Chapter 74: About the Future (Still a 4,000-Word Chapter)
The next day, the Jackdaw left hyperspace early in the morning and began its routine overhaul.
The four people on the boat gathered in the living room for breakfast.
Wang Chao: "Let's discuss what to do next." In order to take care of Lily, who has no network equipment, it is difficult for everyone to communicate in words. ”
Gale glanced at Lily, who was sitting next to the porthole, and said with a wicked smile: "There is a person who can't join the online chat room and can't see the super beautiful things that everyone shares in the chat room, who is it?" You~"
Wang Chao: "She's my girlfriend, and what do you call me?" ”
Gale was embarrassed.
Wang Chao: "Don't call me my stepfather and call her stepmother, you can choose one." ”
Gale immediately made a choice: "Mom! ”
"Yes, good girl." Lily happily accepted.
Wang Chao was staggered.
Nimeth shook her head: "You guys are really idle." Obviously, our situation is not good now, although helium-3 has been replenished in the Doyle space station, and some prosthetic parts have been purchased, but the high-quality prosthetic parts used by Wang Chao and I have not been bought.
"If we encounter a few more high-intensity battles, we will have to honestly use a prosthetic body that is one grade lower.
"If you want to buy high-end prosthetics, you have to go to the central area of civilization, but thanks to someone's blessing, we are now big celebrities."
Nimeth paused and added, "By the way, we only have loot now, no money." ”
Wang Chao: "Actually, you can consider using the name of Organization X to cheat and deceive. ”
"Speaking of which, I have to mention Uncle Kiel, the head snake of the Doyle space station, who wanted to insert a new expansion module into our spacecraft, but someone refused." Ni Meow looked at Wang Chao and blinked.
Wang Chao spread his hands: "I'm not afraid of being seen as a problem." Now that I think about it, I should bite the bullet and ask for something, anyway, the lie will be exposed soon. ”
Lily: "Will it be debunked?" ”
Wang Chao: "Yes, think about it, we were jointly calculated by two companies in New Eden, and then we had to flee in embarrassment, and we threw the ship at Nimeow's." The people of New Eden only have to look at the ship we threw away, and they know that there is no such thing as an X-organization. ”
"Yes, he's left key information on the ship," Nimeth said, "a paper star map, for he's afraid he won't be able to find his old friend if his computer is formatted." Now, it is estimated that one of these old friends has been approached by the legal mercenaries of Galaxy Entertainment and Pan Pacific Pictures. ”
Wang Chao scratched his head: "If you think about it carefully, I'm really sorry for my old friends." ”
Although it is an old friend of "that" Wang Chao.
Lily looked at everyone's expressions and concluded, "So, although when we were on Doyle's space station, the boss of the space station was respectful to us, but now we are street rats?" ”
Wang Chao: "Not necessarily, after all, interstellar information transmission is so slow. But...... It's almost there. ”
Gale slapped the table: "Isn't it easy to do next?" Make your strength stronger! The fastest way for us to become stronger is to absorb new superpowers, and if our father-in-law absorbs one, we can play one more, and now we can only play two superpowers at the same time, and if we absorb one more, we can play three at the same time! ”
Gale Gale's description seems to be Wang Chao's participation in some kind of sports competition, but her explanation is unexpectedly simple and easy to understand.
Gale continued: "You see, now that Organization X does not exist, isn't the only person who is likely to have another superpower person be the organization of the superpower person killed by his father-in-law? We're chasing them and sucking them! Father-in-law, you know what kind of organization it is, right? ”
Wang Chao: "According to Uncle Kiel, that superpowered person belongs to the Unified Religion. As for authenticity...... My instincts told me to be credible, after all, they were stunned by Project X at that time. ”
"That's easy," Gale tapped on the table, "the headquarters of the Unification Church is in Solaris, and everyone knows it." Kill them, and turn them into our power! ”
Suddenly, a three-dimensional star map projection unfolded on the desktop, and Wang Chao was sure that he didn't operate it himself, so he glanced at Ni Meow.
Nimeth spoke at this time: "This is our current position, in the fourth quadrant of the Milky Way, and this is the position of Solaris, in the second quadrant of the Milky Way. And this is the range that our helium three can run now. ”
Gale looked at the eye-catching markings on the star map and sighed, "The Milky Way is really vast. ”
Lily agreed, "yes." ”
Wang Chao held his cheeks and looked at Ni Meow: "I still have one hundred and fifty hours of trouble-free full-power activity time, and I should have five or six more battles of the intensity of the Doyle space station." How are you doing? ”
Nimeow: "I'm much better than you, after all, most of the time I don't need to activate the neurotactile acceleration, which consumes the most prosthetic life." And what about our huskies? ”
It seems that Nimeow also took Gale for a husky.
