Creed of the heavens

Although Yongzhen has been working hard to adapt to modern technology, the content of the conversation between Lu Xiao and Aletheia obviously exceeded the limit of her comprehension.

Anyway, they didn't understand, so Yongzhen simply left the two of them to discuss slowly, then turned around and began to tidy up the newly unlocked underground shelter, preparing to use it as their base in the new world.

"still have a question."

Lu Xiao raised his own question: "The number of war machines should be limited, right? With the huge arsenal in the hands of human beings, why is it easy to perish in the hands of machines that cannot reproduce?"

Aletheia lowered her head and pondered for a while: "There is a lack of clues, and I have no way of knowing it yet."

"But I boldly guess that today's mechanical beasts are not the same species as the war machines that destroyed humans at that time. Under some unexpected circumstances, the war machines should have acquired the ability to self-proliferate."

"Only in this way can human beings lose the war. Faced with more and more enemies, human beings who are only flesh and blood will one day exhaust their remaining population in the war."

"Think about it from this perspective."

Aletheia pointed to her feet: "The purpose of this refuge is self-evident. There should be many underground ruins with similar functions in the world."

While Yongzhen was busy organizing the base and arranging the portable base station brought by Aletheia, Lu Xiao and Aletheia separately went around the entire refuge.

The area of ​​the underground shelter is not too large, at least it cannot compare with the bustling cities built by humans on the ground.

Based on the calculation of rooms and beds, the shelter can accommodate at most several thousand people.

Lu Xiao scanned around through her foc along the way, and found many ancient humans who left messages or last words in the foc in the ruins.

Not every foc is as good as the ones Lu Xiao and Yongzhen picked up at first.

Part of the foc information is preserved very completely, and one can understand the situation they faced at that time from the desperate tone of the messager, and some information cannot be retrieved due to foc damage.

"I can't remember which year it is. The time function of foc was turned off by me a long time ago."

"Looking at the time that beats day by day, we can only hopelessly wait for the end to approach, why not just pretend we can't see it."

"Ted Farrow's son-in-law! He and his Farrow company have ruined everything for us! It is his self-righteousness to equip these war weapons with biodynamic furnaces, which directly led to the occurrence of this catastrophe! I... ..."

"Hey~"

"It's useless to say anything now. Dr. Elizabeth Sobek is leading the world's smartest scientists to study the rescue plan. I hope they will succeed."

"Otherwise, human civilization will come to an end."

"Physicist, Anthony Hogan."

Physicist Anthony Hogan was calm compared to other incoherent messages of despair.

Although he almost lost control of his emotions for a while, as a scientist, he still controlled himself, at least he didn't explode in the process of leaving a message.

"Ted Farrow, The Farrow Company, Dr. Elizabeth Sobeck, The Rescue Project..."

Lu Xiao rubbed her chin subconsciously, trying to extract useful information from this piece of information.

"The out-of-control war machine comes from a company called Farrow, and the owner of the company is Ted. It should be a military-industrial complex, right?"

"In order to sell the most cutting-edge arms to seize the market, he equipped the war machine with a bio-powered furnace, and the AI ​​that controlled the war machine lost control, which led to the tragedy."

"Professor Elizabeth Sobek leads the most intelligent brains of all mankind, trying to solve a series of problems caused by the out-of-control machines before the worst happens."

"As a result, they failed."

"Then here comes the problem."

Lu Xiao lowered her head and pondered: "Where did the humans come from in the second season? Won't the history of evolution repeat itself?"

"No, no."

Lu Xiao quickly denied her thoughts: "Most of the animals on the earth are 'eaten' to extinction by mechanical beasts, and there is no environment for the evolution of apes."

"So, they are the inheritance fire that the humans in the first season desperately preserved?"

Chapter 426 Expansion and Encounter

This shelter is not directly related to Elizabeth Sobek's research team, at most it only provides some intelligence and logistical support.

Without access to the core of the plan, the people in the shelter will naturally not be able to know the whole picture of the development of the situation.

Anthony Hogan is probably the person in this shelter who knows the most about the plan, and it is difficult to extract more useful information from other functioning FOCs.

After scanning all the information left by foc, Lu Xiao knew the number of this refuge——053.

Even without considering the subsequent numbers, the existence of Vault 53 proves that there were 52 other underground spaces with similar functions before it.

There is no doubt that Vault 1 is the place where all the mysteries are solved, and the super brains who fought for mankind in despair should all die there.

It's a pity that after searching the entire shelter, Lu Xiao didn't find any information related to No. 1 shelter.

When Lu Xiao and Aletheia, who were splitting up, returned to the center of the hall almost at the same time, Yongzhen had already finished tidying up the main control room and the largest bedroom of the shelter, and the portable base station brought by Aletheia had also been installed. .

"The base station I made has a wide range of transceivers, and the effective transmission range of the signal can reach 5 kilometers without a large number of occluding objects."

Aletheia, who was acting separately from Lu Xiao, found a good thing in Vault 53 - a map.

Although after nearly a thousand years of changes, the situation on the surface is very different from the map, but it can still be used as a reference to facilitate Lu Xiao and Yongzhen to install more base stations near the base to complete signal coverage.

In the first month after arriving in the world of Zero Dawn, Lu Xiao and Yongzhen never saw a human being during their exploration.

After a cleansing, the tens of billions of human beings at their peak were all extinct, and now the rulers of the earth are those mechanical beasts that can be seen everywhere in the wild.

According to the information kept in No. 53 shelter, Lu Xiao has a general understanding of the types, names and abilities of mechanical beasts.

Watcher, one of the mechanical beasts with the weakest combat power, looks a bit like a velociraptor without claws, walking upright on two hind legs from the appearance recorded in the data.

Although Watchers are poor in combat effectiveness, they have a wide range of hunting enemies and move very quickly. Once they are targeted, it is difficult to escape.

The bull-shaped mechanical beast that Lu Xiao and Yongzhen met in the wild before is called a broad-headed beast. Its attack mode is similar to that of a cow. It is powerful under the support of a heavy body and has a strong defense. It is a medium-sized beast that is relatively difficult to deal with. mechanical beast.

If there is a medium size, there will naturally be a large one. Lu Xiao was quite speechless when he saw the projection of the giant mechanical beast named Thunder Tooth.

"The prototype of this thing should be Tyrannosaurus rex?"

The total length of Thunder Tooth is close to 30 meters, and the height is more than 10 meters. An ordinary mechanical beast stands at its feet like a pocket doll.

Moreover, the weapons carried by the Thunder Beast are also quite terrifying. It is said that it has powerful firepower to destroy an army in a short time, and its defense power is far higher than that of the Broad-headed Beast.

Thunder Tooth is the overlord of mechanical beasts on the ground. In contrast, there is also an overlord of the sky named Storm Bird in the sky.

There are not many Thunder Fangs and Stormbirds, and Lu Xiao and Yongzhen haven't seen any of them during their one-month outdoor activities.

If possible, Lu Xiao hoped never to encounter such a super-large mechanical beast.