Chapter 175 Progress
"Who? Who else speaks foreign languages?"
On the train, Jiang Qian lay on the big bed in the lounge, tossing and turning, but couldn't fall asleep.
The icon in my mind flickered, and a small ball with hands and feet jumped out of the icon.
This is a new function that "Zero" obtained after the train was upgraded again. Not only can it set its own mimicry appearance, but it can also finally be separated from the control system of each train, realizing true remote control of the train.
According to "Zero", if there is a highly intelligent simulation robot that it can control, it can also completely come out of Jiang Qian's mind and no longer have to speak in a flashing manner.
But he checked all the robots that met the requirements in the system mall and found that after exchanging another batch of food with Star, he could not afford to buy them with the current balance of the train.
There was no other way, "Zero" could only settle for the second best and choose the current state.
"Why aren't you sleeping yet? Didn't we agree on everything inside and outside the train? I'm watching you!"
As the little ball spoke, it stretched its arms and legs, and a puzzled expression similar to emoji appeared on the surface of the ball.
Jiang Qian certainly wasn't worried about the system. Compared to manual defenses that could be overlooked, a defense system that was always working gave her much more peace of mind.
She was just worried about the team members who left.
"You said this island was originally where Life 7 was being researched. It's said Life 7 was first leaked from here. Would it be dangerous for them to go into the water?"
In Jiang Qian's mind, the place where "Life No. 7" was born was a bomb filled with germs. After so long, perhaps some powerful bacteria or virus that they had never seen before had emerged. This thought kept swirling in her mind as she lay awake at night.
Jiang Qian lay on her back in bed, her brows furrowed tighter and tighter. "If the island hadn't been flooded, it would have been fine. But now the whole island is covered in water. Who knows how dirty the water under the ice must be..."
"Didn't you already request protective equipment and clothing from Interstellar? Why are you still so worried?"
"Doesn't the StarCraft manual say the protection rate is only 99 percent?"
When Jiang Qian saw this number, she remembered the first time the train was attacked by birds, and she was afraid that she would be unlucky enough to encounter that one percent again.
"And you also said that no one from the interstellar space had ever been to this island before, and their understanding of this place is almost zero. What if some serious pathogen mutates here and happens to be the remaining one percent that cannot be protected?"
【……】
After hearing ninety-nine percent and one percent, the system thought of what happened before and was speechless for a moment.
Although I really want to comfort her, the system cannot lie. After all, there is no 100% protection in the world. Even if Interstellar knows about this place, the protection rate of the equipment cannot be so high.
【What you said is possible.】
Jiang Qian also knew that she seemed a little too anxious just focusing on this one percent, but she just couldn't help it.
But she also knew that she couldn't help and could only worry in private.
…
But Shark and others who went into the water to carry out the mission were highly focused at this time. As soon as they got into the water, they threw aside all the distracting thoughts in their minds.
The four of them who went into the water slowly sank and first found the stone bridge leading to the research institute that was originally built on the ground. Then, following Gis's words, they found the approximate location where the USB flash drive was thrown and continued to dive to the bottom of the lake.
The weather was cold and there were almost no living creatures in the lake. They dived for a long time and only saw a few small fish the size of thumbs swimming by.
Seeing this situation, the four of them were a little surprised.
According to information gathered from the island's indigenous fishermen, the lake is actually a saltwater lake. A narrow rock crack at the bottom of the lake connects directly to the sea. Although humans cannot pass through, marine life often swims through the crack.
Although the temperature is low now and the marine life is not very active, even so, this lake is connected to the sea after all, and there shouldn't be only a few small fish at the bottom of the lake.
The team members were puzzled, but they didn't have time to think about it. The oxygen in the oxygen tanks they were carrying was being consumed every minute and every second, reminding them that they had to hurry up.
I sank all the way to the bottom of the lake. Contrary to the few small fish I had seen before, the water plants at the bottom of the lake were dense and it didn't even seem to be affected by the low temperature.
In addition, there was a lot of debris piled up at the bottom of the lake, mixed with the lush aquatic plants, which directly increased the difficulty of their search.
The shark looked around, cleared the surrounding danger, and gestured to his teammates. Then the four of them swam in different directions.
A thumb-sized USB flash drive, although silver in color, should be very conspicuous in the dark lake bottom, but it is not easy to find because it is too small.
The four of them chose the place where they had just stood as the center, facing the surroundings, digging at the water plants, moving and cleaning up the debris on the bottom of the lake, and gradually spreading outward in a fan shape.
As they moved, the areas covered by water plants and debris gradually emerged.
The team members searched the bottom of the lake for half an hour and estimated that the gas in the oxygen tank was almost used up. The four of them marked the places they had searched and began to surface.
As they were rising, their replacements had already entered the water. When they returned to the surface, their replacements found the marks they had made and began exploring the perimeter again.
As the search area grew larger, the diameter of the circle indicating the area already searched increased more and more slowly. However, none of the people searching at the bottom of the lake were perfunctory.
