Chapter 49 Rescue Date

Su Xi looked up and saw the three-and-a-half-meter-tall wild horned lizard, with its tightly closed bloody mouth, opening towards her without any image!

Vla la la - a pile of minced meat poured down on her head.

After Su Xi's promotion, his dynamic vision became even more sensitive. So the moment it opened its mouth, he could see clearly what was in its mouth!

She, who has always been clean, couldn't help but suffocate for a moment, and the pale pink mental barrier immediately opened!

It's not bad.

The clothes were saved!

In this interstellar age where there are no bubble baths and even bathing is replaced by nano shower mist, clothing fabrics specially developed for interstellar travel and alien exploration are made of a self-cleaning nano-synthetic material, which is completely self-cleaning and does not require a backward washing machine. Even if you roll around in the wilderness or even encounter radiation below 280 mommes in space, the material of the fabric itself can digest and clean radiation stains.

It is a new wearable experience for interstellar travel that you can put away, dry in the sun, shake off, and then it will be clean and you can continue to wear it.

But for a human being like Su Xi who is so ancient that he doesn't know how many universes ago, even if he knows intellectually that this kind of clothing fabric is special, when he encounters such bloody stains, his first instinctive reaction is definitely to stay away from it!

Su Xi stepped carefully on the piles of meat and stood a little further away.

Oh——oh——

The wild horned lizard lowered its head and used its ugly front snout to push the pile of meat toward where Su Xi was standing.

"Is this - a gift for me?" Su Xi asked hesitantly.

The wild horned lizard lowered its head even lower, and its long horns flipped out from its stratum corneum. It emitted a slow and attentive purring sound from its throat, and its big blood-red eyes stared at Su Xi and blinked twice.

"Thank you!" Su Xi reached out and stroked its long horn, trying to communicate with it with her mental power: "You don't need so much, I'll just take one piece."

However, the low-level amphibians on planet BV-32II had limited brain capacity and could not understand the complex brain waves of humans. It nudged Su Xi's hand with its long horns in confusion.

Su Xi had no choice but to pick up the smallest piece with her hands, and stood farther away while holding it. After several gestures with her body, the wild horned lizard finally seemed to understand.

Wow—it raised its head and let out a long roar, then lowered its head and began to eat with a grunt.

It quickly finished eating the last piece, licked its tongue, and followed Su Xi to the mushroom-shaped transparent safe house.

The heavy rain in the wilderness came suddenly and went away suddenly.

The clouds in the sky were rolling and there seemed to be a few more gusts of wind blowing.

The rain stopped.

The aurora at the edge of the horizon began to shine again, but its dancing position slowly moved to a slightly higher position in the sky.

As they approached the transparent safe house, Su Xi turned around and said gently to the wild horned lizard: "I'm sorry that my arrival disturbed you. I hope that my subsequent rescue will not disrupt the order of your survival."

"Go quickly," Su Xi looked up at it, and suddenly felt a little reluctant, "Go back to your original life."

Then she walked into the transparent safe house where Hee-kwang was waiting.

Because of the bio-wave repellents placed around the safe house, the wild horned lizards outside the house could not get within twenty meters of this transparent strange nest.

It wandered around for several circles and then left.

*

The sky cleared up.

Su Xi glanced at the quantum clock. It was already early morning in the First Fortress. She felt a little tired.

"Xiguang," Su Xi called out, but the cylindrical long-eared AI robot stood in the corner pretending to be dead and ignored her.

"Okay, don't be angry! I know you have completed the self-checking procedure a long time ago!"

Su Xi was a little helpless, but this kind of humanized setting with a little bit of arrogance was developed because she checked the "Allow autonomous evolution" option. What should she do? She wanted a cute baby to accompany her, unless there was a conflict like before, otherwise she could only continue to pamper it.

"Have we sent out our coordinate signal? Have we received any feedback?"

"Yes!" As soon as he got down to business, the LCD screen on the belly of the Xiguang cylinder flashed twice, and the whole machine started normally. "The first moment I landed, I sent a coordinate signal to the designated location, and then received two response messages."

"Please read the specific content of the text message later."

It circled around Su Xi, and then projected two messages in mid-air.

The first was a short video from a person called "Handsome Chrissy".

Su Xi was stunned for a moment. She knew that a special team would go to the alien planet to rescue her, but she didn't expect it would be Chris?

