Chapter 357 Leather Rope and Whip
Mechanical Army!?
Lin Xian's heart was slightly shaken. Mochizuki Shinji's words hit the nail on the head. Thinking back on the journey he had come, from a simple wind cannon and slashing with a dagger to now wearing high-tech power armor and operating drones for combat, every piece of armored steel plate of the Shelter Infinity train was made by him personally, piece by piece. Only he knew the hardships involved.
If he did not have mechanical abilities but other combat abilities, Lin Xian would probably focus on improving his combat skills, strengthening the survival organization, and living on the edge of a knife. Climbing elevators and Unit-01 - Pangu would have nothing to do with him.
Lin Xian is very clear about his position. He is not a fighter who rushes to the front, but more like a character like Mochizuki Shinji or Sensuku Shun. His output depends entirely on the powerful firepower of Infinity and his teammates. His own individual combat power is not that strong. Except for the gravitational lens that causes large-scale damage, he still has to rely on his teammates to solve the problem when facing slightly larger monsters.
The power of his mechanical abilities lies in these operable external equipment, train defenses, vehicle weapons, drones, power armor, armed teams, and then intelligent combat units like Grace and Dancer No. 1, plus the forbidden objects, disaster plants, and powerful psychics in the team, which make up the current combat power of Infinity!
So in addition to upgrading the vehicles, what Lin Xian wants most is the various drone systems in Silent City. With these, his productivity will be improved by leaps and bounds, and productivity is equivalent to combat effectiveness. If Lin Xian has one thousand, ten thousand or even one hundred thousand combat drones to form a swarm effect and concentrate on defending against the enemy, maybe he can even confront a special-level S-level enemy head-on.
This is also the reason why the Phoenix Society has the Emperor Project, which focuses on two directions: super-large mechas and drone swarms.
Seeing the countless blueprints, Lin Xian suddenly felt relieved. With these, he no longer needed to scan and could start manufacturing directly. He could also improve his manufacturing proficiency and speed up the R&D center.
"AI brain plus drone, it sounds like you and I are the same." Lin Xian looked at the photon storage in front of him and couldn't help but speak.
"Same? I have a different opinion on this."
Shinji Mochizuki smiled and said, "Lin, if we analyze your ability theoretically, first, you have the ability to scan and generate blueprints. In the current world, it takes a lot of time and effort for a research team to trace back a mechanical object. Second, you can directly manufacture in the void, eliminating all the parts manufacturing and processing links, and even saving space. Third, you can devour machinery, which represents a dissolving power based on the laws of physics, not just simple recycling... All engineering machinery, man-made weapons, and defense systems are no threat to you."
He looked at Lin Xian and said something intriguing: "Fortunately, you are in the human camp, otherwise you would definitely be a more difficult problem for the current human civilization than S-level."
"This is the first time I've heard such an evaluation. I don't know whether I should be happy or unhappy." Lin Xian smiled bitterly.
Shinji Mochizuki analyzed and said, "Perhaps I can combine the power of the entire Silent City to do the same thing as you in theory, but the difference is that Silent City weighs 1.31 million tons, has a total population of 109,561, has 91,560 drones of various types, and the total space area of the industrial areas, manufacturing areas, planting areas, and living areas adds up to more than 3.5 Manhattan Islands. My quantum core processor consumes 325,000 KW of energy per hour, and the city's central AI cooling system consumes 162 million KW of energy per hour. It takes the power generation of 6 Hoover Dams to carry it at full capacity, but you are alone, sitting here, and the dinner just now consumed no more than 2,000 calories of food energy. Now... do you still think we are the same?"
"I'm sorry. I just said that you were not a human. After hearing what you said, I think you are much more human than I am." Lin Xian nodded as if he suddenly realized something.
"But there is one thing I can really help you with, which is the design system I mentioned earlier for making full use of your mechanical abilities." Mochizuki Shinji sat down with great interest, his hands in his sleeves, looking at Lin Xian: "That "Sky-class" interstellar giant train, maybe I can design it into a doomsday train that truly has the ability to colonize distant stars, and then give it to you, how about it?"
Lin Xian leaned back slightly and looked at Shinji Mochizuki with a strange look: "I thought you would be very interested in my mechanical ability and wanted to invite me to join the Silent City."
"I do have this idea, but... well, Silent City already has everything. Weapons, ammunition and buildings are all being built by an automated system. The framework is already fixed. Even if I give you the blueprint of the entire Silent City, all you can do is build another Silent City, right?"
Lin Xian thought about it and said, "Yes."
"Then can you help with the hardware upgrades that Silent City needs for star travel?"
“It seems impossible.”
