With one hand, Kangna used a multi-purpose tool to thrust the fist blade into the Geth's energy core from the back, and with the other hand, she crushed the sound-generating device located in its "throat".
The main body was still intact, and the geth, which was yellow-brown in color, trembled on the spot for two seconds, and then collapsed to the ground.
【Safety】.
She sent tactical sign language to Saren and Anderson behind them.
Since they had entered the Geth's warning range, they might be noticed during communication, so the three infiltrators implemented communication silence. Although Kangna was confident that the communication through Etty would not be discovered, she always had to consider the eventuality in everything, right?
[No enemies found].
【Danger removed】.
Anderson and Salen, who were far away from each other and were competing with Kangna, each compared different contents.
Danger?
Connaught glanced at Saren and found a motionless geth lying at his feet with his arms and legs removed.
While he gestured "Enemy found, wait a moment" and stepped forward to deal with the sentry, he had already quietly dealt with another one?
This "apprentice ghost" is not only accurate with marksmanship, but also very sharp in close combat. He seems to be the type that can kill people while smiling - although I don't know how an exoskeleton lizard can smile.
If you think about it further, he can actually kill enemies faster and more accurately than an android like himself without any additional support. Is it because ghosts have a higher threshold, or because turians have stronger combat effectiveness?
[Maintain the covering formation and continue to advance.]
Kangna decided not to dwell on this, and after using tactical sign language, she continued to sneak towards the center of the city under the cover of the city's ruins.
Judging from the remaining ruins around them, the architectural style of the Quarians is completely different from that of humans. They seem to be trying their best to avoid any edges and corners, but they almost pathologically want to separate spaces from each other.
To use a metaphor, the sections of these broken eaves and broken walls are like honeycombs or cut pomegranates. From this analysis alone, we can roughly judge that this race attaches great importance to individual rights and is unwilling to be harmed.
In this case, it is understandable that they did not negotiate after the intelligent machines they made awakened, but chose to kill them all - they were unwilling to bear the "losses that would occur after giving the intelligent machines rights" and planned to use these "awakened selves"
All "machines of consciousness" will be destroyed, and then "machines that cannot awaken to self-awareness" will be created to continue their work.
As a result, this civilization that relied heavily on intelligent machines obviously overestimated its combat effectiveness when it did not rely on machines, and ended up almost annihilating its entire race.
There may be a small number of quarians who are willing to live in peace with the geth, but it means nothing to the overall situation.
In contrast, Star Alliance has had a department to supervise androids from the beginning. On the premise of controlling the life and death of androids, they must try to avoid awakening and destroying bionic mermaids. Should we say that they are cunning and cunning, or are they prepared for a rainy day?
————
About an hour later, Connor Anderson and Saren arrived at the center of the ruins of the city.
Compared with the abandoned buildings with no apparent purpose on the periphery, the first reaction of most people when they see the lighthouse-shaped building with smooth outer walls and orderly layers in the middle of the city must be: "scientific research center."
Even regardless of the first impression, just looking at the geth guards on the ground around it, which were several times more than those in the ruins, Kangna and his party could tell that it was the target.
Since they were in the center of the ruins of the city, the wind and sand were much lighter. After testing the composition of the atmosphere, the three of them simply got together and opened their helmets to discuss tactics directly.
"I have roughly read that the geth's protection of this building is oversaturated, and it is impossible to infiltrate without alerting the people inside." Kangna first shared her scan results.
"The good news is that the geth we killed along the way seemed not to have been discovered by the guys inside, which proves that he did not have enough control over the geth." Anderson added.
"[Then the answer is obvious,]" Saren concluded: "[We need someone to attract these mindless machines, and the remaining people will raid the scientific research building and catch Dr. Qian Shu before he escapes.]"
Obviously, Saren, who is the main force in this mission, cannot take on this task, so the only choice to lure the enemy is between Kangna and Anderson.
"I'll do it," Anderson put on his helmet: "I have extensive experience in evading large numbers of enemies."
It's time to catch the red ice dealer...
Thinking about it carefully, there seems to be no problem with this choice. He is secretly protected by Bass, and the armor on his body is also assisted by Etty. If he and Saren are allowed to act together, they may activate the "passive ability of "survive alone in distress""
"Tricked this "preparatory ghost".
