Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

Deep purple magical energy blasts rained down on the sky and earth like a colorful storm, giving the impression of being on a space war battlefield, with people constantly falling as their protective decks were pierced.

However, thanks to the effective use of the steel protective plates, most of them were able to hold out until the medics could move them to the back for treatment.

Several streaks of light shot into the sky from behind. As the warlock's warheads reached his control boundaries, he roughly aimed at the target and then severed the control link. Subsequently, the missiles, propelled by the ignition of their arc engines, headed straight for the target.

Because there was no guidance at the terminal stage, or it was in inertial guidance mode, it only had sufficient accuracy to attack fixed positions. In an instant, several fixed artillery positions of Letania were sent flying into the air.

Unlike before, this time, the Leitanian fleet did not join the battle because shortly after the attack began, on the way from the port, a large-scale mutiny broke out among the sailors—more accurately, a mutiny of Gallic soldiers, which also led to a revolt by some Leitanian soldiers.

This situation arose because of uncensored letters sent from home by the Gallic resistance organizations. Since most of the fleet soldiers were relatively well-paid and received a high share of the spoils, their mail became a major target for theft and embezzlement.

Unfortunately, due to the impact of the war, prices in Letania, a non-agricultural country, have skyrocketed, and the currency has become almost worthless. Only valuable jewelry and real gold and silver can buy necessities.

Of course, thanks to Kazimierz's status as an ally, a large influx of imported food has prevented a famine from occurring so far. However, the living pressures on ordinary people have increased tenfold overnight.

Moreover, in order to collect the materials and wealth needed for the war, the Letanians began to increase taxes in several regions, including Gaul, which had been annexed by the Letanians over the years on the grounds that the regions had not been loyal enough and therefore needed to pay punitive taxes.

From Letania's perspective, this decision was absolutely correct. Without levying supplies, the war would be virtually impossible to fight. If supplies were levied, the knife would naturally not be used against their own core people, but rather the infected would be treated layer by layer, then the Gauls, and then the residents of other states, thus turning class conflict into internal conflict among these people.

However, the Doctor took advantage of this internal conflict to amplify the clash between the Letanians and the Gauls. Incited by the resistance and restoration organizations, Letania was thrown into chaos, and they chose bloody suppression to resolve the chaos. These bloody methods were then transmitted to the front lines by Kal'tsit's intelligence network without any modification.

Naturally, it's not surprising that relatively wealthy and well-educated fleet soldiers would make such a choice; it's just that neither side expected the scale and intensity to be so great.

Without the support of the fleet, the position held out for only a short time. After realizing that the fleet was unlikely to come, many noble officers who had already surrendered once decided to surrender again. After all, they would not be held accountable, and ransom was better than losing their lives.

The controlled area of ​​Letania was retreating step by step. By the early hours of the day, the Kazdel forces had recaptured the border farm freight center. Engineers were repairing the train tracks, and soon the trains would be sending more recruits and supplies to the front lines.

Meanwhile, at the Kazdel Flight Test Range.

"Ding... The Nano Honeycomb Safety Manufacturing Contract has expired. Please select one of the following methods to restore manufacturing capabilities: A. Choose to purchase a new service agreement remotely via the network to safely update the manufacturing fluids. Current renewals enjoy a 95% discount."

B. Purchase new nano-manufacturing fluid to replace the old manufacturing fluid. It is compatible with any reputable manufacturer's fluid under the XCXX specification.

C. Renew the manufacturing contract using an offline security update card. The update card will scan all fluid states, reset any overwrite errors, and terminate the scrapping process.

"Please complete any of the above processes within 24 hours. Otherwise, in accordance with the 'Micromechanical Manufacturing Safety Protocol' and the 'Covenant Particle Industry Safety Law,' all fluids exceeding the specified time and number of manufacturing cycles will enter a self-destruct process after 24 hours. This process is irreversible. Please make your choice promptly. Thank you again for using the 'Honeycomb v2.31 Nano Manufacturing System.' Countdown: 23:59:30"

"Can it be cracked?" This was the doctor's first reaction after reading the prompt. Could this thing's security protocol be cracked?

