Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

"No," Old Xia shrugged. Anyway, he wasn't going to be on this ship, and it was impossible to predict the risks involved. With remote communication, the other side couldn't assess the risks of doing so. It wasn't even impossible that the entire ark would completely disintegrate once it was turned on.

"Hmm~" The Doctor fell into deep thought, and after a long time, he finally looked up. "We don't have any other options to choose from, so let's just leave it at that." The information that had been gathered was no longer a matter of optimism or pessimism. The Ark had completed one and a half blocks, and the half that was not yet completed was in relatively good condition, which meant that it was completely broken. Therefore, they could just tear it down and start over.

The completed section was the most problematic, with 95% of the life support systems failing, less than 3% of the energy systems responding, and the area of ​​damaged wiring in the dome projection displayed on the panoramic canopy was alarming. Even the medical support equipment maintaining the Sailboat constellation was unresponsive by more than 87%.

"The good news is that the remote particle morphology field generator is relatively stable. As long as the spare parts are replaced and maintenance is carried out, more Originium particle fields can be projected again to interfere with the particle morphology field of the target area, thereby achieving the ability to quickly build on the ground and in specific areas."

"And the bad news?"

"The morphological field resonator exploded." Ling said that this was quite a big surprise. The former is the foundation for these "gods" to exert their divine power. Simply put, on the planet Terra, which is filled with Originium particle clouds and Originium particles, the entire planet can be regarded as a huge processing area. Here, they can directly use the Originium particle field effect to transmit this coherent effect.

Therefore, it is only natural that the Terrans regard them as gods. They do not need any magical mediums or Originium Arts. With just a wave of their hand or a step, mountains and rivers will shake. They can even achieve the ability to create things out of thin air and turn the unreal into reality. What else could they be but gods?

Moreover, through this interference field, Xi can directly influence any Terra creature with residual Originium particles in its nervous system, distorting its cognition, blurring the lines between truth and falsehood, and pulling them into her virtual world.

As for being omniscient and able to pass through walls and move between houses, those are just child's play. After all, it is essentially a projection that can appear anywhere in Terra, and its energy for activity and combat comes from the surrounding environment, which can also be called inexhaustible power.

"But the resonance field exploded, just like what happened during the Great Yan's war against the gods." "How did they destroy the Ark?"

"They didn't destroy the ark; we did."

Simply put, what good can happen when a piece of equipment that's already old and in disrepair, an experimental device with a high failure rate that hasn't even completed its verification, is then used by a large group of authorized users who fight over the right to use it, raising the energy level within their own authority to the highest level, or even overloading it? Of course, it'll just explode.

"The so-called split of God is actually this. The role of the resonator is to coordinate the multi-department, multi-directional interference fields released by the entire ark. You can understand it as a huge coordinator and filter that can filter out unnecessary nerve impulses and information, and prevent the particle forms emitted from different antenna groups from interfering with each other."

“Oh, the phase splitter of the particle assembly machine, I understand,” Old Xia nodded. “I’ve studied this thing.”

To put it simply, it's about making the particle clusters appear condensed, allowing a large group of particles to form atomic properties, like a chorus. Otherwise, it would be too exaggerated to build it up from individual particles.

This technology can quickly process large particle clusters because you only need to change one, and the rest will spontaneously resonate and change. The role of the phase splitter is to allow this chorus to be divided into different parts, and the different parts do not interfere with each other, so that a new chorus can be formed relatively efficiently.

That's roughly its function. The purpose of this resonator used by our ancestors was to allow different voices to be combined into a large chorus, thus truly achieving the technological effect of particle-level printing.

Although they cleverly used the special properties and coherence of the source energy particles (the ancient people's scientific name for the particles emitted by Originium) to build a model quickly, they still needed this material to make a large number of particles stand together, rather than just a pile of sand.

"Therefore, the creations made by either Nian or Xi have a limited lifespan and cannot exist for long, because once she withdraws from the construction field, these things will collapse at the particle level. While Ling can create things that exist for a long time, the number is limited because she cannot sing in harmony with other 'voices,' which means..."

Old Xia thought for a moment and said, "The first two are like the drums and gongs in an orchestra. They make a sound when you strike them, but once you stop, they stop making a sound, at most leaving only a slight echo."

