From ship girl to machine god

Chapter 68 Camp Construction

Following the Neville Hunters to the open area, Blue Bird looked around and saw that this place was really good. After expressing his gratitude to the Neville Hunters, he ordered the people of the investigation team: "Unload the things on the landing craft. Let’s get to work, we’ll at least have the makeshift camp set up before dark.”

"But Chief Engineer Qing, we haven't figured out the day and night time of this planet yet. When does it get dark?" It seems that because the progress is going smoothly, a member of the investigation team was half joking and half serious. Asked Qingniao.

Qingniao didn't care about this, but said expressionlessly: "We are still using the 24-hour clock, and the current time on the ship is 14 o'clock. If you don't work quickly, the camp will not be built before 19 o'clock. If you get up, no one will have dinner today."

After saying that, the blue bird walked towards his gryphon. This big guy was originally going to hunt today, but instead of catching the prey, he was caught by the blue bird. Now he is still hungry.

Therefore, the blue bird planned to take it to catch the first prey and bring it back, which could be used to feed its own mount and provide the investigation team with research samples of local creatures.

Although this sample will not be available until the gryphon has finished eating, it is just some leftover limbs and broken arms, but it is good for the investigation team not to catch rabbits themselves.

Therefore, after seeing the blue bird riding on the huge orange-red flying dragon and soaring into the sky, everyone was only envious and had no other thoughts.

Han Duoduo also wanted to ride a handsome flying mount to ride a dragon like the Blue Bird, but now she also had to work.

After all, the camp is located in an open area. Before the camp is established, it is likely to be attacked by local creatures.

Although several Na'vi hunters said they would stay and help, it was obviously impossible for the investigation team to leave their own safety to a few local aborigines.

Therefore, Han Duoduo's task is to ride his mount to patrol the surrounding area to check whether there is any danger before the camp is established.

Originally, this matter could be left to the drones, but considering that drones are not local creatures and may cause unnecessary trouble, the political cadres in charge decided to let Han Duoduo work hard.

Han Duoduo did not refuse this. After reconnecting with his flying mount and communicating with him, he rode it into the sky.

The remaining members of the survey team also began to get busy, unloading various materials and prefabricated modules from the landing craft, and then began to set up a temporary camp.

They had done this job before at Proxima b, but compared to that time, their current conditions were undoubtedly much better.

Among other things, the low-gravity environment on Pandora allowed them to carry heavy objects with less effort, and unlike the first crew to land on Proxima b, they wore exoskeleton armor with exoskeleton boost modules. Not only does it have better flexibility, it also has greater output.

Therefore, the construction of the temporary camp went much faster than expected. At least when the blue bird rode the gryphon and captured the two forest banshees, the camp had been basically established.

Several Na'vi hunters were watching the people of the investigation team busy around the camp with great curiosity. With their knowledge, it was difficult to understand how the people of the investigation team built the house in such a short period of time. They don't even have the concept of a house.

After all, the Na'vi of the forest tribe are different from the Na'vi of the ocean tribe who only appeared in the second part of the movie. They do not live in houses, but in trees, and the home tree is their house.

However, these Na'vi people did not show any malice, some were just curious and confused.

When Jade Bird came back, they showed great respect to Jade Bird, the phantom rider, and said several words that were supposed to be compliments.

Blue Bird didn't understand, because the brain-computer interface was still connected to the gryphon, so she could only make a friendly gesture to these Na'vi people.

These Na'vi hunters didn't say anything when they saw this. After gesticulating and speaking to the blue bird, they turned around and left the temporary camp. They seemed to be stationed in the woodland near the camp.

Seeing these Na'vi hunters staying at the edge of the camp, Blue Bird didn't say anything. He guessed that the Na'vi priests had ordered them to help protect the camp when they were sent here.

Therefore, Qingniao didn't say much. He just told the people in the camp: "I will cut up the two prey I brought back later and give some to them as a thank you for their help."

