Section 16 Armored Planets

In May 2918, a medium-sized fleet battle around the field around the mysterious interstellar planet Yi beyond the Immortal Spiral Arm ended with the New Roman Imperial Army defeating the strong. 1(6) k Minor Says Ξ±Ρ€.(1)(6)CollationWhen New Rome and the Perseus Interstellar Federation coincidentally sent a larger fleet to the planet that was advertised as closely connected to the rumored "Antnest", the New Roman scientific expedition led by Ulf Bernstein and Chen Weiyin also launched a full-scale investigation of the "Yi" planet.

The retreat of the Commonwealth Wehrmacht tracking fleet did not make Jiang Ziyue feel relaxed. He dispersed the cruisers of Task Force 9 and placed a tight cordon around the "Yi" star field to protect the scientific expedition team from the "Yi" planet. Subsequently, he also followed the scientific expedition team to land on the planet "Yi". Although Jiang Ziyue, a professional soldier, did not have any substantial 'sexual' help for the work of the scientific expedition team, and when he went down to the surface of the planet, the strong gravity made him feel uncomfortable in space for a long time, but as a commander, accompanying scientists to land on unknown planets is a tradition inherited from the interstellar colonization era. Moreover, he is also very happy to accompany his favorite 'woman'.

The interstellar planet Yi seems to be forever in the 'chaos' of the night. The hydrogen-filled atmosphere is filled with a variety of gases and particles emitted by volcanic eruptions. Some of these substances from the planet's interior are lethally toxic, some block the starlight, and even interfere with radio. Although it is not strongly powered by sunlight, the planet's violent volcanic eruptions bring out a large amount of heat energy from its interior, which promotes the flow of air. So there is still frequent convection in the atmosphere of this seemingly dead planet.

After nearly two weeks of remote sensing and analysis in space, the expedition team is preparing to re-establish an expedition station on a high ground in the low continuity zone of the planet.

On June 13, 2918, the New Roman expedition began a large-scale landing operation.

Six cone-shaped shuttle cabins with a diameter of 30 meters at the bottom and a height of 70 meters carried some scientists, auxiliary robots, a large number of instruments, and daily necessities. At the same time, some scientists, marines, and military robots followed closely behind in the space plane.

The shuttle module turns on the rocket at the bottom at an altitude of 500,000 meters, gradually slows down, and finally deploys the bracket and descends smoothly and accurately to the predetermined ground. Six towering shuttle cabins are like bamboo shoots rising from the ground, forming a circle. Twenty space planes then landed around it.

When the airtight chamber 'door' was deflated and depressurized, scientists and soldiers wearing power armor came out one after another.

The concept of power armor is derived from the sci-fi Starship Troopers, which was developed from the space combat suit, combining the early mechanical outer skeleton and the individual intelligent combat suit. In addition to a well-developed life-sustaining system, this power armor is equipped with a variety of detection systems and jet power units, while fully covering ceramic alloy armor and equipped with a micro-shaped electromagnetic shield hair growth device.

People in power armor are a bit like the Terran Marines in the once-popular video game StarCraft in the early twentieth century, but a set of power armor without weapons can reach more than 300 kilograms, which cannot be carried by human power alone. Therefore, it is designed to have a high degree of artificial intelligence, each part has independent power, and through a set of special neural control system combined with human body functions, it is very ergonomic, and can maximize the 'sexual' performance of man-machine integration. For this reason, power armor is also known as a "costume mech", and unlike traditional science fiction where people '' large combat robots, this "mech" is worn like a suit.

As a soldier and commander, the mecha he used not only had an overhead observation system and a shoulder-mounted missile, an arm particle gun and an infrasound 'wave' cannon, but also a high-power communication facility and an auxiliary decision-making computer, which was twice as massive as that used by scientists and even heavier than that worn by ordinary marines.

Jiang Ziyue, who is 1.8 meters tall, is wearing a costume mecha and is 2.5 meters tall, nearly half a meter taller than Chen Weiyin, who is acting next to him. The Scientist's power armor doesn't have an overhead sighting system, and the soles of the feet don't have anti-mine armor and auxiliary jets, so even if they wear the same type of equipment, they will be shorter.

"Is this the night sky of an interstellar planet?" Jiang Ziyue's disapproving question came from the 'private' channel of the communication system.

Although the gravity of up to 1.8 gravity constants makes his body accustomed to the microgravity environment of space a little uncomfortable, because of the power armor, his limbs will not produce too much physical exertion just by following the movement, so he can still move freely as he did on the "Tai Chi" planet earlier.

