" sound of her heart beating in her chest.
"Instead of running around in the forest like a headless fly...it's better to continue moving forward according to the original goal." Ke Lan said in a deep voice, "I believe that after they regain consciousness, they will make the same choice."
"Do we still need to move on?" Mo Jue was stunned for a moment and looked at Ke Lan in disbelief.
"What else? Should we exit the forest now?" Ke Lan asked. "I have a 'navigation', but they don't... For them, escaping from this forest is probably more difficult than heading to the core area... After all, we are only a dozen kilometers away from the core area of the forest, and it is more than twice the distance to get out."
"But... the further you go in, the more..."
Mo Jue originally wanted to say "The further you go in, the more dangerous it becomes", but the words got stuck in her throat... because she realized that the current situation was already bad enough, how much worse could it get?
The plasma main gun of the "Shaojiang-class" frigate, the overwhelming biological weapons, the strange thick fog and the deleted memories... After experiencing these things, she suddenly felt that the previous terrible memories and impressions of the depths of the forest in her mind seemed to have gradually faded.
"One more thing. If there really is some big secret hidden in the core area of the Gray Mist Forest, even if we are the only ones who reach that place, we may be able to use this secret to rescue the others trapped in the forest."
It's like playing a game. As long as your teammates are not dead, even if they are trapped in a maze and cannot escape, as long as there is one person in the team who defeats the final BOSS and passes the game, then these teammates will naturally survive.
Assuming that the Gray Mist Forest is a "ruin" built by the Alpha civilization, then as long as we can seize control of the core area, we may be able to release the people trapped in the forest directly.
"But your 'navigation' can only reach a depth of thirty-five kilometers. If we go any further, we will get lost!" Mo Jue said.
"So, we have to collect clues first."
"Clues? What clues?"
"There's such a big warship here, we can't just ignore it." Ke Lan said as he pulled Mo Jue forward.
Ke Lan was not sure whether his memory had been deleted or modified, but at least his position had not changed significantly. After walking a few steps forward, the wreckage of the "Shaojiang Modified" frigate appeared in Ke Lan's sight again.
The beast tide has receded , and the thick fog has completely swallowed up the wreckage of the entire warship.
Using Ze Luo's ability to clear away the fog, Ke Lan and Mo Jue carefully looked at the battlefield not long ago - the corpses of those biological weapons had long been completely degraded, turned into nutrients absorbed by the soil and fog trees, and they didn't even leave any bones.
The bones of most animals on Earth are mainly composed of inorganic salts, mainly calcium. When the organic matter in the bones is completely decomposed by microorganisms, the remaining parts can often be preserved for a long time. But these biological weapons are different. Although their bone composition is similar, when individuals die, the body will secrete a substance that can dissolve these inorganic salts during the degradation process, turning them into liquid, which is absorbed by the soil along with other nutrients.
This is the ultimate recycling efficiency. As long as the forest is not completely destroyed, these biological weapons can be continuously produced. And as long as the bodies of these biological weapons fall within the range of the forest after their death, it cannot be considered a loss at all.
The Gray Mist Forest only needs to consume a very small amount of resources to "revive" these dead biological weapons in a brand new form.
For some reason, Ke Lan suddenly thought of a kind of fungus food called "Enoki Mushroom" that she had eaten the day before and often saw in the toilet the next day.
Although this metaphor seems a bit disgusting, the nature of these biological weapons is actually very similar to the enoki mushrooms that cannot be digested by the human stomach.
If the Gray Mist Forest is a melting pot, then they are the weapons used to defend this melting pot. If the weapons are damaged in battle, as long as the quality of the metal itself is not reduced too much, it will not consume many resources to melt them down and rebuild them. Even if Ark sends an army of the same scale as the one attacking the Ancient Bronze City Ruins into the forest, it will eventually die under the impact of the endless sea of monsters.
Fortunately, these biological weapons must abide by the rules of the Gray Fog Forest - they will only attack invaders who are within the forest but are not submerged in the thick fog.
Using Ze Luo's ability to clear away the thick fog is actually taking advantage of a loophole in the rules: as long as the range of the fog is not too exaggerated, it will not attract the attention of the "forest will" and naturally will not attract attacks from biological weapons.
"This bullet... was fired by me just now..."
Mo Jue bent down and picked up an iron-black bullet thicker than her thumb from the ground. It was a tungsten core armor-piercing bullet. The bullet had no armor and was made entirely of high-strength tungsten alloy. With the support of a large-caliber anti-material sniper rifle like the TAC-50, this bullet could easily penetrate a half-meter thick solid wall made of high-grade concrete at a distance of 100 meters. However, it was defeated by those biological weapons. Even the originally conical bullet had been squeezed into a flat button shape.
"Let's go."
After just a few glances, Ke Lan was able to determine that there were no clues worth noting on the battlefield, and immediately called Mo Jue to go inside the wreckage of the warship.
He did not choose other pieces of wreckage, but still set his sights on the bridge - one was to check the body of the "Erosion" that had not been collected before; the other was because the most core component of the entire battleship was on the bridge: the central control computer.
