NieR: Whirlpool

"Are you worried about something?" Ye Feng looked at the silent 2B. Although she seldom spoke normally, her silence at this moment seemed heavier than usual.

"That mechanical lifeform just now..." 2B's eyes were a little confused. She hesitated for a moment, then said, "Forget it. This has nothing to do with the battle."

She sighed softly, as if she wanted to let out all the troubles in her heart.

"Don't think too much. The most important thing in life is to be happy!" Ye Feng smiled slightly and gave her an encouraging look.

"Hmm..." 2B nodded, looking off into the distance.

Looking around, the yellow sand is endless.

Occasionally there are a few abandoned buildings still trying to hold on. They stand alone in this desert, looking particularly desolate.

A gust of wind blew, and the iron stairs creaked and shook.

The iron pipes are so rusty that it is hard to tell whether they were used for water supply or heating.

The three of them watched all this silently, with an inexplicable emotion welling up in their hearts.

Keep moving forward, passing through one ruin after another.

A large number of high-rise buildings have already collapsed and are buried under the yellow sand.

Only the occasional broken walls exposed above the yellow sand still tell of the past glory.

They climbed up a high slope and suddenly heard 9S's excited voice from the front:

"2B, 9M, come on, the sand here is very fluid, you can slide on the sand."

Sand sliding, a picture immediately emerged in Ye Feng's mind:

White shirt, black trousers, hand-pulled single sandboard, high slope.

Except for the first step which you slide by yourself, the rest...haha, the title is "LD inspects new amusement projects."

"Why is 9M laughing?" 2B asked in confusion.

"I'm laughing at Zhou Yu... No, I just feel happy. Come on, 2B, let's go sandboarding." Ye Feng laughed and guided the girl forward.

"But, we're here to carry out a mission..." 2B refused in her heart.

"Let's go, it's convenient for us to travel. It will also make the battle faster." Ye Feng said, and without further ado, he took 2B's hand and chased after 9S.

Hmm, such soft hands! Ye Feng couldn’t help but touch them a few more times.

"9M, what are you doing?" 2B asked suspiciously.

"No, no!" Ye Feng realized that his behavior was inappropriate, smacked his lips awkwardly and quickly let go of his hand.

Afterwards, the three of them slid down along the quicksand. The sand was easily cut through like waves, as if they were in a rough sea.

Ye Feng led the two of them around several relatively intact buildings and then through a chaotic ruin.

"This way."

Finally, at the corner of a building, three heads popped out one after another.

There are enemies ahead.

"Go around it?" 9S suggested.

A scene of a camp of mechanical life forms appeared before my eyes.

Among the ruins, some small and medium-sized machines were moving slowly, as if they were performing patrol missions.

In the center, there stand two large mechanical life forms that are 7 meters tall.

Looking at the cave entrance a few hundred meters away, you can see three robots standing guard, twisting their heads constantly, as if they were staying alert.

There was no doubt that that was where the entrance was.

"There's no getting around it." 2B's voice broke the silence.

Everyone began to discuss countermeasures in a low voice.

"I'll go around the camp and take out the sentries in the cave. 2B and 9S will each take a bomb left by Senior Kaicas and go around to the rear of the large machines. We must destroy the two large machines in the first wave of attacks."

The person who spoke was Ye Feng, his eyes were firm and resolute.

"Leave no one alive to prevent tip-offs."

"Action." With the order, Ye Feng flashed and shuttled among the ruins like a ghost, cleverly avoiding the sight of the mechanical lifeforms.

He walked around to a huge rock and quietly observed the movements around him.

Two voices were heard over the communication.

"2B, get in position."

"9S, take your position."

"Auxiliary machine, turn on electromagnetic shielding. Radius: 300 meters." Ye Feng ordered auxiliary machine 154.

"Understood, activated." The auxiliary machine reported.

"Do it!"

"Here comes the sword!"

Accompanied by two deafening explosions, taking advantage of the mechanical lifeform's moment of daze,

Ye Feng leaped up from behind the rock like an arrow, and attacked the nearest medium-sized mechanical life form, which was 2 meters tall and holding a giant sword, with his sword.

At the same time, Ye Feng gave an order: "Auxiliary machine, close range shooting, maximum power."

"learn."

Before he finished his words, a dazzling red laser gushed out and accurately hit another medium-sized machine holding a shield.

The huge impact force nailed it to the hard rock wall, causing it to explode with a loud bang.

Ye Feng originally planned to draw his sword and continue attacking the third medium-sized machine, but he was depressed to find that he had used too much force just now.

The sword actually pierced through the body of the mechanical life form and was deeply embedded in the cracks of the rock, making it difficult to pull out for a while.

At this time, the third mechanical life form roared: "Artificial man, enemy, die."

Then he pounced towards Ye Feng with great momentum.

"It's indeed a stupid machine. It's not afraid of death, and it doesn't even know how to inform others." Ye Feng raised the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a confident smile.

I'm not afraid of you killing me, I'm just afraid of you running away.

Wing Chun - Ye Feng

……

Soon, there was no longer a single movable mechanical life form in the entire camp.

"Senior, can mechanical life forms communicate with each other through electromagnetic waves?"

After dealing with the enemy he just encountered, Ye Feng learned from 9S.

“No. In addition to built-in programs, mechanical life forms are also connected to the Internet, which allows their data to be stored in the mechanical life form’s server, making them fearless of death.

This is very similar to our YoRYA data synchronization.

However, the data throughput limit prevents them from communicating instantly, and they can only receive signal instructions sent by the network."

"Besides that, they have pre-installed IFF," 9S explained.

"Unless we use additional communication equipment," 9S continued, "but machine life forms don't have that much intelligence. They're not like us."

"What are the differences between our network and the aliens' network? Can we use each other?" Ye Feng continued to ask.

"There is no essential difference. Our communication server allows everyone to communicate with each other. Aliens usually send commands to mechanical life forms through electromagnetic signals to make them take action. But having said that, aliens haven't appeared for a long time." 9S explained.

Ye Feng suddenly realized that it seemed that I was worrying too much. There was no need for electromagnetic shielding to prevent information from being leaked.

He couldn't help but laugh when he thought of this. Maneuvering depends on walking, and communication depends on shouting.

In addition, the top leaders of the androids have always believed that the enemy is aliens, and that mechanical life forms simply possess artificial intelligence and cannot be intelligent.

This resulted in some strategic misjudgments, but they were not serious.