[Extra: Mechanical Star (1)] 'Resurrection Empire'
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"In three days, we will be able to complete the final experimental data calculation of the Z-particle impact smelting method, and we can leave."
Ou Xiameng smoothed her hair beside her ears and said with a smile.
She is not tall and wears a short ponytail. She has big eyes and delicate and cute facial features, somewhat similar to her ancestor Song Siyu. She is covered with a loose white coat, making Ou Xiameng look like a precocious
little grown-up.
Even though she looks young, only in her twenties, in fact, including the time spent in cryogenic slumber, she is already one thousand three hundred and twenty-one years old.
As a PhD candidate in the field of natural metal materials science, a professional scholar who can still engage in natural metal research in an era when mass-energy conversion is extremely popular, she has almost reached the top of the academic pyramid.
In order to complete her doctoral thesis, and to wait for the basic scientific research on the J919 mechanical star to enter a critical stage that required her intervention, Ou Xiameng fell into a deep sleep 322 years ago, when humans first set foot on J919, and woke up 3 years ago.
, arrived here at the same time.
Three years have passed, and together with more than 3,600 professionals from Xingluo on J919, Ou Xia Meng is conducting the final data verification and is about to reap the fruits of success.
Humans discovered J919 363 years ago and arrived here 322 years ago.
Different from the drastic actions on other planets, which only seek to complete development quickly, humans' excavation operations on this ultra-high-density planet located in the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy are much more sophisticated.
At first, scholars observed from a distance and believed that the planet, whose atmosphere was full of toxic and harmful substances and whose radiation index seriously exceeded standards, should have been a lifeless death star.
Remote scanning also showed that there was no organic matter on J919.
But after closer observation, scholars were pleasantly surprised to find that a very complete ecosystem has been formed on J919.
On the vast ocean composed of sky-blue saturated copper sulfate solution, there are large areas of true rust moss that can expand and grow on its own.
Various types of "creatures" swim, float and are deposited on the seabed. The forms of "creatures" include crystals, metal elements, giant hedgehog-like steel seaweed jungles, ghost ship-like wriggling metal frames...
The situation on land is more complicated. From a distance, it looks like a garbage dump of a starship cemetery, but from a closer look, it is a "vibrant" steel jungle, in which some large or small, fast or slow mechanical creations are walking and running, making it very lively.
Although humans have set foot on many planets dominated by mechanical life, and even had contact with perfect half-biological and half-mechanical life forms like the Mizu that transcended time and space very early on, they are so perfect and vibrant that they cover almost all planets.
The extremely pure mechanical life ecosystem of the entire huge planet is still surprising and unheard of.
The subsequent discoveries were even more surprising. On Earth, the source of life is amino acids. There are no amino acids on J919. Instead, there is an extremely wonderful substance with life characteristics that can continuously aggregate and free in the earth and solution oceans.
An elemental alloy that grows spontaneously from metal atoms.
The metal ecosystem on J919 is built on this special elemental alloy with extremely strong ductility and self-growth capabilities.
It is both an amino acid and DNA, but it is also a metal.
Of course, compared to the complex molecular structure of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, alloys are a bit simpler after all. Scholars have not found traces of intelligent life in the bustling ecosystem of J919, and all the creatures above are classified as non-intelligent life, that is,
The level of instinctive life is similar to the snails, ciliates, and cyanobacteria on earth.
After preliminary verification, special alloys, which are the source of mechanical life, can be used to further improve materials. If humans completely absorb this technology, it can bring about a moderate innovation in materials science and technology.
At first, scholars discovered that special alloys can only be formed naturally through the ecosystem on J919. The metals in animals and plants on the planet have high and low contents. They can be extracted by smelting non-intelligent life on the planet, but the mining efficiency is not high.
It is satisfying. This does not meet the industrial production needs of mankind in the cosmic age.
The goal of the Z-particle impact smelting research that Ou Xia Meng participated in is to use the idea of space industrialization to fully develop J919 as quickly as possible, striving to dismantle the entire planet within ten years, take away all the special alloys, and use
The fundamental purpose of the next step of in-depth research is to thoroughly understand the synthesis method of this extremely high-tech new material, so as to facilitate the large-scale "planting" of new J919 planets in other galaxies and the mass production of more special alloys.
