Alien Relic Hunter

The central control computer of the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate is currently shut down. More than half of the more than 40 indicator lights on the power control panel that should be green under normal conditions have turned red, which means that the warship just crashed. During the process, when AI confirmed that the situation was irreversible, in order to protect the central control computer from damage, it activated the safety gate and proactively cut off the power supply.

"Hiss...how to restart the central control computer in this situation?" Ke Lan asked.

Although Ke Lan has dabbled in all aspects of knowledge, the aspect of battleship operation has really hit his blind spot - this kind of knowledge is classified as military secrets, and it is difficult for non-professionals to find it. He had the opportunity to come into contact with it. Although Ke Lan later obtained extremely high authority, it was impossible for him to have time to study how to control a battleship at that time.

Fortunately, there is an "expert" around.

"What? You...you're asking me?" Mo Jue raised his finger and pointed at himself helplessly, "I...I'm just an O.D.S.T. Although the hell paratroopers are famous, they are actually just like ordinary people. There is no difference between the Marines on the battleship. If you ask me to fly a plane, I can barely fly it, but I don’t understand the battleship thing at all..."

"I didn't ask you..." Ke Lan smiled awkwardly and patted his shoulder.

The black armor on his body automatically took off, and he instantly transformed into a Sanwu girl wearing a blue and white student uniform, with light blue ear-length hair and red eyes.

"This, this is the girl named...Ze Luo just now?" Although Mo Jue has seen Ze Luo's ability to "transform" at will, no matter how many times he sees this strange sight, it will still make people surprised. , "She, her ability... did she come from the institute?"

Obviously, Mo Jue regarded Ze Luo as a superpower "created" by the research institute.

"Is this girl... in COS Ayanami Rei? It seems like she was secretly reading my memory when she just possessed me..." Ke Lan complained in his heart, but responded to Mo Jue. : "Ah, yes, yes, this is top secret. If you tell anyone, you will be silenced."

"I...I know." Mo Jue nodded blankly, "But whether we can get out alive...it remains to be seen."

"Let's not talk about it for now, Ze Luo, do you know how to restart this thing?" Ke Lan gently kicked the power supply of the central control computer with his toe.

"If you want to restart the central control computer of a battleship that has cut off the power due to the self-protection mechanism, you generally need the maintenance team engineer in the fleet to connect the portable maintenance terminal and the central control computer, and restart the central control computer through a series of complex operations. The entire operation The process takes between eight and sixteen hours," Ze Luo said.

Ze Luo knew much more about battleships than Ke Lan. With Ke Lan's authority, she almost borrowed all the books related to battleships in the military library, and even conducted "internship inspections" on many battleships. internal structure.

With her knowledge base, she is at least as good as a semi-professional warship engineer.

"But we don't have a maintenance terminal. Even if you can complete those operations, there's nothing you can do... By the way, can you conjure a maintenance terminal?" Ke Lan's eyes lit up and he asked.

"Yes, but it's useless. Each battleship-level central control computer and corresponding maintenance terminal have a unique identification number. If it cannot be identified, not only will it be impossible to restart the central control computer, but it will also be completely locked. ." Ze Luo's answer directly poured cold water on Ke Lan's head.

"Then there's no other way?"

"Yes. There is another way to restart, but maintenance personnel will never use it unless it is in an extremely urgent situation." Ze Luo still maintained an expressionless look. Her current appearance is as if she had never used it before. Just like Ayanami Rei herself who walked out of the screen, even Ke Lan couldn't help but take a few more glances.

No COSER can perfectly copy the appearance and temperament of an anime character, but Ze Luo can.

"What method?" Ke Lan asked hurriedly.

"Unplug all the cables on the power supply and plug them in again to force the central control computer to restart." Zeluo said, "But this operation will generate a surge current the moment the current is turned on, and like The surge current generated by a large power supply such as a battleship-level main control computer will be more powerful and can easily cause irreversible damage to the device itself and the data stored inside. Therefore, engineers in the maintenance class would rather spend hundreds or thousands of times more time than Be willing to take this approach.”

