Chapter 205 Mother Machine

"Interesting, these footprints are consistent with the trajectory given by the surveillance."

In the cockpit, Li Yi had a strange look in his eyes.

Before that, due to the feedback given by the security guards, he once thought that the surveillance was hacked, which led to problems in Gu Haoyun's actions at the time.

But now it seems that since the almost undetectable footprints are consistent with the surveillance situation, the only possibility is that there is something wrong.

That is, it is only possible at the maintenance dock, the reception center, or along the one kilometer route between these two areas, any of the three.

However, the key issue is where exactly it is hidden, which is why the security team has searched for it several times but failed to find its location.

Among these three, Li Yi believes that the possibility of being in the maintenance dock is the greatest.

At this moment, Li Yi controlled the Tianwang mecha, turned the direction, flew over the reception center, and flew towards the maintenance dock.

A moment later, the Uranus mecha landed with a bang above the maintenance dock.

Boom! The Uranus mecha didn't slow down too much, and it hit the ground heavily, causing many small flying cars around it to bounce up slightly.

In the cockpit, Li Yi felt the vibration transmitted back from the ground frequency and smiled slightly.

Sure enough, it was in the maintenance dock.

Moreover, it was hidden in a small starship that had exceeded its service life and was about to be scrapped and dismantled.

No wonder the guards didn’t find it.

Who would have thought that the so-called safe house was actually in a small starship parked in the maintenance area, where not only were all kinds of dangerous equipment slowly cutting, but there were also many robots frequently going in and out?

…

After informing the security team of the specific location, Li Yi also docked the Tianwang mecha, ejected the insertion cabin, jumped to the ground, and prepared to go over to stop the dismantling of the small starship.

If the dismantling work progresses too quickly and the enhanced virtual mother machine is dismantled, there will be no clues about Wu Huanling at all.

Because of the clues about Lin Huanwu from the Fushan ship provided by Gu Haoyun, the security team had already called the other Fushan ship to question him, but the result was that there was no such person.

In other words, Wu Huanling successfully changed his identity once again.

Without any sanctions, it roams around like a ghost in the deep space fleet.

Li Yi stepped quickly into the interior, using his new identity as consultant of the Lunar Fortress Mecha Corps to break into various checkpoints and arrive at the scrap area inside.

The scrap area is different from the maintenance area in front. Various steel structures inside have already shown obvious signs of rust and are seriously aged.

Moreover, the light was a little dim and not bright enough, and all kinds of disassembled parts, disassembled iron sheets and other old objects were placed in a disorderly manner everywhere around.

There is also an unpleasant pungent smell in the air, which is probably the odor emitted by various aging coatings.

The overall environment is like an old-fashioned sweatshop.

There are almost no obvious paths for people to walk on the ground.

No wonder there are basically only robots and bionic people working here. The few who are directing the robots to work probably won't stay here for too long and will have to leave.

Click.

Li Yi stepped on a half-broken piece of iron, covered his nose, and walked inside.

Then, a half-dismantled but still extremely majestic huge ship came into view.

The nearly one-kilometer-long small starship had had a lot of its hull removed, revealing the front half of its steel keel and various cross-frames made of special alloys.

It was like the skeleton of a giant beast, stretching across the sky.

Considering Li Yi's current height, even this small starship has the same oppressive feeling as a super beast.

Especially when all kinds of coatings and steel protective layers are removed, revealing the hideous skeleton, it really gives people a shocking feeling as if a giant whale appears before their eyes.

However, this sense of shock only lasted for a moment.

After all, Li Yi has seen many big scenes, although many of them were seen in divine mechas, so the sense of oppression was not that strong.

He was not too distracted. After entering this place, he shouted: "All machines and bionic people, in the name of the consultant of the Lunar Mecha Corps, I demand that you immediately stop the dismantling of this small starship!"

"Once you hear the order, stop the activity immediately!"

Following Li Yi's order, most of the machines stopped working.

However, one of the bionic men did not stop at all. Instead, it suddenly woke up from its numb state as if it had received a signal. Its face suddenly became lively, and it leaped into the undisassembled part of the rear end of the small starship and quickly rushed in through the gap between a pile of fallen iron sheets.

In the blink of an eye, the entire body was completely covered by a batch of half-disassembled iron sheets, making it difficult to find any trace!

Li Yi took a quick look but couldn't see any specific movements of the bionic man.

All that could be heard was the clapping sound of the bionic man's feet moving quickly on the ground.

Is this Wu Huanling's backup plan to destroy the mother machine? Li Yi's eyes moved slightly, and he raised his palm, estimated the opponent's speed and direction, and activated the repulsion feature! Bang! ! ! An invisible thrust suddenly flew out and hit the half-removed iron sheet, directly creating a dent and driving the iron sheet to eject inward.

