From ship girl to machine god

"But... but that's a very expensive thing, right? Is this really okay?" Obviously, Rebecca, who had clearly seen what the three plans sent to her by Blue Bird were, still hesitated.

Although she was very excited and happy that Jade Bird was willing to give her such good things, the value of these same things made her very hesitant whether she was really worthy of Jade Bird giving so much.

The most worthless thing in Night City is human life. The number of dead people every night has never been lower than double digits, and this is just the part that can be seen. There are too many people who die silently. No one knows at all.

So if Jade Bird is willing, she can hire enough people who are willing to work for her at a much lower price, and a little girl who is not fully developed is really not worth the price Jade Bird spends.

"There's nothing wrong with it, or do you think the reason for choosing one of the three is because I don't have the money to build three different combat mechas?" Jade Bird joked, but he could also understand why Rebecca was so hesitant.

Whether in the original anime plot or actually getting along with Blue Bird, people can feel that Rebecca is a very good child.

Although she behaves irritably and rudely, that is only part of the environment in which she was raised. Rebecca's true character is that of a kind, considerate, and gentle girl.

Although her tenderness is difficult to express directly, it is undeniable that she is indeed a person who will clown for the team, put on inappropriate gorilla arms, and even die generously for a promise she made.

This is why Blue Bird favors Rebecca and is willing to be the first to give her weapons from another world.

Who wouldn't want to give more to such a good girl?Especially when she already has enough bond and loyalty to you.

If it weren't for Rebecca's age and Jade Bird's unwillingness to upload her into a quantum computer and turn her into a digital being, Jade Bird could have built a top-notch prosthetic body for her that could kick Adam Hammer as a ball. Just build her a fighting mech like now.

But Jade Bird didn't intend to say these words to Rebecca. She just said to Rebecca on the other end of the phone: "The reason why I asked you to choose one of the three is just because the battle mecha is very big, and I'm afraid you don't have enough room. Come and place them. If you still feel that this is not appropriate, I will have to put all three out early.

Of course, this is a good choice. Anyway, in addition to letting people sit in and drive this kind of combat mecha, automatic programs can also be written into it to be used as a self-disciplined machine. "

Qingniao's words were not a joke. The combat mecha she planned to equip Rebecca could indeed be used as a self-disciplined machine after being equipped with an automatic program. However, this was a huge waste for these combat mechas.

After all, they are not designed as robots or autonomous machines. They can achieve maximum combat effectiveness with the cooperation of the driver.

As for autonomous combat machinery, there are naturally models specifically designed for this purpose in Blue Bird's database.

This is not to say that there is something wrong with the automatic program that will reduce the combat effectiveness of the autonomous machinery, but that restrictions have been written into the autonomous program templates saved in Jade Bird's database. These automatic programs can only reach the level of weak artificial intelligence at best. , and was deprived of the authority and ability to think independently.

To put it simply, they can only work according to the written programs. Even if they can have limited learning ability, they can only enter new responses in the database, but cannot create responses that they have not learned.

This sounds like a bit of a self-inflicted handicap, but we are about to face the omnic crisis that may be caused by flowing AI. Bluebird sincerely thanks the programmer who wrote this restriction. At least he does not have to face a group of machines that want to rebel, or Because of the problem of circulating AI, we dare not use these autonomous machines.

While these thoughts were running through Jade Bird's mind, Rebecca on the other end finally gave up her slightly inferior thoughts because of Jade Bird's words, and said with excitement and surprise: "Then don't waste it. Yes, I just want one! If possible, I want the one with claws! Those big claws can definitely crush the enemy’s head in one go!”

Although the three options provided by Blue Bird to Rebecca are all combat mechas, they are still different. The first option is an artillery type equipped with a recoilless cannon and an assault rifle, while the second option is equipped with an ion launcher and an assault rifle. The long-range sniper version of the sniper rifle.

