Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

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"Sister Bai." Sif lifted her small head, her eyes full of curiosity, "Can you tell me more about what happened between you and Mama Hong back then?"

"Okay."

She waved with a smile, motioning for Sif to sit beside her so that she could show some of her treasured photos on the tablet.

"Well, is this what Sister Bai looked like when you were a child?" Sif looked at the current Bai, and then at the picture, "It feels like it hasn't changed much."

"That's right." Bai patted his tail, "After all, I have undergone growth arrest surgery - I am in my 50s at the time of the photo, and it is more than ten years away from the time of the surgery, so it is normal that there is not much change. "

"Oh, I see."

Sif nodded thoughtfully.

It seems that Mama Hong really doesn't hide her cub-controlling tendencies at all.

The advantage is mine!

"So, if you plan to develop a relationship with Hong, you can actually start preparations at this age." Bai Leng added abruptly, "Although in our identities, it is very easy to chase after adults, but It would be better to prepare earlier.”

"Huh?!" Sif was taken aback.

"Sister Bai, what are you talking about, Sif doesn't have this yet..."

In this regard, Bai just gave him a kind look.

Ever since Hong realized her mistake and stopped digging into the dead end, and the establishment of Maodu allowed them to reintegrate into society and start to have normal interpersonal relationships, the psychological problems of Bai and the other cubs have been resolved, and they will not Think about what you want to write every day like before.

However, the keen "sense of smell" that she has developed in the past time will not disappear - as soon as she sees Xier's cubs like this, she knows that another cub is attracted by that stupid cat up.

According to her experience, once a cub is attracted by Hong and starts to be interested in the relationship between couples, it is only a matter of time before the follow-up development.

In this regard, she is very experienced.

"Hey hey."

Seeing Bai's kind gaze, Sif, who knew that she hadn't hidden it at all, gave up trying to cover it up.

After all, the reason why she came here specifically to find Sister Bai was to learn about her sister's experience in attacking Hong?

As her "idol", she feels that it is necessary for her to learn from him.

Although Xi'er's mother obviously doesn't care about this kind of behavior that seems to be poaching her corner, and even quite likes it, she has made many insinuations to see if she is also attracted by Hong, and plans to share some experiences with her cubs.

But as a mother's cub, she still feels shy about finding her mother to learn how to attack her mother. Very good candidate.

"Hey, another cub who fell in love with her."

Bai shook his head, but there was a smile on his face - after all, due to the special nature of Hong, they didn't need to worry about issues such as favoritism at all, but because "everyone likes Hong, then we are not in the same group." Is it?" This kind of reason became a little more intimate.

"Tell me, what does Sif want to know?" Bai gently circled the table with her fingers, "I didn't go to see your mother, but came here to find me. There must be some people who want to ask, but Are you embarrassed to tell them things?"

"Ah."

Sif nodded, acknowledging Bai's statement.

"Actually...it's nothing special." Sif fumbled in her bag a few times and took out a small notebook, "I just want to know how Sister Bai chased Mama Hong back then, and learn more about Mama Hong's relationship The...um...features?"

"Understood, you want to know her weakness and xp, so it's convenient to prescribe the right medicine?"

Bai suddenly realized.

"Well..."

Sif blushed slightly, but she didn't really want to refute - after all, she seemed to really think so in her heart.

"Sif, if you want to say this, then you have to say that you have found the right person." Bai smiled and licked the cat boy's ears twice, "Your elder sister Bai did a lot of research in this area... Come on , I don’t need any small books, here are the documents that Sister Bai has sorted out, and I’ll just pass them on to you.”

"Oh? Thank you, Sister Bai!"

Sif happily saved the file, and was going to go back and study it carefully.

Red knew nothing about this.

Although Hong is a powerful mechanical intelligence, in theory, what the cubs discuss can't escape her eyes and ears, but in fact, as long as the cubs express that they want to discuss some topics that they don't want her to hear , Hong will choose to actively avoid, and will not try to eavesdrop.

After all, life, if you are too omniscient, you will lose a lot of fun.

Within the controllable range, keeping some surprises for your daily life is the way to make her and everyone feel happier and more comfortable.

