Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

"I mean, these land people aren't that backward, this greenhouse actually looks quite decent..."

“Yes, I know, but it has nothing to do with us…” Goredia knew this too, but she was not in charge of Argo’s foreign policy, so she did not comment. The consuls each had their own responsibilities.

"Monster!" Skadi put down her bowl and grabbed the sword beside her. Her action triggered a series of chain reactions. The shield guards also dropped their food, grabbed the weapons beside their pillows, and watched the hunters warily.

"It's still far, don't worry..."

"Whoosh!" The outermost machine gun turret of the farm detected a large number of unidentified heat sources approaching. After comparison and analysis by the intelligent system, it entered alert mode. "Clatter!" A series of sounds of ammunition moving came from the ammunition box, which quickly stopped.

Packs of hound-like terror fish swept through the frozen farmland, smashing the sharp, frozen seedlings to pieces like strings of shattered ice crystals. The monsters' charge naturally triggered alert fire, and Xia Lin, upon hearing the gunshots, immediately switched from alert mode to combat mode.

"Whoosh... Buzz!" After a brief charging noise, there was a sharp gunshot that sounded like fingernails scraping a blackboard. This was the exhaust sound of the electromagnetic rail processing shock wave in the high-speed firing mode.

"Damn it!" All three hunters heard the gunshot and smelled the blood from the torn limbs of the Terrorfish. The land dwellers had never seen the Terrorfish or the Sealings, so they didn't understand the consequences. This was why Argo was reluctant to let the land dwellers know about these things.

Haisi will "actively" "evolve" or "evolve" itself according to the enemy's weapons, rather than passively adapting to the weapons, but actively understanding the weapons and making targeted evolutions.

If Xia Lin understands it this way: before, everyone was fighting with sickles and hoes, and both sides restrained themselves from using melee weapons higher than forks. But you, Argo, are using high-tech weapons, which is like one side throwing down a steel pipe and pulling out a shotgun to fire during a melee.

The consequence was not that the other side inexplicably became accustomed to bullets or went back to wearing bulletproof vests, but rather that the other side decisively brought out their homemade cannons. This is why Hai Si cannot use high-tech weapons to fight.

Argo's special weapons for the hunters are essentially a battle between human and insectoid fishermen for fishing grounds. Although both sides can only use water cannons, Argo has added ice to the water cannons...

However, since both sides are using water cannons, neither side can provoke the other by pulling out an AK, because that would end up being a dispute between the coast guards, which would then turn into a dispute between the naval destroyers—and the most awkward thing is that Argo doesn't have any destroyers to call upon.

"Why did they attack me before I even went to their door?" Xia Lin was a little confused. But, despite her confusion, her old business partner had already sent his dog, Wangcai, to bite people. It wouldn't hurt to retaliate, right?

After the first machine gun turret opened fire, the next four followed suit. The dense gunfire tore through the quiet night, and the whips of fire lashed and ravaged the land outside the farm, tearing any monsters they touched to shreds.

Hunters and monsters are mutually attracted. Just as the monster on the mountain drew Goredia and her companions northward without them realizing it, Goredia and her companions were also attracting these monsters.

They came to "save" their fellow fish, only to be stopped by the electromagnetic machine gun. The dinosaurs crashed against the golden breakwater like white waves under the moonlight, only to be smashed to pieces.

"Go out and help! It's a monster attack!" Gladys grabbed her spear and rushed out the door. The three hunters swept through the greenhouse like a whirlwind. Except for Patriot, who had enough reflexes to intercept them, the others didn't have time to react.

However, the cold wind outside forced everyone except Patriot and the three hunters back into the greenhouse.

The scene outside was unlike any battle Patriot had ever seen. Amidst the flying chains of flame and the deafening gunfire, there were layers upon layers of corpses, piled higher than the farm's walls. Every now and then, one or two monsters would leap from the pile of corpses, only to be torn apart in mid-air and fall into the gap between the corpses and the farm's walls.

"This is terrible! This is a major crisis!" Ghost Shark was completely distraught. It was alright when the Sea Child was attacked by the land people with ranged weapons before. First, the land people's ranged weapons all used Originium, and the Sea Child did not have Originium to imitate them. Second, the land people's weapons would not make the Sea Child raise any awareness to evolve and counter them. But Xia Lin and the others are different.

