spaceflight manual

Chapter 135 "I Am Iron Man"

A moment later, Wang Ping'an and Angeli were connected in series again, and connected to the 18-meter-high humanoid combat boat.

This time the situation was better than before, except for the noise "in the ears", there was only slight dizziness.

And the noise is gradually changing.

Wang Pingan remembered that he was bored during the voyage once, and experienced a sleep aid product based on the background sound waves in the sea.

Yes, he felt like he was in the depths of the ocean right now.

There are regular echoes nearby, which may be giant whales cruising nearby.But Wang Ping'an's rationality told him that it was a cruiser sailing in the same direction next to the mothership.

——Wait a minute, am I completely adapted to the information sent back by the radar?
Wang Ping'an opened his eyes and looked to the side—to be precise, he looked to the side through the optical equipment of the humanoid body, looked in the direction of the "sound", and indeed caught the light from the cruiser.

At the moment when the vision and radar information were matched, Wang Pingan had a sense of transparency that everything was integrated, as if the problem that had troubled him for a long time was solved in an instant, and his mind that had been blocked for a long time suddenly opened.

The only problem with this transparency is that he doesn't know what he is transparent about.

Maybe this is like in a martial arts novel, where the two veins of Ren and Du were opened up?

It seems that at the moment when the radar information and the visual information collided, Wang Ping'an's brain formally accepted that he still has the receptor of radar—but in the form of sound.

After all, there is no sound in the universe.

Wang Ping'an tried to turn his attention to other voices "by his ears".

As a top astronaut in the Space Force, he has naturally and completely learned the theoretical knowledge related to radar. This knowledge allowed him to quickly distinguish the nature of the messy echoes "inside his ears".

Because Whitebeth was heading straight ahead on a route perpendicular to the ecliptic plane of the asteroid belt at this time, there was an empty space within [-] kilometers around, and there were almost no devices that could generate echoes, so Wang Ping'an's "ears" were actually quite clean .

As for the whispering voice, Wang Pingan boldly speculated that it was the cosmic background radiation.

It's really interesting, my brain regards the cosmic background radiation as an unknown whisper, as if several people in gray robes are reciting indescribable poems.

——Damn it, is it because I was bored watching too many Lovecraftian horror stories during the voyage, or is the cosmic background radiation really the whispers of the followers of the Outer Gods?

Wang Ping'an is a staunch materialist. He currently thinks that his brain is affected by too many Lovecraftian stories, as if he is affected by the theory of tension and occasionally hears Xiao Fang's voice.

However, he will also take the initiative to ask Dana, who studies the cosmic background radiation, for verification. If he really finds out what poems the cosmic background radiation is reciting, he will find out the meaning of these poems and figure out who is singing in the poems .This is the exemplary behavior of a materialist.

Of course, it is possible to leave this state, and you can go to verify it immediately: Angeli received a completely different education from Wang Pingan, and before joining the Space Force, she was studying hard and didn't have time to read so many miscellaneous books. She was basically with Wang Pingan, and Wang Pingan knew that she must have never read Lovecraft's works.

Then the cosmic background radiation she heard must have a completely different presentation.

Wang Pingan silently kept the matter of asking Angeli in mind, and then turned his attention to other things: By the way, what should I do?

He thought about it—no, he asked the battleship's main computer to check the communication records.

——I have naturally turned checking the communication records into "memory", which means that my brain increasingly regards this body as itself?
In the communication record, there is Tu Shengli's instruction: "If you successfully control the machine body, wave to the mothership's external optical equipment."

Wang Pingan waved his hand lightly.

A new instruction came immediately: "Try to turn around, pay attention to the path and speed, and try not to damage the machine."

Wang Ping'an nodded—yes, he was completely unaware that the "head" where the main optical equipment was installed in the airframe lightly nodded.

Then he slowly turned around, letting the flexible cable on the back of the machine wrap around his body for a full circle.

There is no feeling of pain, and this time I should not have stretched myself.

So Wang Pingan made his own claim and turned it around again, allowing the ground cable that was originally wrapped around his body to unwind.

At this time, a new message from Tu Shengli came: "Wang Ping'an, do you realize that you are not a giant robot?"

Wang Pingan's first reaction when he saw the message was that Tu Shengli was joking, and then he suddenly realized that he seemed to have taken the humanoid battleship as a matter of course just now!
The moment he found out, a creepy feeling surged from the bottom of his heart, which directly caused the synchronization rate to drop. The next moment, he returned to the laboratory and sat up abruptly—trying to sit up, but the fixed belt hurt his shoulder!

Tu Shengli rushed up and grabbed Wang Ping'an's shoulder: "How are you?"