During this back-and-forth rotation, the sun gradually rose.
The sun shines on the frozen lake, shining in people's eyes, but there is no warmth.
Although the diving suits provided by the train are very good, the long diving and high-intensity search work are obviously very exhausting. Even Shark, who is like a fish in water and is code-named Shark and appointed as the team leader, feels tired, let alone the other team members.
But the search could not stop. Shark looked at the time shown on the watch on his wrist and asked the four team members who had just come up from the bottom of the lake to return to the train to rest, and also asked the people waiting in the car to come and replace them.
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On the train, the Jiang family had already prepared breakfast. Since they had heard that the team would use crystal cores to pay for their meals, today's breakfast was more sumptuous than originally planned.
Huang Liping got up early in the morning and almost showed off her special skills.
When the four team members and the Jiang family who stayed on the train began to eat, the fragrance wafting from the dining car was also smelled by others.
Tony, Kim and others, who had already gotten up and were about to leave, followed the smell and came over, only to see an entire table filled with breakfast in the dining cart.
Although it was not the bread they were used to, no one could resist the charm of the steaming hot breakfast of Flower Country.
"Oh, there's breakfast!"
“This smells so good!”
"I felt as if I had returned to the time before the mutation happened!"
"They look much better than dry bread!" Tony said sourly, looking at the team members who were munching on buns next to him. "Jin, I think I'm really jealous of these guys!"
Why do they have such a comfortable and safe train and can also eat such delicious food every day?
Jin was naturally jealous as well. They had thought that the instant noodles and other foods they saw in the vending machines last night were amazing enough, but after comparing them with the food from the food truck, what they had seen before became garbage.
But Jin knew very well that now was not the time to be jealous, what was important was to be able to eat it.
He walked towards the food window and saw Jiang Dong in uniform. He greeted him with his only remaining words of Huaguo dialect, "Hello?"
Jiang Dong could naturally distinguish the strange greeting. Thinking of the attitude of the team members towards these foreigners before, he also politely replied "Hello". However, he did not expect that this reply would make the foreigner in front of him open up.
But after that, he couldn't understand a word the foreigner said.
Although he had learned it in school, he was not a good student who loved learning. After so many years, he had already forgotten what he had learned. Listening to this foreign language now was like a book of heaven.
He couldn't understand it himself, so he had to ask his family for help.
"Who? Who else speaks foreign languages?"
He glanced at each of his family members, only to see them all subconsciously step back. Huang Liping and Jiang Weimin were both older, needless to say, and Ren Ru and Jiang Dong were similar in their foreign language proficiency.
The only one in their family who could understand and communicate was probably the little kid Jiang Mingchen. But the mission here was dangerous, so they hadn't let the child out of the lounge since leaving City S.
As for Jiang Qian, who has her own system translator, she couldn't sleep for half the night before and is still catching up on her sleep!
Jiang Dong looked around, wondering whether he should wake up Jiang Qian. One of the team members who was eating in the dining car came over to help and acted as a translator between the two sides.
This meal was prepared for the team members, so they had to meet their needs first. Moreover, the team members had to pay for their meals, so these unfamiliar foreigners certainly couldn't eat for free.
Therefore, facing Jin's question, Jiang Dong refused. Although he did not discuss it with his family, Jiang Dong thought that other family members would agree with his approach.
After learning that eating in the dining car also required crystal cores, Jin, Tony, and the others, who had already spent all their crystal cores, lowered their heads in disappointment. But after learning that the dining car would provide three meals a day, these bearded and muscular guys perked up again.
"Wait a minute, we'll go back and prepare the crystal cores. Please prepare more for lunch."
After leaving these words, Jin took his men off the train and headed towards the dock without stopping.
Originally, after returning this morning, they planned to stay on the boat and let the other two teammates come to the train to rest, but now Jin felt that there was no need to guard such a broken ship.
There is no one else in the nearby waters except them. Is there anyone else who can drive the boat away?
Now that the Hua people have arrived, there is no need to patrol along the island anymore. Perhaps they can drive the boat closer to the train and enjoy a hearty lunch together.
【Author’s words】
The next chapter will be updated before 10 pm on Tuesday.
Pre-collected article "Mom, I'm Your Aunt (Era)"
[Please collect] This article is also known as "Reporting Spring Sunshine". The manuscript has 160,000 words and is expected to be published in November 2025.
In her senior year, Lin Anan lost her mother due to an accident at a construction site in her hometown.
After graduation, she returned to the newly built house in her hometown where she had imagined a beautiful future life with her mother. However, when she opened the kitchen door, she unexpectedly discovered another world behind this wooden door.
In this world, the elders in her hometown are still young, and her deceased mother is still a little kid. And she has become her mother's adoptive mother.
If you had the chance to go back to the 1980s, what would you like to do?
Lin Anan’s answer was, in this life, I want my mother to live a happy and fulfilling life!
As for helping relatives and friends get rich, Lin Anan said it was just a matter of convenience!
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