From ship girl to machine god

But the existence of Blue Bird and her possession of jump engine technology were known by the people from the spaceship faction, and they then requested to send out an investigation team.

The spaceship faction originally wanted Jade Bird's jump engine technology, but after facing the design drawings given by Jade Bird and being confused and unable to understand them, they had no choice but to settle for the next best thing.

The jump engine technology is still too advanced for today's humans. After all, even the one installed by Bluebird itself is only a 'trial version', which shows that this technology is high-end.

So even though they got the design drawings, they found that it would take at least several decades to develop a pig. The spaceship faction could only temporarily give up the idea of ​​building a spaceship with a jump engine and accepted that currently only the Blue Bird can perform hyperspace. The fact of transition.

For Qingniao, this request did not make her feel excessive or embarrassed. After all, she was a space battleship, and it was her hope and pleasure to be able to truly sail in the universe.

Chapter 10 People and AI

The training of the investigation team began in full swing after everyone arrived.

It's just different from the training Liu Peiqiang or Zhang Peng expected. The first thing they came into contact with was not the relevant training on how to conduct investigations in outer space, but the familiarity with various new equipment.

From full-coverage exoskeleton armor to aerospace fighters, almost all the equipment of the investigation team is new, whether it is guns, ammunition or vehicles. Even the clothes, shoes and socks have been replaced with new ones.

Regarding exoskeleton armor, Liu Peiqiang feels that it is easy to understand. After all, he is going to outer space to perform a mission. Under normal circumstances, he has to wear a space suit. However, it is obvious that the investigation team replaced the space suit with exoskeleton armor. This can be very good. Good to improve the survival probability of members of the investigation team.

After all, in the dangerous and unknown space environment, a set of armed and protected exoskeleton armor gives people a much greater sense of security than a set of space suits.

Especially after personally experiencing the performance of this exoskeleton armor, Liu Peiqiang believed this even more. After all, the space suit does not have a power-assist function, but the exoskeleton armor can amplify the wearer's power by at least three times.

But the training of air and space fighters inevitably left Liu Peiqiang a little confused.

Because during the training process, all pilots were required to record their digital personalities, and in subsequent training they would fight against enemies composed of digital personalities, and the digital personalities would be updated in real time during each training session.

This is not like training pilots, but more like training these digital personalities.

However, although they felt strange, after receiving "This is a backup to prevent accidents", most people accepted this explanation and devoted their energy to training.

After all, they only have seven months to train, and every minute and every second is precious.

In seven months, they have to become familiar with a lot of new equipment and a completely unfamiliar fighter jet, and they also have to explore new air combat modes and tactics in an environment that is completely different from modern air combat. This is a challenge for all the training personnel of the survey team. It is a huge test for everyone.

Almost everyone is drained of the last bit of energy every day. After training every day, they fall asleep. No one has the energy to think about anything.

As for the worry that this is a conspiracy of the Digital Life Sect, in Jade Bird, he publicly explained to everyone that the digital personality is just a copy and does not represent the continuation of life and consciousness. He also displayed the uploader himself and his digital personality in front of everyone. After interacting and directly modifying the document to rewrite the digital personality, everyone in the investigation team no longer regarded the digital personality as consciousness uploading.

After all, this thing looks like a written electronic program, but it has entered human thinking and memory to make it look like a human.

The idea of ​​abandoning the body and living forever in the digital world advocated by the Digital Life School is just uploading memories to make an electronic program live forever, rather than making people’s true consciousness last forever.

They can't even do this, because when the helium flash crisis comes, if the earth still stays in the solar system, it will be swallowed up by the expanding sun. If there is no carrier, how can they survive in the void? Eternal life?

It is precisely because of this that the coalition government realized the unreliability of the Digital Life Plan, and classified the Digital Life sect as terrorists around the world, and carried out a comprehensive ban and crackdown.

As for the real consciousness uploading technology in Jade Bird's hands, she is not stupid enough to take it out and let people know that digital immortality is really possible.

Therefore, the people in the investigation team only regarded digital personalities as a kind of program, and did not regard them as real people.