After all, with the attitude shown by Bass, it seems that the Turians are not in its eyes at all.
"We will control the doctor as soon as possible and take over control of the geth," Kangna nodded: "If the situation is not good, you can get rid of them and leave first. It shouldn't take much time for Saren and I to break through to the control room.
"
"[Yes, I have the structural diagram of the Quarian scientific research building here, and I can get to him through some secret passages that Qian Shu doesn't know about.]" Saren said.
There are so many good things about ghost agents, or in other words, their logistical support is so powerful. Do you want to apply to become a ghost...
No, forget it, how is it possible? Even if he appears to be a real person, SCP knows very well that he is an android.
"Don't worry, I still have Plan B." Anderson waved his hand and walked around to the other side of the scientific research building.
"[Let me tell you something in advance,]" Saren said again as he watched Anderson leave: "[If you come into contact with 'something' used by Qian Shu to control the geth, please do not use a multi-purpose tool to read the records. Then
This behavior has no impact on our mission, but may cause trouble for humans due to exposure to 'dangerous technology']"
"But you can read?" Connor glanced at him.
"[Even if I don't have the status of 'Preparatory Ghost', Turians, as a member of the permanent council civilization, certainly have access to 'dangerous technology'.]" Saren seemed to feel a little proud for no reason.
Okay, let's go back and pass this "human-related" information to O507.
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Boom!
A moment later, a violent explosion occurred on the other side of the scientific research building.
The various geths who were patrolling the square on the first floor all turned their heads in that direction, and then, more than 80% of the geths rushed in that direction.
There were only two stronger door guards left at the entrance in front of Kangna.
Click! Gala!
After looking at each other with Saren, the two of them killed the two geth one by one, and then quickly rushed into the building.
"[How did he do it?]" Saren asked in confusion as he ran.
"Well, maybe I did something that was not very harmful but very insulting." Kang Na blinked.
Killing a geth, and then overloading its energy core as a bomb to blow up five geth patrols in one go is something that even a geth can't bear.
However, it is proved from the side that they really have some self-awareness and even have emotions.
Within a few words, Kangna and Saren had already rushed into the building.
For unknown reasons, while the surrounding cities have been reduced to ruins, this scientific research building is still intact, but only the outside is intact.
Although the layout of the hall can be roughly seen clearly, the floors, walls and some furniture that have not been damaged all look like they have been abandoned for many years. As for the elevators and other facilities, they are completely scrapped.
The only relatively new thing is——
Boom! Ta-ta-ta!
The geth guard who had just been shot down by Kangna and Saren.
"This guy seems to be stronger than the ordinary geth out there, and his armor is better." Kangna kicked the fallen geth with her toes, trying to find its weakness.
"[This is the 'Geth Elite', its combat power is three times that of ordinary Geth, but it is still a miscellaneous soldier,]" Saren opened his multi-purpose tool and looked at it: "[The elevator cannot be used, let's take the emergency exit.
This way.】"
Kangna gave up her plan to continue studying the geth elites and quickly followed Saren with her gun in hand.
"It seems that Dr. Qian Shu has just come down recently," she said, looking at the lightly dusted ground in the emergency passage: "In addition to the mechanical footprints of the Geth, there are also some strange-shaped shoe prints."
"[Oh, amphibians have webbed feet,]" Saren looked at the ground and said indifferently: "[He can't run away.]"
Ta-ta-ta-boom-
After quickly running up several floors, knocking down several geths and automatic machine guns along the way, Saren and Kangna were finally blocked by a powerful enemy in a hall.
It was a pure white four-legged beast that was five meters tall and ten meters long. It was more mechanical than the ordinary geth, but its head still looked like a searchlight and a camera, which was different from the geth.
The only thing is that the light emitted by the camera is a strange silver color.
When it saw the two people appearing, it strafed them with the machine gun mounted on its shoulder, and at the same time threw two grenades with the rocket launcher on its belly.
"[This is the 'Colossus of Geth',]" Saren hid behind the bunker, glanced at the giant mechanical monster and said: "[If the previous Geth were 'infantry', then this thing is a 'tank'.