After landing on the planet BV-32II, everything went smoothly except for the unexpected incident of encountering wild horned lizards just after landing.

And in the process of building the safe house, Xiguang had briefly told her what happened before and after falling into the wormhole. As she guessed, those "mercenaries" were hired by the state machinery. But deeper information was beyond her current identity.

So she was surprised to find out it was Chris who contacted her!

I reached out and clicked on the video. I saw the familiar black hair and black eyes. The gorgeous face in the video was filled with a very friendly smile: "Hi! Cutie!"

"I'm glad to hear that you've landed safely. Fortunately, your landing error is only 5%, so we'll be able to meet in seven hours!"

"I'm sorry, due to the severe antimatter contamination in the Great Wilderness Star Region, we can't communicate in real time until we arrive in the same area."

"But don't worry. Your current survival resources are enough to support two interstellar moons. And we will try to place them in the same area as you with an error of less than 7%."

"So, when you receive this message, we may arrive thirty hours earlier than you, or fifteen hours later than you. Please pay attention to the changes in the coordinates of the quantum compass at any time."

Then Chris quickly mentioned some key points, and Su Xi wrote them down one by one.

"Ah - someone was thoughtful enough to equip your personal AI with a mini mecha in the shape of an entertainment console, haha!" Chris in the video seemed to suddenly think of something and laughed, his laugh was full of extremely ambiguous teasing.

Hmm? Su Xi glanced at Xi Guang. Xi Guang refused to answer any questions about the equipment changes, so she didn't insist on this question.

"But, dear, you have to know," Chris said sincerely at the end of the last video: "I sincerely hope that you will not have the opportunity to use its mecha form during the seven star hours of waiting."

"Finally, remember! You must stay in the safe house and don't go out! Just wait for me to pick you up!"

The short video ended with Chris smiling.

The second one was a text message. Su Xi clicked it, but there were only a few interstellar words.

"Are you okay? Reply with the coordinates."

Huh? She checked the phone number, a series of unfamiliar codes, but it suddenly appeared in the safe friend list and was marked with 'Fitz'.

She clicked reply, and the vague guess in her mind, like a feather, slowly fell from mid-air into her heart.

He raised his hand to look at the liquid silver chain that was fitting obediently on his wrist, then touched the small pendant lying on his collarbone. The crystalline substance in the mini air bubble emitted a beautiful faint halo.

*

The first fortress. The military port. A bustling scene of take-offs and landings.

The Sun-Swallowing Shuttle. The drop-shaped streamlined shuttle is very eye-catching.

This is a military shuttle with a central power module composed of the biological core part peeled off from the Sun Devourer, and the long-distance frame of the fuselage has also been lightened.

Its mirrored body gleams a smooth, low-key silver light, and it is now quietly docked in its exclusive, independent port.

Chris jumped off the base commuter bus and strode towards the parking location. All preparations for the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle to take off were ready.

Passing the landing dock, the staff of the Special Management Office were already waiting there.

Ding——Chris swiped the special warrant and quickly completed the handover procedures.

"Colonel Chris, I wish you good luck on your mission!"

Chris nodded, turned around and entered the cabin of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle.

"Report!" Mary saluted: "The team is complete, fifteen task force members are in place! Please review!"

Chris nodded slightly and went to the control cabin to check the operation log before takeoff. In order to land at the rescue point B more accurately, they needed to wait for a special signal to be returned.

"Sir! The message has been received." Mary, who was sitting in front of the operating table, turned around and reported.

"Have the specific landing coordinates been released?"

“It’s out.”

"Very good," Chris said, "According to the positioning of the feedback, adjust the final landing coordinates of the Sun Swallowing Shuttle. As accurate as possible!"

"receive!"

Mary performed the final coordinate calculation and reported the conclusion: "Sir! The overall space-time coordinates can be accurate to a reasonable error value of 3%. There are two options for you to decide."

"Option 1: Control the regional difference to zero, but the landing time will be between '-98' and '+230' star hours. This option has a 38% chance of falling into a negative value, so it is not recommended."

The negative value mentioned by Mary means that the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle will likely arrive at the same location coordinates 98 star hours earlier than the time when Su Xi lands in the "Life Circle".

