The Terra Travel Diary of Neither Sacred, Rhea, nor Terra

Our own culture and development process, the things we are proud of, were actually already formulated by others.

It often takes a long time for these civilizations to accept their identity as "children".

Some people may even fall into self-collapse because they cannot accept this reality.

The reactions of the "predecessors" to this varied.

Some people, out of good intentions, would think of giving a helping hand and even be willing to accept their "children" civilizations into their own. However, if they encounter a civilization that cannot accept their existence, they would simply hide away.

Some of them are not so well-intentioned, and simply treat the reactions of these "children" civilizations as sociological research.

Some are just outright bad-intentioned, and even this "children" civilization itself is cultivated as nourishment.

Of course, what Miku has seen most often are the ones that the "predecessors" have sent long ago... Although seriously speaking, this situation should be another entry.

It is very likely that the "human ancestors" of the Terra world have already been sent.

Christen just showed some emotional ups and downs, probably because she had already known some similar things in advance.

The Friston she mentioned in that "suicide note" should be the remnant of the "human ancestors" of the Terra world.

Miku didn't know how much help the "human ancestor" from the Terra world provided in Christen's flight plan.

But judging from the large number of inexplicable designs in Wanxing Garden, even if any help is provided, it will not be much.

And even if that ancestor was willing to give everything he had to assist Kristen, the help he or she or even it could provide could not be compared to that of Miku.

This is the confidence of a senior planeswalker with rich experience.

"You are very lucky." Miku suddenly said to Christen.

Not knowing what Miku was talking about, Christen, who was lucky, was stunned for a moment and then said, "Yes, it is indeed my luck to meet you."

"Well, I mean your luck. For you personally, it may not be all luck." Miku suddenly changed the subject.

"?" Hearing Miku's words, Christen was shocked, thinking that Miku was going to do something to her, such as using her as a test subject, but she soon found out the reason why Miku said that.

Accompanied by the BT alarm sounding again.

The Wanxing Garden, which had regained its power, was surrounded by a circle of autonomous drones that emerged from some unknown wreckage.

"Where do all these come from?" Christen asked curiously as she looked at the real-time impact projected by BT.

Although she saw some wreckage when she went up in the sky, she didn't encounter so many defense drones.

"Maybe it flew out together with the previous wave, but it took some time to fly over because it was too far away."

Miku said casually. Compared with his previous serious response, this time Miku didn't even plan to move.

"Or maybe after the previous wave was completely wiped out, an alert was sent to other autonomous drones in nearby locations."

Miku said this because the number of drones coming this time was ten times that of the last time.

Even though it is only the size of a suitcase, the sight of tens of thousands of drones rushing towards Wanxing Garden is quite shocking on the screen projected by BT.

At least it was quite shocking for Kristen.

"Then why are these defense systems activated?"

Christen stood up from the plastic chair that Miku had just made for her, looking like she was going to protect her space station.

In response to this, Miku, who was sitting on another plastic chair, put away the Hitchhiker's Guide and waved his hand.

"Come for me, don't worry, I just installed some defensive weapons."

"???when?"

Christen paused and said in surprise, although she did not provide any substantial help in the maintenance work just now, she had been following Miku the whole time.

Could it be that Miku was under her eyelids?

Weapons were installed in Wanxing Garden below.

With this doubt in mind, Christen walked to the culture chambers in the ecological park.

The portholes, specially designed to provide sunlight for the plants in these culture chambers, are the only areas in the ecological park where one can see the outside.

Miku did not stop Christen's behavior, nor did he worry about Christen's safety. The defensive weapons he installed were not just weapons.

When Christen came to the porthole, she was surprised by the number of drones, which was ten times the previous number, and the dense beams of light they emitted.

Especially this time, these drones are aimed at large fixed targets, and they fully demonstrate the all-round strike capability of their autonomous combat systems.

As if noticing the presence of Christen next to the porthole, dozens of drones immediately locked onto the porthole.

Christen, who was rushing towards him, subconsciously half-crouched down and took a defensive posture.

After a long while, Christen found that she was not hurt and did not even feel the slightest vibration. She stood up curiously and looked out the window again.

What came into view was still a dense array of light beams, but when these plasma beams were about one meter away from Wanxing Garden, they turned into circles of ripples out of thin air.

Like the ripples created by raindrops falling on the water.

Miku's explanation also follows:

"A fairly common deflector shield that can offset any energy attack that does not overload its own endurance limit."

"?" Christen was not wondering what the deflector shield was, because the Terrans also mastered similar energy shield technology.

Christen was still curious about when Miku installed this system in Wanxing Garden.

"It's just a few parts." Guessing what Christen was wondering about, Miku took out a coin-like prop and flicked it towards Christen like a coin.

Christen raised her hand to take it and looked at it carefully. Even if it was really "currency", it must be the "deflector shield" generator with the smallest face value.

After looking at it for a long time without understanding it, Kristen asked:

"Can it only counteract energy attacks?"

I don’t know if the drone outside heard Kristen’s question.

After discovering that continuous attacks could not reduce the energy index of the shield covering Wanxing Garden, they began to implement plan B, which was specifically designed to deal with large targets like Wanxing Garden.

