Stellaris from the Automata Era

But after numerous encounters, Divara realized this was only a temporary illusion. The limited ammunition she could carry meant she could only fight short, intense battles. Once her ammunition ran out, her machine guns were nothing more than firewood at the mercy of others.

Therefore, she clearly understood that after completing the set objectives, she must retreat quickly, otherwise she would be fighting in a sea of ​​round heads where ammunition was being consumed every moment.

However, the situation on the scene changed rapidly.

"Divara! Did you rescue them? Damn it!... 'Boom'..."

"Popoula, what's wrong with you?"

She heard her sister's voice and heard the roar of artillery shells. Divara realized what was happening in an instant.

She called out to her sister anxiously, hoping to hear a definitive answer that would reassure her.

"It's the round heads... They're blocking... the elevator exit!"

To be precise, Popola should have been blocked by the reinforcements of the mechanical lifeforms.

The two sides met directly at the elevator exit. After staring at each other for a while, they opened fire at the same time in tacit understanding, completing a two-way siege and attack.

However, compared to Divara's side, the situation on Popola's side is more urgent.

Obviously, the logical intelligence of the mechanical lifeforms definitely has its own judgment criteria, and this batch of round heads rushing towards Divara is a special model.

They added a shield...

How targeted this is!

However, the mechanical lifeforms still underestimated the damage of the machine guns. This does not mean that the shield-shaped round head is not very useful.

In fact, no one knew what the shield was made of, and the firepower of the machine gun could not cause any effective output, but the round-headed machine body could not withstand the force of kinetic energy.

After several rounds of volleys, the support used to hold the shield was directly broken. To make a serious analogy, the round head without a shield is like a piece of paper, and the paper is folded into three with a shield.

However, although this batch of round-headed equipment is not very useful, it still causes considerable trouble in practical terms.

At least in the short term, the troops originally used to reinforce Diwara are now used to deploy elevators for retreat.

Even considering the characteristics of mechanical life, it is a question whether they can guard the elevator exit next.

"I understand. The person has been rescued. I will move over to your side immediately."

The simulated human took a deep breath and Divara responded immediately.

She knew the situation was urgent. Guarding the elevator? She didn't even dare consider the question in the open air, not to mention that the factory was essentially Roundhead's headquarters.

All she could do now was retreat back to the base before she was overwhelmed by the massive enemy force.

"Move, we must retreat immediately!"

The lone humanoid didn't respond to Divara's urging. She understood that the situation had entered a race against time. After once again depleting her remaining body functions, she followed closely behind Divara.

It was actually quite smooth to escape from the existing battlefield. After leaving some machine guns as a rear guard, they easily escaped from the existing battlefield.

After all, the intelligent logic of most round-headed creatures is still relatively low-level... If there are enough targets left, it will be difficult for them to be interested in the retreating humanoids.

But for Diwara, the real difficulty has just begun.

After walking for a distance, the sound of surrounding artillery fire echoed in her ears. Then, as she got closer, she saw that near the elevator where they had retreated, a dense crowd of round heads formed an encirclement.

“How many…”

Broken quantifiers..

The number before us is simply an unsolvable problem.

She immediately called Bopora through the headset.

"Popoula, we're here, but..." Diwala was silent for a moment, then continued, "Just go back to the base... Don't worry about me..."

She seemed to have given up on herself.

"Don't sound so desperate." The voice coming from the headset did not belong to her sister, but to the human she usually served.

"I see you."

Chapter 29: I Saw You Follow-up

"I see you."

When Yan Luo's voice exploded in Diwala's headset, she realized that humans were also on the battlefield. For a moment, she wanted to persuade the humans to return, but Yan Luo was quicker than her.

The sky jet roared, followed by the unique sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and Yan Luo, wearing armor, appeared in front of her.

"Sir, how can you..."

"Okay, okay, now is not the time to talk."

Seeing this figure appear, Divara almost subconsciously tried to persuade them for safety reasons. In the end, she could only let out a soft cry, as the armored human casually dealt with her, carrying her on his shoulders and then turning to the other side.

"Is this the lone figure?"

Although I have seen it before in the images transmitted by machine guns, it was not very clear because the distance was too far and the humans did not look like humans.

Nowadays, observing at close range with both eyes without frame drops is still more comfortable than image transmission.

"Another redhead."

As for the specific appearance, I won’t describe it. For humans, there is basically no ugly human form. In fact, many human forms are made from the same mold. The only way to distinguish them is to rely on the internal network identification.

If you want to judge by appearance alone...then you have to look at the hairstyle and color.

"Hello. I'm..."

The lone figure responded nervously.

In fact, when Yan Luo fell from the air next to them, she almost instinctively slashed at him. If it weren't for Divala, who later saved her, showing a familiar attitude and her own functional problems, she might have made a big mistake.

After all, it is a battlefield full of unknowns, so any extreme behavior is understandable.

Furthermore, the humanoid's radar couldn't detect any signal... For a humanoid, the sudden appearance of someone like that was like seeing a ghost. "Alright, I'll explain the rest later. Now let's get out of this place."

Yan Luo uttered these words, which were of course relayed by Divara. Although the language of the current era had been translated by the translator with the help of the Gemini, it was only limited to what Yan Luo could hear.

To the human figure in front of him, Yan Luo still spoke the language of the old times.

However, he planned to carry the human figure in front of him like Divara, and the other party did not seem to object to this.