Therefore, Hong only knows that her own Sif has traveled all the way to find Bai to talk about some "topics that she doesn't want her to hear"-generally, she defaults to such topics as being related to feelings.

But she didn't know exactly what was discussed and what aspects were involved.

"Whoo~"

Standing on the commanding heights of the city, overlooking the majestic and magnificent city below, which almost dispelled the night, Hong let out a long breath, feeling very happy.

When she first took over the Jeffrey Federation, the uneasiness that she worried that she would not be able to bear this heavy responsibility has long since disappeared. Neither the people of the Cat League nor Hong herself doubted her ability to govern in the slightest.

Everyone believes that she will be able to lead the entire Cat League to move forward and move towards a better future.

At the beginning of the fourth 25-year plan, after many rounds of discussions, feasibility studies and even actual tests, Hong finally decided on a major event.

She is going to try to build a space elevator on an uninhabitable industrial planet.

As soon as this decision was made, it immediately aroused a lot of discussions in the Cat League and even the entire interstellar society-after all, although all civilizations have tried space elevators more or less before, like humans on Mars so far There is also the Anti-Extinction War Victory Monument based on the remains of the pedestal of the space elevator project.

However, after many attempts, all civilizations believe that although the material requirements of the space elevator have basically met the standards, but due to the difficulty of engineering and high cost, there is still a big gap from the actual application. He chose to give up the space elevator attempt and continue to use the more mature space skyhook technology instead.

It's not bad, it's just that the time has not come.

They all feel that way.

But when the news that the cat alliance is preparing to build a space elevator comes out, it can be seen with the naked eye that all civilizations have begun to set up their own space elevator project teams at an unimaginable speed, and began to rediscuss the feasibility of building a space elevator for this civilization. At the same time, closely track the progress of the Maomeng project, trying to learn something from it.

If other civilizations announce the construction of a space elevator, they will most likely not take any action. At most, they will pay attention to see if the other party has any new discoveries in the process of trying. In their view, such an attempt is almost destined to be a failure. Failure.

It's just a stunned young man who has never suffered a loss. At most, he should pay attention to it out of serious consideration. Unless he really sees a space elevator that is more than half completed and can be basically confirmed to be built, otherwise they cannot waste a huge amount of manpower and material resources. , Bet on the GDP of civilization for several years to start another space elevator project that is very likely to fail.

But if the declared civilization is the Cat League, the situation is quite different.

Do cats think it's okay?

Space elevator, get me up!

Of course, the reality is definitely not such a joke. Even if you trust the Cat League, you still have to think about it when you really want to spend your own money-not to mention that the Cat League can do it, it doesn’t mean they can do it. observe.

However, it is always right to set up the project team first and start allocating funds for research.

After all, the Cat League is the "weather vane" in today's interstellar society.

It is the beacon that guides the way of all civilizations.

A real, lighthouse.

Volume 239 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter [-] The Star Cat's Tail

Time flies, 20 years have passed amidst the soft purring of the kitten on the lap and the roar of the interstellar complex industrial body.

The space elevator project running above the planet Arcana-3 is nearing completion, although it has encountered several unexpected difficulties in the process, and various complicated problems continue to appear, trying to hinder the realization of this super project .

However, with the joint efforts of all the scientists of the Cat League and Hong, whenever other civilizations reach a consensus that "although the Cat League is indeed very strong, the difficulty of the space elevator is beyond the scope of existing technology, and they are not wronged to lose" , Maomeng will always tell them with facts——

Maybe the project will indeed fail, but definitely not today.

Those seemingly incomprehensible obstacles were defeated one after another. The solution to each problem was the sincere cooperation of countless scientific and technological fields behind it. It is no exaggeration to say that this seems to be a "logistics building" serving the transportation of heaven and earth. "In fact, it has brought cats an outstanding progress comparable to the era of the first interstellar development.

Due to the particularity of scientific research, unlike the industrial and administrative fields that have completed full alliances early, the scientific research field has not been able to achieve perfect compatibility with Hong over the years.

