Stellaris from the Automata Era

Yan Luo reacted quickly.

The interior of the factory is complex. In addition to stairways and other methods of moving upwards, there are naturally facilities such as elevators.

Of course, they have basically never explored and used such facilities. After all, there are too many uncertainties in facilities like elevators. What if there are more than a dozen machine guns pointing at you when you open the door? Wouldn't it be like lighting candles on a cake, just like the plot of the portal?

Moreover, they only occupied a part of the factory in the early stage, so the initial strategy was to proceed in a relatively safe manner.

But now is not the time to be cautious. Human's strong curiosity tells him that he must make a decisive judgment now.

"Equip the machine guns with cameras! Then send them into the elevator to explore! I need to know which area these round purple heads are in!"

Yan Luo remained cautious enough and did not intend to let Boppola or Diwala carry out this task.

Soon a batch of specially made machine guns were improved.

In fact, installing a camera is not a difficult thing. As Yan Luo gradually unlocks the technological picture in his mind, there is naturally camera technology.

However, due to various restrictions, he was unable to implement it immediately. He only thought of this issue after solving the communication problem.

After initially gaining a foothold inside the factory, facing the increasingly frequent and meaningless attacks from mechanical life, Yan Luo decided to formally and strictly monitor the area under his rule.

It's impossible for Popola or Divara to go to the scene to see the actual situation every time the Round Heads raid, right?

Of course, this project has just produced the first batch of camera equipment. Yan Luo himself did not expect that this batch of equipment would be first used for remote camera of machine guns.

In short, as the urgently modified machine gun entered the elevator, Yan Luo and his humanoids also saw the live broadcast in a temporary projection room.

By the way...the twins are the command tower. Compared to the cumbersomeness of various human commands, the humanoids, who are also mechanically constructed, seem to be more efficient. They only need to install a command chip, and these machine guns can be controlled as easily as their arms.

This is also the reason why Yan Luo asked Bobo La and Diwara to carry out many orders. Otherwise, if the order to move a machine gun forward ten meters was really difficult for those stupid machine gun logic units to understand, Yan Luo would be possessed by the chairman!

"This elevator... doesn't seem to have any extra buttons."

Indeed, with the introduction of camera footage, there are no more buttons inside the elevator except for the up and down buttons.

"These purple debris haven't been cleaned up. We can be sure they came down from this elevator. Let's go up and take a look."

With the twins' delicate manipulation, the edge of the machine gun muzzle perfectly touched the up button and slowly moved upwards after the elevator door closed.

When the door opened again, the scene outside the elevator surprised everyone.

"Is this the top? The side close to the sea?"

The image transmitted was of the factory's surface, and unlike Yan Luo's initial entry point, it was on the side close to the ocean.

And big things are happening!

"Is this... the oversized mechanical lifeform the Resistance mentioned?"

In the image, three huge mechanical life forms are slowly forming a triangle in the sea, surrounding a mechanical life form of the same type that appears to be paralyzed.

This was followed by a huge explosion, so intense that it briefly caused the transmission signal on Yan Luo's side to suddenly become unstable.

When the sea recovered, everything was calm. The previously empty sea surface almost made Yan Luo think he was looking at a mirage. If it weren't for the fact that the buildings affected by the explosion were less than a few, he would have really thought so.

"grown ups..."

The size of the extra-large mechanical life form was indeed terrifying... Almost instantly, both twins were filled with deep worry.

Obviously, they were a little hesitant about whether it was right to settle in the factory.

"It's a little scary, but it's not insurmountable. Let's first... complete our real goal for today."

Yan Luo was a little frightened himself, but he still spoke in a strong tone.

Under his guidance, a dozen machine guns resumed their exploration, intending to find a passage or elevator leading to the purple area.

But suddenly, an unusual group of round heads gathered on the factory floor attracted their attention.

"A humanoid figure left alone in a factory?"

A female humanoid...seemed to have suffered considerable damage, with many parts of her body damaged, and her movements were much slower than those of the Gemini.