Boom!!! Immediately afterwards, the bionic man in the form of a man was hit by the bouncing iron sheet and flew out of the small starship frame, slamming into the wall and falling apart.

After several reinforcements of the characteristic spire and the increase in the total amount of divinity, now even with only one divine gene's repulsion characteristic, it has demonstrated excellent long-range attack power.

Although it is far weaker than the hand-rubbed divine energy cannon he currently possesses, its launch efficiency is obviously higher.

However, although the body of the bionic man was broken into pieces, the main body seemed to be intact and he still wanted to crawl into the starship.

Moreover, there was a strong micro-electric reaction on the bionic man's head, and it seemed that it could explode at any time.

Sensing this, Li Yi did not hesitate. He flew on the spot, spanning a distance of twenty meters, and his legs landed in front of the bionic man's forehead with a thud.

Then, he moved his body downward, drew his arms out, clenched his fists, aimed at the bionic man's head, and suddenly punched down!

With a crackling sound, the bionic man's head was easily pierced by Li Yi's punch.

whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The object that was about to explode was shattered by Li Yi's precise attack, and there was no time to trigger any explosion.

Moreover, Li Yi's punch was very well-designed, as the location of the punch accurately avoided the memory components of the bionic man, thus retaining enough clues to track down Wu Huanling.

No matter what instructions Wu Huanling set in the bionic man's mind, he can directly find out through this memory element.

…

After a quick tidy up, Li Yi stepped into the interior of the small starship which had not yet been disassembled.

Avoiding layer after layer of fallen iron sheets and various types of cut iron filings, he found the enhanced virtual mother machine.

The shape is basically the same as the dream virtual mother machine in the heritage ruins, with various thick power lines entangled, and various electronic components that are not packaged and have rough welding marks everywhere.

After a brief observation, Li Yi realized that the transformation of this thing would not take more than half a month.

"In other words, Wu Huanling learned from Gu Haoyun that he was going to transit to the moon and maintain the small starship, so he temporarily modified this thing?"

After thinking for a while, Li Yi called the scrap area supervisor who came over after hearing the news and asked:

"Could you please help me find out when exactly this starship was put into storage?"

The supervisor quickly replied:

"Sir, this little starship has been in storage for two months."

Li Yi was surprised and asked, "Scrap a small starship, and it hasn't even been half completed in two months?"

Main pipeline:

"That's right, sir. Although this starship is called a small starship, it is also a large ship that can sail across galaxies and carry more than a dozen divine mechas. The amount of dismantling work is not small."

"Since there aren't many starships in our Federation that have reached scrap standards in recent years, the operating capabilities of our scrap zone are not very strong. The robots are all old-fashioned, with weak basic power and simple systems, and their working speed is indeed slow."

"Also, about half a month ago, the large splitter responsible for dismantling had some problems. It was only debugged a few days ago and can be put into operation again."

Li Yi nodded slightly to show that he understood.

Yes, the Federation is currently still in a period of vigorous development in the interstellar era, and has just transitioned from the era of artificial starships to the era of super starships with semi-divine technology and semi-artificial technology. There are really not many starships that need to be scrapped.

It is estimated that those who regularly come to this scrap area are basically those flying cars, rail cars, or space shuttles, which are equipment that can carry less than 100 people.

Although this small starship, which is nearly a kilometer long, is far inferior to the main battleship of the deep space fleet, it is also a common weapon for mecha divisions when traveling.

Li Yi thought about it, if Wu Huanling had sent this small starship in two months ago, and had only hastily completed the modification half a month ago.

So, at least for this month and a half, Wu Huanling and his men should still be active in the lunar fortress.

It is absolutely impossible for an outsider of ordinary status to stay here for so long.

Or, Wu Huanling had used some other means to change his identity.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Or, he just hid here for a month and a half.

Li Yi naturally prefers the former.

According to Wu Huanling's past style, changing his identity would probably not be a difficult task.

Moreover, he had no prior knowledge that Gu Haoyun would come, and it was unlikely that he was hiding here just to transform Gu Haoyun into his own fanatic.

Coincidentally, the security team also hurried over at this time.

Li Yi asked about this issue.

The familiar guard said, "Sir, are there any other missing persons in the Moon Fortress in the past half month?"

Li Yi nodded.

The guard shook his head and said, "No, sir. The security inside our moon has always been very good. Except for the mecha trainees who often fight during training, everyone else has their own work to do. There is no case of someone missing for many days without being reported."

That's strange.