This kind of situation has happened before, but the fluctuation of space-time is like a piece of tape, and the energy of the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle to penetrate space-time is obviously much greater than the 'accidental wormhole' experienced by Su Xi. If the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle 'breaks through' the 'space-time tape' at the same location one step earlier than Su Xi, then it will have a very serious impact on the normal matter ejection of the 'accidental wormhole' in the later timeline.

Premature interference in time will lead to unpredictable consequences. Even with the extreme development of interstellar human technology, the use and mastery of the dimension of "time" is still as immature as that of a child.

"Option 2: Control the time difference to zero, and take the landing point to be within the safe value of 1%-3% of the geographic coordinates. Take a look," Mary pointed at the image simulated by the optical computer, "In this way, with the rescue coordinates as the center of the circle, after excluding the non-life zone area, a fan-shaped area will be formed as follows for the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle to land."

Chris looked at the simulated sector, thought for a moment, and said, "Let's make optimization adjustments based on Plan 2."

"Set the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle's landing coordinates above the planet BV-32II's life zone, and then manually operate the landing."

"The plan is confirmed! The Sun-Swallowing Shuttle will land 16 astronomical hours behind the rescue time and space coordinates. After the geographic coordinates are finely adjusted, the straight-line distance from the rescue coordinates will be 980 kilometers."

"Let's do it!"

"receive!"

Mary worked with two crew members to start the setup and operation, as well as the official takeoff.

The busy and orderly port flashed the signal lights for navigation. From the perspective of the ground staff, the departure of the Sun Swallowing Shuttle was particularly magnificent.

As the antimatter engine roared to life, the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle's smooth, mirror-like surface began to tremble faintly like ripples, and then became more and more intense! It was like a drop of mercury about to boil and evaporate.

Zizi—a burst of high-frequency, piercing, bright flashes of light!

That drop of boiling mercury evaporated out of thin air! The fluctuating energy visibly distorted the entire harbor, but was then sealed and rebounded into an invisible force field.

Buzz——

Then the fluctuations slowly subsided.

The sight passed over the high observation tower of the First Fortress. This military port was still a busy scene.

And where the Sun-Swallowing Shuttle had originally been parked, only a few lonely support frames remained.

Buzz—buzz—

On the ground, a huge spherical ground robot was emitting low-frequency noises as it rolled back and forth as usual, doing its daily radiation cleanup work.

*

Planet BV-32II. 'Life Sphere' wasteland.

A mushroom-shaped transparent safe house, completely different from the style of the planetary wilderness, stands quietly on the plain.

Inside the house. Beep—the belly of the AI ​​robot in the shape of a long-eared entertainment machine lit up with the reminder sound of the housekeeping program. A gentle goodnight song came.

"Sister, the system detects that your body needs sleep, please take the sleeping bag out of the space button!"

Xiguang rolled its short and round body, and its two long mechanical arms took the compressed sleeping bag that Suxi took out from the space button. Following the instructions of the housekeeping procedure, it arranged the 'sleeping environment' of this small safe house in a meticulous manner.

Su Xi had just finished manually cleaning her hair and body with a ball of nano shower mist, and she also rubbed and kneaded the clothes she was wearing until they were all clean.

She was holding a flat screen and looking up the relevant "laws" about "interstellar civilization protection" mentioned by Xiguang. She knew clearly that if she returned to human society, her actions in this wasteland would probably cause trouble in the relevant laws.

However, Su Xi originally just wanted to do a simple case search, but slowly she was attracted by some interesting alien exploration cases!

The transparent barrier increased the light blocking power, and the light in the house gradually became dimmer. According to the display of the quantum clock, it was close to midnight of normal interstellar time.

Su Xi looked at it for a long time, rubbed her sore neck, and through the translucent air window, she vaguely saw the bleak scenery of this alien wilderness plain that was always in the alternation of "morning-dusk".

And at the end of the horizon, there are colorful auroras floating like wisps of smoke and ribbons.

Beep - it's time to sleep, please pay attention to rest!

The tablet's mechanical sound rang out, and the housekeeping program issued a reminder again.

Su Xi looked up and saw Xiguang standing quietly in the corner of the room, entering into the daily program self-check. Then, there seemed to be a minor bug that caused its progress indicator to remain stuck.

"Xiguang, are you having a bug problem again?" Su Xi asked as usual, "Do you need me to clean it up for you manually?"

