Chapter 309 Investigation
“More than two hundred star systems have to be inspected in total?! Are you sure you’re not joking?”
Wang Zhifan’s expression suddenly changed when he heard the middle-aged white man in front of him say this. Minor changes.
He clearly remembered that the mission of this dungeon was to assist the spacecraft named Brave in completing the inspection work. So if there were more than two hundred star systems to be inspected in total, he would undoubtedly have to start working hard again. , it is still destined to be a very long prison.
“Captain Wang, this number does sound a bit much, but don’t panic.”
A middle-aged white man in his fifties wearing a pair of glasses immediately smiled and said:
“According to the empire’s experience in interstellar expeditions over the years, most star systems in the universe lack value and only possess some Uninhabitable planets and very common minerals. In these galaxies our spacecraft will only briefly collect some planet data before leaving, so Overall, this inspection is not expected to last more than five years."
"Five years..."
Wang Zhifan felt even more speechless after hearing what he said. He had never stayed in a copy before. Five years have passed, but then I think about it. In five years, more than two hundred star systems can be inspected. How powerful must the interstellar navigation capability of this spacecraft be? Does this also mean that the Brave is extremely powerful in combat and has a very safe and stable platform?
"Chief, who are our potential enemies? Please let me prepare mentally."
Since this suspected spaceship leader seemed to value him very much, Wang Zhifan took the opportunity to ask him. After all, his identity was just a small security force captain, and he certainly didn't know as much as this person about the overall situation.
"Young man, please remember that the imperial spaceship is unmatched in this universe."
Who knew that when he asked this question, the look on the middle-aged white man's face with glasses He showed a proud look and answered without hesitation.
“Although we have discovered many relics of alien civilizations in the past few hundred years since entering the interstellar era, and have benefited greatly from them, we have not discovered any truly surviving alien intelligent civilizations, so at present Said, we Brave have no real opponents, unless we can find equivalent enemies in more than two hundred star systems."
The words of the man are full of hidden passion, as if. Not only is he not afraid of encountering alien civilizations, but he is also very eager to meet opponents of sufficient level.
"However, some other small problems may hinder our progress, such as the alien creatures that quietly parasitized our scientists this time, and the geological disasters that wiped out our expedition team during the extraterrestrial expedition last month, including even Your boss, these unpredictable factors will be our biggest enemies at the moment."
After the chief cheered up, he talked about some more realistic things, letting Wang Zhifan understand the various types of his potential opponents. It has more varied forms.
“Work hard, Captain Wang. As long as you make a sufficient contribution, I will propose to the empire to promote you to the Minister of Security. You should understand that as a scientist, I also have to take charge of The work of the Security Department is very unreasonable.”
The middle-aged white man wearing glasses chatted with Wang Zhifan for a few words and encouraged him before letting him leave. It seemed that he was because Wang Zhifan found out. The problem of parasites hidden on the spacecraft attracted his attention.
Wang Zhifan did not continue to pester this person. He expected that the dungeon had just started and would take a long time, so he returned to his original office.
"My job is actually quite leisurely. Most of the chores are taken care of by the clones. I will only be asked to take part in more complicated matters... I should take this opportunity to learn more about this dungeon and find other players. The location..."
In the office, Wang Zhifan began to look for channels to obtain more information. He originally wanted to do this at the beginning of the dungeon, but the old man's incident disrupted his rhythm. Now I have to seize my free time to figure everything out.
Unfortunately, he found that he seemed to be the only one in his office, and his employees were all clones. In addition to asking about the clones, he could only check computer information. In fact, this technology ship There was also a computer on the spaceship, which was supposed to be of a very high level, and it still looked similar to what he remembered.
When he looked at the keyboard of his office computer, he soon discovered that although it was the first time he had seen the words on the keyboard, he somehow knew their meaning, and the words that appeared on the screen after turning on the computer The text also made him realize that he could actually read the language of this copy world without any difficulty, as if there was a natural translator in his mind.
