Chapter 325: Chapter 324: Don’t Underestimate Humans!

The Kunlun Mountain, Central Control Room.

Zhang Yuan was anxiously trying to repair the supercomputer with a group of experts. The screen was filled with garbled data of various sorts, generating hundreds of GBs per second, which was far more than humans could handle quickly.

“It’s unreasonable…really unreasonable!” Li Zhendong was unsettled, with cold sweat dripping from his face incessantly.

In this damnable digital flood, able to spread wildly through cables and wireless networks, the so-called agreements and firewalls were completely useless, as if they were from an entirely different dimension, not even providing a second’s barrier!

Even Zhang Yuan became so desperate that he personally joined in, but his addition was of no use at all. Under the overwhelming technological might of a Level 6 Civilization, humans had no room to resist.

“Even strong artificial intelligence is nothing more than this…” Zhang Yuan also wiped the sweat from his face.

“You are wrong, it’s still quite far from a strong AI,” Li Zhendong said with a bitter smile, “This thing is just purely destructive, consuming computational resources. If it were strong AI, it would control everything, like Skynet, taking control of all Power Armor and robots, and we wouldn’t even have to resist.”

“How much distance is left between the enemy and us?”

“I don’t know; it’s hard to estimate.”

The personnel in the astronomical observatory had not yet sent the intelligence. Zhang Yuan had no idea how the enemy’s spaceship was doing, whether it had already initiated an attack on the Kunlun Mountain.

The only methods people could use were two–manually cutting off the power and…telegrams!

Manually cutting off the power could indeed kill these digital lifeforms, but it was completely useless. All the software inside was destroyed, and it could not be restored anytime soon. As soon as this computer was reconnected to the outside world, it would be reinfected. The Kunlun Mountain was too large, the size of an entire city.

Without a complete internet, the whole spaceship remained paralyzed.

“Unless we can kill all the digital lifeforms in one go, only then can we stop this entire chaos.”

On the other hand, these digital lifeforms could only infect chips with a computing frequency of more than one hundred million cycles per second, so some machines with very low computing power, including some telegram devices, were not affected.

“Captain, new observation results are in!”

A soldier rushed over hastily, his face ashen, “We observed the electromagnetic pulse bomb launched by Yingsun 1, and the vanguard’s war has started. There are also some drones heading towards the Kunlun Mountain, but the intensity of the attack is not large.”

“The enemy’s spaceship has triggered a large gravitational force from the cosmic string, the Kunlun Mountain’s speed is slowing down, while the enemy’s spaceship is accelerating!”

Zhang Yuan kept a stern face and nodded slightly.

“…Based on this acceleration, we will be caught up in half a day!”

“Half a day’s time, huh… Understood.”

Zhang Yuan’s expression turned icy, sinking into deep thought.

The large gravitational source was right behind the Kunlun Mountain; it was clear what the enemy intended to do…

They wanted to completely seize The Kunlun Mountain!

But in such a state of widespread panic, one must not show any signs of panic and still had to come up with a reliable method!

This was the duty of a Captain!

“How’s the evacuation of the populace going?”

“It is proceeding in an orderly manner… We are currently evacuating awake civilians to the spare transport ships, and no large-scale panic has been triggered yet.”

Fortunately, there were only eight hundred thousand people awake; we only had to open up one-tenth of the entire spaceship. If there were eight million awake, the evacuation would become much more difficult. Also, since most people were in hibernation, many devices were in reserve mode and hadn’t been infected by the virus.

Zhang Yuan was keenly aware that these reserve devices could not be powered up now, as they would soon be infected by the virus again.

“War is about to commence; you guys go prepare a batch of Power Armor that hasn’t been infected yet, remove their electromagnetic communication devices, and during combat communicate via flashlight signals…”

“Before the ship’s defense systems are repaired, we must protect all the critical passages, including the five main control rooms inside the Kunlun Mountain.”

“Yes!”

Watching the soldier sprinting away, Zhang Yuan clenched his fists.

“Please, you must hold on.”

This could be considered the most dangerous malignant incident in human history!

According to Zhang Yuan’s guess, the aggressive approach of the enemy without using heavy weapons likely indicated an intention for a so-called “boarding battle”.

Indeed, from these outward signs, it seemed the enemy had a big appetite, wanting to completely seize the entire spaceship “The Kunlun Mountain”!

Infected with a digital virus, the Kunlun Mountain’s external weapons could hardly be launched and, even if launched, the accuracy was infuriatingly low; without the command center and electromagnetic communications, drones couldn’t be employed, and numerous internal defense measures of the spaceship were paralyzed.

After boarding, the enemy could just send a large number of robots to exhaust the lives of human soldiers!

One side’s facilities were completely paralyzed and could only rely on soldiers for combat, while the other could remotely control robots, and even just using one’s toes, one could tell how massive the disadvantage for humans was.

In such a situation, if real combat broke out inside the ship, it would purely be a one-sided slaughter!

Humans definitely couldn’t defeat military robots equipped with artificial intelligence, which could undergo self-training and fight a million battles a day, their team cooperation and reaction speeds far exceeding those of humans.

From past simulations, even when human soldiers compensated for their physical shortcomings with power armor, the casualty ratio was still devastating at 1:5 or even 1:10!

“Although I don’t know how advanced this civilization’s robots are… with the worst assumption, they’re likely stronger than ours. Humans can’t be resurrected once dead, but robots can be manufactured in batches.”

The thought of such catastrophic consequences…

“Li Zhendong, let’s move!” Zhang Yuan didn’t want to think any further. Rather than wallowing in regret here, it was better to use this time to rescue more military AI robots, getting more cannon fodder was also good…

And most importantly, finding a way to deal with those damned digital viruses!

“Old Zhang,” Li Zhendong said breathlessly as he ran to the vehicle, “Could part of the population escape using the backup ships and hibernation devices?”

“No… You think, if the enemy seizes the Kunlun Mountain, they would politely let us go?”

“Indeed, they wouldn’t.”

The orbital train soon departed, and even without navigation, moving along the tracks meant there was no worry about accidents occurring.

Zhang Yuan thought for a while: “I just thought about it, it must be those two messages we sent, which might have some inaccuracies revealing us as a rookie civilization.”

“These insects are probably not AmiBa Points, but more like a type of digital virus similar to AmiBa Points… Other interstellar civilizations would have noticed something wrong long ago, but we didn’t know and were overly excited to our peril. We are still too young…”

“That’s right.” Li Zhendong nodded, “It’s confirmed now, the initial infection was the working radar, these digital lives are totally unreasonable…”

“If we fully restore the ship’s communication and manufacturing capabilities, I think we’d still have a fighting chance in close quarters battle. Our ship is so large and complex, how many resources do we have, and how many does the enemy have? Turn on the Universal Factory, and we could overwhelm them with sheer workload.”

“We also have so many escort ships around… although these ships are now paralyzed, sigh, I hope they can survive.”

Li Zhendong suddenly said, “That’s right, we don’t need to be so desperate. These escort ships are smaller in structure, and by cutting the power, we should be able to completely kill the digital life, unlike the troubles with Kunlun Mountain… If we can regain some combat strength, the chances of surviving are still substantial.”

“Zhang Yuan, I’ve been thinking, if the enemy is really from the Amoeba Civilization, maybe we could try to establish some relations… you know…”

“I’m sure they’re not from the Amoeba Civilization, just a scavenging robber… No evidence, just a gut feeling!”

Zhang Yuan said with a fierce aura, “Don’t think that they have us completely figured out!”

“They really think we’re just an ordinary interstellar civilization with no research on digital life!”

“We possess thousands of real… Virtual Worlds!”