Chapter 64 Search Machine
Xiaozhen's customized aircraft has arrived.
The appearance of the small aircraft looks like an upgraded version of a large mosquito. It has transparent wings, a slender body, six insect-like legs, and black and white patterns on its legs. But inside this small body, there is a sophisticated mechanical system hidden. It is a meticulous work of Ross mechanical craftsmen.
Mr. Cat stared at the mosquito flying machine that was buzzing and singing in the room, and turned to ask Xiao Zhen: "Do you want me to slap it down with my palm?"
"No, I'm just letting you feel it." Xiao Zhen stood up and said, "This seeker looks like a mosquito. It can search and collect targets autonomously. It can operate unimpeded in a vacuum, deep sea, or even in a high temperature environment of 500 degrees."
"So? You want to use this exploration machine to recycle the diluted tissue fluid of the three humans and the mud monster?" Mr. Cat stared at the aircraft and said, trying to restrain the urge to hit it. "How much can your aircraft recycle each time? Just this one? Do you plan to recycle for ten years?"
“Of course it’s not just this one.”
Xiao Zhen stretched out his hand, and the small aircraft stopped in his palm, gently flapping its wings.
"Damn, that looks like a really big mosquito." The chicken said, staring at it.
"It shouldn't be cheap to customize just this one," Mr. Cat said. "Rapid recovery requires at least hundreds of these probes. I don't think you can afford to customize many with your current financial resources. Ross Mechanical Craftsmen's products are always of high quality and expensive. Let me make it clear in advance that the local budget of the Eye of Supervision does not include dealing with such thankless and apparently harmless tasks."
"I know. But don't we have 'that'?" Xiao Zhen said.
"What is that?"
"That's it."
Xiao Zhen took out the "copy box" that was the culprit for the school cat's disappearance. "Now, it's time for this box to enter the stage of history!"
Mr. Cat jumped to the side of the box: "So you want to copy." Its host subconsciously wanted to get into the box, but it slapped its host's consciousness in the mind.
"That's right. This is the only way to recycle at the most efficient speed."
Chicken said: "But the things copied by this copy box will deteriorate. Is this really okay?"
"Once they extract the tissue fluid from Choi Ming-chi's family, it will be useless. I don't need a long service life. This prototype of mine was made by the best Ross mechanical craftsman in the galaxy. It will be enough even if it deteriorates and downgrades hundreds of times."
Afterwards, Xiao Zhen used the copy box to copy 1,000 large mosquito aircraft. When these mosquito aircraft were driven together, the buzzing sound was like ten 16-cylinder engines roaring in unison. The sound was so loud that it attracted An Yuan.
When An Yuan pushed open the door, she saw hundreds of large mosquitoes flying around Xiao Zhen. This scene was so shocking that An Yuan was stunned on the spot.
Mr. Cat slammed the door shut.
Three minutes later, An Yuan kicked the door open. She held up the radar spray in one hand and the electric mosquito swatter in the other, and shouted, "Mom is here to save you, Xiaozhen!!"
At this time, Xiaozhen's room was clean and there were no insects.
"Hey? Where's the mosquito?"
"What mosquitoes?" Xiao Zhen said innocently, "There are no mosquitoes at all."
"I clearly saw a lot of big mosquitoes just now..." An Yuan murmured. She looked around, but there were no insects in the room.
"You must be dazzled."
"But I really saw a lot of mosquitoes..."
The dazzle did not completely convince An Yuan. On that day, An Yuan, who was still frightened, and Aunt Li placed more than ten electric mosquito coils upstairs and downstairs in the house, and sprayed a lethal amount of mosquito spray, causing the smell of insecticide to permeate Yan's house for a whole week.
This made the three Heart Eaters' quality of life extremely bad this week, so they decided to install a detector at the door and call the police as soon as An Yuan came.
1,000 mosquito-seeking robots were dropped into the sewer.
The light spots on the surveillance screen showed their location. They were exploring and analyzing the city's underground sewers, extracting the solution containing Cui Mingzhi's family and Pu Pu, then returning to Xiao Zhen's residence to precipitate the liquid, and then returning to the sewers to continue their work.
According to Captain Ban's estimation, it would take about 1,000 mosquito search machines working continuously for more than 30 days and nights to retrieve Cui Mingzhi's family and Pu Pu.
The work of the mosquito-hunting machine has yielded initial results. After three days, these hardworking mosquitoes have extracted and recovered nearly 400 milliliters of Cui Mingzhi's family and Pu Pu mixed solution. However, eight mosquito-hunting machines have been killed so far.
Among them, four were killed by Aunt Li on their way back to Yan's house, one was killed by a stray cat on the roadside, two were killed by An Yuan's electric mosquito swatter, and one was missing for unknown reasons.
Xiaozhen replanned a round trip route for the mosquito-hunting aircraft to avoid physical attacks from her family. However, on the fourth day, five more mosquito-hunting aircraft were killed. According to the information they sent back, three of them were killed by rats.
Rats and cats are a real problem.
Xiao Zhen activated the defense function of the mosquito seeker for this purpose. The micro laser cannon originally configured on the prototype had deteriorated to the point where it had lost its original artillery power after repeated replication, and was downgraded to the point where if it hit human skin, it would only cause a stinging sensation like an electric shock.
Although it is of little use to humans, it should be able to be used to repel rats, cockroaches, water snakes and wild cats.
The day after the defense function was activated, three more Mosquito-seekers disappeared. Just like the previous Mosquito-seekers that disappeared for unknown reasons, they did not send any information back, as if their information was suddenly cut off and they disappeared on the spot.
After that, mosquito-seeking planes started disappearing every day. At first, only four or five of them, then dozens or even tens , all for the same reason.
【Target WT-JD-8975】
[Information link: Autonomous exploration machine ART-562]
[Authorization in progress]
【Authorization passed】
[Unable to find ART-562]
【Link interrupted】
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Captain Madara asked Xiao Zhen: "How much did you lose today?"
"47." Xiao Zhen frowned and said, "Another 47 search planes are missing."
"Could it be the result of degraded replication?"
Xiao Zhen shook his head. "Even if they have deteriorated multiple times, their service life is enough to last for half a year. It is impossible for such a large number of them to be damaged collectively." He stared at the screen. "This does not look like an accident."
That night he pondered for a long time looking at the city's sewer layout map, rearranged his route, and organized the remaining 753 mosquito seekers into 10 teams to explore different areas.
In the days that followed, he recorded the number of returning mosquito explorers and the exploration area of each team every day.
A few days later, Xiaozhen only had 198 mosquito detectors left. As mosquito detectors kept disappearing, the recovery of tissue fluid from Cui Mingzhi's family and Pu Pu became extremely slow, and now only more than 800 milliliters of liquid have been recovered.
The chicken said, "Your mosquitoes are about to be wiped out."
Xiao Zhen didn't say anything. He lowered his head and drew a circle on the sewer layout with a pen.
"This area." Xiao Zhen said softly, "Someone is stealing my probe."
