doomsday exile

"how do you feel?"

Yuan Zhongxia sat next to the decompression chamber, holding a lunch box in his hand, asking questions while eating.

Zhu Zhu sighed inside, very melancholy.

This decompression chamber looks like a large silver tank, and people lying in it can hear the sound outside.

If they work in the sea normally, according to the manual, if they ascend and descend slowly, they will not need this thing.

Although the facilities in the diving chamber are very good, and Yao Ping and Zhu Zhu put on protective helmets, an emergency ascent of more than 300 meters in a short period of time will still have a serious impact on the body, so they were helped into the diving chamber as soon as they left the diving chamber. ballast.

"The doctor on the team said to lie down for three hours."

Zhu Zhu felt like a fish. When he was caught, he immediately made canned fish and displayed it on the deck.

"Fortunately, I was not claustrophobic by this accident, and I am more courageous." Zhu Zhu couldn't help complaining.

Otherwise, even if there is a small transparent area in front of you and you can see the outside, it will affect your mental health, okay?

"……sorry."

Lu Di scratched his head and said awkwardly.

In any case, it was he and Yan Long who suggested that Zhu Zhu follow. Although the role of "insurance" had taken effect, Zhu Zhu was really frightened.

Zhu Zhu shook his head nonchalantly: "It's okay, it's all about performing tasks. The more experience I have, the stronger my bragging capital will be."

"You're just bragging in front of us. The missions are kept confidential. There is no shop after this village. Where are you going to show off?" Yuan Zhongxia laughed, stretched out his hand to pat the outer wall of the decompression chamber, serious Said: "Today you guys scared the hell out of everybody."

"I don't want to either! Isn't it bad luck?"

Zhu Zhu wailed.

Lu Di rubbed his chin. Zhu Zhu looked calmer than Yao Ping in the deep-sea diving cabin, with a posture of being able to take on big things, but as soon as he landed, he started crying and howling. It didn't fit Zhu Zhu's usual personality. It should be venting his emotions. .

Yuan Zhongxia obviously knew this too, otherwise he wouldn't have been talking with him all the time.

"Take a break, the decompression chamber was damaged by the shock, and your salary is not enough to pay for it." Yuan Zhongxia continued to eat dinner.

The lunch box has mushrooms, bean sprouts, marinated olives, and fried potatoes with sliced ​​meat.

This is what I ate on board these days.

Lu Di originally thought that he would eat fish and seafood all day long at sea, but later he learned that fishing is not allowed in some sea areas without permission.

Even though it is a warship, it can still grow vegetables—bean sprouts and mushrooms can be grown in a certain cabin.

This time the warship was in charge of the logistics, and it had already supplied a round of supplies before picking them up, so the dishes were pretty good, and there was no shortage of fruits.

"Don't touch my fruit."

Zhu Zhu protested in the decompression chamber, "Yan Long told me that you took the missing part from my share yesterday."

Yuan Zhongxia turned to stare at the laptop.

The laptop is completely unaffected and continues to work.

"Speaking of which, Lu Di, do you have something you like to eat?" Zhu Zhu had a whim.

Lu Di paused, many kinds of food appeared in his mind, all of which he had "eaten" before, but Lu Di had very little impression of them.

It is not as attractive as sand sculpture videos and soap operas.

"It's average, nothing special. The most common food is the pancakes and fruits downstairs in the community. The prices of fruits in Shangdu are good, and we can afford them." Lu Di recalled, and found that he was really not Chinese in this regard.

"As expected of a spiritual life body, I don't even have any interest in food. Go back and tell Professor Xia." Zhu Zhu said to himself.

Yuan Zhongxia couldn't help looking at Yan Long: "Last time, you seemed to have eaten a bowl of tofu nao downstairs in Little Lu's house."

"I'm a little curious to hear you arguing about eating sweet and salty tofu."

Yan Long said sternly.

When he said this, everyone became interested.

"What about the conclusion?"

Maybe the academic speech of biological AI can end the sweet and salty war?

"I don't know. I ate it according to the taste that the team members liked that day, which made me feel good. Changing to Chen Yan another day, the taste was completely different, but the emotional feedback was the same."

Yan Long said that either he is a heretic who loves both sweet and salty, or these emotions belong to the owner of the body and have nothing to do with him.

"Okay, two guys who can't enjoy food." Zhu Zhu said regretfully.

"There are so many beautiful things in the world, not just food."

Lu Di watched the sunset from the side, and Xianyu returned to his lazy daily state of mind.

He didn't appear, but just floated nearby. Some instruments could vaguely capture the energy particles here, forming a vague human form.

——But it is only displayed on the instrument, invisible to the human eye.

The members of the scientific expedition team are studying meteorites in the cabin.

The people on the warship also got the news that "AI is a state secret", so they deliberately ignored it.

What Yan Long meant was that Lu Di had "appeared" during the rescue anyway, so there was no need to hide it on purpose, and the time Lu Di could wander freely without the scanning glasses was only for one night, and the scientific expedition team would send meteorites tomorrow Go to the Medusa.

"I hope their analysis and research on the meteorite goes well." Lu Di looked at the sky, and the haze in the distance became more and more obvious.

The originally magnificent sunset glow and golden waves seem to be covered with a layer of gray.

