Since the team had already mastered the key points of dodging patrol balls and freshman flying balls, the process of rushing along the calculated route was safe and sound. In order to save time, Zheng Feng even pressed the time acceleration button of the simulation training.
Time acceleration does not mean that the difficulty of marching is reduced. On the contrary, since the reaction time left for team members is shorter, more emergencies are encountered within a unit of time, further increasing the possibility of everyone making mistakes.
Therefore, Zheng Feng did not increase the acceleration too fast at the beginning, but chose to start from double.
When faced with emergencies, Zheng Feng showed an amazing ability to mobilize quickly, and he was always able to give the most accurate instructions to the team members in the shortest time.
At first, the team members were a little flustered when faced with the instructions to cut the preparation time in half. But after about half an hour, under Zheng Feng's quick and hands-on guidance, the team members finally adapted to the speed.
But Zheng Feng immediately accelerated the time to four times.
It was another round of new confusion, but in the end the Flying Tigers still held on.
Ding Hu tasted a bit of Tong Ling's previous training from the squeeze-style operation Zheng Feng gave to the team members.
The difference is that the training Tong Ling gave Zheng Feng was a chance to repeat after death, but there is no chance to repeat after death in the third mechanical forest battle. Once failed, they have to go back to the starting point, wasting a lot of time, and the previous simulation training would be wasted.
Of course, the purpose of the Flying Tigers coming here is to strengthen their training, so even if they fail, they can learn some lessons from failure, which is also a valuable experience.
Zheng Feng finally locked the time acceleration at 8 times.
This is the limit that other team members can bear.
If it is faster, the preparation time will be compressed to less than 3.75 seconds, and the ten people in the two reserve teams will inevitably make mistakes in a hurry.
The area where the error occurs is not the body, but the mind.
For people in the simulation mission, the time acceleration setting applies to all physical phenomena, including the physical reactions of organic organisms, and even more so to intelligent war machines with mechanical structures, but the thinking ability of the human brain is not accelerated.
It is the human brain that is busy, not the remotely controlled body.
Each disguise requires 30 people to cooperate perfectly. If one link goes wrong, the disguise will fail completely and there will be no room for recovery.
Seeing this, Ding Hu couldn't help but comment in the chat room.
"Others can't stand it anymore. This should be the limit. Zheng Feng is too daring. I don't know if he really doesn't take this simulated training quota seriously, or if he is really skilled and courageous."
Brother Hu was immediately criticized, and Zhou Donglai was responsible for the argument.
"Not necessarily. I feel like he seems to be still thinking of a solution."
Dong Shan, who had just connected to the chat room remotely, interrupted and said, "From the fact that Zheng Feng's brain wave activity is still abnormally high, he must still be thinking of a solution."
Not long after the group finished speaking, Zheng Feng really played tricks again.
He further increased the acceleration rate to 12 times.
Ding Hu was afraid of being argued, so he dared not speak again, but he was already sighing in his heart.
Alas, the brat has become too arrogant now, and he is bound to fall.
Three minutes later, Ding Hu exclaimed softly, feeling a little puzzled.
The Flying Tigers encountered a patrol flying ball team again. This time the team was extremely large, with as many as 1,500 flying balls arranged in five rows, but the Flying Tigers still responded in time and completed all disguises 0.1 seconds before being scanned by the opponent's detection signal.
Brother Hu was shocked and stunned. He clicked on slow playback and found the clue.
The preparation speed of other team members did not speed up.
The total time from the alarm to the completion of the disguise was still 3.6 seconds.
The problem lies with Zheng Feng.
He sounded the alarm and gave the order 1.25 seconds earlier, even before Mata Nicklaus, who was in charge of intelligence work.
Ding Hu pondered for a while, and then said doubtfully: "He predicted it? How did he determine that he would encounter the patrol team before he came into contact with the other party's traces?"
At this time, Tang Tianxin, who had returned, gave an explanation: "I know."
Ding Hu: "What is this?"
"His brain is now engaged in invalid thinking in the strict sense."
Ding Hu: "What is invalid thinking?"
Dong Shan interrupted: "It means letting your mind run wild. He is trying to leave the decision to his instincts, using his subconscious to analyze the external environment, while simulating the complete enemy patrol route in his mind, and then using this as a basis for judgment and making a quick decision."
Ding Hu: "This is really nonsense. If it were a real battlefield, he would ruin the whole team with just one wrong judgment."
"But the greater the risk, the greater the reward. If Brother Zheng Feng masters this ability in the normal flow of time, then he and his team will become extremely powerful. Instructor Tong Ling stood out in the Traveler Galaxy with her almost predictive intuitive judgment ability."
Tang Tianxin summarized the whole thing.