"What we see isn't necessarily the night sky." Chen Weiyin replied, "Without the 'rays' of the sun, this cosmic loneliness is day and night. ”

"Orphans of the universe?" Jiang Ziyue couldn't help but feel a little ridiculous, "Isn't the universe its mother?" ”

"Of course, you're not wrong about that." Chen Weiyin said angrily that she did not plan to argue with her ex-boyfriend about her views.

At this moment, the hoarse voice of Ulf Bernstein's old duck came from the public channel: "Alright, 'women' and gentlemen, get to their respective posts as soon as possible, there is not much time left for us." ”

"Lost company, Major." Chen Weiyin naughtily said goodbye to Jiang Ziyue and walked towards the OnePlus shuttle cabin.

"Doctor, stay safe." Jiang Ziyue also concocted the same tone to tell his former 'girlfriend', and then added a sentence solemnly: "Don't be as reckless as May 18th, I don't want you to have any three strengths and two weaknesses." ”

"Don't worry, my 'milk' and 'milk' helped me tell my fortune, saying that I will be guarded by a hero in my life." In the communication system, Chen Weiyin's tone was full of smiles.

"Hehe, I really didn't expect that a doctor of science would actually believe in fortune telling." The skeptical Jiang Ziyue sighed, but he then speculated self-righteously: "Could it be that I am the hero of fate?" With that, he walked towards the center of the field surrounded by the shuttle pod.

"You want to be beautiful." Chen Weiyin replied in a tone of pretended disgust.

Twelve bright lights lit up at the top of the towering six shuttle pods, illuminating the surroundings as if it were daylight.

Scientists and their assistant robots went about their busy work, while Major Jiang Ziyue led a team of Star Marines to erect four flagpoles in the center of the field, followed by a brief flag-raising ceremony. The black 'color' flag of the New Roman Empire, the red 'color' military flag, the yellow 'color' border fleet flag, and the blue background gold atomic pattern of the Academy of Sciences rose to the 'chaotic' sky to the magnificent music of the national anthem "Ode to the Holy New Roman People".

"In this unknown new world, we will be bathed in the glory and grace of the Senate and the Roman people, opening up new territories and expanding new star fields." Jiang Ziyue, who was ranked under the flagpole alongside Professor Bernstein, the leader of the expedition, addressed his subordinates. "In this land where there is no sunshine to benefit, I ask every officer and soldier to remember the oath of enlistment, be loyal to their duties, even if it is at the cost of their lives, VIDI, VICI."

β€œVENI,VIDI,VICI.” The public communication channels were filled with the "excited" slogans of the officers and men of the Marine Corps.

Through the thick hood of their protective helmets, they looked up at the top of the flagpole and the flag focused by searchlights. In the breeze, on the national flag and the military flag, the golden-colored double-headed eagle, which symbolizes the bundle of authority, "shoots" a dazzling light, like the glory of the Senate and the Roman people.

The patrol was soon set off, flying military robots were hovering off the ground, and makeshift fortifications and a small field line of defense were erected around the landing site. Although no exact signs of life were found in space and in the previous landing, Jiang Ziyue was still cautious in the face of the 'chaotic' unknown world that seemed to be unopened, just in case.

When it comes to comprehensive remote sensing of the interstellar planet Yi from space, scientists don't have much to gain. At this time, a planet with a rugged surface, despite frequent volcanic activity, had severely eroded its surface and become gully due to atmospheric convection and water that Chen Weiyin had confirmed to have existed during her landing.

There is not much to call a plain on the surface of the huge planet, and even the high ground where the expedition team landed this time is actually a huge and low-altitude flat-topped mountain. Earlier, remote sensing in space once found a faint infrared radiation with biological characteristics, but after Chen Weiyin led the team to land, no signs of life were found. After several repeated full-scale remote sensing, this exciting infrared radiation 'radiation' also disappeared.

It's too early to say that this is a dead lifeless planet. Although the interstellar planet is more than 1,000 light-years away from the nearest known star of mankind, and the average surface temperature of the planet is maintained at about minus 100 degrees Celsius, the heat emitted by the planet can still theoretically form the conditions for life, after all, minus 100 degrees is not the absolute forbidden area for life, and the dense hydrogen atmosphere also plays a role in keeping warm, which increases the possibility of life.

The biggest obstacle to the planet's native life is probably low carbon, with a surface carbon content far below that of other known planets in the Perseus Spiral Arm interstellar.

