Chapter 16: The Armadillo (1)

Every day, every day, Passafo had to work in the vegetable fields.

Loosening the soil, fertilizing, leveling, sowing, irrigation.

The vegetable fields in the Guam base are not large, and the girls who study and work in the base are usually divided into many groups, taking turns to work in the fields, meat breeding, pond fishing, fruit tree picking, etc. After the completion of the first semester and the completion of the internship, everyone will have some understanding of these farm work, and then, according to their personal interests and hobbies, the fixed work of each girl will be reformulated and arranged, and the work will be alternated in consultation with each other on a half-year cycle.

Of course, if someone is equally interested in every job, then it is permissible for her to change so often to raise pigs, as long as there is another mobile group outside of each special team (team).

Passafo was not a member of the motorized group, and on the contrary, she stayed on the vegetable side from the time she was able to choose a specific job, except for other farm work in her initial professional studies.

Unlike the simple miners on the Kiha side, normal Guam girls don't usually spend years in a job. This is actually quite normal, there was an old joke in Roger's home plane - "The biggest problem for a women's soccer team is how to make twenty girls wear the same outfit" - and the girls in Guam's base are constrained enough in this way, at least everyone has no clothes to change other than overalls and pajamas. If in such a situation they are forced to continue their monotonous work......

So in this regard, the Passafolk is a little different.

However, it has not yet reached the level of "alternative", after all, as mentioned at the beginning, even the work of growing vegetables has to be divided into several different stages from beginning to end, and in Roger's hometown, there are many people who have grown (vegetables) for a lifetime. Passafo just worked in the vegetable field every day, and he didn't dig with a hoe on his shoulder, and certainly didn't walk around with farm manure all day.

This kind of small willfulness can barely be classified within the allowable scope of the base's intelligent management system, probably due to gender differences, at least judging from the information of the Guam base received by Roger, the systems here are obviously more relaxed than those on Kiha's side, and the corresponding binding force and punishment for mistakes are also slightly relaxed.

……

"Should this be preferential treatment or sexism?"

"You seem to be deliberately ignoring the key issue of the difference in the upper age limit."

"Girls of the same age develop earlier than men, and even I know this kind of common sense."

"It's a pity that whether it's Kiha or Guam, the teenagers and girls in these underground bases are all 21 sexual characteristics that have not yet fully developed."

……

In short, whether it is in the records or in the daily practice, Passafor is always busy in the vegetable fields. The fields in the underground base are very different from the natural fields on the surface, and in addition to the light, there are considerable theoretical differences in air humidity, soil acidity and alkalinity.

Of course, these things are difficult for any normal fourteen-year-old girl to solve, and many robots in the Guam base are actually doing a lot of work in secret, and it can even be said that the entire logistics base is the same as the miner base, and the real daily operation is all maintained by the brain-robot system. The girls don't know what to do, and whether they work hard or are lazy every day, there is probably no significant difference in the amount of logistics produced.

And then, because they don't know what to do, it is enough for them to complete the main steps in a general period of time, as they have learned in the initial training, in all kinds of "everyday" work. Although the vegetable plot is not large, there are actually a lot of small plots that are divided. There are not many types of vegetables to grow, but for the sake of the slogan of "keeping a variety of varieties and nutrients balanced at all times" as a result of normal logistical materials, it seems that there are many tricks in the arrangement of vegetable planting alone.

The objective planting environment required for different vegetables is different, and there are certain differences in temperature, humidity, soil quality, light, etc. Something a little deeper must be solved by a robot, for example, like setting up a few special greenhouses, with an intelligent brain behind the control, even if there is no difference between two adjacent vegetable patches on the surface, the actual characteristics are also very different.

And then even if it is the same kind of vegetables, the time of sowing and harvesting must be opened in batches, and the reason is needless to say, right? For example, if you can eat cucumbers this month, it will definitely not be possible to use eggplants to hold the second crop next month...... The biggest difference between the work and Roger's memory is that the girls seem to have to complete every task in a different field every day.

While the overall mechanical repetition seems to have become more numerous, such as how many times a hoe is swung and how many minutes of watering are specific parameters, in fact the degree of freedom of the Passafo is obviously unimaginably greater than the "traditional agriculture" of someone's home plane.

To take the simplest example, even if it is the same "Warrior" class, can Kazama in the Beta plane have the same combat power as Isly in the Great Sword plane? Even if they are asked to use the same hoe to plow the ground, Kazama can probably learn ten percent of ordinary vegetable farmers with a hoe, and even if Isley rises and falls lightly with one hand, there is probably a deep pit one meter square, right?

