Son of the Stars

Chapter 27

The Mount Argentario base is a very special place, which is reflected in the huge space inside and a large number of scientific equipment on the one hand.On the other hand, the layout and design of the Mount Argentario base is indeed amazing.

Pale yellow lead-containing anti-radiation glass is arranged around the living area. On the towering peaks, many boulders that have been formed for hundreds of millions of years have been hollowed out to facilitate the layout of the living area—each room has an independent Huge floor-to-ceiling windows to ensure the view, but also with a bathtub and independent fabric synthesis system.

To be honest, Lu Chen was shocked when he saw the living environment for the first second——in such a ghostly place, why make the residential area look like a resort?
"Because the cost of doing so is very low, and the people who live and work here really need a real rest environment." Director Li Xiaohui explained, "The Argentario Mountain Base has never been officially opened, but the verification The process of building those experimental facilities took time."

A group of engineers standing at the top of mankind, a group of workers who are almost the best on the entire planet, and corresponding project managers and logistics support personnel will quickly arrive in Argenta from all corners of the world when the committee needs it Oushan base.What greets them will be design drawings that basically only exist in theory, construction requirements that require extremely high precision, incredible material strength and processing difficulty...

And a ridiculously short construction period.

Under such conditions, without an excellent rest environment, it would be almost impossible to realize the tasks entrusted by the coalition government.After all, human beings are not precise machines. As animals, human beings are affected by many factors.

If you want to improve efficiency, then try to provide the best environment.

"I can understand the need for such good conditions." Lu Chen frowned and asked, "But...the cost is very low?" He looked at the at least [-]-square-meter house he was currently in, which was completely dug out of the mountainside. The room that came out asked, "Where is the cost low?"

"All the civil construction and decoration parts you see so far are completed by a set of self-organizing AI construction robots." Watanabe explained aloud just right, "[-] robots of various models worked here. , and then completed the construction of the Argentario Hills Base Residential Area—they are actually the first detection objects of the Argentario Hills.”

"Robots build houses? So powerful?" Lu Chen widened his eyes, "Then is there any practical application for this equipment now? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"They failed the inspection." Watanabe spread out his hands, "One AI robot can bypass the administrator's permission, increasing to 4000 or [-] in two days. They show a serious tendency to be uncontrollable... But more importantly, self-organizing AI bots pose a serious threat to the entire economic system."

"In short, that's all in the past—do you want to take a look at the rooms first? It is said that each of these rooms has a different style." Watanabe enthusiastically introduced to everyone, "You choose the room first, an hour After that, we will gather in the cafeteria——Dr. Lu, the data records you want will be delivered after dinner."

Lu Chen originally intended to choose the same room as Mu Zhiran, but unfortunately the female doctor is not very thick-skinned, Academician Tang stared at him with no expression on her face, she was really embarrassed and just shared a room with her boyfriend to go.

"It's really not suitable for young couples to live together at this time." Even Director Li expressed his objection, "It's too easy to make mistakes."

Although Lu Chen dismissed this worry, he finally chose to compromise - at worst, he lived next door and just sneaked past at night.

To be honest, an hour is actually a bit much.Lu Chenmu Zhiran and Academician Tang didn't bring much luggage.They thought it was a short trip to "join the committee and then go back to Central University". .

Lu Chen didn't even bring any other clothes at all. He thought that if he couldn't do it, he would buy a piece of clothes from a fabric synthesis machine to wear - a replacement would be much more convenient.

"Brother, I can't get in touch with the equipment here." After arriving in the room, Lu Chen thought about changing clothes to match the dinner later - and taking a shower by the way.Unexpectedly, Baozi's answer to him was helpless, "Brother, let me tell you, the AI ​​here is weird, they won't link with me, and they even scold me!"

Although I don't know what AI can curse at the street, it is obvious that the equipment here seems to be reluctant to cooperate with Baozi.Lu Chen followed Baozi's instructions, and finally found the control panel of the fabric synthesis machine next to the floor-to-ceiling window.

"Please don't use low-level AI to link this device." A line of white words appeared on the control panel, and Baozi began to complain at the same time, "Look, bro, it says I'm low-level!"

"I guess they don't mean that either." Lu Chen comforted his assistant AI with a smile, and then began to click the operation button on it.It was not difficult to get a set of clothes out. A few minutes later, a brand new casual suit appeared in front of Lu Chen.

Baozi was still complaining about how uncooperative the other AIs in this room were, while Lu Chen was holding up his clothes and making gestures on his body—just as he was about to take off his pants and put on new ones for a try, suddenly there was a light outside the light yellow French window. Something shook.

This is the summit area of ​​Monte Argentario, surrounded by outcrops and thick cliffs.The radiation level in the outer layer of the mountaintop is due to the downdraft, and the base background radiation level is ridiculously high.The background radiation here is about 8.3mSv/h.

In contrast, because the accident causes the environmental radiation dose within three square kilometers to reach or exceed 0.1mSv/h, it can be called a "particularly serious radiation accident".The area of ​​the Argentario mountain base is about 7000 square kilometers-the severity of the consequences of the nuclear accident in the Mediterranean area that year can be seen.

Of course, now is not the time to worry about the past.

Lu Chen was very sure that he was not mistaken, he did see something moving.It is almost impossible for wild animals to exist in such places where acute radiation poisoning may occur if they stay for more than a day.They might be able to survive on the leeward slopes where radiation levels are relatively low, but on the windward slopes... that's really unlikely.

If not wild animals, then what?It can't be Earl Nicholas, a local resident who has lived for countless seven hundred years, right?

The outside environment is so dangerous that the base uses about 80 centimeters thick leaded glass as the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Hmm... The cost should still be high. No matter how powerful the self-organizing AI is, it shouldn't be possible to rub 800mm lead glass empty-handed, right?Moreover, this thing is more than five meters long and three meters high. How can a five-ton lead glass be made by a construction robot?

Lu Chen was thinking wildly, when suddenly he heard bells ringing loudly in the entire base, a layer of armor plate quickly covered the five-ton French windows from the outside, and at the same time the tweeter began to play an obviously pre-recorded emergency announcement.

"Abnormal activity signals have been detected in the restricted area of ​​the base. There may be intruders entering the security zone of the base. All operators in the base are requested to report to the nearest military officer immediately. Non-combatants, please stop what you are doing, obey the command, and take refuge in place .”

Lu Chen hugged his new clothes, pulled and kicked the door of his room, and then kicked Mu Zhiran's door five times.In the end, Mu Zhiran opened the door, and Lu Chen climbed into the room.

"What's wrong with you?" Mu Zhiran looked at Lu Chen in surprise, his boyfriend was rolling around on the ground with his legs hugged.It looked like it was in pain.

"The door... the door..." Lu Chen, who didn't care about the adrenaline at all, rolled his legs for a long time before explaining what happened—he didn't know that the sliding doors in the room were made of pure aluminum magnesium The alloy block, after a few feet, Lu Chen himself became numb.

"Uh, don't be nervous, everyone. I checked the monitor and it should be a false alarm from the system." Watanabe's casual voice sounded instead of the emergency broadcast, "Doctor Lu, if your leg hurts badly, you can go to the restaurant first Come here—there is a stockpile of medicines for emergency treatment."

Watanabe seemed to laugh, but it seemed that he just coughed.

"If you can't handle it yourself, you can wait a few more hours. Professor Yang Weimin can do something for you after he arrives at the base."

(End of this chapter)