Technological Hegemony

Shua~

The catamaran frigate leaves the junk galaxy and enters the murky depths of space.

Lan Yu seemed a little nervous sitting in the cab. After the extinction of artificial intelligence, the major civilizations in the stars generally use manual driving, plus semi-intelligent navigation.

There is a big gap between semi-intelligent navigation and real artificial intelligence. It does not have the ability to think and judge independently. It can only respond according to the conditions and variables input in advance. As long as there are no preset conditions, semi-artificial intelligence will shut down. ,do not know what to do with it.

In short, semi-intelligent systems are quite troublesome to operate. The usual practice is to deploy a large number of professionals in the command center, such as radar signal analysts, fire control administrators, etc., and Lan Yu has only one person, and he can only keep his eyes on the stars. The ship is running, and we cannot relax for a moment.

The nervous system was highly tense, which brought enormous pressure to Lan Yu, but fortunately, after just over three hours, he arrived at Luo Jia's preset location, parked the frigate in a piece of gray stardust, and then kept the radio silent, Only the passive radio system remains on.

"I'm so hungry." Lan Yu muttered.

He stood up from the large command chair, left the command room, entered the dining room, and picked a few peaches from the tree. There was no need to wash them. The specially cultivated peaches had soft skins that could be easily peeled off. There were no peaches inside. Put the core in a wooden bowl, crush it lightly with a wooden spoon, then add a handful of black raisins, a few golden dried almonds, and finally put a sour red pickled bayberry in the middle, which is a famous delicacy of plant civilization. Bibimbap.

Waving the wooden spoon up and down, Lan Yu quickly ate up the bowl of bibimbap. As for why there were trees on the spaceship, the reason was because of Lan Yu's transformation. He planted countless plants on this ship. The starship, full of a cold texture of synthetic metal, is bare everywhere, lacking in art and beauty, in addition to being hard and cold.

Now, under the transformation of Blue Rain, the ship has become a botanical garden that can flow among the stars. The restaurant is full of trees, the corridors are covered with green grass, the ceiling is covered with cyan vines, and the ends of the vines are covered with flowers of various colors. morning glory.

Walking on this frigate, there is a scene full of vitality, and the fragrance is light and refreshing. Apart from consuming some water and fertilizers to maintain the growth of plants, there are no disadvantages.

Randomly pick two tomatoes from the vegetable shelf, chop them and mix them with sugar, open a bottle of beer, face the porthole, raise your legs, and look at the galaxy flowing in the distance. There should be no one who would not like such a pleasant little day.

After eating this meal, Lan Yu took a spoonful of honey from the jar where he collected natural honey, soaked a cup of honey water, and then sat in the command room and waited quietly.

Only when passive communication is enabled,

Lan Yu can receive public channel broadcasts from others, and encrypted communication data intercepted by the radar system, but he cannot transmit them to the outside world.

Of course, Lan Yu can log in to the secret network without worrying about being noticed by others, because the secret network has a special communication mechanism. So far, no one has understood the principle of secret network communication. As long as you have the secret network equipment, you can use it anywhere in the universe Corner landing, undisturbed by space and distance.

In addition, Lan Yu and Hei Jian log in to the secret network, which is completely different from Luo Jia's method of logging in to the secret network. Both Lan Yu and Hei Jian have ancient virtual warehouses or helmets, and they do not need account passwords. Manufacturing equipment, log in with account password.

This is like two people using mobile phones. Your mobile phone was bought from Taobao, while your friend took the blueprint and pieced it together with electronic components.

"The territory monitoring radar is still on. If someone enters the territory, I will know immediately." Lan Yu murmured in his heart, "Of course, this requires the completion of the system cracking work first."

Turning his eyes to the screen, the decoder is running at high speed, and many strange characters are in front of him, like a big river, flowing endlessly.

Since this ship is an ancient spaceship of mechanical civilization, it retains a lot of rare equipment, such as the Z-117 gravitational wave decoder, which is a password cracking device, used to monitor hostile communications, crack defense network security codes, etc. .

In the era of war, when mechanical civilization had not yet been wiped out, the ship Chasing the Universe in All Directions and the Sky with a Sword was originally used for special purposes, and its many uses also included reconnaissance and espionage.

"Success! The decoder has entered the territory surveillance radar array!"

