From ship girl to machine god

But now, they can finally get a glimpse of one of those unopened areas.

Under the leadership of Jade Bird, these selected members of the sub-group stood on a large elevator in the corner of the hangar.

This is used to transport carrier-based aircraft to the main deck catapult. Of course, it can also be used to transport people, and it can transport at least hundreds of people at a time.

It's just that this elevator seems to only be able to go up to the main deck, or descend from the main deck to the hangar, and does not have the function of leading to other places.

However, amidst everyone's confusion, the elevator they were standing on slowly descended. Amid everyone's surprise and suspicion, they arrived at the lower level of the hangar.

"Where is this?" The commanding officer standing next to Qingniao looked at the darkness in front of him and asked Qingniao.

Because Jade Bird only said that she had a way to solve the problem of dividing the group into the living planet, and did not explain the specific method, even the leadership of the investigation team did not know what method Jade Bird was going to use.

The dark area in front of them had not been open to the investigation team before, so the commanding officer naturally didn't know where it was.

"This is also a hangar, but it is used to park and repair escort ships." Qingniao snapped her fingers, and then the entire hangar lit up, and along with her explanation, what appeared in front of everyone was a bigger picture than the one above. The carrier-based aircraft hangar is a larger hangar.

In other words, it can no longer be called a hangar, but should be called a micro airport or a ship dock.

Because there are five spaceships of different sizes docked here, the largest of which is more than 100 meters long and looks almost the same as an ordinary frigate or light destroyer.

Seeing this, everyone understood why Qingniao said that he had a way to solve the problem of dividing the group into the planet of life.

As long as one of the ships in front of them has the ability to jump, it will not be easy for them to reach the living planet.

Under the leadership of Qingniao, everyone walked down the elevator and immediately walked towards one of the spaceships, which was about 50 meters long.

"Chief Engineer Qing, who are these ships?" Looking at the spaceships around him, the commanding officer couldn't help but curiously asked Qingniao.

"They are the escort formation of the mother ship, but because of the lack of crew and no combat needs, they have been parked here and not used." Qingniao explained casually, and then stood on the ship she chose. In front of him: "This is a light frigate. It is a combat ship with the function of delivering drones. I have temporarily adjusted its configuration. It will be no problem for you to use it for scientific investigation of living planets.

However, all crew members need to undergo a short-term training. At least you must learn how to drive the ship and how to use the weapons on the ship to protect yourself when encountering danger.

Of course, the most important thing is to learn how to use the large power mechas and small power armors equipped for you.

I have made a preliminary analysis of that living planet. Its gravity is only 80% of the earth's, so you are very likely to see some outrageous-looking creatures on that planet, and you need some means of self-protection. "

With that said, a powered mecha that was more than seven meters high and a set of powered armor that was about two meters high were sent to Jade Bird.

Looking at these two sets of equipment that were very powerful at a glance, everyone's eyes were straightened. No man can resist the romance of fighting robots, and no soldier can resist such a cool and powerful power armor. equipment.

Chapter 60 Planetary Life

Liu Peiqiang was not assigned to fly a mecha or put on power armor because he was a pilot and was still responsible for flying planes and driving landing craft, rather than being a Marine.

On the contrary, Han Duoduo was assigned to learn how to use power armor because her major is orbital medicine and she will be assigned to the sub-regiment's ground investigation team as a medic, so she must learn how to protect herself and respond to emergencies.

Of course, Han Duoduo, who has nano armor herself, adapted to the power armor quickly and did not spend too much time to get started. Most of her time was spent on learning how to use this armor.

Chapter 61 Floating Mountain

When the small frigate came out of the jump state and the scene that could be seen from the bridge window gradually stabilized and became clearer, what appeared before everyone's eyes was a beautiful planet full of life.

It is not much different from Earth, with oceans and vegetation, as well as white clouds covering the planet's surface.

The difference between it and the Earth may be that the vegetation on this planet looks more blue, rather than green like the Earth.

This is actually easy to understand. After all, behind this planet is a blue gas giant planet larger than Jupiter. The light reflected by it reflects the living planet into a blue color. Plants in the blue spectrum It is not surprising that a bluish representation evolved under the influence of

You must know that even on earth, there was an era when plants were all purple, and green was almost eliminated by biological evolution back then.

"It's so beautiful!" A crew member exclaimed in admiration, just like the first astronaut in the pre-aerospace era looked back at the earth when he looked back at the earth, overlooking a living planet from space. of admiration.

Because it is so beautiful.