"Isn't this just a cold restart of the computer? This repair method is as simple and crude as the network management of Internet cafes on Earth in the old era and has no technical content... But it is this kind of operation that has nothing to do with computer knowledge, but it is A very effective method. But what I didn't expect is that a battleship-level central control computer can also do this?" Ke Lan couldn't help complaining.

"However, the surge current generated when the power supply of a battleship-level central control computer is turned on instantaneously is many times greater than that of a personal computer, so the risk of such an operation will be very high." Ze Luo continued.

"How high?"

"If you're lucky, more than half of the data will be lost; if you're lucky, the central control computer will be restored to factory settings; if you're not lucky, the entire device will be scrapped."

"But apart from this method, we have no other means, right?" Ke Lan sighed and picked up a thick and heavy cable. This cable was wrapped with a metal cable that was two centimeters thick. A protective sheath made of cross-braided silk and polymer. Under this protective sheath is a thicker shielding layer and insulation layer. Under the insulation layer are hundreds of strands of high-purity oxygen-free copper wires twisted together - just The length of the cable at the socket, which is less than two meters long, already weighs nearly fifty kilograms.

Although the best result of hot restart will also be the loss of a large amount of data archives, in the current situation, this is undoubtedly Ke Lan's only option.

He could only pray silently in his heart. The best thing to lose would be those irrelevant and redundant data...

"Do you just unplug it like this? Don't you need to unplug all the cables at the same time?" Ke Lan turned to look at Ze Luo and confirmed again.

The latter nodded and said: "It doesn't matter when you unplug it, because the central control computer is already shut down. But when you reconnect the power supply, you must plug it in at the same time."

"Okay." Ke Lan unplugged the cable. Suddenly, several red and green lights on the power control panel went out.

As the cables were unplugged one after another, the indicator lights on the control panel went out in large areas, until the last thickest cable was pulled out from the socket, and the indicator lights in the top row of the control panel also turned off. It went out.

"Huh..." Ke Lan took a long breath and glanced at the nearly a hundred cables on the ground. Fortunately, he and Ze Luo both had almost abnormal memories. Otherwise, they really wouldn't be able to match these cables with their respective sockets. Number.

"I leave the connection work to you. With so many cables, you have to plug them in at the same time. Apart from the tentacle monster, only you can do it." Ke Lan said to Ze Luo.

"Yes." Ze Luo responded, but did not make a move. Instead, he walked behind Ke Lan, put his arms around Ke Lan's waist, and then put his forehead on his back.

Before Ke Lan could say anything, the girl in student uniform disappeared, and a pure black close-fitting armor appeared on Ke Lan's body again.

"Are you planning to let me do it myself?" Ke Lan showed a helpless smile. Ever since it was attached to his body in the armor state, Ze Luo seemed to like this state.

But didn’t this girl say before that she wanted to experience what it’s like to be a human? Are you tired of playing and planning to change your gameplay?

Although he is not yet proficient, Ke Lan has also initially mastered the use of space power - Ze Luo's power and his time-stop ability are completely from the same source, and the feeling of using them is almost the same.

Nearly a hundred invisible hands appeared out of thin air, grasped the interfaces of these cables, and lifted them up.

From Mo Jue's perspective, this scene is a bit like a supernatural story: nearly a hundred cables seem to come to life, standing up like pythons, with the snake's head (i.e. the interface) suspended in the air, looking for Hunting target (corresponding socket on the power supply).

After the interface of each cable matched the corresponding socket, Ke Lan waved his hand and instantly plugged in all the cables at the same time.

With Ze Luo's space ability, he can completely interfere with the surge current and ease it to the point where it cannot cause damage to the central control computer... But Ke Lan cannot do this, because this restart method relies on the use of surges. The impact of current will forcibly activate the central control computer in the shutdown state. If the impact of the surge current is weakened and the "stimulation" is not enough, the purpose of restarting will not be achieved at all.

