Chapter 170 Catapult!
"Damn it!"
Lin Hui cursed beside him: "How can this thing be a line of defense that humans can break through?"
Xu Hongming, who was hiding at the edge of the forest and observing the battle from a distance, did not speak. After hearing Lin Hui's curse, he could not help but frowned.
As Lin Hui said, these walls guarded by [Wu Zu] and [Ying Ying] are not a line of defense that humans can break through.
At least it is almost impossible for humans now.
The power of those electromagnetic rapid-fire cannons is no joke-just now Xu Hongming saw a fist-sized metal projectile smash a deep pit with a diameter of nearly half a meter on the concrete wall in the distance!
Compared with the intelligent machines recorded by the resistance army, the current intelligent machines undoubtedly have more advanced technology.
The resistance army is constantly retreating, and the intelligent machines are constantly evolving...
Thinking of this, Xu Hongming's mood suddenly became heavy.
He silently watched the intelligent machine production base in the distance, trying to find a breakthrough point from it.
The flames of the rocket explosion gradually dissipated.
After waiting for a while and confirming that there were no threats around, the muzzle of the electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon on the shoulder of the [Wu Zu] on the city wall, who was on full alert
, slowly dropped. The [Yingying] drone circled over the production base for several circles and fell back into the city wall again.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Xu Hongming's eyes suddenly lit up.
The behavior style of these intelligent machines seems to have changed a lot?
In the past, those intelligent machines that were attacked wanted to search the surroundings to eliminate all potential threats.
The main focus was on full offensiveness.
But now, these intelligent machines seem to only be able to perform passive defense work!
As long as they confirm that there are no threats around, they will stay safely in the production base!
In order to confirm his idea, Xu Hongming gave the order again.
"Go, shoot two more shots at that production base!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The metal storm whizzed over the forest, and the fire from the rocket explosion illuminated the faces of every member of the resistance army.
Looking at the drone that took off again and landed inside the city wall again, Xu Hongming's eyes were filled with excitement.
His guess was right! The intelligent machines in the production base in front of him could only perform passive defense work!
As for why this situation occurred...
Xu Hongming could only think of one reason:
the "master" of these intelligent machines, that is, the artificial intelligence named [Source], did not control the intelligent machines in these production bases at this time.
The reason may be the huge explosion that occurred near the Kukan underground city for unknown reasons.
At this moment, the intelligent machines in front of him were just some rigid machines that could only respond according to the predetermined program!
In this way, his operating space is large!
Isn't it just to circumvent the detection procedures of those intelligent machines...
In this regard, the rebels who have survived in the tunnels for decades have a say!
"Launch the nuclear bomb."
Xu Hongming gave an order to Lin Hui beside him in a concise manner: "Just lift the nuclear bomb up."
Lin Hui: "Ah?"
The nuclear bomb has not yet started?
Whose landlord throws the king bomb right away!
"We have to make a hole in the defense line of this base first." Looking at the doubts in the eyes of the people around him, Xu Hongming explained briefly.
Lin Hui suddenly realized.
It makes sense. A defense line with a gap is easier to break after all!
"By the way, make some camouflage on the surface of the nuclear bomb, and pile up those vines, branches, leaves and so on."
Xu Hongming's voice came again: "Try to wrap it rounder."
Lin Hui: "...Ah?!"
...
The best explosion plan for the nuclear bomb is undoubtedly high-altitude detonation.
But...the current rebels don't have this condition at all!
Let alone airplanes, the rebels now don't even have a usable drone!
So, ground detonation became a helpless choice.
Although this will greatly weaken the explosive power of the nuclear bomb, but...
it's better to explode than not to explode, right?
In Xu Hongming's original plan, the nuclear bomb will be detonated at the edge of the forest, less than 3,000 meters away from the intelligent machine production base.
Considering that the distance is too far, the lethality of the nuclear bomb may be greatly affected. In his plan, the rebels need to "seduce" the intelligent machines to the forest area as much as possible.
But now...
what's the point of seducing? The best way to explode is to throw the nuclear bomb directly at the face of the intelligent machine!
So, a few minutes later.
A nuclear warhead was carried out of the tunnel by several people, and then...
under the confused eyes of the resistance members, this nuclear warhead was like a beggar chicken about to go into the furnace, wrapped in layers of broad leaves.
Gradually, this streamlined nuclear warhead was wrapped into a non-standard sphere.
In order to ensure the stability of the structure of the "beggar bomb", its outer layer was tied tightly with two circles of mutant vines in the forest.
A simple catapult made of several sets of pulleys and motors quietly stopped next to the nuclear bomb wrapped like a dumpling.
The pulleys and motors were dismantled from the tunnel.
The trunk of the catapult was made on site from the trunks of the mutated trees around.
The main focus was on originality and authenticity.