"Whoosh!" A crackling ball of light slammed into a machine gun turret, instantly scattering arcs of electricity. The control components were brought to a standstill by the intense electromagnetic pulse, even as the redundant systems attempted to restart. Undoubtedly, the machine gun turret was now paralyzed.

"Over there, I'll go." Skadi's red eyes looked at the pile of monster corpses, as if she could see the target of the attack through the thick walls and corpses.

A monster made of countless black fibers and intertwined flesh stood in the snow forest, unlike the slender and agile sea creatures of ordinary sea creatures.

Instead, it was somewhat bloated, and its right arm had become a strange structure with electric arcs jumping on the crystalline thorns.

"Bio-arc emitter, the same old three..." Xia Lin curled his lips, while the white rabbit beside him was stiff as a board, seemingly frightened by the brief exchange of fire between the two sides.

Whether it was the machine gun tearing trees and monsters apart like shredded cloth, or the electric arcs fired by the enemy, they all gave her a great sense of danger, as if she herself might be reduced to nothing in less than half a second if she were there.

"Bioelectric arc, highly toxic acid, spore cloud, the same old three things, nothing new these days..."

Of course, the Covenant's pest control tools are the same old three: plasma flamethrowers, electromagnetic weapons, and high-yield bunker buster bombs.

Skadi leaped into the air, her small feet landing on the railing. Her silver twin tails swung up in the moonlight, resembling the tail fins of crashing waves. Like an orca leaping out of the waves, she drew a graceful arc in the sky, flying over the pile of corpses and landing among the dense swarms of dinosaurs.

The greatsword spun around her waist, and the gorgeous "dancer" began to dance alone under the moon. As far as the eye could see, flesh and blood were like flying flowers, and severed limbs were like falling leaves. The graceful dancer spun in circles and quickly approached the sea monster that was preparing to fire its second cannonball.

Skadi brandished her sword, extending an invitation to a waltz. The original Heinz might have been able to defend himself with his deformed melee weapon.

However, it has now switched to remote mode and only managed to raise its bio-arc emitter to block before being knocked away by the giant sword.

The silver-haired beauty, dressed in a colorful dance dress stained with the blood of monsters, raised her greatsword high. With one strike, she struck the soy sauce shop; with two strikes, the silk shop; and with three strikes, the water and land dojo. By the fourth strike, the core of the sea monster was shattered, turning it into a dead lump of flesh. Meanwhile, the other monsters were dealt with by Gretia and Ghost Shark as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

"These things are a bit weird." Patriot put down his woodcutter's axe. Even he could barely cut through these monsters. After realizing this, he switched to using the back of the axe to hammer them, and only then did he manage to take down a group of monsters. He was still not as fast as the two little girls over there.

Chapter Fifty-Six Cleaning Up the Battlefield

Chapter 56

Due to the ice storm, no one bothered to collect the densely packed monster corpses. Since they wouldn't rot in temperatures of minus seventy or eighty degrees Celsius, they were simply left lying around on the wild ground, allowing the frost to gradually cover them and turn them into a rather huge iceberg.

"We've used up all 2000 rounds of ammunition. Looks like we'll have to do some modifications sometime."

Xia Lin crouched beside the smoking machine gun turret. The ammunition boxes inside were completely empty. Since it was powered by cables, there was no need to replace the batteries, but the supercapacitor array seemed to be overheating slightly.

"A very powerful weapon," Goredia said, walking over with her long spear and examining the machine gun turret. "But it's not enough for these monsters."

"Nonsense, this is only enough to defend against ordinary wild beasts. It's certainly not enough to deal with something like that. We need something much more powerful."

Xia Lin said irritably, "Anyone would be in the same boat with a whole season's harvest and mountains of monster corpses to deal with."

"It's no use. The offspring of the sea will quickly adapt to advanced weapons and then evolve accordingly. The more powerful the weapon, the faster they will evolve."