However, no matter how outsiders comment, the focus is still on the effect.
Under Ding Hu's anxious attention, six full hours passed.
During this period of time, the Flying Tigers have been accelerating 12 times, continuing to advance forward and crossing a distance of 16,751 kilometers.
At this time, everything in the Flying Tigers is normal, but the onlookers outside suddenly have their hearts in their throats.
The Flying Tigers will enter the core area if they advance less than 50 kilometers.
The elite warriors who participated in the third battle of the Mechanical Forest were defeated in this area.
Everyone was afraid that Zheng Feng would crash into them head-on, but what they didn't expect was that when he approached 30 kilometers, Zheng Feng suddenly adjusted the speed of time and returned to the normal speed.
At the same time, the fake ball that was rolling forward also stopped with a snap.
Obviously, Zheng Feng sensed the crisis.
This is already the core area of the Mechanical Forest Star.
In addition to the huge layers of stacked spikes, there is suddenly an atmosphere of a "city".
Just a few kilometers ahead of everyone, debris began to appear on the originally bare metal ground.
The two sides are clearly divided, one side is a flat metal surface, and the other side is covered with grass like stone flowers.
There are small mechanical units of varying sizes shaped like insects running around on the ground and in the air.
Although it is already the shady side here and it is night, it is as if it is daytime under the fluorescent light on the main body of the spikes and these small machines.
In order to improve the ecological reproduction capacity of the Mechanical Forest Star, the compound eyes not only transformed the ancestral core, but also created an entire complete ecological system.
On this vacuum planet made of metal and with almost no atmosphere, mechanical life forms are all living well, forming an ecosystem with a sense of weird beauty.
However, the real threat to the Flying Tigers at this time is the seemingly harmless micro-mechanical creatures in front.
When the other teams approached the ecosystem, they were confused and hesitant.
Everyone knew that the ancestor core must be inside, but no one knew the characteristics of the metal biological ecosystem in front.
After hesitating again and again, the special operations teams took different methods to continue to advance.
Some tried to change their form and fly directly from the sky, some continued to use the previous mode and approached from the ground in secret, and some simply rushed forward at full power.
But without exception, these warriors quickly exposed their whereabouts and fell into the encirclement created by the entire launch of the Mechanical Forest Star.
Zheng Feng considered for a moment and decided to lead the team to continue rolling forward.
The onlookers sighed.
Zheng Feng made a wrong judgment. He should have rushed directly, so that at least he could move forward a little further after being exposed.
If he rushed fast enough and performed the dodge operation well after being exposed, he might even have a chance to see the silver-white Ancestral Spike through the horizon. Although it was not tall, the color of the shell was completely different from other spikes.
After just three minutes, the Flying Tigers approached the bushes.
Li Qingqing, who was in charge of biological analysis, carefully collected information using optical instruments and then relayed it to Zheng Feng.
"Compared to the organic plants we are familiar with, the growth pattern of the metal grass in front is very strange. They grow very slowly, and the chemical reaction is mainly electrochemical. The weak force of the magnetic field pulls atoms little by little to transfer and slowly aggregate into new substances. Under normal circumstances, this reaction process should be very long, at least hundreds of thousands of years to grow half-human-high metal grass. As for those beetles and other mechanical animals, it would take at least tens of billions of years to evolve into these things."
Zheng Feng pondered, "But according to the records of the Void History, this mechanical forest planet did not exist originally. So the compound eyes only took a few hundred years at most to make the mechanical forest mature."
Li Qingqing nodded, "Yes."
Edgar: "So there must be another unnatural external force involved, a factory?"
Morrison: "That's right!"
"All of you shut up. Let me think about it." The ball that Zheng Feng transformed into rolled back and forth on the spot.
He suddenly remembered a joke from a thousand years ago: when in doubt, quantum mechanics.
Assuming that under the magnetic field, there is another layer of laws that have been operating silently, allowing the weak force of the magnetic field to be regularly enhanced, constantly breaking chemical bonds, and even the strong interaction force between nuclei, then it seems entirely possible to accelerate the growth process.
After thinking about it, it is necessary to take one more step forward to find out.
After discussing for a while, Zheng Feng decided to go forward alone.
He cut off his contact with everyone else and arranged his "afterlife."
"If I fail, Mata will be in charge. Your task is to charge forward at full speed and as far as you can. By the way, Edgar's ability to escape is second only to mine. The others should cover Edgar more. Our score is determined by the distance to the destination."
After giving the order, Zheng Feng rolled forward and entered the mechanical biological ecosystem.
The next moment, Zheng Feng's rolling body suddenly stopped and there was no movement.
"Oh, it's over."