"Is the volcanic eruption in the Philippines not over yet?"

"No." Yan Long replied.

A large amount of volcanic ash is entering the atmosphere, and they will reduce the average global temperature by several degrees in the next year or two.

For humans with warm clothes and warm houses, this does not seem to be such a dangerous disaster, but for many crops, the wrong temperature will cause them to fail to germinate and head smoothly, the growth cycle will increase, and the yield per mu will be greatly reduced.

Catching up with the end-time disaster is simply worse.

Lu Di looked up at the sky and asked casually, "What did you think when you first heard that the meteorite would hit the earth?"

"Well... Actually, I didn't think too much about it at the time."

Yan Long paused his work and said seriously, "At that time, the Earth Federation had been established for 15 years. In other words, scientists from all over the world had been fighting for the continuation of human civilization for 15 years. It has been produced. Take the spacecraft as an example. The technologies in the key areas of engine, fuel, and shell have been updated for three rounds, especially the oxygen circulation system and fresh water equipment, which can guarantee the basic living conditions during long-distance voyages. The energy driving these all comes from the stars. Light. The conversion and utilization of star light has always been put in the first place by the Earth Federation Academy of Sciences, and it has been continuously researched and promoted for a full 20 years... just to ensure that the spacecraft can continue to 'recharge' during the long voyage away from the sun."

In other words, the hardest problems have already been solved.

"Scientists from the Earth Federation and various countries have done their best, and what we have to do is to do our best."

"...is it all anyone has to do is overcome their fear and do what they can?"

Lu Di murmured.

The conversation between Yuan Zhongxia and Zhu Zhu next to him stopped at some point.

Everyone quietly looked at the hazy sunset.

Zhu Zhu raised his head and leaned against the transparent bulkhead. After looking at it for a while, he was so tired that he lay back down again.

"Yan Long, tell me about your plan?" Zhu Zhu returned to work and asked in a low voice, "You let everyone think that you and Xiao Lu are the same AI today. The one who makes the move."

"The deck is not a place to talk. Let's meet in Xiao Zhu's cabin at eight o'clock tonight."

***

The next day, just after dawn, someone knocked on the door.

Zhu Zhu didn't take off his clothes when he was sleeping, because he was more relaxed on his own country's warships, so he fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow, just like the last time he flew abroad by plane, he could snore as soon as he said it, he seemed a little wary nothing.

When it was time to perform the task, he seemed to be a different person, alert and sensitive, completely inconsistent with his appearance.

This moderate knock on the door lasted three times before Zhu Zhu woke up.

He walked quickly to the door, quickly.

Lu Di listened to him talking to the person at the door half asleep, then closed the door and started packing.

"So early?"

Lu Di knew the approximate time without going out.

This is a discovery after floating in the sea for three days. The time can be roughly judged by the change of the sound of the tide and the visualization of the heat and temperature of the sea surface.

"The sun hasn't risen yet, so don't you mean to gather after eight o'clock?" Lu Di asked with half-closed eyes.

"The Medusa rushed over overnight, and they stayed in the sea area where we had an accident all night to conduct detection."

Zhu Zhu picked up the scanning glasses and put them in his bag.

"No, I won't sleep."

Hearing what Lu Di said, Zhu Zhu withdrew his hand and stuck the scanning glasses on his forehead, and went to look for Yuan Zhongxia with his luggage on his back.

Yuan Zhongxia moved faster than Zhu Zhu, and was already waiting for them beside the deck.

Yuan Zhongxia was still holding two buns in his hand, and when he saw Zhu Zhu, he passed one over.

"Eat quickly, you may not have time later."

"Where's Yan Long?"

Yuan Zhongxia gestured to the bag he was carrying with his eyes.

After yesterday's "Key Rescue of AI", everyone on board knew that the plain-looking laptop was a "state secret". Now, no matter who is holding the laptop, everyone can't help but watch it.

They didn't leak secrets on purpose, it's just that it's hard for ordinary people without professional training to control their subconscious habits.

Therefore, professional spies from various countries do not need to buy information at all. If they engage in inside information here and observe the Huaxia scientific research team a few times, they will find that Yuan Zhongxia and Zhu Zhu have unusual identities from these unusual signs.

"Eat it, a tough battle is waiting for us!" Yuan Zhongxia took out the cigarette as if nothing had happened, sniffed it, and put it back in his pocket.

There are several armed men behind him, who are the guards responsible for protecting the expedition team.

Five minutes later, members of the scientific expedition team stepped onto the deck one after another.

They looked much more decadent. Many of them stayed up all night, with unshaven beards and random clothes.

Whichever country salvages the meteorite first can seize the time gap for research. When they go to the Medusa, they don't need identification and analysis at all, and they don't need any technology. They can just report their own conclusions.

So time can't be wasted, this night must stay up.

The scientific research personnel held the specimen capsule containing the meteorite, which was half a meter in diameter.

Another small fragment was left on the warship and will not be taken with the Medusa.

The shadow of the Earth Federation scientific research ship has appeared on the sea in the distance, and the shape of the row of five TV towers is very recognizable.

The author has something to say: Lu Di: A real salted fish, unmoved by delicious food

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Voiceover: Yan Long created a simulated aurora!

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