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Chapter 286 - Milestone, 3090... Boot Up!
Chapter 286 - Milestone, 3090... Boot Up!
Chapter 286: Milestone, 3090... Boot Up!
Blazeland gathered millions of people to establish a country, occupying more than 3 million square kilometers of land, and pulled off an impressive feat in “peacefully coexisting” with the foreign races.
There was also information about the expeditionary army’s fight on the wasteland back in 1999, who researched and manufactured rockets and satellites to attempt to decipher the secrets behind the wasteland world.
After learning that humankind wanted to put themselves in grave danger by actively stepping into the encirclement and attempting a counterattack against the foreign races, Su Mo sensed a trace of “opportunity”.
His “farming” had gone on for long enough, and he was about to reap the rewards of his efforts.
If he still backed away from this opportunity, which could potentially yield a bountiful harvest similar to when he had vanquished the Heavenly Dog Pseudo God, then he would not have been Su Mo.
Su Mo was not that kind of person.
When it was time to back down, they should retreat to the extreme. Even when the enemy came knocking on their house door, they had to swallow the insult and suffer in silence.
When it was time to charge, they must not be afraid. They must wield a pair of “steel fists” to fight these evil monsters and wipe them out!
This was the law of the wasteland that had to be adhered to in order to survive and live a better life!
“I won’t stop you if you’ve made up your mind.”
“I will provide you with enough support on the information collection side but, for other matters, you’re on your own once you’re out on the ocean.”
When she saw Su Mo’s unwavering stance, Zhong Qingshu’s eyes brightened, and did not have the slightest doubt in Su Mo.
Back then, in the battle against the Heavenly Dog Pseudo God, she had been in a coma as she had fallen from the fourth floor into a pile of snow. She was not able to witness Su Mo’s impressive feat with her own eyes.
In the rumors that followed, the things that Su Mo did became even more mythical. Even Chen Shen, who witnessed the whole process himself, had his own unique version of the story.
Of course, no matter how much the versions varied, everyone shared a common view.
They believed in Su Mo!
Any difficulties could be resolved when Su Mo came into the picture!
With blind confidence such as this, whether it was going out into the ocean to fight the foreign races, or attacking the God of the Ocean, as long as Su Mo raised the war banner, at least a million people would follow behind him.
Zhong Qingshu was no exception to this.
“Thanks…”
Seeing the confident smile on the beautiful person next to him, Su Mo’s gaze swayed as if seeing the “Zhong Qingshu” that said goodbye to him on that final day in the ruins of time.
The trust, support, and understanding never changed…
Su Mo will return!
“I’ll make you a promise if I manage to get to the New World alive!”
When it came to the ruins of time, Su Mo could let his guard down without worrying about the consequences due to the secure and secret nature of the parallel timeline there.
In the wasteland, however, where the days were unpredictable and disasters were frequent, making this promise would mean an additional responsibility apart from his family. He would promise to protect her even if the sky was falling!
He stood up and looked at the shy Zhong Qingshu. Su Mo thought for a while before he stepped forward and gave her a tight hug.
This hug made Zhong Qingshu blush, and she could not help but try to struggle free. Her little pink fists hammered Su Mo’s chest as she felt extremely shy.
“No, no. You’ve got such a glib tongue now!”
“That’s it, I’m leaving. Speed up the shipbuilding process here. There’s not much time remaining.”
“Got it!”
Many things were still uncertain and there had yet to be peace. It was not the time to be immersed in love.
Su Mo was clear about that and Zhong Qingshu knew better as well.
Seeing her open the door and leave the room briskly, feeling completely different from when she came in, Su Mo did not hesitate anymore and left after her.
In the afternoon, when the sun was the hottest…
The moment he stepped out of the door, sweat oozed from his body as if protesting against the weather.
In the open space next to them, there was a small number of captives. At that moment, they were already being escorted to Iron Rock Mountain. The ones left behind were the ones who remained reluctant to admit their crimes or were still writing down their written admissions and signing off on them.
After scanning the surroundings for a while to ensure that there were no issues, Su Mo closed the door to the shipyard control room, took Oreo, and returned to the Underground Shelter.
The properties of the items he brought back from Liangfang Town had yet to be examined.
Whether it was the robot or computer, these two things could quickly raise the productivity and technology level in the shelter by a level if they were used well.
Alongside that, activating the robots would help with the handling of cotton, crop farming, making nitrocellulose, and ammunition preparation.
Additionally, if they were precise enough, even part of the destroyer production process could be handed over to them to save time and speed things up.
He called out to Oreo and brought Big Spark and Little Spark along, who had been lonely for quite some time now, to play with them.
After picking up the newer-looking computer and as well as a robot, Su Mo walked over to his workbench and turned the power on.
“Time waits for no one. Time is money!”
“I hope Ma Fei is of some help. The simpler this robot is, the better, so I can put it to use as soon as I get it up and running!”
After using the destroyer’s blueprint, the game had transferred large amounts of mechanical knowledge and information into his mind during his night-time slumber over the past few days.
However, even if he fully mastered this knowledge, it could only be said to be at the college-student level. There was still a large gap before he could even consider analyzing a robot such as this, which might even contain its own consciousness.
As for programming, Su Mo had made a lot of progress simply because he spent time reading the books on coding when he was free and also spent his points to enter the system’s training ground.
With an anxious heart, Su Mo looked at the objects in front of him. The detailed attributes of the desktop computer popped up after he spent two disaster points.
[Desktop Computer (Good)]
[Description: An integrated circuit computer assembled by the player “Ma Fei”, belonging to the fourth generation of computers. Its specifications are poor. When running complex computing programs, it performs poorly. However, considering that it consumes very little power, there are also some remarkable things about it.]
