"Crack!"
With a soft sound, the last section of the rocket fell off and fell into the atmosphere in an instant, burning into a fireball.
The cone-shaped head of the rocket sprays flames to both sides, gradually stabilizes on the orbit, and circles at a minimum speed.
Inside the cabin, tiny arcs of electricity danced on Chen Xing's fingertips, and blue electric light illuminated the darkness.
"How much longer?" Chen Xing asked the seventh princess. In this small, enclosed space, it feels like time flows very slowly.
"There are still twenty-one hours, thirty-five minutes and seventeen seconds before landing." The seventh princess replied, the time accurate to the second.
"Are we just sitting like this?" Chen Xing asked, spreading his hands. Since becoming prime minister, he has not been bored for a long time. When he's not deciding on national affairs, he's enjoying the gentle countryside. Even in his most free time, Xiao Yang is always there to relax.
Although it had only taken less than half an hour from the ground to space, he was already feeling bored.
"If you feel bored, we can play chess to pass the time." The seventh princess suggested.
"Playing chess?"
Although the tone was questioning, Chen Xing refused with a look on his face. He recalled that in his first life, because his father liked to play chess but often couldn't find an opponent, he installed a chess software for his father to play after learning how to use a computer.
At the beginning, his father was still very interested, but after a few days, he no longer wanted to play chess with the computer. When asked why, his father said that playing chess with the computer was very tiring. After thinking about it for a long time, the opponent just made a move and the other side made it back without even taking a second. I have been in high-intensity thinking for a long time, and I am physically and mentally exhausted. Moreover, the computer will not make mistakes and will not have any negative emotions when losing. The psychological tactics are completely ineffective.
Even if you win against such an opponent, it won't be much fun.
Opposite Chen Xing at this moment was a super computer whose computing power was countless billions of times faster than the personal computer he had at home in his first life.
If you play chess with her, aren't you asking for trouble?
"You can also play chess or cards. Don't you humans often pass your time in this way?" said the seventh princess.
"Let's chat." Chen Xing said, directly cutting off the other person's thoughts.
"Okay." The seventh princess nodded in response, quiet and well-behaved, and then asked, "Then what are we talking about?"
Chen Xing thought for a while and looked at the other person, "Let's just talk about you."
"Me?" The seventh princess pointed to her chest, looking confused. Even with computing power that far exceeded the technology of this world, she couldn't guess the other party's intentions.
"To be precise, let's talk about half of you..." Chen Xing showed a meaningful smile and added, "The half that belongs to Nova."
"Are you curious about me?" the seventh princess asked doubtfully.
"I've always been curious." Chen Xing emphasized.
"Okay, then you ask." The seventh princess sat upright, "What do you want to know?"
"For example..." Chen Xing deliberately lengthened his voice and said after a few seconds, "How do you reproduce?"
In fact, he had wanted to ask this question for a long time, but he could never find the opportunity.
Survival, death, reproduction and evolution are the four most important signs of life. No matter whether carbon-based life or silicon-based life, can escape these four issues.
For a womanizer, reproduction is naturally the most interesting part. Does mechanical life require bisexual reproduction like humans, or does it require parthenogenetic reproduction like Suna?
"You want to ask if my Nova half can have children?" the seventh princess repeated.
"That's probably what I mean." Chen Xing nodded. Although he tried his best to maintain a neutral, academic, and serious attitude, he still gave people a sense of wretchedness.
Just imagine, a man is discussing the issue of species reproduction with an innocent-looking girl who looks to be only sixteen or seventeen years old. No matter how serious and pious the expression on his face is, it will give people the impression of being a hooligan. visual sense.
"From a human biological perspective, we belong to parthenogenesis..."
However, the seventh princess was not affected and began to answer the questions seriously.
Her performance seemed to confirm a saying from the side: A person with a pure heart is pure no matter what he does or thinks, while a person with dirty thoughts is dirty no matter what he thinks.
Nova's world is a cyber civilization that once flourished.
Like other civilizations, they also have creation legends.
At the beginning of the universe, it was a piece of wonton. Among the wontons, the "matrix" was born.
