Hao Ren and his team had only been to the planet Lahirien for a few days, and because they were locked in the atmosphere, Nolan's various planetary-level observation equipment could not be used, so they had no knowledge of the planet at all.
Learn more, those musty ancient books are full of inaccurate embellishments and specious annotations, and the intelligence collected by Nolan using probes is difficult to provide valuable clues, so when faced with a sudden outbreak of
It can be said that Hao Ren was completely confused about the "natural disaster".
But he was 10,000% certain that Lahryan was facing a huge crisis.
If he didn't break out sooner or later, he would wait until he led the investigation team into the scene. The timing was so precise that it was like he was holding his watch.
This fact made him immediately think of his own physique - since this physique has been designated by Raven 12345, a psychotic woman who speaks her mind, he must face it, no matter how nonsense it sounds.
That's all true.
But the next moment, he began to seriously think about the explainable reasons behind these "on-time" disasters.
"Things are coming" is of course a good explanation, but it does not provide any reference value. Hao Ren firmly believes that the development of everything has its own inherent laws. Even Raven 12345's words and expressions are based on
Based on a complex mathematical model and her old man's employment certificate, the sixteen large cracks that are opening in the land of Lahirien must have a reason, and since they chose to erupt at such a special time point - he
Leading the investigation team into the site, and just using the bug to spy on the truth inside the big tunnel - then it is necessary to associate these two things together.
As a qualified investigator, you must not give up any clue that is even remotely possible.
Could it be that this matter...is somehow related to the Great Tunnel?
Although the fissures on the surface did not lead directly to the Great Tunnel, and I personally confirmed in the underground palace that there was no abnormal movement in the Great Tunnel itself when the disaster broke out, the timing of the two events was so coincidental that Hao Ren couldn't help it.
Don't think about it this way. Could it be that the things observed by the little weakling with the probe caused these changes on the surface? Or...
It is the "observation behavior" itself that stimulates a certain mechanism deep in this world...
These questions were all flashing through Hao Ren's mind, but he didn't have the energy to delve into them one by one at the moment, because the more pressing situation was before him: the "Fire Men" who had emerged from the cracks on the earth's surface were now seemingly being destroyed.
Candy attracts ants to human (and non-human) settlements everywhere.
He had to think of something to do.
"Nolan, can you destroy those monsters?"
"Yes," the ship girl replied immediately, "but it will be connected to this plain - boss, this ship is currently trapped in the atmosphere. For an interstellar battleship, no matter how high it flies within this range,
It is flying close to the ground, and the weapon system of this ship is used to deal with space battles. Firing at the surface from this distance is no different from the annihilation of the area, even at the minimum power."
Hao Ren actually knows this himself. Nolan is an interstellar battleship - although she is classified as a "civilian-class frigate" by the Xiling Protoss, what level is the civilian frigate of the Protoss in the mortal world?
Everyone still has a certain number in mind. The design concept of the firepower system of such a public ship is to allow the censors to eliminate any opponent that is enough to threaten them when they perform tasks in various worlds, and it is enough to threaten the censors.
Such things are not common in the universe.
They usually have hundreds of meters of cutting-edge armor and shields of the same strength to be worthy of Nolan's firing.
And the weapons that can cope with this kind of scene are facing the unobstructed plains, and they are almost invisible... Anyway, when Hao Ren was in Horleta, he drove the spacecraft on a high orbit and used the secondary
The cannon irradiated the planet's surface with minimal power and melted the entire Beinz parish.
"Send out the autonomous machinery and armed drones from the spaceship Gnakuri to help the locals defend themselves against those monsters," Hao Ren retreated to the next best thing, "Do your best."
"Where's the covert action protocol?"
"The covert operations of the spaceship will continue," Hao Ren quickly replied, "There is nothing we can do about the combat machines that were released. But anyway, monsters all on fire have emerged from the ground, and a group of monsters will fall from the sky and stand next to him.
The UFOs on the other side are not bad either. If you have too many lice, you won’t be itchy and if you have too many debts, you won’t have to worry about it. Let the experts, scholars and public opinion platforms in this world make their own decisions.”
"Nolan understands. Also, do you need to broadcast the beacon?"
Hearing the last thing Nolan mentioned, Hao Ren had to think about it seriously.
A "large-scale" battle did occur. The armed conflict that broke out on the planetary level exceeded the combat capabilities of the action team he led. According to the previous plan, of course it was time to broadcast the beacon. However, the problem was that Lahiri
Well, it was completely different from the situation in the dark realm that I had expected before.
The dark realm he envisioned was a fragmented cosmic space, with at most a large number of celestial body fragments floating in it. Even if his group landed on a larger celestial body, they could still run to the open space of the universe to open the portal, so he initially
The two waves of reinforcements arranged, the Drone Legion and the Guardian Legion, are all based on the standards for interstellar warfare.
At that time, no one thought that the naughty investigation team would be trapped in the planet's atmosphere...
An arrow that penetrates the clouds, and thousands of troops and horses come to meet each other - this is true, but where do you put those thousands of troops? Hao Ren estimated the thickness of Lakhrien's atmosphere, maybe the code should be more orderly
If we can stuff Salaman's Guardian Army inside and remove the antenna systems and sail-like energy deflectors of those giant ships, we might be able to leave some aisles, but Salaman will probably be unhappy.
