The fox has no bad intentions

Chapter 509 Fireflies

"Using missiles to bombard them is outrageous, isn't it?"

"Were the spirit beasts this strong before?" Master Fuli thought to himself, full of dissatisfaction towards Wang Qiqi.

While Master Fuli and Wang Qiqi were chatting, smoke and roaring sounds filled the testing ground.

Although the electromagnetic railgun was not fired, the defense system determined that ground urban warfare troops needed to be deployed when the Bashan mosquito landed.

Rockets were fired from the emplacement, but they did not explode. Instead, they struck the forest floor at tricky angles, avoiding the dense trees and bushes, and landed haphazardly in the ground.

The thruster fell off, and the special rocket, standing 1.8 meters tall, landed, bursting with azure lightning and radiating a high-intensity electromagnetic field. Metal hatches gradually opened on the rocket launcher, and tiny insect-like drones, no bigger than pen caps, flew out.

With the support of remote charging stations, although they are very small in size, they are all equipped with ammunition. They have no batteries or cameras and are all commanded and deployed by the defense system, guided by radar and wolf pack cameras deployed in the forest.

The tiny insect drones took off, rising like plumes of black smoke.

Black clouds rose and swirled, covering the direction in which the Bashan mosquitoes fled.

The rocket artillery fire continued unabated, constantly predicting its escape route.

The black smoke formed a dense net, giving the insect-shaped drones a significant advantage over the previous Hive drones.

The cost of one is only 9.3 yuan, and even if you include the internal ammunition, the cost is only about ten yuan.

Black clouds formed a ring that closed in, and the faint light, like that of fireflies, began to flicker in the dark forest.

One after another, the insect-shaped drones self-destructed.

Chemical adhesives covered the area within the enclosure, coating the entire forest surface with a layer of adhesive.

Bashan mosquitoes have fallen into a sticky hell.

The chemical adhesive swells when it absorbs water. Every time the Bashan mosquito tries to break free, the adhesive pulls on its skin or causes pain to the hairs on its body, making it afraid to move when trapped in the adhesive hell.

But it remained still, expanding like glue, weaving a web between the forest floor and the trees, trapping it.

"Ya ya ya"

The Bashan mosquito stopped struggling to escape and fell straight to the ground, letting out a painful cry.

As it lands, the adhesive on its body gradually combines with the adhesive on the ground, sticking it to the ground, making it like a rat trap with no point of leverage.

Although it is powerful enough to tear apart the soil layer beneath the sticky layer, it is of little use. Pulling up the soil layer is merely adding a heavy shackle; without removing the chemical sticky substance, the Bashan mosquito cannot gain true freedom.

And here we are.

If a city meets the requirements for a defense system, then its effectiveness has been verified.

At the end, they should have used electromagnetic railguns to bombard the enemy.

but.
There's absolutely no need for that; mosquito treatment in Bashan is not free.

The surviving 'fireflies' gradually returned to their nests under the guidance of the AI ​​system. At the edge of the forest, spider-like robots with eight metal arms slowly rose to shake off the soil or fell from the trees.

They have four legs on their ground and four arms on their front and back sides. The arms are shaped like iron pincers, which can open and close freely to dig into the ground or grip protrusions to climb freely on city walls.

only.

The upgraded urban warfare wolf pack machine is not yet fully automated and still requires human operation.

Their structures are so complex that it will take time for the database to build a complete archive of urban warfare data.
A spider-shaped robot enters the scene, its forearm pincers opening to reveal the circular holes in its robotic arm. It then sprays atomized adhesive remover and begins its rescue operation against the sticky mosquitoes in the "sticky hell."

It took the robot a full half hour to clear a safe path from the outside to the inside, and another three minutes to remove the sticky substance from the mosquito mountain in Bashan.

"sharp."

"You guys are strong, so pay up!" The moment Bashan Mosquito escaped, he stood in front of the two-meter-tall, compact car-sized spider-shaped robot and spread his hands.

