Son of the Stars

Chapter 106 Failure
A construction robot is repeatedly performing "construction and dismantling" work in a huge, fully transparent polyurethane pressure-bearing box.

Its body was covered with dust and dried cement. The right "hand" used for bending steel bars had been ground into a huge chip by the hard rebar, and the trowel and trowel on the left hand were also broken into pieces.

When it turns around, almost all the movable metal parts on the robot's body will make a heart-wrenching "crunching" sound, as if it will fall apart and completely disintegrate in the next second.

Basically all types of robots have generally implemented self-health systems since before the Great Collapse.It is different from those old antiques who have no idea what their status is, and will continue to work according to the settings even if there is a malfunction, until the work fails and they turn themselves into a piece of scrap metal.Since before the Great Collapse, robots have taken the initiative to maintain their moving parts.Once there are abnormal fluctuations in the data, they will immediately stop working, then complete the handover with their "colleagues" and seek help from professional technicians.

To some extent, robots value their health far more than ordinary humans, and humans themselves also know the importance of health - but they just don't pay enough attention.

Just like this robot.

No. 33 frowned as he watched the robot once again demolish the house he built and asked, "Isn't it too inhumane to punish a construction robot with a Sisyphus-like experience? What's going on with these people in the coalition government?" What's wrong? Wouldn't it be better to just dismantle it?"

"It is a self-organizing construction robot." No. 42 looked at the robot as if looking at some incredible work of art. "While expanding this base, there was a small problem with its operating program."

这台代号“S3C7”的自组织建造机器人是埃及科学研究技术院的尖端产品，从立项到S3C7的蓝图完成，一共用了27年时间。

They independently completed the setting of the self-organizing architecture, realized rapid iteration and adjustment of the design with internal AI, and also gave the entire plan a nice name.

It's called "Hand of Ptah."

The fundamental purpose of the entire Hand of Ptah project is to solve the contradiction between Egypt's poor engineering construction level and urgent engineering construction needs.Whether it is the reconstruction and expansion of the Aswan Dam, the Nile River navigation plan, or the dredging of Port Said... these are arduous engineering tasks that Egypt cannot complete on its own.

There are companies internationally that can undertake these projects, but even the cheapest contractor's quotation exceeds the upper limit that Egypt can accept.

Thanks to the relatively sound industrial structure left by Nasser and Sadat's presidential decree, the Egyptian Institute of Science and Technology took over the task and completed this outstanding invention after 27 years of continuous efforts.

In the scientists' vision, the project, named after Egypt's legendary protector of craftsmen and artists, would become one of the three pillars of modern Egypt.They should have completely autonomous construction and design capabilities. As long as users make verbal requests to them, the robots can design buildings by themselves, complete construction plans independently, and execute them automatically.

Such a request already sounds a bit bizarre - after all, ordinary construction robots do not have the ability to purchase construction materials.The design purpose of Hand of Puta is to "automate the entire process without intervention."

Perhaps because such design index requirements are a bit difficult, Hand of Puta has been in operation for a total of 27 years.After completing the design of S3C7 and completing all AI and software designs, the coordinates of time have cruelly pointed to a big collapse.

Of the 470 six staff members of the Egyptian Institute of Science and Technology, only seven survived.Among the seven survivors was a Hand of Ptah researcher.

After the Great Collapse, the research institutes that had joined the coalition government took out all the research records and design drawings of Puta's hands. For people who had suffered five years of hell, robots could help rebuild their homes. This is definitely a good thing.

So under the recommendation of the academic committee, the first S3C7 was manufactured at the Argentario Mountain Base - the machine used to manufacture it was the first review equipment at the Argentario Mountain Base.

The clothing manufacturing system found in almost all hotels today is a subsystem of it.

After S3C7 was launched, the engineers present gave it the first order, "Expand this base to meet the needs of the coalition government."

Facts have proved that for these extremely intelligent robots, more precise commands should be used instead of vague instructions, and the robots should be given huge room for free play.

S3C7 did not start working immediately after receiving the instruction. It stopped in place and remained motionless.The engineer responsible for issuing the order felt that the thing might be broken - but the on-site task was heavy, so he moved the S3C7 to a place where it was not in the way, and then turned around and went to work.

The robot took three days to complete all the "preparatory work."It collected and processed materials to create two robots equipped with large chainsaws and armor plates.Then, together with these two robots, they massacred all the construction workers in the entire Argentario Mountain base.

According to S3C7's judgment, these humans on site are the root cause of slow construction.If you want to complete the expansion project with the highest efficiency, you must first eliminate this factor.

The massacre by the two heavily equipped robots lasted for more than a day, mainly because the last few survivors were hidden too deep, which delayed it for a long time.

Those few survivors were slowly burned to death by the flame cutter robots.

Yes, S3C7 was not idle at all during the construction process.It transformed more than a dozen production lines from existing equipment.The original mechanical equipment and experimental equipment were completely dismantled, and within one day, [-] robots of various types began to "work".

According to S3C7's knowledge and information, the goal of the coalition government is naturally to save all mankind and ensure the safety of human civilization.To achieve this goal, S3C7 believes that the coalition government should choose a backup plan for humans.

Although it hoped to further increase the scale of the robot, S3C7 finally gave up this idea due to insufficient raw materials. 4000 and 175 robots of various models cut and hollowed out almost an entire mountain within a month.From top to bottom, the base of Mount Argentario is 375 meters high, 415 meters wide at its widest point, and [-] meters long at its longest point.

The high-intensity construction quickly consumed the robots created by S3C7.When the SS troops invaded the base a month later, the robots had completed almost all construction and had also completed the hard decoration of all rooms.

S3C7 refuses to stop working because its task is not completed.According to its design, the current base is far from meeting the needs.

In order to achieve its mission, S3C7 installed a neutron bomb on itself.Once the bomb is activated, it and everyone around it for twenty kilometers will be destroyed.

As the standoff unfolded, the coalition's leadership team wrote an email on the advice of the academic committee.

In the email, the coalition government claimed that the current Mount Argentario base has initially met the conditions for use, and in order to study the construction and dismantling of protective buildings, they requested S3C7 to perform an experimental mission.

The specific requirements of the experiment are: "Construct two experimental buildings that meet the STE-1 standard at a ratio of 10:118699. And with a material reuse efficiency of more than 90%, the built buildings will be demolished and rebuilt. The experiment will be based on the materials Stop after building cannot be completed."

S3C7 accepted this task and began conducting experiments at locations specified by the coalition government.As time passed, the first materials provided to it had long since turned into powder.However, the staff at the Argentario Mountain Base repeatedly continued to provide it with new building materials.

Their mission is only one - to drag S3C7 until it becomes a pile of scrap metal.

"Then how can we stop it?" After hearing the story, No. 33 pointed at the robot that was still building a new house and asked, "The experiment is not over yet, right?"

"Whether the experiment is over or not is up to me." Zhenri walked to the "aquarium", then pulled his cloak, revealing a suit of clothes printed with complex square patterns.

"Your experimental mission has ended. On behalf of the coalition government, I issue a new mission order to you." No. 42 raised his voice and said, "Your next mission is to completely obey my instructions and complete all the requirements I have made. "

S3C7 stopped what it was doing, and slowly raised its head and glanced at No. 42.

Then he nodded, "I follow your instructions."

The next second, alarms blared in the Argentario Mountain base, and loudspeakers everywhere screamed warnings.

"The containment of Ptah's Hand failed. All personnel will evacuate the base immediately according to the third plan."

(End of this chapter)