From ship girl to machine god

Although the Chinese do not like to use violence or war to solve problems, they are also never afraid of war.

If the peaceful means of negotiation and negotiation cannot achieve the goal, then some necessary means can only be adopted.

Of course, this can only be used as a last resort and as a last resort.

"But you may not need to worry about it. There is intelligent life on this planet, and it may have developed preliminary civilization." Jade Bird said, and then displayed another drone shot on the big screen on the bridge.

On the screen, a group of blue ape-like humanoid creatures were climbing up the floating mountain. Then they jumped off the cliff as if they were looking for excitement, and jumped onto some kind of large-scale flight that passed by at high speed under the cliff. on the creature's back.

Looking at this creature with four wings that resembled a flying dragon, the corners of Bluebird's eyes twitched.

"The Banshee Winged Beast..." Of course she knew this thing, and she had been deeply impressed by it even before traveling through time, because its superior species' appearance in the original movie was so cool.

But when this thing appears in the world of Wandering Earth, isn’t it a bit of a joke from hell?

Chapter 63 Pandora

Banshee, from a science fiction movie called Avatar, describes a future human being mining some kind of natural superconducting ore on a planet called Pandora, and interacting with a local species called the Na'vi. There was a conflict between the indigenous people, resulting in the creation of a Na'vi clone named Avatar that could be connected to human nerves. Finally, a battle was staged on Pandora. The Avatar and the indigenous people fought against the Black Heart Mining Company and ran away from the Black Heart Mining Company. A classic American personal hero. ism story.

After a lapse of more than ten years, the director made another sequel, switching from the description of the Na'vi mountain tribe to the ocean tribe.

In addition to the really beautiful scenery in the whole movie, the plot can only be said to be... the screenwriter must have been too stupid when he was writing it. The writing was so stupid that Jade Bird, who went to the cinema to watch the movie at the time, was so angry that he almost refunded the ticket.

But putting aside those outrageous plots, the Pandora depicted in the original Avatar movie is indeed a very beautiful planet.

It is covered with all kinds of magnificent plants and all kinds of creatures that are very different from the ecology of the earth. The beautiful natural scenery depicted by the director is very fascinating.

When I watched the first movie, the plot was quite logical and there was nothing that made my blood pressure high. I quite liked the blue bird, and also imagined how I could tame a domineering orange lion-eagle winged beast (Leonopteryx). rex) is so handsome.

But for the wandering earth world, the appearance of Pandora is a bit too much of a joke.

Humanity is about to face a helium flash crisis. The Earth will be swallowed up by the rapidly expanding sun within 100 years. Humanity plans to use a hundred generations and 500 years to push the Earth to the Proxima Galaxy. The result is that it is just a short distance away. Proxima Centauri is 0.28 light-years away... No, according to the setting of the movie, 4.37 light-years away from the Earth, there is a planet with an ecological environment that is very suitable for human survival and does not even require environmental modification. This is quite a kind of black humor. irony.

After all, in the original Avatar movie, even a mining company has a spaceship that can travel between the Earth and Pandora. It has mastered sub-light speed flight technology and can fly at 70% of the speed of light.

To be honest, this technology seems a bit outrageous even for Blue Bird, because few civilizations can compete with conventional flight speeds.

Because the universe is so big, and the distance between stars is so far.

Just like Proxima Centauri, the shortest star from the Earth, is 4.2 light-years away from the Earth. It takes four years to fly at the speed of light. There is no transition technology and just relying on sub-light speed to climb may seem very fast from the Earth, but In the universe…

Maybe the first batch of space colonizers are still flying on the road, and those who set off decades later have already activated their jump engines and kicked the accelerator to get there.

"It's really outrageous, how could such a thing happen..." Qingniao sighed secretly, shook his head to eliminate unnecessary thoughts and memories from his mind, and then ordered to the others: "Be prepared and deal with these reasons. Residents are being contacted, and the initial contact protocol is to be cautious and friendly, they should mean no harm, and as long as we don't show hostility, they should be able to communicate."

"Chief Engineer Qing, that matter about planetary life..." The political cadre was very surprised. Before, Qingniao, who was still worried about any dangers on the planet, suddenly changed her attitude. Wasn't she always very concerned about that planetary life? ?