This is not because the old scientists were unwilling to do so, but because of purely realistic factors. Even if they hoped for it in their hearts, they could not completely change their scientific research concept that had been formed since the old federal era in a short period of time—the solution It's very simple, either wait, use time to slowly dry the old traces like in the administrative field, or, train new scientists from those cubs who are still in school, so as to be born "from the beginning to be able to do their best" "Strike" New Age Scientist.

The choice of red is everything.

Hard work pays off. With a solid foundation, strong demand, and the unremitting efforts of all scientific researchers, the scientific research soil accumulated by Maomeng for so many years has finally completed the most critical step and began to change towards the direction of blossoming and bearing fruit.

With the outstanding development of biotechnology and the overall optimization of the college and management system, whether it is the old scientists who have been immersed in the field of scientific research for many years in the old federal era, or the new era scientists who have followed Hong's education since childhood , have been fully integrated into the scientific research system of Maomeng, and have become more and more fond of Maomeng's model of "you just do research vigorously, and I will take care of the rest".

In this mode, if a scientific research project cannot get enough quota, it may only be due to factors in the purely scientific field, such as the research itself is very unfeasible, and the front-end technology is too different. Obviously, it is necessary to temporarily drop this project and go back to tackle the front-end technology. etc., rather than for reasons other than science, such as interference at the administrative level, political struggles, etc.

To put it bluntly, what Hong has done over the years is to completely eliminate political interference and the problem of school bosses - the former has been established in the Cat League for about 30 years, but was destroyed by the strong AI management system of the Cat League, while the latter waited for about 70 years Today, it was completely wiped out under the continuous influx of new generations of scientists.

When all scientific projects in the scientific research field follow Hong's professional management, and at the same time, the new generation as the "scientific research foundation" are all cultivated by Hong himself. The academic ability is comparable to that of the old predecessors, and at the same time, they are very open-minded and very good at accepting new ideas. as a young scientist.

The style of schoolboy who has been struggling for decades has finally come to an end here.

At present, there is only the last 3 meters left of the Arcana-1000 planetary space elevator from its ground base. The giant base built at one end of the ground and with a depth of nearly one kilometer has been completed, and it is surrounded by a height of 2.5 The [-]-kilometer synchronous orbit and the giant space city with a core volume of about two cubic kilometers have already been waiting for a long time. After the cable is completely connected to the ground end, the final process can begin, adjusting the entire elevator. to a working condition.

Since the space elevator project adopts the "tension scheme", that is, the cable hanging from the track instead of the tower rising from the ground, the whole project actually looks very similar to the construction process of the space skyhook. Build an engineering platform at the predetermined center of mass point on the track, and then expand both sides of the cable and auxiliary structure synchronously to ensure that the center of mass of the entire project is always on the predetermined center of mass orbit.

It's just that most space skyhooks are only a few thousand kilometers long, and the longest Catus skyhook is only just over [-] kilometers away. It was built with the help of the low-orbit satellite Kaweiyi.

The space elevator has a full 2.5 kilometers.

The increase in difficulty brought about by the increase in distance is not linear. The difficulty of a 2.5-kilometer space elevator is by no means 1 times that of a 2.5-kilometer skyhook, but at least dozens or hundreds of times. In comparison—for example, the ground base, the counterweight outside the synchronous orbit, etc., are not critical or even appear in the space skyhook, but they account for a large part of the space elevator.

This is also one of the reasons why other civilizations believe that the current technology cannot handle the space elevator, even if it is a non-habitable planet like Hughes-4 with a small mass, an extremely thin atmosphere, and a synchronous orbit as low as 2.5 kilometers , this kind of space elevator is equivalent to a novice village, and its difficulty is also hundreds of times more difficult than the most difficult space skyhook project.

But when the Tower of Babel, which reaches the sky, really appeared in front of them, and there was only one kilometer left before its completion, they had to express their heartfelt sighs once again——

"It's a cat! Oh, I'm dead."

A reporter from the People's Autonomy Federation leaned in front of the glass curtain, as if stars were constantly popping out of his eyes, and said to the helpless photographer beside him.

After all, it is indeed difficult for normal people to hold back any serious expression when facing this "space elevator base" that looks like a giant cat head covering an area of ​​​​square kilometers.

