From ship girl to machine god

Therefore, she had no choice but to express her willingness to send a team of security forces with military technology to escort Jade Bird and his party back to Night City.

However, Qingniao rejected this: "That's no need. We are still mercenaries after all, and we still have some self-protection capabilities. And on the way, I will go to the nearby homeless people to talk about something. Your military technology It’s not appropriate for people to follow you.”

Seeing Jade Bird's insistence, Mia had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​sending an escort and agreed to Jade Bird's group leaving.

Chapter 73 Prepare to upgrade

The injuries of everyone in the Cyberpunk team were not serious. Basically, they only needed to suture the wounds and put on some bandages.

Rebecca, the only one who needed further treatment, received the best treatment after Mia arrived at the hospital and promised to cover all medical expenses.

Judging from the technology of the cyberpunk world, as long as you don't burp on the spot, some injuries that were considered hopeless in the world before Blue Bird traveled can be effectively treated.

In fact, as long as they can insist on being sent to the hospital, most of the injuries are just a matter of organ replacement.

Of course, the premise is that you must be rich enough to afford medical expenses that are astronomical for ordinary people.

But for the people in the Cyberpunk team, this is not a problem at all. Since there is military technology to pay for it, it is natural to use whatever is best.

Fortunately, Rebecca's injuries were not too serious. In addition to repairing her eardrums, her injuries only required good repair and did not require additional surgical treatment.

It's just that out of the desire to flatter Mia, the doctors at this hospital performed a full-body repair on Rebecca. They performed an unnecessary but feasible repair treatment on Rebecca's vibrated internal organs, which made her originally need to stay in bed. Injuries that require at least a week of rest will heal within three days.

Of course, such surgery is not cheap. In addition to the depreciation and loss of high-end medical equipment, the restorative treatment methods required include the use of related drugs and the doctor's operating table fee...

When the final bill was added up, this operation alone cost five figures.

"Boss, did my surgery cost so much? If I had known better, I wouldn't have had the surgery!" Rebecca held the surgery bill with a look of distress and reluctance.

The five-digit surgery fee, even after meeting the blue bird, her entire net worth was only this much.

In the past, Rebecca had to beat Pila to get so much money, and this was just the cost of an unnecessary surgery. How could this not make her feel distressed?

"Don't worry, the surgery fee is paid by military technology, and their money will not be wasted." Qingniao didn't care, waved his hand, looked at Mann, and said to him: "This thing is an accident, you just There is no need to continue to investigate. The fact that the other party can use armed helicopters shows that they are not someone you can provoke.

So this matter ends here. Mann, you take them back to Night City directly. I still have some things to do and need to visit the wanderers in Adkados, so I won’t go with you. "

Although he said so, in fact the blue bird was not looking for the wanderers in Adkardos, but was planning to find an uninhabited and secluded place in the bad land to complete the upgrade of his ship's hull.

This is a process that will render Blue Bird incapacitated and incapable of self-defense for a period of time, just like when she was originally transformed into a ship girl in the garbage dump. This requires a safe environment where no one will disturb her.

There is no doubt that it is much safer in the bad land outside the city than in the city.

"Boss, you won't go back with us?" Mann showed a surprised expression, not quite understanding why Blue Bird would act alone under such circumstances.

Although the Blue Bird often acted alone, Mann thought it was a bit too arrogant and confident for the Blue Bird to choose to do so after they were attacked.

Rebecca on the side said directly: "Boss, it's too dangerous for you to do this. What if those people come to attack you again? It's better for me to accompany you!"

"No, I can handle these things alone. And Rebecca, you were the most seriously injured before. Even though you are cured, you still need to have a good rest. You don't need to accompany me this time." Jade Bird directly rejected Rebecca. , then looked at Mann, and warned him carefully: "I have a small target, and they can't search all over the place. I just need to hide in the bad land, and it will be almost impossible to find me.

On the contrary, you are more likely to be attacked, so you should be more careful along the way. I don't want any of you to be injured when I return to Night City. "

Seeing Jade Bird's resolute attitude, Mann had nothing to say and could only nod his head: "Boss, please be careful along the way. Do you need us to leave a car for you?"

"You don't have to worry about this. If I need a car, just ask Military Technology." Qingniao waved his hand, then glanced at Rebecca again, and told her: "I know Rebecca, you care. Me, but for now you should go back and have a good rest, and then talk about staying with me when you are healed."

After saying that, Jade Bird said goodbye to Mann and others. After watching them drive away, he directly summoned his ship suit, activated the stealth module and plunged into the bad land of the wilderness.