Having said that, the Guam base is inhabited by ordinary girls, who have not undergone any adjustments and transformations, and it is likely that a handful of "(probable) mutations" were screened out in advance before they were sent, so the differences between the remaining girls should not be as exaggerated as in the above example.

The amount of work that the strongest girl in the base could accomplish with a hundred hoes, Passafor would surely be able to accomplish after a hundred and five repetitions. If we take into account the default "IQ upper limit", it is acceptable to use uniform counting quantification in teaching.

So usually an hour and a half a day in the loose soil of a single vegetable plot is enough to move the work to the next step. The difference in fertilization may be a little larger, but fifteen minutes is about enough, and then the sowing is the seeding, which in turn varies a little bit depending on the planting density of each vegetable, which is about half an hour......

But today Passafo has been busy with his hoe for a full hour and a half, but he still doesn't seem to have changed his tools or work.

This detail was fed back to the brain almost immediately, and then it was naturally intercepted by DG and Roger Robot. If it is put in normal times, the processing method of the brain is estimated to be another archive at best, or send a robot to remind it, etc. But now that Roger is possessed by the robot, he has nothing to do, so he takes the initiative to take over the job of going to find out.

Of course, he didn't choose to drive the housework robot directly. The robots in the Guam base obviously have a difference in the basic division of labor, and even if the girls are stupid, they will definitely feel that there is a problem when they see the housework robot suddenly popping up in the vegetable field, so someone is very smart to move the main consciousness to the agricultural model.

The process didn't take long, and there didn't seem to be any sudden change in the actions on Passapho's side. However, for the sake of insurance, someone applied for remote image monitoring from DG.

After the camera zoomed in, in fact, the reason for the abnormal behavior of the girl who loved growing vegetables had been found - at the starting position of the hoe in this vegetable field, there was no problem at the beginning of two or three meters, and a shallow pit suddenly appeared from the fourth meter.

If it is a shallow pit now, it is obvious that this should be a small cave before the hoe of Passafo. Since the site has been almost destroyed, it can only be indirectly deduced that the hole is about forty or fifty centimeters deep and more than ten centimeters in diameter. It wasn't much more than the 30 centimeter limit when the soil was loosened, and it shouldn't have been visible. But probably the girl accidentally used a hoe a little harder, and directly pierced the hole......

It wasn't a big deal to be a mere hole, but it was obviously a passage parallel to the ground, and it happened to coincide slightly more with the field, so Passafor used a lot more effort than usual to find the culprit in the tunnel.

According to the information in the Guam base, because this logistics base follows a carefully maintained "all-natural" route, not only is the product much richer than the surface wasteland, but in fact, the animals and plants that are not cultivated in the base will be instinctively attracted to eat and drink in it as uninvited guests.

The security measures at the base itself are in place. Under the strict all-round three-dimensional inspection, all animals and plants that can cause harm to humans are all exterminated by robots or other automatic weapons at the first time. But since this work is handed over to the brain to "automate", there will obviously be some dogmatic problems in practice.

For example, poisonous snakes will definitely not be able to enter the base, but earthworms can. This kind of thing, which is also a sifier in Roger's home plane, will definitely not cause the base's automatic defense system to waste time. Next, termites can't enter, and ants or other underground insects are also within the range of interception and killing for "early warning" considerations, and then according to routine safety regulations, this garrison range is much larger than the actual base area......

As a result, new problems arise.

Although the ecological environment on the earth of this plane seems to be very bad, it does not mean that except for the artificial base underground, all the other aboveground and underground are lifeless. Since there are earthworms and insects, it is natural that there will be some larger carnivorous (rotten) animals. The slightly larger range of the Guam base probably led to the destruction of the food chain and the forced migration of some animals in a slightly higher position.

The range of movement of these animals is random, and if they do not pose any threat to humans themselves, and do not steal vegetables or attack meat animals, the base's automatic orientation system will ignore them. So all kinds of coincidences came together to make a living in the field that the little girl of Passafolk was going to turn over today, and there happened to be a guy who made holes for a living......

So, what exactly is it?

Voles are on the list of food thieves, and rabbits are honestly "pests" that can gnaw away green spaces - and both animals are vegetarians - in short, when Roger rushed to the scene with a farm robot, the girl who had been digging the ground for an hour and a half seemed to have been stunned for some time.

Needless to say, the reason is, of course, that the things that have been dug up so hard today are somewhat unexpected by the girl, at least they are animals that they have never seen before, and they have not learned in any agricultural class.

……

"Pangolins?"

"Do you think it's the Hulu Brothers plane?"

"Don't tell me this thing that looks like it's wearing a suit of armor is an armadillo."

"Escapism won't solve the problem, but you still don't dare to admit what kind of plane this is?"