After a while, Lan Yu's eyes lit up and said: "The water-shaped civilization is really strong, and the radar station is still working."

Although the combat power of the plant civilization is unbearable, they still have basic defenses. They are neighbors with another wonderful civilization in the stars, the water-shaped civilization, and bought many warships and equipment from the water-shaped civilization, including the star county-level complex. type radar surveillance array.

The water-shaped civilization is a group of humans who live in water. In addition to making liquid metal, they also have a perverted cleanliness. Everything must be spotless and neatly arranged. They visit the territory of the plant civilization from time to time, because the people of the plant civilization live in the water. In the forest, they hate fallen leaves and mud on the ground, but only like the blue sky, white clouds and blue waves of the sea.

Human beings are alive, and it is inevitable to produce garbage. No matter how serious the cleanliness of the water-shaped civilization is, they always have to go to the toilet. A large number of industrial activities will also produce a huge amount of industrial waste.

Their obsession with cleanliness makes them extremely disgusted with garbage, and they would rather give the plant civilization a sum of money to transport the garbage back for disposal, while the plant civilization collects garbage in the surrounding galaxies, refines it into metal, and sells a large part of it to the water-shaped civilization in exchange for a piece of garbage. Expedition starships, and radar observation stations all over the territory.

Assuming that those water-shaped residents with serious cleanliness know that the fruits and vegetables sold to them by Plant Civilization use manure as raw material for organic fertilizers, and the metals sold to them are extracted from dirty rags. I know what it will feel like, maybe they will vomit on the beach, polluting the sea water, causing them to want to replace the sea contaminated with vomit, such a scene must be very interesting.

Lan Yu stopped her random thoughts and looked at the screen. A full map of the plant civilization territory appeared on the screen. Everything is normal now, and there is no sign of invasion.

A few seconds later, he looked out of the porthole. The brown stardust, like a boundless thick fog, tightly blocked the window, covering the entire starship, and he couldn't see even a little bit of starlight. Very weird.

suddenly~

Red spots jumped out of the screen, one, two, and at the same time, Lan Yu heard a rapid alarm sound.

"Invasion! Someone invaded the territory!"

Lan Yu was startled suddenly, her heart speeded up suddenly, and she was so nervous that she almost suffocated.

...

"If there are no other questions, let's stop today's regular meeting."

At the Baoshan Headquarters of Xingchen Technology, Luo Jia pushed aside the chair and stood up. He and An Ran had both returned from Chengdu, and now Dr. Xie Tian was in charge of the work there. The management team of seven finally got together again.

Like the space elevator, controllable fusion is also a long-term plan. The space elevator will be officially completed before the Spring Festival next year, and the controllable fusion will be around that time. Now that the small-scale test has just been completed, there is still a lot of work to do in the future.

"Then it's my turn." When he walked out of the conference room, Cao Yuan said, "The space elevator is progressing smoothly, and I'm going to Chengdu to go with Chao Anbang to investigate the problem of superconducting materials there. "

Luo Jia nodded slightly. The key to controllable fusion is a control word, and the key to control lies in the superconducting coil. The superconducting coil is the responsibility of the Institute of Materials Science. Cao Yuan and Chao Anbang will help the two major departments cooperation among them.

"That's fine, you guys go on the company's special plane." Luo Jia said after thinking for a few seconds: "Also, I haven't seen Lao Ji for several months. What's the situation with him?"

Cao Yuan shrugged, "That's a trititanium alloy. Although you provided Lao Ji with an idea, which made him suddenly enlightened, material science has always been a hard job. It is a typical persuasion major. Thousands of trials Only by making a mistake can we get a success once, and sometimes, just a two-degree increase in the ambient temperature can also lead to the complete scrapping of the test."

"Don't worry, Lao Ji is a great master in the field of materials science. He knows what to do. Don't bother him. It's the greatest help to him. It's not easy. He's about to retire, and he's still rushing to the front line of scientific research. I hope I can have this kind of energy when I get old.”

Luo Jia smiled and patted Cao Yuan on the shoulder, "Youth is capital, just wait, Wen Chengling and Wen Chengfeng's life science laboratories will solve the problem of human longevity sooner or later, and then we will fly out of the solar system and travel to the galaxy together. "

Bass~

After listening to Luo Jia's words, Cao Yuan's eyes lit up, "That's a good relationship, but the robot division should speed up a bit, I'm looking forward to my robot girlfriend every day."

