From ship girl to machine god

"Huh? Over 70 degrees Celsius is still a pleasant climate?" Another crew member on the side seemed to be very young, and he couldn't help but feel surprised when he heard Jade Bird's words.

The old crew member next to him laughed and said: "What's so strange about this? Do you think all the habitable planets in the universe are as comfortable as the Earth? The surface temperature of Venus can reach 70 degrees Celsius. It is already over [-] degrees Celsius. Very comfortable.

When we were flying in the sky just now, the average temperature of the atmosphere measured was 300°C, which is considered cold on this planet. "

"This place is close to the planet's polar cap and night zone, and the climate conditions are already very good. If there are no accidents, we will choose this place as the location of the advance base." Jade Bird said to others, and also issued a new instruction: "But for now, everyone should work hard to set up the temporary camp first. We will stay on the ground today."

Having said this, Qingniao suddenly raised his head and glanced at the sky, and then said with a deadpan humor: "Of course I am talking about the time on the ship. Calculated based on the orbit and rotation speed of the planet, its day is 114.5 days long. On Earth Day, if you want to wait until dark before sleeping, it’s probably impossible.”

Blue Bird's words made everyone laugh, but after laughing, everyone devoted themselves to the construction of the temporary camp.

Even Jade Bird himself was helping to carry various materials and equipment needed to build the temporary camp.

With the ship girl's powerful strength that can directly lift the entire amphibious landing craft, the Blue Bird became the main force in building the temporary camp. After all, the others were just mortals and did not have such powerful power, and although their space suits had external Even a bone-assisted device cannot have as much strength as a blue bird.

With the help of Jade Bird, the construction of the temporary camp was much faster than expected. After all, if the crew members wearing heavy space suits were asked to drive piles to fix the cabins of the temporary camp, it would probably take half a day just to swing the hammer, but for For Blue Bird, it was just a matter of stepping on it.

The cabins used in the temporary camps are inflatable and made of special composite materials. After inflating, they will have some metallic properties, which not only play a supporting role, but are also sufficient to cope with the harsh environment on Proxima b.

After all, not everything can withstand the high temperature of hundreds of degrees Celsius on the surface of the planet, and without effective insulation, the temporary camp will not be able to accommodate people even if it is built.

Of course, this still comes from the "Nantianmen Project" in the core of Jade Bird's mind, and the coalition government has not yet been able to create such a shelter.

These inflatable cabins look like big white steamed buns. The composite material on the surface reflects the sunlight from Proxima Centauri, while also effectively blocking the incoming heat.

After the layout of these big white steamed buns is completed, the connecting channels between different steamed buns are set up, and various equipment are moved in, the construction of this temporary camp is completed.

"It's finally finished. Now I don't have to face the red outside. It made my eyes dazzled." In the cabin, Han Duoduo, who had taken off his heavy spacesuit, sat on the same inflatable On the sofa, the whole person felt tired as if he had finally relaxed after a tiring day.

Not just Han Duoduo, in fact, except for Qingniao, everyone else was basically in the same state.

The gravity of this planet is higher than that of the earth. Qingniao has no idea about it, and it is difficult to have any effective impact on her. But for ordinary people, even 10% more gravity will make them pay more. At least 50% physical strength.

After all, in addition to their arms carrying heavy objects, they also have to fight against gravity, as well as their entire bodies.

In addition, the space suit itself is very heavy in order to effectively withstand the harsh space environment. Each piece weighs at least dozens of kilograms.

You may not feel anything in space, and a few dozen kilograms is nothing in a weightless environment. But if you land on the surface of Proxima b, a planet with a greater gravity than the earth, your space suit, which originally weighed several dozen kilograms, will suddenly become It weighs hundreds of kilograms.

Working in such heavy clothes is not working, but weight training.

Even if astronauts are carefully selected and have excellent physical fitness, it would be difficult for them to withstand such a harsh working environment.

That's why Qingniao took the initiative to help with all the heavy work. Otherwise, these astronauts alone might not be able to set up a temporary camp today, and they would have to stay on the landing craft and sleep.

Now, at least they have taken off their spacesuits and can take a good rest.

Although the gravity of this planet is much higher than that of the earth, it will not cause serious discomfort to the human body. After a period of adaptation, the crew can basically move freely.

