The High Priest of Hal: "Also, the Frog Mother is very stupid. It's a rare idiot. Most unmanned combat weapons have very high intelligence, but the Myr's industry can't keep up, so they can't produce enough high-end intelligent modules. Anything stupid is easy to deal with."
General Jiang Ye of the Jiang Ye Star: "No, I think it's quite smart. When my soldiers flew attack aircraft to bomb it, it knew to wait for the right moment to launch frog bombs."
The High Priest of Hal: "That's because you haven't seen true intelligent weapons, or even super-intelligent weapons."
Jiang Ye was speechless. As an ancient person, he indeed hadn't seen much of the world.
General Jiang Ye of the Jiang Ye Star: "If such low-intelligence weapons like the Frog Mother are already so smart, then super-intelligent weapons... are they much smarter than humans?"
The High Priest of Hal: "More than that! They are like gods!"
The High Priest of Hal: "The only super-intelligent weapon the Myr possess is the Dyson Ring of the planet. It's a giant metal ring that encircles the entire planet. With just one Dyson Ring, they can drain an entire planet, like licking a chocolate ball clean. It automatically responds to all attacks, collects information from the entire planet, annihilates all firing points one by one, and then slowly devours everything."
General Jiang Ye of the Jiang Ye Star: "It sounds like a big glutton."
The High Priest of Hal: "Much more terrifying than a glutton! The Myr's Dyson Ring is not a single entity, but a ring-shaped liquid sea, composed of billions of liquid metal sub-rings connected to form the mother ring. Individually, each sub-ring has its own consciousness. When combined into the mother ring, all individual consciousnesses are lost, merging into a single super-consciousness, much like the billions of neurons that form your brain."
The High Priest of Hal: "If you have anti-aircraft missiles, bomb the Dyson Mother Ring fiercely, and it will break into countless sub-rings. They will swoop down to attack your ground troops, slaughtering them all, and then the sub-rings will regroup in the air with the information gathered from the ground, reassembling themselves. The more sub-rings that form the Dyson Mother Ring, the higher its intelligence becomes, turning into a super-intelligent existence that we can't comprehend at all."
Jiang Ye: "Holy shit."
The High Priest of Hal: "Suppose you build a library and fill it with hundreds of thousands of books. A small piece of liquid metal sneaks in and devours all the books in a few days. With the information, it returns to the mother ring, and within seconds, the Dyson Mother Ring can understand the content of all those hundreds of thousands of books."
Jiang Ye: "To what extent can it understand? Can it write book reviews?"
The High Priest of Hal: "What are book reviews worth? Suppose your library has the complete works of Li Taibai. It might even find some patterns in Li Bai's poems and create a large number of poems in Li Bai's style. Not a clumsy imitation, but poems that Li Bai would have written if he had lived to be two or three hundred years old. And all of this is for combat purposes. It seizes the massive information of your planet's society, reads your books, reads your military base hard drives, reads your city's traffic flow, and ultimately, it understands you better than you understand yourself."
The High Priest of Hal: "To be honest, I have personally witnessed the planetary Dyson Ring. It obscures half the sky. When you look up at it, you feel like you are being looked down upon by a giant god."
Jiang Ye became confused. So monstrous, so outrageously powerful, could this truly be something made by humans?
The High Priest of Hal: "Let's get back to the Frog Mother. What information do you want to know?"
General Jiang Ye of the Jiang Ye Star: "How to quickly and efficiently blow up the Frog Mother and protect my elders and fellow countrymen?"
The High Priest of Hal: "There's no special trick yet. Brute force is the miracle. Just blast it with all your might. I use electromagnetic slugs here. When they hit, they cause the frog bombs to detonate, which is quite spectacular. After the Frog Mother's belly bursts, it's a blaze of glory, making everything as red as peach blossoms."
Jiang Ye: "Okay, now I know what to do. Thank you, senior, for your guidance!"
After closing the group chat, Jiang Ye touched his forehead.
There were no good solutions for now, just bombs.
Simple and crude, which suited Jiang Ye's taste.
He was just worried that if the Frog Mothers came in too large numbers, he wouldn't be able to handle them. After all, their production rate was terrifying, and he didn't know how many the Myr could send.
The urgent task was to establish powerful enough firepower. Frigates, attack aircraft, spider tanks – build them all, as many as possible!
"Leaflet distribution in C settlement area completed. No ground attack encountered. Requesting to return," Ban Sakka Ryosuke's voice sounded.
"Permission to return granted!" Jiang Ye said, "You've worked hard."
The leaflets were scattered.
Jiang Ye's only task now was to wait!
The warships were being launched and tested. People in the BC settlement areas, after receiving the leaflets, would surely need to consider their options.
He got up, took off his clothes, and threw himself onto the bed, pulling the covers over him and falling asleep.
After sleeping for an unknown amount of time in a daze, a hand grabbed Jiang Ye and shook him violently, almost shaking him to death.
"Chief! Chief! They're fighting!"
Jiang Ye opened his eyes and looked up at Liu Jizi, who was shouting beside his bed, "Calm down, what's fighting?"
"People from B and C settlement areas have made contact and are opening fire!" Liu Jizi shouted as if the sky was falling.
"Bring up the satellite feed." Jiang Ye got out of bed, his expression calm.
Liu Jizi hurriedly ran to the desk, her high heels falling off. She didn't bother putting them back on, jumped onto the desk, and quickly switched to the satellite overhead view.
On the white snow, scattered black dots, like ant colonies, were all stationary base vehicles. Tiny flashes of light flickered, like carbonated bubbles bursting through the snow. Each bubble was an explosion. Tiny red bloodstains were splattered everywhere, and each bloodstain might be a person killed by an explosion.
The exchange of fire continued. Base vehicles ignited by bombs sent up black smoke, and more and more burning base vehicles appeared.
Jiang Ye calmly sat down at the desk, propped his legs on the table, and watched the holographic projection as if watching a movie.
"Chief, please find a way to stop them!" Liu Jizi was about to cry, "If they keep fighting, many people will die!"
"What can I do?" Jiang Ye smiled at her.
"You... you send them a message and tell them to stop fighting!" Liu Jizi said.
Jiang Ye chuckled, "They are fighting for their lives, with bullets flying overhead, grenades rolling everywhere, and blood splashing like rain. Do you think they will stop fighting midway to look at my message?"
"Don't think about it. They've already started fighting, and they'll definitely finish it. We just need to wait quietly," Jiang Ye said. "Please make me a cup of black tea."
Liu Jizi hesitated for a moment, then sadly walked to the pantry.
Soon, she came out with black tea and placed it on the table.
Liu Jizi sat down beside him with red eyes, covering her face with her hands, watching the holographic projection through her fingers. Firepower crisscrossed between the two groups of base vehicles, repeatedly firing red streaks.
The battle lasted for thirty minutes. The base vehicles on both sides simultaneously retreated.
A few base vehicles remained in place, emitting black smoke.
Liu Jizi had finished crying. Her eyes were red like a rabbit's, and she looked at Jiang Ye expectantly, asking, "Chief, what do we do next?"
"What do we do? Of course, it's time for the mantis to stalk the cicada." Jiang Ye glanced at his watch. "Has the frigate been launched?"
"It has been launched and test-sailed, and is currently being armed."
"Once the weapons are loaded, have the designated troops board the ship and head to the coast of the adjacent continent. Await my orders."