SEC Chapter 359 Descending Layer by Layer
Chapter 359 Descending Layer by Layer
Mechanical Earth: Capital Planet.
Lu Sheng strode past the checkpoint set up by the mechanical sentries and entered the metal elevator at the bottom of the government building.
Purple lights illuminated, enveloping his entire body, and with a pulling sensation, his feet gradually left the ground.
"Ding!"
The elevator doors opened to both sides, revealing a burly man who was at least two meters tall behind them.
His entire body was encased in prosthetic metal, and a T-200 heavy machine gun was welded to his entire arm.
“Mr. Lu, the final mate has been waiting for you for a long time. He doesn’t seem to be in a good mood today. Please forgive him.”
Heavy metal electronic synthesized voices resounded in the man's chest cavity. Clearly, this monster had not only modified his exoskeleton with prosthetics, but even his internal organs had been cybernetically modified.
"Thank you."
Lu Sheng nodded slightly, took off his coat and tossed it to the mechanical attendants on either side, then followed them into the depths of the building.
"Mr. Lu, you are too kind. You are the greatest contributor to our Mechanical Earth. This is nothing."
The two walked forward, and when they had some distance to go, the man started chatting with Lu Sheng.
"Mr. Lu, I heard that the situation on the Xialang front has been rather bad lately. Has an aircraft carrier been bombed or something?"
Lu Sheng raised an eyebrow.
"You're quite the informant, you lumpy iron."
The man let out a simple, honest laugh in a synthesized electronic voice.
"There's nothing I can do about it. You know, guarding is incredibly boring. If I didn't spend my time on these things every day, I probably would have developed depression long ago."
Upon hearing this, Lu Sheng looked the other person up and down, noticing that 99% of their body was cybernetically modified, and couldn't help but twitch his lips.
"You've modified your body like this, how could you still get this disease?"
"Cough, we've arrived. The main core is just ahead."
"Since Your Excellency has not granted me access, I will not see you off on the rest of the way."
Lu Sheng didn't say anything, but simply took the access card from the other person and continued walking forward down the corridor.
Purple lights flickered on both sides of the corridor, and sentries flew overhead one after another.
This is the very center of the entire planet, and also the very center of the entire mechanical Earth star system—the location of the core of the main machine.
Similar to the Super Dream server, each planet on Mechanical Earth contains a core of the machine.
This is the central control panel for all the mechanical equipment on the entire planet.
While it's easy to automate the control of various devices on a single planet, traditional methods present significant latency issues when attempting cross-planetary control.
Therefore, this thing is more like a delay compensator, which can use a built-in algorithm to control each unit in a way that takes precedence over the operation command.
Otherwise, simply waiting for the operational instructions to be transmitted from the capital to the planets within the region, and then uploading the feedback data to the central control console before proceeding to the next step, would be incredibly slow.
Even if quantum communication, a branch of the technology tree, had been discovered early on, it wouldn't have significantly increased the speed of this transmission method.
However, this thing has almost the same drawback as the SuperDream server—the problem of computing power.
Lin Xuan used the brains of 50 billion people as her own computing unit to barely fill the computing power problem.
Their design would likely require even more people to be filled in. Even if they captured all the monsters with super-high computing power from the Divine Realm to fill in and patch this loophole, it would still take them ten or twenty years.
"Buzz!"
Lu Sheng inserted the card into the card slot, and with a sound of metal gears turning, the two large doors slowly opened inward.
It's hard to imagine that in this age of advanced technology, the main gate of the machine still uses such an ancient design.
If Lu Sheng remembered correctly, this door was older than his grandfather.
The reason it is still in use today is entirely because this method cannot be cracked from the outside using any information technology.
It's true that the more you like to do something, the more you fear what others are doing.
Mechanical Earth is renowned for its network technology among the three, and its favorite target is the neural network of Mind Earth.
Therefore, they added more than one layer of protective netting at key points. To ensure 100% security, this special security system even used traditional mechanical shafts.
Lu Sheng quickly passed through the gate, and his view suddenly opened up considerably.
Behind the door was a spacious platform, with a square matrix emitting a purplish-red glow suspended in mid-air.
Around it, a network of wires, each as thick as three people could hug, connected its entire body.
This is the core of the machine.
Lu Sheng lifted his foot and stepped onto the metal platform. As his first foot stepped onto it, a purple torrent of data flashed across the core of the machine.
Then, a figure slowly emerged in mid-air.
The figure appeared extremely ethereal; no one had ever clearly seen its appearance.
All that everyone knew was that the other person always looked the same, wearing only a single layer of clothing.
