Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

He Xiao left everything behind and personally took them to visit several surrounding islands.

Celeste couldn't hold back his curiosity for a long time, and Fu Yunlan was also quite surprised by what he saw before him. He was already over 6 years old when the zombie virus broke out, and he vaguely remembered some of the world before it started to be chaotic. --If there were no outbreak of zombie virus and subsequent wars, maybe human society should have developed to the present level.

They saw a transparent isolated greenhouse tens of meters high. The roof was equipped with strong lights to simulate sunlight, and the greenhouse was almost completely isolated from radiation pollution. Layers of crops were thriving under the care of robots, providing support for the entire base. Provides food and fodder for livestock.

In chicken farms and other meat farms, another form of robot cleans the sheds back and forth, pours the by-products such as feces and hair from the cleaning to the transportation robot, and transports them to a workshop to make natural fertilizer.

In the aquaculture tank, aquatic products such as fish, shrimp, and crab grow in a very dense form in a small space. The water treatment equipment strictly controls various indicators in the water body, so that every seafood can live very healthy.

There are also some greenhouses that do not plant crops, but an entire original ecological zoo and botanical garden. Some species that may have become extinct in the wild around the world are thriving in this miniature habitat, preserving the last for the population. Several small flying robots work among them, managing and recording the number and living status of each species.

All the factories are densely built on another island, and there is not a single living person in the dozens of buildings. Robots take over all the production, transportation, management, and maintenance here. There are only two or three workers who are responsible for some Things like trying out a product, or the rare job where "it's not worth building a robot just for this".

Fu Yunlan originally thought that their clothes were made by tailors who worked overtime overnight. After listening to He Xiao's explanation, he realized that it was actually Case who scanned their body characteristics. After the drawings were produced, the clothes production workshop here automatically After the completion, the flying automatic transport robot will send it to another island. From the beginning to the end, only the short way that Paggy delivers the clothes to them is operated by humans.

After looking at a few islands, Fu Yunlan felt a little strange. This base seems to have a large population, but in terms of industry and agriculture, robots are used to replace manual labor. So what are those people doing?

On the next island, his questions were answered.

A modern and professional army, regardless of quality or equipment, is undergoing military training.

"Are you satisfied? This is the power you can command in the future." He Xiao said.

Fu Yunlan always felt something strange: "Their training methods...why are they all fighting infantry? Aren't there helicopters, warships, tanks, etc. in the base? There are so many robots, since they are used for work Robots for combat, shouldn’t it be difficult to make robots for combat?”

"Unfortunately, once these planes, warships, and robots leave this base, they are basically a pile of scrap metal." He Xiao said, "The Devourer will compete with us for the control of planes and warships by affecting the signal. , Under the competition between the two, all precision instruments will be paralyzed and unable to operate at all."

Celeste said: "But you drove an aircraft carrier and took a helicopter to pick me up."

"Only when I'm here." He Xiao answered him patiently, "Case and I can ensure that these devices are not controlled by the Devourer in a small range, but only in a small range. So this In the final analysis, this war can only be fought by people.”

Seeing He Xiao approaching, Qin Feng, who was directing the training, put down his work and came over, saluting a standard military salute: "President."

"Qin Feng, you came at a good time." He Xiao said, "I have selected Fu Yunlan as the future military commander of the Earth Federation. You can take him to familiarize yourself with the situation of the army."

This professional soldier, who had obviously joined the army before the war, sized Fu Yunlan up and down suspiciously. He obviously had some doubts about He Xiao's sudden decision, but he reluctantly responded, "Yes."

Fu Yunlan saw that Kars, Li Kailin and others were also on the training ground, and they were particularly conspicuous among the uniform group of soldiers.

They didn't find him until Fu Yunlan walked very close, and the bomber whistled: "Lan, your outfit is so... so handsome that I can't even recognize it."

The cowboy was holding a new heavy-duty sniper rifle and was aiming at a distant target. When he heard the sound, he put away the gun and stood up: "Qin Feng said that as long as I stay, this gun will be mine. Anyway, I don't say anything. Let's go, Lan, what are your plans?"

Qin Feng had a straight face, and his tone sounded very bad: "If you want to stay, you'd better keep your mouth shut and stop speaking in such a tone, because Fu Yunlan has been selected by the president as the highest ranking officer in this theater." Military Chief."