In response, Qingniao just shook his head and said: "The fact that aborigines can live on the surface of the planet and have developed to the stage of tribal civilization is enough to show that there is a long enough environmental stability period on the surface of the planet, and look at the spiral giant they live on. Tree, do you think this thing can take hundreds of years to grow?

Based on these analyses, the planet-level life on this planet should have not moved for a long time, or I made a mistake in my judgment. It is not a huge animal, but a plant, such as a giant fungal network. "

Hearing what Qingniao said, a botanist who came with the team suddenly thought of a certain existence, so he said: "Chief Engineer Qing, are you talking about Armillaria bulbis?"

Armillaria is a very common fungus on the earth. It is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere. In summer and autumn, it grows in clusters at the base of trunks, roots or fallen trees of many kinds of coniferous or broad-leaved trees. It is edible.

However, the hyphae formed by this fungus are very durable and can continuously expand the area they cover.

The largest Armillaria strain currently recorded in humans is estimated to be between 400 and 1000 years old; its size reaches about 607 hectares, making it a veritable behemoth.

If a similar fungal creature really exists on Pandora and has reproduced for millions of years, it can indeed cover the entire planet and even give birth to its own consciousness and soul.

In fact, there is such a being on Pandora. She is Eywa, the Virgin whom the Na'vi people believe in and the god of this planet. In the Na'vi people's belief, the Virgin Eywa is their spiritual sustenance. and the destination of the soul, responsible for maintaining the balance of the entire planet's environment.

Although there is no explanation of what Eva is in the original plot, judging from various performances in the film, it is very much like the center of a neural network formed by the nerve cords of countless creatures on this planet.

At the end of the first film, humans were attacked by countless animals on the planet and were expelled from the planet. This seems to be circumstantial evidence.

At least Eva does have the ability to control all animals on the planet and drive them to fight.

This is hardly good news for the investigation team and Blue Bird, because if humans want to land on this planet and mine natural superconducting materials, they will inevitably have to face the same problems as in the first movie.

The veins of natural superconducting materials grow together with the home tree where the Na'vi people live. With the magnetic field provided by the natural superconducting material, the home tree can grow so tall in such a weird hollow spiral shape.

This will inevitably cause conflicts and conflicts between humans and the Na'vi.

Of course, it is not impossible if we only mine mineral veins in other areas without conflict with the Na'vi people. It's just that Jade Bird is very worried about whether the coalition government can withstand the temptation of natural superconducting materials and not take action against the Na'vi people.

After all, the coalition government is not a mining company. Whether it is the resources at its disposal, the force at its disposal, or the ability to mobilize, the coalition government can completely wipe out all resistance forces on Pandora.

Although this may not seem necessary.

Chapter 64 Banshee Winged Beast

Now that it was decided to contact the local aborigines, the investigation team naturally took action quickly.

Everyone wears the full-coverage exoskeleton armor that was issued before arriving to ensure that their bodies will not be exposed to the alien atmosphere. At the same time, the exoskeleton armor will also provide good protection and sufficient assistance. , allowing the wearer to exert at least twice the strength of a normal person.

And this is just because this is the civilian spacesuit version and does not require such a high output.

In addition, two combat mechas have also been prepared and loaded into the landing craft in case of emergency.

According to Jade Bird's estimation, the attitude of the Na'vi people should not be very hostile to humans, but they should not be very friendly the first time. In order to avoid unnecessary losses caused by the group of blue-skinned monkeys over two meters tall, it is necessary Deterrence by force is still necessary.

After all, although the Na'vi bows and arrows are primitive, they are still very powerful. It seems that there is no problem at all in penetrating bulletproof glass or thin steel plates.

Because they were going to make contact with the indigenous people, the first group of survey team members to land included marines and linguists. The political cadres were asked by Jade Bird to stay behind, and she herself landed with the first group of members to land. to the surface of the planet.

"Chief Engineer Qing, it's better for me to go. If these aborigines don't want to contact us and there is a conflict, it would be better if someone stays behind to take command." The political worker persuaded Qing Niao. He seemed to be dissatisfied with Qing Niao's risk-taking attitude. The move was highly criticized.

