From ship girl to machine god

The residence that used to be bare-walled has now been renovated, and it is divided into an upper and lower loft layout exactly according to her wishes. Qingniao likes this house very much.

The originally huge and empty room was divided into two parts. On one side is the living area with an upper and lower structure, a sunken living room, an open kitchen and a bathroom space with a wide view, as well as a comfortable bed big enough to roll on. this area.

On the other side, the original space height was retained and transformed into a work area by Jade Bird.

At this time, a huge drone is parked in the work area, surrounded by a complete set of maintenance, repair and maintenance tools and equipment.

This is Jade Bird's Feiyuan UAV auxiliary module, but it is currently in the state of deploying the ship.

No.17 Miss Bluebird’s Big Toy

Climbing up from the soft and comfortable big bed, after briefly washing up, Qingniao came to the work area.

Looking at the huge drone placed here, the expression on his face gradually turned into a silly smile like a glue guy seeing a rare out-of-print Gundam.

I wonder, which white-haired lolita can refuse a super cool fuselage with a length of 5.5 meters and a wingspan of 2.4 meters. It can hang three different tactical pods for air combat, ground suppression and electronic warfare, and uses a ducted fan. What about the Peregrine light attack armed unmanned helicopter?

Although the blue bird does not have white hair, its silver-white wavy twin tails are almost the same as the white hair.

What's more, this is her ship uniform and part of her body. How can this not make Qingniao fascinated by this Peregrine Falcon light attack armed unmanned helicopter?

Although it doesn't seem to be as big as the lightest civilian helicopter, its firepower is no weaker than that of a serious armed helicopter.

Compared with the night sparrow that the blue bird has been using now, the peregrine falcon does not have the sensitive observation equipment on the night sparrow, and it cannot become invisible.

Everything about the Peregrine Falcon is designed with one purpose in mind, and that is to destroy the enemy.

Therefore, it places special emphasis on firepower and armament. The tactical pods mounted under the wings on both sides of the fuselage are precisely prepared for this purpose.

Blue Bird came to the ammunition rack on the side, where the Peregrine Falcon's anti-air and anti-ground tactical pods were placed from top to bottom, and the electronic warfare pod was already hung on the Peregrine Falcon.

Because of the two mounting points, the Peregrine Falcon has a total of six pods, two of each type, which undoubtedly greatly enhances its configuration flexibility.

Blue Bird was currently sitting on an ammunition box filled with missiles, thinking about how to adjust the configuration of the Peregrine Falcon's pod.

"Is it too exaggerated to use the electronic warfare pod in Night City?" Because he was the only one there, Jade Bird didn't use the data board to show off, but directly unfolded the control panel provided by his core. Seriously Studying.

Although the electronic warfare pod of the Peregrine Falcon is not as exaggerated as the Bluebird's own Stepping Stone electronic warfare module, it is basically equivalent to the electronic warfare pod of a mainstream armed helicopter in the world before she crossed over.

The electronic warfare pod with powerful electromagnetic interference and electronic warfare capabilities can fully ensure that the Peregrine Falcon competes for electromagnetic control power when acting alone or in conjunction with the Bluebird operation, thereby further gaining air superiority.

Of course, whether it is the Bluebird itself or the Peregrine drone, the electronic warfare capabilities are only to provide cover or support for landing or gang jumping. They are not the professional ships used for electronic warfare in the Nantianmen plan carried in the core of the Bluebird’s ship girl. Boat.

However, Jade Bird actually doesn't have much demand for electronic warfare. Just seeing that she can hang up the hackers in Night City with the Paving Stone electronic warfare module, you can roughly understand Jade Bird's current needs.

After all, it is just a fight against a dozen civilian armed forces. Compared with the combat environment planned in the Nantianmen Plan to fight against alien invasions or deep space attacks by hostile countries, everything in Night City can only be played like a child's play in Novice Village.

And even if it was just this kind of non-professional electronic warfare equipment, it would still be no problem to fly around and blind all the electronic equipment in the entire Night City.

Therefore, the Blue Bird is considering whether to dismantle an electronic warfare pod or not use it at all, and let the Night Bird assist the Peregrine Falcon in electronic warfare, so that the Peregrine Falcon can focus more on its powerful strike capabilities.

You must know that the two attack pods next to Blue Bird are designed for space battles.

Among them, a single anti-air combat pod is loaded with seven small air-to-air combat missiles and three air-to-air anti-ship missiles, while the ground suppression pod contains two sixteen-unit rocket launch nests and three air-to-ground missiles. missile.

