Who still falls in love in the interstellar era?

Chapter 195 The Prelude to the Drama

While Wang Chao and others were discussing how to concoct an ancient civilization in the data link, the Jackdaw operated by Helena landed near the mayor's manor.

It can't be counted as landing, but anchored to the ground - the Jackdaw's reactor and gravity engine will not stop running and will continue to provide gravity shielding, so the spacecraft is actually "floating" on the ground, and will drift away if it is not fixed. The wind blows away.

This is also the biggest difference between the spaceships of this era and the science fiction works of the pre-aerospace era. Humans in the pre-aerospace era never thought that the current spacecraft could have continuous anti-gravity, so the spacecraft they envisioned also needed to use landing gear to support the spacecraft. Self-respect.

Helena could see the whole view of the "Mayor's" manor when she landed.

A little research revealed that this manor copied the off-the-shelf design of SOL-3. The original version of Cradle of Humanity was originally a royal garden and was later turned into a museum.

"Royal Garden..." Helena muttered and opened the airlock of the spacecraft.

As soon as she got off the spacecraft, she met several maids.

The leading maid obviously wore more lotus lace than the others, and she led everyone to salute Helena.

Helena was stunned. In theory, no one could recognize her.

Then she realized that these maids were not human, so she immediately asked Nemiao in the universe for help: "I met artificial intelligence in the mayor's manor, and they directly saw through my cognitive interference!"

Nimiao's reply came immediately: "I can destroy them, but don't you think it would be better to find Lily to win them all over?"

Helena: "Lily's ability can only be effective on strong artificial intelligence. These artificial intelligences don't seem to be strong artificial intelligence."

While she was speaking in the data link, the leading maid said respectfully: "Dear lady, you cannot park the spacecraft here. We have not found your spacecraft registration record. Please park the spacecraft into the space port and check in at the customs Go through immigration formalities.”

Although Helena knew that these were weak artificial intelligences, she still started to lie out of habit: "I was invited by the mayor, and I came directly."

While speaking, she urged in the data link: "Hurry, hacker, don't slow down your work!"

"Okay, okay." What Nimiao sent was just a text message, but Helena always felt that she could feel her helplessness. "Your super powers are really useless, but you are actually restrained by weak artificial intelligence."

Helena retorted: "Why don't you say that your superpower has greater limitations?"

Nimiao: "The most important thing about me is not my superpower. I am a hacker, which is decisively different from you!"

"I'm a liar too!"

"Okay. I've got it done here. These maid robots will pretend they haven't seen you, just like humans."

At the same time that Nemiao sent the message, the maid robots blocking Helena stepped back to make way, and their eyes no longer looked at her.

Helena breathed a sigh of relief, walked past the maid robot, and walked towards the main building of the manor.

On the way she saw many maid robots pruning the trees in the garden.

"Do everyone in this colony like maids?" She whispered softly, "There is a maid robot over there, and the internet celebrities regard the robot as their companion..."

Passing through the courtyard where a large number of maid robots were working, Helena climbed into the main building through the window.

The interior decoration of the building matches the exterior completely, taking the typical Baroque route, and looks like the style that the European royal family of SOL-3 would use.

The only desk in the room was somewhat out of place with the surrounding furniture.

It seems as if the desk is deliberately highlighted.

Before Helena checked the origin of the desk, Wang Chao said in the communication: "This desk feels like a British desk handed down from the Victorian era. It seems to have been used by Queen Victoria."

Following Wang Chao's prompts, Helena found a picture of the desk, which was exactly the same as the desk in front of her.

Helena muttered: "Looks like a royal lover."

This refers to those weirdos obsessed with the court affairs of the pre-aerospace era on SOL-3.

Wang Chao suggested: "Check carefully the objects on the table. Maybe one of them can be pressed and open the door to the secret room. Also check carefully the books on the bookshelf. There may be hidden mechanisms."

Helena: "No, I saw the button directly."

Wang Chao: "That button may be to ask the maid to bring you a Coke."