"Did the copy also load the text translation module? Recent copies seem to have this treatment."
Wang Zhifan was secretly surprised by this situation, but he was not too surprised, because he had encountered this situation in the last dungeon, and it was regarded as a default convenience for players in the dungeon.
So his next intelligence investigation was much simpler. He only needed to check it in the spacecraft's network database, and there was no need to find someone to ask.
“About three hundred years ago, humans ended the world war on the Earth and the planet, established a unified and powerful government on the Earth and the planet, and began to set their sights on the vast outer space, embarking on the more arduous pioneering of space. Early era..."
"About 190 years ago, humans discovered the remains of an unknown civilization underground on Mars, and obtained large-scale gravity control from which the underlying principles have not yet been understood. control technology. The use of this technology has greatly improved human interstellar navigation capabilities..."
"About sixty-five years ago, humans discovered a broken outer spaceship in the orbit of Proxima Centauri b. Although no complete alien life tissue could be found in the starship, it successfully imitated the first super-light engine, giving mankind the most critical weapon in its journey to develop the universe..."
"Two years ago, the giant scientific research ship Brave, which took fifty years to build by the unified government of the Earth and Star, sailed into deep space. This huge spacecraft, 3.8 kilometers long, 1.1 kilometers wide, and 106 meters high, carried about 60,000 people. People have embarked on a journey, shouldering the historical mission of investigating a large number of star systems..."
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By reading the information on the computer, Wang Zhifan quickly learned about the situation of this copy and his final What I initially suspected was different.
First of all, in terms of technological level, this Brave spacecraft can be said to have an extremely high technological level or an average technological level, because the most critical technologies used in it, such as gravity control and super-light speed, are Human beings obtained it from some alien ruins. Human beings have only figured out how to use these technologies but do not know their true principles. That is to say, the level of science and technology that humans have truly understood is not much higher than that of the real world where Wang Zhifan lives. This This is also one of the reasons why he can easily use the computers here.
Then in terms of interstellar civilization, Wang Zhifan originally thought that in such a highly developed world, aliens should be everywhere, and various races in the universe would have been fighting or communicating frequently, but this is not the case in the current dungeon. , although several alien ruins have been discovered and some alien creatures have been encountered, humans have not encountered even one truly surviving intelligent alien civilization. I have to say that this situation seems a bit strange. "Based on all the information, we can deduce that the most powerful enemies I will encounter in this dungeon are aliens. Since many alien ruins have been discovered, there is no reason why aliens don't exist. Maybe powerful aliens. The fleet has been observing secretly, and at a certain period it will suddenly pop out to prevent the Brave from entering their territory..."
Wang Zhifan, who had obtained a large amount of information, began to think about it. He even wanted to use the destiny hexagram book to infer one or two things. However, considering that these things would inevitably involve copies, he still did not take the risk.
“Let’s look at the personnel information again. What was the position of the previous chief... What are my specific responsibilities, and how many useful soldiers are there under my command...”
Understand After completing the dungeon background, Wang Zhifan focused on personnel information. However, he did not dig into this aspect of the information in depth. He only obtained the profiles of the people he could access within his authority, which naturally included the leader of the spaceship.
"Ran Lei Luo, the chief scientist of the Brave, has the highest command authority of the entire spacecraft and is responsible for planning and carrying out interstellar expedition projects..."
Looking at the face of the middle-aged man he had seen not long ago on the computer screen, Wang Zhifan immediately understood why he was called chief, because his main position was chief scientist, and this position turned out to be the most senior position on the Brave spacecraft. The senior, non-conventional captain position is the largest, probably because this spacecraft is a very large scientific research ship, and the scientific research and exploration mission is greater than anything else.
"Wang Zhifan, the commander of the Brave's security team, has the authority to command a combat team and is responsible for maintaining the safety of personnel on the spacecraft. During interstellar exploration, he is required to undertake field inspection tasks..."