What needs special emphasis is that because they are weapons and ammunition used for combat in the space environment, whether it is an anti-ship missile or an air-to-surface missile, the warhead uses fission charges to enhance its power.

Although it is only a small smashing cannon with an equivalent of [-] tons and [-] tons, and can also be equipped with a conventional warhead, if it is to be used in Night City, its power...

Anyway, Jade Bird has never worried about being unable to handle those companies.

So at this moment, she was humming happily, sliding her small hands on the control panel projected from the core, trying to change different tactical pods and the ammunition configuration inside.

Just like an ordinary little girl thinking about what dress to wear today, she is full of joy and joy.

By the way, the missile carried on the Peregrine Falcon has only one fixed model, but it can be replaced with a variety of different warheads to achieve different function switching.

This is mainly due to the difficulty of supply and replacement in space. Carrying only the warhead can save more space.

As for the choice between conventional charges and fission charges, after thinking about it for a while, Jade Bird dismantled the fission charge warheads of all missiles and kept only the last one in each pod in case of emergencies. required, and the others were replaced with conventional charges.

In the end, Jade Bird chose to replace one of the pods on its two Peregrine Falcons with an anti-air configuration, and the other with an anti-ground configuration.

As for the electronic warfare part, she and Nightwing are responsible for it.

After completing this part of the assembly, while Qingniao confirmed on the control panel, the maintenance equipment around her also started to operate. The pod of the Peregrine Falcon was replaced, and the missiles inside were taken out for combat. Partial replacement.

Qingniao looked at all this with satisfaction, as happy as a plastic man who finally put together his beloved model and made a beautiful landscaping for it.

"I wonder if you can buy glue in Night City in 2075? There won't be glue in this magical world, right?" Thinking of glue, Qingniao naturally played with his silver-white hair and couldn't restrain his lust for glue. Soul.

Although the people of Night City are living a very bad life, in a sense, they can still have everything if they have money.

But now Miss Jade Bird doesn't seem to be short of money.

"Let's go back to the city center and have a look. If it doesn't work, just wait until I finish upgrading the industrial module and make a bigger one myself." Qade Bird tapped his palms and made a decision.

While thinking this, Qade Bird also switched to the scientific research line of his own ship on the control panel.

"The field medical module will be able to meet the upgrade requirements after the medical cabin arrives. The remaining two... Why don't you ask Rogge?" Jade Bird was thinking about it, and there was quite a way of swiping a certain treasure before the salary was paid. To the feeling of flying.

However, while considering his own upgrade route, Qingniao also thought of old Morgan and planned to visit this old man who kindly helped him.

Chapter 18 Old Morgan’s Farm

It was still the Colorado Farm in Santo Domingo on the outskirts of Night City, and Blue Bird was riding through this area in a car.

After more than half a month, Bluebird's mood was slightly different when he came to this area again.

Last time she was a helpless new girl who didn't even have money to eat. She had to rely on the help of kind-hearted people she met on the road to make a living.

However, now, she is a budding mercenary in Night City. She has already done a lot of work, and her pockets are filled with money that ordinary people cannot make in a lifetime.

This can't help but make Qingniao sigh, it is indeed the "Dream City of Night". Even though it is known that the number of people and cars dying in Night City every day and the population has been growing at a negative rate, countless people still come to this city from various places in New America every day. Cities, to chase their so-called dreams.

Maybe the next second they will die in the gutter and be thrown into the sewer, or maybe they will be able to stand out and become big shots in the city the next second, but none of this seems to have any impact on Night City.

Just like what my friend said, Night City is still the same Night City.

The city of dreams is also the city of broken dreams.

Looking out the car window at the single-family townhouses filled with a strong American rural flavor and the surrounding farms and lawns, Qingniao felt like he was dreaming back to a twentieth-century western movie.

A considerable part of Santo Domingo has this style, just like a self-sufficient pure American country town independent of Night City.

They have their own schools, hospitals, supermarkets, and even a series of living facilities such as subway stations, and live an idyllic life as if they are living in a dream.

Of course, all this is actually false.

Most of the people who can live here are senior workers from surrounding companies and factories. They have a fairly good income, which can support them to settle here.

Similarly, they are not that rich. At least as low-level workers, they cannot afford a decent apartment in the city center like real corporate dogs.

Maybe some people really like this kind of pastoral life. Santo Domingo is not that kind of pastoral paradise.

