From ship girl to machine god

Chapter 1 The Hidden Danger of Blackening

For Abernathy, the previous battle in which Blue Bird wiped out a team of Arasaka agents was already a top-level expert's action, but from Blue Bird's perspective, this was not even a warm-up.

The power that a normal unmodified human being can exert is about 0.6 horsepower. Humans who have undergone prosthetic transformation will be stronger. However, based on the popular prosthetic technology on the market, this output is difficult to exceed 100 horsepower. , and it has to be the top-notch prosthetic body.

The maximum output power of Blue Bird's four Thunderbolt II ion reactors can reach 220 megawatts, equivalent to 30 horsepower. In the previous battle, she did not even use more than one hundred thousandth of the power.

Although it is impossible for the surging kinetic energy of 30 horsepower to be concentrated in the blue bird's fist or fingertips, it is still a very terrifying concept.

Under normal circumstances, Jade Bird would not run all four of its reactors at full power. That would be too wasteful and unnecessary.

In fact, after being upgraded to a destroyer, apart from maxing out the output power when initially testing the limits of the new ship's equipment, Jade Bird has actually only maintained a low power of no more than 10% of the maximum output power of each of the four reactors. operation.

On the one hand, this is to save and reduce unnecessary waste.

Although Jade Bird's Thunderbolt II ion reactors are brand new and fully fueled when upgraded, and under normal use, they do not need to be filled with new fuel for decades, but waste is always bad.

As for why the other reactors are not simply shut down and only one is left running, it is because starting the reactor's heat engine is a very slow process. If it is started again when necessary, it will definitely be too late.

In addition, many equipment on the Jade Bird's main body still needs continuous energy supply to maintain operation, and there is still energy consumption, so there is no consideration to shut down the reactor.

Another reason for maintaining low-power operation is that Jade Bird is not used to it.

When she was a human, she didn't actually feel this way, but after becoming a ship girl, when the reactor was operating at full power, Qingniao would feel as if her whole body had endless strength, and her whole body would be constantly excited. Down, unless she reduces the output of the reactor, this state can be released.

Therefore, in order to avoid being as excited as a nerd when nothing happens, it is easy to understand that the reactor should be run at low power.

After all, although the ship girl has the appearance of a human being, she is still essentially a warship, and there is an unimaginable huge gap between her and a human being.

And this is also a kind of oppression for Qingniao. After all, as a ship girl who can produce 30 horsepower and can propel an aircraft carrier, letting Qingniao live with less than one ten thousandth of the power is indeed suppressing her body. It’s the nature of a ship girl.

But because she didn't want to expose her identity, Qingniao could only endure it secretly. After all, if she really let go of her fun, half of the world would have to see what she did.

Fortunately, this is just a restless and instinctive desire, and it will not have any impact on Qingniao under her control.

It's like someone sometimes has an itchy nose and wants to scratch it, but it's not something that can't be tolerated if you don't scratch it.

But even so, Qade Bird's heart is still longing for a hearty battle, so that she can let go of her hands and feet to her heart's content.

But a battle that can allow a ship girl with a full output of 30 horsepower to let go of her hands and feet and feel hearty, unless Arasaka uses their super aircraft carrier, or military technology brings in a large-scale armored force, or even the once-U.S. Proud naval aircraft carrier formation.

Otherwise, small-scale army units or so-called powerful personal combat capabilities will be just toys that can be smashed to pieces in front of the Blue Bird who really let go of his hands and feet.

After all, a truly powerful Blue Bird can literally make stars fall.

Apart from anything else, the Blue Bird can acquire one of the residential space stations in the Earth's low-Earth orbit at any time if it is willing.

A destroyer designed for space warfare, even if it is only a two-thousand-ton gadget, can still easily destroy a country on the surface of the planet that has no space combat capabilities, let alone condense this powerful power into a humanoid creature. .

In the world before Bluebird traveled, someone once discussed how powerful a World War II-era battleship would be when transformed into a ship girl.

The conclusion is that these warships will be fine even if they are hit by two nuclear bombs at close range. Without the human crewmen who pull their hips, and their half-meter-thick armor has been turned into skin, it will be difficult for them to deal with it unless they are hit directly by nuclear bombs. What effective damage does the ship girl cause?

As for the destructive power of the ship girl?With a punch of [-] horsepower, only the bald man in the cape on earth can say that he can take it head-on.

As for Jade Bird, which still has more than 3000 tons of shipbuilding steel compensated by military technology in the warehouse, she can increase her tonnage to another level at any time, and the destructive power will be even more exaggerated.

When such a terrifying existence no longer limits herself, every move she makes will cause unimaginable damage.