"Ling is a bit special. She's like an organ or an electric piano; once you press a key, it keeps playing and never stops. But she only has ten fingers, so she can't press all twenty keys."

"Therefore, in this particle-level chorus, each instrument and each voice part is independent. Some can sing loudly and nothing can suppress them; some can be as fine as rain; some have amazing penetrating power; and some can be pressed down to keep making a sound, but in essence, they cannot be integrated."

“Essentially, the entire engineering department should be able to work together to accomplish a godlike feat; at least from the Terran's perspective, this printing technology is no different from creating things out of thin air.” Then Old Xia clapped his hands, “And then it was gone.”

"Right now, each person can only do a part of it. It's like the conductor of an orchestra suddenly died. Everyone is playing their own thing and can't work together at all. Yeah, I guess even the metronome exploded. The beats can't be synchronized, and they'll interfere with each other, stealing energy from each other, making the sound even sharper. Eventually, the instruments will all explode, leaving you completely unable to make a sound. That's roughly the situation."

"So what did you research?" The doctor looked at Lao Xia enthusiastically, and then the latter clapped his hands. "If I had researched anything, I would have been admitted to the Starship Engineering major. I studied hard for two years and didn't understand anything, so I was transferred to the College of Agriculture."

"...You should have someone who knows this over there, right?"

"Of course there are, but they are only roughly similar in principle. In reality, they may be quite different. For example, they cannot understand what the Originium Effect Field is, and they will be very curious about how you skipped the middle... well, the theoretical and technical prerequisites that can fill half of the Ark Storage Vault to create this thing."

Simply put, it's like a civilization that has just emerged from the atmosphere pulling out a warp drive. If you don't consider the possibility of digging up graves, it would indeed be very confusing, and even seeing the drive would make it difficult to understand the details. Of course, the general principle should be similar.

After all, advanced interstellar civilizations with faster-than-light travel generally have their own ways of skipping class. Some, like the Star Alliance, hire tutors; others, like Gaia, copy homework; still others rely on dice, believing that life and death are predestined and wealth is determined by fate. Some even use accelerators and rely on luck to crash through the black hole they created, without being killed by it, and successfully obtain the data.

There are also those who truly inherit the legacy, who were bombarded by high-energy rays at the beginning of the universe, just before the gravitons decayed, and were not killed, but were successfully captured.

"In short, the principles are similar, or even the same, which means that we can make you a completely new phase splitter, but it probably won't work once installed, because the actual implementation and operation are completely different things. To be honest, even if I send the source energy particles back, they probably won't gain much deeper understanding in the next forty or fifty years."

While being more technologically advanced, having more comprehensive theories, and more convenient tools can only shorten the research time for the Covenant when dealing with a completely unknown fundamental particle, it cannot give you a result in just two days—of course, if you're looking for a result like Old Xia's, then it might only take a few hours.

However, if you want to go further on the basis of the technology of our ancestors, or completely restore their technology, then... you should know that there are some Stone Age things that no one has figured out how they were made. It's not that they couldn't make them, but that it's unimaginable how they could make them with stone tools.

"That's exactly what I mean. We know how to drill threads into a steel pipe, but we have absolutely no idea how you made it using stone-making tools. To reconstruct this process, we need a lot of time, data, and physical examples for comparison. Unfortunately, it's impossible to send the physical source stones back right now, so..."

Therefore, the actual research time may be longer, or it may even be completely blocked in a dead end.

"And now you're trying to get our help to repair the stone tools you used to make threaded steel pipes, without even having a physical sample of the rocks you used. This is obviously impossible."

Scientific research also needs to be based on reason. It's not like a group of people tinkering in the lab and suddenly they know everything, come up with all sorts of conclusions, and even develop application plans and processes. That's not scientific.

"Okay, let's skip this part for now, it's not important anyway." The doctor crossed this part off the to-do list.

However, just as Ling said, it was quite a lot of fun when this thing exploded—God split into several individuals, and his powers were also divided. The entire Sailboat Engineering Department was thus split up, with each taking a little bit of authority.

If it can be repaired, those troublemakers on Terra will only be able to cause trouble for minutes. After all, the Great Yan Dynasty only succeeded in the God-Slaying War by creating internal divisions among the gods, or more accurately, by wearing down the gods until they self-destructed. It's hard to say whether the Great Yan Dynasty has that ability now.

