Chapter 99 Combat Readiness Upgrade
The ivory-colored, streamlined airship shaped like a drop of water was parked on the Tianhan Technology apron. After scanning and identifying the system deviation value, the hatch was opened. Li Pan stretched and walked out of the hatch. Tianhan Technology The sales are so flattering that they come together.
"Can you please come in person, Manager Li."
"Oh, Ms. Lin, this is the first time we meet. Huh? Are you using a bionic body? What model?"
Now Li Pan couldn't help but ask when he saw someone. I asked about the model of the bionic body, but this representative of Tianhan is indeed quite rare. Her skin is like mercury, reflecting the metallic luster of the mirror. At first glance, she looks super high-end.
"Yes, this is a liquid alloy prosthesis developed by our company, the 'Mercury' series, which uses nanorobots to establish a magnetic confinement field to control the liquid alloy, and has a built-in custom mid-level communicator developed by HT and an exclusive satellite link channel. Currently, this model
only It can be produced on Earth 0 and Earth 1. If you are interested, our company can customize it for you. The price is 200 million, excluding import tax. "Guiguai... I can't afford it. I can't afford it...
Follow
Ms. Lin into Tianhan The technology building has a minimalist style along the way, with empty halls and occasional holographic projections of star battleships. After all, TSC Group, which specializes in selling ships, is not a grocery store where everyone can come in and browse. All are professionally arranged and introduced according to customer needs.
Ms. Lin also brought Li Pan to the exhibition hall and introduced to him,
“In fact, your company has been discussing with our group headquarters recently about a large order to purchase a communication satellite and establish a satellite defense system. Have you heard about it? "
Oh, are you doing an upgrade for Shiba?
Li Pan nodded, "The technical department is communicating first, I haven't received the purchase plan yet."
Ms. Lin also smiled, "Yes, because I happen to have your personal link, manager, I will take the liberty to make some introductions and Recommended, I wonder if you are interested."
Li Pan didn't care. Although he didn't have the right to make a decision on the equipment purchased by the technical department, he had the right to veto. After all, he had to sign. It doesn’t hurt to listen.
So Ms. Lin opened the star map and said,
"Considering launch and production costs, the current common satellite solution is to mainly transform existing asteroids and meteorites.
In view of the fact that most of the assets in the asteroid belt are used by Customs, Starfleet and Gao Tianyuan It has been requisitioned, and the cost of resale and reconstruction is slightly higher. Our company's suggestion is to purchase a methane ice asteroid in the Kuiper Belt for satellite transformation..." Li Pan also listened to Ms. Lin's speech and searched online using the intelligent
assistance system. material.
The Kuiper Belt, or KBO Belt, is an asteroid belt that extends from the orbit of Neptune (30 AU) to about 50 AU astronomical units from the sun. It is much larger than the 'main belt' between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and is about 20 times wider. It is mainly composed of small celestial bodies and residual materials from the beginning of the formation of the solar system, as well as various metal meteorites ores and combustible ice.
Although the current civilization of the heavens and the earth is based on the QVN quantum Internet of the heavens, the lunar wormholes and the hyperspace quantum accelerator with the parallel earth of the multiverse as the core navigation point.
However, technologies such as interstellar navigation and faster-than-light jumps are still being developed in the technology departments of various companies. What about warp jumps, gravity slingshot highways, solar sails, tachyon engines.
In fact, many space development companies and shipbuilding companies have mastered key technologies. However, the 'gate' technology for wormhole traversal is still the mainstream now, and trade in the planes of the heavens has formed an overwhelming cost advantage in scale, directly across the gate. The risk cost of developing a parallel earth is far lower than that of light-year deep space exploration and interstellar development.
Therefore, if it is not a specialized interstellar shipbuilding company, then the general group's vacuum development for this plane will stop at the solar system, or at most the edge of the KBO belt.
