An Unscientific Mechanic

"...Collecting biological specimens...Primary school students going on a spring outing?" A crew member stepped down from the seagull transport plane that landed on the surface.

"Your primary school students can still come to Jupiter for their spring outing. It's amazing."

"Stop rambling!" Squad Leader A scolded his subordinates who were chatting away.

"Atmospheric composition, pressure, and temperature are significantly different from other locations on Jupiter. Atmospheric composition, methane 67%, nitrogen 7%, carbon dioxide 21%, ethanol and acetaldehyde were detected in the atmosphere." Yamato's free computer-aided unit, AU-09, a personality-type intelligent robot commonly known as an analyst, slowly moved out of the cabin.

"Wait, methane? Will it explode?"

"Don't worry, the oxygen content is less than 0.2%, it is impossible to explode."

"Captain, the unmanned reconnaissance force has arrived at the artificial heat source site, which is the base of Milas."

"The reconnaissance robot is cast, and the forced reconnaissance begins."

"The follow-up reconnaissance force took off, and the reconnaissance plane began a deep scan to ensure that there were no explosives."

"Captain, no explosives have been detected." The pilot of the reconnaissance plane reported. "But the heat underneath is messed up."

"The reconnaissance team landed and collected information on the Miras base."

The container containing the unmanned reconnaissance aircraft was dropped by the first seagull. When the container was about to land, the buffer rocket was ignited, and the container landed gently.

The explosive bolt was ignited, the four large exits of the container opened, and the reconnaissance robot emerged from the chrysalis. Dash to the various gates of the base.

The sound of explosions can be heard endlessly—this group of robots did not install the unlocking program, and they used plastic explosives and gas welding guns to open the doors.

"The first team explores the path, the second team covers, the third team moves forward, and the fourth team stays behind." Saito quickly assigned tasks.

The space cavalry team wore light individual armor and quickly opened the way, laying out firepower points.

"It looks like it has been abandoned." Ian looked at the monitor on his arm. On it was the terrain map detected by the sonar of the armored suit, and the reconnaissance plane had basically detected the terrain on the first floor of the base. Don't worry about getting lost. question.

"There are no obstacles ahead."

"The wings are safe."

"Generally speaking, the data center of the base will be set up underground. This area is about a certain distance from the equipment area, but it can be quickly protected by armed forces." Ian delineated an area.

"Then let's go forward like that area, Yongcang, and find a way to go underground."

"Understood. The first team, follow me to the third passage, there looks like an elevator shaft." A space cavalry member who went ahead waved his hand, and the four space cavalry ran to another passage.

"There are elevator shafts and stairs here, but they have been blasted. I will try to open the passage of the elevator shaft by force." The team member named Yongcang opened the elevator door and jumped down. It hit hard on the top of the elevator that fell to the bottom.

"It's not bad luck, you can also enter the second basement floor from here." Yongcang opened the elevator door on the top of the second basement floor that was half exposed.

"Well, go over there. The second team will enter the basement floor to explore, the fourth team will be stationed here, and the first and third teams will cover the SP's investigation on the second basement floor. No problem, Chief Technician, Captain?"

"No problem." Ian and Senxue nodded, the special operations team didn't understand, so just obey the arrangement obediently.

"Abnormal echoes? Falling rocks? Or is it a problem with detection accuracy..." Ian patted the individual computer on his arm.

...Local products with low performance...It doesn't even support holographic scanning, let alone high-latitude scanning with higher precision.

"What's wrong?" Saito looked back at Ian.

"It's nothing, it's probably noise, or maybe it's falling rubble." Ian turned his attention back to the way forward.

"Which direction?"

"all."

"Huh?" Captain Saito was almost showing off his face.

"Ultrasonic detectors show that there are abnormal echoes in each channel, but the type and situation are unknown. Sonar is more noisy. Now there are unmanned surveillance drones and investigation teams everywhere around here, so there is no way to use sonar."

"I'll send some drones over to guard the periphery, otherwise don't worry."

"Trouble."

"The responsibility lies."

A group of people jumped down the elevator shaft.

"Active detection mode." Ian activated the high-frequency sound wave transmitter on the armor suit.

"Om!~"

The people around covered their ears in pain - the helmet next to it.

"Hey! Say it before starting!"

"...Sorry, I don't know that this thing will interfere with the earphones." Ian also hammered the helmet twice, and the sudden high-frequency hum gave him a bit of a headache.

"It looks like a large server, in that direction." Ian pointed to one, and the active detection just now found something similar to a large server array.

"Yongcang, go forward."

"Wait a minute, everyone stops."