This is a place beyond the reach of the NCPD. All law and order needs to be maintained by the Sixth Street Gang. These war veterans of the new America are full of nostalgia for the old times, or they think they are righteous, and want to rebuild that past. of America.

But how many people take this seriously, and how many people just pretend to take it seriously for other interests, is a matter of opinion.

At least, for Jade Bird, looking out the car window at the Six Street Gang wearing various costumes decorated with the new American Stars and Stripes in blue, white and red, Jade Bird just shook his head slightly.

Compared to these irrelevant guys, Old Morgan, who lives in seclusion on this farm, deserves more attention from Blue Bird.

The car drove near Old Morgan's farm, and Qingniao asked the driver to stop the car and planned to walk in.

"I'll get off the car right here. You can go back. I'll go back to the city by myself later." Jade Bird glanced at Old Morgan who was working in the farmland and said to the driver.

The driver nodded. As a member of the Cyberpunk team, he knew exactly how powerful his boss was, so he would not worry about her safety.

So he said to Qingniao: "Then I'll go back to the boss first. If you need to use the car, please call me anytime. I'll be here when you call."

Qingniao nodded, and the driver immediately drove away.

After watching the driver drive away, Qingniao walked into Old Morgan's farm and stood at the edge of the field, watching him working in the field.

The land that Old Morgan was tending in front of him was not that big, and it was not as vast as the American farmers who had the impression before Bluebird crossed over that they had to drive large agricultural machinery to cultivate it.

And this is very normal. After all, after four corporate wars, not only the entire United States was shattered into pieces, but the radioactive weapons used in the war and the pollution caused by post-war industrial production have seriously damaged the entire North America. regional ecological environment.

In addition, Santo Domingo itself is an area full of factories, so it is very rare to have such a piece of land for farming.

Even being able to farm is already a very luxurious act.

Not to mention how much effort it takes to purify contaminated soil and return it to a cultivable state, the seeds of the crops alone are a huge expense.

In an environment where air, soil and rainwater are all polluted, in addition to building greenhouses for growing crops, we can only rely on various genetically modified seeds to maintain agricultural production.

That's why the seeds worth hundreds of thousands of euros in the previous batch of biotechnology shipped by Qingniao Jie were valuable for this reason.

You must know that the agricultural planting model in the United States is not the small-scale farming model of the Eastern countries in the blue bird’s impression, where farming is written into the genetic endowment. Instead, it is mechanized farming, using high-yielding seeds and large amounts of chemical fertilizers and pesticides to maintain output.

As for biotechnology, it was in the 21s that the company controlled the lifeblood of agricultural production in the entire new United States and even the entire world - high-yield seeds.

It is conceivable that in this era, every aspect of a person's life is closely related to the company.

Therefore, on the black market, the seeds of anti-transpiration crops like those that Blue Bird grabbed are very valuable.

However, Jade Bird could tell that Old Morgan did not use those expensive high-yield drought-resistant crops, but just some ordinary-looking crops, and they did not look very good.

Just as Jade Bird was watching old Morgan working, he also saw Jade Bird.

However, he still waited until he finished the work at hand, and then walked towards Qingniao. After taking a look at the gun hanging on her waist, he said slightly dissatisfied: "You shouldn't choose this way of life."

"I do want to stay in this pastoral pastoral, aren't you not going to let me stay?" Blue Bird looked at Old Morgan, and did not maintain the shamelessness in front of the cyberpunk team. Instead, he smiled flatteringly and asked: "Do you know what happened to me in Night City?"

Old Morgan shook his head helplessly, gave Jade Bird a blank expression, and then explained: "Rogge won't hide this kind of thing from me."

After saying that, he felt that there was nothing he could do against the blue bird, so he turned around and walked towards his house.

Naturally, the blue bird followed quickly.

The two walked into the house, and Qingniao sat on the sofa naturally. After cleaning up the soil that he had just stuck in the field, Old Morgan came to Qingniao with two bottles of beer and put one bottle on it. In front of her.

"So who are you?" Old Morgan took a sip of beer and asked Qingniao seriously: "Or what did I pick up?"

Chapter 19 I don’t know

As for the origin of the blue bird, Old Morgan naturally did some research.

At first, he was just worried that the blue bird had something to do with the company. It might be an experimental product that escaped from a company's laboratory.

The purpose of the investigation was to prevent Jade Bird from being visited by the company and causing any accidents.