"Okay, Chief Engineer Qing." The political cadre responded and arranged for people to deal with the two forest banshee winged beasts brought back by Qingniao.

But it was obvious that these were food for the gryphon-winged beast. This huge flying dragon showed a food-protecting behavior and roared at the people of the investigation team.

If it weren't for the blue bird standing nearby, and the lion-eagle winged beast not attacking these people because they were the same as the blue bird, I'm afraid these members of the investigation team would have been heroically injured.

"It seems we'd better wait a while, wait until this big guy finishes eating." The blue bird looked at the big guy protecting its food and didn't say anything. He just walked to the griffin-winged beast and calmed its emotions. After signaling it to eat first, he said to the political cadre: "I think the camp is almost built. Let everyone take a rest and eat first. The remaining work can be done after eating."

"Okay, Chief Engineer Qing." The political cadre nodded, and then arranged for the members of the investigation team to have dinner according to Qing Niao's wishes.

Because the camp has been set up, they can take off the breathing masks on their faces.

While others were eating, Qingniao noticed that Han Duoduo and her banshee winged beast were not there, so he found someone and asked, "Where is Han Duoduo?"

"Duoduo went on patrol." The member of the investigation team who was pulled by Qingniao answered, and expressed envy at the same time: "Chief Engineer Qing, when are you going to take us to catch two flying mounts? Riding this is much more handsome than flying a plane. !”

"Want to ride this? Finish your work first! Then I will discuss it with the local aboriginal priests to see if we can promote communication between the two parties." Qingniao actually remembered this suggestion and considered whether it was possible. Let the people from the investigation team work with the Na'vi to tame the banshee winged beast.

Because Blue Bird had also noticed when she was in the Na'vi tribe before, this tribe didn't seem to have many banshee-winged beasts and riders, which made her wonder if this tribe was lacking in this aspect.

However, this can be done later. For now, it is better to set up the camp so that the investigation team can have a stable place to stay before starting the follow-up work.

Chapter 69 Extraordinary meeting

Because they had achieved effective communication with the local aboriginal tribes and received their help, the survey team encountered no trouble or danger in their camp construction work.

And because we have already had the experience of building a temporary camp on Proxima b, the construction of the temporary camp this time also went very smoothly.

So at 20 o'clock in the evening, ship time, the members of the investigation team had finished dinner, completed the finishing work, and were resting in the temporary camp.

They also tried to invite the Na'vi hunters who were not far away to enter the camp. However, due to the size of the Na'vi people and the difference between the respiratory systems of the two sides, the Na'vi people were not able to enter the temporary camp. Had some friendly exchanges with several members of the survey team outside the camp.

After the gryphon finished its dinner, some of its leftover limbs and severed arms were collected and processed by the biologists of the survey team. The edible parts were given to the Ne'vi hunters. A gift.

The Na'vi hunters didn't mind that this was the leftover food of the gryphon-winged beast. For them, this was actually a rare prey. After all, even the forest banshee-winged beast was difficult for the Na'vi people to hunt. For prey, they usually obtain meat by hunting some terrestrial animals.

The alpine banshee winged beasts are more of their companions and mounts, not for food.

So the Neville hunters were actually very happy to receive such a gift, and later went to the forest to pick a lot of unknown fruits and gave them to the investigation team as a return gift.

The investigation team undoubtedly liked the return gifts sent by the Neville hunters, which saved them a lot of effort.

Since these fruits can be sent by the Na'vi people, they are undoubtedly edible for them, and this is of great help to biologists in studying the ecology of the planet and the habits of animals and plants.

After all, no matter how you look at it, the blue-skinned aborigines do not seem to be a race that understands farming technology. Although they have fixed residences, they still come from the era of tribes and hunting, and have not entered the era of agricultural civilization.

"What do you think of these aboriginal people?" In the conference room of the temporary camp, members of their team were communicating with the frigate in orbit through a video connection, reporting on the progress made by the team today. , while also listening to the thoughts of others left behind on the frigate.