……

Roger is certainly not so self-deceptive, and as DG had speculated before, he is not stupid, he is idle to death after coming to this plane, no matter what angle you think about it, figuring out the original plane as soon as possible is the first priority. And the ambiguous attitude of DG's various intentional or unintentional interruptions is itself a slightly obvious hint.

If the slightly familiar keywords of "Kiha" and "Guam" may not be enough to explain the problem, now that even one of the future Four Heavenly Kings of the Spiral has appeared in person, if Roger still can't guess what kind of plane this is, he can really die.

He has also seen the prequel and theatrical version of Tian Yuan, and for a competent otaku, of course, it is impossible for him to easily forget some key details and pictures in it. So when all these things are consciously or unintentionally contrasted, there is really no point in simply escaping.

It seems that the mission to leap to the pinnacle plane is really considered a success? Otherwise, you won't give me any hints, and you'll just throw me into the assimilation task?

Faced with the biggest crisis since he entered the infinite reincarnation plane, Roger's possessed agricultural robot couldn't help but shake slightly, but it attracted the attention of Passafo's side.

The teenagers and girls in many bases on Earth are accustomed to the existence of robots, and when Passaford saw the robot that suddenly appeared next to him, he knew that the Zhi Brain of the Dao Base had noticed the special situation that happened on her side.

And in this special case itself, in the crypt with a diameter of half a meter and a depth of about one meter, which was followed and dug after the most of Passafo, and then continued to dig deeper, a small armadillo with a length of about twenty centimeters was curled up in a ball with its eyes closed.

Of course it's not sleeping, it's a "wild animal" anyway, and a girl has been chasing and digging on the top of her head for more than an hour, even if it's really a pig, she should know that something is wrong. But then again, this was originally a juvenile armadillo, and it was not easy to toss a simple nest under this vegetable patch, so it would be too difficult to make a hole and escape immediately if it was being chased and killed now, wouldn't it?

"Well, may I ask what Zhi Brain is going to do with this little guy?" Passapho's voice was timid, no different from that of girls of the same age when they encountered similar emergencies, probably, after all, Roger hadn't actually been in contact with too many "normal girls of the same age." ”

Now is not the time for someone to reveal their identity, so he followed a series of response processes that come with the agricultural robot, pretending to transmit information from the brain, and then mechanically opened his mouth with the body's voice device, "Leave it to you to deal with it." ”

Well, in fact, he and DG are completely brainless.

So this time it was the turn of the girl who dug the armadillo to make a difficulty.

What does it mean to handle it yourself? This kind of ambiguous answer has never been seen in a brain-robot system before. Of course, the base did not teach the girls how to hunt and kill the various strange "wild animals" they occasionally encountered. And not to mention wild animals, even the slaughtering and processing of domestic animals and so on are all done by robots. Guam was only a logistics base, and it was never a cradle for female butchers......

Free captive animals? How is this kind of guy who burrows in the ground how to release it? Throw it into the tunnels leading to the miners' bases and leave it to fend for itself? Or simply re-cover the soil, whether it's alive or dead?

(Girl, as long as you don't put the soil directly back on the little armadillo, and then carefully tamp it with a hoe, theoretically people can't die, okay?) οΌ‰

In this regard, Passafolk actually thought about it a little more, for example, if he really buried this little guy again, he might just treat it as invisible next time, in case someone else accidentally dug it out again? Of course, this little animal has obviously not grown up yet, so it is so easy to be found by itself, and it is estimated that this situation will not occur when it grows up in the future. But if it becomes more pocky, will it also cause more problems for the vegetable field?

Even if you don't eat vegetables, it will be harmful if you arch all the roots.

Seeing the girl's hesitation, Roger and DG had no choice but to start facing the problem again.

"It doesn't seem feasible to do it directly, in case this is Gu Eminem's real body, the entire main line will change at that time."

"Let this little girl raise you at ease? In the original book, this armadillo is obviously an inseparable mascot from you, okay? ”

"You're just going to curse me and hang up? Okay, I suddenly thought of a new way, why don't you replace this little animal and become the immovable king yourself to play from beginning to end, right? ”

"It's easier for you to hang up directly."

……

The routine bar-raising exchange lasted for a few seconds, and since this guy who would directly use Guam's name in the future did have a bit of a key meaning, Roger and DG didn't waste too much information and calculations on flirting this time. After careful consideration, a solution that most conformed to the original brain logic sounded in Passafor's ears.

"Take it to the livestock farm, quarantine it, and take care of it until you die."

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Although there is only one change, it is also a 5,000-word chapter, so it continues to pull red tickets.

The collection has dropped another one, do you want me to emphasize that people who can't see the bottom should get off the shelves as soon as possible?