Chapter 683 Encounter

As the team has mastered the key points of avoiding the patrol balls and the newly born flying balls, the process of rushing along the calculated route is without any surprises. To save time, Zheng Feng even pressed the time acceleration button for simulation training.
Time acceleration does not mean reducing the difficulty of marching. On the contrary, because the reaction time left for the team members is shorter, more sudden situations are encountered in a unit of time, which further increases the possibility of errors for each person.
So Zheng Feng did not start with too fast acceleration, but chose to start with double speed.
When facing sudden situations, Zheng Feng showed astonishing rapid mobilization ability, always giving the most accurate instructions to the team in the shortest time.
At first, the team members were a little flustered when faced with the instructions to cut their preparation time in half. But after about half an hour, with Zheng Feng's quick and hands-on guidance, the team finally adapted to this speed.
But Zheng Feng immediately accelerated the time to four times the normal speed.
It's another round of chaos, but the Flying Tigers team managed to hold on in the end.
Ding Hu sensed a familiar taste from Zheng Feng's intense training, similar to what Tong Ling had put him through before.
The difference is that Tong Ling's training for Zheng Feng is that he can start over after death, but there is no chance to start over after the third mechanical forest battle. Once failed, he has to go back to the starting point, wasting a lot of time, and the previous simulation training is also in vain.
Of course, the purpose of the Flying Tigers' visit here is to enhance their training, so even if they fail, they can still learn valuable lessons from the failure, which is also a valuable experience.
Zheng Feng ultimately locked the time acceleration at 8 times.
This is the limit that other team members can bear.
If it's any faster, the preparation time will be compressed to less than 3.75 seconds, and the ten people in the two standby teams are bound to make mistakes in their busyness.
The area of error is not the body, but the mind.
For the individuals in the simulated task, the setting of time acceleration applies to all physical phenomena, including the bodily reactions of organic organisms and the intelligent war machines with mechanical structures, but the thinking ability of the human brain is not accelerated.
It's the busy brain, not the remote-controlled body, that's in a flurry.
Every disguise requires perfect coordination of 30 people. If any link goes wrong, the disguise will fail completely without any chance of remedy.
Seeing the situation, Ding Hu couldn't help but make a comment in the chat room.
"The others can't stand it anymore. This must be the limit. Zheng Feng has such a boldness. I don't know if he really doesn't take the simulation training quota seriously or if he is truly talented and fearless."
Tiger brother is immediately criticized, and the one responsible for the criticism is still Zhou Donglai.
"Not necessarily, I feel like he's still trying to figure it out."
Dong Shan, who just remotely accessed the chat room, interjected, "From Zheng Feng's unusually high brainwave activity, he's definitely still figuring it out."
Just as the words fell, Zheng Feng once again played his tricks.
He further increased the acceleration rate to 12 times.
Ding Hu, afraid of being swindled, dared not speak again, but sighed in his heart.
Oh, the little brat has really gotten cocky this time, he's definitely going to crash.
Three minutes later, Ding Hu made a puzzled sound, slightly puzzled.
The Flying Tigers team encountered another patrol flying ball team, this time with a very large scale, with up to 1500 flying balls arranged in five columns. However, the Flying Tigers team still reacted in time and completed all disguises 0.1 seconds before being detected by the opponent's detection signal.
Tiger was stunned by the shock, and only after replaying it in slow motion did he discover the clue.
The preparation speed of other team members did not increase.
The total time from the alarm sounding to completing the disguise is still 3.6 seconds.
The problem lies with Zheng Feng.
He issued the alarm and gave orders 1.25 seconds earlier, even before Mata Nicholas, who is responsible for intelligence work.
After thinking for a while, Ding Hu said with suspicion, "He predicted it? How did he predict that he would encounter a patrol before he even found the traces of the other party?"
At this point, Tang Tianxin, who had gone and returned, gave an explanation: "I know."
Ding Hu: "What is this?"
"His brain is now engaged in strictly invalid thinking."
丁虎：“什么是无效思维。”
董山插话道：“就是信马由缰放飞自我的意思。他正在尝试把决策交给本能，用潜意识去分析外部环境，同时在脑海中模拟出完整的敌人巡逻路线，然后将这作为判断依据，并快速决策。”
Ding Hu: "This is really absurd. If it were in a real battlefield, just one misjudgment like this would doom the whole team."
"But the greater the risk, the greater the reward. If Brother Zheng Feng can master this ability in normal time flow, then he and his team will become extremely powerful. Instructor Tong Ling once stood out in the Traveler Galaxy with her almost prophetic intuitive judgment ability."
Tang Tianxin summed up the whole thing.
However, regardless of what outsiders say, the key is still to see the effectiveness.
Under Ding Hu's anxious attention, six hours passed by.