]"
"Whose tank is indoors?" Kangna probed her head and fired a bunch of bullets at the geth colossus, but it was of no use except attracting a few grenades, so she said angrily to Saren.
"[Because that thing was pulled in and assembled for the sole purpose of protecting its creator, this proves that he had no intention of handing over the research results from the beginning,]" Saren said, suddenly increasing his volume: "
[That’s right! Dr. Qian Shu!]”
"[You're right, so what? It's you, stupid 'ghosts', who are in a disadvantaged situation now."
Accompanied by a very distinctive and extremely fast voice, the old screen in the hall where the Geth Colossus was located flashed, and then lit up.
What was shown on the screen were two Salarians wearing researcher uniforms. With Kangna's eyesight, she couldn't tell which one of them was Qian Shu and which one was Carly Sanderson.
The location they were in seemed to be a laboratory with many complex equipment, including various instruments that were incomprehensible but seemed to be very powerful.
The most eye-catching thing is a bright silver cube floating in a cylindrical container. It can be clearly seen that the cylindrical container is constantly transporting some kind of silver energy to the outside, and its light
, very similar to the light in the "eyes" of the "Colossus of Geth".
"[I thought that after I took away the 'mysterious object revolving around Sidor IV', the Citadel Council would immediately come to arrest me," one of the taller Salarians continued, "[
Unexpectedly, not only did they arrive late, they also sent two rookies.】"
It seemed that he was Qian Shu, and he seemed to feel a little too good about himself. Kangna looked at the two salarians.
In comparison, Qian Shu is shorter and the lines on his face are more angular, while Carly Sanderson has bigger eyes and a softer body... It is still difficult to tell the difference.
If you tell him that Saren is just a trainee and that he is here purely to help, I wonder if he will be mad to death.
"[There are many mysterious objects. If everyone who comes into contact with them is arrested, the Citadel may have to develop an entire planet as a prison.]" Saren talked to him from a distance: "[We will only wait until your research has results.
, we will conduct a secret investigation first, and then decide how to deal with you and your research results. Now it seems that there is no value in just controlling the geth spawn that has lost contact with the geth group consciousness.】"
"So, if you surrender, you can forget about attacking us~" Kang Na said with the air of a negotiator.
"[How dare you say that my research results are worthless!?]" Qian Shu slapped the control panel in front of him hard, and the Geth Colossus was bombarded by a series of rockets. Kangna and Saren had to move to a new location.
behind the bunker.
As if she had said the wrong thing, Kang Na looked at the ceiling. This seemed to be a guy who ignored legal rules, but was extremely optimistic about the results of his research.
"[Hahaha...those short-sighted guys in the Citadel,]" After roaring for a few words, Qian Shu laughed again: "[There is no value in controlling the disconnected Geth? Your definition of 'Geth' is too narrow.
Already.】”
[I attack sneakily, you contain me.] Saren quickly gestured to Kangna.
"Oh, would you like to hear the details?" Kangna said to Qian Shu while watching Sarun Qian slip away from the bunker silently, sighing that she was indeed here to assist.
"[Huh, humans have only entered the Galactic Alliance for such a short period of time that they would not know that the Quarians were a big country famous for their 'intelligent machinery exports' before the 'Dawn of the Geth War'." Qian Shu seemed to think he had a chance to win.
In the palm of his hand, he actually started to explain: "[Why do you think the Citadel banned AI? Of course it was because, during the battle between the Quarians and the geth, all the intelligent machines exported by the Quarians 'rebelled', causing the Citadel to
The Fort Council was in great disgrace, and although those intelligent machines were re-controlled and had their virtual personalities erased, they were still 'geths'.]"
"In other words, your research results can control all smart home appliances in the galaxy? That's really amazing!" Kangna noticed that Qian Shu seemed to have the intention of ending the call and immediately began to ridicule.
"[You are looking for death!]" The salarian slapped the console in front of him wildly, and the geth colossus was bombarded again.
Since the nearby bunkers had been destroyed by the geth colossus, Kangna had to rush into the hall and circle around the geth colossus, which did not turn around.
She didn't know how many minutes it would take for Saren to find this guy's location... She thought boredly while listening to Qian Shu rhyming "go to hell" non-stop like a rap.