“Theoretically, using a wet-component brain chip array, about 300 years of computation should be enough.” Old Xia patted the honeycomb module that had entered automatic locking. “Of course, you can consider manufacturing nano-manufacturing fluid of the same specifications and then try to crack its internal identification system. I do know how to crack that.”

After all, genuine fluids are increasingly expensive. A genuine nanofluid licensed by the European Micromechanical Laboratory costs at least 40000 Star Coins per set, while a pirated version costs less than 10% of that, although it's less secure and less precise, and might even damage the particle migration needles..."

"But the problem is, who can make nanofluids? And it has to be XCXX specification..."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know, I only know that there are several different specifications."

"Do you have a spare update card?" the doctor asked, looking at Old Xia.

"I didn't buy it," Lao Xia corrected. "You'll have to ask the company's logistics department what they think. Of course, the place I was originally going to must have had a spare update card to restore manufacturing capacity after the network outage, but I definitely don't have one."

“This equipment only came with one update card. I used it last time, and now it’s gone.” Old Xia took out a plate-like object that had been burned out in self-protection mode. “Otherwise, this thing would have been scrapped a few years ago.”

"So, in other words, this thing hasn't actually reached its maximum lifespan; it's just reached the end of its safe lifespan. If we ignore the safety protocols, it can continue to be used, right?" the doctor asked.

“Yes, but it’s useless, I can’t crack it.” Old Xia thought for a moment and said, “Besides, the safe lifespan is not actually over, it’s just that the maximum efficiency period has ended, and it’s just forced to be scrapped. Of course, you can raise your concerns with the manufacturer.”

In reality, the manufacturing process of counterfeit versions lasts longer than the original, but the quality varies greatly. Don't ask why, you know why.

If it could be used until the end of the world or without any external components, then the inventor and manufacturer would have already starved to death.

From any perspective, such a thing will not exist, and it is even more impossible to provide you with escape pods or similar items for free and fill the entire universe—that would bankrupt all related equipment manufacturers, including antenna manufacturers.

Moreover, unregulated manufacturing would lead to enormous waste for a planned economy. Neither a planned economy nor a market economy would allow this to happen. Compared to the life or death of one or two unlucky survivors whose distress antennas were damaged, maintaining the operation of the entire society's economy and system is more important.

[PS]

To all those boring and absurd so-called "rationalists"—you've definitely never been on a business trip by plane—

Because commercial airliners do not have parachutes, no matter if your company or organization sends you to Africa, Ukraine, or any dangerous mission that may cross a war zone, you will not be provided with extra parachutes.

Finally, your company or organization will at most provide you with a satellite phone, and there will only be one. As for the satellite phone being lost, broken, or malfunctioning after you get off the plane—

Please just wait to die. Your company won't give you any emergency survival plans, and don't expect to have spare parts or even a production line and instructions for making your own radio.

This is the reality, not the "reasonable situation" you've imagined.

In reality, your only survival plan is to call the police or the embassy.

If you lose your phone and the local African tribe can't find it, please wait for search and rescue personnel to come and find you.

Instead of complaining about why your wilderness survival kit doesn't contain mobile base stations and production lines for manufacturing mobile phone chips.

Chapter 48 The final battle: Weapons are truly useless.

Chapter 48

The manufacturing equipment is not completely scrapped; only the most critical nano-honeycomb structure is entering the scrapping process. The remaining assembly, welding, and manufacturing threads are still usable, but then production can no longer be achieved simply by having a blueprint; it will require manual control.

Before it was scrapped, Lao Xia successfully molten all the necessary parts. In fact, it was this extremely high standard of production that led to a significant reduction in the lifespan of the honeycomb.

"This is really advanced. You can just buy this stuff anywhere else where you live?" Ling watched as Lao Xia shoveled the discarded nanofluid into the trash can, one shovelful at a time. The completely discarded nanoparticles were silvery-gray, looking like a large basket of river sand.

"Yes, the civilian version can be bought freely. However, the manufacturing process and specifications are limited."

Old Xia stuck the shovel into the pile of silver sand, and the entire manufacturing pool emitted a burnt plastic smell, which was very unpleasant.