Gale slapped his chest: "I just changed it before I went to fight the Italians, and I can build it for a long time!" ”
Wang Chao was curious and called her maintenance record in the early hours of this morning, and scolded: "Shit, you have been overloading this product, and the condition of the body is the worst of the three of us!" ”
Gale laughed awkwardly.
Lily suddenly said, "By the way, my superpowers, maybe I can improve the condition of your body?" ”
The three prosthetic men looked at Lily together.
Lily: "Well, didn't I say it before, my superpowers can ...... Right? ”
Wang Chao: "But you don't understand physics, let alone electromechanical and automatic control, so you don't know how to improve the performance of prosthetics, do you?" ”
Lily shrugged, "Maybe...... Can make the machine feel a little better? ”
What mechanical priest?
Wang Chao: "Forget it, try it, it doesn't hurt anyway." Lily, come here, I'll pass on the gong to you. ”
It's not that Wang Chao doesn't want to omit this set of gong, the key is that this set has been successful before, in order to prevent problems, so he can only come every time.
After all, in the absence of real scientists to study all this, whether it is superpowers or "Tao", it is all metaphysics.
It didn't take much to pass on the gong, and Lily's mechanical rabbit once again appeared in Wang Chao's field of vision.
Lily: "What should I sing?" ”
Wang Chao: "Since it is to make the machine feel good, then some machines will like it?" ”
Lily looked at Wang Chao in a daze: "What will the machine like?" I don't know! ”
"Do you think I know?" Wang Chao asked rhetorically.
Lily: "You're the boss of Project X!" ”
"Organization X doesn't exist!"
Gale: "Wait a minute, isn't it enough to ask the person with the highest level of mechanization on the site?" ”
The three of them looked at each other, and finally looked at Nimeow together.
"Huh?" Nimeth pointed at herself, "Ask me?" How would I know? ”
Wang Chao: "Just tell me a tune you like, I mean you like it and she can sing it." ”
Lily is a natural person after all, and she has to learn songs no matter how fast she learns.
Nimeow sighed and said, "Then let's have a silent sound." is the famous song of the old movie "The Graduate". ”
Lily: "Star Triple Boomer 5's insertion? ”
Wang Chao was speechless, he seriously doubted that as long as it was an old song or movie in his good ball area, "that" Wang Chao must have played a stalk.
Lily began to chant.
As soon as he sang two lines of Gale he shouted, "I feel like it really works!" ”
"Shut up." Wang Chao gave Gale a head shot.
Lily is worthy of being a professional singer, completely unaffected by the gale, and continues to chant affectionately.
Her superego rabbit danced gently around the gale as she sang.
Gale pursed his lips, looking uncomfortable with his words.
Nimeow watched all of this with a look of disbelief that it would be useful.
Finally, Lily finished the song, turned her head to look at Wang Chao, and seemed to ask, "How is it?" ”
Gale nodded repeatedly: "Well, that's good." ”
Her demeanor and movements are very similar to Li Yunlong, who has just finished listening to the performance of the military band of the 7th Division.
Wang Chao: "Gale Wind, go to the maintenance room and let the computer assess the condition of your body." ”
"Okay!" Gale stood up and walked with the wind and ran.
Nimeow: "It's not going to work. If this can be done, then the mechanic will not repair it, and it will be over every day by worshipping God. ”
As soon as Wang Chao was about to reply, he saw a gale rush into the maintenance room through the spaceship's computer, and couldn't wait to lie down on the maintenance rack.
The computer begins to perform the standard evaluation procedure.
Nimeow: "Let's go back to the problem we're facing. Incognito is impossible to be incognito, and we are all celebrities now. I couldn't tell anyone what was going on when I ran to pick up the job. If you don't know, there are still many organizations and forces that covet superpowers and dig holes for us to jump. ”
Wang Chao: "Indeed. There's really no one to trust in the future. ”
"So I think we might as well find a planet, explore the minerals, and settle on it." "When the prosthetics are broken, replace them with low-performance prostheses that the greyhound's printer can print, until one day the planet is favored by the big colonial corporations." ”
Lily: "Disarmed?" ”
Wang Chao was just about to answer, when the evaluation report of the machine on the side of the gale came out.