Although in the cat alliance's official normal space building naming rules, this space elevator located on the 3rd of the Akana galaxy, the parent galaxy of the Jeffrey Federation, should be called "Arkana-3" as it should be. "Planet-1 Space Elevator", but obviously, the public will not just give such a famous and epoch-making giant project a simple code name to perfunctory.

Just like every similar incident in the past, as early as the end of the first phase of the space elevator project, there have been many votes on the name of the elevator on the Cat League network, ranging from serious to unscrupulous, and even Even "Red Meow Meow's Tower of Babel" once made it to the top of the list, but after more than ten years of projects, most of the names that are obviously not just for fun are relatively good. Seriously.

Except for the "Red Meow's Tower of Babel" - Red doesn't know how much they are obsessed with this color stalk, but they have been able to persevere from more than ten years of engineering construction and overcome obstacles among countless competitors. Stand out from thousands of nominations, all the way to No.2 in the voting list.

Fortunately, this name is not comparable to the number one "Star Cat's Tail" - although this name is not a very serious type, but compared to No.2, this name can at least be said, already It is a great progress.

"According to my understanding, on the side of the Cat League, 'Star Cat's Tail' is actually a name in the drama 'Galaxy Star Cat Story' that has been very popular in recent years." The young reporter raised a stick Index finger, talking eloquently, "In that drama, the star cat is a strange creature that travels in the starry sky, and likes to see all kinds of magical creatures and scenery around the universe - and the star cat's tail, It is the token of good luck and blessings in that drama, once grasped.”

"Use the popular cultural symbol in the drama as the name of a giant project that is enough to leave a strong note in the history books..." The photographer's face twitched, "I can only say...it's really It fits the character of the cat allies."

"By the way, the other heroine in that drama, that is, um... the heroine who was picked up by the heroine I just mentioned, is a star cat.

"Also, when she confessed to Xingmao, the famous scene where Xingmao agreed to her confession was to stick out her tail and let the heroine hold her firmly—do you understand what I mean?"

The reporter, who seemed to be familiar with the two-dimensional culture of the Cat League, suggested.

"It's very... Cat League."

He thought about it for a long time, and in the end he could only spit out such an evaluation - after all, no matter how you think about it, it is impossible for this kind of thing to happen to them.

Although the People's Autonomy Federation also has a similar crimson, but their feelings for the crimson are basically pure admiration, and they all regard her as a great ruler, not like the Cat League, which often mixes it up Weird stuff.

"By the way, I heard that there is already an intention to restart the space elevator project on Mars?" He changed the subject, "Your news is better, do you have any definite news?"

"There is such a thing. Although the construction of the main body is still early, the relevant front-end technology is already in full swing." The reporter with a very complicated background yawned, "But to be honest, Mars is indeed stable this time. A lot, they didn’t act recklessly regardless of the actual situation like last time—it seems that the lessons from the last failure are still useful.”

"really."

Looking at the real-time live broadcast of the laying of the elevator cables on the side screen, the photographer also yawned slightly: "There are at least 100 hours before the last 18 meters, let's go back and catch up on sleep—don't wait until then." If the live broadcast goes wrong, it will really go down in the history books along with the space elevator."

"Okay, then let Lao Li and Lao Zheng come down to take over, I'll go back first..."

Just when the reporter was about to hand over the matter and go back to fish, the vibration of the mobile phone interrupted her.

"Important news?"

She took out her mobile phone, looked at the words on the screen, her eyes widened slightly, and then quickly clicked on the message to check it.

"What happened?" After she read through the whole message, the photographer asked, "Is there any important news from the headquarters?"

"Look for yourself." The reporter handed over the phone, "It's not confidential."

"Oh well."

He took the phone, and casually crossed out the gothic lolita costume who was doing 'yeah' on the lock screen, and then saw the important news sent by the headquarters using the expensive FTL communication that is billed in bytes .

"An unknown civilization ship appeared in the sky above the earth?!"

He tried his best to suppress the surprise in his voice, and asked very quietly: "Doesn't this mean..."

"Yes."

The reporter lady nodded heavily.

"The new alien civilization—

"It's already here."