Starships of All Realms Online

Chapter 20 Machine Warfare, Taking Control of the Base

Los Angeles, 2029

The once bustling city of Los Angeles is now a wasteland.

As the sun was about to set, the dim light made the already dilapidated city even more desolate.

Just then, a spatial fluctuation appeared, and a dark passage emerged, from which three figures emerged.

"It's always the same mess every time I teleport, but thankfully I've gotten used to it by the second time."

After suppressing his nausea, Fang Heng looked at the two soldiers beside him.

"How are you feeling?"

"Commander, feeling good."

"Don't you feel nauseous or want to vomit?"

"A little, but not noticeably."

"It seems that after my physical abilities improved, I can also resist the aftereffects of teleportation. Alright, let's find a place to hide and check out the surroundings."

"Yes, Commander."

Soon, the three of them found a relatively intact building and hid there.

"What happened here? How did it get so dilapidated?"

Looking at the dilapidated scene outside the window, Fang Heng wondered what kind of world he had entered.

"Sir, I found some documents in the room that indicate we are currently in Los Angeles, in North America."

"What time? Can you specify which year?"

"It cannot be determined; all electronic devices have failed, leaving only some tattered books."

"Forget it, let's set up a cordon first, be careful to stay hidden, and take another look tomorrow during the day."

"Yes, Commander."

After the security system was completed, the two clone warriors took turns keeping watch at night, while Fang Heng, as the commander, naturally did not have to do the hard work of keeping watch at night.

Nothing happened that night, but as dawn broke, there seemed to be new activity outside.

Fang Heng and the other two also hid inside the building, watching the aircraft outside, and had a general idea of ​​what was going on.

"Could this be the Terminator world?"

Inside the enormous flying machine outside, as mechanical warriors landed one by one, Fang Heng looked at the humanoid machines and quickly determined the world he was in.

After quickly reaching the basement and hiding with two soldiers, Fang Heng began to ponder what kind of technology this world could offer.

"First and foremost are robot manufacturing technology, as well as spacecraft technology within planets, and time machines—these are the most important technologies."

Fang Heng quickly identified several technological directions, among which the time machine was his primary focus.

Although he didn't know whether the time machine from the Terminator world could be used in the main world, theoretical knowledge about spacetime was definitely useful for reverse engineering teleportation devices, so it was a technology he had to acquire.

The second most important are the various spacecraft within the planets.

Judging from the movie, the Terminator's aircraft are of many types and should be very inexpensive to manufacture.

This is a technology that he desperately needs.

The third type is nuclear fuel cell technology.

Until the fusion core is repaired, this small nuclear fuel cell technology is a very important energy technology.

Then there's liquid metal technology, which he doesn't currently possess.

This programmable liquid metal has a very wide range of applications, and in his view, Skynet's approach of only using it to manufacture liquid robots is a very wasteful act.

The last one is the CPU technology mentioned here.

Leaving aside the unique nature of Skynet's neural network intelligence, Fang Heng was extremely envious of the CPU technology that could support rudimentary intelligent programs.

Even in the Call of Duty universe where the Retribution is based, chip technology remains a very important field.

The direction of chip technology development also differs in each world.

For example, in the main world, there is still trade competition and regulation, and the chip manufacturing process is still being continuously improved.

In the Resident Evil universe, the Red Queen was created using an integrated array method.

However, this method is not very efficient; it is only because the algorithm is powerful that weak artificial intelligence like Red Queen has emerged.

At the same time, Fang Heng also understood that intelligent programs like Skynet could no longer be called intelligent programs, but had already become intelligent life on one foot.

The Matrix intelligence in The Matrix is ​​actually a further evolution of Skynet. Beyond that, there are machine life forms, which will eventually become powerful intelligent civilizations like the Purge.

However, at this stage, Skynet is still vying with humanity for dominance of the planet on Earth. The war has also spurred rapid technological progress. Now that a time traveler like Fang Heng has arrived, the future direction has also taken an unknown turn.

Meanwhile, in another location, the rebels were discussing plans to launch a full-scale attack on Skynet.

"John, I'm requesting to join the operation in Coronado."

Kyleris followed John Connor, volunteering to join the fight.

No, you have to come with me.

"John, I don't understand."

"Kyle, Coronado's attack will surely succeed, but the mission here is more important."

"John, what could be more important than destroying Skynet's mainframe?"