However, for Liu Peiqiang and others who deal with these digital personalities every day, they feel that these digital personalities are a bit perverted.

It's not about anything else, but in daily confrontations, real pilots like them have been beaten by digital personalities. Even if one of them performed at a super level that day and came up with powerful tactics to win a round, after training, an update will be released the next day. Still being pressed to the ground and rubbed by the digital personality.

It was okay at first, because they themselves were not familiar with the performance of air and space fighters, and they were also unfamiliar with the digital personalities that were entered. Both sides were novices pecking each other, but they could win or lose each other.

But as everyone began to master the performance of air and space fighters, and gradually figured out a set of fighting methods, the digital personality began to overpower the real pilots, and the victory-loss ratio began to become ugly. In the end, they were simply overpowered and beaten. , shaved his head.

This kind of training continued, and it almost tortured these proud ace pilots to the point where they lost their self-confidence.

"Miss Jade Bird, what are we doing with this kind of training every day? It feels like we are just giving these digital personalities a head start!" At the end of another day of training, Liu Peiqiang was once again beaten 10:0 by his digital personality. His self-confidence Somewhat broken, he rushed to the blue bird who was recording data and asked what the purpose of this was.

Regarding this question, Qingniao just looked at him with a faceless face and said very plainly: "In order to record and collect data, as well as train your combat skills, so that you can master the performance of the new fighter aircraft in the shortest time, form combat effectiveness.

Judging from the current situation, the training progress is very ideal. Compared with traditional training methods, your training progress has increased by 150%. "

"But I think if this continues, no one will be willing to continue training. Who will have the confidence to fly if they are beaten 10:0 every day!" Liu Peiqiang couldn't help complaining about this kind of thing where the record is brushed by the computer every day. No one can avoid feeling resentful.

However, Qingniao looked at him with a very surprised look, and asked in a puzzled tone: "Isn't it because your digital personality reached 10:0 because you didn't invest seriously? If you treat this as actual combat, If aliens invade the earth, the earth will be destroyed if you lose. Do you still think that being beaten 10:0 is a blow to your self-confidence?

And the opponents I set for you are all your own digital personalities. They use the same fighter jets as you, and have the same thinking mode and combat experience. It can be said that there is no difference in strength between the digital personality and you. Why? Will you be unable to defeat them? "

Jade Bird's question made Liu Peiqiang almost depressed, but he really couldn't refute Jade Bird's words, so he could only say angrily: "Then show me how to beat yourself! I can't win anyway."

Hearing what Liu Peiqiang said, Jade Bird followed suit and put on a virtual helmet and sat in the simulated cockpit.

Then the record was still 10:0, but it was just 10 for Bluebird and 0 for digital personality. Liu Peiqiang, who was full of resentment, was choked and speechless.

Chapter 11 Boarding the ship

Regardless of the emotions of the pilots who were stunned by the digital personality, the short training period of seven months ended quickly.

Although the training results are not perfect, all members of the investigation team have tried their best to master these new equipment to the greatest extent.

Therefore, although training for a while may be more effective, the investigation team is still preparing to set off as planned.

Because the Ark space station did not crash, the investigation team still took the space elevator to the space station, then boarded the spacecraft here and set off for Proxima Centauri.

Chapter 12 Set sail

"Chief Engineer Qing, I said I want to marry this ship, not you..." Andre's old face looked a little embarrassed, but he still hurriedly explained.

Qade Bird's current public identity is the chief engineer of the investigation team, responsible for the debugging and use of all new equipment of the investigation team, so Andre does not dare to offend her.

However, Zhang Peng on the side knew the identity of Qingniao, and his face changed with fear. He quickly pulled his old classmate and asked him to stop talking about it.

However, Qingniao didn't seem to care. After saying hello to them, he walked directly through the crowd and walked into the boarding gate.

Seeing Qingniao leaving, Zhang Peng wiped off a cold sweat and explained to Andre: "I said Nov, I've never seen you talk so much about cheating before! How dare you even say Chief Engineer Qing?" Flirting, are you an old man who has eaten arsenic?"

