Chapter 373 Alien Battlefield (2) City Maintenance and Gathering Information

Chapter 373 Alien Battlefield (2) City Maintenance and Gathering Information

A few hours later, late at night.

After finishing the battlefield cleanup operation, the coalition forces, helped by the two giants, gradually overcame some of their fears of Han Zu and Gloria, especially Han Zu. They were very grateful for their help, and different races kept thanking them in completely different languages. The commander and generals of the coalition forces also warmly invited them to enter the city behind. According to the translation of the contractor's equipment, they seemed to want Han Zu and Gloria to participate in some ceremony. However, Han Zu's performance this time was very abnormal. He not only declined the invitation of the coalition forces, but also took the initiative to offer to help them repair the damaged city walls.

"What are you going to do? I think you asked me to stay in giant form and took the initiative to help them repair the city wall. It must not be because you have nothing to do or you are being kind. This is not your style."

Han Zu said nothing. He continued to help the maintenance workers repair the city wall while sending a special node link to Gloria through the contractor's equipment.

"What is this? The contractor's facility you mentioned that was sitting at this location?"

Unlike Han Zu, Gloria did not agree to help the coalition forces repair the city wall, and also refused to participate in their ceremony, so she had time and reason to sit against the city wall and read the information sent to her by Han Zu. After reading the information, Gloria found something interesting.

The main content of the information is the location of the shelved contractor's facility, which is very far away from here, as if it is on a mountain far away. According to the information inside the facility that Gloria read through the data connection, this shelved facility seems to have a very serious accident. And although it can be confirmed through the equipment in the facility that is still operating normally and the internal underlying code that this equipment does belong to the contractor, at least it used to be, the equipment inside seems to be a model from a long time ago, and some of the less important equipment is even at the same technological level as the current Infinite Company. This means that this facility has been shelved for a very long time.

However, the cause of the accident and why such a huge damage to the facility was unknown. To know the real situation, you need to at least check it out on the spot. But the interesting thing Gloria found was not this, but information about the local indigenous people.

It is not known whether it is a coincidence or the contractor inside the original facility did it on purpose, but the information about the local indigenous people is very complete, even down to the details of how these indigenous people appeared. Of course, the premise is that all this information is true, but according to Gloria's feelings after contacting those contractors, this group of high-level species who call themselves contractors (the contractors call themselves) do not seem to lie, or have lost the ability to weave lies.

According to the information that has been preserved, Gloria's current location is actually quite far away from the Earth, almost on another planet on the other side of the universe. However, because the contractors' understanding of the universe is completely different from that of humans, the distance may be a little further.

When the contractors arrived at this planet a long time ago, there was nothing here. Although it was a rocky planet, the entire surface of the planet was covered by a liquid ocean of special substances, and the average depth of this liquid ocean was at least several times deeper than the deepest ocean on Earth. After arriving, the contractors initially only built an underwater base for environmental research and ore mining, but as they mined the ore, they seemed to have discovered something special under the crust of this planet.

What these things are, the contractors have no record of them, but no matter what they are, they are enough to make them spend a lot of manpower and material resources to completely transform the surface of this planet that is several times larger than the earth. They used their advanced technology to transport a large amount of seawater, first exposed the land to the sea, and then carried out detailed surface transformation again. After two years, the surface of the planet has become what it is now. Perhaps because of the subsequent movement of the earth's crust, the topography of the planet's surface may have changed a lot, but most areas still retain the original appearance after the contractor's transformation.

Then, something interesting happened. The contractors' records of this information were missing a part, which should not have happened. The equipment storing this information was not damaged, so the lack of this information must have been man-made.

However, because the contractor equipment in this facility is a model from a long time ago, compared to their more advanced ones, the two contractor equipment they are currently carrying can easily restore the deleted information. The information that Han Zu read when he was trying to stop the enemy from attacking the city was the restored content. The first valuable information in this artificially deleted information is that all the natives on this planet are the creations of the contractors. The contractors who came to this planet at that time were equivalent to the common creators of these strange races. Then the second key information follows.

When they were defending the city, the army that attacked the coalition forces was also a race that looked almost exactly like humans. They were not created by the contractors, nor were they life forms created by the planet itself. They were created by another race that could rival the contractors, and were used specifically to hunt down the contractors' creations.

What kind of race is this that can rival the contractors, how did they come to this planet, and why did they deliberately create some life to hunt the contractors' creations? The details are unknown, and there is not even a clue. On the contrary, these key information were not erased by the contractors themselves to cover up something. According to the analysis of the equipment and Gloria's intuition, it can be basically confirmed that this information was deleted by others after they invaded the contractors' equipment. So the people who covered up the truth were not the contractors, but these people. However, there is no information at present whether they are the race that can fight against the contractors.

After these messages, a long section of information was damaged and could not be read. Although we don’t know what happened later, based on the amount of information, we can guess that the contractors seemed to have stayed on this planet for a long time.

However, even though this information is very eye-catching, it still cannot explain why Han Zu is reacting now. If he only knew this information, Han Zu would not have participated in the war between the two at the beginning, but would have left here directly and headed straight for the idle contractor facility. So his abnormal behavior now must have other reasons.

So Gloria continued to use the contractor's equipment to explore the situation inside the distant shelved facility. It didn't take long for her to find a place that looked like a biological laboratory. This biological laboratory-like environment was also located inside the shelved facility. Judging from its location, it seemed to be a very important part of the shelved facility.