After Mercury in the solar system was brutally attacked, this has become a routine operation for humans to engage in in-depth development of planets.
At this time, near the J919 planet, in addition to more than 3,000 scientific teams on the surface and in the deep sea, there are more than 60,000 large unmanned excavation robots waiting quietly in synchronous orbits.
As long as the last step of data verification of the new smelting method is completed and the feasibility is demonstrated, these more than 60,000 powerful robots will be fully activated and can dismantle the entire planet within a month. In eight years at most, J919 will be divided into
Tens of millions of copies were then taken away by subsequent transport ships. Except for special alloys that accounted for tens of millions of parts in mass, the rest were conventional materials that make up the planet. These things, with what humans have today,
The level of science and technology is mostly usable and can save a lot of processes. Although mass-energy conversion is omnipotent, it is always cost-effective if it can save one step of synthesis process.
…
After listening to Ou Xiameng's words, Liang Zhichu's eyes flashed across her face, staying for about 0.1 seconds, and then quickly looked away, only showing a naive smile, scratching his head and saying: "This is still yours, Dr. Ou."
Credit, originally everyone thought it would take seven or eight years to complete the calculations, but after you came here, the project progress accelerated a lot."
Ou Xiameng rolled her eyes at him, "If it were my mentor, it would be faster."
"Well. You are always so humble." Liang Zhichu's heartbeat suddenly accelerated and he said with a smile.
"Okay, let's work." Ou Xiameng turned his attention back to the projection. Looking at the rapidly flashing mathematical calculation process on it, a hint of arrogance that was not easily noticed gradually appeared on his face.
This is indeed her contribution.
Due to the particularity of the material, the calculation of the smelting method cannot be simulated using quantum networks and must be coordinated with actual experiments.
Behind every calculation process, there is a remote unmanned experiment for verification.
When Ou Xiameng arrived at the site three years ago, she spent a month redesigning the experimental plan based on field survey data and refining the details of the process, which greatly improved the work progress on the entire planet and also provided her with personal benefits.
Prestige was established.
In this scientific research team, even the rigid and strict team leader Nur Ahong Suritan respects Ou Xiameng very much.
…
It takes 18 hours and 33 minutes for J919 to rotate once. Therefore, the night of this planet is relatively short, less than eight hours. However, because J919 is located in the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, the density of stars is high, and the atmosphere is thin and cloudless, making the sky full of stars.
Under the light, there is no real night on J919, it is just slightly darker than the day.
In order to maintain the biological clock of human beings originating from the earth, various bases usually close their windows when night falls, artificially creating indoor darkness.
…
After a busy day, Liang Zhichu returned to his dormitory. As an officially established assistant researcher, Liang Zhichu had a single dormitory with an indoor area of more than 70 square meters in the base.
He lay on his back on the bed, holding a half-open 300-page hard-shell notebook in his left hand, holding a pen in his right hand, and wrote on it with rare smooth hard-pen calligraphy: "There are only three days left to complete the project. Based on my understanding of Europe
According to the doctor's understanding, she will definitely be transferred back to Academia Sinica after completing her work on J919. I don't know when we will see each other again after this farewell. I still don't have the courage to confess, and I still dare not tell her my love.
The inspiration for my undergraduate thesis came from the project she completed when she was in high school. My admiration for her makes me so nervous that I can't speak even if I just look at her from a distance. Three years later, it's still the same. I really want to know her.
Freeze code, and then start freezing simultaneously with her. Otherwise, there are only two endings for me. When I freeze, she has passed her life. Or when she wakes up, I have turned into a withered skeleton..."
Bang! Liang Zhichu closed the notebook, stood up, and put the gold-covered notebook on the bookshelf in the living room.
This is his "little secret". What is recorded in the notebook is the "Secret Love Diary" that he has written intermittently over the past three years.