Back then, no one maintained the Ark, but now an engineering team can repair it at any time. Trying to wait it out until it self-destructs, like back then, is just wishful thinking.

"So, should the morphological field emitter still be repaired?"

“Repair, this will help us construct a larger platform and clear the shipping lanes in space. After all, the one thing we have in abundance here is Originium.” The doctor looked at the ocean of meteorites outside the panoramic sky. If they cannot be used together, directly building facilities around the Ark like creations will not only affect the suppression of the ground, but also delay the progress of the Ark project by a lot.

However, using only a portion can still have excellent effects, such as detonating these Originium meteorites. Of course, this process requires precise calculations, rather than triggering a chain reaction of explosions throughout the entire Originium belt—Terra might be destroyed before the solar storm—that would be like a river of fire falling from the sky, burning half of Terra to a crisp.

"Then there's the issue of medical maintenance equipment..." The assessments from the medical and engineering departments were not very good. "They suggested removing a portion of the surviving brains from the Sailboat and placing them into the maintenance equipment provided by Boss Xia, and then conducting a complete overhaul and replacement of the entire system."

This means that a considerable number of people, including them, have to temporarily go offline. This includes many important figures on Terra, such as Kosichä. If this is done suddenly without prior notice, it could easily lead to unnecessary suspicion and conflict.

"Well, let's execute a portion first. I'll trouble Miss Xi to inform the others. They won't refuse." Of course they won't refuse. On Terra, they could still bargain, but now the Doctor is basically holding a gun to their heads, so there's no room for negotiation.

"Kosiché's problem is a bit serious. He is the dream of a group of people, not just one person. If the Sailboat Research Department is separated... he will most likely disappear."

“That would be wonderful,” the doctor said noncommittally. “Although he is now on our side, it’s better to deal with such a strange thing as soon as possible. Besides, it’s only a high probability, not a certainty.”

"Okay, then I'll inform Dr. Kal'tsit and the others to begin the procedure."

"Then there's the issue of the Ark's hull. Significant structural embrittlement and weakening have been observed in many areas. We anticipate needing to launch a payload exceeding 300 million tons within a year to repair it. Although the technical difficulty is low, the actual workload is enormous."

"Include this plan in the Old Ones Space City restoration operation plan, and then announce it to Terra." The Covenant's drone manufacturing system won't be of much help here, not much in terms of repair and reconstruction, but it can be helpful in dismantling things.

This means that hundreds of thousands of workers need to be sent to the Ark construction site. The original Ark project had a total of about 228,000 construction workers. Even if the Covenant drones save some of the work, more than 100,000 skilled workers will still be needed.

“Start recruiting workers on a small scale in Terra. Doesn’t Colombia pride itself on its comprehensive vocational education system? Aren’t they starting to solidify their social classes, with these technical schools being squeezed out by law and economics colleges that train politicians and thus gain more resources? So let’s find them something to do. It’s a shame to let them continue like this.”

What the PhD student regrets is not the future of Colombia, but the fact that these students, who should have been contributing to civilization, and these aging experts are being wasted on becoming mere politicians who simply maintain the daily cycle of civilization.

“But managing so many people would be a very difficult task.” The early inhabitants of Terra were quite different from those of today. It’s not that they were particularly noble or upright, but rather that they knew the sun would soon burn them to ashes, and the construction team building the ark was, in any case, safer than the precarious land.

Moreover, at that time, the ground was in chaos, and order was completely out of control. Only a few cities and regions were still under the control of the United Government, while the rest of the land had been completely out of control due to the frenzy of the apocalypse.

Compared to the living hell on Earth, the Ark construction site in space can be considered a paradise, so no one causes trouble, because everyone knows that there are at least three-digit numbers of people waiting in Space Bay to take over their jobs.

However, Terra is different now. It's too... peaceful and prosperous, and the people there have the mind to pursue interests beyond life itself. This means that managing these Terran workers will be extremely difficult.

There was a positive side to it too. Although almost no one in the early inhabitants wanted to cause trouble, those who did were unwilling to be chosen to stay on the ground and wait to die. They longed for something as significant as mutual destruction.

