Yu Yan's offline social activities took about six cycles, and two cycles were equivalent to one day in the star calendar. Jiang Ling naturally couldn't wait for her near the airlock cabin all the time. Not long after, she left here with the help of the space handrail, and then moved through the various cabins and soon arrived at the work cabin.
This module is located at the front end of the "home" and is generally hemispherical. The interior is filled with low-power flexible screens and long-distance communicators, which are mainly used to control the "Worker Bee" unmanned orbiter outside the "home".
Jiang Ling fastened herself to the robotic arm near the center of the work cabin and quickly got into the swing of things. Her current job, called "Orbital Cleaner," wasn't a high-paying one, but the benefits were good. Besides the roughly 120 citizen points she received each month, her hours were flexible, she had food and lodging, and she could occasionally take on small jobs, making it a relatively high-profile position. Since there were many competitors at the time, she relied on her previous work experience and connections with colleagues to get in through the back door.
Now, she spends several hours every day monitoring and maintaining the network's drones. Sometimes, she also has to go out to recover damaged and defunct satellites, or help certain organizations maintain the space station. While technological advancements have marginalized this work, its very nature shouldn't be underestimated. After all, it affects the lives of nearly 10,000 people within the 300-360km low-Earth orbit. Without such a crucial component of society, many would come to a grinding halt.
But to be honest, the basic tasks of this job are indeed rather boring. Jiang Ling, the old hand, soon began to slack off. She controlled an old remote sensing satellite not far from here to take a picture of her "home", and then compared the recent external changes of her "home" with the database.
The "home" is a hexagonal pyramid, tapering at the front and thicker at the rear. It currently maintains a flight attitude with its long axis parallel to the ground and perpendicular to its linear velocity. Its long axis measures approximately 61 meters, with a maximum diameter of 28 meters and a minimum diameter of 10 meters, resulting in an internal volume of approximately 7,600 cubic meters. Its original model was the "QNZ-25," the "Type 25 Blue Bird-class medium-sized engineering vessel" so hyped online—they were just short of claiming it could land on the Sun.
This antique, designed and manufactured ten years ago, relies on a ship-borne thermonuclear fusion reactor for power, and is propelled by six 25N Hall thrusters at the rear or external chemical rockets. Its onboard computer was originally equipped with military-grade artificial intelligence, but after retirement, it was the direct descendant of Lin Yi's grandson, whom Jiang Ling abducted from private channels.
Of course, meeting Lin Shuang was purely a coincidence. Jiang Ling originally just wanted to test the waters on the Internet, but he accidentally bumped into a metal head who had lived on Mars for thirty years and was roaming around the Internet. In short, neither party deliberately searched for each other.
However, unlike her predecessors, Lin Shuang was not unique. She was essentially a mass-produced product, with many copies or sisters. The only difference between her and those sisters was probably her name and confidentiality level.
Since the human community does not allow private ownership of strong artificial intelligence, and theoretically, they actually recognize the citizenship rights of strong artificial intelligence, Jiang Ling has to use her A-level citizenship authority to keep her existence secret, just like an illegitimate child in the Earth era.
Well, if the consciousness core of strong artificial intelligence also has something like genes, then Lin Shuang can indeed be considered an "illegitimate child". If we really want to evaluate the kinship, her behavior pattern may be more like Jiang Ling than Yu Yan.
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