"Warning!" The space cavalry team dispersed their guard.

"Hold still for three seconds, no mechanical noise."

"Stand still for 3 seconds, countdown, start."

"At 75 meters from the channel on the left, there is mechanical noise. Irregular, it seems to be the sound of mechanical legs moving."

"Yongcang, the first team is moving forward, forcibly investigating."

"yes."

The four space cavalry of the first team broke into the passage, and it didn't take long before gunshots rang out.

"Encountered the enemy, about a company, 300 people!"

"Most mechanical sounds, over there!"

"There are also on the right. Hey, the third team, set up a defensive line."

There were thousands of people in the third team, and one of them took down a mobile shield from behind and smashed it on the ground with a bang. After a few operations, the bunker spread out horizontally and vertically, forming a bunker that was 1.2 meters high and 1 meter wide. .

"The front is coming too."

"...Damn, is it still far from the computer room?"

"Two intersections."

"One person from each of the two teams will come here, and the rest will be stationed." Saito hung up the communication. "Let's move forward and establish a defensive line before the next intersection. After the enemies on both sides are defeated, we will forcefully advance."

"No problem." Ian also activated the weapon system on the backpack. The two mechanical arms were activated, and the two 25mm electromagnetic guns at the end of the mechanical arms turned up.

"If I knew it earlier, I would have carried heavy assault equipment..."

"If the 127mm laser cannon is used indoors, the consequences will be disastrous. Your 20mm machine guns are already too much for individual indoor combat. Oh, the enemy is coming, and the distance is 35 meters."

Saito took off the mobile shield from behind, stood on the ground, and unfolded it.

"Sen Xue, you stand behind me." Ian also took off the folding full body shield behind him, unfolded it and fixed it on his left hand. Then put the shield in front of you.

"The enemy is watching...the enemy fires!" The Milas soldiers opened fire as soon as they showed their faces, and the green machine gun beams hit the shields and bunkers of the two of them one after another.

"Counterattack!" Saito stretched out his right hand from the bunker, and the 20mm short-barreled caseless machine gun hanging under his arm began to fire. Ian also stretched out his right hand, and the 12.7mm machine gun hanging below his arm also started firing. The dense barrage directly shredded the Cylas soldiers in front of them.

"Strange..." Saito frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"The texture is wrong, there is no blood. The enemy is a robot!" Saito took out a grenade-sized detection robot from the equipment slot next to his thigh, and threw it out with his backhand.

"Sure enough..." Saito's eyes were facing the Cylas mechanical soldier (the Microlas mechanical soldier has four high-precision cameras on his head) through the screen shot by the reconnaissance robot displayed on the HUD in the helmet.

"Hey! What a scary appearance!" It seems that the appearance of the Milas mechanical soldier just triggered the uncanny valley effect of Saito's psychology. The left hand stretched out from the bunker, and the 50mm grenade launcher hanging below fired a six-shot burst. The mechanical soldiers in front were blown to pieces.

"Captain, we are here to support." Two space cavalry members rushed over from behind.

"Yo, fire suppression, let's move forward."

"Yes!"*2

"At present, more than a thousand Milas mechanical soldiers have been defeated, and there is no follow-up enemy reinforcement for the time being." Saito and others are on guard around the suspected server array room.

"It didn't blow up completely... Shouldn't it be because it was built according to the semi-permanent facility from the beginning, even if the blast didn't blow up all the servers... Should we praise Cylas equipment for its durability or complain about it? Explosives don't work well..." Ian read the data from the wreckage of the server dumbfounded.

Ian even found two servers that were still running... Sen Xue was copying the data on the server with her portable device.

"Could it be a trap? The traces left by Milas here are too suspicious." Sen Xue finished copying the contents of the two servers and walked to Ian. Ian is still looking for a data storage array that can be read in the wreckage. Of course, this thing is called a hard disk on Earth.

"Generally not, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is easy to cause suspicion. The greater possibility is that it is simply not destroyed, and the mechanical soldiers seem to be just consumables for general security in the base. If they are used as traps, more servers should be left Come buy time and give us a big surprise."

"Captain! A huge amount of explosives was found on the third basement floor of the base! The countdown is still 2 minutes away." After searching the basement floor, the captain of the second team who accidentally discovered that there was still a third basement floor swallowed and shouted at Saito.

Then a group of people turned and ran.

"..."

"...a big surprise?" Sen Xue squinted at Ian.

"Everyone retreat!" Saito waved his hand.

"Hurry up." Ian unloaded his weapon and shield, picked up Moriyuki, ignited the rocket engine behind him, and followed Saito and the others into the elevator shaft.