He then looked at his information interface and found that his authority was not clearly stated. The number of people in a team was not clearly marked. Perhaps he used as many people as he was given.
"The basic situation is clear. The only thing that makes me curious now is where are the other players in this copy?"
At the end of the investigation, Wang Zhifan wanted to make a judgment by looking up the names of the people on the spaceship. Who are the players, but the result is not smooth, because he found that there are not very few East Asian personnel like him on the spaceship, and there are thousands of them just by checking. Does this mean that there are a thousand people in this copy? Player?
"But in the previous parasite incident, I didn't find a single player appearing from beginning to end... Could it be that the dungeon separated me from other players? Did they perform other tasks?"
He was worried about this. He couldn't understand it at all. Although this spaceship was very large and had tens of thousands of people, according to the usual style of the dungeon, players could easily meet each other. They had even been together from the very beginning, but now he didn't even see a hair. This situation is extraordinary.
"Go outside and inspect, maybe you can find some clues."
After thinking about it, Wang Zhifan got up and left his office, leading two clone soldier brothers to wander around in the spaceship. Well, for him in the security department, this is not laziness, but can be said to be a sign of hard work.
So on board the Brave, where most people were very busy, Wang Zhifan played the game openly and openly.
He passed by laboratories with frequent people coming in and out, and saw that there were people in the biological area transporting corpses to clean up the entire area. There were also restaurants scattered throughout the spacecraft waiting for people to come and eat, and there were even batches of them. The clones were eating fast food together, and they could be seen eating very quickly.
Wang Zhifan knew that people in his position, like most people on the spacecraft, did not have special meals, so he stopped by to try the delicacies of the interstellar exploration era.
"Sir, what would you like to order? Fast food? Or a nutritious meal?"
The waiter in this restaurant is a young and beautiful white girl. She has a sweet smile, but her uniform is marked with She is also a clone, a non-combat type clone focused on service.
“Three nutritious meals.”
Wang Zhifan answered casually, walked to the long table in front of the white girl and pulled up a round stool to sit down. The two clone soldiers following him stood upright behind him, even though Wang Zhifan ordered food for them.
“Okay, please wait.”
After hearing this, the girl turned around and went to the counter to prepare the food. Her speed was so fast that Wang Zhifan did not have time to carefully observe the other people here. The diner placed a plate of nutritious meal in front of him.
“Is this a nutritious meal?”
Wang Zhifan then looked at the three tubes of arm-thick “big toothpaste” on the plate in front of him with surprise. He couldn’t believe this kind of thing. It will be his first meal in this instance.
"Yes, sir, our nutritious meal is specially prepared by biological scientists. It has sufficient and balanced nutrients and is suitable for people with all kinds of physiques. Moreover, it is colorless and odorless, and people with any taste will not reject it physiologically. , the efficiency of eating it is also very high, it only takes three minutes for each person to finish it on average..."
The girl boasted that the three tubes of "toothpaste" food she brought were extremely high-end, which made those who faced them Wang Zhifan couldn't help but look troubled.
“This is the standard scientist style. Everything is done for efficiency, without considering whether it tastes good or not... It’s hard to imagine that I will have to eat this for several years in the future...”
Feeling a little embarrassed, he quickly asked the girl to remove the nutritious meal and replace it with fast food that more people choose to eat. The appearance of the fast food is much more normal than the toothpaste just now, including lunch boxes and hamburgers. , but there are only two or three specific meals that can be selected for each type.
Not long after, Wang Zhifan, who was sitting at the dining table and started to eat barbecued rice, discovered that the fast food here didn’t taste right. The main reason was that the meat inside was not normal meat, but synthetic meat, which had a very bad taste. It was also a bit strange, which made him realize that he could only rely on the food he had stored to satisfy his appetite in this instance.
However, in fact, he was interrupted before he even finished the fast food. The message was sent by the clone troopers who were following him. They said that they had received a latest message through their earphones. They had just discovered an unknown ship parked in nearby space. The spaceship needs a security team to investigate.
(End of this chapter)