CH.21 ED-E My Love!
After cleaning up the bandits that had entrenched the town and reprogramming the cowboy robots left behind in the town before the war to become the town's sheriff, Miss Mary Sue finally learns from Deputy Sheriff Beagle that her enemy is going to Novak next. Then he resolutely set off overnight and left.
But before leaving, she actually remembered to say goodbye to Long Jing and give a gift, which Long Jing didn't expect.
"It's certain that she's on the good side at the moment, and she's pretty high on science and repair."
Standing at the entrance of the town, watching Miss Mary Sue disappear into the night, Long Jing turned his gaze to the gift from the female postman.
This "gift" is floating in the air, making a "beep~beep~" sound from time to time, as if searching for something.
It looks like a detached Gundam head, spherical in shape, slightly larger than a basketball, with a small horn mounted directly above it, several antennas extending backwards on either side, and a laser emitter mounted underneath. On the right side of the armor plate is a sticker that reads "My child is an honor student at Roosevelt College," and on the other side is a worn-out license plate from Illinois 2062 that reads "2ED-E59."
It's an eyeball robot.
The full name is [EyebotDuraframeSubjectE], referred to as ED-E.
Manufactured at Adams Air Force Base on the East Coast Enclave and manufactured by Dr. Whitley.
In Fallout Three, eyeball robots can be seen everywhere in the Washington Wasteland. However, unlike the original models, which could only be used as mobile broadcasters, the E-type eyeball robot has not only been enhanced for combat needs, but also has a more complete artificial intelligence system.
The power system used is unknown, but it is speculated that the near-permanent power source is either a miniature nuclear reactor or a high-efficiency solar cell.
Although it is suspended in the air, it does not rely on jet power to propel like hoverbots such as Mr. Wind, but is infinitely more advanced than the anti-gravity levitation device. Long Jing once saw someone on the forum speculating that it should be from alien technology.
This is not without purpose.
Clearly pointed out the micro nuclear fusion technology, but the computer is still stuck in the strange technology tree of the diode era, if you want to say that aliens do not play any role in it, who would believe it.
Pan Technology is not a grid jumper, and it can skip one or two technical points halfway. At least more than half of the various high-tech in the radiation world are suspected of black technology.
If Long Jing remembers correctly, the ED-E in the game was sent from the Enclave base on the East Coast to the Navarro base with a large amount of valuable data, including "Poseidon Energy" and Dr. Whitley's research on the intelligence framework. However, while passing through the Mojave Desert, it was hit by snipers of unknown origin, and finally crashed when it made its way to the vicinity of Prim.
ED-E was then picked up by an unknown postman at the Mojave Post Office and handed over to the post office owner, Jensen. Nash. Nash's skills weren't enough to fix it, so poor ED-E was just thrown over the counter at the Prim branch of the Mojave Post Office until our protagonist Postman 6 arrived to fix it.
And judging from the current situation, things have not changed much compared to the plot in the game.
Unlike the game, Miss Mary Sue, the No. 6 Postman in the real world, did not give ED-E as a companion as in the game, but gave it to Long Jing as a gift.
"Am I having accomplished a preset goal?"
Long Jing didn't know how to express his mood at the moment.
Eyeball robots were undoubtedly what he wanted to get his hands on on this trip. However, Long Jing was not looking at ED-E in front of him, but on ED-E's companions in the Great Rift Valley west of Mojave. There is a pre-war U.S. military base in the Rift Valley, which stores a large number of eyeball robots, and there are not only reconnaissance types such as ED-E, but also other types such as maintenance and medical types.
It's not that ED-E is bad.
In fact, the ED-E is even more powerful and advanced than its comparable model partners.
Presumably due to its previous data escort missions that required traversing the entire United States, it is the only robot equipped with the Enclave's newly developed Hellfire armor, and the "autonomous control" mode has been enhanced.
And the reason why Long Jing didn't put his mind on ED-E was precisely because of the task that ED-E had performed before.
Although the positioning system was severely damaged due to the heavy damage, the ED-E still kept the data and mission logs it carried.
If ED-E's mission log is not cleared, it will continue to Navarro after repairing itself - sometimes triggering a mission log fever to fly away on its own due to a message it receives by chance.
ED-E has an exclusive quest in the game, which clears the log and becomes the protagonist's permanent companion. But because of the English version he played at the time, Long Jing never figured out what that mission was all about, and now he is even more at a loss.
"Maybe you can try to clean up its mission log yourself - if you're good at computers."
The Flying Pig knew what Long Jing was worried about.
"The highest computer technology I have mastered at the moment is to reinstall the computer system, you see......" Long Jing said in a low voice.
"Then there's no way." The Flying Pig said regretfully: "Although the database of this pig can provide you with all the technical information from mechanical computers to quantum computers, it is okay if you can't understand it. β
"Is that all?" Long Jing was a little unwilling.
"Actually, it's okay if you just leave it like that." The Flying Pig said indifferently, "Didn't you just know that this kind of thing was going to happen, so you didn't target DE-E in the first place." And there are still many eyeball robots in the Great Rift Valley, do you need to struggle with this? β
"That's true, but I always feel super unhappy that something I've eaten will end up spitting it out."