"John, I don't understand why we're attacking a labor camp."

"That concentration camp was just a disguise. There was a helipad there, and Skynet's ultimate weapon was underneath."

When Tianwang realizes he's lost, he'll activate that weapon to ensure his safety. Without addressing it, we have no tomorrow.

"Then let's solve it."

John laughed happily upon hearing what Kyleris said.

After a passionate speech, John led his team on their way.

Fang Heng, after a day of searching, had basically figured out his current situation.

First, there's the urban area. The entire urban area of ​​Los Angeles has been completely destroyed, with the massive nuclear crater in the city center being the culprit.

However, after so many years, the radiation levels in the environment have decreased to safe levels.

This is actually a normal phenomenon. Although nuclear bombs seem to produce nuclear radiation after an explosion, the amount of nuclear radiation is actually not much. After all, most of the materials are reacted during the explosion, unlike nuclear power plants, where nuclear fuel cannot completely react after a nuclear leak, thus producing a large amount of radiation that can persist for a long time.

Fang Heng was also very curious about the Skynet robots outside. After finding a way to destroy the body of one Skynet robot, Fang Heng successfully hacked into the program of this T-600.

Inside, Fang Heng also discovered a lot of information, including the nearby Skynet base and the distribution of robots in the surrounding area.

However, shortly after obtaining the information, Fang Heng left the place.

Skynet's technology is quite powerful. At the same time as it detected the other party, the Skynet robots around it also detected it, so it had to find another place to hide.

This time, the intelligent subroutine I brought was still Ethan's subroutine.

While this part of the program cannot counter Skynet, it is relatively simple to modify the program of a single robot to make it work for you.

So by evening, Fang Heng had five T-600 robots in his possession.

This greatly increased his defenses, and he prepared to visit the nearby Skynet base.

This is a Skynet manufacturing base, mainly responsible for manufacturing T-600 robots. Basically, there is a small manufacturing base like this around every city.

At the same time, within a city cluster, there will be a large manufacturing base used to produce large machines such as hunters, transporters, and trappers.

There's no information available for larger ones, since this is just a T-600 robot performing battlefield missions, and its storage capacity is limited.

Soon, Fang Heng arrived outside the manufacturing base. Looking at the brightly lit manufacturing base, Fang Heng began to make plans.

Soon, an troop carrier carrying three T-600s headed to the base.

Since Fang Heng had also seen the movie and knew that a scan would be conducted at the gate, he disguised the T-600 and passed the scan.

Soon after entering the base, the T-600 began to move towards the base's main control room.

Just as they were about to arrive at the main control room, they were finally detected by the base's main control AI.

It's not surprising that the base's main control AI was slow to react. Skynet knew about its own creation process, so it was worried about the emergence of a new Skynet. Therefore, the main control AI of each base was a subroutine of Skynet and would be controlled by Skynet.

At this moment, as John Connor organized the resistance to attack, Skynet also mobilized all its computing power to the war site. This caused other programs to enter the automatic operation phase, which meant that the base's main control AI did not notice the Terminator's abnormal behavior.

As a result, they were only noticed after the Terminator approached the control center and triggered the safe distance alert.

At this moment, Fang Heng, who was in the distance, saw the Terminator being discovered and, without hesitation, ordered the Terminator to rush forward.

"Intruder detected! Eliminate them! Eliminate them!"

"Control signal detected, tracing the source."

"Pursuit failed. Eliminate the enemy. Eliminate."

"boom!"

As a powerful electromagnetic wave erupted from the Terminator, all the Skynet robots that were nearby lost control.

Without the robots blocking their way, the three Terminators successfully entered the main control center.

As soon as a USB flash drive is inserted into the data interface, the built-in intrusion subroutine runs immediately, and the entire control center begins to flash red.

"Warning, warning, intrusion in progress. Send a message to the host immediately."

"Warning, message transmission failed. Communication station destroyed. Unable to send. Self-destruct sequence initiated."

"Self-destruct program initiating, countdown 5 seconds, 5, 4, 3... Program modification, program modification, modification...."

With the main control program completely destroyed, Ethan's subroutine successfully took over the control center.

"System initialization complete, database reconnected, establishing host communication."

"Signal camouflage successful, data downloading!"

Seeing that he had successfully taken control of the manufacturing base, Fang Heng, who was on the hillside in the distance, waved excitedly.