Son of the Stars

Chapter 181 Life hangs on a thread

No matter who looks at the appearance of the square-box robot, their first reaction is probably "This thing can't move, right?"

After all, the size of the Wigner crystals on the shells of these robots is so small that they cannot be observed with the naked eye. If strong enough light shines on the current shell of S3C7, the photons shining on the shell will quickly absorb kinetic energy by the dense Wigner crystals, and then attenuate from visible light into hard-to-detect noise.

In other words, if robots are exposed to visible light, the Wigner crystals on their shells will rapidly absorb the energy of photons and other bosons, subsequently causing the magnetic field load to increase and the Wigner crystals to become unstable, eventually causing damage due to the photoelectric effect. The system is loaded with too much power and is then reduced to a piece of scrap metal.

From this point of view, S3C7 is really good at sneaking in - it is "shady" in the true sense. It's okay under indoor lighting, but once it's exposed to direct sunlight, it will burn in an instant.

Feeling the strange and violent vibration coming from directly above, S3C7 not only decided to adjust its behavior pattern, but also decided to bring more things back. The 3 S7C3 units were divided into two groups, and the large cluster of 7 units headed directly toward the basement and began digging with all their strength. The hard metal layer, poured high-strength concrete, and various shielding carbon wool are all vulnerable to the SC shell. It's as if those things with various shapes were originally just a bunch of powder, but they were temporarily put together by something to show the appearance of the object.

另外四百台S3C7则就地把躺在床上的多丽包围了起来。这个人看起来和普通人虽然有些差别，但总体来说……它在S3C7眼里看起来仍然是个人。这个人有一个令S3C7觉得非常棒的特点，它自己不动，而且对外界的刺激也没有什么反应。

A person does not respond to external stimulation and has no tendency to take active actions. At most, he only has some reflex-like reactions. Such people are generally classified as vegetative by clinical medicine. Although S3C7 itself is not a robot that specializes in clinical neurology, it has concluded through careful calculations that the cost of feeding a piebald human is probably cheaper and more convenient than maintaining two brains.

After all, that is a person with a complete body. Even S3C7 knows that a person with a body is easier to serve than two boiled eggs floating in a salt water jar.

You’re all here, let’s pack it up and take it away together. S3C7 began to dig a wide tunnel. The original plan was to move Watanabe and No. 's canisters, but now that there is a piebald man, the only option is to widen the evacuation tunnel.

By the way, air circulation design and anti-collapse construction must also be ensured during the construction process, and the fracture layer under Lushan must be fixed...

Thirty units were quickly separated from the two thousand S3C7s that invaded the basement. They squeezed away extremely fine powders of stone and other materials, pushing them into several small "mounds" in the shielded room. The mounds contain various metals, silicon and organic components. Except that the microstructure is not "round" enough and the metal content is too high, they look no different from ordinary dust.

The square S3C7 surrounds the mound and slowly unfolds its shell. Thirty squares surrounded six mounds, unfolding their shells at almost the same speed, transforming from a square into a "flower". It looked like some kind of alien cyber creature was performing a strange worship around the mounds. ceremony.

The black shell is completely unfolded, revealing the silver-gray "inner" underneath the shell. Several mechanical arms that looked like insect limbs quickly stretched out, and then "swallowed" the fine gray dust that looked like dust into the body. Then, "behind" the same unfolded block, one precision part after another was taken out by the silver mechanical arm, and then began to be spliced ​​to each other, and finally assembled into a mechanical structure with no apparent purpose.

These mechanical structures were connected and assembled under the control of one of the machines that unfolded its outer shell, and finally formed a... square box that was two circles larger than the ordinary square box S3C7.

From forming the mound to assembling the large box, it only takes about fifty seconds.

The larger square box floated slightly under the support of dense Wigner crystals. It turned in a circle to calibrate and drive all the components in the body. Then, it took on all the assembly work - right there During its self-inspection, those smaller S3C7s had produced a lot of parts, and those small slopes were almost completely hollowed out.