Fortunately, Qingniao just longed to fight. It was an impulse driven by the fighting instinct after being restrained. It was not that she really wanted to create a war.

Qade Bird can still control the desire brought about by this impulse, and she is also trying to find ways to relieve her impulse, lest she really can't help it.

It's just that Qingniao doesn't know what kind of impact such depression will have on herself.

She also didn't notice that these desires and impulses for war were gradually dyeing the pure blue core of her mind with an almost imperceptible crimson.

As the heroic spirit of the ship that embodies all the good things in the world, the ship girl itself embodies people’s best wishes for a ship.

Therefore, when people describe a ship girl, they will only use beautiful words such as beauty, wisdom, bravery, loyalty, and strength... and there will be no negative words such as bloodthirsty, ferocious, and cruel.

But is the shipgirl really pure white?Don't they have any negative emotions?

How is this possible?If the ship girls were really pure white, they would not be ship girls.

Because no matter how the ship girls are beautified, their essence is always a weapon of war. They are the most powerful killing weapons created by humans for the purpose of killing their own kind.

Ship girls are born out of the purest malice. No matter what kind of beauty they place on them, their essence as war machines will not change.

The ship girls themselves are also born for war. They are born to gallop on the battlefield and bring destruction to the enemy.

It's just that the beauty that humans place on them covers up this essence, making the ship girls look pure white.

And when the ship girls lose the beautiful appearance that humans place on them and truly reveal their true nature, pure white will also be dyed pure black.

This kind of ship girl is also called META.

121 Octopus bites the hook

Qingniao didn't know that his mental cube had a slight tendency to metamorphose due to his suppression of the desire to fight.

After all, she is just a half-way nun. It is difficult for even a serious ship girl to explain what is going on when it comes to metamorphosis. It is only natural that Ao Niao doesn’t know.

Although as a former player, Aotori knows more about the concept of META than the average ship girl.

But it’s one thing to understand this concept, and it’s another thing to actually verify it for yourself. It’s easier said than done.

Moreover, for a ship girl, META is not a bad thing, or in other words, META is the final complete form of a ship girl.

Because the so-called META means yuan, this is a change and an inevitable trend.

It is the process of change and the result of change.

Every ship girl is changing in the direction of becoming a META, but under normal circumstances a ship girl will not change significantly. Without extreme emotional stimulation, even if there is a tendency to become a META, it will only be very slight. The extent is not enough to produce any impact or qualitative change.

So even if Qingniao knew that the core of her mind was becoming a META, she wouldn't care too much, and even began to fantasize about whether her ship would become more handsome and powerful after becoming a META.

But this ultimately means that Blue Bird is changing in the direction of META, but this change has not had any impact for the time being.

As for what this change will eventually turn into, it’s hard to say. A ship girl who overdoes her META will lose her mind and turn into a monster.

But at the moment, Qingniao is not aware of the changes in the core of her mind, and she is focusing more on David.

The bait that was cast before finally attracted the fish that bit the hook.

"Boss, Katsuo's father came to me and said that he could help me restore my academic status and go back to Arasaka School. He could also give me a scholarship and waive my tuition fees. After graduation, I could also directly join the Arasaka Group to work, but the prerequisite I accepted a prosthetic body experiment." David reported his experience to Blue Bird, and added: "I followed your instructions, boss, and did not refuse directly. I only said that I would consider it."

This is exactly what Jade Bird told David before. After he revealed the fact that he was implanted with Sianwistan at school, as the father of the classmate who was beaten up by David and the director Arasaka who was in charge of the Prosthetic King Kong project, It was impossible to let go of David, the "test subject" who came to our door.

Just like in the original anime plot, after the executive named Tanaka learned about David, he wanted to use David to test the prosthetic King Kong, and even used his connections to retain David's academic status.

It can be seen from this that the other party attaches great importance to the prosthetic King Kong, and David is undoubtedly the most suitable "test subject".

According to Jade Bird's calculations, as long as Tanaka confirms that he wants to use David to test the prosthetic King Kong, Adam Hammer will arrive in Night City along with this prosthetic body.

At that time, as long as Adam Hammer appears, the blue bird will let him understand what true falling from the sky means.

Thinking of this, Qingniao patted David on the shoulder very happily and praised him: "Well done, you have to be prepared next. The people in Arasaka are not good men and women. They are so soft that they know how to do it." Come on, try your best to stay with Mann and the others during this period, do you understand?"

"I know the boss, but my mother's place..." David is not particularly worried about his own safety. Recently, he has become familiar with the use of Si'an Westan. This powerful military prosthetic body has given him great help. Self-confident, so he cares more about his mother's safety than himself.