After all, considering safety issues, most of the first batch of teams were still marines, and most of the scientists are still on the frigate.

"They do seem to be very friendly. At least after the Qinggong workers communicated with their figure who is supposed to be a sacrificial priest, they did not show any hostility towards us. It can even be said to be welcoming." The political worker cadre recalled what happened today and was the first to say expressed his opinion.

Qingniao added: "We got an advantage. The mount I caught is regarded by the locals as the messenger of the gods they believe in. According to their legend, whenever the planet encounters a huge change, When the time comes, this giant flying creature will appear, combine with a brave warrior, and lead other indigenous people to unite to overcome difficulties.

In other words, according to the beliefs of the local aborigines, I should now be regarded as their hero or religious leader, but I am not an aborigine. This aspect is somewhat discounted, and I can get their kindness, but most of it is not. Will obey my orders. "

At this point, Jade Bird felt that calling the aborigines a bit confusing, so he simply said: "In addition, these aborigines call themselves Na'vi, we can call them Na'vi people."

"Na'vi? Is this the pronunciation of their own language?" The linguist showed an interested look. He hoped to communicate effectively with these aboriginal people and even learn their language, instead of just doing it now Ability to communicate through gestures and gestures.

Thinking of this, the linguist suddenly became very curious about the way Qingniao communicated with the Na'vi priest before, and asked Qingniao: "Chief Engineer Qing, how did you communicate with that Na'vi priest today? I saw that you seemed to have connected a device to her?"

"It's a brain-computer interface." Blue Bird did not hide anything about this. At the same time, he looked at the biologists present and explained to them: "There is a being on this planet called Eva by the Na'vi people. It is similar to what I had speculated before. It is a giant neural network spread across every corner of the planet. According to the Na'vi people, it should connect all life on the planet.

So to a certain extent, it is correct that the Holy Mother that the Na'vi people believe in is the planet itself, at least it is equivalent to the entire planetary ecology.

The Na'vi people will make neural connections with other creatures on the planet through the nervous system of their heads exposed outside the body, directly transmitting and communicating their thoughts.

What's on their heads is not hair, but the nerves that extend out of their bodies. You'd better warn everyone later not to touch the Na'vi people's hair!We still don't know what this means in their culture, but at least it doesn't cause any trouble.

In addition, most creatures on this planet have nerve cords extending out of their heads. I suspect this is the result of Eva's human intervention.

After all, I am surprised that natural evolution can evolve this kind of communication mode, and with such an efficient communication method as neural connections, you may be able to study how the Na'vi people developed and retained their language. "

Hearing what Jade Bird said, both biologists and linguists showed excitement about encountering a good topic.

"In addition to these, I think we also need to consider how to establish more effective communication with these Na'vi people." The political cadres seem to be more concerned about how to establish more effective communication with the Na'vi people. After all, now the Blue Bird can worship the Na'vi people. Direct neural connections.

As for Han Duoduo, although he also showed the same ability, the political cadres felt that Han Duoduo's banshee-winged beast was also very important, so they did not plan to use Han Duoduo for other purposes for the time being.

So he asked Jade Bird: "Chief Engineer Qing, I wonder if the equipment you are using to connect to the nerves of the Na'vi people can be mass-produced? If we can equip a batch of them, at least the communication with the Na'vi people will become smoother." A lot, and it will be easier for us to start our next work.”

"It's not impossible, but I simulated this one with nano armor. If you want it, you need the engineering cabin on the mothership to produce it. The engineering module on the frigate can't build this." Qade Bird put the brain-computer interface The drawings were sent to the people on the frigate, and he told them: "You guys go and have the mother ship produce a batch and send it over. In addition, we can transfer some drones from the mother ship. We may need them very much." .”

Chapter 70 Return to Earth early?

Compared with how to establish effective communication with the Na'vi people, or the investigation team setting up a temporary camp, mining natural superconducting materials is the real priority for the investigation team.

