Chapter 1587： The Dragon from Home

At this moment, the ancient mechanical mind experienced a moment of data ups and downs. The familiar voice seemed to awaken some fragmented memories in the deepest part of the Omega database. The humming sound in the server hall became a little low at first, but soon Then he returned to normal, and he greeted the voice: "I didn't expect to hear your voice again, Enya... ma'am."

"I didn't expect that when you left, my consciousness hadn't even recovered," Enya said with a smile in the communication, "and when you paid attention to your hometown again, I was no longer active in the eyes of the world."

Omega was silent for a few seconds and asked, "So, are you free now?"

"Yes, I'm fine now, thanks to you," Enya said slowly, "what about you? How's your day going?"

Omega retrieved his execution endpoints, he saw a wyrmling explorer running quickly across the plains and hills, magnificent and strange crystalline minerals protruding from the surface, pointing to the stars, he saw a space shuttle The aircraft was returning to the atmosphere, it crossed the dividing line between day and night, and was about to pounce on the forward base on the other side of the planet. The orange-yellow sun was rising on the horizon, and the sunlight cast a radiant shadow on the outer shell of the shuttle. One thousand and two hundred kilometers away, a mining truck is driving a huge drill bit into the ground, searching for a wonderful heat source reaction, and next to the mining truck, the beacon generator installed last year is slowly under the starlight. Turning, passing him the response of "Everything is fine here".

"I'm fine here," Omega said happily, he liked this "happy" mood, "this is a very different planet from home, and during the day, 'O' occupies only a small part of the sky. , but its brilliance is extremely bright, and at night, nearly one-third of the planet's atmosphere will emit a glow due to active energy reactions, and most areas here have a large temperature difference between day and night. All barely survived, but near the poles I found narrow temperate zones, although there was no life there either.

"I originally landed near the equator, but now I moved to the north and built a nest here. There are rich mineral resources nearby, and the magic power in the atmosphere is roughly the same as that of my hometown. It is a comfortable place to live, although my hometown is Most of the creatures over there shouldn't be able to survive here, but it's not a problem for me and my mechanical creatures."

"...It sounds like an incredible adventure. Living on another planet, even I want to try it a little bit," Enya's voice seemed to have a hint of a smile, then she paused and said again , "I have nothing to do, I just want to ask about your current situation. Heragor and the others should also find a chance to contact you. You left suddenly, and many people are guessing where you went."

"On an astronomical scale, I'm just a young dragon that just flew to the door of my house, lying on the rock pile in front of the nest and probing out," Omega said seriously, "and those who stay in their hometown will soon come out At this step, I realized that the real 'scale' of this world is in this small celestial body system ruled by 'O'. We are not very far away. Outside the gravitational circle of stars, is the truly vast and deep starry sky. "

"Will you explore beyond the gravitational circle of stars in the future?"

"Yes, but it's a long-term goal," Omega said cheerfully about his long-term plans, "I don't currently have the ability to build engines that are good enough for intergalactic missions, nor can the technology recovered from the Legacy of the Voyagers. Direct application, and if you want to step outside the gravitational circle of stars, you must prepare well. I want to gain a firm foothold on this planet first, collect more resources, build larger factories, and develop higher technology, accumulate more space flight experience, and when the time is right, I will first launch a batch of probes, and then go to the next step when I find a suitable springboard..."

"Great travel plan," Enya sighed softly, "so, then what?"

"Then, explore more distant planets and look for more incredible astronomical phenomena," Omega said, with a slight hesitation, "I think... such a vast universe should be enough for me to explore for a long, long time."

"Sounds good," Enya said with a smile. "I wish I could witness your quest, it should be very interesting."

Listening to Enya's words, Omega immediately said: "If you really want to, I can arrange for you after the tide..."