[CPU: Intel i9-11900K]
[Heat dissipation: 360mm integrated water + air cooling system]
[Motherboard: Smart motherboard 14 + 2 Power supply module + 3M.2 Interface + 10Gbps Network Card Adapter + Wi-Fi 6]
[Graphics Card: RTX3090]
[Memory: 16GB*4]
[Solid-state Drive: 1TB*2]
[Mechanical Hard Drive: 4TB]
[Power Supply Unit: 1200W]
[Display: 27 inches; 4K; 144Hz]
“F*ck, such powerful specifications are considered poor in the eyes of the game?”
The first thing that Su Mo saw was the topmost description where the game gave the computer a poor review. His heart felt cold at that moment, afraid that he obtained an ancient single-core Pentium processor from the 21st century, which would not even run the Road Rash game smoothly.
However, after browsing through the specifications in the properties panel, Su Mo was dumbfounded!
“Oh man, if this computer was placed back on Earth, it would have a starting price of at least fifty thousand yuan. Even this is considered outdated?”
“The 3090 is the dream of many youngsters!”
As for its power supply unit, the 1200W rating was already indicative of its powerful performance.
After opening its chassis and summoning the lion clan’s wind ability to completely clean up the interior, Su Mo began to complete the final configurations with a reverent expression on his face.
There was a familiarity in taking out and inserting the card, and in connecting the various wires. The moment the power was plugged in, the display lit up!
This computer that had been integrated with the highest-end technology known to mankind on Earth…
Came back to life!
Su Mo tried pressing the power-on button on the main unit. As the fan whirred, the familiar self-diagnosis screen appeared the next second.
Thanks to Microsoft’s status on Earth, although local operating systems such as UOS, Kylin OS, and Harmony OS were developed before the transmigration to the wasteland, due to copyright reasons, they never went mainstream.
However, now that Su Mo saw Ma Fei’s portrait flash across the screen, he could not help but laugh.
“FOS?”
“I don’t know if the operating system that Ma Fei designed is easy to use or not!”
There were no passwords on the main interface. When he entered the operational interface, Su Mo quickly became familiar with it after a little hands-on testing.
The original purpose of the operating system was to manifest the underlying code visually. Standard operating systems were simpler and more practical, and had fewer bugs.
As for the programming software installed on the operating system, it was definitely at a basic level.
The ultimate goal was to let the computer understand what the operator wanted to express in the line of code and then generate the corresponding output.
Therefore, after reviewing the maintenance and operational documents that Ma Fei left behind, Su Mo quickly got started with this clean version of the development software developed by Blazeland’s outstanding students, and even wrote a post on it…
Hello, world!
“I was thinking of writing a complete system for a destroyer. With the current level I’m at and the time I have, it was surely an insurmountable task.”
“But now…”
“I have a system!”
Getting a computer meant that the technology level of the shelter had taken a giant leap forward. Before Su Mo could happily continue to use the desktop and discover other aspects and functions, the attributes of the robot on the other side also popped up.
[Fei Fei Semi-intelligent Series—Robot Worker (Excellent)]
[Description: This is a semi-intelligent robotic worker created by the player “Ma Fei” by expending large amounts of rare materials. The semi-intelligent robotic worker contains a high-performance processing chip, and a complete set of logic sequences written into the chip. With poor A.I. learning capabilities, this semi-intelligent robotic worker has unique and precise abilities in manufacturing, repairing, device operation, and other fields of work. With sufficient energy, the robotic worker can help humans complete various tasks.]
[Current Modes]:
Manufacturing mode: (Logic: 82%, Sensitivity: 70%, A.I. learning capability: 21%)
Combat mode: (Logic: 62%, Sensitivity: 41%, A.I. learning capability: 0%)
Acquisition mode: (Logic: 71%, Sensitivity: 50%, A.I. learning capability: 39%)
Fully-intelligent mode: (…0%)
[Special Ability:]
[Indestructible (when sufficient energy is provided and the robot is in resting mode, the robotic worker will automatically restore 1% durability every 24 hours)]
[Self-learning (under the condition that the network is connected, and sufficient information is available, the robotic worker will automatically learn and supplement its abilities, and will modify itself within the set range)]
[Adaptability (Locked)]
[Potential: One and a half stars]
[Resale Value: 120 disaster points]
“It’s worthy of Ma Fei’s ten years of hard work. If these 36 robots were to be recycled, he would earn more than 4000 disaster points!”
“Even compared to those epic-quality blueprints, this was way higher!”
Looking at the attributes of the robotic workers and the resale value given by the game, Su Mo could not help but clench his fists in excitement.
If one day he were to understand the manufacturing manual left behind by Ma Fei, the shelter could start a robot assembly line.
Even without the tremendous productivity bonus that the robots would provide, the disaster points alone were already a stable source of income.
Besides, the attributes of the robot workers now were far from their peak. Among the three main modes, apart from the manufacturing mode, which had a logic rating of 82%, the rest had a lot more room for development.
“If only I could perfect these three modes and mass produce them, the manufacturing level of the Underground Shelter would undergo a tremendous leap forward!”
As someone who had seen the robot workers in combat mode, Su Mo had greater expectations for them considering how they performed with their current attributes.
Back at the storage room, Su Mo took out a USB cable. A complete control panel popped up after he opened the robot worker’s rear hatch and connected it to the host computer.
The term “semi-intelligent” was a nicer way of saying that he had to write a set of programs and codes for the robot to execute it in accordance with its logic.
After realizing that he could not understand a single thing about the code, Su Mo lightly tapped his finger on the desktop, but then quickly focused his attention as he summoned the system.
For now, the cost of survival points required for the robot to be fully-intelligent was likely to be out of his reach. However, what if the system just slightly improved it?