I Really Didn’t Want to be a Savior

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"In three days, we will be able to complete the final experimental data calculation of the Z-particle impact smelting method, and we can leave."

Ou Xiameng smoothed her hair beside her ears and said with a smile.

She is not tall and has a short ponytail. She has big eyes and delicate and cute facial features, somewhat similar to her ancestor Song Siyu. Covered in a loose white coat, Ou Xiameng looked like a precocious little adult.

Although she looks young, only in her twenties, in fact, including the time spent in cryogenic slumber, she is already one thousand three hundred and twenty-one years old.

As a PhD candidate in the field of natural metal materials science, a professional scholar who can still engage in natural metal research in an era when mass-energy conversion is extremely popular, she has almost reached the top of the academic pyramid.

In order to complete her doctoral thesis, and to wait for the basic scientific research on the J919 mechanical star to enter a critical stage that required her intervention, Ou Xiameng entered a deep sleep 322 years ago, when humans first set foot on J919, and woke up 3 years ago. , arrived here at the same time.

Three years have passed, and together with more than 3,600 professionals from Xingluo on J919, Ouxiameng is conducting the final data verification and is about to reap the fruits of success.

Humans discovered J919 363 years ago and arrived here 322 years ago.

Different from the drastic actions on other planets, which only seek to complete development quickly, humans' excavation operations on this ultra-high-density planet located in the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy are much more sophisticated.

At first, scholars observed from a distance and believed that the planet, whose atmosphere was full of toxic and harmful substances and whose radiation index seriously exceeded standards, should have been a lifeless death star.

Remote scanning also showed that there was no organic matter on J919.

But after closer observation, scholars were pleasantly surprised to find that a very complete ecosystem has been formed on J919.

On the vast ocean composed of sky-blue saturated copper sulfate solution, there are large areas of true rust moss that can expand and grow on its own.

There are various types of "creatures" swimming, floating, and deposited on the seabed. The forms of "creatures" include crystals, metal elements, giant hedgehog-like steel seaweed jungles, ghost ship-like creeping metal frames...

The situation on land is more complicated. From a distance, it looks like a garbage dump in a starship cemetery, but up close, it looks like a "vibrant" steel jungle, in which some large or small, fast or slow mechanical creations are walking and running, making it very lively.

Although humans have set foot on many planets dominated by mechanical life, and even had contact with perfect half-biological and half-mechanical life such as the Mizu that transcended time and space very early on, they are so perfect and vibrant that they cover almost all planets. The extremely pure mechanical life ecosystem of the entire huge planet is still surprising and unheard of.

The subsequent discoveries were even more surprising. On Earth, amino acids are the source of life. There are no amino acids on J919. Instead, there is an extremely wonderful elemental alloy with life characteristics that can continuously aggregate metal atoms free in the earth and solution oceans to grow spontaneously.

The metal ecosystem on J919 is built on this special elemental alloy with extremely strong ductility and self-growth capabilities.

It is both an amino acid and DNA, but it is also a metal.

Of course, compared to the complex molecular structure of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus, alloys are a bit simpler after all. Scholars have found no traces of intelligent life in the bustling ecosystem of J919. The creatures above are all classified as non-intelligent life, that is, the level of instinctive life, which is similar to snails, ciliates, and cyanobacteria on Earth.

After preliminary verification, special alloys, which are the source of mechanical life, can be used to further improve materials. If humans completely absorb this technology, it can bring about a moderate innovation in materials science and technology.

At first, scholars discovered that special alloys can only be formed naturally through the ecosystem on J919. The content of metals in animals and plants on the planet is high and low. They can be extracted by smelting non-intelligent life on the planet, but the mining efficiency is not high. Satisfying. This does not meet the needs of human industrial production in the cosmic age.

The goal of the Z-particle impact smelting method research that Ou Xia Meng participated in is to use the idea of ​​​​space industrialization to fully develop J919 as quickly as possible, striving to dismantle the entire planet within ten years, take away all the special alloys, and use The fundamental purpose of further in-depth research is to thoroughly understand the synthesis method of this extremely high-tech new material, so as to facilitate the large-scale "planting" of new J919 planets in other galaxies and the mass production of more special alloys.

