After receiving Yang Tianyi's verbal promise, Paul, who regained his freedom, immediately took the messaging robot on the road to find his friends.
Relying on their flexible movements and the guidance of the group's drone, the two of them managed to avoid many of the checkpoints that MNU had set up in District 9 due to yesterday's battle, and finally arrived at a room with an ordinary appearance, which could even be said to be... In front of the dilapidated tin hut.
"Christopher, it's me! Open the door quickly."
"Uncle Paul! Why are you here?"
After discovering that there was a patrol helicopter flying in his direction in the sky, Paul anxiously patted the leaky door panel, which was also made of iron sheet. There was a noise in the house, and a small shrimp man appeared in the crack of the opened door. head.
After entering the narrow and dark cabin and closing the door tightly, Paul finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked back at the tall figure wearing a black cloak behind him and found that the mechanical eyeball under the hood was emitting a faint blue light. It was probably Scanning the furnishings in the house.
After touching the shrimp man's head, Paul glanced at the uneven ground under his feet and asked, "Is Johnson tinkering with his crappy boat again?"
"Yes, dad is always fixing things and has no time to play with me..."
Little Johnson nodded in despair. Only then did he realize that there was a tall and sturdy mysterious guest behind his uncle. Before he could reach out curiously to touch the smooth surface of the velvet cloak, Yang Tianyi took the initiative to take it off and ball it up. Then it was handed into his hand.
But obviously, Johnson's attention shifted from the moment the cloak was untied to the robot's sci-fi-like steel body.
Perhaps because he was the guest brought by Uncle Paul, although the shrimp man's eyes were wary, it was more about the strong curiosity for new things that most intelligent beings retain in their childhood.
"Please wait a moment, I will ask Johnson to come up to see you."
While Paul let Little Johnson go to the back room to play with his cloak, he bent down and lifted up the dirty and greasy carpet on the floor, revealing the trap door that was covered underneath.
A few minutes later, he returned to the room with a shrimp man wearing a red children's vest, and the latter's eyes when looking at Yang Tianyi were not as friendly as his son's, and he was still vigilant.
"This is what I told you, he can help..."
Halfway through Paul's words, he was interrupted by the shrimp man in red vest who raised his hand. He put the old repair tools in his hand on the table, looked up and down the metallic body of the robot and said in a deep voice: "Paul just said You told me, so you are an enemy of MNU and can help, right?"
"Yes, but the help is not free, I believe you can understand this."
Yang Tianyi nodded to confirm Christopher's statement, and also stated his conditions straightforwardly.
There is no problem in getting help from the group. As long as he can pay a price commensurate with the value, he will have no problem even if the other party asks him to destroy the human civilization in the ninth district.
"Um......"
After hearing the conditions proposed by the robot, Christopher's mouth tentacles were all tangled up in thought, making him look a little funny. But Paul, who was familiar with the habits of his old friends, knew that Johnson was only considering whether to believe Yang Tianyi's kindness.
"First of all, I need some items that use biotechnology. I want our technology, not your human technology."
After thinking for a long time, Christopher finally made up his mind and said, "If you want to know the reason, I can tell you, but before that, I think Paul should have told you about the origin of our modified shrimp people and the original shrimp people, right?"
Seeing the robot nodding in agreement, he continued to explain: "I need to collect the remaining native shrimp-human genes from these technological products to synthesize a gene key with high authority to control the entire mothership. Without those bastards The gene, I can’t even activate the underground command module.”
Seeing that the other party seemed a little confused by his oversimplified reasons, Christopher simply led the other party into the underground mothership command module, stuck his head out from the cellar door, and asked Paul to stay in the house to look after Little Johnson and keep watch. Only then did he patiently explain to Yang Tianyi seriously.
During the rebellion that affected the entire mothership more than 20 years ago, one of him and Paul was the mechanical engineer of the spacecraft, and the other was a repairman who helped the engineers. At that time, they were not like they are now, with their edges smoothed by humans on earth.
Like the millions of modified shrimp people on the spaceship, Christopher hated the original shrimp people who destroyed his civilization and transformed his compatriots into ugly shrimp people. Under the control of others, he can only do the job he was good at before being transformed day after day, that is, a mechanical engineer.
Due to the anger that had been stored in his heart for a long time and the oppression of the native shrimp people, he did not hesitate to join the rebel camp the moment he got wind of it, and he also relied on his identity as an engineer to reach a high position in the organization.
Because of this, Christopher, who didn't want all his efforts to be in vain, made a decision that had troubled him for many years when the organization decided to release biological weapons.