Helena: "What?"

"It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you don't understand the story."

The psychologist shook his head and went directly up to press the button on the table.

As a result, the carpet in the room rolled up automatically, and then the floor sank downwards and turned into steps.

When the steps fell into place, they happened to face the passage leading to the underground.

Helena came to the steps and looked down, and found that the combined steps were much longer than expected. Her manned computer immediately completed the count of the steps: there were 133 steps in total.

And at the end of so many steps is a beautifully decorated door.

Helena: "Master Hacker, please open the underground door of the passage."

"It can't be done. This step is completely mechanical, and the door below is not connected to the Internet at all. It probably doesn't even have a chip. This hacker baby said that there is no way to use this thing."

Helena could only shake her head and pulled out the gun - theoretically speaking, the combat effectiveness of this small pistol may not be as high as Helena's prosthetic body, but the most important thing about pulling out the weapon at this time is to provide a psychological stimulus.

The psychologist and conman carefully walked down the 133 steps to the door, and then discovered that the door did not even have a mechanical device and needed to be pushed open manually.

Fortunately, the door is not very heavy, and it is easy for Helena's body to push it open.

It would be quite awkward if Lily were to push it.

The scene behind the door stunned Helena.

Wang Chao commented: "It looks like an audience hall. That exaggeratedly large position is probably the throne."

**

While Wang Chao said this, he glanced at the bridge. The throne he sat under his butt was also the same. The design was exactly the same. I wonder if the design inspiration was obtained from the same historical object.

When he commented harshly on the mayor's mansion, Nia reported: "The factory has already assembled some polymer materials. We have only conducted strength tests to confirm that these materials can meet our needs for building mining machinery."

Wang Chao: "Very good. But don't be too busy printing."

As he spoke, he looked at Lily and said directly: "Lily, you have almost finished listening to our discussion just now. Now I need you to design the appearance of the mining robot and try to make it look like that of a sleeping ancient alien civilization. mechanical."

Liefeng also said: "Why are you looking for Lily?"

Wang Chao: "She has received a complete education in aesthetics, and she is better at designing shapes than us."

Nia also said: "Miss Diva is really good at aesthetics. She did a great job in dressing me up and putting on makeup."

Nimiao's complaints immediately came from the low orbit of the planet via radio waves: "Why is Lily the 'Miss Diva' and I the 'Miss Black Cat'?"

Then everyone ignored Nimiao.

Lily was very happy: "Then leave it to me!"

Nimiao continued to complain in the communication: "Would it be too inefficient to leave it to a natural person? She has to draw the drawings by herself! We directly use the human computer to design, and it will be done in three times, five, and two."

Liefeng: "Haha, Nimiao is jealous again!" "I'm not! I'm talking about the matter!"

**

On Helena's side, while there was a lively bickering in the communication, Helena walked up to the high platform where the throne was, looked at the throne carefully, and found a button on the armrest.

The moment she pressed the button, the side door of the audience hall opened, and "civil and military officials" filed out, all dressed in Victorian attire.

Wang Chao was originally paying attention to his sister's quarrel, but when he saw this scene, he immediately turned his attention.

"Here I go," he said. "These guys feel like they just came out of the Congress of Vienna and created a new world order."

Helena frowned: "Is this a secret code?"

Her onboard computer retrieved the "Congress of Vienna," a pre-aerospace meeting that redefined the world.

Wang Chao: "Nothing, just a complaint from a history fan. So these guys are all robots?"

"I guess so."

"No need to estimate," Nimiao also stopped bickering, "That's right. These are weak artificial intelligence using the same model as the maid robot."

Wang Chao: "What do you mean? It means that the supreme leader of this colony, a man named the mayor, plays role-playing underground in his manor all day long? Playing the role of a king of a European power in the 19th century? It's quite fun!"

Liefeng: "My foster father is envious!"

"It's not that I'm envious, I'm just inspired. We can also print a bunch of robot subjects and play house on the spaceship!"