Because the bluebird's consciousness and thinking will fall into a deep sleep during the upgrade process, she has no ability to resist during this process, so she must find an absolutely safe and undisturbed place to complete the entire upgrade process.

According to Jade Bird's idea, a tunnel like the one hidden in the mountains in the game is very suitable. As long as both ends are blown down and the entire tunnel is sealed, no one can disturb his upgrade.

However, considering that the place was used as a stronghold by gangs such as the Luan Dao Kai, it would be troublesome to clean it up if it was chosen. Blue Bird still planned to find a place nearby, and then return to Night City after upgrading.

There are too many places that can be used in the bad land of the wasteland.

The deployed Blue Bird maintains flight at high altitudes at subsonic speed, while its two eyes are constantly searching for targets on the ground through the tactical eyepieces on the ship's helmet.

Soon the Blue Bird discovered what looked like an abandoned farm, so she lowered her flight altitude and soon landed on the abandoned farm.

"It seems okay? It must have been abandoned for a long time." Qingniao searched around. There were no roads or other important facilities around here. She didn't even find any traces of other human beings within a radius of five kilometers. The blue bird was very satisfied.

This is a very normal thing in the United States. Because of the vast land and sparsely populated areas, most American farms are like this. There is no human habitation for several kilometers or even dozens of kilometers around. If you want to buy some daily necessities, you need to drive for half an hour or even one or two hours. When you go to the surrounding towns, you can’t go shopping.

Therefore, such a farm, after being abandoned by the war, is very suitable for Blue Bird's requirements. Almost no one will disturb her when she is upgraded here.

However, to be on the safe side, Jade Bird chose the basement of the farm as the location for his upgrade, and directly destroyed the buildings above the basement, sealing the entrance to the basement with the debris.

Anyway, for her, this level of obstacle is just a matter of one shot, and she doesn't have to worry about whether she can get out.

Chapter 74 Upgrade completed

The entrance to the basement was blown down, and the entire basement was dark due to lack of electricity and lighting, but this had no impact on Blue Bird.

She took off her ship uniform, then put her hand on her chest. With a little force, she inserted her fingers into her chest without front armor, and then pulled out a regular hexahedron shining with blue light.

"It just so happens that this thing can be used for lighting." Qingniao played with his mental core for a while, then lifted it up with his hands and let the mental core float in the air.

For ship girls, the mental core is the source of their strength, and it is also the basis for their ability to drive the ship's equipment and control the body like an arm and a finger that originally required a large number of crew members to pilot it.

If the core of the mind is damaged or has problems, it means that a ship girl will suffer a huge impact, or even a life-threatening injury.

But under normal circumstances, no ship girl would worry about this, because the mental core is normally in the ship girl's body, and no one can take it out except the ship girl herself.

Even to the extreme, if someone could really kill the ship girls or cut open their chests, they would not be able to see the core of their mind.

Because the core of the mind does not simply exist in the body of the ship girl like an external foreign object like a pacemaker, but exists in a conceptual way.

Just like the concept of a pen, no matter what object it is and what it is originally used for, it can be given the concept of a pen, thereby possessing the power of the pen.

But this concept is invisible and intangible, and the core of the mind is similar to the concept of a pen.

When it is given to an individual, that individual has the ability of a ship girl and can be called a ship girl.

Usually, this individual endowed with a mental core is the ship of the ship girl, so the ship girl is also called the heroic spirit born from the warship.

As for the mental core, although it is an entity that can be touched and observed before being given to the ship girl, when it is integrated into the ship girl's body, it is transformed into a conceptual existence. Only the ship girl herself who possesses this mental core Only then can it be taken out of the body and transformed into an entity again.

Therefore, for ordinary ship girls, taking out the mental core is a very dangerous thing.

But for Qingniao, this is what she needs to upgrade.

Because the identity of a ship girl is given by the mental core, and all the information about a ship girl is stored in the mental core, so if you want to transform or upgrade the ship girl, you must operate through the mental core.

Seeing his mental core floating quietly in front of him, Qingniao took a deep breath and raised his hand to point at the mental core.

A blue light curtain unfolded, and a UI interface like a technology tree appeared in front of the blue bird, just like when she checked her upgrade route through the core of her mind.

It's just that usually only the blue bird can see this, but now it is fully unfolded and everyone can see it.

Qingniao browsed through the various options and upgrade routes that she was already familiar with. Although she still had some hesitation and hesitation, she still clicked on the option she had already chosen.

"The optional hull upgrade project has been selected: Egret-class tactical destroyer - drone-mounted version, with a tonnage of 2200 tons, required materials of 1700 tons, and existing materials of 1821 tons. Do you want to upgrade?"

