This was a long-planned ambush against Zhou You himself.
Judging from the shape of the gun, it is definitely not a weapon made by humans for personal use.
This is a "sniper cannon" developed by rats after they mastered the principle of thermal weapons, which is suitable for their own body size and can be used jointly by multiple rats.
It took two months for the mouse to finally learn to make and use thermal weapons.
The shooting accuracy of this gun is very high and it is very threatening.
The bad news isn't just that.
As soon as the sniper cannon below missed, the rats immediately started reloading in a hurry.
Zhou You originally planned to swoop down and kill the rats in this sniper position, but driven by his unparalleled vigilance, he suddenly turned aside and changed direction again, but he dodged another sniper hidden in the bushes.
Sniper bombardment.
It was obvious that the commander among the rats had mastered the movements of this difficult hunter and specially set up an elite artillery position on the top of the mountain, just to bring him down.
After completing this dodge, Zhou You gave up on landing to kill the enemy, but decisively changed direction again.
He knew he had to go.
Sure enough, his change of direction actually avoided two intersecting lines of predicted ballistic fire.
Although there was a lot of cover around him, Zhou You intuitively believed that the rats had at least ambushed more than ten such sniper positions on the top of the mountain.
After a moment's thought, Zhou You chose to lower his altitude slightly, dive to a position two or three meters above the ground, and then use the cover of the trees on the mountain to dodge and maneuver extremely dexterously, almost flying close to the ground and advancing quickly.
After a long period of self-training, Zhou You's flying skills are not inferior to those of real birds.
Not only that, after using the ultra-thin high-pressure cylinder originally used in the three-dimensional maneuvering device as additional output power, Zhouyou can not only use the interaction between wings and airflow to change direction, but also eject airflow from the high-pressure airflow nozzles under the palms of both hands.
, to obtain the turning maneuverability that violates aerodynamics.
Ever since, he broke through the Mouse's sniper position interception line without any danger.
However, when he had just raised his altitude and was about to speed up from above the woods, reaching a speed comparable to that of a top homing pigeon, his ear structure, which simulated the auditory system of an owl, vaguely heard a buzzing sound above his head.
Zhou You looked up to the sky and saw a scene that stunned him.
It was a very crude and slow fleet, consisting of a total of 15 aircraft.
The structure of these aircraft is very simple and looks like a simple model aircraft made of the simplest steel frame stretched with cloth.
The front end of these model aircraft is equipped with a very World War I-style front-mounted propeller.
Zhou You did not hear the unique noise of an internal combustion engine, so he speculated that the propellers were driven by electricity.
Under the steel frame, another mouse pilot hangs.
Above the mouse pilot is the battery pack used to power the propellers.
Sure enough.
This fleet of rats, which looked like a grassroots team at first glance, was flying at a relatively high altitude and was obviously coming from a very far away place.
At present, Zhou You can only observe with the naked eye and cannot tell what type of weapons this fleet carries, but what is certain is that the rat pilots are not here for tourism, and the target is him.
Zhou You hesitated for a moment, then began to raise his altitude and fly upward.
What is certain is that pilots should be considered an important strategic resource for both humans and mice.
What's more, these mice's aircraft look so crude. Without automated flaps, they can only manually adjust the angle of the horizontal wings to control the flight height and direction. Then the training cost of these mouse pilots will only be higher than that of human pilots.
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Therefore, Zhouyou can let go of those rat soldiers in sniper positions who are cheaper to train and can be easily mass-produced, but he has to eat these rat pilots in one bite.
In the process of rising, the traveling body is also rapidly changing its shape.
Previously, he imitated the shape and flying posture of a homing pigeon, in order to obtain a relatively easy long-distance endurance, but now the wingspan of the traveling wings has begun to narrow slightly, the feathers have become slightly thicker, and the feet have begun to change their shape.
This time, he simulated a peregrine falcon, which although not large in size, has the combat power to dominate the air.
The soles of his feet are shrinking, the toes are lengthening, sharp and tough nails have grown out like raptor claws, and the bones and tendons of the toe joints have also begun to become thicker.
At the same time, the surrounding thighs and calves are also shortening, the bones are becoming thicker, and the structure of the knees is also beginning to become thicker.
