Chapter 350 Lost (20)

Chapter 350 Lost (20)

"Buzz~~~~"

"boom!"

Accompanied by the huge electromagnetic interference sound of damaged equipment, the remaining part of the giant contractor, which was almost the same size as Han Zu, fell to the ground. Opposite him, two-thirds of Han Zu also stopped the carefree energy release.

Before the contractor fell, Han Zu felt that he was fighting himself. Whether it was attacking methods, defensive means, or basic physical fitness, the contractor was on the same level as himself. In the first few hours of the battle, the two fought hard and neither could do anything to the other.

However, the contractor's body is different from Han Zu's after all. The things they use to repair their damaged bodies will eventually run out, although they can use special teleportation technology to replenish the necessary repair materials. However, after observing, Han Zu found a good opportunity and used the contractor's equipment on his body to cut off the opponent's teleportation. Even so, it took Han Zu a lot of time to defeat this contractor who was almost a replica of himself.

"The current energy storage is insufficient and the recovery rate is reduced. It is recommended to use external supplementation to increase the recovery rate."

"Detecting current environmental threats..."

"No threatening combat units have been detected. Current environment: safe."

"Boom!"

After confirming that the 275th floor was cleared through the prompts of the contractor's equipment, Han Zu fell backwards and lay on the ground. This was not because he wanted to take a break, but because his energy index was not optimistic at the moment. Because of the long-term high energy output, his body's energy recovery speed has slowed down a lot. It has reached the point where he can't quickly repair the damage to his body.

But it's not completely without benefits. At least Han Zu's body is shrinking, changing from a giant to a normal state of more than two meters. Although the various data of the giant body are much stronger than the normal form, the energy consumption will also increase. After returning to normal, although the energy recovery speed is still very slow, there is already enough basic energy to repair the missing parts of the body. Of course, this process is extremely slow. If this recovery speed is maintained, it may take one to two hours for Han Zu to repair all the injuries.

“Sizzle…”

Some more sounds were heard, and Han Zu looked up. The giant contractor's body was teleported away. At the same time, some fluctuating space phenomena appeared around this floor. Soon he returned to a familiar position.

The entrance to the 275th floor was not far from him, and the layout inside was exactly the same as what he had seen when he first climbed to the 275th floor. He should be back inside the building. Just as Han Zu was about to see in which direction the entrance to the rooftop was, two robots suddenly appeared beside him.

These two robots were not contractors. Based on the scan results of the contractor's equipment on him, Han Zu learned that these two robots were created by the contractors to replace them in some work. Through a deeper scan, Han Zu found materials similar to the contractor's body on these two robots. Their functions are probably similar to those of the army he built, which only obeys his orders.

The two robots had very special shapes, a bit like some kind of spider insect, but much larger. They sprayed some kind of liquid on themselves, which increased Han Zu's self-repair speed several times in a short period of time, repairing all of Han Zu's injuries. Another robot placed an irregular metal card on Han Zu's abdomen. Han Zu suddenly felt a special energy field, and then floated up because of the effect of this force field.

The two robots started to move, one on the left and one on the right, while Han Zu remained lying flat, floating between them. This feeling was very strange, although he was floating, Han Zu felt like he was lying on something solid.

Following the two robots, Han Zu soon came to a large shaft that looked like an elevator platform. However, there was nothing nearby, neither an elevator platform nor any equipment to operate. After Han Zu and the two robots stopped, another energy field suddenly appeared, and they began to float up steadily and quickly, as if they were riding a completely transparent and very quiet elevator platform. As the gray sky came into view, Han Zu came to the rooftop of the skyscraper. Here, Han Zu saw several contractors, and there was also a large machine around, which was almost the same equipment as the one he saw on the 273rd floor.

The machine had been opened and was empty. Gloria was sitting on a metal box next to it. She was staring into space. Through the identification of the contractor's equipment, Gloria seemed to be looking at something with her contractor's equipment.

"Han Zu!"

But after seeing Han Zu, Gloria immediately shifted her attention and quickly walked to Han Zu's side. Just as she was about to say something, a contractor next to her, who was holding something, suddenly interrupted Gloria.

He stood next to Han Zu holding something that looked like a small aquarium. This transparent container, like an aquarium, contained something silvery that looked like liquid metal. However, Han Zu couldn't tell whether it was liquid metal or not, after all, its fluidity was very high and it was basically no different from water.

The contractor poured the contents of the aquarium directly onto Han Zu, and a comfortable and cool feeling spread through Han Zu's body. Due to some special energy reaction, the liquid did not drip onto the ground after being poured, but was absorbed into Han Zu's body.

"Element 12 detected, modifying..."

"completed."

The special force field around him changed direction and helped Han Zu stand up. Although his energy reserve was still insufficient, Han Zu's injuries had been completely healed. Han Zu, who was curious about what the contractor's equipment was talking about, suddenly had a piece of clothing similar to the robes worn by the contractors. Han Zu could guess that this was probably because of the 12th element.

Han Zu stood up and noticed that Gloria was wearing the same robe. It seemed that she had been here for a long time and probably knew a lot of information. He would have to find a chance to ask her later, but now, it seemed that a contractor was ready to say something to him.

"You have reached the rooftop. The equipment will provide detailed information on future cooperation."

This time Han Zu did not reply, but just nodded. According to his understanding of the contractors, they basically did not use language to communicate among themselves, let alone with him. This very rigid way of communication was already very difficult for these contractors. For this, Han Zu gave them great tolerance.

