Chapter 232 Predicting the Future
The stars are bright tonight, with no thick haze obscuring the sky.
Perhaps due to the reduction in human activities, the world after the war is indeed cleaner than the world before the war.
The daily production and activities of the mechanical race rely almost entirely on psychic energy, which does not produce too much exhaust gas or other pollutants.
More than 20 years ago, when spiritual energy was first being promoted, one of the promotional gimmicks was "clean energy".
By simply using psychic powers, the pollution problem can be solved and the world will become a better place.
People at that time probably couldn't imagine that -
Psychic power did solve the pollution of the planet, but it directly solved the source of the pollution problem, that is, humans, in a violent way.
"It's almost twelve o'clock. Could it be that the commander has been deceived by that alien system ?"
Zhang Fang stared at the bottomless crack and became more and more worried.
"The commander has always been cautious. He has to observe secretly for a few days before killing a bug. Why is he so anxious this time?"
Xiong Wei was also anxious. He could not afford to lose Su Xia, so he asked anxiously, "Mr. Zhang, is there any record of the 'Orlok Company' mentioned by the alien life in Longcheng?"
"No, there is no record of that."
During his many years of study in Longcheng, Zhang Fang had never seen this company in any post-war documents.
In the pre-war data files, there are many files with the three words "Olok", some with names of people and cities, but all of them have disappeared in the war.
When the time came to midnight, Zhang Fang felt extremely uneasy and planned to let Boss Shu's small robot force its way down to take a look.
Just then, a sound finally came from the crack.
"Don't worry, everything is fine."
It was Su Xia's voice, and it sounded very steady.
But the people outside did not let down their guard. They were worried that the alien system would imitate Su Xia's voice and trick them into going down.
This imitation technology had already matured before the war, but it had not been used on a large scale.
"Commander, is that you?" Standing in front of the crack, Xiong Wei asked loudly.
"It's me."
As Su Xia's voice sounded, the light deep in the crack lit up again, a dark red color that looked very evil.
Su Xia put on a simple jet pack and started it up. With a buzzing sound, he took off on the spot, rushed out of the abyss and returned to the surface.
After seeing him in person, everyone felt relieved and surrounded him quickly.
"Commander, what's it like inside?"
"Is there any living alien life?"
"Can this spacecraft be restarted?"
"Will the AI named Hal cooperate with us..."
“…”
Zhang Fang and several other researchers were the ones who wanted to know the answer the most. They had been studying outside the rift for several days but had made no progress.
Su Xia smiled and pressed her hands together, signaling everyone to be quiet.
He controlled the jetpack and slowly landed on the edge of the rift.
Then he took out a small silver-gray disc-shaped mechanical device, placed it firmly on the grass, and pressed the switch in the middle.
“Ka——”
A circle in the center of the disk suddenly lit up, the light was still dark red, casting a series of rays, interweaving in the air to form the shape of Hal's red dot.
This is Hal's portable mobile carrier that can be carried around.
"Hello." Hal said to everyone in a calm voice, "You are friends of the captain. I have included you in my friend list. From now on, you can enter and exit the wreckage at will."
"Captain?"
Zhang Fang was stunned for a moment. He was still a little wary of Hal and didn't react for a while.
This spaceship crashed many years ago, how could the captain still be alive?
How can they be friends?
wrong……
His eyelids twitched, and through Hal's translucent red body, he saw Su Xia smiling behind him.
Zhang Fang shuddered all over, took several deep breaths, and couldn't help asking, "Commander, you...you became the captain of the spaceship down there?"
"Just luck."
Su Xia nodded slightly, acting very calm.
Hearing this affirmative answer, Zhang Fang's head started buzzing, and he suddenly felt that he might be witnessing the birth of a legend.
Being recognized by alien civilizations means that part of Su Xia’s upper limit has exceeded the top range of this planet.
"Commander ...Captain?"
Xiong Wei and several other researchers also reacted. They were all stunned and stared at Su Xia as if were meeting him for the first time.
That shocked look was like watching an alien.
How long has Su Xia been down there?
Just over an hour, right?
Is this the captain?
"Relax, it's just a normal operation." Su Xia smiled, as if it was just a trivial matter and she didn't take it to heart at all.