Clearly something was wrong with her actions.

But even so, she still used the red knife in her hand to cut open the round head that dared to approach her.

“Help her!”

Yan Luo made a quick decision.

Chapter 27: Unsolvable Range and Unsolvable Number

"Help her."

Yan Luo made a quick decision.

Because of the relationship between Popola and Divara, Yan Luo has a natural liking for humanoids, regardless of the various possible hidden issues between him and the humanoids due to their identities.

Just by judging the actions of the humanoids based on the channels he knew, Yan Luo was labeled an ally.

So it's only natural to lend a hand when needed.

Moreover, Yan Luo really needs intelligence in the current situation. Just now, several super-large mechanical life forms demonstrated what an explosion is in front of him.

Putting aside what kind of weapon sent them all away at once, the already crippled fellow surrounded by them clearly didn't look like one that was knocked down by the explosion... so with a little thought, one could understand that it was definitely something that the humanoid did to them.

It couldn't be a case of mechanical life killing each other, could it? Even if it was, he had to figure out the reason in order to deal with the possible appearance of mechanical life later.

And just at this moment, a lone figure appeared in the factory, and it was hard for him not to have corresponding associations.

A strong intuition told him that he could definitely get something from this human figure.

"Poppola, start the machine guns immediately!"

From his observation, this humanoid figure left alone in the factory could not last long.

Perhaps she had suffered some unknown injury before, as she almost limped through all her actions. But her offensive was still fierce, wielding the knife and slicing off the round heads smoothly.

However, every now and then, there would be a pause, a pang of pain on her face. It was clear that not only was there a problem with her body, but also with the system.

When her compatriots were in crisis, Bobo La did not think too much. After receiving Yan Luo's order, she directly calculated and directed the machine gun.

Then the whistling sound of artillery shells began to resound throughout the battlefield.

The sudden arrival of the machine guns threw both sides into a stalemate. The mechanical lifeforms were fine; after all, the machine guns didn't have round heads, and their logic instantly identified them as enemies.

But a female figure...isn't natural.

Perhaps they were a little hesitant about the appearance of the machine gun. After all, humanoids are elegant creations. They believe in the aesthetics of their creators, and each of them designs their appearance to the extreme of human imagination.

The simple and practical appearance of the machine gun did make her a little uncertain. Even the machines she usually used for auxiliary shooting had corresponding alternative mechanical aesthetics and were not so strange!

However, after a few rounds of firing, as the round-headed creature close to her was destroyed by a passive projectile, she realized that she had encountered friendly forces.

Even the look in his eyes when he looked at the gun barrel became beautiful.

"Be careful, these are specially enhanced melee types."

Although the humanoid wasn't sure whether the machine gun in front of her was being controlled by one of her own people or something else, it didn't stop her from giving a verbal reminder to fight side by side.

In fact, she didn't need to explain it specifically. Yan Luo already knew what kind of round head he was facing from the transmitted image.

The melee-specialized round-headed type. If the most common traditional type is a round-headed type with short arms and legs less than 1.5 meters tall, then the melee-specific type is a type with longer arms and legs and a height of two meters.

The threat posed by these weapons has increased exponentially compared to traditional models.

Of course, at the unstoppable range, they were still sitting ducks. Without adequate cover, mobility, or armor... they simply couldn't withstand a few volleys. Indeed, in an instant, the mechanical life around the lone humanoid was quickly wiped out.

But before she had time to catch her breath and check her injuries, the real crisis arrived.

Mechanical life has always relied on unsolvable numbers.

Almost as the mechanical lifeforms surrounding the humanoid were completely wiped out, her radar quickly began to display a dense stream of red signals. Then, her field of vision was filled with even more round heads, forming a larger circle.

Basic short legs, melee specialization, shooting type, flying shooting type. Suddenly, a large number of composite groups appeared. She had never seen so many types appear at the same time in her life!

"I regret escaping the bunker."

The humanoid murmured almost in despair.