Luo Jia sighed, feeling that it would be a pity if Cao Yuan's talent didn't give birth to a child who strengthened the platoon. What a good genetic, not only extremely smart, but also handsome.

It's a pity that as a single dog, one must have the consciousness of a single dog. An Ran is right to persuade Cao Yuan to get married and have children, but he is not qualified to do so.

After returning to the meditation center, Luo Jia logged into the secret net. After the stars flashed by, his eyes lit up, and he saw Lan Yu sitting beside the fountain in a daze.

"Lan Yu is still alive! It seems that my strategy of letting him hide in the stardust has worked." Luo Jia thought to herself.

"Mr. Navigator!"

When Lan Yu saw Luo Jia, she hurriedly stood up and saluted Luo Jia. There is not much red tape in plant civilization, and the relationship between people is close and natural, so Lan Yu's so-called salute is just a slight bow.

"Well, you're here, how is the situation in the territory?" Luo Jia asked in a deep voice, maintaining her high-end image.

"It's really thanks to you." Lan Yu said in great panic: "Just two hours after I hid in Stardust, an intruder appeared in the territory."

two hours! ?

Luo Jia was startled into a cold sweat, Lan Yu had just hidden his front feet, and the enemy would arrive immediately, if there was a slight delay, or if Lan Yu didn't hide nearby, but took the risk to leave, he would run into the enemy, then it would be Oops.

Shua~

As soon as the words fell, Hei Jian also came to the secret net. He has recently returned to the west area, and all the fleet members are on vacation to rest.

Lan Yu told Hei Jian about her experience, and Hei Jian was also afraid after hearing it, and got goosebumps on his back.

"Thanks to Mr. Navigator." Hei Jian said emotionally: "At the beginning, I hoped that Lan Yu would come to Dauphin Star County to join me. If he did that, he would face the enemy face to face, and the consequences would be disastrous. "

"By the way, Lan Yu, who is the one who caused the entire plant civilization to retreat? Although you have no fighting power, ordinary small or low-level civilizations dare not do anything to you."

Lan Yu frowned and said: "I have been staying at the hiding place designated by Mr. Navigator, so I don't know who is coming, but their fleet suddenly appeared in the middle of the territory. I suspect that they may have stealth technology."

Huh~

Hei Jian let out a long breath, opened his eyes wide and said: "Invisible technology!? With the annihilation of civilization, advanced technology has been lost for a long time. What kind of power actually has invisible technology!? The lethality of invisible technology is simply Comparable to artificial intelligence technology, it's really scary!"

"Uh... That said, I have artificial intelligence, and I don't think those little robots are scary." Luo Jia murmured in his heart. Not only did he not think artificial intelligence was scary, but he even thought artificial intelligence was cute.

Lan Yu nodded and said: "It's unbelievable, but their fleet really bypassed the Xingjun radar array and appeared directly in the center of the radar system. When I saw it, it scared me silly. I thought it was a group of ghost ships Well, after thinking about it carefully, ghost ships are of course impossible, and stealth technology is the only reasonable explanation."

"The fleet that entered the territory has terrifying advanced technology, far surpassing most of the civilizations of our era. It seems correct that the elders left in a hurry. We simply have no ability to fight against a fleet with stealth technology. In a real fight, we can’t even see where the enemy is.”

Hei Jian licked his lips with his tongue and said: "Yes, not only you can't beat us, but we have to surrender when we encounter an opponent who has mastered stealth technology. After all, the technological levels of the two sides are not on the same level."

"So now? What is the size of that fleet, and is it still in your territory?"

Lan Yu shook his head lightly, "It's already gone. They patrolled the territory. It took less than half a day, and then disappeared without a trace. I hid in the stardust and waited for three days, but there was no movement. , That’s why I dared to log on to the secret network to contact you. As for the size of the other party’s fleet, it’s not that big. There are a total of twelve starships, which are probably the advance reconnaissance fleet, and there is likely to be a large-scale force in the rear.”

Hei Jian sighed and said: "It's really thrilling, mastering stealth technology, hunting down plant civilization, the stars seem to be crazier than I imagined."

