Chapter 741: Chapter 738 Bizarre Scene
Half a day later, over sixty warships approached the Tos Civilization’s colonial planet and began to slowly advance.
“Gentlen, we must not be careless! Although ground electronic devices are likely to be destroyed by gamma-ray waves, underground facilities might still be intact. The thickness of the underground bases of the Tos Civilization is a full ten kiloters. Our gamma ray cannons cannot penetrate the underground bases that are 10 kiloters deep.”
A battlefield commander was moving around in the spaceship, loudly addressing his troops.
Digital viruses could not infect machines with a computing power of less than one hundred million operations per second, so these old-fashioned devices were all utilized.
“Technicians, increase vigilance, and make good use of the newly developed detection devices. If any abnormal situation occurs on the spaceship, report the information to the Central Command Center in a tily manner!”
“Yes!”
Nowadays battlefield communication, besides radios, also makes use of improved models of telegrams. These telegraph machines use “on and off” and “long and short” electrical currents to replace text for transmission, physically isolating the possibility of hosting viruses.
As the top technical advisor, Zhang Yuan would stay at the Central Command Center to monitor the spaceship’s central control system for any digital viruses, and he would not personally participate in the battlefield.
Such a large, carrier-level spaceship, although most of its artificial intelligence had been deactivated and replacents made where possible, still had a small number of intelligent systems active, such as the ion engine, curvature engine, internal monitoring of the spaceship, and so battlefield observation equipnt. These functionalities could not possibly be entirely disabled, so there was still a risk of infection.
These scientists had a crucial task—not only did they have to find ways to counter the digital virus, but if so key functionalities were destroyed, they also needed to find ways to reboot them.
Zhang Yuan glanced at one of the monitor screens; these soldiers were mostly young people of the new generation. Seeing their youthful faces, he couldn’t help but feel emotional about how fast ti flew; it had been over a hundred years since their operation on the Dyson Sphere. The forr rookies had beco veterans, but fortunately, the human combat capability still existed.
There were also a large number of soldiers from the Half-sphere Civilization around, all wearing special Power Armor suits. They sat immobile with excellent discipline.
This carrier represented the combined forces of the New Human Civilization and the Half-sphere people.
General Guo, the highest commander of the carrier, said through the broadcast in the Central Control Room, “…Gentlen, the tasks we need to focus on now are twofold. First, to capture more samples of digital viruses, and second, to land the armor-piercing bullets as deep into the ground as possible, then drop electromagnetic pulse bombs into the depths. At the sa ti, be prepared for the appearance of the enemy’s forces. If enemies appear that exceed our expectations, initiate curvature navigation retreat imdiately!”
“Understood!” All the commanders showed a serious expression.
With the final mobilization completed, the soldiers began to enter shuttles, taking off from the carrier.
Zhang Yuan licked his dry lips, confird that the communications system was error-free, then suddenly halted Dr. Li who was nearby, “Do you feel like a storm is brewing?”
Dr. Li looked at him briefly, speaking with a hint of worry, “I wonder, are strong artificial intelligences really that easy to deal with? Even though it hasn’t had the chance to grow and strengthen, it’s still a creation of a Level 5 Civilization. Could it really only have digital viruses as its thod of attack? I think it may have even more powerful weapons.”
“Let’s hope so… but in any case, we’ve already done our utmost. The preparation for this ti is also very thorough.” Zhang Yuan sighed and patted Dr. Li’s shoulder, “Just do our job well…”
In the Central Control Departnt, each of the computing experts carried a laptop, even capable of visually estimating data and manually calculating trajectories. These five hundred experts, without the aid of central supercomputing, could manage 30%-50% of the carrier’s controls with just the tools at hand, which was quite impressive.
Together with about a hundred thousand soldiers and remote support from the War Star in the rear, including various escape chanisms… the preparations were truly very comprehensive.
“Let’s hope everything goes smoothly!” Zhang Yuan silently hoped.
As ti ticked by and their destination neared, the fleet began to investigate the planetary facilities.
A high-speed shuttle lowered a long nanorope, attempting to capture a large iron ball on the silvery square.
Unfortunately, a semi-transparent glass cover on the square deflected the rope.
After the first mission failed, the shuttle began its second mission, which involved a long rope with a data virus capturer at its end, designed to guide the digital virus into the supercomputer aboard the shuttle.
After a while, an expert inside the shuttle sent a ssage, “The main host inside is still affected by the digital virus, showing signs of being out of control. Fortunately, we’ve tily disconnected the communication with the front-end capturer!”
Zhang Yuan urgently asked, “Did you catch the virus?”
“Yes, we should have captured it!”
“Co back, don’t delay.”
After the shuttle successfully returned, a group of experts began studying the viruses again and transported a small portion of the virus back to The Kyushu. However, such research wouldn’t yield results anyti soon.
This fact made everyone feel waves of concern, aning the bombardnt from the Gamma Ray Cannon hadn’t affected the Strong Artificial Intelligence too much; it still had the capability to transmit the digital virus.
General Guo on the carrier remained silent for a while before ordering, “Execute backup plan number two!”
“Captain’s order, execute plan number two!”
“Plan number two, attack the ground, three minutes preparation ti!”
One missile after another began bombing the ground, creating bright sparks.
These armor-piercing bullets burrowed deep into the ground, attempting to damage the interior of the base.
Each armor-piercing bullet weighed several dozen tons; when launched electromagnetically from the carrier, the trendous reaction force caused the entire carrier to tremble slightly.
“Have you observed anything?”
With the real battle underway, Zhang Yuan felt his heart racing and beads of cold sweat forming on his forehead; he asked a battlefield observation officer.
The officer replied, “Report, everything is normal! The first three large armor-piercing bullets have successfully penetrated the ground to a depth of ten kiloters, and the fourth missile is targeting the primary objective area: the silvery-white square!”
“Wait a second… sothing’s happening!”
But at that mont, the voice of the officer suddenly changed.
His voice beca hurried, “Report! The fourth missile has deviated significantly! The deviation is substantial, and it is estimated it will not hit the target. We are investigating the reason…”
A bizarre scene occurred, as these missiles inexplicably avoided the silvery-white square, exploding 8 kiloters away from the target, leaving everything within completely unhard!
At this sight, Zhang Yuan felt an eerie silence around him, and cold sweat imdiately broke out.
“Is sothing controlling these missiles?”
General Guo loudly replied, “Impossible, these missiles are guided by gyros! They use gyroscopes, not conventional electronic navigation! How could a gyroscope possibly be controlled?”
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