Even if the people who have just come up here wanted to cause trouble, they wouldn't have such a drastic desire, especially since the project they've announced to the public is a blue ocean market project like Space City.

In order to squeeze out competitors, seize greater profits, and gain more say and dominance in the space city project, they may frequently engage in minor sabotage. However, it is almost impossible for anyone to want to blow this thing up and destroy everyone's livelihood.

Chapter 85 OvO~~~~~~

Chapter 85

At Sky Station, the spacecraft entered the completed spaceport. Compared to the first time, this docking was much more comfortable. Workers recruited from Columbia and other places filed out and, under the management of their squad leaders, formed two long lines to head towards the waiting and rest area.

They need to stay in space for about a day, waiting for the spacecraft to be refueled and loaded with supplies, before boarding again to head to the Ark construction site.

The first batch of workers all had considerable education and work experience. However, due to the current unfavorable employment environment in Colombia, coupled with various loan and mineral sickness insurance costs, they found it difficult to resist the temptation of Kazdel's high-salary recruitment and free mineral sickness insurance.

"Gather together, gather everyone! Hold onto your personal belongings and don't wander off. We'll be here for about another day." The team leader waved a small flag and gathered everyone in the common area.

A large temporary rest pod has been installed, which is basically a standard capsule pod. It is also a preparation for the future capsule pod living area of ​​the Ark. This way, the main part can be expanded into a new living area, and more Terrans can be brought in.

"Go to your seats and rest according to the cabin number you received. Food and water are charged here, but there is a free heating service. You can take your dry food to the heating area to heat it up."

In reality, the heating area was already overcrowded, and most people couldn't even get in line, so they had to make do with the bottled water and dry food they brought in their luggage.

Of course, there were also some who considered themselves to be well-off and didn't bring food and water as instructed before departure. When they went to the shops on the main road and saw the prices of the food, they were shocked. A simple tomato salad made with space-grown lantern tomatoes (about the size of a lantern) cost three figures: 750 Lungmen Dollars.

Most blue-collar workers lose a quarter of their monthly salary. That's why, apart from company visits, even the middle class rarely buys tickets to travel on such trips. Even the petit bourgeoisie have to be very frugal to afford it.

However, as Kazdel began building the Swordfish-class small shuttles instead of transport ships like the Specter, ticket prices dropped significantly. But because the Swordfish-class could only carry a maximum of 160 passengers and 2 tons of supplies, the price drop in space was not as large as the ticket price drop.

This means that young people who are fooled by consumerism have the ability to invest in it, save money, and even take out loans to come up with it, only to find that they can't afford most of the paid activities, and they even have to bring their own compressed biscuits and bottled water to eat as little as possible.

Of course, these people wouldn't just complain honestly. After all, being able to scrape together the ticket price itself does indicate that their income is not low. Moreover, there are indeed many luxurious facilities catering to the upper class here, and because of the astonishing cost of manpower, there are no doormen blocking the way.

They can go and take photos, but of course, they definitely can't afford to spend the money. This vanity, as if they have already entered the upper class, will make them take these photos and show them off everywhere after returning to Earth, sparking more people's interest in space travel.

Of course, the groups that invested in various modules and projects on the orbital space station in advance also made a fortune. As long as they packaged it and transported it on a large scale, the shipping cost was only about twice as high as the product itself, and they could sell it for 15 times the price, with profits of over 500%.

For a company as wealthy and powerful as Black Steel, investing in simple production facilities in space would yield even higher profit margins. The Doctor deliberately uses relatively low launch costs, and even offers discounts if you launch engineering modules into space, in order to encourage various countries in Terra to build factories in space and develop industrial production.

This way, many materials and components for the Ark's repair project don't need to be launched from the ground, which not only reduces costs but also halves transportation time, making it the best option for the current situation where every second counts.

The capsule cabin is currently the cheapest accommodation at the Sky Station, an orbital space station. It contains only a bed and a foldable table inside the bed, and nothing else. The price is only 1500 to 4500 Lungmen Dollars per day.

For ordinary wage earners, it's a painful expense, but barely affordable—it just takes 2-3 years of saving for the whole trip. However, if you really want to talk about it, it's still within their budget for a honeymoon.

