How should I put it? The result was not what most people expected.
Nothing happened.
"AIC is still alive?"
"Who knows."
Some members chatted quietly, and then asked Joyce: "Head, have you got its calculation program?"
"Here."
Joyce took out the hard drive and put it into the terminal on the vehicle. In order to successfully extract this 400-year-old machine, they specially prepared a full-format parser.
The short loading screen flashed by, and the system sound sounded in the vehicle: [The original version of the worm was found and has been isolated.]
"..."
Even if they are mentally prepared, they still feel discouraged.
Joyce didn't give up. He instead set up a quarantine area in the terminal, ignored the warning, and opened the hard drive in the quarantine area.
A pixel AIC appears on the screen, an irregular sphere with the iconic dark blue round hole. A pair of arms and legs composed of black lines appear, jumping up, down, and jumping up again in the screen.
The line of subtitles below: GAME OVER
Cheerful 8bit music flows inside the vehicle.
A very AIC-style prank.
"Read the hard drive size." Joyce still didn't give up.
【363kb.】Terminal system tone answer.
The vehicle fell into dead silence, with only the AIC on the screen beating tirelessly.
"We were fooled again." Joyce turned off the hard drive, his pale face showing no emotion or sorrow.
The members lowered their heads and said nothing. Fighting against such an opponent... it's really hard to describe.
No matter what, they have to face the AIC who may or may not be dead again.
"Everyone needs to rest for 12 hours." Joyce said, connecting to the transport ship and preparing to launch several electromagnetic pulse strikers.
"Twelve hours later, we entered the base again."
Just like the weakness of carbon-based organisms is genetic weapons, the weakness of silicon-based organisms like AIC is electromagnetic pulse weapons.
"receive."
Tess's voice came from the terminal, and then her voice became urgent: "Please wait a moment. There is a flying object approaching us. It has entered the atmosphere. It is a reconnaissance ship."
Joyce's eyes narrowed slightly, and he communicated with the other four vehicles: "The plan is cancelled, let's leave here. A scout ship is approaching. Tess, move to the sky to meet us."
It's obviously not a good sign to have other ships approaching. No matter who comes, they are uninvited guests.
A shadow fell in the dusky sky like a sandstorm. It was like a huge thing pressing down on the roof. The bottom compartment of the transport ship was opened, and five vehicles were towed back to the transport ship one after another.
The members were taken for treatment and rest, and Joyce and the three of them went all the way to the captain's cabin.
"How far is the scout ship from us?" Joyce asked.
The captain, who was operating quickly on the bridge, replied: "The atmosphere above us is 2,000 kilometers above us."
The captain brought up a picture and maximized it. This was a picture captured by a small detector.
In the thin atmosphere, a streamlined reconnaissance ship floats steadily, with a green clover pattern sprayed on the ship's hull fleeting in the picture.
"The Free Sect..." Chen Yue recognized it and frowned slightly. "Are you sure they are targeting us?"
She did not remember the conflict between the Eternal Life Society and the Natural Sect.
"They stopped right above us. I don't think there is such a coincidence." The captain replied and asked Joyce sideways. "Do you want to contact the other side?"
"No, these freaks who think they are the successors of the earth will not be very friendly to us." Joyce's black hair was stuck to his forehead in strands, and his whole person looked tired and weak. It took a long time just to blink.
It takes a lot of effort to open your eyelids.
"Turn the engine power to maximum and avoid them."
Joyce gave the order.
The message soon sounded throughout the ship. Several people in the captain's cabin came to the wall and fixed their bodies to the wall with strong magnetic devices.
[Countdown to full power start of the RS-5 power engine.10...9...]
The transport ship floating smoothly in the air gradually lifted up, its bow tilted toward the sky.
[3...2...1, engine starts.]
The moment the countdown ended, the balance engine stopped firing, and the ship briefly fell into a state of weightlessness. All unfixed objects floated into the air. And the next second - a huge tail flame hundreds of meters long and several times larger than the transport ship burst out!
Floating objects fell at several times the speed. An umbrella-like sound barrier appeared around the bow of the ship. The huge pressure caused the members inside the ship to cling to the ground, and their muscles rippled in circles, and their bodies were almost pressed into the wall.
A few minutes later, the spacecraft passed through the Van Allen radiation belts and successfully entered space.
The speed of the spacecraft stabilized. Joyce took the lead in freeing himself from the wall. The captain and Chen Yue followed closely behind.
Mu Su and Tess stayed on the wall. One fell asleep, and the other thought it would solve the problem. Anyway, it was fixed and did not affect her thinking.
"Where are they?" Joyce asked.
The captain brought up the radar panel and displayed it on the holographic screen. A red dot was at the edge of the radar. It neither followed nor left.
"You are following us, and you are really looking for trouble." Chen Yue clicked her tongue.
"It doesn't matter, no matter what the other party's purpose is, they can't attack us in space." Joyce stared deeply at the red dot and said, not knowing what he was thinking.
In fact, his judgment was wrong.
The speed of the reconnaissance ship is much faster than that of the transport ship. Especially the distance between the two is less than 70,000 kilometers - an insignificant distance in space.
The moment the chase began, an energy beam shot out from the reconnaissance ship and caught up with the transport ship in the blink of an eye.
A layer of plasma shield lit up, blocking the attack. However, the vibration spread throughout the transport ship, and the members woke up from their deep sleep.
They tried to call for help, but found that all communications were blocked and no messages could be sent.
A transport ship without combat capability is worse than a merchant ship. No matter how unwilling the members of the Eternal Life Society are, they can only flee.
The transport ship turned towards the asteroid belt, and the pursuit continued for several days.
The weapons carried by the reconnaissance ship are not enough for it to destroy the transport ship quickly, and it can only continuously consume the latter's energy.
Ten days flew by.
In the vast solar system, no one found the two chasing ships. Joyce and the others passed through the asteroid belt, and Jupiter appeared in the field of view. This was the new plan: to use Jupiter's gravitational slingshot to throw away the chasing enemy.
Just three days later, when the transport ship was about to enter the gravitational range of Jupiter, an energy beam penetrated the plasma shield.
The transport ship has run out of energy.
Several members of the crew who were close to the breach were forced to take precautions and were sucked into space along with the hull fragments.
"Everyone enter the escape cabin!" Joyce, who had stayed up all night for several days, gave the final order with bloodshot eyes and a stern look on his face.
Members of the ship hurriedly entered the escape capsule and ejected from the stern of the transport ship.
Joyce, Chen Yue and others boarded two escape capsules from Mu Su.
Chen Yue lay in front of the window and watched Mu Su's escape capsule fly out alongside them.
At this moment, an energy beam came from the horizon and penetrated the escape capsule.
Chen Yue's eyes reflected this short burst of explosion.