"...Are you kidding?" Kars said dumbfounded.

Not to mention that they couldn't turn the corner, Fu Yunlan himself was a little hard to adapt to such a change of status. He turned his head and habitually wanted to look for the figure who always silently followed him, but he found that Celeste was following him. Xiao didn't know where to go.

Fu Yunlan knew that Celeste should not encounter any danger here, and He Xiao must have taken him to visit other places, but there was still a strong anxiety in his heart.

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Not far from the training ground is the laboratory building of the Blue Shield Group. Its scale is so large that it takes half an hour for Celeste to just walk around it.

The equipment in the laboratory is complete and advanced. While looking at it, Celeste kept brainstorming, imagining what kind of things he could make if these equipment could be used by him.

However, he also saw many scientific researchers in white coats working in the laboratory—to be precise, robots were working, and scientific researchers were thinking. Some of them were drawing things on paper or tablets, and some were staring at Screens or 3D projections are in a daze, and some are modeling and designing things for which they don’t know what to do.

Celeste asked a little strangely: "In the eyes of the Guardian Alliance, the technological level of human beings should be similar to primitive people who have just learned how to twist rope. Why do you let them do futile scientific research here?"

"It's not in vain." He Xiao said, "Don't you think the human way of thinking is very 'special'?"

"I don't think so." Celeste shook his head honestly.

"Maybe you are a fan of the authorities." He Xiao smiled gently, "Humans seem to be a very low-level species. Compared with baboons, they only have a larger brain. If their observation ability and logical calculation ability are compared with ours , probably like a clam in water. They can only observe the world with strong subjective senses of sight, hearing, and touch, and it is difficult to quantify these feelings, and it is also difficult to communicate accurately-- You know how we communicate? When we see a landscape and want to tell another person, every detail of what I see is clearly in his mind."

For some reason, Celeste felt that he could understand He Xiao's way of communication without hindrance: "I understand that your observation of things is detailed and comprehensive, and when you establish communication with the same kind, each other's thinking It's transparent."

"That's right, so is the Devourer. It should be said that the way of receiving information like ours is the most common in the universe. It is very rare for species like humans to communicate inefficiently but still develop civilization." He Xiao said, "If human beings see a landscape, they can only convert what they see into language or text according to their subjective feelings. Others receive the signals of these languages ​​and texts by hearing or vision, and then use these signals in their own brains Imagining this landscape is not only fuzzy and abstract, but also may be very different from the reality. But maybe it is because of this reason that human beings have a strong imagination. Some of us have gone through complex observations, experiments and calculations, and finally come to it. However, human beings come up with ideas when they are completely incapable of proving them, such as multi-dimensional space, dark matter, and other concepts that completely exceed human observation and calculation capabilities. Because the level of technology is too backward, there is no way to verify these concepts for the time being. But now it is different, they only need to put forward their ideas, and we will complete the verification work. I have concentrated here the people with the highest IQ and the best imagination A group of scientists, although no one has put forward any useful ideas so far, and only a few people have put forward some conjectures that are not related to our known knowledge, but as long as they are provided with conditions and let them continue to think, maybe they can It may not necessarily provide some new ideas for us to win this technological war."

"So this is why the council finally decided to help humans?" Celeste said, "Because humans are a seemingly unreliable race, but they are still useful after all."

"Your imagination is also very rich." He Xiao said with a smile, "For some reason, I can't tell you the answer directly. Anyway, you understand the rules-there is no free lunch or free help in this world."

"Hmm." Celeste expressed his understanding. He looked at the equipment around him and asked, "Can I make something with these equipment?"

"This is already your country, of course you can do anything, and I hope you can research some new things here." He Xiao said, "By the way, one of the topics I've been researching recently is Human gene mutation, your mutant pet is a rare specimen, can you let him cooperate with me to do some research?"

"Will you dissect him?" Thelister asked.

"No, just a few scans at most and maybe a little blood."

"Then, can I study together?" Celeste said, "I've always been curious about his physique."

"Of course, you can't ask for it."

While Celeste was happy, he also remembered He Xiao's request for him to be the emperor: "I don't know what work I need to do as an emperor, but will spending all day in the laboratory have any impact?"

"Just do what you like to do." He Xiao said with a smile, "As for the things you don't want to do, I will do it for you."