As for the third plan, it is slightly special because it is the only close combat design among the three plans. It uses a long-handled power hammer and a single electromagnetic shield as the main weapon.

Although it is also equipped with a machine gun for self-defense, and the power hammer can also be used as an ion launcher, this is indeed a melee-type machine.

Not only that, the body itself also has additionally strengthened defenses, and a mechanical arm is hung on the back of the body to assist in close combat and use long-range shooting weapons.

"The one with claws? Are you talking about the construction robot arm? Okay, I know which one you are talking about, and I will prepare it for you later." The blue bird understood Rebecca's choice, and then The plan was entered into the engineering module and included in the production plan.

And this is the first production project entered, followed by the second, third...

Chapter 86 Monitoring David

Because everyone’s situation is different, Blue Bird’s configuration plan for everyone in the Cyberpunk team is also different.

A former animal gang muscle tyrant like Dorio, who is superstitious about muscles, has a very low degree of prosthetic modification throughout her body, so she is not suitable for implanting too many prosthetics or installing prosthetic limbs.

So what Blue Bird prepared for Dorio was a power fist glove, a weapon that suited her fighting style.

The same goes for everyone else. According to each person's habits and characteristics, Jade Bird has designed plans with different focuses, and also provides a variety of different options for each person.

This is also the reason why there will eventually be a version 28 plan.

Although it is not a big problem for Jade Bird, who has industrial modules, to make all 28 plans, but they can hang a few more weapons, but Mann and the others cannot insert three sets on their bodies.

So this also caused sweet distress to Mann and others. After all, each of the outfit plans given by Blue Bird is so powerful that those who see them just want to say they want them all.

However, the requirement to only choose one set still forced Mann and others to make a choice, and in the end they could only choose one plan.

Fortunately, although it was difficult to make a choice, as mercenaries who tied their heads to their belts all year round, they all knew exactly what they needed, so they quickly made a decision after knowing that they could only choose one option. made a choice and sent the selected plan to Jade Bird.

After Jade Bird collected and sorted out their choices, they entered all the selected plans into the engineering module for scheduling, and the computer will determine the most efficient production sequence.

The remaining plans were not thrown away, and were stored in the database by Jade Bird for emergencies.

"Ah~~! I finally got this thing done." Qingniao stretched out on the sofa and stretched her limbs to her heart's content. After a long time, she turned over and lay on the sofa and blew: " There’s nothing important to do next. Once that hapless guy David and his mother get involved in a car accident and get him involved, we can go clean up Adam Hammer’s scrap metal.”

Before his mother had a car accident, David had been studying hard as a student at Arasaka School, so it was too easy for Blue Bird to find him.

Even hackers like Lucy and Sasha can easily dig him out of the crowd without any equipment support.

So after confirming the existence of this guy, Jade Bird buried a small positioning program in his personal terminal. Currently, his every move is under Jade Bird's surveillance.

It's just that Qingniao, who has become accustomed to her identity as a beautiful girl, has no interest in spying on adolescent boys who generate electricity and cast spells. This small program will only alert Qingniao when he is in serious danger, so that Qingniao can come and fish in time. Just people.

Of course, the Blue Bird has no need for this at the moment. Although David's suitability for Sean Westan is ridiculously high, and his prosthetic body's carrying capacity is also very high, this doesn't mean much to the Blue Bird.

Although the prosthetic technology mastered by Jade Bird does not completely solve the problems of nerve compression caused by mechanical prostheses and phantom limb pain after limb damage, it can at least ensure that the full-body prosthetic fitting solution configured by Jade Bird can be used in While ensuring a high degree of prostheticization and combat effectiveness, it avoids the problem of prosthetic users becoming cyberpsychotic.

Therefore, although a young man with high carrying capacity like David has great potential, it is just that for the Blue Bird.

Even his identity as the protagonist of the anime does not concern Qingniao very much because of the gender issue.

After all, David is not his good brother Jack, and he doesn't have much empathy for this character Blue Bird. In the anime, the only people who really care about Blue Bird before time travel are Rebecca and Lucy.