After Mercury in the solar system was brutally attacked, this is the routine operation of human beings to engage in in-depth development of planets.

At this time, near the J919 planet, in addition to more than 3,000 scientific teams on the surface and in the deep sea, there are more than 60,000 large-scale unmanned excavation robots waiting quietly in synchronous orbits.

As long as the last step of data verification of the new smelting method is completed and the feasibility is demonstrated, these more than 60,000 powerful robots will be fully activated and can dismantle the entire planet within a month. At most eight years later, J919 will be divided into tens of millions of parts and then taken away by subsequent transport ships. Except for special alloys whose mass accounts for tens of millions of parts, the others are all conventional materials that make up the planet. Most of these things are usable based on the level of science and technology that humans have today, and can save a lot of processes. Although mass-energy conversion is omnipotent, it is always cost-effective if it can eliminate one step of synthesis process.

…

After listening to Ou Xiameng's words, Liang Zhichu's eyes flickered from her face, staying for about 0.1 seconds, and then quickly looked away, showing only a naive smile, scratching his head and saying, "This is still yours, Dr. Ou." Credit, originally everyone thought it would take seven or eight years to complete the calculations, but after you came, the project progress accelerated a lot."

Ou Xiameng rolled her eyes at him, "If it were my mentor, it would be faster."

"Yes. You are always so humble." Liang Zhichu's heartbeat suddenly accelerated and he said with a smile.

"Okay, let's work." Ou Xiameng turned his attention back to the projection. Looking at the rapidly flashing mathematical calculation process on it, a hint of arrogance that was not easily noticed gradually appeared on his face.

This is indeed her credit.

Due to the particularity of the material, the calculation of the smelting method cannot be simulated using a quantum network and must be coordinated with actual experiments.

Behind every calculation process, there is a remote unmanned experiment for verification.

When Ou Xiameng arrived at the site three years ago, she spent a month redesigning the experimental plan based on field survey data and refining the details of the process, which greatly improved the work progress on the entire planet and also provided her with personal benefits. Prestige was established.

In this scientific research team, even the rigid and strict team leader Nur Ahong Suritan respects Ou Xiameng very much.

…

J919 takes 18 hours and 33 minutes to complete one rotation. Therefore, the night of this planet is relatively short, only less than eight hours. However, because J919 is located in the center of the Andromeda Galaxy, the density of stars is high, and the atmosphere is thin and cloudless. Under the starry sky, there is no real night on J919, but it is just slightly darker than the day.

In order to maintain the biological clock originating from the earth, various bases usually close their windows when night falls, artificially creating indoor darkness.

…

After a busy day, Liang Zhichu returned to his dormitory. As an officially established assistant researcher, Liang Zhichu has a single dormitory with an indoor area of ​​more than 70 square meters in the base.

He lay on his back on the bed, holding a half-open 300-page hard-shell notebook in his left hand, holding a pen in his right hand, and wrote on it with rare smooth hard-pen calligraphy: "There are only three days left to complete the project. Based on my understanding of Europe According to the doctor's understanding, after completing the work on J919, she will definitely be transferred back to Academia Sinica. After this farewell, I don't know when we will see each other again. I still don't have the courage to confess, and I still dare not tell her my love The inspiration for my undergraduate thesis came from the project she completed when she was in high school. My admiration for her makes me so nervous that I can't speak even if I just look at her from a distance. Three years later, it's still the same. I really want to know her Freeze code, and then start freezing simultaneously with her. Otherwise, there are only two endings for me. When I freeze, she has passed her life. Or when she wakes up, I have turned into a withered skeleton..."

Snapped! Liang Zhichu closed the notebook, stood up, and put the gold-covered notebook on the bookshelf in the living room.

This is his "little secret". What is recorded in the notebook is the "Secret Love Diary" that he has written intermittently over the past three years.