In fact, it was not too difficult. After the previous episode, the humanoid had basically figured out the current situation. She could probably understand that this strange humanoid in front of her (in her eyes, Yan Luo was also a humanoid) was here to save them.

Therefore, when Yan Luo tried to resist her, she did not react violently.

"Good weight!"

Almost as soon as he started, Yan Luo felt the strange change in the weight on his shoulders. He couldn't help but glance at the figure on his shoulders.

For sword soldiers, the armor didn't really make much difference and he could still withstand it, but the imbalance of weight on his shoulders still made him look sideways.

There must be a difference of two or three times to see such a significant change, right?

"Hold on tight!"

As mentioned before, the Sword Soldier actually has a flying wing on its back... However, due to the weight of the armor, Yan Luo cannot fly at all. However, it is still possible to eject him into the sky and then glide.

And this is exactly the route he took to retreat to the elevator when he was surrounded...

When Yan Luo landed at the elevator door with the two human figures, Round Head was unable to make any effective interception.

Even when they entered the elevator, the expected more violent attack did not appear. Therefore, after leaving a considerable part of the machine guns, Yan Luo and his team also returned to the base smoothly.

Chapter 30: Technology

The plan to rescue the lone humanoid was successfully completed, although some machine guns were sacrificed.

However, for Yan Luo, these losses after occupying the factory were no longer a big deal to him. With the current production line's production capacity, they could be replenished in almost minutes.

After all, it is not a high-IQ mass-produced unit. The factory's attack and defense station some time ago consumed more machine guns in suicide charges alone than today.

But... after they retreated back to the base, they looked at a makeshift prison cell and suddenly remembered a more serious matter.

Their original purpose was not to rescue...but to scout the nests of those purple round-headed creatures.

"It's not a big problem...after all, plans can't keep up with changes."

Yan Luo didn't care about it.

Although he was the one who initially conducted the reconnaissance, the humanoids were only cooperating with him...

But at that time, he was just curious about these special round heads and wanted to explore their nests and expand the existing map data.

However, after witnessing several large mechanical life forms and explosions on the sea, and comparing his own weaponry, he felt it would be better for him to return and upgrade.

After all, the size of his existing machine guns was chosen with consideration of cost-effectiveness, and was just enough to cause damage to the large mechanical life form in the original desert, and should be able to drown it in large numbers.

Obviously...it's not good enough again.

Considering the need for stronger armament, some of the excess production capacity of machine guns was diverted to Yan Luo. Now he was working on his own work, drawing the design drawings while asking Boppola beside him.

"By the way, how's that humanoid?"

"Her body is almost repaired." Bobo La hesitated for a moment before continuing, "But her system is full of loopholes. We need some time, but it's not a big problem."

No, in fact, it's a big problem.

As soon as the lone humanoid entered the factory base, the entire humanoid fell into a state of shutdown.

At first, Gemini thought she was simply overloaded, and the system had gone into hibernation to ensure normal operation. Once the repairs were complete, it would resume operation after a while.

However, considering the A2 incident, for the sake of human safety, they discovered the problem when they secretly decided to pry open her system and install a backdoor.

There's no room for them to meddle with the characters inside! They're all backdoors!

A lot of the code was so complex and confusing that even they couldn't understand it. They could only vaguely see when it would shut down itself... (Combined with the remaining records of 11b, conspiracy theorists are reveling! This book adopts this view.)

In the end, they could only install a closed network patch to isolate the strange commands from running, which made it impossible for them to do anything to the humanoid.

"System? A loophole? Is she a YoRHa experiment like A2?"

Yan Luo stopped writing and frowned in confusion.

In fact, the moment A2 joined them, he actually revealed all his past. Naturally, he also knew about the organization whose translation was YoRHa and pronounced as YoRHa.

“That’s not clear for now.”

This is exactly what Popola and Divara have been worried about.

From behind A2, they glimpsed a dark side of humanoid society they had never seen before, which made it fundamentally difficult for them to trust their compatriots.

"Let's leave it at that for now. Hopefully, she'll have the information we need when she wakes up."

Such a short conversation ended easily.

For Yan Luo, the work has just begun.

First of all... the improvement of cannon fodder.

Yes, those machine guns. With the recent frequent encounters with mechanical lifeforms, Yan Luo increasingly felt the limitations of machine guns. They were single-use, difficult to resupply, had short range, and now, perhaps, couldn't penetrate extra-large armor.

The mechanical lifeforms, however, were showing him their models one by one, like pouring beans. Recently, they even installed shields. He couldn't imagine what strange contraption the mechanical lifeforms would pull out to target him in their next fight.

However, Yan Luo was not without a way to deal with it.

After thinking for a long time, he finally decided to stop the machine gun and change it into a humanoid structure.

Yes, yes, adding legs to a machine gun is useful... The design of other weapons can also move in this direction. But please consider the supply issue.

Moreover, all the weapons in his mind now are ready-made designs based on human structure, which are simply given by higher-dimensional creatures.

His design talent...you can see it by looking at his early works.

If it wasn't for saving materials in the early stages, he wouldn't have wasted his brain cells to make changes. The performance of the original design drawings would not be worse than those of the humanoids.

So the question is, what is in Yan Luo’s mind now?

"Robots? Intelligent humans? Synthetics? Synthetic personality matrices? Chemical bliss? Giant... etc. These things don't seem like something I can create at this stage!"

Chapter 31: Speculations about Human Identity

"Impressive." 11b exclaimed in amazement as the long and narrow production line appeared before her eyes. "What are these made of?"

This question may not be clear to Diwara herself who is taking care of her.