Without him helping the organization place virus-filled containers into every corner of the spacecraft in the name of troubleshooting, the rebellion would never have gone so smoothly.
Even if the cost was that the intelligence of tens of thousands of his fellow humans would be reduced to childhood, he was so focused on revenge that he couldn't care less about it at that time, so that the subsequent extinction of the native shrimp people on the spaceship became part of the price in his eyes.
In the countless days and nights after the spacecraft docked on Earth, Christopher thought more than once about committing suicide for the serious crimes he had committed, but he was always worried about his fellow humans in District 9 who were still being treated roughly by humans.
For this reason, he has been secretly debugging the command modules that fell off the mothership for the past twenty years, collecting the remaining genes of the original shrimp people, and preparing to one day drive the mothership back to the original shrimp people's home planet to ask for help.
Although he knew that he would still not be able to escape the judgment of the native shrimp people in the end, but before that, he did not want to let more than one million of his tortured compatriots continue to be slaughtered on the earth.
To achieve this, various technological items containing the residual genes of the original shrimp people are the key.
In the shrimp-people empire with advanced biotechnology, the relatively small number of native shrimp-people destined them to be unable to do everything themselves. There will always be some important work or tasks that fall on the heads of the modified shrimp people.
In order to prevent certain positions from being controlled by modified shrimp people for a long time and causing social class unrest in the empire, the original shrimp people established a complex and sophisticated multi-level authorization system based on their own genetic keys.
Taking the social structure of the mothership as an example, the vast majority of modified shrimp people are engaged in the most painful and tiring manual labor with little leisure, such as miners, porters and servants of the original shrimp people. Only a few lucky ones can After receiving the genetic key given to them by the native shrimp people, they can travel freely inside the spacecraft with this key, which essentially does not belong to them.
This can also be seen when they sell weapons to human gangs. Most of the weapons brought by the shrimp people are actually mining tools equipped on the mothership, such as ultra-high frequency microwave transmitters and gravity tractor guns.
Although their killing effect on organisms is also very amazing, in the final analysis the main job of these "guns" is not to fight but to crush and mine the ores hidden under the thick rock formations.
As for real military weapons, there are no such things on the spaceship, but those high-end goods such as combat mechas and exoskeletons are exclusively for native shrimp people, and modified shrimp people have no authority to use them at all. Therefore, they moved it around simply and roughly when selling it. No one has ever seen a shrimp man who can personally control the mecha to fight or move.
However, this genetically determined permission system has also become the only opportunity on earth to transform the shrimp people.
According to Christopher's research, there will always be remnants of the original shrimp people when they use items that require genetic keys or make genetic keys that are distributed to the modified shrimp people. Through his homemade extraction tools, he has the ability to extract a real genetic key from these items with genetic residues, and has enough authority to give the mothership a return order.
After so many years of hard work, he has almost completed the work of repairing the command module and collecting genes. Even if Yang Tianyi doesn't help now, Christopher believes that he can complete all the preparations in just a few months, taking his son, Paul and others with him. Board the mothership and head to the planet they once hated.
But the key is that MNU, which is anxious to relocate all the shrimp people to the 10th District, will obviously not give him so much time, not to mention that Yang Tianyi also very cunningly distorted the true intentions of the MNU, interpreting a simple relocation operation as a plan for the 10th District. The massacre in District 9 made Christopher feel that time was running out, so he had to accept "help" from the group.
Taking the list of required items from the other party's hand, Yang Tianyi glanced at it briefly and nodded: "I can help you find everything you need within three days, but I have two conditions."
"First, I need your biotechnology to extract the genetic key from the residue, and I also need to make a copy of all the data in the mothership database."
"Second, on the day you decide to set off, I will send people to follow you to the home planet of the Shrimp Man Empire to conduct diplomatic work. You don't need to know the specific details, just take my people there."
"Diplomatic work? This..."
Christopher looked at the robot's seemingly too advanced manufacturing process with doubtful eyes. Christopher hesitated for a moment after thinking of some possibility, and finally agreed to these two conditions.
"The technology for refining genetic keys is not complicated. I can tell you now what equipment and processes are needed."
After casually pressing the screen of the holographic projector next to him a few times, Christopher proudly taught Yang Tianyi the refining technique step by step - for a mechanical engineer, he could teach himself and even make a set of refining equipment under such difficult conditions. It is indeed something to be proud of.
Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that what the other party wanted was not the genetic key of the original shrimp people, but the modified shrimp people.
In Yang Tianyi's view, if this technology can extract genes from residues that have lost their activity, then it will be more convenient and faster to extract them from living organisms, right?
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