Chapter 573: Chapter 411: Control and Counter-Invasion

With excellent detection assistance, it’s entirely possible to avoid mechanical monsters above Tier Six.

Looking at the various experimental data being transmitted back, Grey Wolf’s expression also became exceptionally grim.

"Boss, within the entire Steel Maze, not only is there a special magnetic field that causes irreversible damage to flesh and blood creatures,

but there’s also an unknown gas in the air that causes rapid mutation in organisms.

This unknown gas can cause mutations in not just flesh and blood, but also induce some kind of directional mutation in mechanical life forms."

Grey Wolf observed the Tier Four Transformers operating on the first, second, and third underground levels and found varying degrees of erosion changes in their bodies despite no damage.

At the same time, he also noticed some minor issues in the program that drives the Transformers.

If it weren’t for the fact that these Transformers were controlled by the spacecraft’s intelligent system, which could instantly read the situation of the program’s operation, they might not have noticed anything.

The slight changes in the program included a certain directive that, once triggered, would seize control authority of the Transformers’ drive program.

However, the intelligent system of the spacecraft isn’t easily outwitted.

It can be said that Grey Wolf’s advanced artificial intelligence - Little Distraction, is installed on the spacecraft.

Both the Wolf King and the research base’s AI programs are avatars of Little Distraction, only provided with different server configurations.

The size of the Wolf King limits its computing power, making it the weakest of the three.

Next is the research base. Although it covers a large area, its servers and supporting equipment are not as advanced as those on the spacecraft.

However, the avatar of Little Distraction is completely capable of meeting Grey Wolf’s experimental needs and can ensure the operation of the entire institute.

Almost immediately after the Transformers operating in the underground Steel Maze encountered program infiltration, the superintelligent system of the spacecraft devised a response plan.

It was just a few special shield firewalls that immediately isolated this virus program.

"As expected, even though the interstellar civilization has been destroyed, the strategies that remain are not so simple.

If that’s the case, then all the mechanical beasts and monsters in the Steel Maze should be in a controlled state.

Can we perform a counter-invasion?"

Mo Qingchen stroked his chin, eyeing the monitor screen as a squad of Transformers teamed up to destroy a Tier Five mechanical monster.

Tier Four against Tier Five, leveraging numbers and the ability to unleash higher-level energy weapons, crushed the monster effortlessly.

It’s worth mentioning that due to computational constraints, the Wolf King can control about one hundred Tier Four Transformers at its limit; adding more would cause some delay and lag.

But for the spacecraft, the control base has expanded by more than a hundred times.

Now, controlling just one hundred Tier Four Transformers allows for extremely fine control over each mechanism.

Meanwhile, the backend plans a variety of strategies for every battle, generating over a hundred plans in an instant!

This kind of backend support, combined with precise fine control, makes it easy for Tier Four to crush Tier Five.

Even when encountering Tier Six mechanical monsters, with the support of the spacecraft, they complete combination transformations and forcibly obliterate the enemy within seconds.

Preemptively evade mechanical monsters of Tier Seven and above.

Eliminate Tier Six and below mechanical monsters swiftly, then pack and recycle the mechanical wreckage, leaving not a millimeter of fragment behind.

One could say, under the spacecraft’s control, these hundred Transformers cleaned up like locusts.

Way cleaner than implementing a "three all" policy.

Watching the show, Wang Xiao’Er was already frightened.

Especially after hearing Grey Wolf’s various research reports, his back was soaked with cold sweat.

At this moment, he was filled with gratitude.

Fortunately, he met Mo Qingchen upon arriving at the Civilization’s Wound Secret Realm and decisively clung to him.

If anyone coveted the underground treasures of the Steel Maze, they’d probably end up dead here.

Not even Bear Baby could protect him entirely; the underground Steel Maze is full of mechanical monsters, with plenty of Tier Five and Six, not to mention those above Tier Seven.

With Bear Baby’s Tier Six Peak capability, Great Needle Bee’s Tier Five capability, and his own Tier Five being a drag,

going in would mean not knowing how he’d die!

The Mechanical Bear King lying beside Wang Xiao’Er was trying to curl into a tight ball, reducing its presence.

It had long felt that something in the underground Steel Maze was attracting it—a mechanical life form instinct.

This sensing told it that obtaining something below would allow it to advance, and its talent would improve!

That’s why it coaxed Wang Xiao’Er to come to the Civilization’s Wound Secret Realm.

But what did it find now?

Piles of mechanical monsters and more than a dozen Tier Nine mechanical monsters exist.

Also, the whole underground Steel Maze has various pitfalls, especially unknown viruses with implanted potential control programs.

If it went down on its own, it would probably become a puppet controlled by something.

Looking at the screen where unsophisticated mechanical monsters were being hunted down and shattered to pieces by the Transformers,

The Mechanical Bear King shivered, gazing at Grey Wolf with an extremely ingratiating expression.

Why risk its life becoming a puppet when it can cling to this wolf?

Bear Baby determined it would cling firmly to Grey Wolf, even if it meant getting dismantled bit by bit!

Even if the counterpart wants to cripple its Beastmaster, it would hand over a wrench as long as it doesn’t kill.

Just then, a change appeared again on the monitoring screen.

In the Steel Maze model, the Tier Seven and Eight mechanical monsters scattered around suddenly seemed to receive a command and began moving quickly to several points.

"Boss, your prediction is correct. Something in the Steel Fortress is indeed controlling everything."

Grey Wolf’s expression grew more severe.

Because the spacecraft already calculated, marking several gathering points on the city model.

The paths taken by those Tier Seven and Eight mechanical monsters would converge at certain points.

"It seems the hidden entity has been provoked, wanting to clean us, the intruders, out."

The Tier Nine mechanical monsters weren’t moving.

This indicates that using the Tier Nine mechanical monsters might introduce instability.

Using them might also require consuming energy from the Steel City.

Accommodating the majority of Tier Nine mechanical monsters on the underground fourth level is definitely not accidental, and some effort must have gone into it.

"Spacecraft, gather all the Transformers and use the transformation and combination mode. Even if it costs all energy, give these mechanical monsters a brutal energy cannon bombardment!"

These standard model Transformers may only be Tier Four due to their materials and energy level!

In actual fact, once they combine, they can continuously stack materials and energy.

If all one hundred Transformers combine, they can unleash a Tier Nine energy blast!

Of course, after forming the combination, they have only one strike power.

After the bombardment, damage to the bodies may reach fifty percent, and the energy will be exhausted.