“Bang!”
Zhang Fang suddenly slapped his forehead and said regretfully, "I should have known not to notify Longcheng. If those people come in a few days, it will only make things more chaotic here."
"It's okay, let them come, Mr. Zhang, you have good intentions too."
Su Xia replied with a smile, anyway, those guys in Longcheng didn't know the address of the new base, so the initiative was still on their side.
Zhang Fang sighed inwardly, blaming himself for being too anxious.
Longcheng was still sending him messages, asking him to reveal the specific location of the new base, and in the messages they had more than once belittled the scientific research technology of the Oasis Camp.
His teacher Shi Sishi was also sending him messages, in which the old man repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with Su Xia.
According to Shi Sishi's description, Su Xia is a person who acts impatiently, does not consider the consequences, has a low level of education, is short-sighted and extremely selfish.
But what the old guy didn't know was that Su Xia had already taken control of the spacecraft.
"well……"
Zhang Fang thought of the conflict between his teacher and Su Xia, hesitated again and again, and finally did not send out the message.
Being caught in the middle made him feel very uncomfortable.
What made him even more uncomfortable was that both sides were clearly human beings, and in the current difficult situation, they should have been united in facing the outside world.
"Where there are people, there are struggles. Mr. Zhang, don't take it to heart." Su Xia saw what this guy was thinking at a glance, and said to Zhang Fang and the others with a smile: "Let's go down and take a look first. I know you have been waiting for a long time."
"Yes, Commander is right..."
Zhang Fang sighed inwardly. Where there are people, there is indeed struggle, but the oasis camp is peaceful.
There is no struggle for power here. Even though Lan Guang, Bai Ma and others are stronger than Xiong Wei, they only want to lead their own small organizations and have never thought of seizing control of the Oasis camp.
With mixed feelings, Zhang Fang put on a jet pack and flew into the rift under Su Xia's instructions.
Xiong Wei and others followed closely behind, excitedly, and slowly landed on the curved corridor below.
"This is an exploration ship that crashed more than 20 years ago. The other end of this corridor leads to the cooling cabin, and behind the cooling cabin is the energy cabin. However, part of the energy cabin crashed somewhere else with the rest of the wreckage during the disintegration that year..."
"This end of the corridor leads to the living cabin. Please follow me."
This was only Su Xia's second visit, but he already had a pretty good understanding of the spaceship's situation and took on the responsibility of explaining it.
He led everyone into the first cabin, which was the area where the crew members trained back then.
Xiong Wei and others looked around in amazement, as if they were looking at some rare treasure. They carefully touched every inch of space and took photos as they walked.
These guys are more rigorous in what they do.
They stayed in the first cabin for half an hour, constantly collecting various items in the cabin, even the bones of the dead.
"Long-term space travel may lead to bone loss. The bones of these crew members are very valuable for research." One of the researchers explained this to Su Xia, and also to Hal.
Hal didn't say anything. Now Su Xia was the captain, and as long as Su Xia agreed, he would agree.
In fact, for researchers on this planet, anything that has been to space, even a pile of soil, has research value.
Time slowly came to four o'clock in the morning.
The group of people who were dawdling came to the virtual combat experience cabin.
When they heard that they could experience an alien battlefield, Xiong Wei and others were eager to try it out and immediately expressed their desire to experience it.
"The Hell Battlefield is not very friendly. Mr. Xiong, you can start from the normal battlefield."
Su Xia opened up access to the rest of the simulation rooms for them and reminded them of some precautions when they were wearing the simulation equipment.
Xiong Wei and the others listened carefully and remembered the four words "Hell Battlefield" firmly.
Before long, these guys ended the simulation in a disgraced state.
Judging from their appearance, they must have tried the Hell Battlefield and experienced light-speed death once or multiple times.
"Except for the campaign mode, the other simulation modes are pretty good, such as the single-player simulation." Xiong Wei thought of the usefulness of the simulation system. "There are still many young people in the camp who have rarely used firearms. Letting them come in for training can help them adapt quickly..."
"Well, Mr. Bear is right."
Su Xia had experienced the single-player training mode and had thought about this.