"So" Shinji Mochizuki shrugged, his face very calm: "So if you want to stay in Silent City, I welcome you very much, but you must be more concerned about the subsequent development of your abilities, and I am also interested, so instead of this, why don't we continue to cooperate, Silent City will become your partner to provide you with all the help you want, instead of waiting with us in Yongcheng Port into the polar night, isn't this better?"
"You are too generous to me." Lin Xian looked at the photon memory in his hand, including the flash bullets from before. These were extremely important strategic assets to others, but Shinji Mochizuki didn't seem to take them seriously at all.
"Please don't get me wrong, all my actions have logical purposes, and I don't like to hide these purposes." Mochizuki Shinji looked at Lin Xian with a smile and said, "Didn't I just say that you have more powerful potential than Silent City? Being able to shrink such a large productivity to the size of a human is simply a means of high-dimensional civilization. So my cooperation with you is equivalent to investing in another 'Silent City'? If the Sky Curtain Breakthrough fails, I still have a powerful ally, right?"
"That makes a lot of sense." Lin Xian nodded meaningfully, and then looked at Mochizuki Shinji solemnly: "If you don't mind, I also want Sensu Shun's interstellar nano armor, heavy-duty robots, and the base defense weapons of Silent City. Oh, and the blueprint of the Hyperion directional restraint cannon. Let me have a look at it."
Shinji Mochizuki looked at Lin Xian expressionlessly, and after a while, he slowly spoke.
"It's in the memory."
"real?"
"real."
"Thanks."
"Oh, and..."
"I am currently combining the overall data of the Crimson World's flesh-and-blood colonization suit to deconstruct its principle structure, along with other useful information. I will synchronize it with you later," Mochizuki Shinji said calmly.
"Uh... okay." Lin Xian asked seriously, "Am I being a little abrupt?"
"It couldn't be more abrupt."
Lin Xian: …
"But it makes sense." Mochizuki Shinji smiled calmly, "We expect to arrive at Jinhai in two days. During this time, people from Dawn City will definitely come to us, and the Phoenix Society will also have operatives entering the city. Silent City is open to external trade and cooperation. Although there is a security screening system, what I mean is that not all people in Silent City can be trusted, so we need to pay more attention to this."
Lin Xian nodded, put away the photon memory, and after thinking about it, he also picked up the consciousness memory, then stood up and prepared to leave.
At this time, Mochizuki Shinji suddenly called him and said with deep meaning:
"Your Grace is very interesting. Although it is only an offline version, it has a processing core with a volume of 8192 quantum bits. In the current situation where the high-precision quantum intelligent brain manufacturing engineering industry chain has been lost, this quantum computer with interstellar engineering-level processing capabilities is a highly strategic asset in any organization. I bet that in addition to the main body, there will be no more than two such offline versions in the Crimson World. The Phoenix Society's Galaxy host has been moved to the polar regions. Phoenix City, Dawn Center, and Noah each have only one offline Galaxy as a base. In addition, even Dawn City has only one 8192. Other alliances with millions of people, such as the Reykjavik European Storm Alliance and the North American United Front, may not have intelligent brain cores of this specification. Do you understand what I mean, Lin?"
"Did I get such a big bargain?" Lin Xian said in surprise.
"I mean..."
"I know." Lin Xian half-jokingly said, "The Crimson World will definitely not let go of this asset. The second reason is why they put this intelligent computer in a zero-element center."
This was the second time that Shinji Mochizuki reminded him. Before, when they were in the Xingyuan West Mountain Bunker, when Lin Xian heard Shinji Mochizuki's words, he was already wondering why Grace, such an important intelligent computer, was used as a butler robot in the underground research institute in Yijin City. Are those senior members so important?
Obviously not. Although he knew that the Crimson World must have gained a lot of benefits from these senior members, and people like Tang Yun's husband Wen Dong must be closely related to the Crimson World's ability to have such huge resources, it would be a waste to let an intelligent computer guard these people.
According to Lin Xian's guess, the intelligent brain Grace may be closely related to the Crimson World's research on mycelium in Yijin City. The key foundation of the Crimson World's current cloning technology and flesh and blood colonization technology comes from the research on this mycelium. Through this "evil path", the reverse control of the human brain and consciousness memory is indirectly opened up, and the human brain is used as a quantum computer to process the instructions of the digital clones in the consciousness body. At the same time, means such as controlling human ghosts have also been developed.
In addition, when Axelin saw Chu Yan through the consciousness link, the other party was stealing some key information of Julius Litt in the Zero Element Center through dream consciousness. This is enough to illustrate the importance of the Zero Element Center.
Taking all these into consideration, Lin Xian felt that the matter at the Zero Element Center was far from over, and it was very likely that he had only seen the tip of the iceberg.
"Mochizuki Shinji." Lin Xian looked back with a puzzled look on his face: "Do you think the intelligent computer will betray humans?"