In an era when almost no one used handwriting, Liang Zhichu maintained this traditional and ancient personal habit. He wrote down his thoughts by hand and recorded them on paper full of historical charm. It was very ritualistic and gave him a beating heart. To comfort. Moreover, unlike data stream storage carriers that need to be synchronized to the quantum network, things written by hand on paper are more private and more secure.

But he placed the notebook in the living room and placed it conspicuously on the bookshelf. From time to time, he would imagine that one day when Ou Xiameng came to the dormitory as a guest, he would pull this book out of the bookshelf. Then he no longer needs to find the courage to confess.

People are so contradictory.

Back in the bedroom, Liang Zhichu rolled up his quilt and fell asleep.

…

I don't know when it started, but the sky was covered with a layer of gray fog, which resembled what it looked like when sandstorms broke out in some cities on the home planet Earth in the early 21st century.

These fogs are not a specific climate phenomenon in a certain area, but appear over the entire planet at almost the same time.

0.5 seconds later, a piercing siren sounded throughout the Tara Basin Scientific Research Station No. 117.

Ou Xiameng, who had just fallen asleep, immediately jumped off the bed, dressed up as quickly as possible, and rushed out.

One and a half minutes later, all the staff of the No. 117 scientific research station appeared in the lobby of the base central control room.

In addition to Ou Xiameng, Liang Zhichu and team leader Nur Ahong, there were three other people at the scientific research station.

They are Siceta Roy, a professional soldier with a flamboyant personality, tall stature and bronze skin. In addition to his role in base security, he also serves as the driver of a small fast armed ship.

Matsuda Masahito, a lean and brave senior digger, has a bad temper, seems to dislike everyone, and has sinister behavior.

She has a plump body, likes to wear relatively revealing clothes, revealing a large area of ​​white snowflakes. She is enthusiastic and always cheerful with everyone. Samantha Swan is the life assistant who is responsible for taking care of the daily life and medical needs of everyone in the base. She maintains some kind of physical relationship with Cisetta and Matsuda Masahito at the same time, which is both work content and physiological needs, and may also be mixed with a little emotional factor.

At this time, the group of people was rapidly advancing their work according to their pre-division of labor in the emergency.

Team leader Nur Ahong was slumped in front of the console.

He has opened the manual control panel that he has not opened for a long time.

The old-fashioned LCD monitor inside was showing the words "Backup System Reactivation".

After a short while, Nur Ahong said: "Our quantum communication with the outside world has suffered strong interference. I have just tested all the backup communication facilities such as gravitational waves and electromagnetic wave communication, and they have all failed. The base's brain system It has also ceased operation, and now only the most primitive mechanical devices can be used. The backup system uses microcircuit semiconductor chips that I made for personal hobby, but they have no data storage capacity. If I remember correctly, the empire has nearly 20,000 Nothing like this has happened in years.”

Ou Xiameng and Liang Zhichu also had gloomy faces. The two of them just checked the experimental data, but it was completely unable to be retrieved, and the experimental auxiliary intelligence also stopped operating inexplicably.

The two rescued only a metal plate engraved with special symbols in the shape of a tree network. These metal plates are the underlying backup of the experimental data, using the symbolic language of the mechanical civilization fans.

Ciceta Zehui reported: "I have good news here. The base is currently not locked by remote weapons. The data fragments obtained briefly before the instrument failed showed that there were no uncontrolled war devices on J919."

"The question now is, if we can't restore contact with other bases, what should we do next?" Samantha looked very worried.

Ou Xiameng pondered: "The situation is unclear now, so maybe we should evacuate in time."

Nur Ahong: "According to the provisions of Section 1, Article 2 of the Andromeda Scientific Expedition Safety Regulations, as grassroots personnel, when encountering emergencies, we should first try to solve the problem ourselves, and even if it fails, we should collect more Information can only be considered before leaving. The current situation should be classified as a first-level abnormality. If the initial cause of the abnormality can be found, and at least a B-level evaluation can be obtained, then when you return to your place of residence, you can be promoted to at least a second-level citizen. "

Matsuda Masahito suddenly became interested: "Then what's there to say? I just checked and my armored boring machine can still be started in mechanical mode. Now I'm going to go out for a walk."