However, there are too few experience rooms in this wreckage. There is only one cabin with a total of sixteen small rooms, and each person can only be allocated a limited amount of training time.
Next, Hal led Xiong Wei and the others to continue browsing, while Su Xia stayed in the simulation cabin.
He needed to get three "S" level evaluations as soon as possible and then get that sixth-level mecha.
At this stage, strength is still the most important.
Su Xia entered the first experience room, walked onto the central stage, took a few deep breaths to adjust his state, and allowed the surrounding metal robotic arms to control the equipment to be worn on his body.
【Star Fistfight, welcome back】
[It is detected that your last simulation experience was "Hell Battlefield·Heavenly War". Do you want to start the simulation of "Heavenly War" directly? ]
This system is quite convenient. Su Xia simply clicked [Yes] and the scene in front of him suddenly darkened.
[Hell Battlefield·Heaven War is loading...]
【……】
After a while, the feeling of weightlessness sets in, as does the pressure the body experiences when falling rapidly.
Pale light squeezed into the cabin through the observation window of the space capsule, shining on the faces of each young soldier, making the sweat and tension on their faces clearly visible.
War is always a word that makes young people feel excited and fearful.
Su Xia couldn't help but think of the situation on Earth.
More than eighty years have passed since the last world war.
According to Hal, if low-level civilizations cannot enter the Star Age, resources will become increasingly scarce, and a devastating war will eventually break out.
Is the next world war far away?
“Buzz——”
The reverse thrust engine started, the fireworks became blazing, the drop capsule slowed down, and the feeling of weightlessness and pressure suddenly eased.
Following the same method as last time, Su Xia once again ordered the team members in the cabin to act with him, even calculating the timing just right, and once again repelled the insect attack.
On the way to the assembly point, when they encountered the second complete airdrop capsule, Su Xia directly threw a grenade at it, shocking several teammates.
“Boom!”
The explosion was deafening, the entire space capsule trembled, and heart-wrenching screams of pain were heard from within the cabin.
Before the insects that were parasitic on the corpse had time to crawl out, the high explosives they had tied to the back of the corpse caused a series of explosions.
The entire space capsule was severely deformed and torn into pieces in a series of explosions, and blood and flesh were everywhere in the cabin, giving people a sense of déjà vu of an old-fashioned science fiction horror movie.
Being blown into pieces, no matter how strong your vitality is, you will not be able to survive.
“It’s a bug!”
Hearing those roars, the faces of the other teammates turned pale, especially the captain.
If Su Xia hadn't stopped him, he would have gone in to search for useful supplies.
When he thought of the possible consequences, he broke out in a cold sweat and couldn't stop feeling scared. His back was wet with sweat.
"These terrifying Zerg creatures are really hard to guard against." The captain wiped the sweat from his forehead. "The instructor was right. When facing the Zerg, we can't take any chances."
"The bugs know that we will check the complete drop pod. Is this empathy?"
"I didn't expect them to be so intelligent. If I had known earlier, I should have fought more insects in the simulation system..."
“…”
Even after comprehensive training and a large number of simulations, most soldiers still have the inherent impression of insects, such as "low intelligence" and "strong reproductive capacity".
After this incident, the team members became more cautious and paid attention to the surrounding environment at all times, feeling as if they were surrounded by enemies.
After the team set out again, the captain expressed his gratitude to Su Xia: "Thank you very much. I have no way to repay you for saving my life."
"fine."
"By the way, how do you know there are bugs in this space capsule?" the captain asked the doubts in his mind.
Another team member also asked: "Yeah, brother, when searching the first space capsule, you didn't stop the captain, was it because you knew there were no bugs in it?"
"You can't predict the future, can you?"
"I heard that some people with psychic talents have the ability to predict the future, but you are in the same group with us, so you probably don't have psychic powers..."
The team members were all confused. From the beginning to now, Su Xia's performance was really weird.
Whether it was dealing with a surprise attack after landing or detonating the space capsule this time, he seemed to know where every danger was and responded accordingly.
This feeling is exactly like rewinding the game.
One of the team members thought for a moment and said, "In the Empire's simulated combat system, I can also make such a prediction, because I have died once in those dangers."
"Wait...are we virtual characters in some simulation system?"