All extraterrestrial organisms discovered to date have carbon-based life. Whether it is the forest ecosystem on the peculiar "Great Sage Golden Hoop" of the planet "Taiji" or the chain of marine life on the planet "Neo-Byzantium", it can be fully explained by the experience and theory of geobiology.

Although Luo Jishang and some theories that are not recognized by the mainstream consciousness of human beings do not deny the possibility of non-carbon-based life, based on the interstellar exploration of the past thousand years, the vast majority of scientists have to bow to the big "stick" of "carbon chauvinism".

However, the low carbon on the planet's surface alone does not arbitrarily infer that this is a planet that cannot have carbon-based life. Because beneath the planet's surface is still full of 'mysteries'.

In the earlier landings, light drilling equipment could not penetrate more than 100 meters below the planet's surface. A hundred meters underground, the alloy drill bit seemed to have hit something extremely hard, stagnant, and badly worn. The high-energy 'excited' beam can no longer burn downward, and all the energy is absorbed by the matter at a distance of 100 meters. This mysterious phenomenon has led to the attention of human scientists who have landed again almost exclusively on deeper exploration of the underground.

Bernstein quickly organized most of the men, armed with robots and various heavy equipment, down to the bottom of the flat-topped hill where the landing site was located.

To the northeast of the mountain is a wide river 'bed' with a gentle terrain, covered with smooth pebbles. The presence of these pebbles is strong evidence of the presence of a large amount of flowing water on this planet. But the scientists of the new Roman Empire put aside their interest in the already invisible water for a while, cleared a clearing in the riverbed, erected a well, and prepared to 'figure out' the 100-meter limit of drilling. Because if we 'figure out' the mysterious substance underground, we may be able to find out the reason for the disappearance of water, and more importantly, we can further understand the structure of this interstellar planet.

Still, something worries scientists arises. The expedition team still failed to penetrate 100 meters underground, to be exact, only a little more than 87 meters this time, because the valley drilled was lower than the last time it was drilled and nearly 23 meters below the planet's average elevation. Beneath the surface of the planet seems to be a layer of material that is impenetrable to human technology.

Ulf Bernstein, the leader of the expedition, who was full of doubts, had to propose a new exploration plan to the commander Jiang Ziyue.

"You mean to conduct man-made seismic testing on a global scale?" After listening to Bernstein's brief description, Jiang Ziyue asked.

"Yes, Major. I have calculated that the least powerful explosion level would require the planting of explosives at thousands of area equinoxes around the world. So I need your guys to help. Only in this way will we be able to ascertain the distribution of the incomparably hard layer beneath the earth's surface. ”

Jiang Ziyue hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Professor, do you have any thoughts on the distribution of this substance at present?" ”

"I suspect that this material constitutes a stratum on this planet."

"You mean this substance envelops the entire planet?"

"Yes, that's what I guessed, but there's no evidence. This substance shields even seismic 'waves', so a global seismic test would prove my guess right. Bernstein then reminded Jiang Ziyue, "Major, remember?" After we launched the second round of 'Space Storm' against the enemy fleet, I would like to report to you on the strange phenomenon detected aboard Vector III. ”

"Remember, you said that under normal circumstances, enemy ships should crash into the planet 'Yi' under the effect of 'space storm'. But they inexplicably bypassed the planet. ”

"Yes. I now suspect that that strange phenomenon has something to do with something that we can't drill at the moment. ”

"So, this interstellar planet is also equipped with a layer of armor that we can't penetrate." Jiang Ziyue's tone became very serious. An interstellar planet that originally belonged to a special celestial body was now popping up one after another in front of them, which surprised him and made him feel inexplicably worried. After all, the unknown always brings a sense of fear.

"If this material is really evenly distributed across the globe, as I guessed, then we really face an armored planet." Ulf Bernstein seems to be in high spirits, and the unknown means new discoveries and breakthroughs for scientists.

"Armored planets?" Jiang Ziyue still looked surprised, Bernstein used this rather military word to describe this unknown planet, which made his heart increase the fear of the unknown.

"Major, what do you think of my new plan?" Bernstein gets to the point.

"I support it as a matter of course." Jiang Ziyue hurriedly replied. Now that there is no threat from the Federation fleet, it is absolutely necessary for you to obey the decisions of the scientists as a soldier.

