Chapter 5: Invasion
After Nia finished speaking, Wang Chao looked at everyone and said, "It seems that I have to drive this dinghy ......."
"What do you think!" Nimeth interrupted him, "If you set the route, you can automatically fly over, and now it's already fully automatic." ”
Page chimed in: "Yes, you didn't fly a spaceship on the new Jackdaw, it's all my artificial intelligence that is 'fully automatic'." ”
Nimeth stood up and ordered Page, "Get ready to land in the dinghy and set the course." I'll dock directly to the satellite, and you'll be able to contact me through the local planet network.
"Remember to turn on the ship's 65535 connector."
Wang Chao: "What is this interface for?" ”
"Allows me to call on the computing power on the ship." Nimeow replied angrily.
With that, she walked straight to the elevator at the rear of the bridge.
Helena: "We'll have to wait. ”
The time it takes for the landing craft to move into the orbit of the satellite cannot be shortened, so the next move cannot be carried out until Nimeow flies over.
Lily: "I'm going to put on a show for everyone?" ”
Wang Chao: "You better save your strength, maybe you will perform for the people of the entire colony next." If you want to pass the time...... Paige, can you get a message from anyone here? ”
"Yes."
The next moment, an unfamiliar voice came from the loudspeaker: "The survey telescope did observe a large-scale, instantaneous luminescence phenomenon, much like the light of the spacecraft leaving hyperspace, but the survey telescope did not see the spacecraft at all, and the infrared observation did not see the infrared heat source." ”
The image of the communication appeared on the screen a second late.
There are two screens shown, one side looks like it's on the space station, and the man who speaks is a very touching man, and when you look at the amount of hair, you know that he must be an engineer.
The man wears space overalls that have not been washed in a while, and the logo on the overalls is likely to be the insignia of the local space agency.
The picture on the other side looks full of retro flavors: paper documents appear in the picture. At that time, the printer in Wang Chao's office was basically only used to print documents that needed to be actually signed, and it was said that the contract could also be signed electronically in the future.
The oldest middle-aged man in the office lamented that ink cartridges were now consumed much less than before, and then recalled the days when he had to go to the office every month to buy supplies.
Now, 300 years later, a large pile of paper documents has appeared on the communication screen.
He couldn't help but ask Paige, "On the picture on the ground, is that paper?" ”
"Yes."
Wang Chao: "Why is there paper?" ”
Helena replied in place of Page: "Probably a hobby of the office owner." Just like some people prefer paper books. ”
As she spoke, the ground side asked, "Are you saying that there is a picture of leaving hyperspace, but there is no observation of the spacecraft?" ”
The bald man on the space station nodded: "Yes." ”
"That'...... Is it a parcel? ”
"The parcel doesn't have such a big glowing reaction. And where did we get the parcel in this colony, I don't know that we are not on the star map of the outside world. ”
That's really not, Wang Chao and they just came here after looking at the star map, this place on the star map is an "uninhabited" galaxy, and the only man-made object may be the probe and remote sensing satellite launched when exploring this galaxy.
The other side of the ground was obviously not satisfied with the station's answer: "And what is this luminous phenomenon?" Don't try to fool around with the failure of the survey telescope, we all see the glow on the ground! It's daytime in town, and there's a flash of light during the day! ”
The space station engineer scratched his head, which had no hairs left, "It's no good for me to fool you." So, you can check the message I sent back, the survey telescope just didn't see anything.
"We don't know what kind of light it is, it can't be the light of God's old man's manifestation, right?"
The ground sighed: "Old Qiao, you know that there is no one who understands astronautics on the ground, and we don't have professionals who can analyze the information you send back." ”
Helena muttered in a low voice when she heard this: "A common condition in small colonies, there is a lack of professional and technical personnel. Many of the smaller colonies died because of the death of the people who had the key skills, causing the colonies to gradually come to a standstill, and finally the remaining people had to flee. ”
Wang Chao: "What if the one who dies happens to be the guy who can drive a spaceship?" Fly away by automation? ”
"Of course." Helena shrugged her shoulders, "That's lucky, bad luck stuck in the colony, and in the end the experts of the colony died one by one, the system stopped step by step, and the rest of the people could only return to the pre-civilization era in the end, slash-and-burn." ”
Lily sighed: "Slash-and-burn? Then the story of the conquest of the starry sky by humans gradually became a legend, and their descendants even began to disbelieve that a considerable part of the stars in the sky were inhabited by people. ”
Wang Chao: "It's quite a sci-fi development, maybe the situation will become like this in another thousand years." ”
While the "interstellar visitors" were divergent in their thinking, the "locals" ended the call.