In an era when almost no one used handwriting, Liang Zhichu maintained this traditional and ancient personal habit of writing down his thoughts by hand and recording them on paper full of historical charm. It was very ritualistic and could give him a beating and anxious heart.
To comfort. Moreover, unlike the data stream storage carrier that needs to be synchronized to the quantum network, things written by hand on paper are more private and more at ease.
But he placed the notebook in the living room and placed it conspicuously on the bookshelf. From time to time, he would imagine that if Ou Xiameng came to the dormitory as a guest one day, he would read this book from the bookshelf. Then he would not need it.
Let’s find the courage to confess again.
People are so contradictory.
Returning to the bedroom, Liang Zhichu rolled up the quilt and fell into a deep sleep.
…
I don’t know when it started, but the sky was covered with a layer of gray fog, which resembled what it looked like when sandstorms broke out in some cities on the home planet Earth in the early 21st century.
These fogs are not a specific climate phenomenon in a certain area, but appear over the entire planet at almost the same time.
0.5 seconds later, a piercing siren sounded throughout the Tara Basin Scientific Research Station No. 117.
Ou Xiameng, who had just fallen asleep, immediately jumped out of bed, dressed up as quickly as possible, and rushed out.
One and a half minutes later, all the staff at the No. 117 scientific research station appeared in the lobby of the base's central control room.
In addition to Ou Xiameng, Liang Zhichu and team leader Nur Ahong, there are three other people in the scientific research station.
They are Cissetta Roy, a professional soldier with a flamboyant personality, tall stature and bronze skin. In addition to being responsible for base security, he also serves as the driver of a small fast armed ship.
Matsuda Masahito, a lean and brave senior digger, has a bad temper, seems to dislike everyone, and has sinister behavior.
She has a plump body, likes to wear relatively revealing clothes, revealing a large area of white snowflakes, is enthusiastic with everyone, and is always cheerful. Samantha Swan is the life assistant who is responsible for taking care of the daily life and medical needs of everyone at the base. She and Cisse
Ta and Matsuda Masahito maintain some kind of physical relationship at the same time, which is both work content and physiological needs, and may also be mixed with some emotional factors.
At this time, the group of people was rapidly advancing their work according to their pre-division of labor in the emergency.
Team leader Nur Ahong was standing in front of the console.
He has opened the manual control panel that he has not opened for a long time.
The old-fashioned LCD monitor inside is showing the words backup system reactivation.
After a short while, Nur Ahong said: "Our quantum communication with the outside world has suffered strong interference. I have just tested all the backup communication facilities such as gravitational waves and electromagnetic wave communication, and they have all failed. The base's brain system
It has also stopped operating, and now only the most primitive mechanical devices can be used. The backup system uses microcircuit semiconductor chips that I made for my personal hobby, but they have no data storage capacity. If I remember correctly, the empire has nearly 20,000
Nothing like this has happened in years.”
Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu also had gloomy faces. They had just checked the experimental data and found that they could not retrieve it at all, and the experimental auxiliary intelligence also stopped operating inexplicably.
The two of them only rescued a metal plate that was engraved with special symbols in the shape of a tree network. These metal plates were the underlying backup of the experimental data, and they used the symbolic language of the mechanical civilization fan tribe.
Ciseta reported: "I have good news here. The base is currently not locked by remote weapons. The data fragments obtained briefly before the instrument failed showed that there were no uncontrolled war devices on J919."
"The question now is, if we can't restore contact with other bases, what should we do next?" Samantha looked very worried.
Ou Xiameng pondered: "The situation is unclear now, so maybe we should evacuate in time."
Nur Ahong: "According to the provisions of Section 1, Article 2 of the Andromeda Scientific Expedition Safety Regulations, as grassroots personnel, when encountering emergencies, we should first try to solve the problem ourselves, and even if it fails, we should collect more
Information can only be considered before leaving. The current situation should be classified as a first-level abnormality. If the initial cause of the abnormality can be found, and at least a B-level evaluation can be obtained, then when you return to your place of residence, you can be promoted to at least a second-level citizen.
"
Matsuda Masahito suddenly became interested: "Then what's there to say? I just checked and my armored boring machine can still be started in mechanical mode. Now I'm going to go out for a walk."
