Chapter 798 Reptile All-Terrain Survey Vehicle
After watching Director Li leave, Lu Zhou took the elevator straight to the second basement level of the main building of the Institute for Advanced Study, passed through the access control hidden in the sample room and entered the unknown third basement level——
Namely, underground laboratories.
The wreckage that the system rewarded him was basically put here, and Xiao Ai took care of it.
Almost the moment he stepped into the laboratory, a quadrotor drone with a display screen swayed over and flew around him twice.
Seeing Xiao Ai sticking up, Lu Zhou immediately got to the point.
"How's the situation with 'Reptile'?"
The so-called "reptile" naturally refers to the "reptile" all-terrain remote control exploration vehicle, which is one of the samples rewarded by the system when he completed the mission in the previous stage.
Unlike the clothes woven with carbon nanofiber materials, the technological content of this thing is obviously much higher.
According to the description in the manual, its communication radius is theoretically as high as 3 astronomical units. Even if Mars and the earth are at the farthest relative position, the terminal on his side can successfully receive the communication from the "reptile" all-terrain The signal from the remote-controlled exploration vehicle is at most weak, or at most delayed, and there is no way to control it in real time.
He was very interested in its communication device. Lu Zhou tried to disassemble it, but unfortunately he never found a non-violent disassembly method, and the manual also clearly stated that there is a built-in self-destruct program, disassembly will Words that may lead to unpredictable consequences.
Obviously, this thing is probably the same type as the nitrogen shield.
Either use a universal scanning gun, or you can only use it to scrap.
Fortunately, unlike the one-time-use non-rechargeable nitrogen shield, according to the description in the manual, this thing can be charged by solar energy and geothermal energy. When the energy is low, it will automatically enter the low-energy standby mode to wait for the environment Reboot when appropriate.
Considering that the lunar space station has been deployed, resource exploration on the lunar surface is no longer an expensive matter, so this "reptile" was naturally used by Lu Zhou on Mars.
In this way, not only can you prepare for resource exploration for future colonial activities, but you can also go to the "relics" of the New Virginia Colonial Station to see what happened there.
Xiao Ai: [It has successfully landed on the surface of Mars! Ready to start! ()ゞ】
Lu Zhou nodded: "Then start it now."
Xiao Ai: 【Obey! ()】
The terminal of the "Crawler" all-terrain survey vehicle is a thick laptop computer, and it is also equipped with a signal transmitting and receiving device the size of half a water tank. And the signal transmitting and receiving device has been installed by Lu Zhou next to the water tank on the roof of the Institute for Advanced Study. As far as deception is concerned, it is quite well done.
But then again, even if someone finds it strange, they have no right to investigate here.
Even if you don’t look at the important role played by the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study in the field of controllable fusion and aerospace, if you take the brand of the key cooperative research and development institution of the Air Force and Navy Equipment Department as an example, it is by no means easy to find out the secrets here. .
At present, the terminal of the "reptile" survey vehicle has been connected to Xiaoai's host.
Five minutes after Lu Zhou's order was issued, on Mars, tens of millions of kilometers away from here, a pitch-black prism-shaped metal box made the sound of air leakage.
Immediately afterwards, the shell on one side of the box was slowly opened, and a remote control car with a size of less than half a person's height and an angular shape rolled out with tires three and a half pairs high. , Facing the dust storm that blotted out the sky, headed towards the ruins of the USS New Virginia marked on the map.
At the same time, Lu Zhou, who was in the underground laboratory, first made himself a cup of coffee, then walked to the experimental table and sat down, and opened the survey vehicle control terminal on the table.
Quietly waiting for the countdown of the communication response to complete, soon as the signal drifted in from tens of millions of kilometers away, line after line of dialog boxes jumped out of the screen.
【The "Lightning" escape pod is open! 】
[The "crawler" wakes up successfully! 】
[The terminal connection is successful! 】
With the pop-up of the last dialog box, a clear picture came from the screen quickly. Lu Zhou watched the reptiles advance against the harsh weather quietly while drinking coffee.
It is obviously unrealistic to remotely control this thing with a delay of several minutes. This little guy has a simple "tool-level" level of intelligence. Under the condition of control, complete the inspection tasks in the task list.
The person sitting in front of the control terminal only needs to watch the signal sent with a delay of several minutes or even ten minutes, and correct the "variables" that may appear in the investigation mission.
In fact, it is possible to hand over this work to Xiao Ai, but Lu Zhou is not so lazy, not to mention that he is also very curious about the life support unit that condenses the top artificial biosphere technology in North America. What kind of hole is there inside.
Without waiting for a long time, the outline of the life support unit has been reflected into the field of view of the main camera of the "reptile" through the yellow sand in the sky.
Looking at the tragedy of this "relic", Lu Zhou recalled the concept map released by Space-X on the official website, and couldn't help but sigh for the Ares project for half a second.
After the escape capsule was launched, the entire life support unit was basically in a semi-abandoned state. The remaining power is probably enough for the life support unit to stand by for a period of time, but this time probably won't last long.
The return capsule will take away the remaining oxygen and methane as much as possible before leaving, and the ejected plume will burn the shell of the life support unit.
When the "reptile" passed through the surrounding planting area, Lu Zhou could clearly observe through the side camera that the "vegetable greenhouse" spread out on all sides had basically been blown down by the high-temperature airflow, and most of the plastic cultivation containers were buried by sand.
But these are minor problems. After all, a few days after the sandstorm occurred, after confirming that the sandstorm was global, the colonists had already recycled all the crops here, and the entire planting area was basically in a wasteland. status.
After driving to the garage door, an antenna that looked like a tentacle touched the door, and soon the program pre-loaded into the life support unit started, unlocking the garage door.
As the door slowly opened, the reptile activated the lighting equipment on the roof, and just swaggered in.
Looking at the undefended life support unit through the screen of the terminal, Lu Zhou couldn't help but feel a burst of emotion in his heart.
The "Tinder" project was frustrated by the attack of unknown forces. Although there is no direct evidence to prove that the CIA did it, he did not expect that the artificial biosphere technology, which had been stagnant in research, would return to him in this way.
Perhaps, this is the so-called fate or reincarnation.
Although he doesn't believe in these things.
Passing through the warehouse area, he came straight to the experimental area. Looking at the domestic garbage tied up with plastic bags on the ground, Lu Zhou probably restored the pictures of the last few weeks here in his mind.
In order to save living resources and precious energy, the colonists have moved here from the living quarters, squatting next to the only communication terminal that can get in touch with the BFS spaceship.
Thinking of this, Lu Zhou couldn't help but feel a little funny.
I don't know what kind of expressions these refugees will have when they find out that the Xiaguang with the cabin can take a bath after they board the Xiaguang.
When I came to the console of the laboratory, the antenna that was previously connected to the access control system protruded from the shell of the reptile again, and touched the front of the console's case.
Soon, the extinguished screen lit up, and rows of progress bars appeared on it.
With the completion of the progress bar, all the data that had been packed and waiting to be picked were taken over by the crawlers and sent back to Lu Zhou tens of millions of kilometers away.
After quickly going through the files displayed on the control terminal screen, Lu Zhou gradually restrained the rash expression on his face, and a trace of seriousness appeared in his expression.
Even, a touch of surprise.
"……interesting."