"Then get someone to help. Aren't you going to recruit an expert in information technology? β
"That's all I can do."
Long Jing couldn't help but sigh, this is the distress of the light pole commander. You have to do everything yourself, and once it's beyond your ability, you can only stare at it.
"Beep-beep."
After swaying around for a while, ED-E flew back in front of Long Jing and let out a cheerful beep.
ββDoes this mean that there are no enemies around?
Long Jing remembered that ED-E in the game can provide wide-area reconnaissance skills, can find enemies at a very long distance, and as a robot ED-E does not need to rest, it is simply a super early warning aircraft that is all-weather and all-time. This is much stronger than the Flying Pig - the dead pig not only has a very limited warning range, but also has a habit of sleeping as a magic weapon. It's simply ......
Hopefully find someone who can help with the little guy's mission log before it flies away.
"Although I formed a temporary team, I will be your master for the rest of the time, so you have to listen to me for everything. See what I mean? β
Although ED-E does not have an independent personality consciousness like the Flying Pig, the intelligent module it is equipped with allows it to understand what Long Jing is saying, so it "beeps" twice and nodded happily.
"Well done."
Long Jing nodded with satisfaction and patted ED-E's ...... Armor plates.
"Then I will canonize you as the number one guardian saint now."
As soon as the words fell, a strange change suddenly occurred in the sky.
For a while, the wind and clouds surged, and the golden auspicious light of the Tao hung down from between the clouds, illuminating the earth brightly.
"What's the situation?"
Long Jing looked up at the sky, this was a situation he had never encountered when playing games before.
I saw that between the sea of clouds above, the palace pavilions were clearly visible, and the carved railings and paintings were vivid, and some of the palace towers made him feel very familiar......
"Isn't this Heavenly Court!?"
The mirage-like scene in the sky was not his own nest Heavenly Court.
Xunyun Palace, Bisha Palace, Sanqing Palace, Wuming Palace, Tushi Palace, Miluo Palace, Guangming Palace, Miaoyan Palace, Sun Palace...... The familiar palaces are arranged in the number of heaven and earth, which is the scenery of the city of Tianfu in Daluo Tianzhong.
Long Jing couldn't help but look at the Flying Pig, I'm afraid that only it can give him an answer to this matter.
"Holy! This is the ritual of canonization ......"
Naturally, the Flying Pig didn't know what was going on, but it was just as surprised that this kind of thing happened.
"Gods?" Long Jing was also dumbfounded, who did he call a god?
And so on -
Long Jing immediately set his eyes on ED-E, who seemed to have nothing to do with the vision in front of him.
He seemed to have said something about making it a patron saint or something?
"I ...... It's just casual talk. β
Long Jing was a little surprised, could it be that there was really no joke? It won't be so bloody, so what if you want to lie and regret it in the future...... This shrine is inevitably too sensitive.
"You asked it to recognize you as the Lord, and ED-E agreed--as long as both parties are serious, then the foundation of the god has been reached-and then you said that you want to canonize it as the guardian spirit, then the god canonization ceremony will naturally begin."
The Flying Pig also came back to his senses at this time and explained some basic concepts of Fengshen to Long Jing. It's seen a lot of god sealing ceremonies, but it's just that the unexpected god sealing like this startles it.
"It's that simple?" Long Jing couldn't cry or laugh, obviously he just said a nice thing casually, he didn't expect such a thing to happen.
"Actually, it's not a hassle in the first place. The real difficulty of becoming a god lies in whether the other party really intends to recognize you as the master, which is not easy for intelligent beings with complex thoughts. But once this is determined, the rest of the work is simply to give the order of the gods. The Flying Pig looked at the Heavenly Court projection above, "Aren't you worried that ED-E will fly away?" You don't have to be afraid after being a god, although it can't help you make its mission log clear, but after being a god, your will is everything to it. β
"Now you just need to make one last confirmation, and then the canonization will officially begin. Do you want to confirm the gods? β
"That's still a question." Long Jing smiled.
It's simply something you don't have to think about.
Fengshen will not consume anything, and there is no problem of dog blood such as limited quotas, if it weren't for the idea that he would rather be lacking than abundant, his junior brother would have been full of mountains and valleys.
Now it's a good choice to start with ED-E.
"So, the gods begin."
A colorful auspicious cloud descended from the sky, enveloping ED-E in it, and a faint fairy sound could be heard from the cloud pillar, as well as ED-E's unique "beep" sound - it was very happy.
Instead of guessing before, Long Jing can now feel what ED-E wants to express directly from the sound of it.
"I didn't expect my first Patronus to be a robot." Long Jing also said with some emotion, "You didn't say before that robots can also be gods. β
"Because this pig doesn't know either." The Flying Pig muttered, "Although theoretically speaking, as long as the subject has basic intelligence and self-judgment ability, it can be canonized as a god. But no one before you had ever made a robot a god - there was no need for that. β