#635Chapter 635: The Backdoor to the Roots of MarsAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Chapter 635: Stabbing the Root of Mars's Backdoor
[Detected that you built the 'Hammond Innovation Lab Metal Slug Branch' using the 'Martian Mothership' as a base—]
[Detected that the core of the Martian Mothership, the 'Root of Mars', has escaped—]
[Detected that the Hammond Innovation Lab has a built-in 'Large Feng Shui Engine', a power source capable of driving large vehicles—]
[By leveraging your primary control over the 'Large Feng Shui Engine', you have indirectly gained partial control over the 'Martian Mothership's' current operations.]
Unlike the architectural forms in other instances, the Innovation Lab of the Metal Slug Branch was clearly constructed centered around the core area originally controlled by the Root of Mars.
The Large Feng Shui Engine, originally the core power source for the laboratory, was perfectly fitted into the core energy port where the Root of Mars had once been.
As a special engine capable of simultaneously powering the entire S.I.N. Department building, its corresponding underground research facilities, and numerous high-energy consumption research projects.
The Martian Mothership, which had lost its power source due to the absence of the Root of Mars and was gradually disintegrating, visibly stopped its trembling. The rapidly draining energy tank immediately ceased, and then began to self-recharge at an ultra-high rate of 1% per minute.
Yes, the energy recovery efficiency of the Large Feng Shui Engine was reduced from the original 5% per minute to 1% per minute, but if one considers the current size of the spaceship it is powering, this recovery speed is already incredibly unreasonable.
It's important to know that the overall shape of the Martian Mothership can essentially be seen as a super-enlarged version of a Martian flying saucer, a stereotypical large disc shape, meaning it has a towering dome-shaped core in the middle, surrounded by a relatively flatter annular structure.
Previously, Cheng Tian and his group breached the mothership from the central point of its bottom, creating a gap and flying through a long vertical passage inside, which was about 750 meters in length. The reason Cheng Tian's group flew for so long inside was because the mothership itself was also in flight at the time, creating a relative speed relationship between them.
Only the flight (suicide)-specialized Getter-2, Valkyrie fighter jets, and individual breaching rockets could keep up; otherwise, other things would have found it quite difficult to catch up.
This was just the height from the very bottom to the dome at the top. The disc itself spanned about 1 kilometer, giving the entire mothership the massive volume of a mobile urban fortress.
Cheng Tian and his group seemed to be rampaging through the ship, but in reality, they were only wandering around the dome where the Root of Mars was located, centered around the Root of Mars BOSS room, with no opportunity to go to the lower levels.
To genuinely explore all areas of the entire mothership on foot would likely take several days.
The Martian Mothership was indeed ridiculously large, but it was still within the 'large vehicle' range that the 'Large Feng Shui Engine' could affect. The fact that the energy recovery rate was only reduced to one-fifth of its original capacity was already quite generous; it merely showed that Golden Legend-tier items could sometimes be quite unreasonable.
Because it was built from local materials, this laboratory, which also served as the mothership's core function, had a very strong mixed Cthulhu-style of metal + creep, but it hadn't reached the level of 'Saya no Uta'. It was overall greenish, like human buildings covered by spores and vegetation in 'The Last of Us'.
However, while the exterior was very Cthulhu-esque, making one's skin crawl at a glance, the basic internal structure was mostly preserved.
When Cheng Tian's side passed the authentication, the internal Puppet Troop members and Metal Dinosaur Guard members immediately adopted a welcoming posture, which left the other players stunned.
As some of the closest people to Cheng Tian, Irene and the others were already accustomed to Cheng Tian's impulsive yet successful actions. They smoothly followed Cheng Tian through the main door.
But the Peregrine 004 Squad, who hadn't seen Cheng Tian in a long time, and the Modern Special Forces Squad players, who were encountering Cheng Tian for the first time, had probably been dumbfounded since Cheng Tian started using engineering vehicles to clear the ruins. Faced with this peculiar building that rose from the ground, they were even more bewildered and unsure whether to follow him.
Not to mention how big this kid's inventory must be to hold all these vehicles, just having so many vehicles for one person is already absurd!
And not just combat vehicles, but also perfectly specialized engineering vehicles, from drills to road rollers, to debris removal and miscellaneous transport. It was as if this person had predicted in advance that these vehicles would be needed.
Even if we take a step back, and set aside the vehicle issue, let's just assume this person is a true vehicle specialist... but what's going on with building a structure out of thin air on someone else's spaceship!?
Does Heaven's Chosen Space even have such special skills and items!
"Yes, brother, it does."
Just as those around him were asking a series of questions about this, Little P gave an affirmative answer.
"The Warcraft instance has portable buildings, like the Human portable watchtower, and the Orc portable base, which can all be built directly in suitable locations.
And the Red Alert instance's MCV, in theory, also unfolds directly into a core base."
"Can those things you mentioned be built on a spaceship?"
Someone immediately raised a doubt.
"If the spaceship is large enough, of a mobile fortress class, then it can indeed serve as a building foundation. I've been to similar instance spaceships."
This time, it was Little White Dragon, whose ride was a Valkyrie fighter jet, who chimed in. Looking at the laboratory rising from the ground, his eyes showed astonishment.
As someone who had been to the Macross instance, he had genuinely boarded the combat fortress named "SDF-1 Macross."
That giant fellow could not only transform into a humanoid combat form but also had a complete residential ecosystem built-in, and even bustling commercial streets. The internal buildings there were numerous enough to be dazzling.
However, even the SDF-1, in its regular form, was only 550 meters long and wide and 300 meters high. Even after transformation, it was only 1.2 kilometers. Compared to the 15-kilometer diameter, million-resident capacity Island colonial ship in 'Macross Frontier', and the 600-kilometer wide Zentradi planetary-class super-giant mobile fortress, the Martian Mothership was at most a combat fortress, which also fit the background setting of the Root of Mars's home being invaded, ultimately forcing it to lead a small number of its people to flee in haste.
"The Boss invites you."
Just as these favored individuals were experiencing a long-forgotten sense of panic due to witnessing such an absurd scene, the Puppet Troop had already begun guiding them according to Cheng Tian's instructions.
At this very moment, Cheng was already seated alone in front of the Large Feng Shui Engine, on a solitary seat, and had put on a specialized helmet very similar to Professor X's Cerebro, with many tubes connected to it.
The moment the helmet was donned, Cheng Tian's psionic power and Tank Master talent rapidly spread to every corner of the Martian Mothership.
But it was also at this moment that the psychic backdoor left by the Root of Mars on the mothership was triggered.
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