Chapter 141 A Noisy Continent

Watching the battlefield footage transmitted by the drone, Hao Ren and Vivian frowned simultaneously.

Vivian tapped the crystal panel of the console with her finger. "That just now... did you see it?"

"I saw it," Hao Ren nodded. "At the last moment, those monsters seemed to suddenly show signs of rationality?"

"It may not be rationality, but it was obvious that they became more organized. They even knew how to cover each other and coordinate their troop types… what do you think is going on?"

"Suddenly super-evolving in the middle of a fight? A sudden leap in intelligence?" Hao Ren speculated, scratching his head. "Or did they suddenly break free from the influence of the Lord of Madness and become able to control themselves?"

Vivian shook her head. "I don't think so. The level of cooperation those monsters showed at the end didn't seem like the result of suddenly figuring things out on the battlefield. And hundreds of monsters moving in an orderly fashion at the same time… did they all break through at the same time?"

But no one could answer these questions.

The monsters had all been eliminated. These creatures tainted with the aura of the Lord of Madness were extremely dangerous. Hao Ren hadn't planned to capture any alive during the initial contact. But the X-cluster was vast, and Hao Ren was convinced that these mad claws he saw weren't the only ones here. He would eventually have a chance to figure out where these things came from.

"Logistics drones, enter the field, clean up the battlefield, and recover wreckage samples," Hao Ren said casually, glancing at the battle report issued by Nolan. "The focus is on the corrupted monsters that still roughly resemble their original biological forms, and those things that look like spaceships… I think they look familiar."

After a moment, he added, "Have the armed drones anchor in place and set up a defensive perimeter. Have the engineering drones erect turrets and missile launchers. This damn place isn't safe at all."

The drone swarm completed the task reassignment with amazing efficiency. The armed drones, in good condition, automatically reorganized into formations and began to anchor in the surrounding space as semi-fixed turrets. The damaged drones went to repair areas to perform recovery programs, or remained in place awaiting support from logistics teams. Engineering drones appeared at the edge of the position with flashes of teleportation, and began to build various outpost radars, turrets, and…

A new drone nest, and twenty independent factories.

One of the drone swarm's highest priorities: expansion. They were idle anyway, so why not squat down and pump out a few hundred thousand troops…

If it weren't for being controlled by Hao Ren and having a high degree of rationality and order, this swarm, which could quickly spread throughout the universe like a virus, would be a mindless monster. If it was thrown into another world, it would have already started fighting with American hobos and Japanese middle school students.

After completing the task assignment, Hao Ren turned his attention to the floating continent that was still drifting quietly in space.

The floating continent had previously suffered a fierce attack from the corrupted monsters. If the drone swarm hadn't provided quick support, it would probably have been annihilated by the invasion of chaotic power. At this moment, a faint layer of light film was still open around this "space land," but the intensity of the light film was significantly weaker than at the beginning, and many places also showed signs of thin light and shaking. This was a sign that the shield was about to completely collapse.

But it seemed that in addition to the severe weakening of this shield, the floating continent itself was not damaged much—or rather, it was already a piece of wreckage drifting around, so it wouldn't be easy to see if there was more damage…

Hao Ren looked at Nolan's holographic image. "Can we establish communication?"

Nolan's expression was a little strange. "How should I put it… I guess we've established it?"

Hao Ren was immediately confused. "What do you mean, 'I guess'?"

Nolan reluctantly opened the channel. "You'll know when you hear it yourself."

Then Hao Ren heard a sound wave coming from all directions—no, the sound wave was so noisy, it was as if it was smashing in from all directions!

There were countless chattering voices shouting. Not to mention accurately judging the meaning of each sentence, even finding three or five sentences that could be understood from this pile of noisy sounds would be difficult. Hao Ren broke out in a cold sweat and concentrated all his energy to barely distinguish some intermittent things: "Wow! Wow! Wow! They really fought them off! They really fought them off! Those bad things were beaten back!"

"So that ship didn't run away before, it really came to help!"

"Has anyone seen my psionic regulator? Has anyone seen my psionic regulation…"

"So many! There are so many small flying ships in the sky! Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, forty thousand… I can't count them all!"

"Has anyone seen my psionic regulator! Has anyone…"

Balabala, endless, chaotic, like thousands of sound sources exploding in his ears at the same time. If his physical fitness and mental strength were not beyond ordinary, Hao Ren would have fainted at this time. He turned off the communication and looked up at Nolan. "What the hell is this? Did you collect all the signals on the surface?"