Soon after, the merchants of Lungmen launched the "Starry Night Wedding" service, which was divided into three tiers. The lowest tier only included a double room that was slightly better than a capsule cabin, a boat ticket, and the cost of taking photos.

The most luxurious version includes renting a small spaceship in Ursus for a tour, taking photos outside the spacecraft while wearing an extravehicular activity suit, and for an extra fee, you can request a ceremony on a certain Originium asteroid with the starry sky as the backdrop.

After the toy merchants in Kazdel had made their money off the children, they now had their sights set on women's money, especially the money of young, beautiful, unmarried girls and their future husbands, which was also a highly lucrative business.

Besides these two types of money, the merchants of Da Yan also set their sights on another type of money: the money of the dead. Space funeral services—compared to easily stolen tombs on the ground, what could be more appealing to the powerful and wealthy of Da Yan who were nearing the end of their lives than a tomb in the starry sky that would last forever?

Even the Emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty couldn't resist the temptation and ordered a special mausoleum from Kazdel, attempting to launch it into space. Of course, Kazdel agreed, but as for when the launch would take place, that would depend on when the Great Yan Dynasty completed the design and construction of the mausoleum.

Generally speaking, this process takes about ten years, and the launch cannot be a single launch. A mausoleum of imperial specifications naturally needs to be carefully crafted. By the way, this can also be used as a legitimate reason to bring out the craftsmen and technicians of the Great Yan Dynasty.

Moreover, they could collect a large sum of money in advance, which could then be used to recruit more technical and research personnel for the Great Yan Dynasty under the pretext of the Imperial Mausoleum Project. In this matter, the officials of the Great Yan Dynasty were unusually unobstructed – after all, everyone dies eventually, and who knows, their own old man might need this service tomorrow. Setting up barriers now would be asking themselves for trouble.

Not to mention that if something goes wrong with the imperial mausoleum project, the emperor can be quick and efficient in executing people. No minister dares to object because the reason is the same: the officials who have served in the central government of the Great Yan Dynasty are all getting old. If you express your opposition today, your political enemies may throw the blame on you tomorrow, and you won't even be able to die peacefully.

The Doctor certainly wouldn't let go of such a good thing as squeezing the life savings out of the people of Da Yan, while also promoting the development of the country's industry and absorbing more of Da Yan's human and material resources—what a damn good thing!

After a day of rest, the workers gave a brief tour of Sky Station, then boarded the newly maintained Ghost Shark again, passing by a Swordfish-class ship transporting the remains of the Great Yan nobility. The latter would deliver the remains and burial goods to a tomb within a moderately sized Originium asteroid.

To be honest, the excavation of these tombs is quite simple. They are usually a byproduct of space mining. You just dig out the core formed by Originium and rare metals, and the remaining cavity is decorated with Lao Xia's drone to make a fancy tomb. Then you just auction it off on the ground.

This complete money-making process from birth to death is naturally not something that a country like Colombia, with its strong commercial atmosphere, would give up. Even though Colombian tycoons and the government are not optimistic about the Ark Project at all, they are very optimistic about the integrated development of the space city and space life.

Now the pressure has shifted to Rembiton. With Da Yan and Columbia turning against them, they are in a difficult position. Their share of the mining industry is being squeezed by the rising space mining business. Ursus, with astonishing boldness, acquired all the obsolete Skadi-class spacecraft and their supporting launch vehicles. By piecing together the space in a piecemeal fashion, they have managed to create a mining center in space.

Because the Ark Project required a large amount of rare metals and Originium crystals, it recouped its costs in just six months. Afterward, it leased one Specter and two Swordfish for an extended period to expand the scale of the space mining site. The finished ore was sent to the ground via a return rocket.

Although a significant portion of the profits went to Kazdel due to the need for outsourced maintenance and return rocket purchases, leaving Kazdel with only a meager living, the Ursus barbarians' brutal style and disregard for human safety meant that this hard-earned money was still quite substantial.

This became the most successful national investment by the Ursus Empire after the Great War, but the side effect was that the infected mines in the snowfields and deserts began to shrink and close further.

In particular, the significant drop in the price of treatment and control drugs for infected individuals, along with the greatly reduced chances of infection due to the necessary protective equipment for space mining, has led to a continuous decline in the survival rate of infected individuals in Ursus.