Volume 5: Bottomless Sinkhole Chapter 292: Database of Relics
The voice ignored Ke Lan's complaints and said, "Please pay attention to your timing. The support fleet will only fire once. You only have one chance."
At the same time, a constantly changing countdown appeared on the heads-up display. Ke Lan glanced at it and saw it clearly written: There are 8725 time units left before the support fleet opens fire.
There are many time units in the Alpha civilization. The one shown here is a smaller unit, which is roughly equal to one tenth of a second in the human world.
As Ke Lan breathed in and out, the number jumped dozens of times, and the voice kept urging Ke Lan: "You are now 24,486 meters away from the Crown of Ashes. Based on the standard data of this machine and the surrounding terrain, the maximum maneuvering speed you can reach is 120 kilometers per hour. It will take about 12 minutes to reach the Crown of Ashes at full speed. Please pay attention to the time."
"Don't rush me. I got it." Ke Lan said unhappily, turned around and started running towards the Crown of Ashes.
Although the surface of this asteroid is covered with crisscrossing lava rivers, there are still many isolated islands in these lava rivers that can be used as a landing point. These islands are formed by the accumulation of some minerals with higher melting points, and their stability is not bad. Using these islands as springboards, Ke Lan manipulated the metal colossus to continuously approach the Crown of Ashes.
But in the process, all the black beetles gathered in the surrounding craters were attracted to Ke Lan - he had only traveled less than two kilometers when a large black group of beetles followed him. At a glance, there were at least five or six hundred of them.
Although the individual strength of these beetles is not very good, they are still very annoying when there are too many of them. For Ke Lan, he does not have any extra time to waste on these bugs.
So, he pushed hard on the ground and jumped directly into the air at the same height as the swarm of insects. He turned around, and the plasma charging cannon shot out a ball of dark blue plasma without any warning. This ball of plasma flew into the swarm of insects, just like a piece of eraser sweeping across a canvas, and a large blank area suddenly appeared in the middle of the swarm of insects.
Ke Lan actually used the recoil of the plasma cannon to float backwards nearly a hundred meters and landed steadily on a protruding rock in the lava river.
The spare ammunition of the plasma charging cannon in the heads-up display is still "infinite", but a new data of "barrel durability" has been added. This is a reverse progress bar. The number above the progress bar tells Ke Lan that this barrel has 85% durability left.
At first, Ke Lan thought that each shot would consume 5% of the barrel durability, but after a few seconds, the progress bar actually jumped a small space to the right, and the durability recovered from 85% to 86%.
"It can actually repair itself?" Ke Lan was a little surprised. It seems that as long as the body's energy is not exhausted, this plasma charging cannon can indeed fire indefinitely, as long as the shooting interval is maintained for a certain period of time.
If you wait until the cooldown is complete before firing each time, the durability consumption rate will be much faster than the recovery rate. When the durability drops to a certain level, the entire gun will probably be scrapped.
This reminded Ke Lan of the Gatling gun on the helicopter when he was playing a certain war game - that thing had no remaining bullet count, only a temperature bar. If the player held down the left button, the Gatling gun would soon be unable to fire due to overheating, but if short bursts were continuously fired, the temperature bar would hardly rise, and it was entirely possible to achieve unlimited firepower suppression while maintaining a certain rate of fire.
"I just don't know how much energy this machine has left..."
The armor-piercing sword uses external power supply, so it is easy to see how many energy crystals are left. However, the main body of this metal colossus does not display data on the remaining energy. This makes Ke Lan feel uncomfortable - what if the metal colossus suddenly loses power halfway through the trial?
As if to answer his inner question, the voice once again rang in his ears: "The Blasphemer mech has its own external energy collection system. In the environment of the 'Ashes' asteroid, as long as the mech maintains contact with the ground, it can continuously replenish energy loss."
"As long as you keep your feet on the ground, you have unlimited power, right?" Ke Lan was stunned. "This design is indeed awesome, but I'm curious why this mecha is called 'Blasphemer'... Aren't you extremely devout in your belief in the great gods? You know, in medieval Europe, if someone dared to give their carriage such a name, the Inquisition would probably crucify that person in a matter of minutes... The guy who named this mecha has a big problem."
The voice did not answer Ke Lan, but repeated the countdown for the support attack and the remaining distance for Ke Lan like a tape recorder, and asked Ke Lan to "pay attention to the time."
"You want to avoid the topic, right?... I'm suddenly a little curious. Is your trial program intelligent? Is it capable of communication? Are you pretending to be stupid?" Ke Lan asked repeatedly.
"No answer was found in the authorized database, so no response can be given," the voice replied.
Could it be that the trial program is something like artificial intelligence? Ke Lan couldn't help but mutter in his heart, but he was very interested in the database mentioned by the other party. If he could get this database, many problems could be easily solved...
It was also thanks to my ability to speak Alpha language, otherwise, even if someone else got the information in the database, they would not be able to interpret it at all...
Wait a minute!
Ke Lan was startled, and he suddenly thought of something!
He is not the only one who can understand the language of Alpha Civilization. The founder of the heretical sect can also understand it... If this database falls into his hands, then...
"Can you tell me... what's in the jar on the stone platform outside the trial area that was taken away by the intruder?"
"One of three living data storage devices, containing one-third of the database," the voice replied.
really!
