I Really Didn’t Want to Be the Savior: 【Extra: Mechanical Star (1)】

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"In three more days, we will be able to complete the final experimental data calculation of the Z particle impact smelting method, and we will be able to go."

Ou Xia Meng stroked the hair by the ear and said with a smile.

She is short and has a short ponytail. She has big eyes and delicate and lovely facial features, somewhat similar to her ancestor Song Siyu. The loose white coat covering his body made Ou Xia Meng look like a precocious little adult.

Don't look at her as if she is not very old, only in her twenties, but in fact, she is 1,321 years old, including the time she spent in freezing sleep.

As a doctoral student in the field of natural metal materials, a professional scholar who can still engage in natural metal research in an era where mass-energy transformation is extremely popular, she has almost stood at the top of the academic pyramid.

In order to complete his doctoral dissertation, and to wait for the basic scientific research on the J919 mechanical star to enter a critical stage that requires her to take action, Ou Xiameng went into a deep sleep 322 years ago, when human beings just set foot on J919, and 322 years ago I woke up years ago and arrived here at the same time.

Three years later, Ou Xiameng and Xingluo's more than 3,600 fellow professionals on J919 have conducted the final data verification and are about to reap the fruits of success.

Humans discovered J919 363 years ago and arrived 322 years ago.

Unlike the drastic actions on other planets that only seek to complete the development quickly, the excavation of this ultra-dense planet in the central region of the Andromeda galaxy is much more delicate.

At first, scholars observed it from a distance and believed that this planet with an atmosphere full of toxic and harmful substances and a radiation index seriously exceeding the standard should have been a lifeless death star.

Remote scanning also revealed no organic matter on J919.

But after close observation, scholars were pleasantly surprised to find that a very complete ecosystem has been formed on J919.

A large area of ​​true rust moss that can expand and grow on its own floats on the vast ocean of sky blue saturated copper sulfate solution.

There are various types of "creatures" that swim, float and deposit on the seafloor. The forms of "creatures" include crystals, metal elements, giant hedgehog-like steel algae jungles, ghost ship-like wriggling metal frames...

The situation on land is more complicated. From a distance, it looks like a junkyard in a starship cemetery, but from a closer look, it is a "vibrant" steel jungle, with some large or small or fast or slow mechanical creatures walking and running, making it very lively.

Although human beings have already set foot on many planets dominated by mechanical life, and even had contact with perfect semi-biological and semi-mechanical life such as the Mysteries that transcended time and space in the early days, it is so perfect and vibrant that it is almost An extremely pure ecosystem of mechanical life covering an entire vast planet is still astounding and unheard of.

Subsequent discoveries were even more surprising. On Earth, amino acids are the source of life. There is no amino acid on J919. Instead, it is a very wonderful elemental alloy with the characteristics of life, which can continuously aggregate and grow metal atoms free from the earth and the solution ocean.

The metal ecosystem on J919 is being built on this special elemental alloy that is extremely ductile and self-growing.

It is part amino acid, part DNA, but part 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 prosperous ecosystem of J919. The above creatures are all classified as non-intelligent life, that is, the level of instinct life, which is similar to snails, ciliates, and cyanobacteria on the earth.

After preliminary verification, special alloys that are the source of mechanical life can be used to further improve materials. If humans fully absorb this technology, it can bring about a major technological innovation in materials science.

At first, scholars found that special alloys can only be formed naturally through the ecosystem on J919. The metal animals and plants on the planet have high and low content. They can be extracted by smelting the non-intelligent life on the planet, but mining Efficiency is not satisfactory. This is not in line with the industrial production needs of human beings under the cosmic age.

The goal of the Z particle impact smelting method that Ou Xiameng participated in is to use the idea of ​​space industrialization to fully develop J919 at the fastest speed, and strive to dismantle the entire planet within ten years and take away all the special The alloy is used for further in-depth research. Its fundamental purpose is to thoroughly understand the synthesis method of this high-tech new material, so as to facilitate the "planting" of new J919 planets in other galaxies in the future, and mass-produce more Special alloys.