"Sister, this is about today's 'rule,'" Xiguang's childish voice stuttered, "My logic cannot understand why you agree with the 'rule' but don't follow it."

"Why did you violate it and now seek cases to continue to comply with the 'breach' penalty?"

"...Logic cannot be sorted out...cannot be simulated..."

“Stop, stop, stop!” Su Xi was amused and waved at it, “Xiguang, come here!”

Xiguang moved the roller over with a roar. Su Xi lay in the sleeping bag and grabbed the signal receiver in the shape of a rabbit entertainment player with one hand.

Those were a pair of long rabbit ears simulated by a special nano-mixed material. They felt very soft and comfortable to the touch, and Xiguang also perfectly simulated the warm feeling of fine fur according to her preferences.

She stroked the rabbit ears and said slowly, "Do you remember the first question I asked you about this?"

"remember."

"Well, let me talk to you about human logic."

"Any 'law' has its imperfections... because 'people' themselves are imperfect. But as a law of 'justice' in 'high probability', both 'natural persons' as individuals and 'humanity' as a whole must obey it unconditionally."

“This is a necessary condition for the establishment of ethnic order.”

"But as an independent individual in the group, I have interests and values ​​consistent with the group, as well as my own 'personal will'."

'Personal will'?

Xiguang didn't say anything, but the indicator light on the cylindrical part suddenly accelerated its dazzling flashing, blinding Suxi's eyes.

"Okay, put whatever you don't understand into the 'Su Xi' folder I created for you, okay?" Su Xi ended the topic. She was afraid that if she continued the conversation, this AI that was trying hard to learn how to be a 'human' might crash again!

"There's one more question!" After fixing the bug, Hee-gwang restored the normal functioning of the child's voice, but it asked a question that Su-hee had not expected.

"Sister, why did you use your highest level of management authority over me to stop me from trying to persuade you to rescue that stinky lizard?"

"In my logical calculations, huh! This means that the stinky lizard is more important than me!"

"Why is that stinky lizard more important than me!"

This time, Su Xi was completely amused!

She couldn't help but think that this AI that she personally trained was becoming more and more natural at being jealous and acting cute.

However, she did not answer this unnecessary question. Instead, she rubbed the soft rabbit ears even harder and shrank back into her sleeping bag with a smile.

Just like that, as Su Xi chatted with Xi Guang in a random manner, she became more and more sleepy.

The safe house suddenly became quiet, with only the indicator light on the AI ​​robot's cylindrical belly flashing on and off.

"Xiguang," Su Xi rolled over in her sleeping bag, looking at the sky through the translucent air vent, and asked sleepily, "What happened in the wormhole? What about the second text message?"

"Some data is missing..." Xiguang's cute childish voice now seemed a little dull as he answered, "...I can't give a comprehensive answer."

well?

This answer showed that Xiguang 'knew' part of it, but he didn't tell her directly.

If she had not had in-depth conversations with Xiguang and fully understood the budget logic of this AI, such an answer would have given her the illusion that she was becoming more and more like a "human".

It seems like some unknown changes have taken place?

Su Xi slowly fell into a deep sleep with the white noise played by Xiguang. She unconsciously touched the mini pendant on her clavicle with her hand. The beautiful blue crystal with a faint halo flickered in response.

She thought lazily, 'If Xiguang becomes more and more like a person...it doesn't seem to be a bad thing...so let's wake up first.'

I was getting sleepier and sleepier.

The only human in this transparent safe house fell into a complete sleep.

After detecting this state, the white noise played by AI with the gentle beat of starry sky and waves gradually weakened.

Until there was complete silence.

The AI ​​robot, which had originally entered its daily dormant state, now quietly started up and thoroughly entered a deeper level of programmed self-inspection.

"Updating database..."

"Core components upgrade autonomously..."

"…Humanity…Lies…The paradox of human nature…"

"…Procedure test…Sample subject No. 2…No abnormal reaction…"

"Testing successful... Humanized component core..."

"The thirteenth upgrade is in progress..."

Chris and his team are on their way to their mission destination. Su Xi, who is now asleep, has no idea what is happening to Xiguang.

With such gradual changes day by day, the slowly accumulated quantitative changes will eventually become irreversible qualitative changes.

Soon, Su Xi will face another difficult choice without knowing it.