Who still falls in love in the interstellar era?

Chapter 182 Let’s start again (two in one)

Wang Chao: "Can the equipment on this ship allow us to study the 'Tao' more deeply?"

Nia: "It should be possible, but I am not an expert in engineering. You have to find a materials expert who is proficient in nanomaterials."

Where can I find it? Go and kidnap someone in a three-body novel?

Lily: "Look for Nia's colleague. Nia must 'just happen' to know an expert in materials science, right?"

Nia shook her head: "I don't know. I basically don't socialize. Even if I socialize, I try to stay away from those male professors. They always say some strange things, like 'I am doing greedy things'. It feels weird. .”

Wang Chao: "Then you are right to stay away from them. In this case, I will figure out a solution for the matter of materials science experts."

Nia said excitedly: "It seems that superpowers are really something within the scientific framework. I used to worry that the scientific system I was familiar with would collapse..."

"Are you worried that you will become a 'chicken scientist'?" Wang Chao joked.

The chicken scientist comes from the famous hypothesis in "The Three-Body Problem": A chicken farm puts out feed at a fixed time every day, so the chicken scientist put forward the classic hypothesis, "Feed appears in the trough at eleven o'clock every day", and he was told for the truth of the world.

The chickens lived like this for thirty days. Suddenly one day the director of the chicken farm forgot to put in the feed, and the chickens' understanding of the world suddenly collapsed.

Chicken scientists are shouting "physics no longer exists".

Nia had obviously seen this "classical story" and nodded: "Indeed."

Wang Chao: "Isn't this right? After a real scientist discovers something that cannot be summarized by the existing theoretical system, he should be ecstatic and firmly believe that a great discovery has arrived in front of him..."

"The problem is that I am not such a 'real scientist.'" Nia said with a bitter smile, "Although I am also obsessed with scientific research, I am still a mortal in the end. In Trisolaris, I may be the one who shouts ' Physics no longer exists for 'cowards' who then commit suicide."

Wang Chao: "I don't think you are. If you don't believe me, you can ask Helena when she comes back."

Just as he was talking about Helena, a message from the psychologist came in: "I have finished the diagnosis and treatment of Gaius. His case is very typical, and his paranoia is not just caused by stress.

"He was affected by his grief over his brother's death and his guilt for not discovering that the brother he had been with all his life was a synthetic.

"Human beings will naturally choose the easier option, but the subjective consciousness can face difficulties, but the subconscious mind cannot. So Gaius' subconscious chose to create a Julian and then make up for his mistakes in fantasy."

Wang Chao: "You mean, Gaius's symptoms are hopeless?"

"I prescribed some drugs for him to see if endocrine adjustments can weaken the fantasy. However, such a severe delusion cannot be treated with drugs alone, and requires long-term hospitalization."

Wang Chao: "We can't have Gaius hospitalized."

"Yes, so it's basically hopeless. I only prescribe medication based on the professional pride of a licensed psychologist."

Wang Chao: "What about the Gaius people?"

"I asked him to get off the ship. Speaking of such a big spaceship, it might be possible to hide people. Aren't you worried about being attacked when we relax our guard after setting sail?"

At this time, Nia, who was in the engine room, joined the communication: "Leave this to me. With the equipment in the engine room, I am invincible. If someone sneaks on the ship, as long as he sends a message, I will find them."

Wang Chao: "You alone are not enough. In this way, when we are about to sail, Helena, you will conduct a wide-area broadcast and use your knowledge of psychology to make people who sneak on the ship think that they have been planted with memes."

Helena: "Don't make things difficult for others. I really can't do such a high-end thing."

"It doesn't matter if you can't do it, as long as others think you can do it."

During the communication room, Nia had already arrived at the entrance of the laboratory, turned around and urged everyone: "Let's go, we are going to the next laboratory."

**

Gaius, who had just left the New Jackdaw, was talking to Julian sitting next to him as usual.

"Professor Helena gave me these medicines. I checked and they are all antidepressant and paranoia medicines. What does this mean?"