“That’s not evolution,” Xia Lin said, continuing to deal with the tangled mess of cables in front of him. The damage caused by the electric arc wasn’t significant, but it was incredibly troublesome to repair. “Damn, the graphene circuitry was burned out, the filter exploded, and it almost took my voltage regulator and booster pack with it…”

Xia Lin rummaged through the computer case and pulled out a bunch of burnt components, throwing them on the ground. He manually switched the system to the backup module, put the cover back on, and tapped the machine gun turret with his multi-tool. "Tomorrow I need to install a defensive shield against this bio-electric arc on each of these things."

“Defense shields are useless. Hai Si will keep trying out more and more new weapons. We’ve learned this the hard way before…” That’s why we used Deep Sea Hunters and melee weapons to turn back the clock.

"Yeah, isn't that normal? They'll be using highly toxic acids and spore clouds next. Towards the end, you might even find that they're not using giant monsters anymore, but instead driving armored vehicles and using grenade launchers to fire high-explosive grenades at your house," Xia Lin complained.

These old friends are just like him. They are also engaged in agricultural production. If there is no conflict or need, who would waste biomass and worker bees to do things that have no meaning for agricultural production?

"Not only that, if you think that having this kind of electromagnetic weapon means you can rest easy, I can only say you're thinking too much."

Goredia shook her head. Although this land dweller did seem to know a little about the Sea, it wasn't enough.

"I know, as the fighting progresses, it's hard to say what weapons they'll bring out..."

If you're in the Covenant, when the enemy Zerg are being uncooperative, you can use a relay station to call in nearby patrol fleets, transitioning from a water cannon exchange between fishermen to a naval destroyer exchange.

“Then don’t give them the chance to evolve.” Goredia’s tone was a little harsh. How much sacrifice had the Argonauts made to keep these monsters at this low-tech stage?

Instead of turning into a scene where warships use electrothermal cannons and biological missiles to bombard the ground with barrages.

“That’s not evolution, it’s transformation. They don’t need to evolve. As soon as they realize they need these things, they will start producing and transforming them,” Xia Lin corrected, clapping his hands and standing up.

"They are not passively becoming radicalized; rather, they inherently possess that ability, but for certain reasons, they are consciously controlling the intensity of the battle and have not used it. You are essentially pinning your hopes on the other side playing by the rules and never using it."

“You seem to know a lot about them?” Grandia handed over a tool and watched as Xia Lin took the ammunition box out and replaced it with a new, full one.

"I don't know much about them, but there are other similar things besides this..." This left Goredia speechless; they knew too little about the land people.

"However, as far as I know, no evolution is that fast. Evolution, whether it is human selection or natural selection, cannot be completed in one or two years, or even one or two hundred years. The only thing that can be completed in a very short time is evolution or differentiation. They have this ability, but they just don't use it."

Xia Lin loaded the ammunition box, tested the machine gun turret and confirmed it was functioning properly, then nodded in satisfaction.

"However, there is still a limit. They can't create something out of nothing. It's okay when they start playing with electric arcs and highly toxic acids."

But later, when we're going to engage in a warship-to-ship battle with you, we'll need factories, mines, and specialized production facilities—

I guess you can't compete in terms of productivity and controlled territory, so you can't fight a high-tech war; you can only lure the enemy back.

High-tech warfare is all about productivity and resources, and it consumes even more of the "quantity" factor than cold weapon warfare. It requires rest, wages, and consumption, and the Argonauts, whose territory is not even as large as Haisi's, naturally cannot gain this advantage.

In a high-tech war, even the Hai Si wouldn't need to upgrade to the same level of technology. As long as the technology is similar, they would be overwhelmed by the T-34 fleet, unless the Argonauts also have the same tactics, technology and numbers.

“That’s right, so you have a solution?” Goddess said frankly, never hiding things that Argo already knew.

On the contrary, she was very curious as to why a land dweller would know these things. Based on information from other sources, she thought that land dwellers were still at the stage where some strong individuals would break through the formation and then the others would rush over to attack.

"The simplest solution is to send him back in the same number of truckloads, intact..."

For example, if we establish a production line that can produce 3 Spider drones per day, and then start building a second, a third, and so on, with four or five lines, the light infantry front can basically be stabilized.

Then they started building production lines for various heavy vehicles, missile launchers, and artillery. A typical drone production line produces about 300 to 400 heavy Viper unmanned tanks per day. The number of fighter jets in the atmosphere is a little less, but still more than a hundred.

