Chapter 158: Preparations for War
Objective: Capture at least one matrix city, liberate its population, and carry out a major population transfer.
Campaign launched: March ......, 2199
On the electronic bulletin board of the forward base, Yuan Hao recorded such words on it very seriously.
Although the date for the battle has not been set, the countdown under the text does begin to count. This time is based on March 1, 2199, and Yuan Hao calculated the countdown of each second that began with the time entry.
The countdown is long, at least for now, with more than four hundred days remaining. But with the sound of the countdown seconds hand, everyone, including Yuan Hao, couldn't help but have a sense of urgency.
"Time is running out. We must act quickly. Miniaturization of particle beam weapons...... Transform into an infantry weapon...... It's not easy to do. Zogel scratched his hair frantically, "I need more information!" he shouted.
"The materials are in the 3-11 lab at the forward base, where you can go and work on your project. In response to Zogel's roar, the cold words of the red queen rang out on one side of the wall.
"3-11 Laboratory?" Zuogel nodded slightly, and then as if he remembered something, he asked with concern, "Who are you?"
"I'm the central brain of the forward base. My name is the Red Queen!" said in a cold voice calmly: "I have high-level authority over the entire base, and I can provide you with corresponding technical support within the scope of authority.
Any of my techniques here, you can instill directly through the Consciousness Connector...... And I have built a relevant simulation test site, a machine processing plant, for you to carry out related production experiments. ”
"That's good!" said Zogel and Barrick, laughing happily.
In an instant, they were all excited.
"Let's go...... My man...... Let's take a look at my lab!" said Zorgle, who walked directly over Ballicra, and the soles of their feet were greased and walked quickly.
Yuan Hao looked at their departing backs, and at the moment, together with Pingyuan and Sarah, he led Huang Yun, who was a newcomer, to the general control room.
As the true master of the entire base, although he is a little tired after returning from the outside, he still has to fulfill his duties, and he must understand the background of the base of the advance.
He's been away from the base long enough, and a lot of things have changed, and he needs to be aware of those changes. After all, when he was in the Eastern Hemisphere, the connection between him and the base was simply severed.
Being in the planet, because of the curvature of the planet, radio waves cannot be transmitted over long distances, and in the absence of communication satellites for transit, the connection between the front line base and Yuan Hao can only travel within a certain range, and once out of this range, the two cannot be connected.
This is indeed a trouble, but Yuan Hao can't solve this trouble now.
In the end, he had no choice but to accept his fate. Entrust everything to the Red Queen, and listen to the Red Queen's report when he returns: "Red Queen, how is the situation at the base?"
"The number of T-600s has already reached fifty thousand, the number of jellyfish has also reached five thousand, and the number of YU-01 transports has reached 300 units...... All production is going very smoothly. The red queen replied calmly.
The jellyfish is actually a human-sized mechanical body developed and designed by Yuan Hao after bringing back the mechanical octopus fragments of the matrix. It looks like a jellyfish, and has no attack capabilities, only super-fast speed and the ability to collide with speed.
Of course, it's also a very sturdy mechanical body, and the armor with a reflective beam coating and liquid nitrogen cooling system allows it to survive the mechanical octopus's laser for up to a minute and survive until someone else rescues it, even if it is caught by the mechanical octopus, which is quite a powerful design.
At least, it's awesome as a transport worker. That's right, the main function of a jellyfish is transportation. And he transports not supplies, but people. In Yuan Hao's vision, the jellyfish will be used to control the relocation of the population after the matrix city. The matrix treats people as batteries, and jellyfish are used to carry batteries.
One jellyfish corresponds to one battery......
Yuan Hao didn't need him to carry far, he only needed to be able to quickly travel between ten kilometers and transport people one by one to a special transport ship.
This transport ship is the YU-01 transport ship reported by the Red Queen and Yuan Hao.