Julian: "This is a disguise. Don't you feel that my image has become more three-dimensional after leaving Professor Helena's clinic?"

Gaius frowned: "Is it really a disguise? Are you the clone of Professor Helena? Why do I feel that what you said is inconsistent with the professor's words? Logically speaking, with your clone, I can always When talking to me through 'telepathy', Professor Helena doesn't need to communicate with me that much."

Julian smiled slightly and asked: "Then what do you think I am? Brother?"

Gaius pursed his lips and hesitated for a moment before saying: "Perhaps you are just my imagination? Professor Helena made me produce you through the implanted meme, and during the diagnosis and treatment just now, she was actually checking your condition. See if you meet her expectations.

"I was prescribed anti-paranoia medication because your performance was somewhat inconsistent with her expectations, and I hope to weaken your influence."

Julian smiled: "Brother, in what way do you think I don't fit in with Professor Helena's ideas?"

Gaius: "I don't know. I think..."

Julian: "I advanced the process of Organization X. They were not prepared to control the United Star Cluster so quickly, so they had to steal the prototype of the United Star Cluster."

Gaius snapped his fingers: "So that's it. That way it can be connected, and the last logical loophole disappears. So you are my illusion spawned by memes, and you partially represent the will of Organization X."

Julian smiled and said: "That's it. Congratulations to your brother, your brain is not controlled by Professor Helena."

"No," Gaius held his forehead, "she knows everything. Looking back at her eyes, I knew she knew everything. Her super power has already seen through me. She is a psychologist, her super power Let her enter my secret room without anyone noticing, and kill all the ships of the Guiyi Sect with just one communication."

Gaius covered his face with his hands, as if recalling something terrible: "In the diagnosis and treatment room, I felt like a frog in a petri dish, waiting for the scientists standing next to the test bench to decide my fate."

Julian patted his brother's shoulder. Although it was just an illusion, it had a "touch" that was just like the real thing.

Gaius sobbed for a while, finally adjusted his mood, and looked at his "brother" calmly: "Julian, you may be just my imagination, but can you guarantee that she is not watching? No, I know she is watching. Yes. She must have implanted something in me again. She is probably watching our interaction now, like watching a sketch."

Julian: "Don't worry, as long as you don't do anything detrimental to Organization X, she will just watch."

"I hope so," Gaius sighed, "I hope so."

**

"I hope so." The last words coming from the earphone made Agent Erin frown.

The encrypted communication between Wang Chao and others was the work of a genius hacker, and with the current deciphering ability of Irene's team, it can only decipher part of it.

In comparison, it was much easier to infiltrate a huge organization like the United Star Cluster. The agents of Erin's team successfully placed a bug on the car of Gaius, the agent of the Star Cluster.

Gaius's car had to check the loudspeaker three times a day, but this was not a problem for Erin's team. They bribed the maintenance personnel and placed bugs between the two checks. Turns out what I overheard this time was a bit too exciting.

Agent Erin: "It sounds like Professor Helena conducted psychological diagnosis and prescribed medication on the current de facto leader of the United Star Cluster? And Gaius thought he was implanted with a new meme?

"The reason for the new meme being implanted is that the illusion produced by the old meme is not satisfactory. Can you see anything else?"

Everyone else remained silent.

Suddenly someone said: "Weren't we also implanted with memes by Professor Helena?"

Erin: "Don't think like that! If you think like that, you will easily have hallucinations due to stress! Think back to the training you received. That Helena is a psychologist, and her abilities are likely to be effective only when used in conjunction with her psychological knowledge.

"As long as you stay on guard against psychologists and don't trust every word they say, you won't be fooled by them!"

All the agents looked at each other, and then someone asked: "Captain, is this the conclusion you came to after being defrauded of 200 hours of medical treatment by a psychologist?"

"I was not defrauded of medical expenses. It was considered a work-related injury, and the money was reimbursed by the organization." Irene replied seriously.

As a secret agent, you often suffer from insomnia due to stress, so it is natural to see a psychiatrist.

The captain, in particular, is under greater pressure.

It is precisely because of this that Eileen is particularly familiar with "psychiatrists' tricks."