In fact, the reason why Blue Bird still pays attention to David is because he is the experimental subject of the prosthetic King Kong.

The prosthetic King Kong can fish out Adam Hammer.

The purpose of Blue Bird is to fish out Adam Hammer through David, then hammer the cub to death and smash him into a piece of scrap metal.

Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that David is the bait for fishing.

It's just that it's not easy for Jade Bird to tell Mann and others about this kind of thing. As for Lucy and Alpha, who can come in handy, they haven't completed the transformation of their prosthetics, so Jade Bird doesn't trust them to carry out the transformation with the two of them looking like defeated soldiers. task, so I had to spend more time monitoring David.

"It would be great if we could know exactly what day David had a car accident!" Qingniao complained, but he also knew that this was impossible.

After all, apart from explaining what happened in 2076, the anime did not reveal any additional information, which made it impossible for Bluebird to arrange it in advance even if it wanted to.

Although Jade Bird's hacking skills were enough to invade Arasaka's database to check the specific project information about the Prosthetic King Kong, it was only possible to see that David was included as a test subject candidate for this project, and no more information could be found.

Because so far, there is only so much information that can be found in Night City about the entire prosthetic King Kong project.

So all Jade Bird can do is bury the mini program and take a look at David's activity every day.

I have to say that Blue Bird had a relatively large impact on David.

In the original anime plot, David's mother earned enough money for David to attend Arasaka School by working as a scavenger and stealing prosthetic bodies from corpses and selling them to Mann and others.

However, due to the influence of Blue Bird, the Mann team now has no need to purchase prosthetics from David's mother.

Losing Mann and the others as a big customer had a great impact on David's mother. She had to take risks to ship goods to other mercenaries, which undoubtedly increased her risk of being discovered.

This forced Jade Bird, who began to monitor David, to consider whether to let Mann and the others go to David's mother to purchase a few more prosthetics, lest the kid be expelled because he couldn't pay his tuition.

Just as Jade Bird was contemplating whether to let Mann come forward to buy the prosthetic body, or find other ways to influence David's life trajectory so that he could stay at Arasaka School smoothly until the day his mother had a car accident, Roger's call came. Here she is.

"Rogge? Why did you remember to call me? Do you have any other work?" Jade Bird answered the phone and chatted with Rogge immediately.

"Vislow is looking for you because of the balance of the last commission. In addition, he seems to have other things to look for you for." Rogge didn't care about Jade Bird's attitude and just told her calmly that he wanted to see her for something.

Qingniao immediately narrowed his mouth and said helplessly: "I know, I'll come over."

After saying that, she hung up the phone and threw away the data pad, then reluctantly got up from the sofa, mourning that her comfortable vacation was gone.

Chapter 87 Subsequent compensation for military technology

At the Afterlife Bar, Wislow was still the same as when Jade Bird first saw him here. He was sitting in Roger's box with bodyguards, a suit, and a company dog ​​of a successful upper-class person. accurate.

However, Jade Bird wouldn't punch him in the face. After all, this guy is now his financial sponsor, and Jade Bird is still waiting to get the final payment from him.

For the sake of the cute little money, Qingniao felt that she could still tolerate this guy, even though she had no interest in money.

However, something that was somewhat beyond Jade Bird's expectations was that after seeing Jade Bird, Wislow quickly stood up from his seat and greeted Jade Bird respectfully.

After Jade Bird sat down with some strangeness and confusion, Wislow sat down again, and then said to Jade Bird: "Miss Lucchesi asked me to say hello to you, and hope that the unpleasantness in Los Santos will not affect both of you. Cooperation."

"Mia? I didn't take what happened last time to heart, but has the investigation of the incident yielded results?" Qingniao suddenly understood after hearing this, and then asked Weislow about the military technology of the attack she concocted last time. Findings.