What are you going to do with these waste materials?

"Burying them away helps prevent undamaged particles from replicating and causing problems."

The landfill disposal method is very simple: first, add water and stir to mix, then put it into a furnace for calcination once to completely solve the problem, after all, it is a civilian product.

"If you have this technology, why are you still engaging in commercial activities?"

“Who knows? But even if you have fluid, you still need to prepare the materials and blueprints for it. It’s not like you can create something out of nothing.” Old Xia continued working, while Ling thought for a moment and said, “That’s right. So, are there really no other spare parts? Or is there another type of fluid that you can use on your spaceship?”

"Probably, but the process specifications for damage control fluids and industrial manufacturing fluids may be the same. However, I don't have a NanoCore-4 certificate. I mean, I'm not an N-Net engineer and can't program it. Even if I were, I don't have professional micromechanical programming equipment."

Is it difficult to pass the exam?

"It's extremely difficult to pass the exam. Most Star Alliance undergraduate students only need an NC-1 certificate to graduate. It's basically limited to cracking the fluid authentication module and using a cheap third-party fluid that you can install in a genuine device."

Old Xia thought for a moment and added, "So, out of ten people, at least three or five have had the experience of bricking their devices at least once..."

"Can I give it a try?"

"Here, take it, just don't eat it." Ling Jie took the liquid that Lao Xia handed over. It was called a liquid, but it was more like very fine and soft sand. It was as soft as clay and very light. It was an indescribable feeling. In short, it was a strange feeling.

What will happen if you eat it?

"Constipation, the human body cannot digest this stuff at all. It's not a symbiotic, semi-biological structure; it's most likely an obstruction in your intestines..."

"Wait, how do you know so much?" Ling looked at him like he was looking at a ghost or a deity. Could it be...?

"Have you gone mad from drinking?" Old Xia frowned. "These kinds of products don't come with instructions, and there are no precautions listed to prevent children from shoving them in their mouths?"

“Well, that makes sense…” Ling gave up on his plan to eat some himself. “I’ll take it and study it.”

"Go ahead. If you manage to research anything, remember to give me a report. I'll keep it. When the people from the Star Alliance come over, it'll be worth at least several hundred billion Star Coins, enough to buy the planet Terra."

"That's really exaggerated?"

"It's not an exaggeration, because you could potentially destroy a market worth trillions, so it's normal to be offered tens of billions in hush money, especially if you can repair the scrapped nanofluids. Your personal technological value is worth that price."

That means that waste nano-silver sand from landfills can also be recycled and reused, which is another multi-trillion dollar market.

"What can you do with tens of billions of star coins? Buy a planet?"

"Or buy a warship that can flatten several star systems, provided someone sells it to you."

The cost of a warship is around 400 billion, and equipping a full combat group would only add about 800 billion in expenses.

Of course, this question is as meaningless as asking whether Mr. Smith's income could buy a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier—because nobody wants to sell it.

"So, you don't have any work to do today?" Old Xia had already taken care of all the spare parts he had promised. Logically speaking, as a power engineer, this drunkard should be at the construction site.

"As for welding the frame, I've already adjusted the power equipment, and we're just waiting for the excavation team to deliver the spare parts."

"So fast? How did you do that?" Old Xia was dumbfounded. This kind of project couldn't be completed by one person in a few days, could it?

"You don't have the ability to create clones?" Ling hesitated for a moment, and a new person immediately appeared beside him. "And you don't have the ability to create familiars either?" After saying that, a small dragon carrying a welding torch appeared in another place.

"Theoretically speaking, I can exist at any point in three-dimensional space at the same time, and then create a large number of separate entities to handle the work. However, this would consume a large number of threads."

"I understand. So, should we weld a slot onto this ship and put you in it? Like a mind core?" Old Xia felt that the two abilities were somewhat similar.

"Hahaha, forget it..." Ling decisively turned and left. This topic was too dangerous; who knew if that idiot Nian would actually weld a slot into himself and shove his head down into it? But, come to think of it, it seemed kind of funny?