Helena didn't pay attention to the conversation between Wang Chao and Liefeng. She looked at the robots and a plan against the mayor was born.

She said to Nimiao: "Dear Miss Hacker..."

"You're a weirdo, aren't you! Don't be like this, just call me Nimiao."

"Nimiao, I need you to cooperate with me. Let's arrange a scary game for the mayor."

Nimiao: "Aren't you here to investigate whether the mayor has a quantum entanglement communication device?"

"This is an investigation. We arrange a horror game for him, use pressure and fear to drive him crazy, and then control him. At that time, as long as we ask him questions, he will answer truthfully."

Nimiao: "Okay, let me see how you operate it. Whatever you want to do, you can directly synchronize it through the data link. I will make a targeted connection for you."

As soon as the words fell, the exclusive connection between Helena and Nimiao was completed - it can be seen as they opened a small discussion group in the large group.

Helena: "These robots are all under your control, right?"

"Yes, there is no need to ask this again and again."

Helena: "Then let's do this..."

She sent the action plan she had just written through a dedicated connection.

Nimiao read the plan in an instant: "It's not difficult to implement, but will it drive the mayor crazy?"

"Yes. Can you confirm the location of the mayor?"

"He was out hunting, didn't I tell you?"

"Okay, let's prepare before he comes back."

**

"Mayor" Frank is enjoying hunting time with his pack of hounds.

He has five hounds in total, all beautiful German shepherds.

The four shepherd dogs, led by his loyal head maid Maria, were lying quietly on the ground waiting for instructions.

The only off-leash sheepdog, Chopper, is waiting for orders.

The moment Frank raised his rifle, "Chopper" stood up, ready to go.

The moment the "Mayor" pulled the trigger, Chopper did not run out immediately. Instead, he carefully observed the path of the shot bird before shooting out like lightning.

"Go ahead, kid!" Frank shouted happily, while opening the barrel of the old-fashioned shotgun.

The moment the gun chamber was opened, the cartridge case was pulled out by the bullet hook and thrown to the ground.

Frank took out new bullets from his belt and was about to load them, but found that the maid robot that picked up the bullet casings was motionless.

"Nina!" Frank called the robot's name, "Pick up the bullet casings!"

Nina slowly turned her head and looked directly at Frank.

Frank frowned, but without thinking much, he ordered: "Execute the self-test procedure."

The maid made no move.

Frank sighed and modified the order: "Execute restart."

This time the maid reacted, her shoulders drooped obviously, and her head lowered into the "standby position." All maid robots lower their heads like this when in standby, looking like maids serving their masters respectfully.

A second later, the maid robot raised its head again and smiled at Frank: "Master, Nina is at your service."

Frank: "Perform self-test routine."

Nina's pupils lit up with a series of flashes - these were specially installed indicator lights that would flash when the robot's processor was operating under high load.

"Nina": "Self-inspection completed, no problems found."

Frank: "Then check the log and see what happened to you one minute and 55 seconds ago."

Nina: "Nothing unusual happened."

Frank: "Then why didn't you pick up the shell casings?"

Nina looked at the bullet casing, then showed a suspicious expression: "I... don't know."

Frank also showed a suspicious expression. As Nina's "master", he remembered that he did not install this expression on Nina - what expression the maid robot can make is determined by the control module. She would do it without this expression installed. Not coming out.

Frank originally thought it was just a common malfunction, but this expression made him feel like he was facing an enemy.

At this moment, Chopper, the shepherd dog, ran back with the downed prey in his mouth, spat the prey at his feet, and then squatted down like a soldier waiting for review, with his head held high and his tail wagging from side to side.

But Frank stared at Nina and paid no attention to the sheepdog.

So Chopper screamed in grievance.

Frank said angrily: "Don't make any noise!"

Chopper immediately lowered his head and let out a depressed "oooh" sound.

Frank reloaded the power and pointed his gun at the maid robot: "Say! Who are you!"

(End of this chapter)