Cyber Heroes

"In a word, this is what happened." Tuoba Regulus concluded, "I escaped from Jupiter, panicked, used up the last fuel to correct the orbit, and finally landed on the earth, and then walked all the way to collect data , I have been living in seclusion in this city in recent years. After all, this is a city that has some significance to Master and his old man, and it is not far from two big cities, and there are also settlements in the wilderness..."

"Wait a minute..." Yuki interrupted, "Does it make sense...? This place means something to Master? Why have I never heard of it?"

"The old man himself must have found it boring - but let me tell you, modern people find this part very interesting."

Yuki: "Your names are very casual..."

Regulus slapped his head: "Ah, yes, yes, I almost forgot, I will meet the new master in a while - don't remember this, don't talk about it outside. The old man hates people saying he is old. What? A hundred-year-old man. Forget it, let’s go back to the beginning. This memory, old man, no, Master himself must find it boring. I even suspect that he is a little embarrassed to look back and is unwilling to mention it. But I have to talk to him You said it was very exciting."

Yuki hesitated. This tone, this way of speaking...

"What memories did you broadcast to them along the way?" Yuki looked at Regulus suspiciously, "I think the kind of 'thrilling' you mentioned is definitely not the kind of 'thrilling' that most people expect."

"Hahahaha..." Regulus burst into laughter. But others around him were visualizing taking deep breaths to calm themselves down.

Regulus XIV's words had already made them look forward to it.

Tuoba Regulus threw some USB disk-shaped memories that had been prepared to others and let them see for themselves. These memories will collect records of the warrior's brain activity through the warrior's own brain-computer device.

"Wow, so excited, so excited..." Yin Zhewei said, tilting his head, and fell into a deep dive, experiencing that memory from the most direct perspective.

Yuki stared at the USB flash drive in his hand suspiciously. Regulus just reminded him that he could watch it later and do something for him first.

Tuoba Regulus rubbed his hands and said to Yuki secretly: "If you want to memorize it for them later, should you consider relying on secret editing to cut out this paragraph?"

Yuki said: "Does it make sense?"

"In this way, we can observe the same sample repeatedly reading the data of a memory under the exact same situation. Control the variable method." Tuoba Regulus chuckled and said, "Exploration found that the Martial God Society basically read the same memory five times. It’s been six times, and every time I feel like it’s the first time – of course, I told them about it.”

Youki covered his forehead: "Wow... It's a bit too much, senior brother. Speaking of which, these people are so simple. Is it also the result of you screening the target volunteers?"

"Absolutely not. It's just that they are so innocent and still alive today, I did have a little bit of help." Tuoba Regulus said, "The earth is really a very bad place, with that thing floating in the sky, anything on the ground A city could be razed to the ground in the next second. Sometimes I miss the hell of Jupiter. Although the atmosphere of Jupiter is dangerous in itself, it can provide you with a sense of security."

"Jupiter City... I really don't know where to start." Regulus waved his hand, "They won't wake up for a while, I guess you will digest that memory faster. Come on, I have a little bit here I need someone to help with the chores. Let’s talk as we go.”

"What?"

"Unlock my prosthetic body." Tuoba Regulus shook his arm, "My prosthetic body is above the sky, a thing that can fight in the atmosphere of Jupiter - although it is not particularly suitable for the surface of the earth, it is definitely Not bad. I wouldn’t wear that prosthetic out in my daily activities.”

Yuki nodded belatedly. Indeed, the prosthetic body currently used by Tuoba Regulus XIV does not have the specifications of a first-level prosthetic body, and it definitely does not have a reactor. And if he was able to escape from the encirclement and suppression war thirty years ago, he must have considerable ability.

Although they were raided at the beginning and fell into an absolutely unfavorable situation, the organization of the Tenth Valkyrie achieved a very terrifying exchange ratio. Everyone replaced more than a hundred times the number of anti-Valkyrie Rangers before they died. So much so that ten years later, the anti-Martial God force that had not yet recovered its strength was crippled by the Eleventh Martial God, leaving this meritorious force still to be rebuilt. [Of course, few people know about the accident that occurred during the reconstruction process]

Although the organization of the Tenth Martial God is small, it pays great attention to the exploration of martial arts, and its average level is very high.