If anyone could see him at this time, they would be surprised to find that his wandering legs have turned into a thick but short structure similar to that of a raptor.
In just ten seconds, Zhou You completed the simulation of the peregrine falcon form.
He suddenly flapped his wings, stretched out his left arm and blew out a ball of high-pressure gas. His body suddenly moved a long distance to the right, completely avoiding the warhead fired from above his head.
This rat aerial squadron is not equipped with precision-guided air-to-air missiles like humans.
Obviously, although rats control many missile bases, they have not yet mastered sufficiently advanced semiconductor technology.
In other words, Zhouyou's single-man air force is different from traditional combat power. He has no heat source on his body, so the most proficient heat source tracking guidance technology used by humans in the past is completely ineffective. As for the image guidance combined with AI algorithms, humans themselves have no idea.
I haven't figured it out yet, but of course the mouse can't even see the door now.
Therefore, the weapons used by the mouse pilots at this time were not even as good as machine guns. They were just short-barreled firearms mounted on top of their helmets.
The bullets that are currently being avoided are coming from the gunfire from above.
This level of attack is of no use to him now and poses no threat at all.
In the successive high-speed changes of direction, the altitude of the flight increased faster and faster, and the distance to the Mouse Squadron became closer and closer.
Finally, Zhou You and Mouse's flying squadrons reached complete parallelism.
He broke into the enemy formation.
These fifteen World War I-style rat squadrons did not fall into panic, but immediately dispersed in all directions in an orderly manner, and also chose a clockwise rotation posture, trying to turn around and aim at the center of the circle.
If the Mouse Squadron were facing normal human fixed-wing aircraft, then there would be absolutely no problem with this combat strategy.
However, what they are facing is a robot that has used artificial means to obtain small-range, high-frequency maneuverability that surpasses that of birds.
The next moment, Zhou You used the super propulsion power obtained by flapping his wings combined with stretching his arms behind him to fly directly above one of the Mouse fighter planes, and passed over its wings.
At the moment of passing, the sharp claws of the wandering feet scratched the cloth wings of the Rat fighter plane.
During the paddling process, the claws swing left and right at an extremely high frequency.
The final effect of Zhou You's actions was that two obvious holes appeared on the wings of the simple aircraft he was targeting.
Not only that, at the moment when it completely passed the wing, the left and right claws of the circle retracted at the same time, grabbed the iron frame supporting the wing and pulled it upward with force, destroying its flight balance.
After completing this operation, Zhou You immediately changed direction to the left and headed towards the plane on the left.
The aircraft whose wings and dynamic balance had been damaged by him began to fall vertically due to insufficient lift.
Since he was at the right height at this time, the mouse pilot on the plane just raised his head slightly and pointed the muzzle of his helmet at Zhou You.
The other party fired.
Zhou You immediately rolled and just avoided the opponent's shot.
After the roll, the rotation becomes back-down and face-up.
He stretched his feet upward, and the three sharp claws of each foot simultaneously scratched the lower abdomen of the mouse pilot above.
Although the mouse has its own hair in addition to its flight suit, it is just like tissue paper in front of the claws that are roaming around at this time.
The mouse pilot was disemboweled in an instant, and bright red blood poured out from the six huge wounds that penetrated the abdominal cavity.
The negative pressure caused by high-altitude and high-speed movement even tore out the rat pilot's intestines.
Although the mouse has a very strong vitality, it is obvious that it will not survive after being so severely injured.
As the rat pilot quickly lost consciousness, the plane began to plummet head-on.
At this time, the ferocious "Peregrine Falcon" traveling around has set its sights on the third target.
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The whole aerial combat process did not last long.
About three minutes later, Zhou You transformed into a frigate bird, and continued to soar toward Lelai County with its wide wingspan and the longer flight distance gained by flapping its wings.
As for the fifteen rat fighter planes, they all fell and turned into piles of minced meat on the ground, as well as blazing flames and piles of scrap metal.
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An hour later, Zhou You settled down his eldest daughter, who was already able to crawl around on the ground, and played with his youngest son and daughter for a while, then went to Ding Ling's laboratory.
After a period of time, Ding Ling has been recognized by the National Academy of Sciences and has become a formal member. She has a laboratory of her own in the same building and has several assistants to form a project team.