Erin: "In short, you must firmly believe that all memes are useless to you. As long as you firmly believe this and refuse hallucinogens that can make people relax and become lazy, you will definitely not be affected by Helena's ability.

"The guys from the Unity Church will destroy a ship with a message, and it's probably because they're all drunk. Continue to monitor the New Jackdaw."

At this time, the agent who had been monitoring the external communications of the New Jackdaw exclaimed: "The New Jackdaw has sent a message, wait a minute, the public key of the port used in the message can be unlocked directly.

"It's an order form! It looks like a very ordinary supply."

Erin: "Send it to me!"

The order form immediately appeared in augmented reality to the left of his field of vision.

"Two thousand tons of biomass raw materials, a total of 2,500 tons of various minerals, and... wheat?"

**

The time goes back five minutes.

Wang Chao followed Nia into the second laboratory.

He was shocked by the green color in his eyes: "This... is more like a hydroponic farm than a laboratory, right?"

Nia: "This is a hydroponic farm."

Wang Chao: "I thought it was on the factory floor."

Nia: "There is one there, too. This laboratory is smaller. The main purpose here is to study the changes in animals and plants in the space environment. This laboratory can simulate various extreme environments. For example, the ceiling can emit cosmic rays in various bands, simulating The spacecraft’s protection is damaged.”

Most of the time, harmful rays in the universe are blocked by the paint on the outer shell of the spacecraft.

Nia: "Also, this laboratory can perform precise genetic adjustment operations, and the genetically modified crops can be grown here immediately for various tests."

Wang Chao: "It's a pity that we don't have talents in biology."

Liefeng laughed and said, "I wonder what the biologist's superpower is. Could it be that he also sings, and the tomatoes that listen to the song grow bigger than watermelons?"

Lily: "That's not bad. I want to try eating tomatoes with a spoon."

At this time, Nimiao asked in the communication: "I am going to order supplies from the port. Although there are only six of us, I am going to order two thousand tons of biomass from it."

Because the spacecraft can basically achieve 100% recycling, theoretically speaking, the spacecraft does not need to bring additional biomass supplies. As long as the crew's excrement is continuously recycled, the biomass and synthesis machine plus the energy provided by the reactor will be used. It can continuously synthesize the food needed by the crew.

In addition, highly prosthetic crew members like Wang Chao and Nimiao only eat to maintain their own stability. In theory, they can eat plastic, and their stomachs can probably handle it anyway.

Nimiao wants to order 2,000 tons of biomass, which she feels can supply a small city.

Of course, Wang Chao had already guessed why Nimiao ordered it like this: she was deliberately pretending to be the existence of Organization X, so that these two thousand tons of biomass would most likely be regarded as being purchased by Organization X.

Wang Chao glanced at the vibrant biological laboratory and suddenly said: "Bring some more wheat seeds, as well as vegetable and fruit seeds. We can't leave the biological greenhouse on the ship empty."

Nimiao: "Okay."

Wang Chao: "By the way, just use the spaceport's public key to send this communication."

"Isn't this too outrageous?" Nimiao asked, "But you are the boss, you have the final say."

Wang Chao: "When the supplies are full and the original Jackdaw is fixed below, we will be ready to set off."

Nimiao: "Are you leaving now?"

Wang Chao: "Of course, why are you reluctant to feel like a master here?"

In fact, it is quite pleasant to be the Supreme Emperor here, but Wang Chao now has an idea. He wants to see what it will become if he leaves the United Star Cluster alone for a year and a half.

Liefeng joined the call: "Are we going to find trouble with the person who betrayed our adoptive father this time?"

"Yes." Wang Chao answered while smiling evilly at Li Feng in reality, "Of course, before that we have to find an unmanned planet to mine and use the LV5 printer on the spacecraft to disguise the spacecraft. .”

The strong wind rolled up the short sleeves of his shirt, showing off his biceps: "Mining, I'm the best at strength work."

Wang Chao hit her on the head: "Do you need to dig it? The fully automatic construction machinery will take care of everything!"

(End of this chapter)