Yuki instantly felt safe.

"You want to know what Jupiter is like... it's relatively shaky? I should say it's very shaky?" Tuoba Regulus said, "I was born there. To me, the cities there are very lackluster, but they are on Earth. The earth has a reassuring solidity. It is worthy of being the hometown of mankind."

"What does it mean to be very shaky?"

"The cities within the atmosphere of Jupiter all stay in the stratosphere. The troposphere cannot be stopped at all, and even first-level celestial bodies are at risk of getting lost. Want satellite signals to penetrate the thick atmosphere? That is too difficult. Not to mention There are also violent thunderstorms - the largest super-large thunderstorms, whose coverage area is even enough to suffocate the entire earth. The atmosphere is so chaotic that it is almost impossible to predict. Those who can fly a spacecraft briefly into the troposphere of Jupiter are all experts. master."

"The city had no choice but to be built in the troposphere. It must have been at the end of the 21st century. Due to the process of cyborgization, humankind's enthusiasm for materials science directly increased several levels. Then the pioneers of that era took the original materials to build the original City. They set out from the Jupiter orbiting space station and the space relay station of the Galileo satellite group. After entering the atmosphere of Jupiter, they opened the air bags, connected the air bags to each other with chains, and then built three-dimensional cities under the air bags-occasionally within the framework of the city It will be trapped in the air bag. The density of the air bag ensures that it will stay in the middle of Jupiter's stratosphere..."

Yuki fell into deep thought: "But the main component of Jupiter's atmosphere...is hydrogen, right?"

"The air bags used on Jupiter are different from those used on Earth. You can think of them as the water storage tanks of submarines. The skeleton of a polymer material and the membrane of another polymer material are filled with low-pressure hydrogen."

Unlike Earth, Jupiter's atmosphere lacks a fuel for combustion, namely oxygen. Airbags made of hydrogen are relatively safer.

This structure will fix the city at a relatively stable height.

Of course, this concept of "relative stability" is relative to the scale of Jupiter. The relative height change of a city over the course of a day may exceed the distance between the top and the base of any mountain on Earth.

But it’s not always such a drastic change. Since the overall center of gravity of the floating city is low enough and there is space for the wind to pass through, the floating city is large enough for people to live in most of the time.

Most of the time, the movable splicing plots are at most visible fluctuations to the naked eye.

It is precisely because of this environment that Jovian cities rarely have railed transportation vehicles, and all pipes are made of flexible materials full of wrinkles. Gyrocopters are relatively common there. Some storage instruments. The areas that need to be fixed are hung on the dome with a suspension structure, ensuring stability through the best shock-absorbing design. At the same time, some daily tools are also equipped with electromagnetic modules, or simply made of permanent magnets with strong magnetic force to ensure that the tools will not be thrown away.

"Jupiter is such a ghost place, and I heard that Saturn is similar."

Yuki said: "Those days were really... quite hard... By the way, how could you be born there?"

"An officer must fulfill his obligation to reproduce. For senior officers, the reproductive status of human beings is an important evaluation indicator. If you want to make progress, you must reproduce." Regulus XIV said, "If you trace your parents according to their original names, my paternal lineage He is a senior military officer going back five or six generations on his mother's side."

"Ah?" Yuki was really shocked this time, "He is actually a verifiable descendant?"

"Oh, it's useless. No officer will distribute resources equally to all descendants. Although if he really distributes resources equally, everyone will have no worries about food and drink, but that is meaningless to him." Tuoba Regulus sneered. , "If I hadn't bumped into the old man, I would have died at the age of seventeen. Gangsters whose members are all relatives can also fight. Have you heard of this?"

Yuki searched in the memory bank: "Should this situation be called... clan?"

"What is that? An ancient anthropological concept? Forget it, it's not important." Regulus waved his hand, "In short, in short, I followed the master and went to the lower-level knight settlement. The place where knights live. Being at the bottom of the stratosphere is more dangerous than the floating cities that mainly gather above the stratosphere. However, the knight's floating base is smaller, so it is more durable."

"There, I learned to use sails and inflatable flying wings. The speed of fixed-direction storms in the stratosphere far exceeds the speed of sound on the earth's surface, so we Jupiters rarely use fuel for propulsion..."