However, Qingniao just glanced at him and said: "Those Na'vi people had better start singing and dancing now instead of riding and shooting. Otherwise, I will let them know what the Battleship Way is."

After saying that, Qingniao boarded the landing craft, leaving the political cadre with a confused look on his face: "What is Battleship Road?"

Not to mention the confusion of the political cadres, after the landing craft took off from the frigate, it flew towards the surface of Pandora.

Previously launched probes and reconnaissance drones have discovered a large area of ​​​​the planet's surface, which contains suitable landing sites.

However, Blue Bird did not let them land immediately, but ordered the landing craft to fly towards a broken floating mountain.

"Chief Engineer Qing, why do we have to go to Fukong Mountain first? Aren't we going to contact those indigenous people?" Han Duoduo, who was selected as the first batch of landing members because of his nano armor, asked Qingniao in confusion.

Qingniao just took out a data pad, pulled up a picture, showed it to Han Duoduo and said: "This is a picture of local indigenous people taming flying creatures that was previously taken. It is speculated based on the possible warrior worship of primitive tribes. , this should be a tribal hunter or warrior, symbolizing courage and strength.

If we can tame one or two such flying creatures, and then ride them to communicate with these indigenous people, we can at least make them think that we are also warriors who can tame such flying creatures, instead of treating us as weak creatures.

After all, their body size is still very different from humans. "

Han Duoduo looked at the picture of the blue aborigines jumping on the flying creatures on the data board, and she could understand what the blue bird was saying.

But she still asked with some confusion: "But we don't know how these aborigines tame flying creatures. Can we tame such flying creatures as quickly as they do?"

Han Duoduo noticed that the blue aborigines on the screen jumped on the back of the flying creature and grabbed the two tentacle-like things behind the crown of the flying creature, and then he was able to quickly tame the flying creature. She was surprised by the creature, but also worried about whether it could do the same thing.

However, Jade Bird only clicked a few times on the data pad before showing her another picture.

"This tentacle-like thing is the nerve cord of this creature. These indigenous people also have it. The ones on their heads are not braids, but the same nerve cord that grows into a bundle. The way they tame this flying creature is to put His own nerve cords are connected to their nerve cords, and his consciousness is directly transmitted to the brains of these flying objects, so it can be done conveniently and efficiently." Qingniao explained, and at the same time, he switched the screen on the data board to A device similar to a whipcord: "This is a brain-computer interface for humans designed based on the nerve cord connection principle. The nano-armor on your body can simulate this device, and you only need to input data."

We don't have time to produce this kind of equipment at the moment. Only the nano armor on you and me can put it on first, so you need to work with me to tame these flying creatures later.

After all, even if there is danger, with the strength of the nano armor, it can directly enter the flight mode without falling to the ground or being injured by these big guys. "

"I understand, I will work hard to tame a flying creature." Han Duoduo had an eager look on his face. At the same time, he also downloaded the brain-computer interface data from Jade Bird and let his nano-armor simulate the corresponding device of.

As a long silver metal braid hung down from the back of Han Duoduo's head, the nano-armor also switched to lightweight flight mode, and she felt that she was ready.

Qingniao nodded with satisfaction, and adjusted the mode of the nano-armor on his body. After the landing craft hovered on a floating mountain and opened the hatch, he jumped in with Han Duoduo.

The two landed lightly on the floating mountain. The low gravity environment made the two slightly uncomfortable, but they quickly adjusted with the help of nano armor.

"Chief Engineer Qing, what should we do next?" Han Duoduo asked Qingniao. At the same time, she looked around at the floating mountains. She was amazed by this magical scenery that could not be seen on the earth. There is a feeling that there are not enough eyes.

"First find the nests of flying creatures, and then follow the example of the natives and jump directly on the backs of these flying creatures to make neural connections." Blue Bird said, and contacted the reconnaissance drones previously deployed in this generation through its own nano-armor. The drone is used to search the nest of the Banshee Winged Beast.