Beside the man, a little girl was being led by the hand.
Upon seeing the figure, Lu Sheng immediately knelt on one knee, letting his robe fall to the ground.
Even though the other party was just a holographic projection, he didn't dare to look up and meet the man's gaze directly.
"Your Excellency, yesterday we achieved a great victory at the front. Our 113th Fleet successfully destroyed a space fortress called Markbots on Mind Earth, forcing them to shrink their entire forward defensive line."
"I want to strike while the iron is hot and launch another attack to completely destroy the other two space fortresses in the rear, so as to completely cut off the possibility of Mind Earth and Gene Earth attacking our main fleet from both sides."
"If this operation goes smoothly, then we can arrange for the diplomatic department to negotiate with Gene Earth."
"They should be able to take back all three port planets they occupied while we were fighting on the front lines this time."
As soon as Lu Sheng finished speaking, the man in front of him swayed slightly.
The little girl holding his hand continued to hop and skip, muttering to herself.
This scene looked very strange, but Lu Sheng was already used to it.
After waiting for about ten seconds, the man's voice finally came through.
"Well done, General Lu."
Upon hearing this, Lu Sheng was about to express his gratitude repeatedly, but the other party changed the subject.
"However, don't rush into peace talks with Gene Earth; you have more important things to do."
"Please give your orders."
"Revelation III".
Upon hearing the words of the end-of-life, Lu Sheng was first taken aback, and then his brain started working at lightning speed.
"Your Excellency, you mean the front line of the Chapel... I apologize, this was my oversight. I did not expect that Fang Lin would be so audacious as to send her brother to infiltrate the aircraft carrier Lord Avent to carry out sabotage behind enemy lines."
"But please rest assured, I have already transferred a new aircraft carrier there, and I estimate that it will be able to fill the vacancy of the Lord Avente in a few days."
For the mechanical Earth, destroying an aircraft carrier is actually a trivial matter, since an aircraft carrier is sunk on the front line every month.
Given the current level of brutality in warfare, aircraft carriers are essentially consumables.
However, the final producer waved his hand, interrupting Lu Sheng's next words.
"No, I want you to investigate what exactly happened on that planet Revelation III."
"I have a very bad feeling that something is going to happen."
……
After emerging from the core of the machine, Lu Sheng was still completely bewildered.
"Revelation III... if I remember correctly, this is just a marginal planet?"
Why would a final producer suddenly become interested in this planet?
Although somewhat confused, he immediately drafted an order for the military and political department of Mechanical Earth, instructing their director to lead a fleet to inspect the planet's condition.
"What? You want me to check on the condition of a planet?"
When the director of the military and political department saw this order, he was completely dumbfounded.
"Why would Commander-in-Chief Lu need to send a fleet over for such a trivial matter? Does he think we're all too idle?"
“Send a message to the minister of the Third Border United Front Department and ask him to personally lead a team to implement this matter.”
From there, the order was passed down layer by layer until, after changing hands countless times, it finally reached the Disaster Organization.
"Should we send out a mercenary squad?"
Looking at the orders coming down from above, Nanxing Glogert couldn't help but stub out his cigarette in the ashtray.
"What's going on? Why can't they explain this mission clearly? What are we going to Revelation III for?"
Glogert stroked his chin, pondered for a few seconds, and then picked up the phone next to him.
"Hello, Wei Ming? This is Gloget from Nanxing. We recently took on a commission, and I see you happen to be nearby. I was wondering if you'd be interested in going."
"Yes, just you are fine."
"Oh, it's a very simple task, probably something like gathering intelligence. Don't worry, it's absolutely safe!"
Since her battle with that mysterious expert from the Mind Earth Divine Realm, Bei Xingweiming has been completely demoralized and has been staying in the back.
Although the Calamity Organization is not a regular mechanical Earth military, it does not usually need to go to the front lines.
But this approach is really not a solution.
So Grogg took it upon himself to decide to give the job to Wei Ming, partly to help her relax.
While the two were on the phone, a woman in a purple suit was standing outside the door. She waited for Grogg to hang up before she finally spoke.
"Nanxing, will there be any problems sending her on a mission alone? After all, Beixing is in very poor condition right now, I'm worried about what might happen..."
Upon hearing this, Glogert smiled indifferently.
"Lihu, don't always spoil the child."
"This young girl is just emotionally fragile. It's precisely in times like these that she needs to be sent on missions."
"As someone from Dongxing, you should know better than anyone else that we all went through this back then, didn't we?"
"Don't worry, nothing will go wrong. Just watch, once this girl finishes this mission, she naturally won't be afraid to go to the front lines anymore!"