I am out of control, I don't have a pattern

Chapter 279 Hello
"The self-destruct mechanism has also failed?"

Yang Shiren frowned. The self-destruct program he designed had a backup plan: to carry out large-scale, intensive self-destruction using meter-wave signals.

But it's no longer working.

Seeing the dense array of mining robots appearing in a lunar maria, Yang Shiren felt a bit of a headache. It wasn't that he hadn't prepared energy weapons, but on the far side of the moon, he still had to use them sparingly.

In fact, he had already built a special lava tower specifically for energy storage.

Surrounding the lava tower are three energy storage belts, which is equivalent to a large power plant.

However, this is a backup energy source, which has never been planned to be activated. It is intended to serve as a backup energy station for the underground city, so it is not connected to the power grid of the other experimental bases and operates in isolation.

Of course, he was also worried about external intrusion, so he increased the redundancy in advance.

But to everyone's surprise, a strange external invasion still occurred.

How many individual soldier-type hibernation models are there?

"Forty-eight tracked vehicles, twenty-four flying aircraft, three humanoid combat models, and nine experimental models."

"Except for two aircraft, all others will be ordered to sortie."

"clear."

Alarms have already sounded. In the underground "city cluster" on the moon, the urgent alarms can still be heard, but on the lunar surface, various flashing signal lights are the main noise.

In the biological experimental chamber of the laboratory, Yang Ying controlled a tracked patrol robot and discovered that the situation was not good.

In a lunar maria basin codenamed "Yaochi 047", two thousand lunar soil excavation robots that were supposed to be dormant were unexpectedly activated ahead of schedule. What shocked Yang Ying even more was that the moment his tracked patrol robot entered the lunar maria basin for close reconnaissance, the signal connection with the robot was completely lost.

Big trouble!

A terrible thought popped into my head.

Yang Ying's "electronic consciousness" used a modified "Single Soldier 500" powered armor as a platform to conduct long-range reconnaissance. Then, in the "Yaochi 047" lunar basin, it discovered that maintenance robots were modifying two thousand lunar soil excavation robots. At the same time, on a hilltop codenamed "542 Highland", there was a signal base station that allowed these lunar soil excavation robots to be used in a centralized manner.

After the replacement of numerous space batteries was completed, these lunar soil excavation robots, under some kind of command, began an operation similar to ants moving house.

On the vast lunar sea, the robots, like army ants, dug open the entrance to a cave and then carved out a relatively spacious passage.

Several large spacecraft began their descent from lunar orbit, with a massive single-stage landing capsule plunging directly into the cave, and even more robots suddenly emerging.

Unlike the signals from the robots on the moon, these robots all have a pattern of a golden crab on them.

Wielding sickles and axes, they completely revitalized this area that should have been dormant.

"Why is this so?"

Yang Shiren was a little confused. This unfamiliar intruder had not revealed his identity, and he needed to assess how much of a threat he posed.

However, according to Yang Shiren's calculations, no organization can afford the cost of sending strike forces from Earth to the Moon with the current payload capacity of conventional launch vehicles.

The scale of strike force deployment, the combined transport capacity of the US-led coalition and the EU, would amount to at least 200 billion euros per strike, but even that wouldn't withstand a salvo of two rounds of energy weapons.

This is why Yang Shiren was able to control the lunar research base on the near side of the moon, and theoretically, he was invincible after he completed the framework of the "Great Wall of the Moon".

He can make full use of all the resources on the moon.

Moreover, the utilization rate of solar energy is extremely high and the loss is very low. As long as it can extend its lifespan, it can defeat all invading enemies.

Of course, all of this is based on the previously known level of armed forces.

It's clearly getting a bit out of control now.

The fact that the patrol robot's program was tampered with indicates that the other party is powerful in every aspect.

"Alert! 'Yaochi 047' has encountered an anomaly. Two thousand lunar soil excavation robots have been lost."

"Switch me to the live footage."

"Monitoring equipment malfunction, no signal."

"Switch to the 'Yaochi 046' wide-area monitoring platform."

"Switched".

"Camera 11, zoom in on the image."

After seeing the blurry image, Yang Shiren picked up a walkie-talkie and said, "The lunar optical satellite is scanning the area from A03 to A29 of 'Yaochi 047'."

A few seconds later, images from multiple angles were projected onto the large screen in front of Yang Shiren. Yang Shiren carefully looked at the densely packed, long line of lunar soil excavation robots. "The program has been tampered with... Huh? What's this?"

As the image zoomed in again, Yang Shiren discovered that the robots' protective shields had been disassembled and reassembled, and their space batteries had also been replaced.

These robots' space batteries are also designed with self-destruct mechanisms, and the scale of the instantaneous explosion is quite considerable.

After the gel oxidizer explodes, it shatters the graphite inside the shell into something resembling a dandelion, creating an excellent short-circuit effect.

"It seems the entire domain controller has been modified..."

Yang Shiren nodded slightly, then said, "Close all external channels and activate the energy weapon system."

"clear."

After re-examining the possibilities, Yang Shiren determined that the problem lay internally. Different robots had different designs, and Yang Shiren disliked multi-functional domain controllers. Civilian equipment could be designed this way, but war weapons had to consider battlefield maintainability. On Earth, simply replacing the entire control assembly wouldn't be impossible, but this was the Moon, and many rare metals had to be used sparingly.