At the shipyard, four sets of super-large gantry cranes are in place, and four tracks extend from the supporting industrial area not far away into the construction channel. The construction of Terra's landships and mobile cities is basically the same: a U-shaped structure with the indented area in the middle being the construction area, gantry cranes and various welding and cutting equipment on both sides, and warehouses and supporting personnel dormitories, etc., in front.

Goods are typically supplied from other supporting industrial areas using rail and long-distance overhead cranes. Generally speaking, the shipyard area will consist of two rail transit systems, one in front and one behind, one at a higher elevation and one at a lower elevation.

For the Kazdel people, let alone building landships, they didn't even know what equipment and facilities a qualified shipyard needed. It wasn't until the Iberians and the Kazdel reached a deep cooperation agreement and combined the information provided by Agor that the first shipyard was completed.

Inside the recess, a rough skeleton is being constructed. Layers of alloy skeletons coated with bright yellow anti-rust paint are stacked up, and welding sparks cascade down below like a waterfall. The entire hull structure presents a wide square shape, with two sets on each side, for a total of four sets of terrace-like sub-hull structures.

This split structure is used to install four large power systems and a buoyancy propulsion system. Large thrusters also need to be installed at the stern of the hull. Since it is really inconvenient to build fighter jets and aerodynamic flight in Terra, they simply chose to use brute force. Four sets of 16 electric arc thrusters forcibly pushed this brick-like thing into the sky.

"This is it. It is expected to be delivered to you in a year. You will have a maximum of six months to integrate and train it before it must be deployed to the northern battlefield. The Leitanians will not give up easily. Even if they give up, we will not pretend that their invasion did not exist."

Wearing non-prescription glasses and holding the master construction drawings, he explained that since this thing would eventually be assigned to the aviation sorcerer unit, it was necessary to explain to the commanders and sorcerers who would take over what it was.

Instead of waiting for people to board the ship, we should figure out what this is and what kind of personnel are needed. Only then can we easily select personnel and provide targeted training. It would be incredibly awkward if we finally managed to build the ship, only to find that there was no one there to operate it.

"The design tonnage is 4850 tons, but the actual tonnage is still uncertain due to the weight of fuel and other components and protection systems. So, it may be reduced or increased. However, it will not exceed 5500 tons at most," Nian said, flipping through the general plan in his hand. "It can carry 140 people, including 20 necessary weapons sorcerers, 35 control sorcerers, 30 aviation sorcerers, and other technicians and maintenance workers. It does not need to carry marines or other combat units."

"Eight unmanned bombers are mounted on each wing, operated by three sorcerers. Two single-person unmanned reconnaissance aircraft can be launched from the bow, for a total of ten aircraft..."

"Wait, since you've managed to build a bomber, then why do you still need to..."

"Unpowered bomber," Nian said expressionlessly, "or catapult-launched glider bomber or glider cluster bomb, it's the same thing, but to make it sound better, let's call it a drone bomber."

The powered glider structure can be dropped directly from the mothership at high altitude, carrying a large number of bombs. This avoids the need for the mothership to condescend to fly overhead and lower its altitude to its death when bombing ground facilities and units.

The glider has a maximum range of nearly 50 kilometers. Including the range of the solid-fuel rocket used for catapult launch, it can fly over 100 kilometers before automatically unlocking bombing mode and releasing cluster bombs to carpet bomb the enemy's positions. After that, the aircraft is obviously unusable and can only be jettisoned.

"The main weapons are four sets of weapon turrets set up on the split structure. We haven't decided yet whether to make them into ballistic or magical weapons. Master Ke's suggestion is to make them compatible. What about you?"

"No, no, please don't, just use live ammunition..."

"Okay, let's make it a live-fire artillery platform then. That would reduce the structural complexity a bit. But you have to think it through. With live ammunition, the power won't be too great. Although this platform is more stable than an airplane, it's still a flying machine. If we load too many heavy cannons on it, it will flip over."

"It can only carry a maximum of 120mm twin railguns, which means the number of weapon sorcerers needs to be increased to 24, and the final crew capacity is 144. In this case, the crew compartments and escape pods will need to be rearranged or squeezed together."