Chapter 1552 - Trojan Horse (2/2)
At last, the Trojan Horse passed all the space checkpoints. It descended slowly toward a group of domes. One of the domes had accepted the request for landing and opened up its hemispherical roof, which was wide enough for the fighter to enter. Inside the opening were a large number of robotic equipment.
It was the automated spacecraft maintenance facility that the Executors built.
“I can’t believe that it is so easy,” Hao Ren said to N-6 as the spacecraft slowly descended inside the dome. “Everything runs automatically, and it is not even a highly intelligent system. Had you people stationed some more advanced AI, such as a bionic robot like you, and asked more complicated questions, we would not have made it in so easily.”
“But that will greatly reduce efficiency and shorten the lifespan of our logic circuit.” N-6 shook her head. “The automated system could do the job more efficiently and faster when it comes to processing a large amount of data during large unit deployment. The automated ID recognition system was foolproof until people like you all came with more advanced technology. Again, it would be useless to upgrade the automated ID recognition system when you all could hack it so easily.”
The logical thinking of N-6 was still so no-nonsense and straightforward. She did not even feel embarrassed for their technological inferiority but merely stating the facts, which instead had made Hao Ren feel a little embarrassed.
“If not necessary, we still hope to have a conversation with your survivor civilization.” Hao Ren rubbed his nose. “But we are out of options.”
Just then, Lily saw the monitor in the compartment. “Mr. Landlord, we are floating up. Something is coming.”
The maintenance system of the dome had taken over the control of the spacecraft when the spacecraft was inside. And the MDT did not resist lest it triggered the alarms. Hao Ren took a peek at the outside situation. A set of robotic arms grabbed the Executor attack craft and brought it to a metal platform, where a large number of servos with a small robotic arm attached rose from below. Each robotic arm had an eye blinking in red moving around the battered spacecraft to examine the degree of damage before formulating a repair plan. If this examination continued, they would soon found out the anomalies of the spaceship.
But Hao Ren already had a plan for this. While the robotic arms were at work on the platform, the entrance of the spacecraft slid opened a small gap, and a blue light flashed out from the inside. The happened so fast that the nearest robotic arm had managed to tilt its head slightly with eyes flashing a couple of times, and then determined that it was just a lens flare.
Meanwhile, the MDT had quietly sneaked up to the repair dock. With the prior intelligence given by N-4, the MDT had quickly found the hexagonal metal equipment mounted on the wall, which was the control center of the repair bay and connected to all other automation systems of the entire complex.
When the MDT attached itself to the surface of the metal device, a large number of data and patterns began to show up on the display of the metal device. The MDT had installed a virus into the system. One after another, the threads on the screen turned red, and an error message popped up. But soon, they returned to green again, which meant normal.
Or at least, it looked normal.
“The virus has taken over the system.” The MDT reported. “It is infecting other systems. You all can come out now.”
The belly of the Trojan Horse flipped open. Hao Ren brought his team jumped out of the spacecraft and swaggered past the robotic arms, which seemed to have not noticed the foreign elements.
Lily curiously poked a robotic arm with her claws, and the robot just moved to the side, sluggishly with no other reactions.
“Stop poking around. These things are not responsive.” Hao Ren smacked Lily’s head so that she could control her curiosity. “The MDT has planted a virus into the systems of the maintenance center. Now they are convinced that they are performing a complicated repair task smoothly.”
“The virus will not provide cover for long enough time,” N-6 reminded. “The prescribed protocol requires the pilot of the spacecraft to report to the nearest barrack and execute the combat data extraction procedure within one hour. We only have an hour, after which the Executors and the Cortex Prime will find out the problem here.”
Hao Ren nodded. “That is a long time. We just need to leave this place.”
The virus had infected all systems in the maintenance center. Since the Executor society was entirely based on artificial intelligence and automated control systems, it was the computer that controlled the operations in the maintenance bay. Hao Ren and his team walked out openly. Aside from having to circumvent some patrolling soldiers, they did not have to worry about any surveillance equipment.