Chapter 19: The ...... of Visiting the Base Fifteen Years Later

Fifteen years later, in March, the title page of the Book of Life appeared.

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Time flies, fifteen years later......

Glowing from distant stars shines on the slowly rotating planet, where much of the planet's surface is covered in a deep blue, and the rest is a grayish-brown barren land. On the sea and land, a trace of white clouds and mist forms a beautiful pattern in the atmosphere, and large and small cloud vortices are intertwined, which looks magnificent and calm...... This is Lanxing, a planet with all the inorganic environments needed for a living planet.

Zooming out further, you can clearly see three satellites of different sizes slowly orbiting the star.

The nearest moon is exceptionally bright under the light of the star. Above the ice that spreads over most of the planet are dense craters, silently telling what happened to the satellite. Areas not covered by ice are filled with bare rocks and dust. Since there is no atmosphere, there is no meteorological change, and the landscape of these places remains its original appearance, as if it will never change......

The second satellite is like a blazing fireball, and the shape of the surface is hidden under a thick acidic atmosphere, which is full of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, and even contains a large amount of carbon tetrafluoride, which is said to be the strongest greenhouse gas. But even the dense atmosphere, which is large enough to incinerate most of the asteroids, cannot withstand the enormous forces inside the planet. From time to time, flaming red lava pillars erupt from the planet's underground, breaking through the atmosphere with tremendous force and entering the vacuum of the universe...... It took a long time before it fell into the atmosphere again under the action of the planet's gravity. Active geological activity leaks a large amount of gas to replenish the lost atmosphere, and at the same time, the moon seems to have a miniature version of the sun and corona dancing around it, like a small star.

However, the most shocking thing is the third satellite.

Compared to the other two satellites, this moon rotates at an astonishing slowness, and it can even be said that it barely rotates, so the atmospheric molecules on its surface are hardly thrown into a vacuum by the centrifugal action of rotation. Similar to the second satellite, the entire surface of the planet is also shrouded in a thick atmosphere, and even further, because the almost never-ending terrible thunderstorms in the clouds at high altitude cannot penetrate its atmosphere not only by visible light, but also by radar signals, and all information from the surface below is erased by the frantic lightning and becomes irregular......

But this seemingly crazy satellite is of great use.

The third moon of Lanxing, the Moon of Thunder, is dead.

……

The high-energy radiation rushed from the star at the speed of light, and even the huge thunderstorm in the outer layer of the planet could not completely stop its steps, and some of the signal particles carried in the radiation gave full play to their terrifying resistance to maintaining stability in the star, easily penetrating the thick current layer outside the star, and falling to the surface of the moon......

Beneath the towering minaret is a barren rocky field, filled with sci-fi metal buildings and unmanned machines coming and going, but there are no roads, no roads, not even the atmosphere has ever been purified, and the composition of the Raft Electric Cloud gas is enough to kill all ordinary creatures in a matter of seconds, not even a single cell, it is a terrifyingly poisonous gas.

Zizizi......

Next to a lightning tower, purple points of light appeared in the air with a sound of electricity, and they danced slowly, gradually stretching into a torso with the addition of some new luminous points, and then hands and feet stretched out from the torso, and finally the head began to take shape.

Finally, no new points of light appeared, and the image gradually stabilized......

"Oh yes! Succeed! Xinglan stretched her limbs and said to herself excitedly, "After research, my ability to manipulate signal prons has greatly improved!" The new shape is finally no longer a small light cluster, but a ......"

The sound stopped abruptly......

Xinglan looked at the reflection on the metal wall of the building next to her, and suddenly fell into an eerie silence......

“…… Forget it, why bother with the details...... Probably. ”

……

"Xiao Cheng Xiao Cheng ~ I'm here ~"

"Come in by yourself......" Standing in front of a huge machine, the young man wearing a white overalls with a slightly pale face stopped clicking on the virtual screen, turned his head to look at the metal door behind him, purple light gradually seeped out from the door, Xiao Cheng shook his head and sighed helplessly, "Can't you come in well...... Every time, it has to be like a horror movie, either teleporting or passing through the wall, so it's scary, okay? So...... Burst! ”

Seeing that Xinglan finally appeared completely behind the door, Xiao Cheng instantly couldn't calm down, squirted out suddenly, the notebook in his hand fell to the ground with a snap, took three steps back, opened his mouth wide in shock, stretched out his hand to Xinglan, and trembled with some kind of mystery that was unknown, and after dozens of seconds, he finally spoke......

"What kind of trouble are you going to make with this purple stickman image, hey!"

……

Ah, that's right, although he has a torso, limbs, and a head, to put it simply, Xinglan's image at this time is a standard stickman, still purple......

"Huh?" The purple stickman tilted his head in confusion, "Isn't that good?" Otherwise, isn't it scary to have a lonely little ball of light floating? ”

“…… You're enough! Xiao Cheng scratched his head frantically, "You're more scary like this, okay...... Burst! Ahem......"