Taking plane 0791 as an example, Gao Tianyuan only focused on developing the main asteroid belt, the inner circle of the Earth, Moon, Mars, and Venus, and the celestial bodies on the periphery of the asteroid belt. As for Jupiter and the nearby space outside the asteroid belt, just They were all sold to space companies such as DAWN and TSC as a concession for space people in exchange for initial funding and technical support.
By the way, long before the development of the parallel universe, mankind's plan for developing the universe was to use Mars as the headquarters of the Star Fleet, and place customs and near-Earth defense systems in the asteroid belt to build the earth's first security defense system.
Celestial bodies other than Jupiter are provided to private space development companies as coordinate anchors for space stations, research institutes, deep space ports and colonial stars. Therefore, the star gates built by each company are now near the orbit of Jupiter.
Therefore, the planes that join the trade agreement between the heavens are generally planned in this way. In this way, after the starship crosses the door, the space star map and gravitational state on both sides of the door are like mirrors, so there is no need to additionally change the fleet's navigation settings and cause additional costs. .
Therefore, the earth belongs to the people on Earth, and Jupiter belongs to the people in the universe. This can be regarded as the traditional layout starting from the Earth Age 0.
By the way, the main vacuum base of Monsters Inc. is on Callisto.
The company's battle fleet is parked in the orbit and hangar of Callisto, and most of the company's war-ready monsters are also kept in Callisto's warehouse. Therefore, the company's intention is very clear. It is better for Shiba's upgraded central satellite to be closer to the base and easier to care for.
But to be honest, this arrangement gives Tianhan Group relatively little room to display.
Gao Tianyuan has participated in the trade agreement between the heavens for so many years. Although the earth has declined due to the war, the space people of Jupiter are the winners of the war.
Especially now that we are taking advantage of the 0791 development tax rebate policy, there are too many companies in the orbit of Jupiter. The wormhole star gate is on Jupiter, the cargo bay, the research institution, the OPA orbital factory, the PLANT colonial space station, the fleet ship port terminal, etc. Placed in the orbit of Jupiter.
If you want to throw another communication satellite up to orbit Callisto, you have to confirm the orbit and communication interference in the nearby space. The satellite cannot be too big, and the modification must be approved by the Security Bureau, which is quite troublesome.
That’s not to say that people in the universe don’t have the ability to build another space node on other celestial bodies, such as Saturn, but the key is cost considerations and economies of scale. After all, they have to clear customs in the asteroid belt and deliver goods to the Earth. It takes 4.2 astronomical units from Jupiter to the Earth. There are also full star maps, automatic navigation and orbital acceleration roads to follow. It’s 9.5 astronomical units from Saturn. The distance is doubled and there is no necessary infrastructure. Doesn’t this cost money?
Therefore, there is no need for communication satellites to compete with those logistics facilities for orbit. Tianhan’s suggestion is that with the current QVN communication technology and local infrastructure, the satellites only need to be within the KBO belt and not escape from the solar system. Wouldn’t it be great to save money on purchasing orbital rights and upgrade the bandwidth of equipment and facilities?
Li Pan also understood what the other party meant, so he just advised them to pay more. If you build a central satellite in KBO, will you also need to develop a defense system, do you need to do star field monitoring, and will you need to add a garrison fleet? Then won't orders be lined up?
TSC Tianhan Headquarters doesn't care. Anyway, it is a contract partner with Monster Company, and it doesn't just do business in one dimension. Customers can do whatever they want. But their Tianhan 0791 branch didn't have any other orders in Gaotianyuan, and no one even bought the shuttle. They obviously didn't want to miss this opportunity to make a lot of money, so they were particularly enthusiastic.
Li Pan didn't object, since it wasn't him spending the money anyway, and it could enhance the strength of the local company 0791, so why not do it.
However, it still depends on the company's financial intentions, so I agreed to help Ms. Lin forward Tianhan's planning proposal.
The information project on Tianhan's side was planned in a more detailed manner. The chat lasted for three or four hours before it was over. Li Pan looked at it and it was almost time to get off work.
