Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

After watching Director Li leave, Lu Zhou took the elevator straight to the second basement floor of the main building of the Institute of Higher Education. He passed through the access control hidden in the sample room and entered the unknown third basement—

That is, the underground laboratory.

The system rewarded him for the wreckage, which was basically placed here, under the supervision of Xiao Ai.

Almost as soon as he stepped into the laboratory, a quad-rotor drone flying over the display fluttered around, flying around him twice.

Looking at Xiao Ai sticking up, Lu Zhou immediately opened the door to see the mountain road.

"How's the situation with 'reptiles'?"

The so-called "reptile" refers to the "reptile" all-terrain remote-control exploration vehicle, which is one of the samples that the system rewards when the task is completed in the previous stage.

Unlike the carbon nanofiber woven clothes, the technology content of this gadget is obviously much higher.

According to the description in the manual, its communication radius is theoretically as high as 3 astronomical units. Even if Mars and Earth are at the farthest relative position, the terminal on his side can successfully receive the entire terrain from the "reptile" At most, the signals from the remote-control exploration vehicle are weak, and at most the delay is high. There is no way to control it in real time.

Very interested in its communication device, Lu Zhou tried to disassemble this thing, but unfortunately never found a non-violent disassembly method, and the manual also clearly wrote a built-in self-destruction program. Words that could lead to unpredictable consequences.

Obviously this thing is probably a type of thing with the nitrogen shield.

Either use a universal scanning gun, or you can only use scrap.

Fortunately, unlike the one-time non-rechargeable nitrogen shield, according to the description, this gadget can be charged by solar energy and geothermal energy. When the energy is low, it will automatically enter the low-energy standby mode and wait for the environment. Restart when appropriate.

Considering that the Lunar Space Station has been deployed and the exploration of the resources on the moon is no longer an expensive matter, this "reptile" was naturally used by Luzhou to Mars.

In this way, not only can you prepare resources for future colonial activities, you can also go to the "site" of New Virginia Colonial Station to see what happened there.

Xiao Ai: [Has successfully landed on the surface of Mars! You can start anytime! (???) ゞ]

Lu Zhou nodded his head: "Then start it now."

Xiao Ai: [Observe! (??????) ??】

The terminal of the "Crawler" all-terrain survey vehicle is a heavy notebook computer, which is also equipped with a signal transmitting and receiving device as large as a half-seater tank. The signal transmitting and receiving device has been installed by Lu Zhou beside the water tank on the roof of the Institute of Higher Education. In terms of covering people's eyes and ears, the work is still quite in place.

But then again, even if someone feels weird, they have no right to investigate here.

Even if you don't look at the important role played by the Jinling Institute of Advanced Research in the areas of controlled fusion and aerospace, taking the brands of the key cooperative research and development institutions of the Air Force and Naval Equipment Department, it is not easy to explore the secrets here. .

At present, the terminal of the "reptile" survey vehicle has been connected to Xiao Ai's host.

Five minutes after Lu Zhou's order was issued, a black prism-shaped metal box made a leak on Mars, tens of millions of kilometers away.

Then, the shell on the side of the box slowly opened. A remote-controlled car that was less than half a person tall and had angular and angular shapes rolled out three and a half car-height tires. Under the preset instructions, Facing the sandstorm that covered the sun, heading towards the site of the New Virginia marked on the map.

At the same time, Lu Zhou, who was in the underground laboratory, first made a cup of coffee for himself, then walked to the experimental table, sat down, and opened the survey vehicle control terminal on the table.

Quietly waiting for the countdown of the communication response to finish, soon as the signal floated from tens of millions of kilometers away, the dialog box popped out of the screen.

["Lightning" escape capsule opens! 】

["Reptile" wakes up successfully! 】

[Terminal successfully connected! 】

With the pop-up of the last dialog box, a clear picture came quickly from the screen, while Lu Zhou was drinking coffee while watching the reptiles quietly advancing in the harsh climate.

With a delay of several minutes, the remote control is obviously unrealistic. This little guy has a simple "tool-level" intelligence level. In combination with pre-set instructions, basically no one can be in the whole process. Under the condition of control, complete the inspection tasks in the task list.

The person sitting in front of the control terminal only needs to look at the signals sent by several minutes or even ten minutes, and correct the "variables" that may appear during the inspection task.

In fact, it ’s okay for Xiao Ai to do this job entirely, but Lu Zhou has n’t been too lazy to this extent, let alone he is also curious, that life support unit embodying North America ’s top artificial biosphere technology What kind of caverns are there.

Without waiting a long time, the outline of the life support unit has been reflected in the field of vision of the main camera of the "reptile" through the yellow sand of the sky.

Looking at the tragic situation of this "remains", Lu Zhou recalled the concept map published by Space-X on the official website, and hesitated for half a second for Ares' plan.

When the escape capsule was launched, the entire life support unit was basically in a semi-abandoned state. The remaining power is probably enough for the life support unit to stand by for a period of time, but most of this time will not last long.

The return capsule will take away as much oxygen and methane as possible before leaving, and the ejected tail flame will burn the shell of the life support unit.

When the "reptile" passed through the surrounding planting area, Lu Zhou could clearly observe through the side lens that the "vegetable greenhouse" spreading out on all sides had basically been blown down by the high temperature air flow, and most of the plastic cultivation utensils were buried in the sand.

However, these are minor problems. After all, a few days after the dust storm, after confirming that the sand storm is global, the colonists have already recovered all the crops here, and the entire planting area is basically abandoned. status.

Opened to the garage door, an antenna that looked like a tentacle touched the access control, and soon the program preloaded into the life support unit was started, unlocking the garage door.

As the door slowly opened, the reptiles activated the lighting on the roof of the car, and swung in.

Looking at the undefended life support unit through the terminal's screen, Lu Zhou's heart was filled with emotion.

The "tinder" plan was frustrated by the attack by unknown forces. Although there is no direct evidence to prove that it was the CIA, but did not expect to study the stagnant artificial biosphere technology, it returned to him in this way.

Perhaps this is the so-called fate or reincarnation.

Although he did not believe these things.

After passing through the warehouse area, I went straight to the experimental area. Looking at the domestic garbage **** by plastic bags on the ground, Lu Zhou's mind restored the pictures of the last few weeks here.

In order to save living resources and valuable energy, the colonizers have moved from the living area to the living and squatting next to the only communication terminal that can get in touch with the BFS spacecraft. funny.

I don't know when these refugees get on the Xiaguang, they find that they can take a bath on the Xiaguang carrying the cabin, but I don't know what expression they will have.

When I came to the console of the laboratory, the antenna that was previously connected to the access control system protruded again from the reptile's case, and clicked in front of the chassis of the console.

Soon, the extinguished screen lights up, and progress bars appear on it.

As the progress bar was completed, the data that had been just waiting to be picked up was all taken over by the reptiles and transmitted back to Luzhou, tens of millions of kilometers away.

After quickly passing through the files presented on the control terminal screen, Lu Zhou gradually converged on the rash expression on his face, and a look of seriousness appeared in his look.

Even more, a touch of surprise.

"……interesting."