Upon hearing this, the spider-like robot tilted its head and upper body slightly backward.

Obviously.

The operator of the spider-like robot was quite taken aback by the straightforwardness of the Bashan mosquito.

Girl, do you still want to eat?

The firefly robot almost killed you!

The robot operator was speechless.

…………

"Master Fuli, what's your opinion?" Wang Qiqi, who had been watching the entire performance through a tablet in the sinkhole, noticed something unusual while looking at the screen. She frowned slightly and asked Master Fuli beside her.

"It's already quite good, but it still falls short in the city." Master Fuli shook his head as he looked at the screen. Bashan Mosquito was clearly just hyping it up for commercial purposes.

The firefly did catch it.

But before the fireflies can surround it, it can use the wind pressure generated by its high-speed flight to prevent the fireflies from even getting close and forming an encirclement.

Even if they fall into a sticky trap, with the power of the Bashan mosquito, or rather, a [Guardian-level] spirit beast, as long as they can forcibly ignore the pain of being dragged, they can still break through.

of course.

This is based on the premise that the railgun does not fire.

For the ever-changing Bashan mosquito to break through, what it needs to do is very simple: the salamander can break through the morphology of the Bashan mosquito known only to Master Fuli.

Salamanders can secrete moisturizing mucus on their bodies, and this chemical adhesive can indeed absorb water and reproduce.

However, absorbing water and reproducing takes time, and the Bashan mosquito has plenty of time to complete its morphological transformation and burrow into the soil before its mucus runs out, then escapes using earth-burrowing techniques.

only.

The security bureau promised it the Spirit Granules, so it didn't choose to use its abilities to escape, but instead waited for its meal.

For dealing with ordinary physique-specialized spirit beasts, the Security Bureau's low-cost strategy is sufficient.

But it can't handle slightly more sophisticated situations.

Putting everything else aside, An Sheng even felt that if she encountered these things in the city...

Lift the manhole cover and a gust of wind will blow the firefly robot to pieces.

The rocket launcher comes from somewhere; it can be thrown back before it lands and completes its deployment.

Laser interception system.
Although it seems impossible to dodge, it doesn't appear to be very lethal unless you stand still and let it burn you. The most dangerous thing, An Sheng feels, is the diffuse reflection flashbang caused by a laser weapon.

It blew my eyes out, I'll have to use eye drops when I get home.

"But this defense system is really good." Although in his heart he was criticizing the city's composite defense system, when he spoke, his words were full of praise, without any falsehood.

Technology is not idealism or theology.

From drones to bee swarms, and now to firefly robots.

The original intention of this defense system was not to cause great damage, but to reduce harm to urban residents in case of emergencies and to capture ferocious beasts.

If you really want to achieve maximum destructive power, just bring an agricultural drone. Currently, agricultural drones can carry objects weighing up to 100 kilograms, or even be mounted on missiles.

But the damage to the city and the casualties would be incalculable.

An Sheng was able to discern the purpose of this defense system.

Its biggest damage is the craters created when the rockets land, but afterward, repairs are simple: just pour two buckets of asphalt on the road and that's it; nothing else is needed.

The only problem might be the chemical adhesive.

"Well"

Wang Qiqi pondered for a while, shook her head, turned off the tablet, picked up Master Fuli, and walked outside.

Just as Master Fuli said.

This version of the system is really lacking.

but!
From the Hive drone system, which required advance ambush and deployment, to the Firefly system, which has been upgraded to accurately cover a radius of 100 kilometers and provide capture and strike support at any time.

It has gone from being not very useful, but able to reduce soldier casualties, to being usable, but not particularly useful in certain special situations.

Wang Qiqi had no complaints.

The only pity is.

The verification only involves verification under actual operating conditions and verification of the system's response.

Reliability verification is the most time-consuming part.

There is still a very long road from verification to small-scale deployment, or rather, it may not be deployed at all.

Let's maintain the status quo and allow developers to focus on new research.

Once the technology is perfected, small-scale deployment will be carried out.

(End of this chapter)