Chapter 867 - 714: Collision Begins (Part 2)

Chapter 867: Chapter 714: Collision Begins (Part 2)

On the screen, command codes flowed rapidly like a waterfall, and the progress bars of data processing continued jumping.

On several adjacent sub-screens, complex energy spectrum diagrams, real-time environmental parameter monitoring, and the load status of various drone sensors were displayed.

This was Intelligent Brain Xiaoyou fully analyzing the battlefield environmental data, attempting to forcefully "extract" the hidden enemy lurking behind lights and shadows from the void.

First, the switch to thermal imaging mode.

The high-sensitivity thermal imaging camera mounted on the drone was instantly activated, covering the area below with the highest scanning frequency, transforming the screen image into a color block spectrum representing different temperatures.

However, the anticipated orange-red, bright white contours representing human or mechanical heat emissions did not appear.

Only the wall of fire appeared like a roaring bright yellow dragon in the thermal imaging, exceptionally dazzling.

"Thermal imaging scan ineffective, target’s exoskeleton or protective gear assumed to have thermal insulation layer and internal heat circulation system, surface temperature highly synchronized with environment, internal heat sources fully shielded or absorbed."

Xiaoyou’s report was concise and objective.

Attempted to activate high-precision acoustic positioning analysis...failed.

The background noise in the wild environment was too complex (wind noise, rustling grass, crackling of distant flames), the interference too strong, and the target moved silently, without generating effective sound wave vibrations, rendering this method ineffective.

Attempted to activate micro-dust disturbance pattern capture...abandoned.

Airborne dust distribution in a wild environment was inherently uneven, data background chaotic and disordered, making it impossible to extract the regular disturbance pattern caused by an invisible target’s movement from the randomly drifting dust.

Attempted to activate high-sensitivity magnetic anomaly scan...signal too weak to lock onto.

The target seemed similarly equipped with advanced anti-magnetic detection coating or interference devices, its magnetic signal greatly suppressed, merging almost entirely with environmental geomagnetic background noise, making effective separation and localization impossible.

A series of proven countermeasure tactics effective against most elite units’ stealth technologies failed at this moment.

Clearly, the exoskeleton armor equipped by this White Mask unit, fitted with an advanced level of stealth technology far beyond typical optical camouflage.

Zhang Shenyi’s brows furrowed tightly, fine beads of sweat seeping from his temples.

He could hear his heart pounding heavily and rapidly in his chest, every second passing increased the danger for the frontline team members.

His voice carried a hint of imperceptible hoarseness, yet his command was unmistakably clear:

"Initiate the environmental dynamic capture algorithm, utilize all available drone sensor data, allocate all non-essential computational power from the studio, including backup server groups, for overclocked collaborative computation!

Priority: Highest, I need the results, the sooner the better!"

"Command confirmed. Environmental dynamic capture algorithm initiating...utilizing all available sensor data streams...linking and allocating available computational resources...computational power reallocation in progress...overclock mode activated."

Xiaoyou’s response remained cold, but the scrolling speed of data streams on the screen abruptly surged again, the screen flickering wildly.

Xiaoyou abandoned directly detecting the "enemy" itself, instead it began analyzing the "environment" for the most subtle, inevitable changes induced by the enemy’s presence.

Heat can be shielded, vibrations can be silenced, optics can be disguised, but collision with the environment in motion is unavoidable.

Because force is an interactive force, despite the existence of some supernatural or bizarre phenomena science cannot easily explain, physics remains...stubbornly present.

Xiaoyou deployed the drone’s high-definition cameras, capturing the unnatural angles and frequencies of each blade of grass in the underbrush at an astounding speed of several thousand frames per second.

Simultaneously, the onboard micro-precision wind resistance sensors of the drone fully expanded, analyzing the vector flow of the air in real-time.

A powerful algorithm initiated, analyzing every unnatural pivot trajectory of grass stems, the micro-disturbance ripples in the airflow caused by an invisible object’s movement leading to nanoscale refraction disparities in background light...

All these vast, seemingly chaotic observational data were integrated into a colossal dynamic physical computation model.

This was an extremely power-consuming "brute force cracking" process, akin to forcefully "computing" the missing "shadows" in a dynamic and chaotic sea of interference noise,

Before Zhang Shenyi, several specially modified tactical computers, their fans began emitting desperate roars of madness, the speed reaching its peak instantly.

CPU and GPU temperature monitoring bars shot up in a straight red line at an eye-catching speed, blinding warning signs flashed continuously, the unique scorching smell of electronic components running at high load permeated the air.

Not only the computers before him, but 24 kilometers away in the core machine room of the Worries Relief Studio’s underground base, the temperature similarly soared like rockets, the cooling system roared at full power.

The technician responsible for maintenance saw the alarming red numbers on the control panel, sweating with tension.

In typical commercial-level or even standard military-grade computer equipment under such terrifying calculation loads, they likely had already stalled, crashed, or even burned out the hardware.

Fortunately, the combat computers and servers equipped at the Worries Relief Studio were high-end products procured at enormous costs from the black market and special channels.

Especially the core processing chips among them, riskily smuggled out from strictly controlled laboratories in Upper City’s tech zones.

seconds.

To an ordinary person, merely the time for a few breaths.

But to the fully powered-up Intelligent Brain Xiaoyou, it had completed an unimaginable colossal calculation that would take a lifetime for an average person to envisage.

Finally!

"Decoding complete. Dynamic contour modeling in progress...data rendering to tactical eyepiece terminal."

Simultaneously with Xiaoyou’s voice, the real-time scenes in the tactical glasses worn by each member of the Worries Relief Studio, initially "empty," abruptly changed.

On the abandoned gas station roof, a humanoid "shadow" suddenly appeared.

It was not a real image, lacking any color and texture detail, formed using countless semi-transparent light blue data lines, forcibly delineating a humanoid outline based on environmental disturbance data.

The outline presented a fluctuating water-wave state, its edges blurry and unstable, as if constructed using flowing clear water and distorted refracted air into a fragile illusion.

Without support from real color and texture, only capable of outlining the "shape" and "trajectory" occupied by the shadow in space.

However, this simplistic, almost roughly abstract data outline was sufficient for the experienced warriors of the Worries Relief Studio to "see" through the enemy’s dynamics and layout.

A relatively stationary "shadow" outline stayed on the gas station roof, the body posed in a standard half-kneeling sniper position, its right arm, with a particularly long weapon featuring a cylindrical structure, glaringly pointing towards the depths of the underbrush.

The other two outlines burst out of the gas station, propelling forward at an astonishing speed, their target directed toward the distant highway.

One shadow exhibited a peculiar low crouch, its four limbs on the ground moving swiftly like a crawling creature, trailing behind it a simulated tail with a sharp end that swung continuously, based on air disturbance data.

The other was extremely burly, running like a moving small hillside.

Even though they were just transparent outlines, the unique bio-mechanical fusion form and the exoskeletal form revealed in motion clearly exhibited a similar aesthetic to the white Man-Spider.

The hearts of everyone were struck with a shock, a chill rushed from the soles of their feet straight to their skulls.

Almost simultaneously, they lowered their voices, in the encrypted communication channel spoke out in unison:

"3 of them! White Masks appeared again!!!"