After receiving treatment in the hospital, David's mother's condition has now stabilized. Although she is still unconscious, she is gradually recovering.

Because Jade Bird helped pay for the medical expenses, David did not take his mother home to take care of her, but continued to stay in the hospital.

So David was very worried about whether his mother would be in any danger.

"Don't worry, that hospital is under the name of Military Technology. If Arasaka doesn't want to start a full-scale war with Military Technology and start another corporate war, he won't touch that hospital easily." Of course, Qade Bird had expected this and did so. Some preparations: "But considering the possibility that Arasaka will send someone to secretly kidnap your mother, I will find someone to protect your mother, but you have to pay the commission yourself, and I will record it in the account."

"Thank you boss, I will return the money to you." David, who has been working as a mercenary for some time, understands that it will definitely cost money to find someone to protect his mother.

And this part of the money must be included in his debt to Jade Bird, so he did not show any objection to this.

Seeing that David had no objection, Qingniao immediately planned to ask Rogge to hire a team of mercenaries, but after thinking about it, she dialed Jack's number.

"Jack, how have you been lately?" Blue Bird greeted Jack, and then invited him: "I have a job, it's my personal matter, and it's related to Arasaka. Are you and V interested?"

Hearing Jade Bird's invitation, Jack suddenly showed great excitement: "That must be a must! V and I recently found some connections in the Valentino Gang and met the Godfather, who is Heywood's middleman. We were assigned a few jobs, and V and I were doing pretty well.”

"Really? That sounds pretty good. Come to me in the next life, and I'll tell you about the specific situation and the rewards." Listening to Jack's whistling voice, Blue Bird couldn't help but smile: " Friendship is friendship, business is business, let’s settle the score clearly.”

"Okay, then I'll contact V now." After saying that, Jack hung up the phone, looking furious.

David on the side was listening to the conversation between Blue Bird and Jack. He was suddenly worried about whether Jack could protect his mother.

Qingniao noticed the hesitation on his face, so he comforted him: "Don't worry, although Jack is careless, he is a very reliable man, and it is right to entrust him with anything in Night City.

And even if you don't trust him, you can also trust his partner, who is the famous V. "

"The famous V? How come I haven't heard of this name? Is he some kind of great person?" David was a little confused. The person who could be described as "famous" by Jade Bird should undoubtedly be a very famous person, but David had never heard of V's name.

Qingniao just smiled mysteriously: "You'll know when you see her."

Chapter 122 David and V·[-]

The meeting between David and V did not cause any surprises. The aura of the former elite agent of the Arasaka Counterintelligence Department was very able to control the situation.

Especially when faced with a student like David who had just left school, V's capable and superior aura directly convinced David that he could trust his mother's safety to V and Jack.

Regarding the commission given by Jade Bird, although V did not act as fussy as Jack, he was still grateful to Jade Bird.

V, who returned to the streets and worked as a mercenary, has been feeling deeply these days. He left the familiar environment and lost everything that came with being an employee of Arasaka. V, who started over, felt so familiar yet unfamiliar with everything.

We are familiar with her because she is also a street kid born and raised in Night City, but she was lucky enough to enter Arasaka through her own efforts and climbed to a high position.

Strange because she has been away from the streets for too long, and her long-term corporate life has made her unfamiliar with everything on the streets.

If she hadn't had Jack, a good brother, to protect her, I'm afraid that even if V was willing to shame herself and start over, she would have been hard-pressed to adapt to street life in a short period of time after she was used to the Arasaka Counterintelligence Department's style of conduct. .

And without the giant Arasaka as a backing, V, if she still acts in the same style as before, she will soon offend people for breaking the rules of the road. In the end, she will either stand up again after suffering a lot, or disappear into the streets and become a A member of Dead Man's Lotto.

It is precisely because he has experienced such ups and downs in life that V has become more aware of the warmth and warmth of human nature. A good buddy like Jack who is willing to help his brothers at any time is naturally hard to find even with a lantern.

And people like Qingniao who have their own goals but are willing to lend a helping hand to help themselves, V also understands how valuable this is.

In the City of Night, every kindness is rare. No one is willing to extend kindness to others easily. People mostly use and scheme against each other.

So even though V has seen that Jade Bird has other motives for helping her, V is still willing to accept the kindness from Jade Bird.

Because she could feel that although Qingniao had designs on her, it was not malicious, but an idea of ​​​​wanting to recruit or become his subordinate.

This surprised V somewhat. After all, she had also met everyone in the cyberpunk team under Jade Bird. Every one of them was an elite. Maybe some of them were not professionally qualified because they had been on the streets for a long time, but around Jade Bird Alpha and Lucy, V can smell the company smell on them just by smelling them.