"No, Omega, don't pay too much attention to what I say, it's just a whim, and you've chosen a path that suits you, you have life forms and development directions that are completely different from carbon-based creatures, and naturally you don't have to To provide 'service' to anyone," Enya's voice was soft, as Omega remembered, "Of course, if you are lonely and looking for a travel companion, there should still be many people in your hometown who are willing to be with you. Traveling together or maybe you can find something else to do? After all, pure exploration is a bit monotonous.”

Omega's server array was buzzing, and there seemed to be some small ups and downs in his thought thread: "I... don't quite understand what you said, at this stage, the only goal I can think of is to get ready to go. Visit the stars, but I'll try, try what you call 'something else'."

Having said this, he stopped abruptly and added after a brief thought: "Of course, during this process, I also need to perform a dormancy that lasts for about a year to avoid the influence of the magic tide, although I am not sure how it will affect me. How big the impact is, but like a saying that humans like to say: it’s always good to be cautious.”

"Are you ready to resist the tide?"

"Yes, I have set up the sleep and wake-up procedures, and arranged a group of drones with basic logic intelligence to serve as guards during the sleep period, and I have also strengthened my lair to prevent the server array during the sleep period. Destroyed by geological disasters At this point, I feel that I am much luckier than people in my hometown. I can stop thinking like a machine, just make sure the hardware is safe to survive the magic tide, carbon-based creatures are difficult to withstand the soul. Awakened again after a death-level hibernation..."

Listening to Omega's words, Enya laughed: "This is indeed an enviable 'talent'."

After that, Omega and Enya talked a lot about life in her hometown, about exploring in the starry sky, and a lot of plans for the future, until the night became darker and midnight approached, this special "Interstellar communication" is finally over.

The surrounding golden light gradually receded from Gawain's side, the golden dome floating in the air took a half step back, Enya withdrew her will, and shook her body slightly to Gawain: "I'm sorry it took so long. Accidentally chatted a lot."

"Don't worry about it," Gawain waved his hand indifferently, "Knowing Omega's wonderful exploration experience on another planet is also a very meaningful thing to me. Many of the things he mentioned are very important to us. It is an important reference for the future development of the aerospace industry."

"That's good," came a gentle laughter from inside the golden dome. "You now have the energy and confidence to plan these future things, which is exactly what you are good at."

"But it seems that you are better at planning the long-term future than I am," Gawain shook his head, and then showed a thoughtful expression, "Are you finally... deliberately guiding Omega? What are you worried about? "

"Maybe it's just over-worry, but a free intelligence like Omega that's 'transformed' from a basic service intelligence, without guidance, no one knows what it will look like. After all, there was nothing in his original design.' The element of heart, and when he left this planet, the only free part of his mind was 'curiosity', and pure curiosity was far from enough for him to understand what 'humanity' was. "

Enya said slowly, the golden glow on the surface of the eggshell softly undulating.

"He is now a very powerful being, a 'super life' of engines, weapons and steel megastructures that can even be regarded as a mechanical empire that operates with extreme efficiency, but at the same time , the mind of this mechanical empire is far from mature, and his basic goals at this stage are only one: devour resources, strengthen himself, and find the next planet. Although he thinks this is 'exploration', in fact... I think it will be an endless process of spreading.

"If this ever-spreading tendency is not directed at its source, I am concerned that he will eventually miss the opportunity to 'mature' and never understand the complex emotions his creators had, which is not good."

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "So do you think your guidance will have an impact on him?"

"Who knows? As I said just now, this may just be excessive worry. In essence, Omega is actually just a child trying to understand the world, and he clearly cares about his hometown and the planet under our feet. And the races living on this planet have deep feelings, he may not need my guidance and he will gradually mature on his own," Enya said calmly, "but I think... with a child who is away from home It’s not a bad thing to talk more about your heart.”

Gawain laughed, but just as he was about to say something, footsteps suddenly appeared at the door of the terrace, and then Betty pushed the door and appeared in front of him. The maid rubbed her eyes and glanced around the terrace, watching After arriving at Enya, he suddenly became more energetic: "Ah! Ms. Enya! You really are here. I mean, why can't I find you everywhere? The guard also said that you floated away to the terrace."

