Start with a Mechanical Hunter

Chapter 823 The Star Thief Appears

 “Master Chong, I found what you were looking for!”

At this time, on a dwarf planet, the player Xiao J ran over excitedly and showed Emvir what he had gained. It was an ordinary black stone that looked like an ordinary ore, but the stone was stained with The lines are formed, but they are covered with a mysterious luster, which makes people fascinated.

 Master Worm, that is, Emvir, bent his legs a little, and the next moment, the stone floated in front of his eyes. As his insect eyes glowed red, the stone shattered, replaced by a complex pattern of light.

 Emvir's mouthparts began to emit complex sound wave frequencies, and the pattern began to change into different shapes as the special sound waves changed.

As an archaeologist, it is standard to master knowledge in various fields, otherwise it would be useless to study ancient times. This kind of 'sound wave' is not a real sound wave, but a change of interstellar mysticism. It is not a sound, otherwise it would not be possible. circulated in a vacuum.

 This pattern finally turned into a direction mark under the operation of the big bug. Emvir nodded with satisfaction and said: "Gather your friends and go to the ruins to explore."

Little J was refreshed, and he finally found his way, otherwise the early exploration would have been in vain.

To be precise, the dwarf planet named 4-5-1 is not on the waterway, it is just close to the waterway, and it is not a stumbling block to the waterway. Therefore, the exploration here is entirely Emvir's personal behavior. For this reason, he also put The only exploration ship in the fleet arrived.

Little J's eyes were empty at this moment. The next moment, his consciousness seemed to span space and time and connect to the heads of all the players on this dwarf planet.

 For a time, all kinds of noises sounded, all of which were the inner voices of the players.

 ‘Holy shit, I’m going to freeze to death in outer space, I want to get back to the spaceship. ’

 ‘I’ve been tired for 20 hours and I have to go offline to eat. ’

 ‘It’s so boring. I only pick up and dig rocks every day. If I had known better, I wouldn’t have left the planet. ’

 ‘Little J is a fool. ’

I don’t know which player’s voice was the last one, and Xiao J’s face darkened after hearing it.

As a player with supernatural powers, Little J’s ‘spiritual channel’ was not originally that strong. At first, it was just used as a channel within the team for communication among friends who were doing tasks together.

 Later, with the development of the superpower, especially after he implanted several "biological plug-ins" that can enhance the superpower, this E-level superpower took off directly.

First it ‘grew’ a camera, evolved into a video call from the team channel, and upgraded to D level.

 Then the ‘video call’ has been enhanced, not only can you communicate with people, but also can peek into the virtual world, which is equivalent to a virtual test camera and can ‘see’ files within the virtual firewall.

 Because of this, he has become a favorite among many hacker players.

After earning a lot of experience and money through various hacking tasks, he upgraded his abilities to B level through several implant surgeries.

This is amazing, it can not only open the back of other people's heads, ignore distance and directly connect with people, it can even enter the depths of people's thoughts and transform their subconscious.

And can connect to hundreds of people at the same time and mentally control them, known as the Beggar’s version of Professor X.

Although little J doesn’t know who this guy named Charles is.

And this ability also allowed him to quickly gain the favor of the big bug Emvir, and successfully became the big bug's assistant. According to the pie that the big bug laid out for him, the other party has the power that allows him to further means.

The overall area of ​​a dwarf planet is not as large as a satellite. This 4-5-1 dwarf planet is only one-third the size of a Cybertron satellite, and its surface area is roughly equivalent to two Asias.

 As for the players who have generally advanced to the second level, their strength is no longer what it used to be. Basically, everyone has a sonic flying device.

But even so, these hundreds of players scattered on the surface of this dwarf planet are still like finding a needle in a haystack.

 Fortunately, through the professional skills of its archaeologists, Emvir has greatly narrowed down the search scope through the player’s unaware operations.

Soon, more and more players appeared near the coordinates, and Little J also ‘saw’ the appearance of the ruins through the spiritual channel.

To be honest, he was a little disappointed. He thought this alien ruin was so high-end, but he didn't expect it to be quite primitive. It felt like Stonehenge, with various large stones dug out and cut into strange human shapes. There are various ways of death, some are hanging, some are hara-kiri, some are quartered, and some are even death methods of different races and civilizations. For example, Xiao J saw a species suspected of mechanical life being forced to Shut down and all the energy pipelines on your body are cut off.

　　　‘It’s them! ’

Emvir seemed to have thought of something, his face changed slightly, his feet landed on the ground, and he quickly climbed in that direction. Even though this guy was bloated, the speed of climbing up was no slower than the vehicle. Little J spent a lot of effort. , and then followed it.

“Master Chong, what exactly is this ruin?”

“A very special cosmic race. I will have to see it on site to find out the specific situation.”