"By the way, Lan Yu, even if you can't see them on the radar, don't leave rashly. Maybe you will fall into the enemy's trap as soon as you go out."

"If the supply is sufficient, it's better to stay in the stardust for a few days." Luo Jia agreed.

Hei Jian raised his head and saluted Luo Jia: "Dear Mr. Navigator, can you tell me why you let Lan Yu hide in the stardust, and what is the difference between the stardust at the edge of the plant civilization territory?"

Luo Jia smiled, and said frankly: "It's okay to tell you, that piece of stardust is not ordinary stardust, the dust comes from space cracks, rich in heavy metals and radiation, coupled with the effect of space cracks distorting signals, resulting in It cannot be detected, and if a super-large radar is used to forcibly detect it, it will get a space folding signal."

"As expected of Mr. Navigator, he knows even such amazing details!"

"I'm afraid he is a very high-level navigator."

Hei Jian and Lan Yu's eyes lit up, and their respect for Luo Jia increased again. Stardust is the dust in the starry sky, radioactive dust, heavy metal dust, isotope dust and so on.

As for the dust in the starry sky, if it folds space distortions or space cracks, it will be terrible. If you rush in rashly, it may hit the space cracks, causing the starship to be completely torn apart.

Luo Jia let Lan Yu hide in such a dangerous stardust, obviously he knew the stardust well and knew the safe routes to enter and leave.

Sure enough, Luo Jia then added: "In the future, if you encounter danger again, you can also hide in the stardust. According to the route I gave you before, under normal circumstances, you can get rid of the enemy's entanglement."

Lan Yu's eyes lighted up. In the future, if he encounters danger, he can hide in the stardust at any time to ensure safety. This is really great.

"Thank you, Mr. Pilot!" Lan Yu said excitedly: "I will continue to hide in the stardust, and after a while, I will leave the territory and move to the territory of the free people."

Luo Jia frowned slightly, and asked puzzledly, "Move? Why? Because all your clan members are gone?"

Lan Yu shook his head slightly, and said sincerely: "I don't want to be the guardian of the garbage galaxy anymore, I hope to live freely."

Luo Jia asked rhetorically: "In such a huge territory, you are the only one left now. Isn't that not free enough? And you have to know that the brown stars next to the territory can save your life at a critical moment."

"Isn't it!" Hei Jian said, "The others have already left, you can have fun in such a huge territory, and you go to a new galaxy, and you have to resettle your home, and if you stay in the territory, everything is ready-made Yes, everything is familiar to you."

"As long as you have a starship, you can go anywhere at any time. Just thinking about it makes you feel good. It is simply the secret base that all men dream of."

Uh…

Lan Yu was speechless. Although the whole family had already moved away, the supplies left in the territory were still huge, and life would be very convenient. However, if they went to a strange galaxy, everything would be unknown.

I heard that those free people are not kind-hearted people who are easy to get along with. Due to the lack of authority management, free people often respect force. It is not about reason between people, but to see whose fist is harder.

"Alright, I'll stay in the territory first, collect the supplies and information left by the tribe, maybe I can figure out where they went, and then slowly explore the surrounding galaxies." Lan Yu said.

"With Mr. Navigator here, there will definitely be no problem!" Hei Jian said: "The huge territory of plant civilization can also cultivate magical plants. Now it's all yours. I'm really envious. If I have the opportunity to visit you Just take a look there, may I ask Mr. Navigator, how long does it take to sail from Dauphin Star County where I am to the territory of plant civilization?"

"According to the standard cruising speed, at least three years." Luo Jia replied in a deep voice.

so far! ?

Hei Jian and Lan Yu exclaimed at the same time, it could be seen that Hei Jian was very disappointed, he really wanted to see those magical plants.

In fact, Luo Jia is not like this. Although he leads the tough guy team and goes all out to promote the space program, things like climbing the technology tree will not be accomplished overnight as written in the novel, but will take a lot of time.

The road has to be walked step by step, and the meal has to be eaten bite by bite. I don't know how long it will take before Luo Jia can go among the stars, see various civilizations, and investigate the truth about the annihilation of civilizations.

Lan Yu tilted his head to think, and then said: "Hei Jian, Mr. Navigator, if you really want to come to my side, it's not impossible. As far as I know, there is a magical plant in our family, which may help to you."