"Zhang, why do you even say that? I'm obviously talking about the ship, so why do you all think I'm teasing Chief Engineer Qing?" Andre looked puzzled and felt a little depressed at the same time.

After all, in military tradition, warships are usually referred to as "lady" or "she". If someone says they want to marry a ship, it is not very strange, or that the XP system is disordered.

But Zhang Peng knew that Andre was really teasing the Blue Bird, because he was one of the few people who knew that the Blue Bird was the ship.

Seeing his old classmate still looking puzzled, Zhang Peng could not reveal the secret to him, so he could only scratch his head sadly, and finally made up a lie and said to Andre: "Just think of yourself as the chief engineer of Qing Dynasty." Just take this boat! Anyway, don’t say such things in front of her in the future, she will punish you.”

"You Chinese are weird in this weird place." When Andre heard Zhang Peng say this, he felt depressed for a while, but he didn't get entangled. He just wrote it down and picked up his The baggage boarded the huge ship with the others.

After boarding the ship, they quickly found the cabin where they were based on the guidance of the small robots shuttled around the ship.

Because the ship is large enough, the living space for the crew on the ship is quite sufficient. The pilots can live in a room with four people, and even the lower-level crew members can have a decent cabin, instead of three or four beds stacked up like during World War II. , one bed has to sleep three people.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that this ship is the body of the Blue Bird, and it also has a very high degree of automation and requires a large number of crew members to operate it.

After all, the entire investigation team has less than a thousand people in total, and there are about seventy or eighty scientists in various categories. This number of people alone was not enough to operate a large warship during World War II.

But now, on the highly integrated bridge, only a dozen people can start this 700-meter-long super aircraft carrier without the help of Blue Bird.

Standing in the bridge, Qingniao watched these people successfully activate his own body, and nodded with satisfaction to the officer on the side: "It is 1 minute shorter than the standard time. Your performance is good, then the daily navigation work will be left to you. ”

"Chief Engineer Qing, please rest assured that there will be no problems with this ship in our hands!" This officer was the captain appointed by the coalition government, but he didn't know that the ship was the Blue Bird. He just knew that the Blue Bird was The chief engineer only had a close relationship with the ship, so he thought Qade Bird was worried about handing the ship over to him.

However, Qingniao suddenly frowned when she heard what he said. Although there was still no expression on her face, it was obvious that she was dissatisfied.

Just when the officer was thinking about what he said wrongly, Qingniao returned to his expressionless look and said to him: "The ship is lent to you for use, not handed over to you. You are just serving as an official in these three years." The command team of this ship. And I need to remind you..."

When Qingniao said this, he turned to look at the officer on the side, looked directly into his eyes until he looked away, and then said: "I have the highest authority on this ship. If I determine that there is something wrong with your command, Then I will directly take away all your permissions."

Saying that, Qingniao directly snapped his fingers, and all the operation consoles on the entire bridge were locked in an instant. The operators who were controlling the giant ship just now all looked at the locked ones in front of them in confusion. Screen, don't know what happened.

"Just like this." Facing the nervous expression on the officer's face, Qade Bird snapped his fingers again, and everything returned to normal.

"I understand, Chief Engineer Qing, please rest assured, I will lead all members of the investigation team to successfully complete this mission." The officer was so blessed that he quickly changed his position to the commander of the investigation team instead of the captain of the ship. .

Qingniao nodded with satisfaction, and then said to him: "Then the daily navigation work will be left to you. In addition, I would like to emphasize to everyone that on this ship, please pay attention to your personal words and deeds, especially do not smoke on the ship. If If I find out, I will eject him directly from the airlock."

After saying that, Qingniao left the bridge and walked towards the captain's room.

On this ship, everyone else was assigned to the crew cabin or officer cabin, while the captain's cabin was reserved for Jade Bird alone.

After all, this is her identity, and she cannot allow anyone to have a higher status and authority on this ship than her.