There are still three gun buddies left: Emilia, Akiyama Masako, and Saito Keiko. Li Pan is too lazy to take the initiative to return to visit them. Anyway, he is either asking for money or Yang Yuan. Today, one million ammunition has been shot, or Let's wait and talk tomorrow...
After spending a fulfilling day like this, Li Pan subconsciously returned to the shabby apartment in the suburbs to sleep, um, practice.
In fact, Li Pan now has 200, um, more than 3.4 million in his personal account. It doesn't matter if he opens a room in any hotel, there is nothing he can't afford.
But how can I put it, so-called people will hope to open up a world that belongs only to themselves in a chaotic world, a small nest where they can curl up in peace and call it home. This is why a golden nest and a silver nest are not as good as my doghouse. The truth.
Chengzi is not here, and she has been at the North District factory recently, focusing on the renovations to prevent the Uzumaki Gang from emptying out everything.
Li Pan took a shower, lay down on the sofa, then closed and opened his eyes.
Oh, I have traveled through time.
Sigh... Occasionally, let me have a peaceful sleep...
Li Pan yawned, raised his hands to rub his face, and suddenly froze, and then he looked at his hands.
Unrecognized hands, this body is not Li Pan or Li Qingyun, it looks like black clay.
Li Pan slowly raised his head, and then felt as if his consciousness was floating.
His current experience is a bit like controlling a handkerchief to transform in someone else's dream. Although he has no 'eyes', he can 'see' the internal structure of the black clay figure and the external world from the third person.
First of all, this is not the earth. The ground is covered with Gobi-like rocky mineral veins, and the top of the head is a pitch-black vacuum with no atmosphere. It might be on a satellite somewhere, or maybe on a meteorite.
This body has no face, it is just a simple humanoid shape made of clay, like a shoddy handicraft made by an elementary school student. Apart from the simple outline of the face, there were no other external modifications, but strangely, Li Pan could clearly feel that the inside of the clay figure was hollow. And there is a 'chest', a 'lung', an 'inner scene', and a 'meridian'!
It was really a synthetic prosthetic body, but... it was obviously not something on the technological side...
Since there was a 'meridian' system, Li Pan tried to use the method of "Nine Yin Refining Forms" to start breathing.
Unexpectedly, the Nendoroid's chest actually rose and fell! In the vacuum of this universe, "qi" was actually breathed out!
And this 'qi', like electric current energy, activates the organs of the clay man, and the entire humanoid's internal organs, meridians, skin, and pores all come to life under the flow of 'qi current'!
Li Pan pondered for a while and gradually figured out the adaptability of this clay doll. Although the appearance looked like a simple clay figure, the internal meridians were very complex and had strong adaptability and plasticity.
Use "Nine Yin Refining" to run for a week, and the meridians of this clay doll will automatically cooperate with the circulation of Jiuyin Zhenqi. With the inhalation and exhalation, the muscles and bones will be slowly shaped, and soon Yes, the outline of 'Li Pan' can also be clearly seen in the entire human form.
Moreover, the scope of observation and perception gradually expanded as Li Pan repeatedly breathed out the "Qi Liu", as if a candle was lit in his chest, illuminating the surrounding deep space brightly, as if shrouded in clay man-shaped head On top of it, an invisible veil of shadow was slowly lifted up, revealing a brand new world in his 'vision'.
This is a ring-shaped rocky celestial body standing in the deep sky. Looking around, there is no starlight, and there are no celestial bodies around it.
Li Pan controlled his body and tried to stand up. He found that although the clay man was crooked at first, and the clay would peel off and drip from the body at first, with every 'breath' and every 'step' he took, They will be plastically recast internally, perfecting and strengthening the clay body. Even very quickly, the strength of this body exceeded his own level of Nine Yin and Three Transformations.
Fuck, even the Nendoroid is better than him in cultivation...
Before Li Pan could figure out what was going on, a blue meteor suddenly flashed across the vacuum above his head.
