Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

Hope looked at the lines of text that popped up in the translation software and fell into silence.

This was the first time the giant fish had spoken so many words.

It even caused some lags in the translation process of the translation software.

After all, this involves rearranging and combining a large number of words.

In the face of completely random sentence patterns, Zero, who does not have the unique thinking of Big Fish, can only use exhaustive methods to arrange and combine all the words he received to get the correct word order.

"It, it allows us to... strengthen our bodies." Hope's eyes twitched slightly, "Moreover, it also expresses contempt for our current weak bodies."

Hansent: "..."

The so-called strengthening of the body, in the eyes of the giant fish, is nothing more than gluing these scattered star gold ore fragments to the surface of the body to weave themselves a pair of extremely strong armor.

But for the [Poseidon II] exploration ship, this is undoubtedly a difficult task.

"I finally know how those newly born giant fish obtained their initial strengthening..." Hope said, dumbfounded.

"Is there a possibility that in the eyes of this giant fish, we are like giant babies without any ability to take care of ourselves?"

Hanssen added deadpan: "Then the giant baby expressed his love for it."

"In return, it took great pains to bring us to their tribe's fortified site."

"It really made me cry to death."

After the words fell, not only did Hope raise his hands to cover his face, but even Lu Yongchang and others who were thousands of miles away subconsciously reached out to cover their eyes.

Looking at the urging sentences that kept emerging in the translation program, Hope took a deep breath: "So, what should we do now?"

"Do you want to listen to it and strengthen your body?"

"Get ready to start the ultrasonic expulsion procedure." Lu Yongchang's helpless voice came from the speaker, "Try to see if it works. If it doesn't work... establish the location beacon and start the cockpit escape procedure."

…

More than ten seconds later.

The giant fish "looked" at its "partner" who was motionless and weak and fell into deep thought.

Could it be that not only is its body weak, but its brain is also damaged?

How pitiful!

The giant fish's big mouth opens and closes, and the ultrasonic signal it emits even contains a little mercy.

It swung its body slightly and approached the exploration ship.

It’s not a big problem, it has relevant coaching experience.

As always, he was ready to personally tutor the poor, stray fish without any common sense.

The next moment.

A "piercing" ultrasound came from the "partner".

That's the highest level of warning.

It stayed in place in a daze, and from its open mouth, questions that touched the soul came out.

No response came.

It writhes painfully in a sea of ​​liquid ammonia and quickly distances itself from the exploration ship.

Then, it stayed in place for a moment, as if waiting for the situation to change.

After a few minutes, the discomfort caused by the "piercing" sound gradually intensified, and it finally chose to leave.

Under the watchful eyes of Hope, Hansent and others, the giant fish gently swayed its body, turned around and swam away.

From its back, Hope even saw a bit of reluctance and doubt.

"So, what is the principle of this deportation procedure?" Hope asked after a moment of silence.

"It's very simple." Meng Lu's explanation came from the loudspeaker. "During the research process, I discovered a gap in the ultrasonic frequency they emit."

"None of the giant fish used the frequencies in the gap to communicate."

"So, I guess this frequency is not a good thing for giant fish."

"While we still don't know exactly what it means, it at least does its job."

Hearing this explanation, Hope smiled bitterly and nodded.

Looking at the giant fish gradually disappearing in the sonar picture, Hope couldn't help but feel a little sympathy in his heart.

How about...if you have a chance next time, throw some more cesium chloride and rubidium chloride into it?

Hope was thinking secretly in his mind while controlling the exploration ship to sail to the star gold vein not far away.

The real exploration mission has begun.

…

A week later.

After completing all the exploration and sampling work, Hope and Hansent left the Ice Giant and returned to the [Taotie] material storage ship.

Next to [Taotie], the [Engineering Ship] has begun work, and a simple ice giant synchronous orbit space station has been successfully established.

The quarried star gold ore was also put into Xuannv No. 2.

Under Zero's control, Xuannv 2 set off from the ice giant synchronous orbit at the fastest speed and flew directly towards Dawn Star.

…

One month later.

Dawnstar Materials Laboratory.

Lu Yongchang and Cao Liangcai stood in front of a holographic projection, their eyes shining with surprise.

"Perfect hull material!"

Lu Yongchang looked back and forth at the various data and gave his own evaluation.

"If it is combined with carbyne as a skeleton and made into a star gold-carboyne composite material, the strength of the starship can be improved by more than one level!"

"Unfortunately, it is too difficult to obtain star gold."

"It's very difficult to prepare it in the laboratory, and it's even not worth the gain."

As he spoke, Lu Yongchang shook his head regretfully.

This is the biggest limitation of Xingjin.

Currently, humans can only mine inside the ice giant, and it is completely impossible to achieve artificial mass production.

Cao Liangcai smiled faintly: "Be content, professor!"

"Although it is very difficult to obtain, its reserves are extremely rich."

"When the first batch of mining ships made of star gold-carbonyne composite materials come out, the star gold production capacity will increase rapidly."

"By then, the asteroid-class [Earth] can be put on the construction schedule!"

Lv Yongchang nodded, and suddenly his eyes moved, as if he remembered something.

"By the way, Zero, how is Hope?"

"When he came out of the ice giant, he didn't seem to be in a good mood."

"I heard from the psychiatrist that it was because of the environmental problems inside the ice giant that he and the giant fish had an emotional resonance?"

"Is that the case?"

Cao Liangcai, who was standing by, was stunned.

There is such a thing? !

The next second, Zero's virtual image appeared beside Lu Yongchang.

Zero nodded and confirmed what Lu Yongchang said: "The diagnosis is indeed true."

"However, Hope has basically recovered now."

"Oh?" Lu Yongchang showed a relaxed smile on his face, "How did he recover?"

"He applied for a second exploration mission." Zero's electronic synthesized voice echoed faintly in the laboratory, "In his spare time from mineral exploration, he served as a breeder for giant fish."

As the voice fell, the picture in the holographic projection changed rapidly.

In the picture, the [Poseidon II] exploration ship was waving its mechanical arm and throwing one sealed device after another loaded with cesium chloride and rubidium chloride to the giant fish school in the distance.

And the giant fish school, after "eating and drinking enough", took the exploration ship to drill into the deep of the liquid ammonia ocean.

"These giant fish now seem to know the difference between the exploration ship and them."

"At the same time, under the guidance of the giant fish, Hope and Hansent successfully found the second star gold mine."

"The star gold reserves inside the ice giant are far more than we imagined."

Accompanied by Zero's voice, the holographic screen switched to the cockpit.

Hope's face was full of smiles, while Hansent beside him had a look of despair.

Lv Yongchang looked at the screen in the holographic projection and laughed dumbly: "Coexistence?"

"It's a good choice."

ps: Thanks to the great certification of Jiuli 乄! No, I really can't add it anymore... I'll make up for it in two days...