Chapter 1542 - The Ground Operation Force (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It surprised Hao Ren. He remembered that he had been talking to Nolan about it just now⁠—that they had been on the planet for six days and the survivors had not even come down to look at it, and he thought it was quite wrong.

Well, here they come, at last, six days late, with an armed force.

“How many people are there?” Vivian frowned and asked Nolan.

“There were only 18 of them, carrying a variety of light and heavy weapons and detection equipment. Their transport plane stopped in the forest and did not move, apparently setting up a makeshift camp. This appears to be a well-trained reconnaissance unit with a clear purpose.”

Hao Ren raised his eyebrows and asked, “Sure they’re coming for us?”

“Yes.” Nolan nodded. But just now they tried to scan me with their radar and I scan them back, I think I destroyed their radar.

N-6 looked at the humans in front of her, feeling confused. This time she could not understand what they were saying because Hao Ren had shut down the translation plugin during internal discussions. At last, she could not resist her curiosity and asked, “What happened?”

“Oh, I want to confirm with you.” Hao Ren looked at N-6. “Have you sent that signal?”

Although he felt that, even though N-6 had just sent the recovery signal, the survivors of the rebels could not react so quickly, so Hao Ren wanted to confirm the situation.

The robot girl shook her head and. “I haven’t had time to…”

“Then it seems to be a coincidence,” said Y’zaks in a muffled voice. “There’s a team of armed men approaching from the outside, presumably from the same place as you.”

“Troops from the Zenith?” N-6’s eyes widened in surprise. “How can there be a ground force…”

Hao Ren was surprised to see the robot girl’s reaction. “Is the ground force strange?”

“The Zenith rarely sends any ground forces to the home planet because ground forces have little role in the battle against the planet’s devourer.” N-6 shook her head. “I don’t have enough information to analyze which echelon they come from. I need to engage with them.”

Hao Ren was waiting for this. “Of course, only you can fix this thing. Come with us. We’ll take you to the exit.”

In the dense forest, N-4, acting as a temporary commander, led her newly assembled and unfamiliar men cautiously forward. She clutched her electromagnetic assault rifle, but the power of the weapon did not give her any more security at the moment. It was the consensus of all executors that landing on the home planet, where the ground was so dangerous, was almost like giving up half the chance of survival. And now, she felt it more deeply.

Especially after the team’s radar equipment was destroyed by a pulse of unknown energy, the danger in the area soared.

“Left side, safe.”

“Right, safe.”

“Communication with the base is normal.”

“That thing is still a kilometer away.”

The team members exchanged information quickly over close range radios, all of them keeping their voices low. Even though their sensors did not sense any real enemy, there was still a heavy pressure on them kept them on their toes.

N-4 bit her lip. This move, too close to a human, suggested that she was an ‘elite organism’ far older than her peers in military service. Longer military life and more combat work had allowed her to download more humanizing data packs from the ‘big think tank’, which allowed her to think more like a human, with more advanced emotions and ambiguity processing capabilities. It was these attributes that led her⁠—and her improvised team⁠—to participate in the operation.

And it ended up this way.

Wasn’t it… a little regret?

The voice of a team member reminded N-4, “Captain, we’re close.”

N-4 nodded. Although she was slightly distracted just now, the logic circuit of the executor was not affected by such a degree of mind-wandering. The part of the circuit she used to carry out the task was still faithfully executing various field instructions, so she was aware of the presence of the target before the team sounded the alarm. She motioned the team to hide in the nearby bushes, and then looked over the sparse plants to the giant object not far away.

It lay still in the middle of the forest. The shock waves created by the fall ‘cleared’ a large area of the forest directly into a huge crater, with the trees along the edge of the crater swaying, and only a large amount of charred rock and carbonized tree trunks visible inside the crater. The heat in the impact crater had long since subsided. The only evidence of a spaceship crash here was the ship lying dormant at the bottom of the crater.

The style of that spaceship was unheard of. It had heavy armor and a variety of external equipment that they had never seen before. And on the upper deck of the spaceship was a striking and bizarre painting⁠—a portrait of some alien creature. With its sharp tusks and extremely stern eyes, and its triangular ears perched on top of its head like those of the most vigilant warrior, looking like the king of the predators.