As Emvir said these words, his mouthpiece suddenly trembled several times quickly, his head suddenly raised, and he saw that around the exploration ship that had turned into small black dots, there were suddenly thirty or forty black dots. point.

 “Hey, what is that?” Little J looked up blankly, looking at these little black dots, unable to recover for a moment.

 “Star Thieves Group!!” Emvir gritted his teeth.

On the meteorite belt in Area 4, inside the modified exploration ship, a siren suddenly sounded.

 As a ship-borne intelligence, the big A4 had already shown its prototype. He looked at the ship-borne radar with some worry and saw dozens of small spacecraft approaching it quickly on the surface of the radar.

 As for the players, they have already exploded.

 “Holy shit, what is that!?”

 “Wild monsters, wild monsters from the universe!” a player vowed.

 “Let me out, I want to fight monsters!!” A strong player picked up his modified armor and was eager to give it a try.

“What the **** are you doing? The nearest spaceship is 90km away from us. Can you fly there?”

 “Wow, the artificial intelligence lady has such big breasts, I like them so much,” said the old SP player as always, regardless of the occasion.

 Fortunately, each operating module of the Cybertron starship is operated by the fire machine. If it were these tough guys, they would have rushed to fight these star thieves at this time.

“Have you notified the main ship?” Big A4 asked.

“Peripheral signals are cut off and communication is impossible.”

Big A4's heart sank. Strictly speaking, she was born less than three days ago. Although as a hive intelligence, she naturally shares all the memories of the original Big A, the problem is that the original Girl A has never met her. This is the case.

 The sound of fire life sounded again.

“Whether counterattack mode is turned on, there is a 54.5% probability of destroying one-third of the enemy’s ships, and a 23.1% probability of destroying more than 50% of the opponent’s fleet.”

　　　How confident are you if you escape from the battlefield? ’

 Big A4 was calculating quickly. She was not only considering the lives of herself, but also the lives of all crew members.

 Although players may not necessarily care.

But soon, as the sound of "Zizzizi" sounded, a vague virtual channel suddenly appeared. The other channel was a chaotic and complex data flow. Almost as soon as the virtual channel was opened, the entire spacecraft's operating system began to be affected. , generating various garbled codes.

And the firewall of the spacecraft actually didn't open at all.

 From Area 1 to Area 4, the distance is at least several thousand kilometers, and communication can be carried out when the signal is completely cut off. Only high-level information life can do this.

 This level of information life, let alone ordinary interstellar forces, may not be available in some civilizations.

 Big A4 immediately said respectfully: "Miss Yuanyuan."

The memory copied from the main body made it clear to her that in the Du Gao Group, apart from Ms. Du who is responsible for all affairs, Miss Gao Yuanyuan has the highest status, not only because of the relationship between Mr. G's adopted sister, but also because of her The person in charge is the 'Virtual World', one of the group's highest-level projects.

In the chaotic and violent data flow, the phantom of Ms. Gao Yuanyuan loomed, and soon, Big A4 understood what the other party meant. His heavy chest sank a few times with his breathing, and then he said, "I understand."

After the communication ended, the energy fire chambers lit up on the surface of the exploration ship. These fire chambers functioned as reactors, and the explosion intensity of the fire energy was ten times that of ordinary reactors.

Star thieves are very particular about besieging starships. The first is to cut off communications. The distance of space lanes is often measured in light years, and the time of space navigation is often measured in hundreds of years.

 So as long as communications are cut off, all possibilities for external support are basically cut off.

Another point is to knock down the spacecraft from the light speed mode, because if the spacecraft is in the light speed mode, then the opponent not only has the possibility of running away, but also easily runs away without knowing where to go. There are many dangers in the universe, and star thieves are always there. Walking along the river, it couldn’t be more clear.

When the exploration ship in front of them deviated from the channel, the star thieves who gathered around them suddenly showed expressions of ecstasy.

Because you deviate from the waterway, you must switch from the light speed mode. Driving at the speed of light in a non-waterway area will most likely result in a shipwreck and death, especially in this meteorite belt, where 100% of the shipwreck and death will occur.

This is most likely a stupid decision made by the opponent's captain in panic.

What’s even more stupid is that the ship does not go in any other direction, and its target is the dwarf planet not far away.

 When some spaceships encounter star thieves, they can enter some planets and use the planet's defense circle for defense.

 But these planets must at least be technological planets that have been modified to a certain extent. What’s the use of going to an undeveloped dwarf planet?

However, considering the complex and difficult external environment of the meteorite belt, this method of running is also reasonable. After all, in terms of short-distance sailing speed, the exploration ship cannot compare with their modified interstellar pirate ship.

In this way, one chasing and the other escaping, the two sides are getting closer and closer to the dwarf planet No. 4-5-1.

 (End of this chapter)