Through the monitoring equipment that can still be used inside the facility, it can be observed that there are a large number of culture dish systems of different sizes in this laboratory, some of which are even large culture chambers, but most of the systems have been damaged beyond repair. The experimental subjects inside have long disappeared, and the culture fluid inside has long dried up. There are also some marks left on the ground. However, among these culture systems, it seems that there are still a few culture dishes that have not been damaged.

The contractor's equipment was indeed advanced. Even though it was unknown how much time had passed, several of the incubator systems that had not been damaged were still running stably. However, although the equipment was still running automatically, due to lack of maintenance, the remaining experimental subjects had actually lost their life activities and became dead objects soaked in culture fluid. But this did not prevent Gloria from understanding why Han Zu took the initiative to do something very troublesome this time.

"Matching genetic similarity... Matching completed, similarity: 90%"

In one of the undamaged incubators, the contractor's equipment remotely activated the control panel of the incubator system. Using this panel, the system conducted some genetic comparisons on the well-preserved experimental subjects, and found that they were very similar to Han Zu's current genes. The source of this experimental subject happened to be another race that could rival the contractors. Although the name of that race could not be effectively translated into human language, it was confirmed through comparison that it was the same thing.

Although Han Zu first saw this laboratory, he did not have time to read the complete information or compare the degree of genetic similarity in such a short time. Han Zu was able to confirm that these things might be related to himself entirely because of the appearance of this experimental subject.

They are exactly the same as the tentacles Han Zu often uses.

The shape and appearance of the tentacles that Han Zu often used were not customized by him, but were originally that way. Unlike the tentacles in common cognition, Han Zu's tentacles did not look like the tentacles of any creature known to humans. There were no suction cups on them, and they did not look like biological materials at all. It was hard to describe. They were the kind with patterns similar to the patterned horns of ungulates, but they looked like mechanical materials, but the touch was completely the kind of feeling of biological materials. In short, up to now, neither Gloria nor Han Zu had ever seen anything similar.

Until now.

That's why Han Zu felt that this matter might be very important to him the first time he saw the experimental subject.

"But I still don't understand why you must help these contractors' creations to fight against another race's creations. This doesn't go against your logic and is too troublesome. And you definitely didn't do this out of a sudden kindness. There must be some necessary reason between the two."

"That's easy. Check the core system of the shelved facility. You should be able to find the last clause in the protocol inside. That's why I have to protect the creations of these contractors and get rid of the other gang."

According to Han Zu, Gloria checked the core system protocol he mentioned. The last line was very complicated, but the general meaning was that if all the contractor's creations on this planet died, no matter what the reason was, the contractor's idle facilities would send a special signal to the satellite of this planet and activate a certain device. Although the specific function of this device was not recorded in the core system protocol of the facility, Gloria used her own contractor equipment to find the drawings of this device from the contractor network.

This is a ground-based planet-erasing device, or to put it simply, a star-destroying cannon. It requires an extermination order to activate.

"Although the contractor facilities in this place have been shelved, the undamaged parts are still running automatically. Coincidentally, the planet-wide scanning base station is still running, recording and updating the activity tracks and numbers of all contractor creations in real time. Now, all the first and second generation contractor creations have died, and the earliest remaining ones are the third generation. However, it may be due to genetic programming. Even the genes in the next generation born later are still counted as the targets of the core system protocol. And because these contractor creations were not created based on the needs of war in the beginning, they are not as good as those creations of another race that were born to hunt them in terms of combat. According to the records of the facility, their range of activities on this planet is getting smaller and smaller. The city we are currently seeing is the range of their current residence... You can say it is the gate. On this planet, 90% of the gathering places of contractor creations are behind this city."

"So for now, all the contractor creations with considerable combat power are here?"

"Almost. Although there are some small-scale gatherings in other parts of the planet, I cannot confirm whether the core system protocols of the facilities follow the threshold operation."

"So you're helping them to actually prevent the Star Destroyer from being activated?"

"That's right. Even if we follow the worst-case scenario, we must not let the Star Destroyer on the planet's satellite start working before we find or repair the transmission node. Although I am very confident in my physical fitness, I am not arrogant. I don't think we can survive an attack of this level from the Star Destroyer."

"But if that's the case, why would you help them repair the wall? Why not just find the base camp of another race and take action?"

"Can you confirm that the race that can rival the contractors has not left similar backup plans on other satellites?"

"this...."

"Even though this may just be my guess, you can't completely deny it, right?"

"And even if there really is, we can't confirm it. Their equipment protocol may also be reduced to a certain scale, and similar equipment will be activated."

"That's right. So the purpose of repairing this wall is not for them, but for us. According to the records inside the facility, when this wall is intact, the war on the planet will basically enter a truce period. Although the opposing race is more adapted to war, it can be seen that when they were built, quantity was greater than quality. They don't have much offensive effect against this solid defense. As long as the wall is repaired, we will have time to leave here and go to the shelved facility. Our primary goal is to find available transmission nodes or transmission equipment first, and then search for information. I always have an ominous premonition. I always feel that the life of this planet should not be long."

"Then I'll help too. If I had known the situation was so urgent, I wouldn't have spent so much time reading the information and then done nothing. Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Gloria, knowing the seriousness of the situation, immediately took action and, together with Han Zu, began to help the coalition forces repair the city wall.