"The fourth team blasted a passage for Lao Tzu on the first floor, retreat quickly! Seagull team, come and pick up people! Urgent retreat!"

"Understood, Seagull is taking off. Estimated arrival in 30 seconds."

The space cavalry stationed in the elevator room on the ground immediately raised their arms, fired 20 cannons and 50mm grenades one after another, blasted a path on the wall leading directly to the outside, and then rushed out first. Afterwards, the second team, which was investigating on the third basement floor, rushed out of the elevator shaft and rushed outdoors, and finally the first and third team and Ian Senxue.

"Fly up and rush into the seagull, Chief Technician, is your airframe okay?"

"no problem."

As Senyuki was placed on the Seagull's floor, the Seagull's rear cargo door quickly closed, the injectors were opened to the maximum, and they climbed vertically and ran.

"How long?" Saito opened his helmet, panted, and looked at the captain of the second team.

The team leader glanced at the countdown timer on his arm, stretched out three fingers, then two, then one, and then made a fist.

"Boom!" There was a huge explosion underground in the Milas base, and the entire base was engulfed by the explosion.

"Report...the floating continent is beginning to disintegrate..."

The crew members of the eight wave mechanism carrying ships watched in a daze as a huge fireball rose from the center of the floating continent, and a huge rift ran through the two ends of the floating continent centered on the base in a few seconds. The floating continent was slowly broken into two halves, and then, whether it was all the stable ground generators, the anti-gravity field generators, or the environmental control ground, the floating continent wreckage with all equipment shut down slowly fell towards the core of Jupiter. The huge storms that never stop tearing apart the wreckage of these two large floating continents.

"Deputy Chief, confirm the casualties." Okita Shisan squinted his eyes, watching the big explosion not far below. He could vaguely see a dozen Seagull transports flying back against Jupiter's gales.

"Well, according to the data, 35 people died. A seagull carrying explorers was hit by a rock blown up by the explosion and crashed. The rest of the crew were fine."

"Well. Tell me about the results of the current investigation. I want to know what rewards these people's sacrifices bring back."

"Now we know that the genetic similarity between the plants collected on the plankton continent and the "poisonous mysterious plants" on the earth has reached 99.99%, and it can be considered that the plants on the earth were transplanted from Jupiter.

In addition, during the exploration of the base, a part of the data that has not been destroyed in Milas was discovered. Now Chief Technology Officer Ian and Captain Moriyuki have collected part of the data, waiting for them to decode it after returning to the voyage. Now part of the information that has been sent back, Lieutenant Shinmi has completed the interpretation, and it is part of the military deployment information of Milas. And the information that Iskandar gave us confirmed each other.

In addition, the space cavalry team also brought back 11 Cylas mechanical soldiers with a fairly complete structure to study the ground combat power of Cylas. According to the known information, the main force of the ground combat of Cylas Soldiers and active military forces are basically in the space fleet. "

"In other words...their sacrifice was worthwhile."

"Yes, this is not a meaningless sacrifice."

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"Lieutenant Colonel Barger, the self-detonation device of the Jupiter supply base was successfully activated. The floating continent of Jupiter was blown up and fell into the atmosphere of Jupiter."

"What about the results?"

"Unknown, judging from the final video, a transport plane and its full load of people."

"This is not a cost-effective battle..." Barger scratched his head. "After throwing away 30 tons of explosives and two interstellar ballistic missiles, only one transport plane was shot down?"

"According to the image sent back by the battle robot, it should be that the Tyranids accidentally discovered the self-destruct device, and they retreated early. According to the data, it seems that part of the ground on the second basement floor of the base was blown up because of the blasting of the base."

"...It's just a matter of luck." Barger rubbed his face. "What about the assembly of the reflector satellite cannon?"

"Eleven new gates have been added, including four gates for Pluto, three gates for Charon, and one gate each for Nix, Hydra, Corporos, and Styx. More than 600 reflective satellites have been newly deployed. , enough to cover the entire universe around Pluto.”

"Hmph, that sounds like enough, what about the cover position?"

"The work on Pluto is basically completed, and the work on Corporos and Styx has not started due to the construction schedule. The remaining completion is about the level of "you can't see it without careful scanning"."

"It depends on luck... If you are lucky, you can give them a big surprise." Barger looked at the hull of the Jenogood modified ship through the porthole, and there were hundreds of mechanical soldiers holding welding torches and other tools outside the ship. Repairing the wounds blasted by the artillery fire of the League of Nations' wave diplomatic fleet.