After Mercury in the solar system was brutally murdered, this is the normal operation of human beings to engage in the deep development of planets.

At this time, in the vicinity of planet J919, in addition to more than 3,000 scientific teams located on the surface and deep sea, there are more than 60,000 large-scale unmanned excavation robots waiting quietly in synchronous orbits.

As long as the final 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 the entire planet can be dismantled within a month. After at most eight years, the J919 will be divided into tens of millions of copies, and then taken away by the subsequent transport ships. Except for the special alloys whose mass accounts for tens of millions, the rest are conventional substances that make up the planet. Most of these things can be used with the level of technology that humans have today, which can save a lot of work. Although mass-energy conversion is omnipotent, it is always cost-effective to have one less synthesis process.

……

After listening to Ou Xiameng's words, Liang Zhichu's eyes flashed across her face for about 0.1 seconds, then he quickly closed his eyes, only showing a naive smile, scratched his head and said, "It's still Ou Doctor, for your credit, everyone thought that it would take seven or eight years to complete the check calculation, but after you came, the project progress has accelerated a lot."

O Xiameng gave him a look, "If it's my mentor, it will be faster."

"Yeah. You've always been so humble." Liang Zhichu's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he said with a smile.

"Okay, let's go to work." Ou Xiameng turned his attention back to the projection, watching the fast flashing mathematical calculation process, a touch of arrogance that was not easily noticeable gradually appeared on his face.

It is indeed her credit.

Due to the particularity of the material, the calculation of the smelting method cannot be simulated by the quantum network, and must be matched with the actual experiment.

Behind every calculation process, there is a remote unmanned experiment to verify.

When Ou Xiameng arrived at the site three years ago, combined with the data from the field research, it took a month to redesign the experimental plan, refine the details of the processing process, and greatly improve the progress of the work on the entire planet. Established her personal prestige.

In this scientific research team, even the rigid and stern team leader Nur Ahon Suritang has great respect for Ou Xia Meng.

……

J919 takes 18 hours and 33 minutes to make one rotation. Therefore, the night of this planet is relatively short, only less than eight hours. However, because J919 is located in the central area of ​​the Andromeda galaxy, the star density is high, and the atmosphere is thin and cloudless. Under the shining of the stars, there is no real night on J919, but it is only slightly darker than the daytime.

In order to maintain human's biological clock originating from the earth, each base usually closes the windows when it is night, creating artificial darkness indoors.

……

After a busy day, Liang Zhichu returned to his dormitory. As an assistant researcher with a formal establishment, Liang Zhichu owns a single-person dormitory with an indoor area of ​​more than 70 square meters in the base.

He lay on his back on the back of the bed, holding a half-open three-hundred-page hard case notebook in his left hand and a pen in his right, writing on it in rare smooth hard pen calligraphy: "There are only three days to complete the project. From what I know about Dr. Ou, she will definitely be transferred back to the Academia Sinica after finishing her work on J919. I don’t know the year and month of this farewell, and the next time I see her. I still don’t have the courage to confess, and I still don’t dare to tell Her inspiration for my undergraduate thesis came from a project she completed when she was in high school. My admiration for her makes me so nervous that I can't speak even just looking at her from a distance. Three years later, it's still the same. I really want to. Know her freezing code, and then start freezing at the same time as her. Otherwise, there are only two endings for me. When I was frozen, she had finished her life. Or when she woke up, I had turned into a dead bone..."

Clap! Liang Zhichu closed the notebook, stood up, and put the gilded notebook on the bookshelf in the living room.

Here's his "little secret". What was recorded in the notebook was the "Secret Love Diary" that he had written off and on for the past three years.