That is, stop firing, increase engine power, and crash directly into it.

Physical entities that touched the shield passed through without any hindrance.

However, the drone that easily passed through the shield did not directly hit the outer armor of Wanxing Garden, which was less than one meter away from the shield.

Instead, it appeared directly at another position of the shield, and its flight direction changed from rushing towards the inside of the shield to rushing outside the shield.

The drone had no idea what was happening and no extra subroutines to handle what was happening. After breaking through the shield, it collided with another drone that was about to crash into the shield.

Two drones collided with each other, creating a silent firework in the silent space.

"…Is this what deflection means?" Christen said in surprise as she watched the scenes repeating themselves through the porthole.

Is this shield technology? This is clearly an advanced use of space technology.

In addition to the “coin” that Miku took out to show, ultra-miniaturization technology must be added.

Each of the three technologies alone is not too rare on Terra, but when the three technologies are combined, it is beyond Kristen's understanding.

Kristen had no idea how to combine these three technologies.

"Actually, this isn't invincibility. As long as the one-time output energy is enough to overload the shield itself, any deflection will be useless."

"And if we build a bigger shield to cover us, we can easily make it round or flat."

Miku said with a smile when he saw that Kristen looked like she was going to lose her hair.

"This is already exaggerated." Kristen exclaimed.

The so-called overload means a head-on collision, and this head-on collision often means there is no other way.

In a battle where there is a generation gap in technological capabilities, having no tricks means that a head-on confrontation is hopeless.

As Christen was sighing, the silent fireworks outside became less frequent.

On the one hand, the number of these suitcase drones is small, and they often do not hit other drones when they crash in and out.

On the other hand, the self-regulatory programs of some drones seem to have noticed this problem and stopped the meaningless attacks.

"Okay, there's nothing to see anymore." After watching the drone fireworks show, Miku turned his attention back to Kristen and said:

"Press that button."

17: Transmitters in Miku's Eyes

"Press a button?"

After hearing Miku's order, Christen looked down at the buttons in her hand and found that there was indeed a button in the middle that could be pressed.

Kristen was about to press the button without asking why, when Miku suddenly remembered something and asked:

"By the way, do you have any implants in your body?"

"What implant?" Christen was stunned.

"It's just artificial bodies, mechanical organs, etc. It would be best if there are any.

Let's stop it from working first." Miku asked.

As for whether it is possible to pause actively, Miku was just asking. It’s actually not a big deal if it can’t be paused.

Even if you are a cyborg, you wouldn't let an implant control your excretory system.

"No... Oh, no, I do." Christen was about to say that she didn't have any when she suddenly remembered that she had implants in her body, but it didn't seem right to say that they were organs.

And more importantly, it seems impossible to stop.

As she spoke, Kristen opened her arms to Miku, who was still sitting calmly on the plastic chair, and showed him the implant in her body.

"What is this?" Miku asked, looking at the layer of metallic liquid on Christen's palm.

During the previous space battle, Kristen seemed to have launched these things as weapons. Could they be some kind of prosthetic organs?

Should we say that this behavior of directly launching organs as weapons is "a very strange weapon" or "a very strange organ"?

"This is transmitter, one of the masterpieces of Rhine Life," Kristen replied.

"Transmitter? Neurotransmitter?" asked Miku.

“It can act as a neurotransmitter, but it does more than that,” Kristen said.

Just as Kristen was about to continue explaining what transmitter was, Miku had already pinched a little bit of the transmitter in her hand.

The transmitter, which would have boiled immediately if it had left Christen's control, quietly formed a water droplet shape on Miku's fingertips.

Miku, who had put on a monocle at some point, observed carefully for a while and then said to Christen:

“Is this your masterpiece?”

"It is the masterpiece of Rhine Life."

Kristen said, especially after noticing the surprise in Miku's tone, she puffed out her chest.

"Perhaps I need to re-evaluate Terran civilization."

Miku looked up at the "proud" Christen, then turned his gaze back to the transmitter on his fingertips and said:

"Like on a level that destroys itself."

"???" Christen's expression froze for a moment before she quickly asked, "Are these transmitters dangerous?"

"It's hard to describe it with a simple word like 'dangerous'." Miku sighed and said, "Although it's only a semi-finished product, it's indeed a semi-finished product that has taken the most important step."

"Semi-finished product?" Christen asked, and she showed an attitude that she would not give up until she got to the bottom of it.

At this moment, it seemed as if the thousands of drones outside that were still eyeing them covetously no longer existed.

"If I'm not mistaken, one of the main features of this thing is that it can act as a medium for receiving and encoding neural signals, allowing the implanted person to control these things with his or her own subjective thoughts, right?"

Miku took off his monocle, blew on the lens and asked.

"Yes, that's how I control the transmitters in my body."

Kristen replied without denying it.

"What was your original intention in studying this thing?"

"Original intention? Of course my original intention was to..."

When Kristen was about to say how she planned to use the transmitter to serve the Arc Light Project No. 1, which was the Wanxingyuan launch plan, Miku interrupted what Kristen wanted to say:

“The original intention, or rather, the original intention of the person who made it, who made it like this.”

"..." Christen was stunned. She didn't know how Miku knew that the transmitter was not made by her. She was just using it.