However, Jade Bird did not sit idly by and gave Dimensity 0017 a new production task: "In addition to the methane generator and oxygen generator that you were asked to produce before, add an anti-gravity generator. This planet The gravity is higher than that of the earth, and the efficiency of ordinary humans working in such an environment will be greatly affected."

The "Nantianmen Project" itself has anti-gravity-related equipment. In the cyberpunk world, Bluebird once used anti-gravity engines to trade with local forces to create an anti-gravity generator to offset the effects of high-gravity planets. Gravity is a normal thing.

However, Qingniao didn't mention this matter before. It wasn't that she was hiding it, but that she really forgot about it.

After all, after her engineering module was upgraded to an engineering cabin, equivalent to a small factory, the production list was already so long that she didn't even want to look through it. It was not strange for her to forget what else she could produce.

Fortunately, now that Tianji 0017 is here, she will sort out these things so that Jade Bird can better use these technologies to achieve her own goals.

It's just that it takes time to produce the anti-gravity generator, and it won't be delivered until tomorrow at the earliest, so today I can humiliate Han Duoduo and the others and experience what it's like to sleep in a high-gravity environment.

Chapter 49 Planetary surface work clothes

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and the temporary camp seemed to be set up.

The anti-gravity generator, methane generator and oxygen generator were manufactured and shipped the next day, and then installed to provide the camp with electricity, oxygen and clean water, as well as the most important anti-gravity stance. .

After the anti-gravity generator was opened, the gravity within a radius of 500 meters centered on the camp was adjusted to about 0.9G, which is 90% of the earth's gravity.

The reason for this setting is mainly because the staff in the temporary camp need to wear spacesuits weighing dozens of kilograms when working outdoors. Lowering the gravity will undoubtedly allow them to save more energy.

As for the fuel required for the methane generator, the staff of the temporary camp drove an all-terrain transport vehicle to extract liquid methane from a methane lake a few kilometers away.

According to the plans and assumptions of the Advance Base, if the Advance Base is really to be built here in the future, an automated pumping station will be built on the edge of the methane lake to directly pump out liquid methane for tanking, or lay a transmission pipeline.

But now, they can only use all-terrain transport vehicles to transport them. After all, they are only a temporary camp now.

After the oxygen generator supplied oxygen and the methane generator started operating, the work of this temporary camp was on track.

The reason why they built this temporary camp was not just to give the crew a place to sleep, but also to conduct various scientific research activities on the surface of Proxima b, classify and organize the various specimens collected, and conduct preliminary analysis and research.

This is a very complicated task, and because it is an unknown Earth-like planet, everything they face is unknown, so a camp that can provide supplies and be temporarily stationed is very necessary.

If subsequent scientific expeditions and investigations go well, this temporary camp will be upgraded to a permanent forward base, thereby providing more services to the scientists working here.

Unlike now, there is only a temporarily erected simple laboratory and a few airbag cabins for living. Even the logistics supplies have to be transported by the mothership above, which cannot provide long-term self-sustainability.

Of course, with the Chinese people’s farming genes, it is inevitable to want to farm even on alien planets.

The first batch of soil samples has been collected and transported back to the mothership. They will be analyzed in the scientific research cabin on the mothership. If it is confirmed that they can be used for planting, then the next thing to be built in the temporary camp is Proxima b. This is my first greenhouse.

But even if the soil of Proxima b is not suitable for farming like the lunar soil, it doesn't matter. The engineering cabin of the mothership can be used to create a hydroponic biological warehouse. Combined with the plant seeds brought by the coalition government to the investigation team, a hydroponic biological warehouse can be easily built. Build a farm to produce enough food.

So for the investigation team, there is no need to worry about food.

It's just that everyone is a little tired of eating food synthesized by the OMCS organic synthesis system. After all, although this food is no different from normal food in appearance and taste, it is difficult to let people know when they think that this food is synthesized from organic waste. Kick up your appetite.

The spacecraft had been flying before, and the conditions on board were limited. They only had this to eat, so everyone tolerated it. Now that they have the opportunity to grow vegetables on the surface of the planet and eat some real food, it is inevitable that people can't resist the temptation.