"I'm not that crazy," Nolan rolled her eyes. "These are all radiated from the surface into space—understand? These are all they send out! All channels are mixed together and completely level. I can't find a line that can be called a 'dedicated communication line'!"

"Send them a signal…" Hao Ren was stunned, but still subconsciously said, "Can they calm down and listen?"

Nolan casually sent a signal to the space continent, and a new wave of sound instantly surged:

"Waaah waaaah! They're talking! They're talking to us! Do we want to reply? Do we want to reply?"

"I have no idea what to do at this time! By the way, they really have so many ships, but each ship is so small…"

"Who saw my psionic regulator! Has anyone seen my psionic regulator!"

"Shut up! Your psionic regulator is hanging around your neck!"

"I think we should let the queen make the decision at this time, after all, the queen is the smartest!"

"How many times have I said that we don't have a queen!"

"This is the result." Nolan turned off the communication and looked at Hao Ren with a look of collapse.

Hao Ren's mouth twitched a few times, and he finally realized that there was no way to communicate like this.

The species on the surface… whatever this species was, it seemed to have an extremely… "peculiar" way of thinking. They were noisy and chaotic. Although they could hear the communication sent to them, they would not make any real meaningful reply. They seemed to be immersed in their endless arguments, and did not leave any room for third parties to interject.

He felt that the sanity value of such a race was probably already cleared to zero… Harmlessly insane creatures?

But analyzing their communication, this race seemed to have reason and logic.

"What to do?" Vivian glanced at Hao Ren. Her eyes were calm and indifferent, which calmed Hao Ren down as well. Obviously, this vampire girl was not unable to make a decision in this situation. She just wanted to hear Hao Ren's thoughts.

"Go down," Hao Ren quickly made a decision. "Communication through communicators is separated. If we communicate face-to-face… maybe we can figure something out."

"This is somewhat dangerous," Nolan reminded him from the side. "Although we just saved the survivors on this space continent, and they seem to be an enemy of the mad claws, we have no understanding of this race at all. It is not clear what reaction they will have to outsiders landing on their land."

"We have millions of armed drones surrounding this place, and if Vivian and I really encounter danger, we can teleport back directly. If we have such proper safety measures and still dare not go, wouldn't my license be wasted?" Hao Ren waved his hand. "And you will hover above us for a while, ready to respond and provide cover. Of course, control your idea of firing. You should have bombed enough just now."

"We're getting ready to go down," he poked the data terminal that had been muttering on the console (the basic content of the muttering was that he couldn't control the warship again, couldn't be involved in the war, and even a drone swarm was not under his control). "Stop nagging, we have serious business to do."

Being poked twice, the data terminal reluctantly floated up: "Tch, who told you to be the boss…"

Although the survivors on the surface looked completely unable to communicate normally, Hao Ren, in the spirit of dedication, still announced his peaceful purpose and intention to land for "friendly exchanges" through the public broadcast channel before Nolan lowered her altitude. Unsurprisingly, this announcement caused a new round of sound waves to erupt from that mysterious race, and… still no one sent a welcome or refusal to land communication.

But judging from the excitement and anticipation overflowing in their noisy discussions… probably these strange guys are not resistant to third-party contact… right?

Nolan slowly lowered her altitude and successfully passed through the shield covering the continent (this was undoubtedly good news). According to the detected surface life reaction, she came to a vast wilderness and dropped Hao Ren, Vivian, and Doudou down.

Hao Ren saw an endless grassland extending before his eyes, and in the distance he could see dark mountains and lush forests, while huge palaces, cities, and things that looked like giant turrets were dotted among these primitive ecologies. The sky was covered with a layer of luminous atmosphere. The atmosphere was actually very thin, but under the action of some artificial life support system, this thin atmosphere maintained a relatively comfortable air pressure.

Many light sources that could not see the main body floated in the atmosphere, maintaining the light of this remaining world. Those light sources were not dazzling, but they were enough to brighten the wreckage of this planet floating in the dark space.

There was no one in sight, and only countless swaying grass could be seen in the distance, but Hao Ren could confirm from the life detection report sent by the data terminal that he had not come to the wrong place, so he opened his arms and spread his voice through the translation plug-in:

"We come with goodwill and hope to help you. Can someone come out and talk to me now?"

After a while, Hao Ren finally saw a small, luminous figure crawling out of the nearby grass.

It was a… fairy that only reached his calf.