More robots continued to deliver the excavated waste to the outside. After a few minutes, the originally "wide" underground electromagnetic signal shielding room was almost completely occupied by square robots. Part of the much larger S3C7 was directly welded to the door of the electromagnetic signal shielding room, and the other part was attached to the wall to start the "widening project."

As the large tunnel gradually took shape, two culture tanks containing brains appeared in the electromagnetic signal shielding room. There are red and blue lights flashing on the water tank marked Watanabe. This is the maintenance system reminding the equipment that the environment is unstable. Watanabe is sinking "angry" in the physiological saline.

No. 14 in the other tank was much calmer. It used its own screen to express its dissatisfaction with No. 14 who "impersonated" itself. "After all, he is still too young and can't be calm at all!"

Although there was such a line of words on the screen, the speed of the water tank pump on No. 14 and the noise produced by the water pump even exceeded the life support system at Watanabe.

Although there are slight differences in the personalities of the two wrinkled hard-boiled eggs, at least on the level of worry and anger, the two brains that share the same memory of the past have reached an agreement. Based on Watanabe's experience, it is not difficult to deduce that once he is moved away by these square boxes, his end will definitely not be much better. No matter who is driving these cubes, they certainly don't know as much as Yang Weimin and Lu Chen about how to maintain a human brain floating in saline.

If an ordinary person is kidnapped, the victim may not be in immediate and urgent life-threatening danger. But as the only "brainless" race in the world, the survival situation of Watanabe and No. 14 is actually "hanging by a thread." Circulation pumps, oxygenation membranes, glucose, lipid and ketone body ratios...as well as blood filtration equipment, hormone detection and trace release. Once there is a problem with any of these important facilities, Watanabe and No. 14 will almost immediately They have to die - they can last for three to five minutes at most, and then they will turn into a ball of fat that has completely begun to rot.

The brain is almost entirely made of fat, and it is the organ with the highest "body fat rate" in the human body.

This made Watanabe and No. 14, who thought he was Watanabe, very nervous - they were both people who dangled in front of death and even danced a song. It's not quite alive now - it's just that it's not completely dead yet. If he really dies because of such a stupid thing, will the dance partner who was let go in hell become angry with him?
The two people who best understand the feeling of death in the world are also the ones who are most afraid of death in the world.
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"The flight structure is stable, and the locking structure enters the pre-release position." In Mars orbit, a pre-flight inspection destined to be recorded in history is proceeding in an orderly manner. As the deputy commander, Field performed his tasks and missions perfectly. He completed all the inspection items in the manual, then closed the manual and took a deep breath.

With this deep breath, the atmosphere in the landing module gradually changed from excitement and anticipation to tension and uneasiness.

"The locking structure enters the first stage release position." The robotic arm hoisted the landing module and performed a 180-degree rotation on the Y-axis. A huge planet mixed with brick red and gray brown gradually appeared on the porthole of the landing module.

"The locking structure enters the second stage release position." Following Field's command, the robotic arm began to extend toward the X-axis. The landing module needs to perform "reverse acceleration" for about twenty minutes to reduce the relative speed of itself and Mars. During the acceleration process, the landing module should stay away from Dawn 7 to ensure the safety of the combination.

"The final stage release position is in place, and the release countdown begins." If we want to draw an analogy, the current Dawn 7 is like a naughty child trying to release the Sky Monkey with his hands during the Spring Festival in the cold northern region - two fingers lightly He gently pinched the tail of the Sky Monkey, then used his other arm to protect his face, curled up his body, and even became nervous and became independent.

The landing module was moved by the robotic arm to the farthest place from Dawn 7, and then the robotic arm slowly retracted, and then gently sent out.

The speed of the landing module leaving the robotic arm is five centimeters per second.

(End of this chapter)