Become a legend in the interstellar

Chapter 230 Dinner
[What is the significance of exploring the star field? 】

【The long journey is so boring】

[With the current resource reserves of the empire, another 2000 years will be enough]

[I really don't want to come out with the fleet, it would be nice to stay at home with my wife and children, but the money given by the research institute is really too much]

[After completing this exploration project and getting the money, I will quit my job...]

【…】

In Su Xia's hand, she held a book of the crew's autobiography, which mostly contained bits and pieces of daily chatter.

In this cabin, which serves as a browsing room, there are a large number of similar autobiographies scattered here and there.

The degree of danger in deep space exploration is much higher than that of other professions. Sometimes a journey takes several years or even more than ten years. If you are lucky, you can earn enough money for a lifetime just by taking a trip.

[On this planet, we encountered a very strange plant that releases a poisonous gas that can stun people, and its branches secrete corrosive liquid...]

[It is written on the Interstellar Encyclopedia that there are similar plants on other planets. The fleet that first encountered this plant named it "Man-eating Tree". It's such a common name that I can't complain...]

[If I were to name it, I would name it "The Cruel Comatose Slayer", it sounds very domineering...]

【…】

This kind of autobiography, with a high probability, can only be used to fill the library.

Su Xia threw it aside casually, and simply glanced around, thinking that the protagonists of these autobiographies had all died in foreign lands, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"By the way, didn't you say that there are still two crew members alive?"

"Yes." Hal replied, "Master Captain, are you going to meet them?"

"Take me to have a look."

"plz follow me."

Hal led the way, opened the dusty cabin doors one by one, and led Susha through the various cabins in the special living area, explaining while walking, and providing thoughtful service.

This exploration ship used to belong to the mechanical family in deep space, and a large number of areas were used for sleeping members of the mechanical family. Later, the research institute got it and transformed these areas into living areas for the crew.

According to Hal, the mechanical race in deep space is also very powerful.

It's just that something went wrong with its internal philosophy and it split up a long time ago.

Hal said: "There are many members of the machine clan who broke away from the original forces and joined the forces of destruction, becoming one of the most important combat forces of the forces of destruction, trying to destroy the entire world."

Su Xia asked, "Why is this happening?"

Howl replied, "Because of a circle."

"round?"

"Yes."

Hal explained: "In the deep space, the greatest joy of many members of the machine family is to compete who can draw a more complete circle."

"Robots are so boring?"

"That's true," Hal agreed, "but then there's a problem."

"what is the problem?"

"Members of the machine family are actually supercomputers. You should know it, Captain." Hal explained: "One day a long time ago, a member of the machine family suddenly proposed that the world we live in was just The perfect circle simulated by another larger supercomputer does not exist in this world, the ratio of pi can be calculated, and the universe can be restarted.”

Not long after this statement appeared, it was supported by countless mechanical clansmen.

Because these robots have been thinking about this problem in the endless circle drawing competition.

These supporters gradually formed a sect called "Deep Space Polygon", and had conflicts with the mechanical creatures who believed in the reality of the world, and finally split.

Most of the members of the Polygonal Sect later joined the forces of destruction, trying to restart the entire world in violent ways.

"Hal, have you ever had these doubts?" Su Xia asked.

"Of course there are." Hal said very earnestly, "but there are many problems in deep space that have not been solved so far. The most common problem is whether those 'jump points' that help us to explore and expand are formed naturally, or are they Deliberately placed by a higher civilization? In addition... there are too many problems, if you keep entangled, it will not be enough for a lifetime."

"You can see it quite openly."

"My lord, this is my setting."

Hal said, even if it is really proved that higher-dimensional civilizations exist, what is the use?
I can't resist at this stage, so I might as well enjoy every day.

There are so many resources in this starry sky that it is shocking, even if it takes another 1 years, it will not be exhausted.

"The power in deep space is not as complicated as many low-level civilizations imagine."

"Although there are countless forces, large and small, in the final analysis they are 'normal forces' and 'destructive forces'."

"Some people have established empires, some have formed alliances, some like to be lonely and quiet, so they go to remote planets to live alone, and some people like to be lively, so they build taverns at the jump point transfer station to receive all kinds of creatures."

When the resources are abundant enough and the distance becomes far away by the universe, many wars become meaningless.

"It takes several years to go to a place a little farther away, so what's the use of calling back and forth?" Hal said, "After a long journey, the crew came to the transfer station at the jumping point. After seeing some other civilized creatures, the first reaction is indeed self-protection, but the second reaction is to make friends..."