The meteor circled around the ring of rocks where Li Pan was, and then seemed to find its target. It drew a right angle in the sky, rushed straight towards Li Pan, and then passed over his head at high speed. At the same time, it was caught in the blue starlight. , throwing down a bright meteorite-like falling object, shining with white light, falling near Li Pan, erupting into a silent light explosion and shock wave.
...is it an attack? No, it looks like a material airdrop?
The blue meteor disappeared in an instant, and Li Pan jumped over the Yanyuan Mountains and towards the crater where the object fell not far away.
There is a rectangular box made of silver alloy in the pit. If the clay figure is measured, it is about two arms long and one cubit wide.
Li Pan tried touching the silver box, but there was no reaction.
After thinking about it, he tried again, this time trying to emit the Nine Yin True Qi. He accumulated the gray True Qi in his palm and pressed it onto the silver box.
At this moment, the alloy material on the surface of the silver box suddenly changed its physical properties and turned into silver plasticine, which suddenly swallowed Li Pan's palm into the box.
Li Pan reached out and grabbed it, feeling like he was fishing for lobsters in a mud pond. He seemed to have caught something. He tried to pull it out but couldn't. Moreover, the true energy in his palm was quickly sucked away by the contents of the box. Without the true energy package, the box that was originally like mud began to solidify and harden again, turning into a metal-like alloy, almost getting his hand stuck.
So Li Pan took a deep breath, exerted all his strength to exhale the true energy, and at the same time operated the "Nine Yin Divine Art", pouring all the true energy from the clay man's body into his arm, and pulled it out with all his strength!
Then he pulled out a sword from the silver box.
The silver box containing the sword also turned into a piece of silver fluid clay, which instantly merged into Li Pan's clay prosthetic body and disappeared.
Li Pan didn't pay attention to the silver box, his attention was attracted by the sword in his hand.
This is an eight-sided Han sword. It looks like an ancient war sword. It is just the right size and is sealed in a silver box. The sword body is jet black, as if it is carved with graphite. The moment you pull out the box, the sword Pieces of talismans lit up on the spine, and the brilliance flickered, turning around, as bright as stars in the sky, and it was as dazzling as some startup animation.
Li Pan looked at the black sword in his hand, and drew it twice casually. The sword wind spilled from the sword's spine was like cutting tofu, slanting across the earth, silently cutting through the rocky ground, splitting the ring-shaped celestial body into two , without a trace of blockage or noise.
Let me go...who gave him this magic weapon? ? Teacher Xian? ?
Then he raised his head and searched for a while in the starless and moonless deep sky. There was no trace of the meteor just now, so he lowered his head to look at the black sword in his hand.
What are you?
At this time, two golden lights flashed on the sword spine, revealing two seal characters.
'Destroy ghosts'Destroy
ghosts? Fa...oh, was it given by the weirdo in green robe? What does he want to do by sending a sword?
By the way, the "Nine Yin Manual" is also relevant to you, right? Who are you? What's the purpose?
Could it be that you are also demon gods from another world? Is it a monster planning to come to 0791?
So who does Li Pan mean to him? Could it be that he is actually the apostle chosen by the monster just like the cockroach?
The Ghost Defeating Sword was silent for a moment, then suddenly a golden light erupted. In an instant, countless characters bloomed on the sword's spine, almost blinding Li Pan's eyes as if a flare had been exploded!
"Holy shit!"
Li Pan was so shocked that he jumped up from the sofa. He waited for a while and his eyes were all gray. Fortunately, the prosthetic eye was still normal. The chip pop-up window allowed him to perform a quick prosthetic self-examination and biological diagnosis. , showing that Li Pan just entered a deep sleep in the past hour.
"Is it really a dream?... Fighting ghosts? Fighting ghosts?"
Li Pan looked at his hands, touched his face in the mirror, then lifted the sofa and looked around twice.
Didn't you bring that sword back...
"Oh?"