This was Xu Hongming's plan.
According to the experience of the rebels over the past few decades, when the [Source] did not intervene, the recognition program of the intelligent machine could only recognize objects that were already in the database.
Weapons and equipment from the prosperous era and the post-prosperous era were naturally recorded in that database - therefore, the rockets would be intercepted and counterattacked by the intelligent machine.
But...
Xu Hongming believed that as long as the core processor and logic program of [Source] were not broken, the intelligent machine would never include a vine ball made of dead branches and rotten leaves in the database!
To be on the safe side, he also specially asked people to make more than a dozen vine balls for deception and experiment.
These vine balls with similar specifications to nuclear bombs did not contain any "private goods", but only a large number of dead branches and rotten leaves and solid mutant vines.
"Prepare to launch the vine ball."
After all the preparations were completed, Xu Hongming directly issued an order.
The humming sound of a high-power motor suddenly came from behind.
...
Swish!
A slightly dull sound of breaking through the air sounded above the head, and a yellow and green vine ball drew a beautiful parabola and flew straight towards the intelligent machine production base in the distance.
After a short wait, [Wu Zu] and [Ying Ying] entered alert status again.
But unlike before, [Wu Zu] only aimed the high-definition camera at the vine ball in the air, and the electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon on its shoulder did not fire.
[Fallen leaves, safe.]
[Vines, safe.]
[Branches, safe.]
[Unknown spherical object... Status unknown.]
[Trying to report to the central host... Warning, the link has been interrupted, and the reporting work will be resumed in five minutes.]
Puff!
Just as [Wu Zu] hesitated, the vine ball had already drawn an arc and fell straight to the ground.
It was like a large basketball, bouncing on the ground for a few times, and then rolled towards the tall metal wall.
Finally, it stopped at the bottom of the metal wall.
A [Harrier Hawk] flew out of the wall and landed in front of the vine ball to inspect it.
After a short wait, it opened the electromagnetic machine gun on its abdomen.
Puff puff puff! ! !
The powerful electromagnetic bullets swept the vine ball, making a dull puff sound.
For a moment, dead branches and fallen leaves flew all over the sky.
In just a moment, the vine ball completely fell apart and became dead branches and rotten leaves scattered all over the ground.
[Basic inspection has been completed, and the target is not a threat.]
Whoosh! !
Before the Harrier left, another vine ball flew from the sky and landed not far away.
It was the same detection process again.
[The target is not a threat, the target information has been entered, waiting for the central host to review...]
Whoosh! Whoosh!! Whoosh!!
Several vine balls appeared near the production base in succession.
This time, the Harrier did not continue to detect, but slowly took off and returned to the production base again.
Not only the Harrier, but even the Wuzu completely put down the electromagnetic rapid-fire cannon on their shoulders.
"It's done!"
Xu Hongming's eyes flashed: "Quick, throw all the remaining vine balls!"
"Leave the nuclear bomb for last!"
He turned around and waved to the surrounding members of the resistance: "Everyone, prepare to retreat!"
Swish! !
The simple catapult was still conscientiously throwing the seemingly harmless vine balls to the production base in front.
The last and only vine ball that carried "private goods" made an extremely heavy sound of breaking through the air, and flew towards the intelligent machinery production base amid the difficult whistling of the motor.
In the distance, facing these harmless vine balls, [Wu Zu] and [Ying Ying] did not react at all, but just stayed quietly at their posts to perform their defensive tasks.
The last vine ball fell to the ground with a dull thud.
It did not bounce off the ground, but slowly rolled towards the metal wall in front under the action of inertia.
On the metal wall, the camera of [Wu Zu] silently watched this last vine ball.
[Comparison completed, confirming that the target is not threatening.]
It retracted its gaze and looked at the empty forest again.
...
The rebel tunnel in the forest was in chaos.
"Retreat, retreat!"
Xu Hongming's expressionless face rarely revealed a bit of anxiety: "Everyone, retreat immediately!!" "
The nuclear bomb will explode in an hour!"
"Retreat as far as you can!"
"If it doesn't work, go to Hai'an Underground City to hide!"
...
An hour passed.
These vine balls were still scattered irregularly under the metal wall.
Suddenly.
A dazzling light burst out from one of the vine balls!
Boom!!!
The violent energy poured out from the vine ball, turning into a demon that devoured everything, and rushed straight to the metal wall beside it!
Zero-distance nuclear bomb attack!
Even though the hardness of this metal wall was amazing, it could not withstand such violent fission energy!
Just a face-to-face, the metal wall was torn into pieces under the fire.
The [Wu Zu] and [Ying Ying] above the wall naturally could not escape this fate.
A huge mushroom cloud slowly rose from the surface, and the powerful explosion shock wave spread in all directions!
(End of this chapter)
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