Shinji Mochizuki smiled: "The program will never betray humans, but there are too many margins of interpretation for human instructions and demands. For the intelligent brain, it needs countless corrections and repeated training before it can better 'understand' human instructions. So if you can import your personal consciousness, the intelligent brain can quickly iterate through the 'human in the loop'. It will easily understand what you mean and reach the balanced stage of personality deconstruction."
"Like you?" When Lin Xian heard this, Grace's graceful female body emerged in his mind. It was really weird to put his own consciousness into it.
Shinji Mochizuki said calmly: "Develop your intelligence a million times, and you will get unexpected results."
"No thanks, I prefer her to be more like a robot."
After saying that, Lin Xian waved his hand, and under the gaze of Mochizuki Shinji, he walked out of the hall.
For Lin Xian, it is enough for Grace to be a robot assistant to handle various matters and help him control drones. Nothing else is necessary.
However, after Mochizuki Shinji's reminder, Lin Xian became more cautious. He walked out of the tower and came to the upper deck, looking at the mechanical city with flashing neon lights below. The holographic curtain wall was flowing with the cold light of advertisements, the tracks of drones formed a glowing net at low altitude, and various hovering aircraft flew by, their tail flames dragging out fleeting rainbows on the metal walls.
On the periphery of the deck, various large transport ships were either docked in the air or anchored in the port. The entire mechanical floating city stood out in the forest under the darkness of the night like a piece of space debris from another world.
"What have you been talking about for so long?"
As soon as he walked out, a crisp voice sounded in the distance. Lin Xian looked over and saw KIKI leaning against the deck fence with a lollipop in her mouth. She was dressed in denim shorts, a black tube top and a bright baseball sweatshirt. Her long purple hair danced in the night breeze. Her eyes seemed to reflect the light in the sky, making it difficult to tell whether it was stars or supernatural light flashing in her eyes.
"You waited for me on purpose."
KIKI rolled her eyes and crossed her arms, saying, "Tsk, Sister Chen was worried that you would be eaten by Mochizuki Shinji, so she asked me to stay here and watch over you."
Lin Xian walked over and smiled: "How could that be? My ability currently shows that it actually has more research significance than practical significance for large organizations. What I can build, Silent City can also build. Why would he eat me?"
KIKI tilted her head and glanced at him: "That's not necessarily true. Even large factories consume electricity to manufacture things. I caught you and gave you two steamed buns for every meal. Your cost-effectiveness is higher than that of the production line. Besides, your ability to devour and recycle is simply a master in the reconstruction of the doomsday industry. If it were me, I would tie you up with a cowhide rope and use a whip to squeeze you so that you would devour and manufacture non-stop every day."
Lin Xian frowned: "Cowhide rope, whip, why?"
"Because you can swallow the chains." KIKI said seriously.
Lin Xian: …
"Hee, I'm just teasing you." KIKI smiled brightly: "Sister Chen and Sister Miao Lu, Shu Qin and Sun went into the Mechanical City to purchase supplies. Aren't they short of water now? This problem is still imminent. I heard that although Silent City has a lot of water resources, the concentration of dark invasion is also increasing day by day. If this No. 2 city hadn't stopped outside Xingyuan, I don't know how many people would have died just from the mutation."
"By the way, did Shinji Mochizuki come to you to ask you to join the Silent City?"
"On the contrary."
Lin Xian came to the fence and looked at the outline of the giant mechanical city in the dark. Facing the night wind, he said, "Mochizuki Shinji hopes to maintain an alliance with me. It seems that he is ready to invest some money in me. However, this coincides with my idea. This Silent City has been built like this. For me, there are only two uses left. Staying in it to sleep or swallowing it to upgrade our trains is obviously not realistic."
Swallowing the Silent City and then building a train sounds like a beauty like the folds of the cerebral cortex being smoothed out.
Shinji Mochizuki's description is very appropriate. What Lin Xian has in terms of mechanical abilities, the entire Silent City system also has, and its productivity is much stronger than his. It currently takes Lin Xian about 15 minutes to manufacture one Thunderhawk 2000 drone, but if the Silent City's industrial system is fully operational without sparing any resources, it can manufacture a thousand drones in 15 minutes!
So this is why Shinji Mochizuki wants to invest in Lin Xian instead of simply merging his team under him. On the one hand, he is interested in the future of his abilities. On the other hand, if all the industrial systems in the world are destroyed, then Lin Xian is the key that can theoretically quickly lead humans from primitive civilization to planetary civilization.
It has to be said that Mochizuki Shinji's vision is even longer-term than Lin Xian's. If he hadn't said so, Lin Xian himself would not have realized this.
"That makes sense." KIKI nodded: "Then Lin Xian, are we planning to go to Jinhai to take away the "Sky Dome Class" train, then rob the Wen family of all their money and run away?"