During this time, the Flying Tigers have been continuously advancing at 12 times the speed, and have crossed a distance of 16751 kilometers.
Inside the Flying Tigers, everything is normal, but onlookers outside suddenly have their hearts in their throats.
The Flying Tigers will enter the core area in less than fifty kilometers if they advance further.
The elite soldiers who participated in the Third Mechanized Forest Battle were defeated in this area.
Everyone was afraid that Zheng Feng would bump into it head-on, but unexpectedly, when it approached within thirty kilometers, Zheng Feng suddenly adjusted the time flow speed and returned to normal speed.
At the same time, the rolling camouflage ball also suddenly stopped rolling forward with a snap.
Obviously, Zheng Feng has sensed the crisis.
This is already the core area of the Mechanical Forest Star.
In addition to the layers of huge conical shapes, there is suddenly a "city" atmosphere.
Just a few kilometers ahead of the crowd, the bare metal ground began to be littered with debris.
On either side, one was the flat metal surface, and the other was covered with stone-like grass.
On the ground and in the air, there are small mechanical units in the shape of insects, running back and forth.
Even though it is already on the back side of the sun and it is now night, the fluorescent light from the conical body and these small mechanical units makes it seem like daytime.
In order to enhance the ecological breeding ability of the mechanical forest star, the replicants not only transformed the primordial core, but even created a complete ecosystem.
On this vacuum planet composed of metal and almost no atmosphere, the mechanical life forms are thriving, forming an ecosystem with a strange and beautiful aesthetic.
However, at this time, the real threat to the Flying Tigers team was the seemingly harmless micro-mechanical creatures ahead.
The other squads had been in a state of uncertainty when approaching the ecosystem.
It is widely known that the core of the ancestor must be located in the inner layer, but no one knows the characteristics of the metal bio-ecosystem ahead.
After much hesitation, the special operations teams decided to proceed with different methods.
Some tried to change their form and fly directly from the sky, while others continued with their previous mode and approached from the ground, while still others just full throttle and went for a high-speed dash.
But all these warriors exposed their whereabouts without exception and fell into the overwhelming encirclement generated by the entire mechanical forest star.
After a moment's consideration, Zheng Feng decided to lead the team forward.
The onlookers all sighed and wrung their hands.
Zheng Feng miscalculated. He should have charged straight ahead, at least that way he could have gained some extra distance after exposing himself.
If he could charge fast enough and execute the dodging maneuver well after the exposure, there might even be a chance to see through the horizon that silver-white original apex, which, although not tall, had a shell color that was completely different from other sharp cones.
短短三分钟后，飞虎队靠近到了草丛旁边。
负责生物分析的李青青小心翼翼的用光学仪器收集着信息，再转述给郑峰。
"Compared to the organic plants we are familiar with, the growth pattern of the metal grass in front of us is very unique. They grow very slowly, with chemical reactions mainly driven by electrochemistry, gradually moving atoms through weak magnetic fields and slowly aggregating into new substances. Under normal circumstances, this reaction process should be very long, taking at least tens of thousands of years to grow metal grass that is half the height of a person. As for those beetles and other mechanical animals, it would take at least a hundred billion years for them to evolve these things."
Zheng Feng pondered, "But according to the record of the history of nothingness, this mechanical forest star did not exist originally. So the duplicated eyes probably only took a few hundred years to mature the mechanical forest."
Li Qingqing nodded, "Yes."
Edgar: "So there must be another non-natural external force involved, is it a factory?"
Morrison: "Exactly!"
"All of you shut up, let me think." Zheng Feng's transformed into a ball rolled back and forth on the spot.
Suddenly he remembered a joke from a thousand years ago, when in doubt, quantum mechanics.
Assuming that under the magnetic field, there is another layer of rules quietly operating, constantly strengthening the magnetic field at regular intervals, constantly breaking chemical bonds, and even the strong interaction force between nucleons, it seems entirely possible to accelerate the growth process.
想归想，却终究是要往前多走一步，才能一探究竟。
After some discussion, Zheng Feng decided to go forward alone and explore.
He cut off all ties with everyone else and made arrangements for "aftermath".
“If I fail, it's up to Mata to take charge. Your task is to keep pushing forward at full throttle, going as far as you can. And remember, Edgar's escape ability is second only to mine, so everyone else needs to provide cover for Edgar. Our score will be determined by the distance we cover towards the destination.”
After giving the order, Zheng Feng rolled forward and entered the mechanical biological ecosystem.
At the next moment, Zheng Feng's rolling body suddenly stopped, and there was no movement.
"Oh, it's over."
Tiger Brother, who has always spared no effort to criticize Zheng Feng, decisively commented.
Although other onlookers didn't say anything, they also thought so in their hearts.