In an era when almost no one used handwriting, Liang Zhichu maintained this traditional and ancient personal habit. He wrote down what he thought in hand and recorded it on a piece of paper full of historical charm. It has a sense of ritual and can make him jump. to comfort the troubled soul. Moreover, unlike the data stream storage carrier that needs to be synchronized to the quantum network, things written on paper are more private and more secure.

But he placed the notebook in the living room, prominently on the bookshelf. From time to time, he would fantasize that if one day Ou Xia Meng came to the dormitory as a guest, he would flip this book from the bookshelf. Then he no longer needs to find the courage to express himself.

That's how people contradict themselves.

Back to the bedroom, Liang Zhichu rolled up the quilt and fell asleep.

……

I don't know when it started, the sky was covered with a layer of gray fog, exactly like the appearance of some cities on the home planet Earth when a dust storm erupted in the early 21st century.

These fogs are not a specific climatic phenomenon in one area, but appear over the entire planet at about the same time.

0.5 seconds later, a piercing siren rang through Scientific Research Station No. 117 in the Tara Basin.

Oxiameng, who had just fallen asleep, immediately jumped off the bed, dressed as quickly as possible, and rushed out.

One and a half minutes later, all the staff in Scientific Research Station No. 117 appeared in the central control room lobby of the base one after another.

In addition to Ou Xiameng, Liang Zhichu, and team leader Nur Ahong, there are three people in the research station.

They are flamboyant, tall, bronze-skinned professional soldier Ciceta Roy. In addition to his base defense work, he also serves as the pilot of a small fast armed ship.

Grumpy and bad-tempered, as if he doesn't like anyone, he behaves in a shady way, a lean and brave senior miner Masahiro Matsuda.

She is plump and likes to wear relatively revealing clothes, revealing a lot of snow white. She is enthusiastic and always cheerful, and is responsible for taking care of the daily life and medical needs of everyone in the base, life assistant Samantha Swan. She maintains some kind of physical relationship with Cissetta and Matsuda Masahiro at the same time, which is not only the content of work, but also physical needs, and may also be mixed with a little emotional factor.

At this time, the group is rapidly advancing their work according to their pre-division of labor in the emergency.

Team leader Nur Ahong swoops in front of the console.

He has opened a manual control panel that he hadn't opened in a long time.

The old LCD monitor inside is showing the words Backup System Reactivated.

After a short while, Nur Ahong said in his mouth: "Our quantum communication with the outside world has been strongly interfered. I just tested all the backup communication facilities such as gravitational wave and electromagnetic wave communication, and they have all failed. The intellectual brain system has also stopped working, and now only the most primitive mechanical devices can be used. The backup system uses a miniature circuit semiconductor chip that I made as a personal hobby, but it has no data storage capacity. If I remember correctly, the empire has No such phenomenon has occurred in nearly 20,000 years."

Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu also had gloomy faces. Just now, the two of them checked the experimental data, and they were completely unable to retrieve it, and the experimental auxiliary intelligence also stopped working inexplicably.

The two rescued only a metal plate engraved with special tree-like symbols. These metal plates are the underlying backup of the experimental data, and they use the symbolic language of the mechanical civilization fans.

Cissetta reported: "I have good news here, the base is not locked by long-range weapons at present, and the data fragments obtained briefly before the instrument fails, show that there is no uncontrolled war device on the J919. ."

"The question now is, if we can't restore contact with other bases, what should we do next?" Samantha looked worried.

O Xiameng pondered: "The situation is not clear now, maybe we should evacuate in time."

Nur Ahong: "According to the provisions of Section 1, Article 2 of the Andromeda Scientific Expedition Operation Safety Regulations, as grassroots personnel, when encountering emergencies, we should first try to solve the problem by ourselves, and even if it fails, we must Gather more information before you can consider leaving. The current situation should be classified as a first-level abnormality. If the initial cause of the abnormality can be found, at least a B-level evaluation can be obtained, then after returning to the place of residence, it can be promoted to at least two. level citizen."