Lin Xian smiled: "It's not that simple. According to the current situation, there must be some connection between the Crimson World and Dawn City. Didn't that Fatty Zhou also say that the top leaders of Dawn City are colluding with the Advent Sect? In addition, Jinhai is an important industrial base of Dawn City. Starships, sky trains, and various weapons and equipment account for at least 60 to 70 percent of the pillars of Dawn City. If we want to grab resources in such a place, we have to face not only Dawn City, but also Linglong Group and the Crimson World..."
"That……"
"It's okay, we just need to wait and see what happens." Lin Xian stretched and said, "Anyway, this proposal was made by Shinji Mochizuki. If there is a conflict, we have Silent City to deal with it. Now the Crimson World has also set its sights on us, and Star Abyss No. 5 is unstable. In this case, we will just follow along and use the convenience of Silent City to arm Infinity to the teeth first, and then we can adapt to the rest."
“That’s true…”
KIKI pouted and nodded. She turned around and looked towards the Silent City with Lin Xian. After a moment of silence, she said
"I heard that many residents of Silent City have uploaded their consciousness to the cloud, and a small number of people have their own consciousness memory. I think some of the better teams in the joint team may have some ideas..."
"Do you mean joining the Silent City?"
"right."
"Normal." Lin Xian said frankly, "I would think so too. There are doomsday crises everywhere. It is the dream of many ordinary people to have a mobile city like this for shelter. This is perfectly normal."
After he finished speaking, he looked at KIKI and said, "Are you wondering if anyone in Infinity would think the same way?"
KIKI shook her head: "No, I can understand whatever everyone thinks, but you..." She turned her head and looked at Lin Xian, with stars twinkling in her eyes.
"I think you're too tired, so I was thinking if Mochizuki Shinji asked you to stay, maybe... you could consider it..."
"That won't work."
Lin Xian heard the gentleness hidden in KIKI's words, and his heart moved slightly. He took a deep breath and said, "Silent City is going to fight to the death in Yongcheng Port. There is less than a year left before the end of the world. Time is urgent. How can I just eat and wait for death? Moreover, Mochizuki Shinji reminded me of one thing. Even if he gave me the blueprint of Silent City, all I can do is to build another Silent City. But the problem is that Silent City can neither solve Xingyuan and the strange body, nor break through the Sky Curtain..."
"Even the Order of Phoenix can't solve it. This is not just a problem in Silent City." KIKI said without hesitation.
"But... there is one thing I might be able to do."
"What's the matter?" KIKI looked at him.
Lin Xian's eyes flickered as he looked at the launch engine of the giant floating city: "Integrate all the technologies of mankind, including Silent City, Dawn City, Phoenix Society, Xinghua Heavy Industry, Interstellar Army, and then..."
"open up!"
Whoosh~
The night wind howled, swallowing up Lin Xian's voice in the starry sky. KIKI, who was standing beside him, looked at him with eyes full of smiles, and then a smile appeared on the corner of her lips.
At this moment, her eyes recalled a scene that happened a long time ago when she was rescued by Lin Xian and was caught eating bread after waking up in the car. During the confrontation, she angrily denounced his infinite train plan to his face, saying it was unreliable, and mentioned all kinds of exciting cutting-edge technologies in one breath. However, instead of getting angry, Lin Xian took out a small notebook and recorded it seriously.
"Lin Xian."
"Um."
"you are awesome."
“How great is it?”
KIKI opened her arms, chuckled and shouted, "That's... great!"
Lin Xian smiled faintly and took out the photon memory: "It will be even better when I make this."
"What's in here?"
"It's a good deal." Lin Xian said, reaching out and holding KIKI's hand and walking back: "There are a lot of tutorials for making figurines in it, I'm sure you'll be interested."
KIKI's face flushed upon hearing this, her waist sank and she immediately stopped the car, staring at Lin Xian in amazement: "What... what do you mean by making a villain? What are you doing?!"
Lin Xian turned around and said seriously: "Small robots, nano armor, and space-based weapons, aren't you interested?"
When KIKI heard this, she immediately knew that she was being played by Lin Xian. She glared at Lin Xian fiercely, puffing up her cheeks and saying, "A small robot is called a little man. Do you think I'm a fool? I'll beat you up!"
Lin Xian fled in panic, shouting, "If a small robot is not called a small person, should it be called a small machine or a small device?"
Under the starry sky, the wind was light, carrying a hint of metallic smell and a faint fragrance wafting from the synthetic botanical garden in the distance. Occasionally, an aircraft would fly over the cloud deck of the Silent City. The low hum of the engine was filtered out by the city's soundproof barrier, leaving only a slight buzzing sound, like the flapping wings of some electronic hummingbird.
At this moment, it seemed like a rare and luxurious peace since Lin Xian escaped.
…
(End of this chapter)
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