Enya was stunned, and then there was a bit of embarrassment in her tone: "I just came out to have a hair..."

But Betty didn't wait for the other party to finish and interrupted her with a very firm tone: "That's not good, it's too late, you haven't hatched yet, sleeping too late is not good for the eggshell, and if you don't rest well, you will be even worse. Can't hatch..."

As soon as she finished speaking, she turned around and bowed vigorously to Gao Wen: "Your Majesty, I'll take Ms. Enya back to her room to sleep! You also need to rest early!"

Then the royal chief maid ignored the protests from the golden dome, pushed Enya directly and rolled back to the corridor. Gawain didn't react until this time, turning his head to look with a strange expression on his face. Glancing at Amber: "...Where did Betty learn this weird knowledge? When did she know how dragon eggs hatch?"

"You ask me who I asked, maybe Pittman taught it?" Amber spread his hands and said carelessly, while Gawain seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly ran to the door leading to the corridor again, facing Eun who was pushing him. Betty, who was rolling into the room, shouted from a distance: "Betty! Push slowly! Don't roll too fast and become yellow!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Enya's annoyed voice coming from a distance: "You guys can't finish it! You can't get past this point, right!"

Gawain immediately felt in a good mood.

At the same time, on the rocky planet far away from Loren and illuminated by the radiance of "O", Omega, who had ended the communication, was quietly thinking about something.

The server array hummed sweetly in the hall, and countless remote execution nodes were faithfully executing various orders issued by the Omega program, exploring, mining, smelting, researching and developing, producing, and testing. In the factories, fortresses, and laboratories that were roaring, his long-term and meaningful plans were being executed in an orderly manner, like precisely meshing gears, together pushing a huge machine to the next planned node.

This is what it has been doing since it landed on this planet a few years ago, and it is the only thing it is doing .

But suddenly, he had some doubts about this simple exploration from one place to another.

After pondering for a long time, he discovered the source of these "abnormal data": the communication with his hometown, his memories of his hometown, and the nostalgia and warmth in his mind after hearing the familiar voice again.

"...loneliness, another trait related to 'heart' after 'curiosity'," Omega's thought thread suddenly appeared in such a thought, he did not close the sudden extra thread, but left it on the server It runs quietly in the array, and deduces downwards, "Pure and repetitive exploration activities are of low significance, pure expansion is still mechanical labor in nature, the meaning of travel lies in the process of travel, and the travel plan formulated at this stage...except" Exploring' is not meaningful enough outside of this stated goal.

"Perhaps... something more meaningful should be considered, as an embellishment in the travel process to offset the impact of 'loneliness'. This may also help maintain the most basic connection with the hometown and avoid being too heterogeneous by itself I can't communicate with them anymore..."

Data surged briskly among the server arrays, and hundreds of millions of mimetic neurons processed all the sudden ideas and plans with extremely high efficiency. There were sudden bursts of low vibrations in some areas, some spare components were taken out from the warehouse, the huge assembly array began to start the new operation process, and the originally sealed biomass storage tanks also came from the depths of the base. It was transported out and it stored the biological samples that Omega took away from his hometown. After arriving on this planet, these biological samples could only be frozen in storage tanks because they could not adapt to the environment, but now, Omega Suddenly wanted to do something... interesting with them.

At the same time as the underground production facilities and experimental facilities began to operate, a passage was also opened in the shuttle hangar on the upper level of Omega's lair, and a new high-speed exploration aircraft was ejected from the passage, disappearing into the aurora curtain in the blink of an eye. The mid-air vehicle flew straight north, toward the milder climate, and the data it collected from there might be useful.

The planet is not suitable for life, at least for the species from the homeland, most of which will die quickly in the planet's deadly radioactive atmosphere, temperature difference between day and night, and toxic environment.

But Omega has realized that occupying a deserted stone planet alone doesn't seem so interesting, at least... He suddenly wants to see something here other than stones and his own aircraft group.