A brand new mechanical beast! This news was like another bucket of cold water, pouring down on everyone's hearts. The unknown often meant greater terror.
"At the scene... were there any... any special findings?" Su Mu's voice trembled slightly. She asked abruptly, her eyes fixed on Lei Gang.
Lei Gang was stunned for a moment, then he understood what Su Mu was asking. A complex emotion flashed in his eyes, and he shook his head heavily. "Director Su, the destruction at the scene was very thorough... So far... there are no reports of any... personal belongings or biological traces found." He avoided the word "remains," but the meaning was clear.
Su Mu's body swayed imperceptibly, and her fingers gripping the brooch tightened, their knuckles white and transparent. She lowered her eyes, her thick eyelashes casting deep shadows in the pale light, obscuring the immense pain and deeper uneasiness that suddenly surged up.
Lin Mo's heart sank. He watched Su Mu suppressing her grief, and a cold rage burned in his chest. He had to do something! He had to break this suffocating, hopeless deadlock!
"The most urgent task is to restore the platform!" Lin Mo said firmly, his voice filled with a determination to burn his boats. "Without the platform, we are blind and deaf! We cannot coordinate resources and cannot warn of external threats! The 'Ark' itself is in danger! Technical team, I need a plan! A plan that can bypass the restrictions of existing sharing rules in the shortest time, forcibly extract valid data from the ruins, and restart the core of the platform! At any cost!" His eyes fell on Su Mu and several leaders of the technical team like real pressure.
The head of the technical team, a white-haired professor, wore an expression uglier than tears. "Commander... this... this is almost impossible! The existing data collection protocol is based on the framework of the Convention, requiring each node to actively cooperate in uploading data. Forcible collection? That would be tantamount to tearing up the Convention and plundering the data of all signatory forces! This would cause..."
"What will it cause?" Lin Mo interrupted him abruptly, his voice rising suddenly with the ferocity of someone who was pushed to the brink. "Will it cause a backlash? Or a new round of war? Professor, open your eyes and look!" He pointed fiercely at the charred ruins of the outpost on the screen and the blood-red icon next to it representing the collapsed platform. "The war has begun! They are tearing up the treaty! They are hollowing out the platform with inferior data and tearing our outpost apart with mechanical beasts! We are not discussing whether to abide by the rules now, but how to survive!"
His gaze was like burning coals, sweeping across every astonished face in the conference room. "Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures! Technical team, I don't care what methods you use! Hacking into their databases, activating those sealed, unstable old-era deep web scanning arrays, or even..." A hint of frantic determination flashed in his eyes. "Go deep into the ruins, to those known, extremely dangerous old-era data center graveyards, and forcibly gain physical access! Get the data back! Save the platform! Do you understand?!"
A dead silence fell in the conference room. Everyone was stunned by Lin Mo's almost insane directive, which completely contradicted the spirit of the Convention. This was tantamount to declaring war on all signatory forces! He was destroying the fragile new order they had painstakingly built at such great cost!
"Commander! This is too risky!" Zhao Qiming cried out, "This will put us in opposition to all forces! We will..."
"We're already at the edge of the cliff, Director Zhao!" Lin Mo's voice was as cold as iron, carrying unquestionable authority. "Either jump down and die, or grab any vine that might be there and climb up! Even if that vine is covered in poisonous thorns!" He took a deep breath, suppressing his boiling anger. "Execute the order! Technical team, plan! Now!"
"Report!" The heavy alloy door of the conference room was flung open, and a signalman rushed in with a pale face. He didn't even bother to salute, and his voice was distorted with fear: "Commander! Emergency! Airspace outside the base! An unidentified high-speed aircraft has been spotted! Unidentified! Communication refused! Breaking through the No. 3 Air Defense Identification Zone! Extremely fast! Target...target is directly at the core area of the base!"
"What?!" The conference room exploded instantly!
We just experienced the platform collapse and the destruction of the outpost, and now an unidentified flying object has forced its way into the core area?!
Lei Gang stood up suddenly, a terrifying glint in his eyes: "Anti-aircraft array! Lock onto it! If you dare to get close, shoot it down!"
"Wait!" Su Mu suddenly spoke, her eyes fixed on the picture that the signalman transmitted synchronously to the main screen.
Surveillance cameras outside the base captured a small, incredibly streamlined aircraft, as smooth as a teardrop and coated in matte black. With incredible agility and speed, it effortlessly dodged the lock beams of ground-based air defense radars, weaving through a dense virtual grid representing the interception path for anti-aircraft fire. Its trajectory was treacherous and devious, completely defying conventional aerodynamics, as if it were gliding through space.
"Its evasion algorithm... is very special..." Su Mu muttered, a strange light flashing in his eyes, "It's not the technical style of any known force..."
Just as Lei Gang was about to give the order to open fire, the black aircraft suddenly hovered less than three kilometers from the base's core dome. Immediately afterwards, a highly focused, directional information pulse, far exceeding the intensity of conventional communication bands, like an invisible javelin, instantly penetrated the Ark's several electronic firewalls and accurately projected onto the conference room's main screen!
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