Li Pan just sat back on the sofa and bounced up. He took out his trousers and took out a ball from his trouser pocket.
The ball was dark, about the size of Xiao Huan Dan's pill, a bit like a glass marble, and heavy, as if it were an iron ball.
"Destroying ghosts?"
Li Pan asked, but Qiu didn't respond.
Anyway, he was idle, so Li Pan tried to use Jiuyin Zhenqi to stimulate the 'Destroying Ghost Ball' to see what the reaction would be.
Hmm... Still no reaction...
I'm not polite about this ball. I sucked as much as I could. After a while, Li Pan was half-charged, and he didn't move even one... However, according to the rules of the
0791 world, this The 'ball' is the monster transformed by the 'Devil', right?
Then using the silver key, it should be possible to force it open, right?
Li Pan was also a little bored, so he took out a silver key and poked the ball.
This time the ball finally responded. The black ball seemed to come alive. It jumped and bounced and bounced on the floor, just like a rabbit waiting for food.
Li Pan just sat on the sofa and observed... ah, that's it? Just two jumps? But wasn't it originally a sword?
At this time, someone came to communicate.
"Oh, Kotaro, what's going on?"
"Boss, I found out. Tokugawa Chiki is taking a shuttle to Kansai tonight. Why don't I sneak into the crew and follow her..."
Kotaro broadcast live and sent it to Tokugawa's house. In the scene of Edo Castle, a private property, stealth shuttles and drone swarms are taking off and landing.
"Hey, hey, why are your bones so light again? Okay, okay, don't cause trouble for me. I'll figure it out myself later." Kotaro said strangely, "
Boss
, why are you staring at Princess Chiki? Tokugawa I have brought back the magic sword from home?"
Li Pan smiled and said,
"Hey, she killed so many people, so she just gave me a broken sword to end it? She killed so many princesses, and she still had the nerve to turn around and do it Her Princess Takamagahara? Wow, where can such good things come from in the world!
Let me tell you, this time the handle fell into my hands. If she doesn’t spend tens of billions to seal her silence, don’t you think I’ll rip her head off... "
Then the ball jumped up! With a swish, it turned into a golden light! Break out the window!
Li Pan was stunned on the spot with his mouth open, and slowly turned to look at him, who was on the 40th floor. He was breathing out the air leaking window, while Kotaro was still there in the earphones earnestly persuading him, "Boss, even though Qian Ji is the culprit of the case at the women's college
, But she is the legitimate daughter of the Tokugawa family and the key to Gao Tianyuan's peace negotiation. Although she is the main instigator of the curse, we have no concrete evidence. It would be extremely difficult to blackmail the Tokugawa family. I think we have to deal with the Tokugawa family. , I'm afraid we have to think about it in the long term... Hmm? What happened?"
Li Pan stared at the hole in the window and swallowed,
"...what... happened?"
Kotaro,
"I don't know...there seemed to be someone just now. Scream...what's going on! Red alert! The Iga Ninja Army is dispatched! Oops! My drone is exposed! Boss, I was discovered by hackers!" Then there was a crackle and bang
from the communicator. The sound of explosions, the clash of swords, and the roar of Jin, "Kotaro——!" "Hanzo——!!" roared, and then Kotaro was disconnected, and there was only rustling in the communication channel.
Li Pan swallowed and cut off the communication.
Then he sat on the sofa for a while, and there was another crash.
A golden comet crashed to the ground, shattering the remaining windows and bursting into the apartment.
As the golden light circled around the apartment, something dragged in the comet's tail was thrown out, onto the sofa, and rolled down between Li Pan's legs.
Then the golden light turned and turned back into a small black ball. It jumped up and down on the sofa and got back into Li Pan's trouser pocket.
Li Pan subconsciously wanted to jump up, but his legs were a little weak and he couldn't use the strength for a while. Finally, he took a deep breath, lowered his head, and looked at the thing between his legs.
It's the head of Tokugawa Chihime.
(End of chapter)