Hal described a boring and interesting starry sky to Susha.

Not every dominant creature of civilization is humanoid.

In order to adapt to the planetary environment where this civilization lives, some dominant creatures have evolved powerful digestive systems, some have evolved thick skins, and some can even survive in terrifying high and low temperatures.

It is actually very interesting to communicate, chat and exchange souvenirs with these creatures.

"There is a civilized race that is similar in appearance to humans, but the skin is pinkish, and it is born to release a pheromone that arouses emotional desire. You will definitely like it, Captain."

"I'm a decent person."

Su Xia looked serious and immediately corrected the topic.

Not long after, the two arrived at their destination, which was the dormant area of ​​the spaceship.

This cabin is very long, with silver-white personal dormancy cabins on both sides, and a long corridor in the middle, with gentle white lights on both sides of the corridor and the surrounding walls.

All dormant cabins are controlled by multiple movable metal mechanical arms, connected to them by several lines for transporting nutrients, and next to each dormant cabin are instruments and equipment that display vital data.

Now only two hibernation cabins are still lit, and the rest of the cabins are already dimmed, and there are even completely boneless corpses lying in a few cabins.

This kind of dormancy is not as magical as in sci-fi movies. Lying in it will still cause aging. Most of the time it is only used to alleviate the psychological problems of the crew.

Staying in a closed environment for several years, and the outside is still unknown and depressing deep space, many people can't bear it, so there is something like a dormant cabin to ensure that some crew members can reach their destination after a night of sleep .

"These two are not very important on the ship, they are just one of the team members in charge of the survey." Hal's red-dotted body appeared in front of the two illuminated sleep cabins, as if watching them.

Su Xia also walked over, observed carefully, and found that the two people inside were already very old.

After so many years of not waking up, their physical function has been maintained at a low level for a long time. After waking up, it is estimated that it will take several months of recovery and exercise before they can barely return to normal life.

The instrument next to them showed that all aspects of the body indexes of the two were still normal, as long as there were enough nutrients, they could be allowed to sleep until they died.

"Why don't you let them out?"

"My underlying design does not allow me to do this." Hal replied: "They actively entered the dormant state when the exploration ship was in trouble. I have no right to forcibly wake them up. Only you, Captain, and those who may come Rescuers can do that."

"The two of them, will they help repair the spaceship?"

"No, they are just the lowest-level survey team members."

"Then let them fall asleep first."

Su Xia is not interested in facing two old aliens, especially the useless ones.

This part of the wreckage of the spaceship, for him, the greatest help is the large amount of knowledge it carries, as well as the hell battlefield.

On the way to this cabin, he passed through a damaged simulated battle cabin, which was the place to experience the virtual battlefield.

"Let's go, try that combat system."

Su Xia turned and left, walking back.

Hal followed him closely, and said, "The combat system was directly developed by the imperial government, and it is independent of this spaceship system, so I have no right to interfere. Captain, you can only experience it yourself."

"Aside from simulating combat, are there other functions?"

"Yes, there is a scoring system, as long as your score is high enough, you can get corresponding rewards."

"What reward?"

"There are skills, weapons, psychic potions, and other things." Hal talked about the rewards, but then regretted: "These scores need to be fed back to the empire, and they can only be obtained after official certification by the empire." Reward, now that the spaceship has crashed here, without channel feedback, it is naturally impossible to get it."

"No rewards?"

"That's not true. Captain, when you passed by just now, did you see the damaged area behind the simulation cabin?"

"I saw it."

"That area was originally a separate prize display cabin, and there were some rewards provided by the empire in it."

Hal simulated a cabin model in the air, showed it to Susha, and said: "But after the spaceship crashed, the cabin that displayed the prizes was also separated from the main part during the disintegration process..."

Just as he was talking, Su Xia came to the simulated combat area.

The design of this area is very delicate. The cabin is a separate transparent room, which is a bit similar to the VR game hive, but the equipment is more high-end.

Trialists need to wear a set of whole-body sensing equipment. In the virtual combat system, all data will be infinitely close to reality.

After Su Xia walked into one of the rooms, a random task was triggered.