It is the brilliance and beauty that blooms from one of the miracles of life in the universe. It is the most magical and greatest miracle in the universe.

The yearning and pursuit of the beauty of life are even engraved in human DNA.

This is why great art can be recognized and appreciated by people of different cultural backgrounds and races, because human beings have a common pursuit of beauty.

As for some ZZ factors imposed on it, it will not have any other effect except making people feel disgusting and ugly.

Ugliness may come in various forms, but the pursuit of beauty is unique.

And this living planet in front of us is beautiful from every angle.

"I can't wait. When can we land?" Some people can no longer restrain their excitement and want to land on this planet immediately to see with their own eyes how different the life on the surface of this planet is from the earth. .

However, Blue Bird did not dare to be careless at all. Instead, it was very serious and used various instruments and equipment to conduct all-round observation and testing of the living planet in front of it.

Seeing Qingniao being so cautious, someone asked in confusion: "Chief Engineer Qing, is there something wrong with this planet?"

"No? Of course not, it's alive!" Blue Bird did not hide what he knew. Any negligence in the face of a living planet-level creature may cause irreparable disaster: "There are people on this planet. There is a planet-level life, and we cannot act rashly until we figure out what it is."

"Planetary life? What is that? You don't mean to say that this planet is alive, right? Can a planet also be a living thing?" Someone was so imaginative that he pointed at the planet in front of him and asked the blue bird in surprise. .

However, Qingniao nodded and said: "Indeed, the so-called planetary life is a life form measured with at least one planet as the unit of volume. They may be living planets themselves, or they may be attached to Some kind of giant creature on the planet.

In short, we cannot act rashly before we understand exactly what the one we are facing is.

We must know that planetary life, even if it just sneezes on you, may cause a terrible disaster. We have no capital to bet on this. "

"But how can we figure out what it is?" No one objected to Jade Bird's remarks, but someone asked the key to the problem.

"Launch detectors and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to conduct reconnaissance on this planet first. We cannot go there rashly." Qingniao gave the answer directly, and at the same time ordered everyone: "Until the exact results are obtained, no one must Going to the surface of a planet without permission, I don’t want to fight a planet-level life.”

Although Blue Bird was not unable to defeat planet-level beings, she did not want to do such a thankless task.

After all, she is only a 20-ton space battleship. Although it has the combat power to annihilate planet-level life, it also depends on what level of planet-level life it is.

If there were only super giant life forms attached to the surface of the planet, the worst they could do would be to use the main cannon of a battleship to burn glass. This would be something that no life form that has yet to break away from the laws of matter would be able to resist.

But if it encounters something outrageous like a living planet, Jade Bird doesn't think its main cannon can break stars.

After all, burning glass only grills the surface of the planet, and the damage caused to the planet itself is extremely limited. It may be like shaving a human head, and it does not take long to recover.

And more importantly, Blue Bird has no grudge against the planet-level being below, so why rush to kill him as soon as he comes up?

You can't just hold a sword in your hand and have murderous intentions everywhere, right?If that were the case, Blue Bird would have to wonder if he had started to become a META again.

Therefore, before the situation is clear, Blue Bird does not want to conflict with the planet-level life below, nor does it want others to act rashly and offend it.

Fortunately, none of the members of the investigation team on the ship are the kind of idiots who only appear in popcorn movies. No one is so stupid that they insist on disobeying Blue Bird's orders even though they know that there is such a terrifying existence as planet-level life. Landing on the beach.

Instead, he very conscientiously launched detectors and reconnaissance drones towards the planet according to Blue Bird's orders to conduct observation and preliminary reconnaissance first.

As the probe began to transmit data back, the reconnaissance drone also landed on the planet's surface, and many data about the planet began to be presented to Blue Bird and the members of the survey team.

This is also a terrestrial planet, and its diameter is about the same as that of the Earth, about 90% of the Earth's, while its mass is only 72% of the Earth's. Therefore, the planet's gravity is only 80% of the Earth's as previously observed by Bluebird.

But the density of the planet's atmosphere is 1.2 times that of the Earth, and the pressure is slightly higher at 1.1 atmospheres. The atmosphere is mainly composed of nitrogen and ammonia.

Although the air also contains oxygen, the xenon and methane present in the air make the air here still unfit for human breathing.

But compared to these, everyone on the spacecraft was attracted by another discovery, and no one paid attention to things like the atmospheric environment and the size of the planet.

Because the drone captured a mountain suspended in the air.

Just like the floating mountain that only appears in Xianxia novels, a mountain that is directly suspended in the air.