It is a large submarine that looks like a cigar, capable of diving to an enemy level of 500 meters and sailing at a high speed of fifty knots. As a submarine specially designed to transport people, he can carry 1,000 people on one side, and it can take so many people on a voyage for three months to complete the intercontinental transfer of population.
"50,000 Terminators, 5,000 Jellyfish, 300 YU-01s? After the red, we need to produce more units...... We need to have the ability to empty a mechanical city in one go. Yuan Hao listened to the report of the red queen and nodded slightly, and then shook his head slightly, saying his expectations for the production of the unit.
"I understand! The production plan is still being arranged. The production line is also constantly expanding, and it is estimated that by a year, we will have one million T-600s, half a million jellyfish and 20,000 YU-01 transports. The red queen calmly said her production plan.
"This scale ......" Hearing Honghou say this, Yuan Hao groaned for a while, and still shook his head with dissatisfaction: "This is not enough...... We have to double that number!" he said, setting his own targets.
"Double? Produce more...... We don't have a place to put ...... The scale of the forward base is now 200 square kilometers. The Red Queen raised her own dilemma: "If we want to produce so many units, then we need to further expand the space of the base...... But the resources around our base are not enough to support our further expansion...... If you want to get more units. I think we need to open a base. ”
The red queen suggested. For this suggestion of the Red Queen, Yuan Hao pondered slightly, and quickly made a decision: "Then you can produce another base submarine." I'm going to move the production site to Santa Rosa Island, east of Los Angeles...... That's a lot more than here. ”
"Santa Rosa? It's too dangerous, it's too close to Mechanical City in Los Angeles. The Red Queen raised objections.
"Don't worry, we're going from the bottom of the sea! The waters east of Los Angeles are pretty deep...... It shouldn't be easy to spot us in the mechanical city. Yuan Hao patted his chest and reassured.
"That's ......," the queen thought for a moment and said, "I'll produce three base submarines for you...... You can place them on the ocean floor...... Have them build small bases automatically.
The production speed of the small base is not fast, but the movement generated is not large...... The simultaneous operation of three small bases should be able to equal the production capacity of one base on our side. Distributed production, such concealment is better. ”
"Okay, just do as you say!" Yuan Hao stroked his palm and agreed with the Red Queen's suggestion.
That's it. Yuan Hao and Queen Hong agreed on the task, and immediately left with Huang Yun and Pingyuan. Yuan Hao took Huang Yun to Liuying, let Huang Yun sit in Liuying's cabin, and let her try the most basic remote control operation.
"There's a brainwave amplification device in there, and your task now is to train your mind and try to use this brainwave amplification device to move the balls there...... I want to see how far you can go. Yuan Hao said to Huang Yun. Huang Yun just nodded obediently.
She began to concentrate her attention, staring at the two small balls filled with sand in front of the stray fireflies.
She wanted to get them moving.
But where is this easy thing?
Huang Yun's eyes were straight, but the ball didn't move at all. She kept trying, failing, and then trying again, and for about half an hour, she still couldn't move the ball. She was frustrated by it.
"This ...... This is simply impossible!" Huang Yun lowered his head decadently.
"Really?" Yuan Hao watched quietly from the side, and when he saw that he had lost confidence, he immediately asked with a smile. Huang Yun didn't answer, just put down the headband on his head.
At this moment, she was a little dizzy. Yuan Hao didn't speak anymore, just stepped forward, picked up the headband from Huang Yun's body, and stood quietly. His thoughts came out, and the balls on both sides of the stream "buzzed" and made an inexplicable vibration.
The ball floated, and the sand particles in it tumbled rapidly, stirring the ball to spin rapidly. It spun very quickly, and as it turned, many grains of sand flew out of its exit.
These grains of sand are not actually grains of sand, but an aggregate of countless micron-sized liquid robots. These robots themselves do not possess too much intelligence and only act at the behest of Yuan Hao.
They flew in the air, forming patterns under Yuan Hao's thoughts, or flowers, or landscapes, or Tai Chi...... It was as agile as a swimming dragon, and Huang Yun's eyes were in a daze.