Brother Hu, who always spared no effort to criticize Zheng Feng, commented decisively.
Although the other bystanders did not say anything, they also thought so in their hearts.
Based on past experience, Zheng Feng was already a "dead man" at this time.
Not only the dummy ball he controlled remotely died, but also his body hidden in the nearby planet in the simulation system would also die synchronously.
Most of the special agents in the past failed here.
Zheng Feng's biggest mistake was that as the captain, he should not have led the team in person, but should have let the members of the reserve team try out the depth first.
Looking back, when he knew how powerful he was, he could at least get closer and get more points by leading the team to charge.
The simulation mission monitor was synchronously cut into Zheng Feng's virtual body.
A group of mist composed of extremely fine fibers like thousands of threads appeared.
This was the quantum storm of the brain in Zheng Feng's sleeping body after being materialized.
At this time, the real Zheng Feng was sleeping in the simulated training room of the First Pioneer Academy.
During the mission, his virtual body was also sleeping, forming an independent new consciousness.
The fog that everyone saw before their eyes became the dream of Zheng Feng, who was recording the star-turned reversal of the special training.
At this time, the fog that had been highly active before suddenly became absolutely still.
Old man Dong Shan explained, "Fanxing has figured out the principles of the Mechanical Forest's Ancestral Core, and her simulation is very realistic. Zheng Feng has now entered a state of mind freeze, and his thoughts are being read by the preset program in the Ancestral Core. The Ancestral Core will peel off the disguise on the surface of his thoughts bit by bit, find the human core inside, and complete the enemy and friend judgment."
Zhou Donglai hummed to show that he understood, and then his mind moved slightly.
The next moment, two people were kicked out of this super small chat room.
One was Ding Hu, and the other was Tang Tianxin.
Tang Tianxin didn't have any objection. She knew that what was going to happen next might involve some secrets, but she didn't care and turned around to take care of her own business.
Ding Hu, on the other hand, was bewildered and furious.
Brother Hu was so angry on the spot. This was really a trick!
I'm the class teacher!
My students are challenging their limits, how can I not watch!
But even though he was angry, Brother Hu couldn't do anything. He could only snort angrily and turn to the perspective of others in the Flying Tiger class, acting as a side spectator.
From the perspective of others, the ball incarnated by Zheng Feng was still standing there in a daze.
Time passed slowly, and nearly an hour had passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, the other 29 Flying Tigers members reorganized into spikes twice to avoid the patrol balls that accidentally approached.
Under the previous time-accelerated and intensive training, even without Zheng Feng's command this time, everyone did not make any mistakes.
But the strange thing is that there was no movement inside, and the captain Zheng Feng remained where he was.
Finally, Zheng Feng's voice came from inside, "It's done, you can all come over."
His voice sounded very tired, but there was a hint of inexplicable excitement and excitement.
Everyone was very confused.
Zheng Feng's next order made everyone even more puzzled.
"Okay, no need to disguise, let's switch to high-mobility mode, and we'll fly straight ahead. In five minutes, we'll be able to see the ancestral core."
Edgar wondered, "Captain, what did you do?"
Zheng Feng smiled mysteriously, "Confidential."
He really thought it was a major secret, but he didn't know that Zhou Donglai and Dong Shan were already looking at each other, puzzled.
Just within this hour, the ancestral core that was completely reproduced by Fanxing was about to penetrate his mind, but it turned out that he was the one who penetrated it.
On the concrete mist, people only saw such a change.
A symbol representing the core of the ancestor's regular consciousness slowly floated out, rising in the wind and expanding into a piece of cloth, covering it like plastic wrap.
In the past, in the real world, the consciousness of other special forces members would be easily swept by this cloth, and all secrets would be exposed.
But for Zheng Feng, the cloth disappeared out of thin air not long after it was covered.
Main Brain Fanxing sent another explanation to Zhou Donglai and Dong Shan, "I don't quite understand what happened. Anyway, he seemed to have used this brief contact to absorb the knowledge of the core of the Mechanical Forest Progenitor, and implanted his own consciousness into it, making the Mechanical Forest Progenitor, which originally had only computational rules but no independent personality, become a part of his own body."
"How is this possible! Wasn't the Progenitor of the Mechanical Forest a modified Mi Clan core? The regularized knowledge mastered by the Mi Clan core is a huge stacked memory symbol! What Zheng Feng put in now is just a virtual personality generated by a brain chain projection, and its memory is based on the support of your database, the main brain. How could you not know what happened? And how could he absorb such a huge flow of information!"
Dong Shan shouted.
Fanxing shrugged his shoulders and said, "If I really knew everything, then mankind would not need philosophers, but only me."
"Uh..."
Old man Dong Shan was silent.