"Xiao Cheng Xiao Cheng! What happened to you? Xing Lan was really anxious this time, because unlike the previous water spray, this time Xiao Cheng suddenly squirted out a mouthful of blood foam, and was still coughing violently, "Woo...... I was wrong, I shouldn't have scared you...... Forgive me......"

"I didn't ...... Ahem, it's okay......" Xiao Cheng struggled to hold on to the railing and stood up, watching the pie-shaped floor cleaning robot quickly come to clean the ground, and comforted, "It's not your fault...... It's because I've been in poor health lately......"

"Hmm...... You can't force your own ......" Xing Lan patted Xiao Cheng's back worriedly, unfortunately, although the small light ball evolved into a stickman, the essence of the problem has not changed, so they still passed through it directly, and they couldn't touch each other at all.

"Hehe......" Seeing Xing Lan hurriedly take a few steps back, Xiao Cheng couldn't help but be amused, and gasped slightly before saying, "Why don't you just make it look better...... The purple stickman is really hard to look at......"

"It's easy to say!" Xinglan complained in a broken way, "Each light point requires multiple signal sub-elements to store energy in advance, and then emit electromagnetic pulse waves to the same point, so that the fluctuations just overlap at the target, and the amplitude is amplified at this point, so that the light intensity can reach the level that can be perceived by vision, so as to achieve the purpose of fixed-point imaging." However, multiple points of light are then connected into a clear stereoscopic image...... It's so much to calculate, it's too difficult! Not to mention the dynamics...... It's not easy to connect them into lines! ”

Looking at Xinglan's expression of "I'm so good, come and praise me", Xiao Cheng smiled: "What? Is our most powerful little Xinglan stumped? ”

"Humph!" Xinglan snorted sullenly and decisively changed the topic, "Quickly take out the machine body that was stored last time!" In the past, the body was not used because the speed of light shifted quickly when observing space, but it is still a little more convenient to make physical contact. ”

"Really...... I just thought about it now......"

……

After moving her hands and feet again, feeling that the control joints had regained their flexibility, Xinglan pressed her fingers against each other, tested the pressure sensor under her skin again, and seemed to nod in satisfaction.

"How?" Xiao Cheng leaned on the railing with a smile, his face was still not very good, "The current maintenance situation is still satisfactory, right?" ”

"Satisfied...... It's strange to be satisfied! Xing Lan puffed out her face and looked up at Xiao Cheng, "It feels weird every time." ”

Controlling her legs to turn, Xinglan looked up at the mirror in front of her, in which the girl who was about 1.4 meters tall was wearing a set of white floral pajamas. Her long blue shawl hair hung down at the sides, and she wore several blue feather-like headdresses. A pair of blood-red eyes sparkled like rubies, and it really didn't look like a bionic robot from the outside, "because there are so many places in this robot's body that I don't know where to start......"

At this time, Xinglan made through the built-in pronunciation device was no longer the slightly mechanical immature voice, but a crisp and lovely girl's voice...... Well, it's a very soft and cute kind.

"Doesn't it look very eye-catching?" A hint of cunning flashed in Xiao Cheng's eyes, "Because it is a high-precision robot, it does not have the terrifying strength of an engineering robot, and I specially installed a ruby laser on my eyes as a defensive weapon." ”

“…… So it's too strange to say that the ruby eyes are really rubies, hey! Xinglan puffed out her face in anger...... I have to say that the design of this robot is really fine in terms of details, "and you can use subroutines to adjust height, hair color and eye color, and the body surface is also full of precision sensors, what is this robot originally used for?" Scouting or lurking? ”

"Well, you can change your delicate appearance at will, of course, it's similar to an inflatable ...... developed by those tech nerds Burst! Xiao Cheng covered his mouth, "Don't ask such a question, children!" Anyway, it's easy to use. ”

"Yes......" Xing Lan raised her head and glanced at Xiao Cheng slightly, there was no emotion in her red eyes...... Of course, this is the machine eye that will not have feelings, "I always feel like you're covering up something very rude......

“…… That must be an illusion. Wiping away the cold sweat from the back of his head without leaving a trace, Xiao Cheng's face turned pale again, and a few traces of blood overflowed from the corners of his mouth, "Although it's a pity that the eyes are empty, but ......"

Xiao Cheng's eyes lit up with an inexplicable and exuberant flame: "Don't you think that the soft girl's cute voice with empty eyes and natural stupid personality is a god-like match?" ”

“…… Aha? ”

"Nothing...... You don't have to worry about the details......" Xiao Cheng quickly changed to an expression that was called a "gentleman" by the public, "All in all, this is not what we need to pay attention to now...... Ahem! ”

"Xiao Cheng, are you really okay? Recently, his condition has become more and more serious...... "Holding the other party's crumbling body, Xing Lan's heart was full of worry, "How can the body of ordinary creatures be so fragile......"

"It's okay...... By the way, the genetically modified engineered bacteria needed to modify the environment are already in mass production. Xiao Cheng struggled to lift up, "I'll take you to see ......"

(Because of the foreshadowing, there may have been a little too much conversation recently, but this problem will be solved soon, so ...... Don't be so cold, everyone...... )