"Wait a minute, let's try to check all the equipment first, then try to restore contact with other bases, and then make a decision." Nur Ahong suppressed the impulsive Matsuda Masahito.
Matsuda Masahito shook his head dissatisfied, "It's already obvious that we can't contact you, so why bother? You think about it, I'll go out by myself, so I can't affect you."
Obviously, he is currently only a third-class citizen and is eager to make meritorious deeds.
After saying that, Matsuda Masahito turned around and walked out, as if he was going straight to his tunnel boring machine cabin.
"Stop! Idiot." Cicetta grabbed his shoulders from behind, "You should obey the team leader's arrangements. When the situation becomes complicated and unknown, obeying the superior's decision-making is the only way to simplify the situation."
"Asshole! You just want to stop me from getting rich! I am a professional boring machine engineer, and I have already drilled around J919 twice with my Yamato! No one knows J919 better than me, and there is no danger at all outside!"
The two started fighting.
Others weren't surprised.
In the past few years, Ciceta and Matsuda Masahito would fight each other every few days in the base, and they seemed to have inexhaustible energy.
No one else came to dissuade him.
As a professional soldier, Cissetta wears a variable biochemical combat suit all day long. If the combat suit is turned on, he can subdue Matsuda in a thousandth of a second. Of course, in accordance with military regulations and out of some bad taste, he
He will not use the ability of the combat suit to deal with Matsuda, but only relies on his slightly stronger physical fitness to fight with the opponent. If the situation gets out of control, he will rely on the ability of the combat suit to quickly end the dispute, and
Matsuda will not be hurt.
…
Nearly nine hours of daylight passed quickly, and the team's efforts made little progress. Still unable to contact the outside world, they could only rely on the most primitive broadcast signals to transmit some extremely difficult to identify Morse code-like signals.
But because Morse code is too old, no one in the scientific expedition team has mastered it. In the past, if these ancient data were needed, they could be queried in real time through the seamlessly connected quantum network. Now, no matter how powerful the scientific researchers are, they suddenly lose the quantum network.
After being supported by various information, they all seemed to be caught off guard and lacked preparation.
As for the various spare equipment in the base, all precision equipment involving modern technology cannot be used. Only the power assembly of the small fast armed ship used to leave the planet can still be moved. Although without the help of the intelligent assisted driving system, only the
Taking off and escaping from the planet's gravity can be accomplished by manual operation, but with Siceta's driving skills, it is still feasible. In addition, there are a few weapons that can also be used, but without the assistance of the brain, aiming becomes more difficult.
But it's still no problem to fire.
Although they still didn't understand the situation, after it was confirmed that they could leave safely and that they still had certain armed capabilities, the pressure on everyone's minds suddenly eased a lot. Only Masahito Matsuda was very dissatisfied with wasting a day in vain.
In the scientific expedition team, Ou Xiameng was originally a first-class citizen, and Liang Zhichu and the team leader were originally second-class citizens. Ciseta was a professional soldier on staff and did not care about the citizen level. Samantha, who only had a fourth-level citizen level, was nothing.
Otherwise, those who are motivated would not have devoted themselves to studying traditional cooking skills based on personal preferences in an era when the food synthesis industry is extremely mature, and became a daily assistant of this scientific research team.
Matsuda Masahito is only an intermediate tunnel boring engineer, and his professional skills have reached the peak of his life. If there are no special opportunities, he will be locked up as a third-class citizen for his whole life. He believes that Nur Ahong's conservatism is different from Ciceta's.
The inexplicable hostility blocked his progress in achieving a breakthrough in life.
But Matsuda didn't say anything more after all. He didn't get much rest during the day and had to take a nap to stay full of energy.
Nur Ahong decided to allow Matsuda to drive the boring machine out early tomorrow morning. By the way, he had to bring a handwritten letter with him so that he could re-establish contact with other scientific research stations and exchange information. As for the paper and pen and ink used to write the letter,
, was provided by Liang Zhichu, who went back and tore out two pages from his notebook.