Within the matrix, countless individual consciousnesses were produced.
According to human cognition, the matrix can be regarded as a super consciousness collection that can fission into countless consciousnesses.
"When we gain life, the evolutionary process is somewhat similar to the evolutionary process of mutant creatures igniting spiritual fire."
"This process is called 'lighting the fire.'"
"Compared with the initiative of igniting the spiritual fire, igniting the fire is passive. The mother body ignites the fire of individual consciousness, so that the empty body has a soul."
"Every thirty-two years, the mother body will use big data to select some outstanding individuals and enter their information into the fire database."
"The new fire is to randomly select materials from the fire library according to a certain arrangement and combination."
"This is very similar to the random selection of the gene pool in your human chromosomes..."
"Do you have a lifespan limit?" Chen Xing interrupted and asked. Life has a beginning and must have an end. This is the law of conservation of everything in the universe.
"Yes." The seventh princess nodded, "Ordinary mechanical maids have a lifespan of about three hundred years."
"Can't you replace parts? If you can replace them, why are they still aging?" Chen Xing asked curiously.
There are two main reasons why humans age. One is permanent and irreversible trauma, and the other is the gradual hardening of the materials that make up the body, such as blood vessel hardening, bone hardening, etc.
But if parts can be freely replaced, there is no possibility of aging.
"Ageing is not due to body parts, but to data redundancy." The seventh princess said a very professional term.
Data redundancy.
She went on to explain, "Prolonged operations create a lot of data fragments, which eventually fill up the memory."
"It is difficult to distinguish between data fragments and valid data, and space can only be freed up by clearing the storage."
"But if you clear the database, even if you re-enter the data, it will not be the original consciousness."
"Death and the end, by your very definition as a species," she concluded.
"Three hundred years..." Chen Xing frowned and looked at the delicate face like white porcelain, "Are you more than this age?"
"I am a public maid in the library. I am a little different from ordinary individuals. When the mother body created me, it deleted most of the creative thinking modules and focused on conventional calculations. Therefore, the data redundancy generated is much lower than that of ordinary individuals."
Chen Xing thought for a while and then asked, "Is Sola the same as you?"
"I am not the mother body, and I cannot ignite an individual's fire, so..." The seventh princess paused, "Sola is just an intelligent program, not a mechanical life in the human definition."
"So that's it..." Chen Xing looked thoughtful.
"Any more questions?" asked the seventh princess.
"No more for now." Chen Xing replied subconsciously.
"Then it's my turn to ask questions." The seventh princess sat up straight and looked straight at Chen Xing, looking ready to attack.
"Did you know?" Chen Xing's expression became serious. "When a woman is curious about a man, it is the beginning of her downfall." He looked threatening, "So you'd better not ask me any questions."
"Is this a double standard?" The seventh princess tilted her head slightly and blinked her big eyes.
"Let's talk about something meaningful..." Chen Xing changed the subject, "Why do you have to come to me? As the seventh princess of the Qing Kingdom, there are many people around you who are better than me, such as the above Those two old men."
"I need you to take me in." The Seventh Princess said, "They built a fortress at the entrance to the steam world. The underground is made of reinforced concrete more than ten meters deep, and the walls are made of two-meter steel plates. We have to do it without alerting the guards. Dive in."
"How to sneak in through the gate of the fortress?" Chen Xing asked.
"The gate is locked, and the guards there can't open the door." The seventh princess said.
"Then how do we get in?" Chen Xing asked curiously.
The seventh princess pointed at Chen Xing, "Your teleportation."
"I can only teleport myself in." Chen Xing said.
"According to previous records, you can carry other materials for teleportation. Your highest record is to carry a three-meter-seven-meter-long and 45-kilogram Bayonetta sniper rifle for teleportation, so in theory..." The Seventh Princess paused After a moment, "You can teleport with me."
"Oh, you even know this..." Chen Xing narrowed his eyes, flashing a dangerous light, "You have been spying on me, right?"
The seventh princess looked away with some guilt, avoiding his gaze, "I, I'm just curious..."