Regulus led Youki all the way down, and at the same time talked about his past things.

This building actually has a larger basement, and there was an independent generator set three hundred years ago. But now it doesn't work. Replaced by a small reactor. A huge electronic machine covering an area of ​​dozens of square meters is located in the basement, and a pipe is connected to the building's original ventilation system. Regulus discharges the waste heat generated by the computer into the building's original ventilation ducts, and this heat will be dispersed as much as possible before contacting the outside world. The building's insulation will provide maximum protection from outside prying eyes.

Regulus first stopped processing the data and patted the computer with regret. Yuki could see that the structure of the computer itself contained parts that were obviously explosives - Regulus had considered self-destruction when he built this computer. He said: "Just dismantle all the parts that can store information. The equipment can be left to future generations. There is no need to blow it all up, right?"

"What if I forget something? Just to be on the safe side." Regulus said, "I've self-destructed a lot of precious equipment, so this doesn't matter."

As he spoke, he pulled out an inconspicuous jar from under the computer shelf.

"A superconducting quantum chip stored in a low-temperature environment." Regulus said: "This thing must be disassembled and stored separately in a low-temperature environment. After the prosthetic body stops spinning, the temperature alone will cause it to fail."

There are also several boxes, which contain some precision key parts, which are stored in different colloid and liquid fillings to prevent deformation and relieve stress.

Yuki's attention was attracted by the huge structure on the wall: "What... is that?"

That's a pair of wings. Its structure even reminded Yuki of the "wings" he had only seen in documents.

The wingspan of nearly ten meters is just hanging on the wall.

"Oh, it looks a lot like feathers - by the way, you know what feathers are, right?"

Yuki nodded.

"It's a specialized component for the environment in Jupiter's atmosphere. The flying feather-shaped prosthetic plug-in can absorb the oncoming wind. At the same time, the end of the plume structure can ionize the Jupiter atmosphere, whose main component is hydrogen, to form a forward impact force. However, It is of very little use on Earth, not as good as stamped flying wings." Regulus was a little regretful, "I don't know if there is a chance to transport it away - to be honest, it is of no use in this environment on Earth, but the material is very good and the performance is very good. It's strong, and it can be turned into other weapons if dismantled. To be honest, you came so suddenly, I didn't even think about leaving here now."

"Actually, it's not impossible to wait a few days..."

"Don't let a piece of equipment that you won't use in a short period of time dominate your schedule, junior brother." Regulus shook his head seriously, and at the same time opened a huge sealed box.

That is a very beautiful body. It has some shadows of ancient plate armor, but pays more attention to aerodynamic shape. Yuki discovered that the head that the senior brother was using was inserted into the prosthetic body. Then the prosthetic body stood up straight, and its shape was very close to that of a fighter jet. The dark yellow paint makes this prosthetic body look fierce and low-key.

"Come on, follow what I just taught, unpack those parts, and then place them in the designated position on the preparation instrument. You can also observe more, learn something related to machinery, and gain insights."

Youki nodded, paused, and asked another question: "Senior brother, there is a question I wanted to ask just now..."

"Um?"

"When you first escaped for your life, did you ever think about escaping outside the asteroid belt?"

"I want to do that too much. But I'm in a hurry and don't choose the right path." Regulus shrugged.

"That's not right. Considering the maximum speed you could take while hiding your traces, it should have taken you a long time to reach the Earth. You wouldn't have been able to panic for that long if you didn't choose the right path."

Regulus scratched his head: "Okay, I have to admit, I was really holding my breath at that time, like a child who wanted to find his parents after being beaten. My master designated it as impossible, but he entrusted me with Go ahead with the plan. I was thinking at that time, I want to meet the next God of War. I must meet him - but it’s a pity that Master Eleven and I have never met."

Yuki pulled out a box: "Are you so sure that my master will wake up on earth?"

"No, not sure at all. But the probability of encountering a god of war in the inner ring of the solar system is much greater than the probability of encountering one outside the asteroid belt."

"Why? The outside of Jupiter's orbit is the home base of the chivalrous force, right?"

"You were born on Earth? Then you must have never been outside the asteroid belt?"

Youki stood up, a little excited: "Senior brother, have you been there? I'm curious about what it's like over there!"