Several female graduate students surrounded Angeli who was also awakened.

Wang Ping'an: "I... just now I really thought of myself as that iron bump outside."

Tu Shengli: "I know, we observed that the test machine made many small movements, as if it were a real human being. For example, when you answered me, the body nodded its head, and when it turned around, the body would subconsciously hold its chest."

Wang Pingan: "This is Angeli's habitual action, it must be."

Angeli: "I... I don't think I have the habit of pushing my breasts?"

The female graduate student next to her: "You have, and you will cross your arms like this to make your breasts stand out."

Angeli: "This...maybe it's too heavy, so I gradually developed a habit."

Tu Shengli let go of Wang Ping'an's shoulders, and walked excitedly in the laboratory: "We have far surpassed the progress of Maga Company, and Maga Company has no record that this brain-computer interface will confuse people with machines and themselves. No!
"However, this defect is also destined to make it impossible for the ethics committee to put this organism into actual combat, even if it has a revolutionary improvement..."

While Tu Shengli was giving a long speech, Wang Pingan asked Angeli who was on the bed next to him: "You just... in that state, what does the background radiation of the universe look like to you—what does it sound like to you?"

Tu Shengli stopped and looked at Wang Pingan suspiciously: "Background radiation?"

Wang Pingan nodded: "Yes, after all, the radar is connected, and the environment we are in now has a radius of 10,000+ kilometers without any grass, and theoretically there is not much clutter. What we heard just now is like noise. It can only be the cosmic background radiation.

"I heard believers of Outer Gods babbling prayers."

Tu Shengli frowned: "External God? Are you an atheist? Don't do it, we need your full cooperation now. Don't let the psychology department ban you from participating in the experiment because you have a problem with your thinking!"

Wang Pingan: "Of course I'm an atheist. I guess I saw some Lovecraft works during the voyage, and then it became like this. Angeli didn't read Lovecraft, her side Performance should be different."

Angeli: "I play the violin solo here. I think it may be because I had to give up my beloved violin when I was a child in order to be admitted to the Space Force."

Wang Ping'an breathed a sigh of relief: "What you heard was the violin, that's fine. If what you heard was also reciting the poem of mystery, then we... Forget it, it's not anyway, so don't mention it."

Tu Shengli: "So you can even distinguish the cosmic background radiation—and even after the radar system has already filtered it?"

Wang Pingan: "Maybe. But I'm not an expert in brain science, so what I say doesn't matter."

Tu Shengli, an authoritative expert in the field of brain-computer interface and a top student in brain science, touched his chin, and replied with regret: "If you can continue, what a huge progress you will bring to the field of brain-computer interface.

"It's a pity that the side effects of continuing to connect are too great. I am [-]% sure that if you continue to connect, it will cause serious psychological problems for you."

Wang Pingan: "Actually... I'm thinking, is the problem because they made the combat boat into a human shape? They made the combat boat into a human shape, in the name of reducing the burden on the operator, but... There are psychological You know the uncanny valley effect?"

Figure nodded victoriously.

Wang Pingan expressed his guess: "Could it be that this damn battleship is too human-like, causing a huge burden instead? Maybe it won't cause such a big reaction if it is directly connected to an ordinary battleship?"

Tu Shengli frowned: "You don't want to turn around three times faster?"

Wang Pingan: "Don't tell me you don't want to... In fact, you still want to be faster after all. Maybe being faster in battle can save your life. But you see, this humanoid body has so many troubles. If it's really the culprit behind those 500 pairs of testers at MadMaga, it's fine to not have that performance boost.

"And judging from the situation I just came into contact with, I can assure you that this brain-computer interface system can greatly improve the performance of combat boats when used on ordinary battleships."

Tu Shengli thought for a few seconds, nodded and said: "It makes sense. Anyway, we have mastered the principle of this brain-computer interface, and the engineering drawings have already been scanned. It is not a big problem to print a set on the spot."

Angeli: "So we're going to try to use this technology to operate our 'old buddy'?"

Tu Shengli shook his head: "No, you first need to go to the psychology department for diagnosis and treatment. You just regarded yourself as an 18-meter-tall steel behemoth, who knows what chain reaction this will cause. The psychology department on the ship... ..."

Tu Shengli picked up his tablet and swiped it, shook his head and said: "Okay, let your instructor deal with it first, and send you to a detailed inspection after we return to a safe place."

Wang Pingan suddenly had an idea and asked, "Then can I take this opportunity to chat with the super quantum computer with autonomous consciousness in the Psychology Center?"

"Go ahead and talk. But that's after we get back to base—even straight back to Earth with the loot."

(End of this chapter)