In the next five hours, under the command of Jiang Ziyue, the members of the fleet in space and the marines who had already landed acted in concert, and the remaining aerospace planes planted small-yield gold hydrogen bombs and seismic detection instruments at 60,000 sites on the surface of the "easy" planet demarcated by Bernstein.

With a command, the interstellar planet "Yi", a huge planet that is nearly twice the size of the Earth, exploded at the same time at 60,000 sites on the surface. Powerful seismic 'waves' travel across the globe along the surface rocks and sand.

Despite wearing heavy power armor and lightning protection boots with auxiliary thrusters under his feet, Jiang Ziyue still clearly felt the vibration from the surface. He suddenly felt that the planet, which had been sleeping in the night, seemed to be about to wake up due to this global 'sexual' human surface earthquake.

The data of the artificial surface earthquake were quickly summarized by the landing base, preliminarily sorted, and transmitted to the "Ruler" No. 9 scientific research ship in synchronous orbit for comprehensive processing and analysis. Because there is a DNA computer on the "Ruler 9", its computing power is more than the total computing power of all the computers produced by mankind in the nearly 1,000 years from the twentieth century to the twenty-ninth century.

Different from the traditional DNA computer principle, this DNA computer uses a special processing and control system and I/O system (i.e., input and output system), and it has the nickname "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang" with the characteristic "color" of Chinese folklore.

At its core, it is an intriguingly complex artificial biological system. It consists of nine large test tubes one person high, filled with a double helix sequence of deoxyribonucleic acid, an organic solution, and artificial control enzymes. The substances in these tubes are called "phoenixes" and are the hardware and part of the software that perform the calculations.

Each tube also contains an integrated tube with tens of billions of nano-sized artificial neurons protruding, known as "dragons." These neuronal integrated tubes have both input and output facets. It weakens the external input current signal into bioelectricity, and the terminal artificial neuron releases the influence control enzyme, which causes the control enzyme to interrupt the DNA sequence according to the different effects caused by the bioelectricity, and combine new nucleotides according to the input coding information to rearrange the DNA.

As a result of the rearrangement, the DNA sequences are repaired and react with other organic substances in solution to form various types of new organic substances with living 'properties'. After the computation is completed, the resulting new organic matter is the result. These new organic substances are directly fed back to the "dragon" through the biocurrent generated by the "dragon", and the "dragon" amplifies and outputs them to the large electronic computer that delivers the results, which completes the result screening and final interface output.

Almost all industries of the Perseus Star have the use of DNA computers, including each starship, which has DNA computers of different sizes as the main control computer. On the planet "Andromeda", the Xianying Interstellar Federal Academy of Sciences also has a "God Brain", which is a huge computer matrix composed of as many as 1,002 sets of DNA computer systems the size of "Dragon and Phoenix Chengxiang". The New Roman Empire is not far behind, and under the Great Wall Mountains, the largest mountain range on the planet "New Byzantium", it also has a DNA computer matrix belonging to the Imperial Academy of Sciences, which is comparable in scale to the "Brain of God", nicknamed "The Ring of the Nibelungen"!

Although the DNA computer is fast and has low energy consumption, it has a high error rate in the calculation process, and its own error correction ability and result screening technology are still better than those of large intelligent computers that are not composed of silicon crystal electronic chips. And the large electronic computer plays the role of human-machine interface.

In fact, limited by the current level of human computers, most of the time spent on the auxiliary electronic computer for each large-scale operation from data input to result output.

Just like this time, it is expected that the computer system of "Ruler 9" will "spend" six hours to complete the processing of artificial earthquake data, but in fact nearly 99 percent of the time is only spent on the operation of a high-intelligence large-scale electronic computer.

Taking advantage of this time, scientists and marines who have been busy on the surface of the planet "Yi" for most of the day rested.

Jiang Ziyue also decided to take advantage of this opportunity to meet Chen Weiyin again before returning to the flagship "Siegfried" in space.

Compared with Jiang Ziyue, who was already exhausted, Chen Weiyin seemed to be full of energy, still working nervously in a temporary laboratory in a valley northeast of the landing base. Ulf Bernstein, the leader of the expedition, has stopped drilling on the planet Yi, but Chen Weiyin has focused his attention on the analysis of the planet's surface soil.

A pile of rubble taken from the river valley not only contains water, but also has dead archaea attached to it. This discovery cannot be considered significant for the time being, because their structure is similar to the algal organisms that are ubiquitous in the human environment, so it cannot be ruled out that these organisms are "biological contamination" caused by human interstellar travel. If it can be proved that it is a native species of the "easy" planet, then the theory of carbon-based organisms on interstellar planets will be empirically proven, and this discovery will be of great significance.

