Chapter 119: Engineering Robot Leader 9527
Chapter 119: Engineering Robot Leader 9527
Half an hour later, the hover vehicle arrived within one kilometer of the construction site where the ruins were discovered.
The artificial human driving the vehicle lowered its altitude and slowly landed on the ground.
When the vehicle touched down, they finally got off the hover vehicle.
“Eeeeeh~~ Yaaaah~~”
Audrey didn’t move from her seat in the vehicle. She stretched out her arms and looked at Lei Yaotian with longing eyes, hoping he would carry her out of the vehicle.
However, Lei Yaotian clearly didn’t acknowledge her request. “You can’t spoil kids” was what he thought to himself. Unconsciously, over time, Lei Yaotian might have indeed regarded the straightforward, innocent little girl—who wore her heart on her sleeve—as his own daughter.
“Wuuuuu~~~”
Seeing that Lei Yaotian ignored her, Audrey pouted and let out a very unwilling sound.
But then she saw that Lei Yaotian, led by Wangcai, was already walking into the distance. She looked at Monica, whose large chest jiggled with every step, then lowered her head to look at her own flat chest, before raising her head again, her gaze gradually turning determined.
“Yah yah!”
Audrey waved her small fist toward Monica’s back, then got out of the vehicle and quickly ran to catch up with the others.
Who knew why she and Monica were like this? Was it just because Monica had a better figure? Or because Monica was a woman?
Only heaven knew the answer to that.
“According to the feedback from the engineering robot leader, they’ve all retreated to the outer perimeter of the ruins. Because they can’t get within fifty meters of the ruins, they can only wait for our next command. What’s more, the armor of these engineering robots simply can’t withstand the attacks from the ruins’ defense weapons.”
Wangcai led the way while describing what had happened.
“Is the firepower defense only effective within fifty meters? It seems the ruins’ firepower defense system either lacks sufficient energy or its heavy weapons are already broken.” After listening to Wangcai’s explanation, Lei Yaotian shared his own view. “Moreover, these ruins may not be from a high-level civilization at all. After all, a high-level ruins’ firepower defense system couldn’t possibly have such a limited fifty-meter defense range, could it?”
Elder Mensa, quickly moving his two thin, small legs just to barely keep up with the others, chimed in after hearing Lei Yaotian’s opinion: “I tend to think it’s more likely that the ruins’ defense system is low on energy. After such a long time, that energy has probably mostly dissipated. Besides, from the Primordial Era to the present day, it’s possible the ruins’ weapon defense system has experienced some faults here and there. A fifty-meter range is already quite impressive.”
Lei Yaotian glanced at Mensa as he walked forward.
“Have you ever heard of those ruin explorers—when they found ruins, did they also get attacked like this? Or did those ruins also have defensive measures?”
Elder Mensa nodded at Lei Yaotian. “Of course! Unless they were unimportant ruins, but most defense systems aren’t functional anymore—either destroyed and abandoned, or out of energy. Only a few defense systems still work, so most of the time, discovering ruins carries no danger at all.”
As they walked and talked, they soon arrived at the engineering base set up outside the mountain range.
Thousands of heavy engineering robots were gathered around the mountain cave they had dug out. At the same time, all the weapons equipped on these engineering robots were aimed at the cave entrance as if facing a great enemy.
“Lord Butler, you’ve finally arrived.”
A ten-meter-tall heavy engineering robot clanked over and sat down in front of the group.
Even seated on the ground, this heavy engineering robot was so tall that everyone had to lift their heads to look up at it.
Audrey was clearly unhappy about having to look up at this big guy. She walked over to the heavy engineering robot, raised her small fist, and punched its calf, which was resting flat on the ground.
“Whoosh~~”
Audrey’s small fist was wrapped in a layer of earthy yellow light. When her punch landed on the robot’s calf, there was no sound at all, but the area where the heavy engineering robot’s leg was hit began to decompose bit by bit after a ripple of earthy yellow light spread out.
“Audrey!!!!”
Lei Yaotian really didn’t understand. This little one acted without any reason. She was always waving her fists around—was she a natural-born violent maniac?
Audrey’s body stiffened suddenly. She knew she had probably done wrong again.
A group of small robots, each about one and a half meters tall, crowded around this robot and started busily working.
Electric sparks flew, and sizzling sounds rang out continuously. Metal plates were transported over, first cut, melted, and shaped by the small robots, then used to patch the decomposed section of the robot’s leg.
“9527, I’m really sorry. This little one is the master’s ‘daughter’.”
Wangcai shouted up at the heavy robot.