Among Ding Ling's assistants are two PhDs from the National Academy of Sciences and more than a dozen publicly selected technical staff.
When Zhou You arrived, Ding Ling and others had just copied the information recorded in the bioelectromagnetic signal memory device. At this time, they were splitting it into several parts, which would be imported into high-performance computers equipped with I9 processors and 4090 graphics cards.
, use artificial intelligence AI algorithm to analyze it.
This set of software was jointly developed by many computer teachers from technical schools in Lelai County, computer programming enthusiasts in the area, and a senior engineer who works in a well-known domestic factory and is responsible for the research and development of artificial intelligence. It was also proposed by Ding Ling herself.
As for the iteration requirements, one version is iterated almost every day, and so far more than 50% of the information has been basically identified.
Ding Ling is now constantly translating these regular messages into the electromagnetic wave language of mice.
Previously, Zhou You had informed the Lelai County Government and Kangyue County Government about the rat ambush and sniper attack he encountered on the way back, and also informed Zhang Jing of the matter via satellite phone.
Zhou You believes that the technological level of mice has reached a certain level.
When he saw the first sniper cannon, it meant that rats all over the world had begun to equip themselves with sniper cannons.
When he encountered the first airplane, it also meant that rats around the world had almost begun to equip airplanes one after another.
Therefore, the army of rat organizations cannot wait long to attack the few remaining large-scale human gathering places around the world.
The human response is to increase the scope and intensity of patrols and capture the movements of rats as accurately as possible.
Rongcheng, Lelai, Kangyue and other regions began to send a large number of airships to the outside world.
Some bottom-of-the-box all-weather, high-altitude cruising solar-powered drones were also dispatched to scan the land efficiently.
In the past, human aerial reconnaissance was basically risk-free.
But today is different from the past. Mouse has air power. Even if it is only a World War I-level aircraft, it is still an aircraft.
Obviously, mice are also exploring different technological paths.
The electric propeller planes you encounter when traveling around are probably the best among the best.
The airships encountered by humans are more likely to be larger and carry very unreliable internal combustion engines that were installed on motorcycles or even cars in the past as engines, and then use ultra-high altitude airships that are not very precise.
Ratio gears and bearings are used to forcefully drive the propellers that propel the aircraft.
And these aircraft also use a lot of wooden structures.
These planes were so shoddily made that Slavic civilian pilots didn't want to fly them after seeing them.
But no matter how crude and unreliable the mouse's plane is, no matter how high the crash rate is, the mouse has already taken the step of starting from nothing.
This is a qualitative change.
Human airships can no longer sail leisurely in the sky, but must always remain vigilant and be prepared for possible sudden air battles.
Fortunately, the manufacturing accuracy of human beings in all aspects of equipment is still much better than that of mice, and the efficiency of conventional communication methods is also higher than that of mice.
Humans have firearms with higher shooting accuracy.
Some large airships are even equipped with fixed-wing model aircraft wingmen that can launch independently, turning them into airborne aircraft carriers that even humans in the past dreamed of.
Therefore, facing the Mouse Air Force, some well-equipped airships or medium and large fixed-wing aircraft can gain an overwhelming advantage.
However, the situation of those one-man airship warriors who only have very basic air guns is not even better.
These one-man airships have weak firepower and extremely slow flying speeds. It is very easy for Mouse's aircraft to swoop in front of them and then have their airbags exploded with a single shot.
The battle in the air gradually became fierce.
Around regional air supremacy, humans and rats began a painful competition.
After a short rest, Zhouyou then simulated the eyesight of an owl with strong night flying ability, then transformed into the body of a frigate bird, and went out all night.
In order to cope with the rats' air offensive, humans are urgently adjusting their production routes and miniaturizing past anti-aircraft guns and heat-seeking missiles.
At the same time, more small fixed-wing aircraft with higher maneuverability must be manufactured.
The original rotary-wing drone is no longer enough to meet the current needs.
It was on this night that Zhou You saw a large army of rats.
It is indeed densely packed, all over the mountains and plains, and the number is outrageous.
Even if you observe from the air, you can roughly estimate that there are at least tens of millions of rats spreading out on the ground with a total area of about three to four square kilometers.
The destination of this army of rats is Lelai County.