Wislow's face was a little confused, but he still explained to Qingniao with a smile: "After you left Los Santos, Miss Lucchesi conducted a thorough investigation of the whole matter, but unfortunately, although we found out some There were spies and bugs inside, but no relevant clues were found about the attack itself.

The only discovery that can be called valuable is that the amount of shipbuilding steel in the warehouse is wrong. According to our estimates, the warehouse may only store a few hundred tons of shipbuilding steel. This may be the problem. "

Having said this, Wislow glanced at Jade Bird, seeming to remember something, and asked her seriously: "Miss Jade Bird, when you entered the warehouse, did you notice that the amount of steel stacked in the warehouse was wrong?"

"The quantity of steel is wrong? What's going on? I was still doing inventory after entering the warehouse, and the warehouse was attacked, so I don't know exactly how much steel is in the warehouse." How could Jade Bird not know how much steel is in the warehouse? ?But I would definitely not say this even to death.

Although Qingniao was still chatting with Vislow at this time, she had actually directly invaded Vislo's personal terminal, and used it as a springboard to invade the internal network of Military Technology, searching for information about the last Los Santos attack. related information.

Although Jade Bird's electronic warfare module has battleship-level power and is also an electronic warfare offensive and defensive device used in battlefield environments, the performance gap caused by quantum computers and the powerful hacking capabilities of the electronic warfare module itself make it easy for Jade Bird Got the information I wanted to know.

This information showed that Military Technology did not suspect Jade Bird. They found more than 200 tons of shipbuilding steel that Jade Bird deliberately left behind at the scene. Then based on the damage caused by the missile hit, it was judged that there were about [-] tons of shipbuilding steel in the warehouse when the missile hit. to about [-] tons of shipbuilding steel.

As for further information, it shows that military technology is trying to restore the scene to figure out what happened at that time.

The destroyed warehouse has been cleaned up and has been temporarily blocked. There is no further information.

Within Military Technology, the company's senior executives characterized the attack as a vicious attack involving internal and external collusion to steal the company's property and a combination of external competitive forces, with the purpose of destroying the company's important strategic cooperation projects.

Obviously, the faction represented by Mia has won the right to speak in the internal struggle and has taken control of the situation.

Characterizing the incident as an attack by external forces colluding with internal and external forces is undoubtedly paving the way for internal purges.

Thinking of this, Jade Bird didn't mind handing Mia another ladder, so he deleted all the data about the attack scene stored within the military technology network, and published a message on the network using the stolen high-level authority secrets. The warehouse that was attacked was ordered to be completely cleared.

As for whose high-level authority was stolen and which faction it belonged to, Jade Bird didn't bother to think about such a complicated issue and directly chose Mia's authority.

Moreover, Jade Bird deliberately left a loophole so that people from military technology could discover that this permission had been stolen.

In this way, military technology must be very lively, right?

This thought came to Qingniao's mind, while she was still talking to Wislow, and brought the topic to the reward for the last commission: "Speaking of which, there should be a balance payment for the last commission, right? I remember Before departure, you promised that your military technology would be reimbursed for all consumption during the mission?"

"Yes, this part is indeed what I promised. In addition, after the task is completed, there will be a series of subsequent commissions to build Miss Bluebird and your team into a new legend in Night City." Wei. Sluo said respectfully, and took the box that had been carried by the bodyguard from the side, and pushed it in front of Jade Bird: "I have already transferred the final payment of the commission to Rogge, and she will transfer it later. to your account.

In addition, the three thousand tons of shipbuilding steel that Director Lucchesi promised you has now arrived at Military Technology's warehouse in Night City. You can contact me at any time to pick it up later at a convenient time.

As for this box, it is a personal gift from Director Lucchesi to you as an apology and compensation for the attack in Los Santos. "

Qingniao was really surprised by this box. Although she had expected that Mia would pay compensation, she did not expect that such a box would be delivered to her.

Out of curiosity, Qingniao opened the box.

Inside was a black machine that looked like a drone.