If we have two of each of these production lines, we can outpace the competition without them increasing their costs. In the war of quality, machinery has a much greater advantage than biology.

“Your people are dying every moment, while my machines are endless. This is the simplest way.”

Xia Lin shrugged. There was no more effective way to deal with the Zerg than to increase production capacity; everything else was just a stopgap measure.

"But you don't have that ability..."

"You guys have them..."

“We don’t have any either…” Goddess of Argonauts shook her head. The Argonauts were not many in number. Although their technology was advanced, they did not have many stable strongholds in the sea due to the influence of the Sea Heirs. They were not enough to wage a quality war.

Moreover, Argonaut's technology is concentrated in biochemistry, energy, and materials science, and its intelligent technology is not very advanced, so it is not technically suitable to fight like this.

“Without this technology, we can only consider decapitation. Find their core members and kill them…” Xia Lin walked towards the bull parked next to the workshop, grabbed the metal bar on the side, and jumped onto the footboard of the cockpit.

“They have many worker bees, but only a few brains. If we destroy the hives they use to build specialized worker bees and the cores that store these more advanced technologies, we can suppress their progress for a long time…”

Xia Lin pointed to the broken antenna on the workshop, "The most thorough way is to cut off the network. Cut off their network, and their progress will quickly drop to normal, or even slower."

Just like Xia Lin, who lost the cloud storage blueprints, she had to make a vehicle chassis by hand. Even if there were enough worker bees, the efficiency wouldn't be much higher, and there were still piles of things that couldn't be made by hand.

"Cut off the network or shut down the server, which do you choose?"

"Shut down the server." Goredia smiled slightly. Perhaps only she and the strange land dweller in front of her could understand the meaning of these terms and what they referred to.

"To be honest, my opinion of land creatures has changed somewhat; perhaps the sheer number of barbarians has interfered with our judgment."

"You keep talking about land creatures, so you live in the water..."

"Yes, Argo at the bottom of the sea. If you were a land dweller like yourself, I think you would be very welcome to visit."

"Underwater, dome-type or immersion type?" Xia Lin asked a very professional question. Dome-type means using a protective shield to isolate the entire underwater area from the seawater, turning it into a waterless area, and then living there is the same as on land.

Immersion type involves submerging the entire building in water, connected by underwater pipes and underground passages. Because the volume and pressure-bearing area of ​​a single building are smaller, it is easier to make it watertight and pressure-resistant. However, the living area is smaller, and it is not as convenient to deploy various production facilities.

"Both are true," Goredia laughed even more happily. Talking about this topic with land dwellers, ninety-nine percent of them wouldn't know what a dome-shaped structure is, let alone the differences and difficulties between the two. For a technology governor, it's like living among a group of monkeys, and the monkeys keep asking all sorts of questions.

[This is the official characterization of Gladys when she joins Rhodes Island; she's implying that she can't explain energy, power, technology, or machinery to these primitive people, so she simply avoids mentioning it...]

"So the second key question is, can you breathe underwater? That is to say, do you have both lungs and gills?"

"No" hunters cannot breathe underwater, and neither can orcas themselves. However, they have a considerable lung capacity, and their blood can dissolve more oxygen, which allows them to stay underwater for a long time with a single breath, just like whales.

"So your genes have been modified?"

“Absolutely right. To be honest, you really amaze me. I’ve never met a land dweller as…learned as you.” Although they didn’t delve into more detailed discussions about professional issues, it was already quite remarkable that they could understand these concepts and situations.

"Alright, let's get back to the point. Although I am indeed quite curious about you, I thought you were all the kind who used 'black box' magic, seemingly living in modern times, but actually not much different from feudal serfs."

“To be honest, we feel the same way…” Grandia understood Xia Lin’s feelings very well, because she felt the same way on land. She couldn’t connect with the people around her at all. What could they talk about?

"My original plan was to measure the location and defense strength of the target server, and then take it out with a powerful long-range attack before it could deploy any troublesome combat units."

"This plan is not good. Hai Si is not so easy to expose. They are always hiding among the massive number of monsters and terror fish, freely transferring their consciousness and the bodies they control."