Therefore, the large-scale equipment designed by Yang Shiren for lunar equipment consists of subsystems that can operate independently. This makes it convenient for large-scale equipment of the same model to be disassembled and reassembled for continued operation when it is scrapped on a large scale.

There will definitely be a personal approach and style involved. It's like deciphering a code. Once you find the key, you can design a key machine, which is actually quite effortless.

The difficulty lies in the fact that they are not easy to find.

It doesn't make sense that it can be so easily invaded and modified by external forces.

There are internal problems.

"Extract all communication logs from the past three months."

"Communication logs have been compiled."

Search all 'Earth-Moon Communications'.

"Searching... Search complete, 'Earth-Moon Communication' log is as follows..."

Soon, Yang Shiren discovered the problem, and then, wearing goggles, went directly to the core research laboratory for biological weapons.

Tuk Tuk.

Knock on the huge nutrient tank, Yang Shiren looked at Yang Ying, who was hanging upside down in the liquid, and said, "Second brother, how many backups did you make?"

"Fifth Uncle, what backup?"

"To achieve 'electronic immortality,' a massive amount of data storage space is required. Where did you choose? Judging from the logs of the 'Earth-Moon Communication Network,' you chose the 'Palaka Supercomputing Center' as a springboard in Rio?"

"..."

Yang Ying, with his eyes closed, did not speak. Instead, he communicated with Yang Shiren through the laboratory's voice control system. Meanwhile, on a screen, data was rapidly running. Even if Yang Ying only thought for a moment, the model would run a selection.

The final choice aligns with Yang Ying's personality, mood, and state of mind...

This amount of data, which is only a few milliseconds, is no longer something that ordinary supercomputers can handle.

Deep within the enormous cavern where the nutrient tanks were docked, in a large, temperature-controlled space, flashes of light, like lightning, appeared intermittently. The frequency of these flashes was astonishing, so fast that they seemed to be constantly lit.

The entire space is powered by a dedicated reactor, but unlike a fission reactor, the presence of numerous laser emitters indicates what it is.

Unlimited electricity means unlimited computing power.

"You'd better choose your own clone. Trying 'electronic immortality' now will cause problems."

"Fifth Uncle, I just made a backup."

"..."

Upon hearing Yang Ying's answer, Yang Shiren fell silent. Such a pointless and risky attempt should be eliminated from the Yang family at present, yet Yang Ying still did it anyway.

Although Yang Ying was an excellent experimental subject, he was quite a failure as a member of the Yang family, as if he had inherited all of Yang Renshou's inferior genes, so bad that Yang Shiren laughed.

He didn't blame Yang Ying for her stupidity; it was pointless.

"Prepare for battle. You will need to control two base numbers of combat robots."

"Two base numbers?! Why?!"

A base of 1,024 devices is beyond the capabilities of ordinary people and can only be achieved through the assistance of artificial intelligence technology. In the past, the Yang family followed the "loyal wingman" route in terms of technology, but because they stepped on Li Jie, this heaven-defying thing, the entire family has been ruined. Talking about technology routes anymore is just a joke.

Use whatever you have, especially since this is on the moon.

Fortunately, a large number of super-standard "electronic life forms" were derived from Yang Ying, an excellent experimental subject, which have been able to assist Yang Shiren in developing the far side of the moon with specialization and no management.

Just like in the lunar maria mining area of ​​"Yaochi 046", those lunar soil excavation robots are actually an array. A "swarm consciousness network" controls 2,048 robots to group, hibernate, and work together, etc. It can be said that Yang Shiren's ability to build the "Great Wall of the Moon" so efficiently is largely due to the application of new technologies he extracted from Yang Ying.

Unfortunately, it was a double-edged sword. Yang Ying's indelible eccentricity, willfulness, and arrogance still brought unnecessary trouble.

And it's huge.

“All unresponsive devices are enemy aircraft. Establish a defensive line near ‘Yaochi 046’. I suspect the enemy has taken control of the smart devices in the entire area. ‘Lava Tower’ may have already fallen, and power reserves need to be reduced by one-third.”

“I understand, Fifth Uncle.”

Young Master Yang wanted to continue arguing with Yang Shiren, but the number of beacons that had been switched over was decreasing. Every second, a lunar maria would go out of control. The real-time images transmitted back by the lunar orbiting optical satellite had already explained the problem: a large number of robots had lost control and were no longer responding to signals from the underground laboratory.

The stubborn Second Young Master Yang finally realized the seriousness of the situation. Almost instantly, he realized that his "electronic clone" might have been captured.

However, he did not believe that it was done by the Department of Homeland Security, an "ally of the United States." He had a strong intuition that it might be related to that mongrel dog surnamed Li.

When he had this intuition, the amount of data generated by his thinking was exceptionally large, making the space deeper underground seem like it was filled with lightning and thunder. Countless high-frequency electrical signals in the vast space simulated the neuronal signals that humans should have.

This energy density is undetectable by conventional means, but it did not deter the invaders. As a special machine continuously pounded the lunar surface in a certain area on the far side of the moon, the size and shape of the underground space were clearly visible in the waveform.

"Hello."

A magnetically levitated orbital vehicle, attached to the entrance of the orbit, sent its first greeting to the underground city on the far side of the moon constructed by Yang Shiren through vibration.

He was extremely polite and courteous, but even the usually confident Yang Shiren couldn't help but feel nervous at this moment, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead for the first time in a long time.

(End of this chapter)