The core power reactor is the heart of a battleship, and the central control computer is the brain of the battleship. Basically all operating instructions need to be executed through the central control computer. If the "Special Operations Fleet" has made any discoveries in the Gray Mist Forest before, the automatic backup system of the central control computer will also record all these data in full.
Not to mention that with the advancement of technology, the central control computers of many warships will be equipped with AI - this kind of AI is not comparable to the smart butler in Ke Lan's home. You must know that whenever there is a breakthrough in any technology, the first to enjoy these technological products will definitely be the military industry, not the civilian market.
Although civilian AI looks more personalized and thus seems to be more intelligent, it is only because these civilian AIs are supported by big data on the Internet, and can use these data to find the most relevant dialogues to the current situation. In essence, they are just an imitation of human interaction. As for the core performance such as computing power and thinking logic, they are absolutely incomparable to the seemingly emotionless and mechanical military AI.
According to the files found on the Ark, the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Modified" is also equipped with an AI, and the name of the AI is the battleship's number "SX-016".
When Ke Lan was communicating with Shi Hai before, he had noticed the central control computer on the bridge. From the outside, it seemed to be well preserved... Apart from anything else, if the central control computer was seriously damaged, let alone controlling so many missile launchers and artillery, or even starting the plasma main gun, even keeping the battleship balanced in the air would be impossible.
The Shaojiang-class frigate has 32 main thrusters alone, and thousands of posture control nozzles throughout the ship. It is simply impossible to control the warship manually.
The so-called "manual operation mode" actually still relies on the intelligent command system of the main control computer. It seems that the helmsman uses the joystick to turn the battleship in the air, but in fact, the simple command of turning around is broken down into thousands of steps, even to the point of turning a nozzle a few degrees in a certain direction, and adjusting the jet output to a few percent of the maximum power. If the central control computer is damaged, the battleship will not be able to fly.
The walker mecha can be controlled by vines because the body itself is not that huge, but a warship several hundred meters long cannot be lifted into the air by the power of those vines alone.
Perhaps it was because they knew the importance of the central control computer that the vines not only did not destroy it, but instead weaved into a huge protective cover, wrapping the entire central control computer.
With this "protective shield" in place, even if the Shaojiang modified frigate crashes for the second time, the central control computer should not be damaged.
After all, the original protection measures for this thing were already very complete.
As long as Ke Lan can restart the central control computer of the "Shaojiang Modified", he can get a lot of information from the military AI.
Why did Captain Heruni Yang transform from a human into a "Corpse", what did the special operations fleet discover in the depths of the Gray Mist Forest, what kind of experience did the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate encounter in the forest after it crashed, and how the Gray Mist Forest was like controlling the warship through those vines - these problems that have been bothering Ke Lan will be solved. Thinking of this, Ke Lan couldn't help but quicken his pace.
On the contrary, Mo Jue who was following behind him seemed a little overly cautious, especially when passing by the cabin doors on both sides of the corridor, he was extremely tense.
"Do you think there might be monsters hiding in the wreckage of the warship and not retreating with the beast tide?" Mo Jue asked in a low voice.
"Probably not. These biological weapons are different from the native creatures. They have no self-awareness and are more like controlled robots. They will not hesitate when charging and will not drag their feet when retreating, unless the 'forest will' you mentioned wants to ambush us in the wreckage of the warship." Ke Lan said, "But even if there are biological weapons in these cabins, there can't be many of them. With the fighting power of Ze Luo and I, even if these cabins are filled with biological weapons, they will not pose any threat to us."
After saying this, Ke Lan couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth - although he said "with the combat effectiveness of Ze Luo and I", in fact, 99% of it was relying on Ze Luo. As for Ke Lan himself, it was probably his limit to be able to deal with three or four biological weapons.
"The three-no girl and I were killing people randomly. She was in charge of killing people, and I was in charge of killing people randomly. Well, there is nothing wrong with it. The two of us are really strong." Ke Lan complained to himself in his heart.
Three people... or rather two people in one armor, quickly passed through the corridor and arrived at the bridge door. The hole that Ke Lan had previously cut in the airtight door was still there.
However, when Ke Lan looked towards the cave entrance, Heruni...the body of "Erosion" was nowhere to be seen.
If the plot of a horror movie is followed, the disappeared corpse of the "Erosion" is most likely resurrected, and then hiding in a corner waiting for the protagonist to approach and then give the protagonist a "surprise"... However, Ke Lan is not worried about the "Erosion" coming back to life. Although that thing is very strange, its actual combat power is not high. He can suppress it alone without Ze Luo's help.
The combat effectiveness of "Erosion Corpse" is not even as good as that of a ghost-faced giant owl.
And judging from the traces left on the ground of the bridge, a number of biological weapons had been to this place not long ago. The corpse of "Erosion" was most likely swallowed or dragged away by these biological weapons.
"Huh... Never mind that for now. Restarting the central control computer is the most important thing right now."
Ke Lan ignored Mo Jue's question "Who should we take care of first?" and quickly walked to the two-meter-high power supply of the central control computer. He used the power of space to pull away the vines wrapped around it, revealing the cables that were as thick as arms.