According to past experience, Zheng Feng at this time is already a "dead man".
Death is not only his remotely controlled decoy sphere, in the simulation system, his hidden body on the nearby planet will also experience brain death simultaneously.
The vast majority of former special agents fell victim to this.
Zheng Feng's biggest mistake is that as the team captain, he should not have taken the lead himself, but should have let the members of the reserve team go first to test the depth.
When he realized how dangerous it was, he could lead the team to charge forward, and at least get closer to the distance and earn more points.
Simulated task monitoring instrument synchronously cut into Zheng Feng's virtual body.
A mist of myriads of extremely fine fibers revealed itself.
It was the quantized brain storm in Zheng Feng's sleeping body after being materialized.
At this moment, the real Zheng Feng is in deep sleep in the simulation training room of the First Vanguard Academy.
Meanwhile, a virtual body he created is also in sleep, forming a separate new consciousness.
What everyone saw in front of them, this mist, became the dream within a dream of Zheng Feng transcribed by the Fading Star leading the special training.
At this moment, the mist, which had been in a highly active state before, abruptly turned into absolute stillness.
The old man Dongshan explained: "Fanxing has already figured out the principle of the core of the mechanical forest ancestor, and her simulation is really like it. At this moment, Zheng Feng has entered a state of frozen thinking, and is being read by the preset program in the ancestor core. The ancestor core will slowly peel away the disguise of his thinking, find the human core inside, and complete the enemy and us judgment."
Zhou Donglai nodded in understanding, then his mind flickered slightly.
In the next moment, two people were kicked out of this super small chat room.
One was Ding Hu, and the other was Tang Tianxin.
唐天心那边倒是没什么意见，她知道接下来的事情或许涉及到什么机密，但她不在乎，转背便去忙乎自个的事了。
丁虎则却是一脸茫然，外加暴跳如雷。
Tiger Brother was so angry that he almost exploded on the spot, really causing a great commotion!
I am the class teacher!
My students are challenging their limits, how could I not watch!
But despite being angry, Tiger Brother couldn't do anything, and could only angrily turn to the perspective of other members of the Flying Tiger Class, becoming a bystander from the side.
From the perspective of others, Zheng Feng, transformed into a sphere, still stood dumbly in place.
As time passed, nearly an hour had passed in the blink of an eye.
During this time, the other twenty-nine members of the Flying Tiger Team had reorganized twice to disguise themselves as a sharp cone, in order to evade the patrol spheres that occasionally approached.
Under the previous accelerated strengthening training, even without Zheng Feng's command this time, everyone did not make any mistakes.
But strangely, there was no movement inside, and Captain Zheng Feng still stayed in place without moving.
Finally, there came the voice of Zheng Feng from inside, "It's done, you can all come over now."
His voice sounded very tired, but there was also a hint of inexplicable excitement and excitement.
Everyone gathered together in great perplexity.
Zheng Feng's next command only made everyone more confused.
"Alright, there's no need to disguise anymore. Let's all switch to high-mobility mode and fly straight along the ground. In five minutes, we'll be able to see the core of the progenitor."
Edgar whispered, "Captain, what are you doing?"
Zheng Feng smiled mysteriously, "Classified."
He really thought it was a big secret, but he didn't know that Zhou Donglai and Dong Shan were already looking at each other, with their minds full of confusion.
Just in the past hour, it was supposed to be the complete replication of the ancestral core by the stars, preparing to penetrate his mind, but it turned out that the ancestral core was counter-infiltrated by him.
On the concrete fog bank, people only saw such a change.
A symbol representing the core consciousness of the ancestor slowly drifted out, swelled by the wind, and expanded into a sheet, covering it like plastic wrap.
In the past, in the real world, the consciousness of other special forces members can be easily scanned through this cloth, and all secrets are revealed.
But Zheng Feng, the cloth disappeared into thin air shortly after being covered.
Master Brain Fuxing sent another explanation to Zhou Donglai and Dong Shan, "I'm not sure what happened, but it seems that he absorbed the knowledge of the core of the mechanical forest ancestor and implanted his consciousness during this brief contact, turning the originally autonomous and personality-less mechanical forest ancestor into a part of himself."
How is this possible! Isn't the ancestor of the Mechanical Forest a modified core of the Mysterious Tribe? The regularized knowledge mastered by the Mysterious Tribe's core is a huge stack of memory symbols! What Zheng Feng is putting in now is just a virtual personality generated by brain chain projection, with memory built on the support of your main brain's database. How could you not be clear about what happened? How could he possibly absorb such a huge flow of information!
Dongshan shouted loudly.
Fengxing shrugged, "If I really know everything, then humans wouldn't need their ancestors, they would only need me."
"Uh..."
Old man Dongshan was speechless.