Li Yi touched his chin and thought, since no one was missing, could it be that Wu Huanling had another identity that could be perfectly replaced? Or, was it that Wu Huanling had not actually left?

Still inside the Moon Fortress?

When he thought of this possibility, Li Yi's heart moved slightly.

Yes, this possibility is very high!

So, where would he hide?

Li Yi walked towards the enhanced virtual mother machine thoughtfully and observed its basic external structure.

With his now fully proficient knowledge of virtual reality, he had a rough idea of ​​the basic functions of this thing.

The main function is the dream virtual mother machine, but it should have a strong enhancing effect on dreams.

Most likely, it can make the entrant wearing the link helmet have the illusion that the dream is real.

Then, a small control device will be inserted to help control the brain reaction of the corresponding person, and directly stimulate the other person's brain when the other person becomes suspicious.

Li Yi couldn't figure out how the function of strengthening the body at one time was achieved.

In terms of knowledge level of virtual reality, he has probably surpassed Xiaozhuang by a lot, and is even better in comprehensiveness.

However, facing the creator of this dream virtual reality system, Li Yi felt that he was still far inferior to Wu Huanling.

Such mysterious means are indeed frightening and more permeable than ideological stamps.

During the observation, Li Yi found traces of the transformer's hands.

It was very shallow and had been wiped, but it did still exist in some corners of the machine.

As he pondered, he pulled out a piece of paper and a pen from his pocket and started writing and drawing quickly.

The guard looked over curiously and found that it was a picture of a human palm print, including palm prints and fingerprints. Some parts were extremely clear, while others were clean.

"This is the palm print of Wu Huanling, or Lin Huanwu as Gu Haoyun mentioned, that I profiled. It's a little incomplete. Please take a photo and check your database to see who holds this palm print."

The guard took it and looked at it, then said, "Although the drawing is very good, sir, there is still a lot of missing information. I am not sure if I can find it out."

Li Yi said: "It doesn't matter. It's fine if we can find some similar people. Quick! I'm about to leave."

After two or three days, Li Yi's starship is only two or three hours away from departure, and he can't delay here for too long.

The guards sprang into action.

This security guard was quite responsible. His name was Zhao Xiaochuan. Li Yi asked him about his age. He was actually almost sixty years old, but he looked like a young man in his twenties. He was thin, agile, and full of energy.

Moreover, he only advanced to the mid-level evolver a few years ago, so his maintenance level is truly impressive.

Li Yi looked at Zhao Xiaochuan's departing figure and fell into deep thought.

If there have been no missing persons recently, it means that Wu Huanling's current identity is most likely still in the open, and he has cleverly hidden the replacement perfectly or completely destroyed the body.

On the lunar fortress, basic information related to identity characteristics such as fingerprints, faces, irises, and genes will be fully recorded. This information is also needed for daily travel. In general, as long as you have the information of the first three and confirm that your authority is qualified, you can pass.

In some confidential occasions, normal access is possible only when all four in one are available.

In other words, Wu Huanling has at least mastered the same transformation ability as him and can perfectly transform into another person.

…

Five minutes before Li Yi loaded the Tianwang mecha and the enhanced version of the dream virtual mothership onto the starship and prepared to set off, Zhao Xiaochuan finally sent a message to inform Li Yi that the palm print information check did not show any similar person, not even one.

"Has the clue been lost again?"

Li Yi felt a little sorry.

Fortunately, this time it was not a complete failure. At least Ning Feiyu's family was rescued, and 12 fragments of the immortality nucleus were earned, as well as an enhanced version of the dream virtual mother machine, and some undisclosed information about the self-circulating fern.

If he didn't have this advisory status, he really wouldn't be able to take the spoils away.

But with this identity, he only needed to submit an application, and the higher-ups didn't make it difficult for him and directly approved the items for him.

After all, these were items seized by Li Yi himself, and there were no experts in virtual reality in the fortress, only maintenance personnel.

Therefore, this enhanced dream virtual mother machine that was supposed to be dormant in the captured material warehouse of the Moon Fortress was obtained by him in a fair and open manner.

Those who were familiar with it were also amazed.

Liang Zhishen said with emotion: "So it was you who was driving the Heavenly King Mecha that day. Li Yi, you are really amazing. You can get such treatment in such a high-end lunar fortress."

Xu Weilu also praised: "Captain Li, you have a good eye for choosing mechas. They are handsome and majestic, and they suit you very well."

As they were talking, the starship had already taken off from the outer bridge fortress, flying straight towards the earth with huge flames.

By the window, Li Yi stared at the lunar fortress and fell into deep thought. He always felt that he had missed something in his thinking.

(End of this chapter)