A line of text appears with the blue bird's selection, and there are two selection buttons below: Confirm and No.

Qingniao didn't hesitate and pressed the confirmation button.

With the confirmation of the blue bird, blue light particles were once again spread from the core of the mind, just like the shipbuilding steel was transformed in the warehouse before.

But this time, instead of transforming matter, it "spit" out the previously transformed shipbuilding steel again, wrapping around the blue bird like a flowing ribbon of light, and then wrapped her with the spitted shipbuilding steel. stand up.

The blue bird also lost consciousness and fell into a deep sleep as it was gradually wrapped in shipbuilding steel.

When the light belt entangled the blue bird into a huge light cocoon, a large amount of shipbuilding steel was spit out by the mental core, and was continuously transformed into part of this light cocoon.

These shipbuilding steel did not accumulate, but after forming a structure composed of light particles, the volume stopped growing. All the excess shipbuilding steel was sent into the cocoon by those light particles, becoming the nutrients needed for the upgrade of the blue bird. .

Just like an egg is hatching, these shipbuilding steel are the nutrients the egg needs to hatch.

And when the mental core spit out all the [-] tons of shipbuilding steel, it merged into the cocoon of light again, passed through the shell formed of shipbuilding steel, and came to the front of the blue bird.

At this time, the blue bird's body has curled up, as if it had returned to its mother's body again, and the light emitted by the core of the mind illuminates the entire interior of the giant cocoon, and these lights are constantly penetrating into the blue bird's body, making her As her body gradually becomes transparent, her body is also being upgraded.

Outside the giant cocoon, with the integration of the core of the mind, those light particles were gradually absorbed by the giant cocoon, and the entire basement became dark again. Only a little light shone faintly from the giant cocoon, so that the basement would not It was pitch black.

And these glimmers of light are like breathing, flickering on and off, like pulses and heartbeats.

The blue bird's body, wrapped in a giant cocoon, has become completely transparent. A large amount of shipbuilding steel has been integrated into her body, and her body and body are being rebuilt.

This process is not long, but it does take a while.

Fortunately, during this process, the blue bird will remain in a sleeping state, and she does not need to endure this long period of upgrading.

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Three days passed in the blink of an eye, the body of the blue bird in the giant cocoon had solidified again, and her body had been completed.

Although there is not much change at first glance, if you measure it carefully, you will find that Qingniao has indeed grown a little taller and her figure has changed a little. She has taken the first step from a lolita to a girl and started to grow. .

The entire upgrade process is coming to an end, and the new hull has been basically completed.

When the last bit of the hull structure was completed, the mental core also converged all the light and reintegrated into the blue bird's chest.

However, when the mental core was reintegrated into Blue Bird's body, the basement chosen by Blue Bird as the upgrade location also lost its only light source and fell completely into darkness.

But at this moment, with the integration of the core of her mind, Qingniao's closed eyes finally slowly opened after moving a few times, and her consciousness immediately woke up.

The upgrade is complete.

Chapter 75 Blue Bird’s New Image

"Ship Type: Egret-class Tactical Destroyer-UAV Mounted Type"

"Displacement: 2200 tons"

"Main weapons: Lijian 140mm dual-mounted electromagnetic railgun X2, Long Arrow ship-borne vertical universal launch array X2, Feihong integrated drone pod X2"

"Sub-weapons: Lijian 20-75mm high-level dual-purpose electromagnetic rail gun X4, strong crossbow anti-aircraft missile launch array X2"

"Modules equipped: Paving Stone Electronic Warfare Suppression Module, Qingnang Field Medical Module, Tudagger Tactical Stealth Module, Tiangong Engineering Construction Module"

"Power system: Lei Zhen II ion reactor X4, Zhuri 3 series anti-gravity/vector propulsion engine"

"Upgradable: Juque ship-borne plasma projector, Liangyi electromagnetic shield module, Yanjia comprehensive UAV command and combat module, Chaiyue 1 series experimental curvature engine, Jingzhe I large ion reactor"

"Maximum carrying capacity: 500 tons"

"Others: Nightqueen multifunctional stealth reconnaissance drone X6, Peregrine light attack armed unmanned helicopter X6, Yunying heavy attack drone X12, Rainbow integrated surveillance and strike integrated drone X6"

"Remarks: The Nantianmen Project is a light destroyer specially developed for combat in the space environment. It is equipped with a highly integrated integrated drone pod and a universal missile launch array. It can provide effective firepower for the battlefield while conducting operations with a swarm of drones. .”