This shelter is not directly related to Elizabeth Sobek's research team. At most, it only provides some intelligence and logistical support.
Without access to the core of the plan, the people in the shelter will naturally not be able to know the full picture of the development of the situation.
Anthony Hogan is probably the person in this shelter who knows the most about the plan. It is difficult to extract more useful information from other Focuses who are still functioning.
After scanning all the information left by Focus, Lu Xiao knew the number of this shelter - 053.
Even regardless of subsequent numbers, the existence of Vault 53 proves that there were 52 other underground spaces with similar functions before it.
There is no doubt that Vault 1 is the place where all the mysteries can be solved. The super-powerful brains who made the final struggle for mankind in despair should have died there.
Unfortunately, after searching the entire shelter, Lu Xiao could not find any information related to Shelter No. 1.
When Lu Xiao and Aletheia, who had split up, returned to the center of the hall almost at the same time, Yongzhen had already finished organizing the main control room and the largest bedroom of the shelter, and the portable base station brought by Aletheia had also been installed.
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"The base station I built has a very wide transmission and reception range. Without a large number of blocking objects, the effective signal transmission range can reach 5 kilometers."
Aletheia, who was separated from Lu Xiao, discovered a good thing in Vault 53 - a map.
Although after nearly a thousand years of changes, the conditions on the surface of the earth are completely different from those on the map, it can still be used as a reference to facilitate Lu Xiao and Yongzhen to install more base stations near the base to complete signal coverage.
In the first month after arriving in the world of Zero Dawn, Lu Xiao and Yong Zhen didn't see a single human being during their exploration.
After a round of great purges, the human race, which at its peak numbered tens of billions, was all wiped out. Today, the rulers of the earth are those mechanical beasts that can be seen everywhere in the wild.
Based on the information stored in Vault 53, Lu Xiao had a general understanding of the types, names and abilities of the mechanical beasts.
The Watcher is one of the mechanical beasts with the weakest combat power. Judging from the appearance recorded in the data, it looks a bit like a velociraptor without claws, walking upright on its two hind legs.
Although the Watchers have very poor combat effectiveness, their hunting range is very wide and their movements are very fast. Once targeted, it is difficult to escape.
The bull-shaped mechanical beast that Lu Xiao and Yong Zhen encountered in the wild was called Guangtou Beast. Its attack mode was similar to that of a bull. It was extremely powerful under the support of its heavy body and had strong defense. It was a medium-sized beast that was difficult to deal with.
Mechanical beast.
There will naturally be large ones if there are medium ones. When Lu Xiao was doing the information, he was quite speechless when he saw the projection of the giant mechanical beast named Thunder Fang.
"The prototype of this thing should be Tyrannosaurus rex, right?"
The total length of Thunder Fang is nearly 30 meters, and its height is over 10 meters. An ordinary mechanical beast would look like a pocket doll standing at its feet.
Moreover, the weapons carried by Thundermon are also quite terrifying. It is said that it has powerful firepower that can destroy an army in a short time, and its defense power is far superior to that of Guangtoumon.
Thunderfang is the mechanical beast overlord on the ground. In contrast, there is also an aerial overlord named Storm Bird in the sky.
There are not many Thunderfangs and Stormbirds, and Lu Xiao and Yongzhen have not seen one in the month they have been in the wild.
If possible, Lu Xiao hopes to never encounter such a super-large mechanical beast.
In addition to the watchers that can be seen everywhere, relatively common mechanical beasts include horse-based striders, chocobo-like herbivores, highly aggressive destroyers, and medium-sized machines that are often seen in the air.
Beast Lightning Eagle and more.
Using Vault 53 as their base, Lu Xiao and Yong Zhen installed a large number of portable base stations nearby.
After completing the preparations, Aletheia will fly the drone she prepared in advance.
Using the mechanical beast components brought back by Lu Xiao and Yongzhen, Aletheia made some modifications to these drones so that they could absorb mechanical energy by eating food.
On the one hand, it maintains the drone's perpetual state of motion, and on the other hand, it can also disguise itself by using identification codes stripped from other mechanical beasts to prevent the drone from being attacked.