She didn't think she had any hope of survival with the dozen or so strange-looking creatures around her and herself. Not to mention winning, she couldn't even break out.

After a brief silence, the second battle began. The machine gun fire was intertwined again.

The decision-making logic of mechanical life is obviously interesting.

Instead of deploying various firing models to engage the machine guns, they first advanced with their basic short legs. Their slow movement, though ridiculously clumsy, had the momentum of a 17th-century line of execution.

The unorganized team rushed forward and surrounded everyone.

'boom'

The machine guns' firepower was not enough to penetrate all the round heads. After all, there were too few of them and there were too many places to fire.

The atmosphere at the scene was like surrounded resistance fighters desperately firing their last bullets around.

The truth seems to be no different.

"No ammunition, no supply planes nearby, bayonets fixed, hurray!"

Along with the sound of the machine guns ejecting bullets, ancient Chinese words that the humanoid did not understand for the time being rang out.

Then she saw the machine gun take a run-up and rush towards the round head!

This time the humanoid is really desperate...

The machine was damaged, the system was malfunctioning, and I was surrounded by round heads... After fighting for a long time, I finally encountered something that looked like a friendly force, but it wasn't long before they were all gone again...

It seemed as if everything that happened today was mocking her mistakes.

She scoffed almost in self-destruction. "Alright, come on, you bastards!"

However, it seemed as if 'humans' (gods) played a huge joke on her.

When she was about to use her body to launch another charge and take a few round-headed people with her.

The whistling sound of cannons rang out again.

That was the sound coming from outside the encirclement.

In an instant, she saw the round heads of the stationary shooting models all launched their own firepower.

But the shooting was not directed towards me...

Chapter 28: I see you

"Divara! What's going on?"

When a bunch of round heads appeared around him, Yan Luo felt that something was wrong.

He decisively ordered Divara to once again assemble a considerable number of troops and transport them to the ground in batches through the original elevator.

However, due to time constraints, he did not have time to modify a batch of machine guns that could transmit images, and now he could only rely on Divara to transmit information to him on the spot using a headset.

"We arrived just in time," Divara observed the situation and replied to Yan Luo. "The encirclement of the round-headed creature is still there. The humanoid should still be alive."

In fact, Yan Luo's decisiveness bought time for their rescue. There were about two hundred machine guns following Divara.

This is enough to fight a medium-sized ground war. Even Popola is continuously dispatching troops in the rear. Compared to when they first arrived at the factory, the family's financial resources are indeed much richer.

Relying on the killing power of the machine gun, the round-headed man's encirclement of the human figure was torn open in an instant.

The powerful caliber announces the changing times.

"Humanoid!"

As the encirclement was broken, the lone figure could naturally see Divara standing in the first row through the gap.

This almost made her eyes fill with coolant. The repeated reversals of the situation today did indeed break her emotional system a little.

Fortunately, she might also be a combat-type humanoid, and she quickly controlled her emotions. She endured the discomfort in her system and body and quickly moved towards the gap.

Although she looked seriously injured, her fighting capacity was still high. The round-headed person who tried to intercept her was chopped off by her with her blade. With the cover of Divara's machine gun fire, the only thing that could threaten her was the shooting model from a distance.

Of course, as the first commander, Divara also understood the difficulty of rescue. After seeing the intention of the lone humanoid to turn around, he immediately focused the machine guns on the shooting models and the melee-specialized models. As for the most basic short-legged models... they might not run as fast as the humanoids could walk, so he didn't waste ammunition.

The lone figure retreated to Divara's side almost without any suspense, but due to various factors such as the short period of high-intensity combat, her body and system seemed to be reaching the critical point of damage control.

She also transformed the knife originally used to kill the enemy into a tool to support her body to move forward.

"Thank you."

"Now is not the time to talk about this. Can we still leave? We need to retreat."

Divara accepted the humanoid's thanks and after a brief observation, she inquired about the humanoid's injuries.

In the current situation, although the machine guns can form an unbreakable firepower network and smash any round heads that dare to advance towards them.