Page immediately reported: "Radio communications were monitored, it seemed like someone was on the other side of the space station on a spacewalk, and it was their conversation." ”
Then the voice came, at first apparently the voice of the bald engineer on the space station: "Mike, ask the other side of the ground what the flash is all about." They also wonder if the survey telescope is malfunctioning, and remember to look at the telescope after you fix the external pipeline.
"I don't know if there's some kind of flaw in the lens that makes us not see the ship that made such a violent flash."
Mike immediately replied, "Damn, I'm almost exhausted after replacing the pipeline, this kind of work should be done by his fucking robot!" ”
"The robot is being repaired, and the computer assesses that there is a 30% chance of losing it forever if it is sent out now, so you will be a little tired."
Wang Chao: "The condition of their maintenance robots is not very good...... Rather, the colony does not have advanced printing capabilities to produce the core parts of the robot, resulting in a worrying availability of the robot. ”
Now that the new Jackdaw has LV5 printing capabilities, the problem of prosthetic wear that plagued Wang Chao before has been greatly alleviated, because the broken parts can be thrown into the recycling furnace for recycling, and then printed out.
Of course, there will be losses in this kind of recycling, and after a while, you still have to buy new parts, or mine them yourself and produce new parts according to the blueprints.
In any case, the time limit for trouble-free activities that used to be "hanging" by Lily's singing voice can finally be put down.
The colony in front of us obviously does not have strong printing capabilities, and cannot achieve the recycling of robot parts, so it can only use longer and longer maintenance time to cope with the lower and lower availability rate.
At this time, the engineer called Old Joe brought the topic back to the flash: "So what's going on with that flash?" You've just been out there and seen it with the naked eye, right? ”
"Of course I did, I thought it was another colony ship, and I thought it was an uninhabited galaxy coming over. Old Joe, why didn't the mayor send someone to update the star map information? ”
Nia: "It seems that the supreme ruler here calls himself 'Mayor Mare'. ”
Wang Chao nodded and continued to listen to the other party's conversation.
Old Joe: "I think he probably doesn't want to have another boss." Now he is the mayor of the town, the emperor of the soil here, if the outside world updates the star map, there may be a sheriff or an envoy or something from outside, and he will give orders to him from above. ”
Mike: "I see. In other words, we seem to be very dangerous now, and the defense force of the entire planet is the photon torpedo on our space station. The torpedo is basically not fired except for the annual 'founding' celebration. ”
Old Joe: "Don't worry, we don't have helium three, and the space pirates won't come." What can they rob when they come to us? Watermelons on the ground? The helium-three consumed here can't be replenished, and it's a pure loss. ”
"Probably...... Pirates can catch slaves! Mike said.
Old Qiao sneered: "Don't be stupid, people can be more efficient than machines?" Isn't it nice to spend so much effort to catch a bunch of slaves who want to eat and sleep, desert you from time to time, and make mistakes if you're unlucky? ”
Truly.
Mike: "That...... Come to catch Mrs. Zhai? ”
Old Joe: "Arrest whom?" The older generation here is basically old, and those of you in your thirties are considered young. And because there is no genetic adjustment center for the new generation, you look at how many crooked melons and cracked dates.
"We've all lived outside, and we've all seen handsome men and women walking all over the place. Look at the juniors born in the colony now, what crooked melons and cracked dates. ”
Mike smiled awkwardly, and then suddenly remembered something: "There are also good-looking ones, isn't the little girl in Jenkins' family very good-looking." ”
"The best of the best. I think you've lived in this broken place for a long time, and your aesthetics have collapsed, and you think it's beautiful when you see a child who is not fat and has good eyebrows. ”
Gale looked at Wang Chao: "Father-in-law, why don't you take a notebook to write it down, the little girl from Jenkins' family is very good-looking, write it down!" ”
Wang Chao: "We are not here to catch the pirates who crush Mrs. Zhai. Besides, I have a boatload of beautiful women with me, and I'm not interested in it for a long time. Don't make a noise, keep listening! ”
However, the next two people on the space station began to talk without nutrition.
Gale listened for a while and shouted that he was bored and wanted to "change the channel".
