Chapter 47 Lost World, Level 47

Several hours had passed since Li Ang and Liu Wu Dai discovered the edge of the Lost World.

Back then, the humanoid puppets that crawled out of the broken pipes issued an alarm: [Living target detected.]

[Target identity verification: Security Guard, confirmed.]

[Program assessment: Damaging fluid energy pipelines.]

[Searching for disposal method.]

[Strategy: Eliminate.]

[Executing.]

And immediately launched an attack on the two of them.

These security guards were fearless and came in swarms. Although they had no special abilities, they relied entirely on their bodies to fight.

But their bodies were extremely tough, no different from perfect-level transcendent materials. Ordinary machine gun bullets would bounce off them completely.

Their fingers were as sharp as high-frequency cutting knives, and they were incredibly agile, bending in all directions.

With slightly weaker eyesight, one could only see the afterimages they left when bouncing back and forth on different planes.

Aside from their enemy engagement tactics being somewhat rigid and lacking flexibility, each security guard was more deadly and dangerous than a Level 20 player.

Li Ang and Liu Wu Dai spent a lot of effort to cripple several security guards and break free from the encirclement.

Unexpectedly, the security guards didn't chase after them. They abandoned the pursuit at a corner fifteen hundred meters away and returned to the wall, repaired the energy conduits, and crawled back into the wall crevices and broken pipes.

After several rounds of testing, Li Ang and Liu Wu Dai finally confirmed that:

Security guards, like machine beasts, attack living targets, especially living targets with flesh and blood (identified as intruders).

And the function of the belt is to release identity verification particles with a half-life, making the security guards think that the wearer of the belt is one of their own.

They won't actively attack.

But this "charm" effect is relatively limited.

If the wearer takes actions that are inconsistent with the behavior of security guards,

Such as attacking other guards, damaging energy transmission pipelines, or removing the belt for a short time,

They will still be regarded as abnormal targets by the security guards and attacked.

They will only stop until they escape the patrol range of the security guards.

At this time, Li Ang sat on the metal ruins, pondered for a long time, raised his head, and said deeply: "Um... I suddenly thought of something."

Liu Wu Dai, who was waiting for the material analysis instrument to analyze the amber-like liquid, turned her head and asked, "What?"

"Those security guards should all be driven by artificial intelligence, right?"

Li Ang rubbed his chin, a flash of wisdom in his eyes, "Is it possible to use the inherent flaws of artificial intelligence to deceive them?"

"..."

Liu Wu Dai frowned slightly upon hearing this and said softly, "Are you saying, use a hacking program to invade the AI system of the security guards and make them obey us?

That's unlikely.

After all, this is an unknown alien domain.

The civilization that created the security guards has different physiological characteristics, languages, and thinking logic than humans.

I tried to use the automated hacking program provided by Jing Ge to hack into the security guards before, but it had no effect at all.

If Jing Ge can't do it, other organizations probably can't..."

"I'm not talking about intrusion, but exploiting loopholes."

Li Ang casually picked up a piece of metal debris and used alchemy to refine it into a rectangular metal plate as tall as a person.

On one side of the metal plate was engraved a painting.

A half-human, half-fish girl was wearing tattered, revealing swimwear, with her arms crossed in front of her, looking pitiful and making people feel sorry for her.

The only unfortunate thing was that this half-human, half-fish was not a human upper body and a fish tail lower body,

But a human leg lower body and a fish head upper body.

"???"

Even Liu Wu Dai, who had been with Li Ang for a long time, was stunned when she saw this painting and subconsciously asked, "This is..."

"A prohibited image."

Li Ang said as a matter of course: "The original residents of this world are half-human, half-animal creatures.

Since they can develop advanced mechanical lifeforms like security guards and builders,

Then their network technology must be very advanced.

The kind of overly exposed and vulgar photo that I have is

definitely not going to pass the network review for the indigenous residents.

It will be turned into a pile of mosaics, or directly deleted, becoming a blank picture that doesn't show anything.

I'm holding a shield made of prohibited images, maybe I can achieve 'invisibility' in the eyes of the security guards.

I won't be stopped from doing anything."

"..."

Liu Wu Dai's lips moved, and after a moment of silence, she still said, "...You can try.

It's just that if there's a battle later, it will be broadcast live worldwide."

Although most lone wolf players are pragmatists and don't care much about reputation and image,

But Liu Wu Dai is, after all, the future heir of the Liu family, who will take over the family business and commercial empire in the future.

If global viewers see her fighting side by side with a man carrying a shield with vulgar images...

"We'll see."

Li Ang put the metal shield into his sodium ring, stood up, patted the dust off his palms, and casually asked, "Did the analysis instrument give any results?"

"Yes."

Liu Wu Dai nodded, took out the paper that the analyzer spat out, which still had printing heat, and Li Ang leaned over to take a look.

"This amber-like substance can basically be determined to be the energy used by the Lost World civilization."

Liu Wu Dai said softly, "It's similar to petroleum, both are composed of a variety of hydrocarbon compounds. It's a colorless to brownish-yellow heterogeneous liquid at room temperature, insoluble in water, flammable, and has an aromatic odor.

But the overall calorific value is much higher than gasoline of the same mass.

When we smashed the bodies of those security guards before, a small amount of brownish-yellow amber-like substance flowed out of the latter's corpses.

And the light yellow powder in the machine beast engine can basically be determined to be made of amber-like energy."

Li Ang nodded noncommittally. According to the observation results of the Zerg hive unit,

The main reason why machine beasts attack builders, in addition to obtaining the metal materials and parts needed for reproduction, is also to steal the amber substance in the builder's engine.

It's equivalent to stealing oil.

This also explains why machine beasts have not reproduced to cover the entire Lost World—they need energy to start.

In order to obtain energy, machine beasts will actively attack builders that are much larger in size.

Different machine beast groups will also wage wars.

According to the information observed by the Zerg hive on the 44th floor, some machine beast groups of sufficient scale will even invade the edge of the Lost World and go to the wall of the 44th floor to steal amber energy—even if doing so will attract the slaughter of security guards.

Li Ang did not reveal this information. After thinking for a while, he slowly said: "The aborigines of the Lost World, that is, the corpses we discovered before, have undoubtedly been dead for a long, long time.

But the energy system here is still operating normally, supporting security guards, builders, and machine beasts.

This may indicate that somewhere in the Lost World, there are still devices for mining and refining energy,

And some confidential facilities can still operate normally..."