Thanks to the dedication of the Gantry Factory, the current state of the Glory Queen is very different from what it was when it was first seen.

Although some small errors in the precision equipment and programs still need to be adjusted for a long time, in general, these do not prevent Gu Fan from starting to explore this strange universe.

"The state of the ship, no abnormality."

In the center of the bridge, Xue Feng was sitting quietly on the body of the Dark Bee drone, reporting on the current situation of the ship, while leisurely swinging his two white legs.

After a brief self-overhaul, her left arm, which had been damaged by overload, barely regained some of its function, but it still seemed stiff and uncoordinated in its movements, and overall the problem was not very large.

At this moment, the Queen of Glory is located somewhere in deep space within the Centaur system, which may have been home to a temporary base for a human fleet.

Although this had happened more than a thousand years ago, Gu Fan still tried to conduct a large-scale reconnaissance of the star field in front of him, expecting to obtain any useful information.

In the end, however, the sensor presented the same result.

[No corresponding signal was detected within range.] 】

The ship's scanning did not find any human-related information in the surrounding star fields, and in the past nearly a day, Gu Fan had been repeating similar operations and making detailed measurements of the galaxy.

As a result, it was almost certain that there was no clue in the Centaur system that he wanted.

Thinking of this, Gu Fan sighed silently, leaned back on the seat, and began to study the next countermeasure.

At the moment, the materials packed and taken away from the solar system are quite abundant, but these are non-renewable resources after all, and sooner or later they will be depleted.

For the sake of long-term planning, he had to start thinking about these rather practical issues from now on.

Where should the missing materials be replenished, and where should the clues about human beings be found, obviously Gu Fan does not have an accurate answer in his heart for the time being.

While thinking, he set his eyes on the body of Xue Feng on the side......

For some reason, looking at that thin figure, Gu Fan recalled the scene when he communicated with 301.

- Trying to find humans, fearing abandonment, remembering what 301 had said to himself.

In the past period of time, this sentence has been put into Gu Fan's heart and chewed repeatedly.

No matter how you think about it, it doesn't seem like it came from a mechanical language module.

The question of whether AI has souls and emotions is a topic that is often debated, even for humans who have been in a golden age in the past.

If so, how did it come about, after all, when these machines were made, no similar program had ever been set up for them.

In the past, people would call it a bug, a bug that didn't come from nowhere.

Gradually, an interesting idea came to his heart, does the girl in front of him happen to have such a "loophole"?

"Yukikaze, I wonder what you think of me."

Hearing the inquiry, Xue Feng gradually lowered his feet, jumped down from the drone's body, and fell on Gu Fan's body.

"The protected, the served, the absolutely obedient."

I have to say, this is a fairly standard and procedural answer.

But looking at the other party's beautiful burgundy pupils, he felt a little lost in his heart.

......

......

Not long after, while the snow wind went to the power room to replenish energy, Gu Fan came to the production center in the ship alone.

In order to ensure the safety of the ship as much as possible, at the suggestion of Yukikaze, 200 heavily armed Iron Man Guards were assigned to patrol the battleship in order to prevent anyone from trespassing on the huge ship.

At this moment, after seeing Gu Fan who was traveling alone, three guards spontaneously followed behind him and accompanied him into the factory.

As the hatch slowly opened, a highly intelligent production center appeared in front of Gu Fan's eyes, because the Glory Queen class, as a command ship, sometimes needed to provide emergency supplies for an entire fleet, so the corresponding capabilities were specially strengthened in the early stage of ship design.

Integrating all the functions required for production, such as gathering, smelting, manufacturing, and assembly, with sufficient basic resources, the battleship itself can be transformed into a mobile military factory, producing batches of war machines from those glittering quantum forges.

However, it is a pity that since there is only Gu Fan in the entire battleship, and Xuefeng is not carrying a production program, this seemingly all-powerful factory can only rely on the most basic preset programs to produce some small objects that are not so complicated.

For example, the infantry's standard laser rifles, hot melt grenades, and a small number of heavy weapons, as for the war machinery, only a few weak and mentally retarded legion puppets can only be produced, which are extremely cheap resources, equipped with light weapons and basic logic AI.

In the wars between humans and the Star Gods and the Ancient Saints in the past, the enormous and tragic attrition prompted the human side to urgently need this cheap, but almost infinitely producible machine, to supplement some of the fragile salients of the key fronts.

Some commanders even use them to carry out reckless suicidal charges to detect enemy firepower.

As for how weak these guys are, simply put, even a human infantry with basic training can easily deal with the simultaneous attack of about three puppets.

But the problem is that there are too many of them, and there are still batches of falling, under the numerical advantage of hundreds of millions or even billions.

Even the Ancient Saints had a headache more than once with these iron bumps that were comparable to Xiaoqiang.

"Don't think about heavy machinery or anything, even the technology template is missing so many ......"

"And even if there is a template, there are not enough resources to make it......"

Standing in front of the factory's operating platform, facing an almost blank database, Gu Fan's mood can be described as suffering like Coptis chinensis.

It seems that along the way, in addition to collecting clues left by compatriots and discovering the truth about the disappearance of human beings.

He also had to find a way to collect as many useful resources as possible, and at the same time recycle as many abandoned tech templates as possible, so that he could better develop himself.

After sighing silently, Gu Fan turned his head to look at the tall and mighty iron guard beside him.

Not to mention this thing, there are still a small amount of energy crystals in ceramic steel and living metal, which of these three things is not easy to solve.

If you can't make it, you can't make it no matter how you think about it.

Helplessly, after a little weighing, he finally issued an order to the shipyard to make legion puppets.

Although Gu Fan thinks that he is a pacifist, he is not naïve, communication with foreign races is bound to be smooth sailing, conflict will be inevitable, and he must be prepared for this.

Using the local products brought out from his hometown earth, the first batch of 5,000 units of puppets and supporting standard equipment were successfully boarded on the production line under his orders.

In the event of a conflict with an enemy on the ground, these golems provide good cover for legions of Iron Men and Titans.

"Ha ......"

Looking at the gradually lively factory, Gu Fan stretched his waist quite easily, but at this moment, the sound of snow wind suddenly came from the radio inside the factory.

"I caught an unidentified signal from the outside, do I want to access it?"

The unidentified signal must have come from another race, and he had expected such a situation, and it was time to listen to the voice from outside.

"Access."

As his words fell, the radio was silent for a few seconds before bursting into a series of tiny rodent screams.

......

"Squeak! Squeak squeak! Chirping!!! ”

"Squeak squeak~~~~"

What's that? It sounded like a large bunch of rats in a cage, and the sound inside the communicator seemed so harsh with the sound of a violent explosion.

"Xuefeng, turn on the communication translation, I want to know what those things are talking about."

After receiving the command, the signal on the radio was slightly interrupted for a moment.

It wasn't long before the squeak came again, but this time it was a little different.

"Squeak! Distress! Distress! ”

......

"This is the Horned Rats of the Merchant Alliance! We're under attack by a bunch of fools! Distress! Distress! ”

"Squeak! I can already smell the stench of those stupid things! ”

Merchant Alliance?

A group of merchants?