Chapter 62 Banshee Winged Beast

"This is unscientific! How can a mountain be suspended in the air!" A physicist almost wanted to pull his hair out. The scene in front of him really subverted his cognition.

However, Qingniao just rolled his eyes at him and said: "No, this is very scientific, because it is a mountain made of superconducting ore. The magnetic field generated by this superconducting ore interacts with the magnetic field generated by the surface mineral veins to cancel each other. Without the planet's gravity, it became a suspended mountain.

But this planet is really magical. It actually has this kind of natural superconducting mineral. If it can be mined..."

Qingniao didn't say anything further, but everyone else could understand what an amazing discovery this was.

Because humans have a huge demand for superconducting materials, many scientific researches and technological breakthroughs require room-temperature superconductors. However, humans have made very slow progress in this area of ​​breakthroughs.

However, there is now a planet with natural superconducting material that can levitate a mountain. This is enough for humans to obtain this material at all costs.

It is important to know that this superconducting material is also very helpful for the construction of planetary engines.

"We must get it!" someone shouted.

"This natural superconducting material is so precious! If we can mine it and transport it back to the earth, it will be enough to greatly promote progress and breakthroughs in materials science, physics, and various disciplines. The history of human science will be rewritten!" Someone was excited! It tells the significance of natural superconducting materials to human civilization, and it is even beyond control.

But Qingniao was still very calm. He raised his hand to turn off the floating mountain image on the screen, and then said: "We still know nothing about the possible dangers on this planet. Is it too early for you to think about going down to mine now?" Too much?

And we haven’t figured out what is going on on this planet. What if there are intelligent creatures or even alien civilizations on this planet? Are you going to rob it? "

"It's not impossible..." Someone muttered in a low voice, and Qingniao immediately looked over with a stern look, frightening the other person to shut his mouth immediately.

The atmosphere seemed to stiffen suddenly.

The importance of natural superconducting materials is very clear to everyone on the spacecraft at this time. They also know that if the coalition government knows about the existence of natural superconducting materials, they will obtain it at all costs.

Of course, this includes the option of war, but it is not the first choice, or the only choice.

"Don't forget, there is planetary life on this planet. If there is any ecological connection between this natural superconducting material and planetary life, do you want to go to war with a planet?" At this time, Han Duoduo suddenly stood next to Qingniao and shouted loudly at the others.

For the Chinese, grabbing something good is never their first choice, nor is it the first thing they think of.

Perhaps because of the suffering they have suffered, or because of their nature rooted in culture and civilization, the Chinese prefer to use peaceful means to get what they want, rather than the predatory nature of the Angsa gang.

"If there are no intelligent creatures or civilizations on this planet, as long as the problem of planetary life is solved, we can develop it normally." The political cadre who came with the ship spoke, setting the tone for the matter, and He emphasized: "If there is intelligent life or even extraterrestrial civilization on this planet, then we can only achieve our goals through peaceful means such as negotiation or trade."

"But what if they don't give it?" Someone seemed to want to make a point.

"Then offer a price they can't refuse." Qingniao took over the conversation, and then said: "In the future, the earth will dock in this galaxy, and you don't want to leave your descendants with the first gift when they arrive in their new home. An interstellar war, right?”

After hearing what Qingniao said, the slight criticisms that everyone had had also fell silent.

Indeed, mankind is now facing a catastrophic catastrophe. If we provoke a possible alien civilization or planetary life at this time, we are causing trouble for ourselves and laying mines for future generations.

Of course, in the eyes of some people with darker minds, this living planet is simply a gift from God to mankind. They should directly colonize this planet and seize the entire planet as a new home for mankind.

But this kind of statement is just a thought now. After all, they have not yet determined whether there is intelligent life on this planet.

If they are lucky and encounter no intelligent life on this planet, then there is no need to worry about these issues.

However, although everyone remains optimistic at the moment, the political cadres who are the leaders of the branch are not so optimistic, as is Jade Bird. After all, they are leaders, and when thinking about problems, they must first think of the worst possibility.

"Chief Engineer Qing, what if this natural superconducting material is related to planetary life, or if the intelligent life or civilization existing on this planet rejects our deal..." The political cadre asked Qingniao in a low voice. His eyes were full of worry: "Do we really have to consider war? Or do you think the coalition government will use violent means to achieve its goal?"

Regarding this issue, Jade Bird took a deep breath and said: "We will not fire the first shot, nor will we let others fire the second shot."

"I understand, be polite first and then fight." The political cadre nodded and expressed his understanding.