These reconnaissance drones are not her ship's equipment, so she cannot control them as conveniently as her own carrier-based aircraft, but fortunately, the operation mode of this reconnaissance drone is quite stupid, and there are no operational obstacles. , Blue Bird easily found the nest of a virgin demon-winged beast under the cliff on the other side of the floating mountain where they were.

Taking Han Duoduo to the top of the nest, Qingniao sent her a schematic diagram of the movement trajectory, pointed to the group of banshee winged beasts below, and said to Han Duoduo: "I'll count one, two, three, let's jump together, three!"

After saying that, the blue bird jumped down. Han Duoduo couldn't react in time, but he still jumped down.

Chapter 65 Taming the Banshee Winged Beast

Wanting to jump from the top of the cliff of Floating Mountain to the banshee winged beast entrenched below is a dangerous challenge for the local agile Na'vi people.

They mostly approach these banshee-winged beasts by climbing cliffs, and then jump up at a close enough distance.

But for Qingniao and Han Duoduo, the nano-armor on their bodies is enough to turn this originally dangerous behavior into an exciting adventure without any challenge or difficulty.

The nano-armor on their bodies has been switched to flight mode, which not only provides them with all-round protection, but also gives them a certain degree of flight capability.

Although the propulsion ability of the nano-armor allows them to glide in the air at most, the greater air density and lower gravity on Pandora than on Earth make flying easier, so even the lightweight flight mode of the nano-armor is still Allowing them to fly like a glider.

And this is more than enough for Qingniao and Han Duoduo, who just want to jump on the back of the banshee winged beast.

And what happened was indeed the case. After the two people jumped down, they just adjusted the angle of their descent slightly in the air, and landed on the backs of two banshee-winged beasts that were about to spread their wings and fly, and successfully transferred their brain machines The interface is connected to the nerve cord of the Banshee Winged Beast.

"Well... this feeling is really..." The first nerve connection with other creatures is a novel experience for both Han Duoduo and Qingniao, but this kind of connection is difficult for them who have no experience. It is said that it is difficult to control and grasp in a short time.

After all, what is connected to them is not an intelligent life with enough intelligence and thinking, but just a beast.

Although on this planet, the Na'vi people have already tried to tame the Banshee Winged Beast using neural connections in the very long past. This large flying creature with a wingspan of more than ten meters is indeed very suitable for domestication, but This is based on the premise that the Na'vi people have already learned the neural connection method of communication and have rich experience.

For Han Duoduo and Qingniao, who were trying it for the first time, they only felt the surprise, appetite and desire to throw the monkey off their backs in the mind of the big guy below them.

As for transmitting their consciousness to the Banshee Winged Beast, neither Qingniao nor Han Duoduo has done it yet.

They just conveyed all the thoughts in their minds to the banshee winged beast without any skills, and the two parties did not establish any effective communication at all.

Fortunately, both of them are relatively flexible, and the nano-armor on their bodies also ensures that they can always fix themselves on the back of the banshee winged beast, so they don't have to risk their lives to try to tame them like the Na'vi. The banshee winged beast must be given up if it fails to be tamed.

They had enough time to spend with the big guy under them. As the two of them gradually adapted to the current situation, they gradually discovered some ways and began to try to use their own will to tame the banshee they were riding. Winged beast.

This is not a very difficult thing. In fact, because of the unique ecological environment on Pandora, most of the creatures here are accustomed to neural connections with other creatures.

Therefore, when Qingniao and Han Duoduo gradually stabilized their emotions and immediately began to try to tame the banshee winged beast, their progress was very smooth.

After all, Han Duoduo is an elite astronaut selected through many layers of experience. The comprehensive quality of human beings is the ceiling. In addition, Han Duoduo has already gone through various trainings on the earth and is accustomed to flying. The banshee-winged beast is This level of aerial maneuvering is no different from playing for her.

It even aroused Han Duoduo's inner competitiveness, which made her feel the adrenaline surge and at the same time she wanted to tame this flying mount with beautiful blue-green patterns.

In fact, the flying speed of the Banshee Winged Beast is only about the same as that of propeller planes during World War I on Earth. At that time, there was a very exciting activity called air walking.

That is, walking on the wings of a high-altitude aircraft without taking any safety measures.