After that, the contractor stopped talking, and everyone did. The contractor who poured the Element 12 on Han Zu put away the container that contained the Element 12, and then signaled Han Zu and Gloria to follow him.

Following the contractor to the other side of the roof, there appeared a platform about ten centimeters higher than the ground.

"Available teleportation node has been found."

According to the prompts of the contractor's equipment, the two understood that this seemed to be a teleportation device of the contractor's technology. The teleportation device, which basically had nothing but a base, actually showed the level of development of their technology. This teleportation device without any extra equipment also showed their high level of understanding of teleportation technology.

"You can leave through here."

After saying this, the contractor left and returned to the group of contractors. They seemed to look at each other for a few seconds, and then all the contractors, along with all the equipment on the rooftop, disappeared abruptly in an instant. Similarly, Han Zu did not feel any energy fluctuations left behind by the transmission.

Han Zu stared and scratched his forehead. He sat on the ground next to him. Gloria sat next to him and checked Han Zu's body, but Han Zu felt that Gloria's hands were dirty because she kept touching him. However, due to the high mental tension caused by continuous fighting and the great consumption of energy, Han Zu's recovery ability did not return to normal, so Han Zu did nothing, did not speak, did not stop, just sat on the ground to rest.

It was estimated that after about half an hour, Han Zu's energy and body recovery ability gradually recovered to normal values. While continuously absorbing the dissipated energy in the space to recharge, Han Zu finally recovered from his dazed state leaning against the edge of the rooftop. He began to talk to Gloria about the contractor.

According to Gloria, after being taken to the rooftop, she also entered a scanning device. After several hours of completely uncomfortable examinations, Gloria completed various tests around the time when the battle on the 274th floor of Han Zu had just begun. Since then, Gloria has begun to try to communicate with those contractors, but the results are not very optimistic.

"Those contractors are like... how should I put it? They are not illiterate or anything like that. They are like a race with a completely different way of thinking. Their way of communication and expression, I can't say they don't exist at all, but they are definitely very rare. After observing for a period of time, I found that each of them has a device similar to the one we have, and all their communication is done through this device."

"A mechanical form of the Hive Mind?"

"It has some similarities, but it is also very different from the hive mind. I think it is more like a complex network system. Each contractor is like a network node, and they can synchronously understand all the information in the entire network. But this network does not control them. On the contrary, this network itself has no will. It is a bit like an extremely complex computer system, but the core is not the CPU, but each node on the circuit board."

"Skynet?"

"Not really. It's more like an online group for information sharing. Anyway, their social structure is very strange, if that can be called a social structure. They have no concept of class at all. Everyone is equal. I'm talking about real equality, not the fake stuff our politicians pretend to be."

"So..what do they want us to do?"

"I really don't know. Even if they communicate with each other through something like the Internet, this kind of communication is more like... a... how to put it?"

"Data transmission between nodes?"

"Yes! That's right! And there's one more thing. You and I who can use the contractor's equipment are now in this complex giant network, which is equivalent to two new nodes. We can now read all the information in this network. But it takes some time to translate them into text we can understand. The volume of this data, anyway, I have never seen such a large amount of data. I don't think our civilization has any equipment that can completely store all this data, and Infinite Company is not good enough. But it is definitely better than other places. I estimate that it can store one billionth of it."

"Is it true? So exaggerated? Let me see."

"Stop! Wait a minute!"

"pia!"

This time Gloria reacted very quickly. She put both hands on Han Zu's face to stop his actions.

"Um, you want to..?"

"Don't rush to read the data, because the contractors regard us as the same level as them, so the two of us are now two complete nodes, and the amount of data that can be read is about the same as that of one contractor. Let me put it this way, each of them is equivalent to 25 times the computing power of the main server of the Infinite Company headquarters. If you rashly read the default amount of information, your brain will crash."

"You know we don't actually have any difference in organs right now, right?"

"I know, so this is even worse. All the cells in the body will be bombarded with a large amount of information in a short period of time, creating a high-intensity information shock. That feels very bad. Uh!"

Gloria shuddered and looked nauseated. It was obvious that she had tried it before.

"So now you have tried it out, how much information can you read at one time?"

"Yeah, about that... Um, do you know how big 1yb is?"

"I don't know, but I know it was a way of expressing the largest storage unit from a long time ago."

"We can take in about that much data per second."

"Ah? Can you see it?"

"Of course I can't see it all! I'm just saying how much I can accept."

"Then have you found out why they contacted us?"

"No, there is too much data. I am already having a headache after just looking at the small amount of data that we can understand."

"Have you found any useful data?"

"Yes, and a lot. Just based on these data, the Feidenan family or the unlimited company will no longer be a problem. Of course, the premise is that we can find a way to achieve these data."

"so..?"

"...Most of them are not available. We don't have what we need. Some of them I have never heard of before, and I can't understand the texts they translate."

"Most, you say?"

"Yes, it's a coincidence that it's similar to your original idea. Well, at least it's similar to what you are doing now."

"Is there any information about the Gift of Death in here?"

"Yes, and a lot of it."

Han Zu noticed that Gloria's expression was a little conflicted.

"but?"

"There's good news, and a lot of bad news. Which one do you want to hear?"

"Um... Let's do it in order, but let's get out first. I'm getting a little sick of this place."

"Ok."

"Starting node, changing destination node..."

The two walked onto the platform of the transmission device and quickly disappeared on it.