However, there is no need to worry about this kind of thing, because at the beginning when Qingniao accepted the request of the coalition government and agreed to lend the hull to carry out this investigation mission, she had already explained to the people of the coalition government that she would only be on this ship. She is the owner of the highest authority, and no one can have authority over her on her ship.

The coalition government has effectively guaranteed this. Even her public identity is the chief engineer of the investigation team, which enjoys extremely high authority.

And this was just because the coalition government felt that Jade Bird might not be very good at or interested in management matters, so it handed over the direct management authority of the investigation team to the officer just now.

Moreover, before the officer came to the investigation team, he had been warned in various ways that he must not offend Qingniao.

Just now, he just wanted to have a good relationship with Qade Bird, and he said some things based on the fact that he was the captain, but it did not mean that his status was higher than Qade Bird.

But it's obvious that Ao Niao is full of PTSD about finding a captain for himself. If it's a beautiful girl, maybe it can be discussed, but if it's a grown man, let's forget it.

In short, after a series of busy activities, everyone in the investigation team boarded the spacecraft, and the spacecraft also unmoored and set sail under the control of the command team, heading towards the distant deep space.

Chapter 13 Thousands of clues

Although based on Blue Bird's ability, she can immediately put her hull into a jump state, and then kick the accelerator to hyperspace and jump to the Proxima Galaxy. However, considering that the crew members on the ship are not familiar with the environment, they are not familiar with the operation of various equipment on the ship. They have only completed the theoretical knowledge training, so the investigation team will not jump immediately.

Instead, it will sail at a regular speed for a period of time to familiarize the crew with the operation of the equipment, and then make a hyperspace jump after reaching Jupiter's orbit.

Because of this, even though they have boarded the ship and entered sailing mode, the main tasks of the members of the investigation team every day are training and practical operations.

Of course, this is no problem for members of the investigation team who are soldiers. After all, the daily routine of being a soldier is training.

However, for pilots like Liu Peiqiang, one thing that makes them excited is that they can finally get on the plane and fly instead of being stuck in a simulator and having their heads brushed by digital personalities.

"This is the Yellow Crane air-to-space fighter assigned to you. The cockpit is in two-seater mode, but under normal circumstances, your back seat is a digital personality equipped with a quantum computer as your auxiliary pilot." Qingniao stood on a carrier-based aircraft in the hangar. Next to the plane, they introduced their new car to the gathered pilots.

When they heard that they were going to fly with the digital personality, some of these frustrated pilots who had long been ravaged by the digital personality quickly raised their hands and asked: "Then who is the master between us and the digital personality? Is it the digital personality?" Bar?"

"You are the main ones. As long as you don't make mistakes in your operations, the digital personality will not take over the aircraft, but will only exist as an auxiliary." Jade Bird answered this question and also made additional explanations: "There are three types of auxiliary functions for the digital personality. Modes are fully managed, dynamic assisted and passive assisted. Full managed is very simple, that is, you take your hands off the operating handle and let the digital personality take over the driving of the fighter plane.

Dynamic assistance allows the digital personality to assist you in driving and calibrate all your operations to the optimal combat performance curve.

This performance curve is generated by the digital personality based on each of you's personality and your usual operating habits when flying a fighter. The digital personality will fit your control habits as much as possible in the dynamic assistance mode, so you don't have to worry about it affecting your driving.

As for passive assistance, it is completely driven by the main pilot himself. The digital personality only provides assistance in areas such as flight control and weapon system operation. If you are very confident in your driving skills or do not trust the digital personality, you can choose this option. model. "

After listening to Jade Bird's explanation, everyone understood what this digital personality as an auxiliary driver was about.

To put it simply, use full hosting when you are lazy, use dynamic assistance when showing off your skills, and use passive assistance when you want to do manual exercises. It can be said that all situations have been taken into consideration.

Moreover, it is a digital personality trained using himself as a template, and all habits fit him perfectly. It can be said that there is no better co-pilot than this.

As a result, the pilots quickly accepted the existence of digital personality assistant pilots and began to queue up excitedly to get on the plane and fly.