The Unusual Life of a Peculiar Being
Chapter 1554

Beyond Deception

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The Moon surface base already knew about the fierce battle taking place at the Zenith Seat Space Station—not because the drone swarm's signal blockade had malfunctioned, but because anyone who wasn't blind could simply look up from the Moon surface base and see countless points of light flickering around that bright patch in space. Even slightly better Optical Observation equipment was enough to clearly see that the Space Station stationed in high orbit above the homeworld was being "besieged" by a group of unidentified War Weapons.

The fact that a war was underway was obvious—at least to the people at the Moon surface base, they were facing a new war.

In fact, the instant the drone swarm severed the Zenith Seat communications network, the Moon surface base issued an extremely high-level security alert. Thousands of Optical Observation stations and radar antennas immediately turned in that direction. The Moon's residents tried to figure out what was happening, but aside from Optical Observation, every other means of communication—including all secret channels and emergency communication frequencies—carried nothing but static. The radar returned only completely unrecognizable distorted signals.

Deprived of convenient communications and radar observation, the Moon's proxies discovered that they could only rely on their eyes to learn what was happening on the distant battlefield. These artificial-intelligence lifeforms, representatives of advanced technology, felt as if they had suddenly fallen into some ancient era. They had to gather intelligence by the most primitive means and formulate strategies based on it—just as the Great Databank recorded: in the benighted medieval era, humans on battlefields relied on waving flags, lighting signal fires, and "watching my expression and acting accordingly" to transmit signals. The proxies were doing much the same now, throwing the usually orderly lunar society into rare disorder.

But under the control of the main

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