I saw a low roar coming from inside the power supply, more than forty indicator lights on the control panel kept flashing back and forth between red and green, and the monitoring screen covering the entire bridge began to flash—except for those outside the battleship. Outside the surveillance screen, a large amount of data and UI appeared on it, and dense translucent strings scrolled rapidly like the staff list at the end of a movie.

"Buzz..."

After a groan that lasted for twenty seconds, the power supply of the central control computer finally quieted down, and all the more than forty indicator lights were fixed in green.

"It seems that at least we haven't encountered the worst situation." Ke Lan breathed a sigh of relief.

"Shaojiang-class frigate modified version, numbered SX-016, belongs to the special operations fleet. The battleship's central control computer has been started. Please enter the triple verification code within one minute to verify your identity." A mechanical voice that could not distinguish between male and female rang in the bridge.

It seems that this AI still remembers that it is the central control computer of the "Shaojiang modified" frigate, which means that the central control computer has not been restored to its factory state... Next, it depends on how much data is stored in it. It survived the impact of surge current.

"Start the special authority verification process, command code: Immortal Crew Association." Ke Lan said loudly.

Three virtual screens composed of holographic projections descended next to Ke Lan, surrounding him in front of him and on his left and right sides. A standard virtual keyboard appeared in front of him. Both the distance and height of this virtual keyboard are perfectly consistent with Ke Lan's height. Although military AI is known for its simplicity, this does not mean that it will neglect details. In order to ensure the condition of the battleship operator, military AI can be meticulous in terms of ergonomics and human-computer interaction.

Ke Lan did not hesitate and immediately entered a string of ninety-seven-digit long password on the keyboard consisting of English letters, Chinese characters, numbers, and punctuation marks.

A red laser shot out from the top of the bridge and slowly swept over Ke Lan's body.

Five seconds later, one operation window after another popped up on each large screen, and a line of text also appeared on the virtual screen in front of Ke Lan:

"Identity verification completed, confirmed to be the * seat of the Immortal Crew, codename [**]. The special permission verification code and biometric data are correct. Welcome ** to the 'Shaojiang-class modified frigate', I am the captain of this ship Military AI that controls computer configuration, number SX-016.”

Looking at the missing characters on the screen, Ke Lan suddenly frowned.

He found that he seemed to have overlooked a very important issue.

When the "Shaojiang Kai" frigate crashed in the gray fog forest, Mo Zhuorui's daughter Mo Jue was not yet an adult... And if her memories before adulthood were implanted by the undead crew, then as a "communist" The "biological" self should not have been born yet at that time...

It is impossible for the "Shaojiang Kai" that crashed in the gray fog forest to connect to the Ark's network, and it is impossible for the database of the "Shaojiang Kai" central control computer to be updated in the past ten years.

Ke Lan only recently joined the Undead Crew Association, and his biometric data and corresponding authority levels were entered into the database only after he joined the Undead Crew Association... Logically speaking, the "Shaojiang modified" frigate The central control computer cannot identify itself.

And these asterisks on the screen make people feel even more suspicious.

"SX-016, can you answer my question truthfully?" Ke Lan asked at the screen.

"Of course, with your authority, the ship's database will be completely open to you." The mechanical voice with indistinguishable gender sounded again.

"Then do you know my identity?" Ke Lan asked a rather strange question seen in Mo Jue.

"Sorry sir, the database does not have corresponding content."

"Then how did you determine that I have the highest level of authority?" Ke Lan asked again.

"Only the special authority verification methods and corresponding authority levels are recorded in the database of this ship. The identity information of all members of the Undead Crew Association is kept confidential. This is also to ensure that after the ship is captured by the enemy, the identity of the members of the Crew Association will be kept confidential. Information will not be leaked.”

"In other words, if another member of the crew club comes in, he will only see this bunch of asterisks?"

"Yes." AI replied truthfully.

"Then when was the last time you connected to the Ark network and updated the permission level-related content in the database?"

[P.S. Thanks to sty1999 for the 5,000 starting coins. 】