"How can this be?" she was surprised, and became more and more curious.
"Huh!" Yuan Hao chuckled and stood up, "Not only can it be like this, but it can also be like that." ”
As he spoke, an idea came out, and the grains of sand that had been suspended in the air to form an overall pattern suddenly dispersed, and it split into four streams:
One took a broom from the corner of the room, and the other took a dustpan from the place next to him. Yuan Hao controlled the sand of the broom to gently sweep on the ground, swept some dirty things into the dustpan, took it with the dustpan, and installed it;
The other two flew to the coffee table, one rolled up the boiling kettle, and the other opened the tea Gu, and very dexterously connected the poured water. In a short time, a cup of hot tea was brewed.
Yuan Hao controlled the sand grains and brought the teacup full of tea over and put it in front of Huang Yun.
Huang Yun was slightly startled, then picked up the teacup with a smile on her face, and gently took a sip of the tea in it, her heart was sweet. At this time, Yuan Hao's voice sounded in her ears: "See? This can be used as an extra hand." ”
Yuan Hao said: "Imagine if you have a set of such equipment on your body, is it equivalent to having countless hands......?" That might be a bit of a sinister thing to say. But imagine the convenience, and I think you'll be looking forward to it. ”
"Indeed!" Huang Yun pondered for a moment and nodded heavily: "This is indeed a very convenient thing. But ......" she also made her own opinion: "This thing is still too big. And I can't drive it at all. ”
"I'll teach you how to drive it, and it's up to you whether you can succeed or not. You have a good idea of what it takes to be electromagnetic...... I'd like to ask you to cooperate with me to further optimize this thing and reduce the size.
Not to mention that it would become nothingness and melt into the human body, but at least it would be good to be able to become something like an exoskeleton. Yuan Hao stated his purpose for bringing Huang Yun here. "Well, I think I get the idea.
However, what I have written about my imagination is just imagination, and I need a lot of information to turn it into reality. Huang Yun put forward her own request.
"What information do you need? I can make the corresponding program from the Red Queen and load it directly into your mind. Yuan Hao directly proposed his own solution.
"University related majors...... Electromagnetism, Mechatronics, Materials Science, High-Level Language Programming...... I think there's a lot more I need. Huang Yun shrugged and revealed the information he needed. She won't be polite to Yuan Hao at this time.
"Understood! you lie down over there!" Yuan Hao compared the iron bed placed on the side of this room, and then walked out of Liuying's cabin and patted Pingyuan on the shoulder: "Give her everything she needs." ”
"Okay!" Pingyuan had no problem with this. Huang Yun lay on the iron bed, and the data connector was inserted from the port behind her head. Pingyuan transferred the basic knowledge data collected from the Red Queen into Huang Yun's mind.
For a while, Huang Yun's body trembled involuntarily. Looking at Huang Yun, who was trembling like chaff on the road, Yuan Hao lowered his head and suggested to Pingyuan, "It's better to scan her body." I wonder if the interface on her will work for me...... Some data and manipulation can not be achieved directly through these interfaces. ”
"I understand!" Pingyuan nodded lightly, then pressed a button next to the console, and a horizontal bar like a desk lamp popped up. Invisible beams of light converged in it, gently brushing Huang Yun's body, scanning her inside and out.
"It's okay!" After scanning the bar three times, Pingyuan nodded to Yuan Hao in a low voice.
"Very good!" Yuan Hao secretly laughed, smiling like a little fox. At this time, the trembling of Huang Yun's body stopped, and a lot of water oozed from his head. She sat up from the bed with a blank look in her eyes.
She shuddered slightly, and finally recovered, and a hint of wisdom flashed in her eyes. "How's that?" Yuan Hao asked her.
"No problem!" Huang Yun nodded slightly: "However, I need a space for experiments." Some ideas I want to try......"
"Good ......" Yuan Hao has no opinion on this.