The heavy robot waved its hand. “It’s no problem. The young lady is really quite powerful. This bit of damage—the little ones will fix it up quickly. So, Lord Butler, don’t worry about it. Let’s just focus on the ruins.”
This engineering robot clearly had a good temper.
In fact, all engineering robots had good tempers; after all, that was how their programs were set.
As for why Wangcai was so polite to them, it was only because Wangcai subconsciously felt these guys had developed a rudimentary intelligence, which was why he acted this way.
It had to be admitted that Lei Yaotian’s dimensional plane was somewhat remarkable, and Wangcai’s senses were sharp. Ever since these single-minded heavy robots came to this dimensional plane, a very few of them had indeed acquired elementary intelligence. This unit numbered 9527 was one of them, which was why Wangcai had promoted him to be the engineering robot leader.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, another engineering robot with similar elementary intelligence—also like 9527—was leading a group of engineering robots in the massive construction of a warship factory.
Since these two engineering robot leaders emerged, the engineering robots under Lei Yaotian now seemed to be split into two factions. Lei Yaotian was aware of this, but he didn’t say anything. He simply had Wangcai monitor their activities to see what might eventually happen.
Audrey once again put on a pitiful expression and slowly shuffled back.
This time, Lei Yaotian didn’t give her a friendly look—in fact, he didn’t look at her at all.
“9527, are the ruins inside the cave?”
9527 replied, “Yes, Master. The ruins are located in the lower interior of the mountain. While excavating part of the inner mountain, a whole section of the mountain surface fell off, and we discovered a metal gate. At that time, we didn’t touch the gate and immediately sent a message to inform Lord Butler. But we didn’t expect that as soon as the metal gate was discovered, the hidden weapon defense systems built around it also started attacking. Because of that, several hundred of our heavy engineering robots were destroyed right away.”
9527’s tone was very heavy.
“So, according to you, we can’t go in now either?”
Lei Yaotian said.
“Not for the moment, but it should be okay if we wait a little while.”
9527 replied.
“What’s going on?”
Wangcai asked.
“I’ve already sent a group of engineering robots to dig a low underground passage. If they succeed, I think we can avoid the defense system without any problem. This way, we won’t have to clash head-on with the defense system, and we’ll reduce some losses, won’t we?”
Lei Yaotian nodded. “I really didn’t expect you to be so considerate of your subordinates.”
“No! No! No!” 9527 shook its head repeatedly. “This isn’t for my subordinates’ sake, but for you, Master.”
“Hmm~?”
“Master, if you want us to fight head-on, it’s not impossible. But if we destroy that defense system, our losses would probably be huge. Then the work plans you need us to complete would suffer greatly. I assume you wouldn’t want to see that, would you?”
Lei Yaotian laughed and agreed with 9527’s reasoning.
“So reducing losses is also beneficial for you, Master, isn’t it?”
Lei Yaotian walked over to Wangcai. “Increase surveillance. This guy’s intelligence has become even more developed than before. Who knows if that’s good or bad? Handle it as you see fit. If it exceeds my tolerance, I authorize you to destroy it immediately.”
Wangcai slowly nodded.
There’s no need to necessarily destroy an intelligent being—but it depends on what you do afterward.
Wangcai secretly glanced at 9527 and thought.
“Since we can’t approach the ruins right now, let’s wait here for a little while. Hopefully, 9527 will succeed in digging a tunnel from underground, so we won’t have to take risks or waste engineering robots.”
Lei Yaotian told the group.
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“BOOM!”
About ten minutes later, a loud noise came from within the cave.
The ground shook a little, showing that the explosion causing the sound was quite powerful.
“What happened?”
Wangcai quickly asked 9527.
9527 also looked bewildered; it didn’t know what had occurred either.
So it rotated its head 360 degrees to face backward and called over a small robot to ask.
After the small robot’s instruments beeped for a while, 9527 turned its head back around.
Luckily, it was a robot. If a normal person turned their head like that, their neck would surely break.
“Master, the robots that were digging the tunnel were just destroyed.”
There’s even defense underground!
After hearing 9527’s words, Lei Yaotian sighed.
“Summon the artificial human soldiers! Gather here with heavy firepower weapons! I want to completely destroy the defense system!”
Lei Yaotian commanded Wangcai.
Before Wangcai could respond after Lei Yaotian spoke, 9527 spoke up again.
“Master, no need to trouble yourself. Reports from the front say that after the defense system collapsed the underground excavation project, it seems to have run out of energy. Right now, the engineering robots at the front are busy cutting through the metal gate.”