, and as for the drone army...it really can't be squeezed in, and it would be difficult to find a storage expert from the reinforced company.
Although one can hope that "the teleported fleet will be 'squeezed' outside the atmospheric blockade due to some unknown protection mechanism and become the lucky ones to jump out of the map," Hao Ren does not intend to bet his own character on this.
.To be fair, since he learned about his goddess's virtue, he no longer believed that he would have a good character...
But there are thousands of troops outside waiting to be dispatched, and it is not a pleasant thing to watch a planet opening a dungeon of Cataclysm. Hao Ren thought about it and asked Nolan: "I remember when I was at the road sign?
A reserved information margin is set up in the broadcast system to prepare for complex and unexpected emergencies, which should come in handy at this time."
This was just a cautious move at the beginning, but now it seems that this caution is really necessary.
"There is such a setting, but the information we can send out is very, very little," Nolan replied. "Due to the particularity of the dark field, beacon broadcasting is a very precise process, and there is almost no extra bandwidth for leaving messages.
This ship feels that the few bytes we squeezed out are not enough to explain the strange situations happening in this strange world..."
"Salaman is a soldier, drones are weapons, and obeying orders is their bounden duty, so we don't need to explain clearly," Hao Ren said, "The message is just a few words: The fleet is on standby, and ground troops are sent."
"Nolan understands."
After arranging the beacon broadcast, Hao Ren felt half at peace. The next step was to return to White Maple Leaf City as soon as possible. Although people like him could not incarnate into millions, they could still help a city defend against monsters.
Everyone came on horseback and traveled for two days and two nights, but there was no such emergency at that time. Naturally, the current situation makes it impossible to continue to choose this slow way of moving.
The first thing Hao Ren thought of was the space transmission function of the data terminal.
I believe that in this fatal situation, Leah would not care too much about why a group of "down-and-out adventurers" had valuable group space transfer props.
However, the data terminal reported an explosive message: "Partner, the transmission cannot be activated."
"What?" Hao Ren was shocked when he heard this situation, "Your space teleportation is also locked?!"
The first thing he thought of was the "lock-in" phenomenon similar to Nolan's inability to escape from the atmosphere.
The data terminal replied in the mental connection: "It does seem to be locked. Although the machine successfully obtained the coordinates, when activating the transmission module, it was found that the coordinates could not be brought into the real space. This kind of locking is probably at the beginning
It exists - but we have never carried out space teleportation until today, so we have never discovered this."
The data terminal's small-scale space transmission was restricted, and Hao Ren's first thought was Nolan's jump engine - would that engine actually be unusable? When Nolan was asked to do the test before, he just used the jump engine.
The engine is half started, and maybe the same interference will also affect the engine of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform!
Unable to leave the atmosphere and unable to activate teleportation, this situation is getting worse and worse.
But it seems the bad situation is not enough.
Just when Hao Ren thought the situation was bad enough, Nolan reported something completely out of plan: "Boss, there is no response to the beacon broadcast."
"What?!"
"The reason is unknown, but no response signal was received after the beacon was broadcast, and no signs of the establishment of a space channel were observed. It is initially estimated that the signal failed to penetrate the dark field."
Hao Ren almost had the urge to curse at this moment: "Hell, I should check the almanac when I go out. These two days are not suitable for business trips!"
But after enough bad news, there is always some good news. A moment later, Nolan sent the latest battle report she had observed: "Boss, the monsters that emerged from the cracks have begun to attack human cities, but the locals
The response was quick, they opened the city's protective barriers, and the local defenders also began to organize defenses."
Hao Ren had already accepted the fact that the beacon had failed and began to think about possible causes and solutions. After hearing Nolan's new report, he frowned slightly and followed the team calmly as they moved outside the Black Forest.
The mental connection asked: "How do you judge the combat effectiveness of both parties?"
"I don't think I need to worry for the time being," Nolan's voice sounded like he was relieved. "Although the disaster happened suddenly, the residents of this world seem to be no strangers to fighting, and neither are the monsters that emerged from the cracks.
Invulnerable - the defense organized by the locals is very effective. It seems that they will not be destroyed with or without our help. Of course, that is assuming those cracks don't continue to cause trouble."
After hearing Nolan's new information, Hao Ren couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Although the incident happened suddenly, since the Lahirian people were able to hold on, there was no need for him to be so nervous.
However, they still had to rush back as soon as possible. There was nothing they could do by staying in this dark forest that was already burning.
At this time, the group of people had already reached the edge of the forest. Nangong Sanba quickly found the place where the horses were tied based on his perception of the runes. However, those poor animals had already fallen to the ground.
A small crack happened to appear at this place. The flames and smoke pouring out of the crack easily killed ordinary horses. On several nearby trees, the runes left by Nangong Sanba had been extinguished.
Most of it.
These runes are only used to resist wild beasts and weak monsters. Things like cracking the earth are obviously beyond their scope of action.
Looking at the crack where fire and smoke were still coming out, Leah subconsciously clenched the staff in her hand: "What on earth...is going on?"
"No matter what's going on, I think we have to solve the problem at hand first." Hao Ren said with a frown, and where he could see, some humanoid creatures burning with flames were attacking one after another.