Wencheng was born in a good era.
The Dandelion Project hopes to take away all valuable individuals on the human home planet.
And "value" had a clear definition in human society at that time.
Whether it is genes or knowledge, to become a passenger on any ship, one must have at least a little value.
The more valuable an individual is, the more confident he or she will be when negotiating terms with the Dandelion Project.
It is a common sense that no one will take away the garbage and dust when moving.
And Wencheng is a worthless person.
From a genetic point of view, he would never be able to board any Dandelion spaceship due to his family genetic disease, but as I just said - he was born in a good era.
Compared to other humans with similar diseases who might contaminate the gene pool, Wencheng's advantage is that the genetic disease he suffers from is not fatal and he is young enough.
Another obvious fact is that the spacecraft needs to be accompanied by maintenance personnel during the voyage.
Highly intelligent robots can perform maintenance on any corner of the entire spacecraft, but the only thing they are prohibited from doing is to repair or iterate each other.
This was one of the difficult problems that humans had not yet overcome. After the ban on the two artificial intelligences iterating with each other was lifted, each simulation would bring completely different results.
At that time, scientists used a word to refer to the artificial intelligence that was difficult to describe and uncontrollable after iterating with each other - "electronic monsters."
There are only two ways to maintain intelligent robots: self-inspection and human inspection.
Self-check is a superficial maintenance that only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. Just like there is no bug that can be fixed by clicking the accelerator ball, self-check is more often used by robots to clear redundant data.
Human maintenance is an indispensable part. Professionally trained engineers can clearly realize where the boundaries of iteration are. The combination of rationality and sensibility in judgment is an ability that artificial intelligence cannot learn in a short period of time.
As a teenager, Wen Cheng accepted an agreement offered by the Dandelion Project. Together with hundreds of other teenagers in similar situations, he entered a training team that could decide life and death. While mastering the necessary maintenance knowledge, he received palliative care until he stood out from the hundreds of people and got a chance to board the spacecraft and undergo an operation.
The sophistication of this operation far exceeded Wencheng's imagination. He no longer suffered from that genetic disease, at least that was what it seemed on the surface.
But unfortunately, when a new agreement was placed in front of Wencheng on the hospital bed, he understood a fact -
There is only one way to eliminate genetic diseases.
As a small compensation, Wencheng's body aged at only one-third the rate of a normal human. In other words, barring any accidents, he could survive for nearly three hundred human years.
After signing the new document, Wen Cheng proved his loyalty to the Human Alliance with practical actions.
At that time, the implementation of the Dandelion Project was nearing its end, and most of the valuable humans had already been buried in the spaceships around the mother planet.
A small accident gave Wencheng a new opportunity. He completed his military training before the deadline for departure and replaced an officer who was dismissed for concealing his criminal record.
After losing a lot and gaining a lot, Wen Cheng boarded the spacecraft [Taraxacum-03] with his loyalty to the Human Alliance.
His position is: Artificial Intelligence Body Maintenance Specialist and Deputy Captain of the Spacecraft Escort Team.
The memory that follows is like a stuck movie, with similar scenes repeating over and over again.
Awakening, maintenance, patrolling, sleeping... in this repetitive cycle, the only thing that changes is the numbers on the perpetual calendar in the life support module.
There are actually many people who wake up periodically on each spaceship, but they are like neighbors living in different dimensions and can never meet each other.
Every time Wen Cheng woke up, he could see the peaceful faces of the other people in the crew room, but he knew that he would never be able to communicate face to face with these colleagues before reaching the target planet.
Even the artificial intelligence couldn't say a few more words to Wencheng, because the machines always had to be completely shut down during maintenance.
The artificial intelligence that has the best relationship with Wencheng is the one responsible for operating the energy cannon. Because of the need for permanent and uninterrupted early warning, two artificial intelligences are installed in the robot terminal.
However, when one personality wakes up, the other must fall into a deep sleep. Two artificial intelligences will never be able to communicate with each other, just like Wencheng and his companions.
Time passed little by little, and the target planet got closer and closer.
The flashing red and yellow warning symbol and the piercing alarm woke Wencheng from his deep sleep.
For crew members who need to wake up periodically, their hibernation depth will change periodically over time.
This time the awakening was an emergency. Some drugs were pushed into Wencheng's body, allowing his consciousness to be salvaged from the abyss in a very short time.
The same thing happened to other crew members who needed to wake up periodically. This was the first time Wen Cheng saw his colleagues, but they had no intention of greeting each other and all went to their posts as quickly as possible.
Obviously, Wen Cheng's position at this time was the deputy captain of the escort team rather than the aircraft maintenance specialist.
He and Captain Vladimir went to the command room together. In the center of the spherical cabin with panoramic projection, they saw a despairing scene:
The ring-shaped part around the main body of the spacecraft has already fallen apart, and it is falling towards the target planet below, carrying flames generated by friction with the atmosphere.
The main body of the spacecraft did not suffer serious damage, but a hard landing would have destroyed the entire ship.
The voice of artificial intelligence echoed around Wencheng:
"Overall integrity of the spacecraft: 78.2%. The airlocks have all been closed, the reverse propulsion has been activated, the barrier has been activated, and the impact object cannot be detected. It is expected to land on the surface of the planet in 500 seconds."
"What was the impactor?"
Vladimir asked the artificial intelligence. He had the highest firing authority on the ship. Once the impactor was confirmed, whether it was alien life or an unknown object, he had the right to decide whether to go to war.
"Currently unable to detect the impact object, now retrieving the local recording for you."
A suspended image appeared in front of the two people, which was the spacecraft record from one minute ago.
A black shuttle-shaped object was flying rapidly towards the spaceship [Taraxacum-03]. Its appearance was perfectly streamlined, and it was obvious at a glance that it was not a naturally formed object.
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