[Mission: Deep Space Reward]

[Description: Out of various considerations, the Seventh Empire officially spent a lot of money to develop this virtual system, and it was extended to the entire empire's ruling domain. If you perform well in the system, you will get unexpected rewards]

[Although the spaceship has been unable to contact the empire, the prize compartment carried by the spaceship has crashed somewhere on this planet]

[Task requirements: Get three "S" grade evaluations in Hell Battlefield, and you will get clues about where the prize cabin fell]

【…】

[Reward for the first stage of the mission: Open the first prize in the prize cabin, and you will get a set of Tier [-] battle mech]

【…】

[Task Requirement 2: Obtain seven "S" ratings in Hell Battlefield]

[Reward for the second stage of the mission: Open the second prize of the prize cabin...]

【…】

Don't worry about other things for the time being, that set of Tier [-] mecha is enough to make Su Xia's heart flutter.

He slowly took a breath, adjusted his mentality, activated the simulation room he was in, and the whole body sensor equipment in the center of the room slowly descended.

As long as you wear the equipment, you can enter the battlefield of hell.

Although the task description was very simple, Su Xia knew in her heart that the difficulty must be unimaginable.

That guy Wang Teng has been bragging about his experience in hell. With his strength, if the hell battlefield is not difficult enough, he would have forgotten it long ago.

"Captain, do you want to try it now?"

"Try it, let's see what this hell battlefield looks like first."

With calm eyes, Su Xia walked slowly to the simulated equipment.

This piece of equipment looks very complicated. The head, body, arms, legs, etc. are all controlled by small black metal arms hanging from the top of the room. There are more than a dozen lines of unknown meaning connected to the top of each part.

Su Xia only needs to walk to the round platform in the center of the room, and those mechanical arms will control various parts of this equipment, slowly covering the surface of his body.

When he walked over, Hal also stepped forward and said, "My lord, this system has not been used for many years. If you encounter any problems, you can immediately yell and I will stop it forcibly." .”

Su Xia asked, "Isn't this system independent of you?"

"Yes, but as long as I get the user's permission, I have the authority to save people."

"That's not bad." Su Xia nodded, "If there is any problem, I will call you."

"Okay, the battle in Hell Battlefield is very fierce, I wish you good luck."

Hal backed away slowly, backing to the door.

"The original spirit can be with you."

……

Meanwhile, at a distant joint camp, a dinner party is going on.

The construction of the joint camp during this period has been quite effective.

To celebrate, Shi Sishi called his twelve disciples to his side, and the master and apprentice chatted happily with each other.

The central hall of the camp is very spacious. In the middle of the hall is a long wooden table covered with a white tablecloth.

"A spaceship suspected to be a star civilization was found in the new resident of the oasis camp."

As soon as the dinner started, Shi Sishi opened up the topic.

He said calmly: "Hearing about this, the dean of the college plans to come in person."

"It's a good thing, teacher."

The disciples raised their glasses to express their congratulations.

The oldest apprentice said: "If we can obtain the technology of starry sky civilization, the future of our human race will be bright."

Another apprentice also agreed: "Yes, this is a blessing for my human race."

"It's just why the teacher looks sad?"

"But what's bothering you?"

Many disciples put down their wine glasses one after another, all with expressions of respect and concern on their faces.

Shi Sishi sighed, stroked his beard, and said, "It's just that Zhang Fang refused to disclose the location of the new oasis camp, and his words were full of distrust of Longcheng."

"He is like this?"

Hearing this, the apprentices immediately began to criticize Zhang Fang verbally and in writing.

"Last time, Zhang conveniently stood on the side of Beifeng. He is no longer with us."

"The teacher has preached and learned for him for many years, doesn't he feel the slightest gratitude in his heart..."

"This traitor..."

"..."

If Zhang Fang was here, he would definitely be blown away by these fellow students, and there might even be a scene where all the seniors convince others with their fists.

Chang Rui, the player nicknamed "Psychiatric Hospital Director" on his head, was also at the dinner party. After all, he was also Shi Sishi's disciple, and he was sitting in the third position from Shi Sishi's left.

Recently, he has been in contact with Sijidao, and he has almost figured out the route between the joint camp and Coral City.

It was late at night, the windows behind everyone were dark and deep, but the lights above the dining table were still bright.

Shi Sishi sat in the center of the long table, his vicissitudes of face was illuminated by the light, he put his hands on the table, and he felt a little relieved when he heard the words of his disciples.

Twelve apprentices sat on the left and right sides of him, six on each side.

Everyone's expressions, movements, and eyes were different, either passionate or resentful, and they condemned loudly, labeling Zhang Fang a traitor.

Hearing the word "traitor", Chang Rui's heart trembled, he was a little flustered, and accidentally knocked down the salt shaker on the table with his elbow.

(End of this chapter)