Then Page changed the channel and found that most of the radios were homely, or discussing postpartum care for the sows or something.
What a quiet and peaceful remote colony.
Gale suddenly thought, "Wait a minute, since we can receive the signal, can we directly access the local network?" ”
"It's going to be exposed." Helena said, "To access the network, you have to interact, for example, if you want to visit a web address, you have to send the URL to the resolution server first. If you can only receive it, you will not be able to access the website. Don't believe you ask Paige. ”
Page immediately replied, "That's true, but there are ways to do it without sending a message." That is to intercept the traffic of a person and the DNS resolution server so that we can see what they are viewing. ”
Wang Chao and Gale shouted almost at the same time: "DO IT!" ”
Paige: "Intercepting." The interception was completed, and it was a network data stream from the ground, presumably using an app called Shake Painting, but I decoded the video data separately. ”
Paige then displayed the screen on the screen.
It looks like the sunset was filmed.
The sunset sky of this planet is actually blue-purple, which looks much more fantastical than the sunset on the earth in Wang Chao's impression.
Lily was stunned and sighed, "It's so beautiful." ”
Gale: "I've always lived on the space station, and I've never seen the sun set. It's beautiful indeed. ”
Nia: "Haven't you even seen the sunset in virtual reality?" ”
Gale spread his hands: "That's right, because I haven't entered a virtual reality made by someone who has experience living on the ground." That's what we, the Children of the Void, look like. ”
Children of the Void are a joke of people who were born in the universe and grew up in the universe.
While everyone was discussing the sunset, the screen suddenly switched, and it was probably the viewer who swiped the screen.
The next picture is Wang Chao's familiar earthy video: strong music, the unclear swaying of the people in the painting, and the content of unclear meaning, well, Wang Chao is familiar with the set.
Wang Chao suddenly asked Helena: "It's been so long since we entered the aerospace age, why are human beings still watching short videos to pass the time?" ”
Helena: "Because this colony is an underdeveloped area, probably only some of the powerful people here can afford to have a full set of virtual reality equipment, and they can rely on virtual reality games to pass the time. ”
Wang Chao: "Does everyone in the core star area play virtual reality?" ”
Helena looked at Wang Chao: "You ask me?" You don't know better than me how you highly prosthetic people send time? ”
Wang Chao then remembered that although he did not live in the core star region, his equipment was the core of the most advanced technology of mankind, and it could be regarded as living under the influence of the highest technology and productivity of human beings.
In addition to playing sumo, he usually passes the time, mainly to use his advantages of seamless interaction with the machine to fly in the sea of data.
Although his human-borne computer does not have enough computing power to generate virtual worlds like the real world, it is still okay to lower the requirements to produce some virtual reality that is not so fake.
For example, virtual reality human-borne computers like 3D games of the 21st century are easy to generate.
Wang Chao experiences these virtual realities without any external equipment, and can start "playing" as soon as he lies on the bed.
Human-borne computers can even combine human imagination to turn various into virtual reality, such as simulating the prison scene in Monte Cristo, allowing people to experience the process of escaping from prison, and for example, Hugo's "Ninety-Three Years" can be expanded into a picture scroll of the Revolution, so that Wang Chao can immerse himself in it.
Excess productivity allows everyone to produce "games" on their own, literally wherever they want.
At this time, Lily said: "Every time after playing sumo, Wang Chao would throw me aside and enter a state of meditation. ”
Wang Chao: "I'm reminiscing about the romance just now." ”
No, it's actually playing a game in your own mind, but if you say it, you may be roared by the Hedong lion, and you have to lie.
Lily immediately believed it, and showed a sweet smile: "In this way, then I will also reminisce about it in the future." ”
Grass, so guilty......
At this time, Page reported: "I received a message on the Internet that was suspected to have been sent to us. It reads: 'I'm in, I can move on to the next step, meow.'" ’”
Nia: "Miss Black Cat is so cute, and she even sent a 'meow' at the end." ”
Helena: "No, no, no, that's her signature, right?" Her name is Ni Meow, and her surname is Ni Meow. ”
Wang Chao: "Now that Nimeow has invaded the network, Helena's turn for you, I think those communications just now have pointed us to the target, if you want to know if this colony has a quantum entanglement communication device, just go find this guy who calls himself 'Mayor of the Town'." If he didn't, the colonies probably didn't. ”
(End of chapter)