The evaluation of her prosthesis by the gray hound-level computer in the early hours of this morning showed that the trouble-free operation time was only sixty hours, and now the evaluation data is actually seventy-six hours! That's a full sixteen hours!
Nimeow was also reading the report, and exclaimed directly: "I'll go, it's really effective?" How can it be! ”
Lily couldn't see the assessment report through the Starlight network inside the ship, so she could only ask with a stunned face, "Huh?" Does it work? Does it really work? ”
Wang Chao looked up at her: "Don't you think it will be effective?" ”
Lily: "Uh...... It's hard to describe, I think it's going to work, but I think it's ridiculous. ”
Wang Chao summed it up: "Your rationality thinks it's ridiculous, but your emotions think it will be effective? ”
"Yes, yes!" Lily nodded repeatedly, "That's it!" You're so smart, I can't sum it up that way. ”
Wang Chao and Ni Meow glanced at each other.
Nimeow: "But it's only sixteen hours more, so it doesn't solve the problem fundamentally." ”
Wang Chao: "Of course, after all, wear is real wear. Electromagnetic muscles and bearings all have a service life. ”
At this time, the gale came back, and when he came up, he held Lily's hand: "Mom! Sing a few more songs to the kids! ”
Wang Chao saw it, and she highlighted that a mother with milk has no discipline.
Nimeth continued to talk about what had just happened: "We still need to think of a way, at least find a place to get the work, and then we have to go to the core star of civilization to ensure the way to obtain high-performance prosthetics." The good news is that our superpowers are all real superpowers, and the ship is in good shape......"
Wang Chao: "We made a lot of money by selling scrap iron at the Doyle space station, and I feel like we can reproduce it." ”
Nimeow stopped and looked at Wang Chao: "What are you going to do?" ”
Wang Chao: "As you said just now, there must be many organizations that covet superpowers and want to dig holes for us to jump." In that case, isn't it over for us to defend and counterattack and treat them as a source of wealth? ”
Nimeth frowned: "Huh? ”
Wang Chao: "In addition, Gale Gale also said just now, as long as we catch people with superpowers, we can really become stronger by seizing the 'Dao' on them." Lily singing can limit enemies and amplify herself at the same time, you can invade through the air, gale, and ......"
Lily looked at Gale, "She's useless. ”
"I don't have eggs!" Gale held his head in both hands, "As a result, I am everyone's shortcomings and weaknesses!" ”
Lily: "Ah, she's not without eggs, she's just useless. ”
Don't drive suddenly! What about the character! What about your innocent personality?
Wang Chao waved his hand: "Don't talk about this." It's true that the headquarters of the Unification Church is far away from us, but we actually have a clue to our superpowers. ”
Next, Wang Chao shared with everyone how he got the "Dao".
Nimeth held her chin: "So, you think the middleman who sent the task is suspicious?" ”
Wang Chao: "Yes. You see, I shipped a strange package, and then the next mission was the pit, and I was supposed to die in this pit. Don't you think it's a coincidence? ”
Nimeow: "If you look at it this way, Galaxy Entertainment and Pan Pacific Pictures may also have something to do with superpowers. Where did you get that package delivered? ”
Wang Chao: "Sky Wolf Three, we deliver there." The consignee didn't care at all whether the goods were opened, took the goods and left. At the time, I thought that the parcel was originally an 'empty courier', which was quite common, mainly used to make noise, and the things that were really to be transported were taken from other routes.
"Let's follow this clue to investigate, and we can't dig up the real organization that has been researching superpowers."
Nimeow: "But wouldn't it be too dangerous to rush back to New Eden now...... Hey, that's not right! Maybe because it's dark under the lights, it's safe to go back. The people who are tracking them should all be out of New Eden. ”
Wang Chao: "I know that the middleman's stronghold is in the second snake man. If we want to go, we have to find a way to solve the problem of adding helium-three, or we will be discovered halfway. In New Eden, he is one of the most powerful land snakes. ”
Gale interjected: "Wait a minute, who are you talking about?" Can you explain this to someone who is not familiar with the situation in New Eden? ”
"We're talking about Vittorio Palcino." Nimeow casually reported her name.
Wang Chao continued: "My old acquaintance, one of the most powerful middlemen in New Eden, is also said to be the most moral. But he was the one who sold me. ”
Nimeow: "Not only did he sell you, but didn't your prosthetic doctor also sell your prosthetic parameters?" It's a shame that you and he still have so many years of friendship. In our business, it's not unusual to be sold at any time. ”
Gale agreed, "Indeed. ”
Lily, the only one out of the situation, looked back and forth at the three who seemed to be in agreement.