Aletheia gained some inspiration by assembling mechanical beasts, and reconstructed some of the mechanical beasts in her own way, allowing them to fully obey the orders of several of her own authorities and protect the safety of the base.
The security and communication systems of the base have been basically laid out, and then the outward expansion will begin.
In this world full of mechanical beasts, the most indispensable thing is electronic components and metal materials.
Lu Xiao and Yongzhen loaded the mechanical beasts destroyed in the wild into the random space and the demon refining pot, and regularly returned to the base through teleportation to unload during the exploration process.
Aletheia uses these materials to make more portable base stations, gradually expanding the range of signal transmission towers outwards.
With Focus, Lu Xiao and Yong Zhen seemed much more calm when facing the mechanical beasts.
After Aletheia repaired and restarted the main control terminal of Base 53, Lu Xiao and Yongzhen's Focus established a direct data connection with the base terminal, and could exchange complete data with the base at any time within the coverage of the base station signal.
Just like the destroyer in front of Lu Xiao.
The Destroyer, which carries a pulse energy cannon on its back, is the most difficult type among medium-sized mechanical beasts. Not only does it have excellent mobility, it also has amazing firepower, making it very troublesome to fight head-on.
Focus can retrieve the base's data and highlight the Destroyer's weaknesses in high-brightness form in front of Lu Xiao and Yongzhen.
Compared with other relatively docile herbivorous mechanical beasts, Destroyers are very aggressive. When encountering other types of mechanical beasts, they will not hesitate to attack and plunder the opponent's energy tank to replenish themselves.
Lu Xiao stood on a big tree, holding her breath and concentrating, fully drawing the bow string of the folding bow. Aletheia used the special arrow polished by the armor plate of the mechanical beast to aim at the target, pointing directly at the saboteur who was attacking the strider.
"Whoosh!"
The arrow that left the string crossed the space in a very short time and accurately hit the energy tank that the saboteur was trailing behind like a tail.
After losing the external energy tank, the time the saboteur can continue its activities is greatly limited. If it cannot get new energy replenishment as soon as possible, it will stop its activities in ten minutes at most.
The saboteur who was attacked stopped attacking the strider and turned his head to look in the direction of the attack.
"Bang!"
Lu Xiao, who was two kilometers away, hit the pulse energy cannon pillar on the Destroyer's back with another long-distance sniper shot, peeling off its largest weapon from its body.
"Whoosh!"
Taking advantage of the saboteur's center of gravity being unstable after being attacked one after another, Lu Xiao calmly shot the third arrow, hitting the saboteur's head, completely stopping its ability to move.
The saboteurs usually move in groups, and the loss of one of their companions allowed the other three saboteurs to discover Lu Xiao's traces.
They gave up on the walker, which had already run away, and accelerated towards Lu Xiao's direction.
Just as Lu Xiao bent his bow and prepared an arrow to continue shooting the group of saboteurs, a loud war cry suddenly came from the bushes next to the saboteurs' sprint path.
A group of strangely dressed humans rushed out of the forest with spears in hand, and at some point there were several more archers on the branches behind them.
"oh?"
Lu Xiao temporarily put down his bow and arrow and looked at these Season 2 humans who were meeting for the first time with interest.
The clothes on their bodies look relatively primitive, made of animal skins and linen, and most of the outer layers of their clothes are woven with some metal armor. Judging from the material, they should be taken from mechanical beasts.
Most of the weapons in the hands of these people are made of the same materials, and they can cause effective damage to the mechanical beasts when charging in groups.
The charging saboteurs did not expect that there would be an ambush in the woods beside them, and when they were ambushed, they had no time to react.
The humans, who cooperated from far and near, relied on their numbers and surprise advantage to successfully demolish the three saboteurs who were beyond their reach.
"Clean up the battlefield! Get the useful parts, quickly!"
Lu Xiao hid in a big tree and watched the group of humans silently. The leader was a black man with a strong physique.
Before launching the raid, he had noticed the ultra-long-range attack of the Hit Destroyer, and had been watching his companions vigilantly while they were collecting the parts of the mechanical beast.
Since she was not sure whether the other party was friendly or not, Lu Xiao did not plan to expose herself for the time being.
'Follow them quietly to the tribe, maybe you can get any useful information from the tribe's senior officials.'