Fortunately, greenhouses or hydroponic farms themselves are also being planned, so this is not a problem.

But compared to eating, there was another thing that made the staff at the temporary camp unbearable.

"Chief Engineer Qing, can the set of programmable nano-armors you gave Han Duoduo be given to others? Working in space suits in the high gravity environment of Proxima Centauri b is really too strenuous. The crew members work every day. The work that can be done is very limited, and we need to improve labor efficiency." The person in charge of the temporary camp approached Jade Bird and made her a request that sounded reasonable.

This request is indeed not too much. After all, the staff in the temporary camp are just ordinary humans, not interstellar warriors who have undergone nineteen biochemical transformation surgeries. They do not have such a strong body that can resist the gravity of the planet while carrying hundreds of body weights. Work with heavy objects.

In response to this request, Jade Bird just replied to him: "Planetary surface work clothes with gravity adjustment modules and exoskeleton assist modules are already in production, and will be delivered together with supplies later. You can replace your spacesuits with planetary suits." Surface work clothes.”

Blue Bird has naturally considered the problem of high gravity environment on the planet's surface. Equipping everyone with a set of nano armor is certainly a solution, but the cost of doing so is too high.

After all, producing a set of programmable nano-armor not only requires a large amount of materials, but also a large amount of man-hours in engineering cabins, which will greatly affect production efficiency.

For example, the planetary surface work clothes that Jade Bird mentioned just now are equipped with a gravity adjustment module and an exoskeleton assist module. With the production capacity of the engineering shelter, about 36 sets can be produced in a day, but if it is replaced by programmable nano armor, the engineering method will The cabin can only produce one set at a time, and the production time for one set is as long as [-] hours. It is obviously not suitable for large-scale equipment.

Therefore, planetary surface work clothes that can be mass-produced have become Jade Bird's first choice to solve the problem, instead of distributing a set of nano-armor to everyone.

The person in charge of the temporary camp had no negative emotions about not being able to get the nano-armor that he had been coveting for a long time. He just felt regretful and skipped the topic.

Everyone in the investigation team has already reached a consensus that Chief Engineer Qing cannot be offended. If she explains to you in a nice and angrily way, you'd better be obedient. Otherwise, even if she doesn't get angry, she will punish you and make you remember it deeply. .

Blue Bird didn't care about these people orchestrating her own affairs behind her back. Since that subspace incident, she had noticed the impact of the lack of her soul. These actions were just a means for her to solve her own problems.

To put it simply, because the soul is incomplete, Qingniao's character will gradually become irritable and extreme. If he wants to control it, in addition to daily emotional regulation, he also needs to constantly generate positive emotions to maintain the stability of the soul.

Behaviors such as having fun or teasing others can make the bluebird feel happy, which is a pretty good way to generate positive emotions.

In addition, Qingniao herself has some fun-loving nature, which makes her often use teasing instead of getting angry, thus preventing herself from actually falling into a state of rage.

Chapter 50 Faith spans legend

However, although there is a small problem with the soul, the situation of Blue Bird is relatively stable at present. As long as it no longer actively enters the depths of subspace and absorbs excessive subspace energy, the psychic seal imposed by &*(...) is enough Protecting her soul from the effects of the Warp.

"Wait, who is @#￥%? Why don't I remember anything?" Qingniao felt a little strange. He couldn't remember who put the seal on his soul to protect it.

Not only could she not remember the name, she couldn't even remember when she met &*%￥, and the process of meeting him didn't even exist in her mind.

"So this is a memory blockade? Because I'm not strong enough, so I'm not qualified to know! Who is @#￥, and I'm not qualified to recall this experience..." The blue bird stared at Proxima Centauri and the red sun on the distant horizon. It spread its light and heat on Qingniao's body, but it couldn't make her frown loosen.

Thinking that he was not strong enough to unlock the memory seal, Qingniao couldn't help but look up to the sky, where his body was quietly suspended in the low-Earth orbit of Proxima Centauri. Its powerful firepower was enough to destroy the planet. Fired into glass.

But obviously, he is indeed not strong enough.

Because this strength refers to the strength of the soul.

Although the current Blue Bird is already a 20-ton space battleship, her soul is still an ordinary human soul.