Masada Matsuda suddenly became interested: "Then what is there to say, I just checked, my armored roadheader can still be activated in mechanical mode, and now I will go out for a walk."

"Wait, 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 Masahiro.

Masuda Matsuda shook his head in dissatisfaction, "It's already obvious that he can't get in touch, so what's the point. You think about yours, I go out by myself, and I can't affect you."

Obviously, currently only a third-level citizen, he is eager to make a contribution.

After speaking, Matsuda Masahiro turned around and walked out, as if he was going straight to his tunneling machine warehouse.

"Stop! Idiot." Cissetta grabbed him by the shoulder from behind, "You should obey the team leader's arrangement. When the situation becomes complicated and unknown, obeying the superior's decision is the only way to simplify the situation. "

"Bastard! You're just trying to keep me from getting rich! I'm a professional roadhead mechanic, and I've driven my Yamato twice around the J919! No one knows the J919 better than I do, and there's no danger out there!"

The two fight.

Others are not surprised.

For the past few years, Cissetta and Matsuda Masahiro have been punching to the ground in the base every few days, as if they have inexhaustible energy.

No one else came up to dissuade.

Cissetta is a professional soldier who wears a 24/7 biochemical combat suit. If the combat uniform is turned on, he can subdue Matsuda in a thousandth of a second. Of course, according to the military code, but also out of some bad taste, he would not use the ability of the combat uniform to deal with Matsuda, and only rely on the physical strength slightly stronger than the opponent to fight with the opponent. If the situation gets out of control, he will rely on the ability of the battle suit to quickly end the dispute without hurting Matsuda.

……

Nearly nine hours of daylight flies by, and little progress has been made in the group's efforts. Still unable to contact the outside world, they can 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 research team has mastered it. In the past, if these ancient materials were needed, they could be queried in real time through the seamless access quantum network. Up to now, even the most powerful researchers seem to be caught off guard and ill-prepared after suddenly losing the information support of the quantum network.

As for the various spare equipment in the base, all precision equipment involving modern technology cannot be used. Only the powertrain of the small fast armed ship used to leave the planet can still operate~IndoMTL.com~ Although there is no intelligence With the help of the assisted driving system, takeoff and planetary gravity separation can only be accomplished by manual operation, but with Sisetta’s driving skills, it is still feasible. In addition, there are a small number of weapons that can also be used, but without the aid of the brain, aiming becomes more difficult, but firing is still no problem.

Although I still don't understand the situation, after confirming that it is safe to leave, and that they have a certain amount of armed ability, the pressure on everyone's heart is suddenly much less. Only Matsuda Masahiro was very dissatisfied with wasting a day in vain.

In the scientific research team, Ou Xiameng was originally a first-class citizen, and Liang Zhichu and the team leader were originally second-class citizens. Cissetta is a professional soldier in the ranks, and doesn't care about civic rank. Samantha, who only has a fourth-level citizen level, is not a self-motivated person. Otherwise, in the era of the extremely mature food synthesis industry, she would not study traditional cooking skills solely based on her personal preferences, and become the life assistant of this scientific research team. .

Masada Matsuda is only an intermediate roadheader, and his professional skills have reached the peak of his life. If there were no special opportunities, he would be locked up at the level of a third-class citizen for the rest of his life. He believes that Nur Ahon's conservativeness and Cissetta's inexplicable hostility have prevented him from completing his breakthrough in life.

But Matsuda didn't say anything more after all. He didn't rest much during the day, and he had to sleep to stay refreshed.

Nur Ahong decided to allow Matsuda to drive the roadheader out early tomorrow morning. By the way, he had to bring a letter written by himself, so as to re-establish contact with other scientific research stations and exchange information. As for the paper and pen and ink for writing the letter, Liang Zhichu provided it, and he tore two pages from his notebook. Please keep in mind the novel network: novel network, free and fastest update, no anti-theft, no anti-theft.