"Wait a minute, let's try to check all the equipment first, then try to restore contact with other bases, and then make a decision." Nur Ahong suppressed the impulsive Matsuda Masahito.

Matsuda Masahito shook his head dissatisfied, "It's already obvious that we can't be contacted, so why bother? You think about it, I go out by myself, so I can't affect you."

Obviously, he, who is currently only a third-class citizen, is eager to make meritorious deeds.

After saying that, Matsuda Masahito turned around and walked out, as if he was going straight to his tunnel boring machine warehouse.

"Stop! Idiot." Cicetta grabbed his shoulders from behind, "You should obey the team leader's arrangements. When the situation becomes complicated and unknown, obeying the superior's decision-making is the only way to simplify the situation."

"Asshole! You just want to stop me from getting rich! I am a professional boring machine engineer, and I have already driven my Yamato around J919 twice! No one knows J919 better than me. There is no danger at all outside!"

The two started fighting.

Others were not surprised.

In the past few years, Ciceta and Matsuda Masahito would fight in the base every few days, and they seemed to have inexhaustible energy.

No one else came to dissuade him.

As a professional soldier, Cissetta wears a variable biochemical warfare suit around the clock. If he turns on his combat suit, he can subdue Matsuda in a thousandth of a second. Of course, in accordance with military regulations and out of some bad taste, he would not use the ability of the combat uniform to deal with Matsuda, but would only rely on his slightly stronger physical fitness to fight the opponent happily. If the situation gets out of control, he will rely on the ability of the combat uniform to quickly end the dispute without harming Matsuda.

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Nearly nine hours of daylight passed quickly, and the team's efforts made little progress. Still unable to contact the outside world, it can only rely on the most primitive broadcast signals to transmit some extremely difficult to identify Morse code-like signals.

But because Morse code is too old, no one in the scientific expedition team has mastered it. In the past, if these ancient data were needed, they could be queried in real time through the seamlessly connected quantum network. Now, no matter how powerful scientific researchers are, they seem to be caught off guard and ill-prepared after suddenly losing the information support of the quantum network.

As for the various spare equipment in the base, all precision equipment involving modern technology cannot be used. Only the power assembly of the small fast armed ship used to leave the planet can still be used. Although without the help of the intelligent auxiliary driving system, the takeoff and separation from the planet's gravity can only be completed by manual operation, but with Siceta's driving skills, it is still feasible. In addition, there are a few weapons that can also be used, but without the assistance of the brain, aiming becomes more difficult, but firing is still no problem.

Although they still didn't understand the situation, after confirming that they could leave safely and that they still had certain armed capabilities, the pressure on everyone's minds suddenly became much less. Only Matsuda Masahito was very dissatisfied with wasting a whole day.

In the scientific expedition team, Ou Xiameng was originally a first-class citizen, and Liang Zhichu and the team leader were originally second-class citizens. Cisseta was a professional soldier on staff and did not care about his civil rank. Samantha, who only has a fourth-level citizen level, is a very unmotivated person. Otherwise, in an era when the food synthesis industry is extremely mature, she would not have devoted herself to studying traditional cooking skills based on personal preferences and became the life assistant of this scientific research team. .

Matsuda Masahito is just an intermediate tunnel boring machine engineer, and his professional skills have reached the peak of his life. If there were no special opportunities, he would be locked up as a third-level citizen for the rest of his life. He believed that Nur Ahun's conservatism and Ciceta's inexplicable hostility blocked his progress in completing a breakthrough in life.

But Matsuda didn't say anything more after all. He didn't get much rest during the day and had to take a nap to stay energetic.

Nur Ahong decided to allow Matsuda to drive the tunnel boring machine out early tomorrow morning. He also had to bring a handwritten letter with him to facilitate re-establishing contact with other scientific research stations and exchanging information. As for the paper and pen and ink for writing the letter, Liang Zhichu provided it. He went back and tore two pages from his notebook.