After all, although things like ship girls look very magical, and even their abilities do appear to be very magical, ship girls are still essentially technological things.

Apart from the fact that the core of the ship girl's mind draws energy from the subspace, the ship girl itself has no magical or metaphysical components.

Of course, for those ship girls who have been fighting for many years and have become battle kings through hundreds of battles, their souls have absorbed enough energy from the subspace through their mental cores, allowing their soul essence to be sublimated. In a sense, it really cannot be regarded as an ordinary technological creation.

This type of ship girl basically has a combat power that far exceeds that of ordinary ship girls, and is usually called a legend.

Qingniao originally thought that this would be far away from her. After all, her hull has not been fixed yet. More of the subspace energy absorbed from the core of her mind has been used to upgrade her hull, and not much energy is used to strengthen her soul. .

But since she met...#...%￥ in subspace, the subspace essence in her soul began to awaken, and her soul was quietly changing.

"Maybe when I transform into a legend, I can unlock the seal in my memory." Jade Bird felt that this might be a threshold, or a test. After all, if he couldn't even reach the level of a legend, he really wasn't qualified to understand it. This kind of thing is completely beyond the scope of my cognition: "And my soul needs to be completed, and I have to find the soul fragments that were torn apart when I traveled to this world...

Alas, if I had known this, I would not have killed that META-turned-me in the first place, so now I don’t even know where the soul fragment has gone, and I can’t find it at all. "

Of course, Qingniao attaches great importance to his own soul fragments.

After knowing about this incident, she has been trying to recall what happened, trying to find the whereabouts of the fragments of her soul.

But no matter how Qingniao recalled it, and even used the spiritual power she gained after awakening to the essence of subspace, she still had no clue about it, which made her very doubtful whether the original prophecy of ￥#%@ was correct.

"Wait a minute, He also gave me a prophecy? Why can't I remember anything?" Qingniao knocked his head in frustration, feeling very uncomfortable.

This feeling of knowing that there was important information but just not being able to recall it was so uncomfortable that it almost drove her crazy.

But Qingniao's manic mood went away as quickly as it came, her eyes turned golden again, and her emotions became mechanical and cold.

"The problem of soul loss cannot be ignored. I can no longer continue to recall the relevant memories about @￥￥!, which will make it easier for me to lose control of my emotions." Jade Bird, who has entered the mechanical mind mode, calmly and rationally analyzed his situation. , while talking to himself, he also recorded what he said and sent it to Tianji 0017: "So the memory seal will make me gradually ignore and forget this memory. Only when my soul returns to stability and balance, I Only then can I recall some memories, so that I can continue to work hard to improve my strength and avoid slacking off.

But the whereabouts of the soul fragments is indeed a problem. Although His prophecy lets me know that the soul fragments are in this world, if I want to find the soul fragments and successfully integrate them into my soul, I must cross the boundaries of legend, which is not easy to do. to things.

He told me how to cross the boundary. To completely let go of my own META is one way, but this way of using subspace energy is an evil way. It will only make me completely lose my mind and turn into a beast.

I can use the power of META, but I cannot let it pollute my soul. I must use the method of collecting positive beliefs to cross that boundary, otherwise the META suppressed by%￥#@ will be completely irreversible. "

As Blue Bird spoke, he took out the mental core from his chest.

The repaired mental core is now complete again. Most of the areas are still clear blue, but the parts that have turned red are irreversible.

Between red and blue, if you look carefully, you will find that there is a layer of light gold that separates the red part from the blue part.

"Part of the technology for manufacturing mental cores comes from subspace, so each mental core possesses the essence of subspace, is connected to subspace, and can directly draw energy from subspace, but this also destined all Kanji girls will all face the problem of META, and META is irreversible for Kanchan girls, because that is our essence." What Ao Nori said is not so much analyzing her own situation, but rather that she is passing this information through Tianji 0017 records.

Having said this, Qingniao stuffed the core of his mind into his chest again, and finally said: "If I want to solve the collapse of sanity caused by complete META transformation, crossing the legend with positive faith is the only solution. Only in this way can I After being completely META, you can maintain your self-awareness and sanity and avoid turning into a beast.

So next, I have to find a way to collect enough faith, and humans on earth are the best targets. I need them to believe in me. "