Therefore, after the initial construction of the temporary camp was completed, the investigation team sent people to the previous Floating Mountain area to try to collect samples of natural superconducting materials.

"Chief Engineer Qing, this is the ore sample we collected. Look!" A member of the investigation team placed a piece of ore sample in front of Qingniao. There was a base like a magnet underneath the piece of ore. Then the ore floated.

Seeing this scene, Qingniao was slightly surprised. This was not only because of the superconducting properties displayed by this ore, but also because this ore allowed the technology tree in the core of her mind to light up new technologies after a long absence.

It’s not like Jade Bird has never lit up new technologies on the technology tree before. When she was in the cyberpunk world, she collected some new technologies due to various encounters.

After arriving in this world, she also had a period of technical exchanges with the coalition government and obtained a lot of technologies unique to the wandering earth world, such as giant structure construction and planetary engine technology.

After all, not every world has such a civilization that starts building planet-level spaceships before even stepping out of its own star system.

This is just like when you open Stars, you are still building a mine in your home system, and the Behemoth confidence ship and Dominator are already being built next door.

It's a good thing that the wandering Earth is not a Trisolaran. Otherwise, when the Trisolarans were flying towards the Earth, the Earth would have destroyed the entire fleet halfway.

The integration of these technologies into Jade Bird's technology tree unlocked a newer level of hull upgrade for her. However, the situation did not allow it when she was on Earth, and she also wanted to integrate more Wandering Earth technologies, so Jade Bird did not There is no rush to upgrade.

Right now, what this piece of superconducting ore is lighting up is a material-related technology called "natural superconducting materials." Strictly speaking, it cannot be considered a new technology, but is just the application of a natural material.

It is precisely because of this that this new technology can be ignited with just a piece of ore.

In addition, a temporary upgrade project has been added behind the existing hull of the Jade Bird. This natural superconducting material is used to transform the body of the Jade Bird to improve its performance.

This surprised Qingniao. Can he still be "modernized"?

So does this count as a breakthrough to a star?Or transformation?She thought about it for a while and decided that it was still considered transformation. After all, the step she took to collect faith and become a legend was her breakthrough to stardom.

But although he understood the matter of transformation, Qingniao had difficulty in how to transform himself.

There are mainly two problems that she cannot solve for the time being.

The first, of course, is the mining of ores. She is quite confident in this aspect. After all, in the movie, humans also had a honeymoon period with the Na'vi and were able to mine ores on Pandora.

If it weren't for the mining company's growing ambitions and the wider mining scope, and eventually even pushed the Na'vi people's home tree and Eva's soul tree, directly irritating Eva, a planet-level being, Being pushed away directly, I am afraid that they will be able to dig mines on this planet for a long time.

Therefore, for Jade Bird, mining itself is not difficult. The difficulty is that they do not have the ability to mine now.

After all, they are just an investigation team, and there are huge gaps in all aspects, whether it is manpower or equipment.

The equipment is not bad. The engineering shelter on the main body of Jade Bird can produce some industrial equipment, which can meet the initial mining needs.

But the second item is somewhat difficult to deal with, that is, her transformation this time is different from the previous upgrade. The upgrade is the remanufacturing of the entire ship, while the transformation is similar to parts replacement and pipeline optimization, so there will be no changes in the hull. Big changes, but the entire ship will temporarily shut down all functions and fall into a shutdown state.

This does not have a big impact on Qingniao herself. For her, the shutdown of the main body is just that the ship cannot be used, and it will not have any additional impact on her.

On the contrary, after the transformation is completed, her strength will be slightly improved, and all aspects of her body performance will also be optimized.

But this is not a good thing for the investigation team, because it means that they have to stay on a completely shut down space battleship for a period of time. If they are not prepared, a whole ship of people will die.

Although there are at least two planets that the investigation team can go to now. If necessary, it is enough to transport everyone to the surface of the planet to stay for a while. However, this matter must be discussed with someone first and arrangements can be made before it can be implemented.

Otherwise, it would really be a switch from Star Trek to Space Hulk.