"I'm not free right now, Ziyue." Faced with Jiang Zi's sincerity and expectation in the stereoscopic imaging, Chen Weiyin in front of the electronic mapping camera terminal didn't even lift his eyelids.

In the airtight makeshift laboratory, she had removed her power armor and was wearing only a space suit that tightly wrapped her body. It's not difficult to put on the power armor again, it's just that Chen Weiyin's interest in the lower creatures on the interstellar planets is far greater than the higher male 'sex' humans on the earth outside.

The communication system also faithfully 'projected' Chen Weiyin's influence onto the helmet shield of Jiang Ziyue's power armor. In the busyness, Chen Weiyin's graceful figure and lines folded out through space casual clothes swayed rhythmically, which made Jiang Ziyue even more 'fascinated'.

Jiang Ziyue didn't leave immediately, staring at the figure of the 'mysterious' person on the gray shield, and said with a tone of central invitation: "I'm going to return to the 'Siegfried'." ”

Chen Weiyin was still indifferent, and said lightly: "Okay, goodbye." ”

Chen Weiyin, who holds the title of Doctor of Science, is so enthusiastic about the creatures discovered on interstellar planets because firstly, studying new alien species is also a course for her, and secondly, if it is confirmed that there are real native creatures on interstellar planets, then she, the second person in the scientific expedition team, will undoubtedly go down in history.

"Shall we talk? Or take a walk. Jiang Ziyue was still cheeky and stayed in front of the 'door' of the airtight cabin of the laboratory, making hopeless requests. He also knew in his heart that this willful ex-'girlfriend' was very focused on doing things and would not be easily distracted, but he himself would not casually give up what he had decided to do.

Jiang Ziyue continued in an intimate and sensational tone: "Weiwei, this planet is forever in the long night, if we all wear power armor and take a walk on the first interstellar planet that humans landed, it would be a wonderful and 'wave' thing. ”

"Don't bother me, okay?" Chen Weiyin said impatiently.

Jiang Ziyue had no choice but to ask with concern: "Is there a major discovery?" I've heard about the discovery of archaeal remains. ”

Chen Weiyin finally raised his head and looked directly at Jiang Ziyue's facial image, but then shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. The carbon content on the planet's surface is surprisingly low, and the likelihood of producing such carbon-based life is not very high. So it's not good that we humans brought it on interstellar voyages. Although we did the most comprehensive disinfection work at departure and before landing, there was no guarantee that no other ship would casually fly close to the planet and leave these things behind. ”

"In that case, I'd better not bother you." Jiang Ziyue showed an interesting look.

"That's what it's called empathy." Chen Weiyin said with satisfaction.

"I suddenly had a big discovery." Jiang Ziyue said excitedly.

"What?" Chen Weiyin was immediately attracted by the other party's words. She had the impression that her ex-boyfriend was a serious person who didn't joke casually or say anything, so she showed great interest and was ready to listen to Jiang Ziyue explain his major discovery.

"Vivi, I noticed that your 'breasts' seem to be much larger than they were six years ago." Jiang Ziyue said with an extremely serious attitude. But as soon as he finished speaking, he let out a mischievous laugh, and his face on the stereoscopic image changed into a 'colored' look.

Chen Weiyin's face immediately changed, her face was tense, her lips were pursed, her eyebrows were locked, and she was glaring at Jiang Ziyue's image. Suddenly, she said indignantly: "Boring! ”

"I'm just ...... a business"

It was useless for Jiang Ziyue to finish speaking, and Chen Weiyin had quickly cut off the communication system.

The other party's reaction made Jiang Ziyue's heart suddenly full of frustration, he was able to make many strange moves on the battlefield, but he was very clumsy in dealing with 'female' people. He had no choice but to turn away.

Chen Weiyin did not continue to be angry because of her ex-boyfriend's provocative 'sex' words, but she did not go to work immediately, but lowered her head and carefully observed her 'breasts'. Looking at the sleek curves tightly wrapped in the composite fabric sandwich of space casual clothes, Chen Weiyin's face immediately flushed, and then he smiled again, muttering:

"Hooligans."

After speaking, she subconsciously raised her hands and helped her 'chest'.

For a big beauty like her, who has a perfect size of three measurements, it is absolutely necessary to pay attention to the activities of the interstellar planet "Yi" with a gravity constant of up to 1.8 points.