bioinnovel Chapter 503 5 kilometers!
Chapter 503 5 kilometers!
The afternoon of the third day of the voyage.
Zhang Yan used the cruise time to begin pre-connecting the underlying protocols of 108 Mo Bing devices.
As the core hub, the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart can theoretically send commands to all Ink Soldiers simultaneously.
But sending commands and precise control are two different things.
The former is a mass broadcast, while the latter requires maintaining an independent sensing link for each Mobing.
It's like playing 108 games of chess simultaneously, and you can't make a single mistake in any of them.
Zhang Yan closed his eyes in the driver's seat, his consciousness sinking into the inner layer of the Heavenly Craftsmanship Heart.
One hundred and eight link ports are neatly arranged, like a row of telephone lines waiting to be connected.
The first unit is connected.
The moment the link is established, a blurry version of myself appears within the perceptual domain.
The joint status, core temperature, and attitude data of the first Mo Bing in the warehouse all poured in.
The second, the third, the tenth.
The perceptual field expands rapidly, like lights turning on one by one in a dark room.
By the time they reached the twentieth station, Zhang Yan's breathing quickened, and the information load was accumulating.
The thirty-fifth station.
My temples started to feel hot. The synchronization rate of the Tiangong Heart did not decrease, but the multi-threaded processor began to heat up.
Zhang Yan did not stop. He released the Thousand-Mechanism Arm, and the six mechanical fingers hovered above the control panel to begin performing fine movements.
Drag and drop the data files on the tablet one by one to categorize them.
This is a trick he discovered in the Ruins of Return: physical manipulation that distracts attention can reduce mental overload.
Channel 47.
My temples throbbed even harder, and the Thousand Machine Arm's movements slowed down by 0.3 seconds.
Zhang Yan clenched his fingers, suppressing his breathing to once every four seconds.
Inhale for four seconds, exhale for four seconds.
The sixtieth station.
A torrent of information surged through my mind as the status data from sixty Mo Bing units were simultaneously flooded in.
The Tiangong Heart starts with priority sorting, pushing low-value data to the bottom layer, leaving only core parameters on the surface.
The 80th station.
Zhang Yan twitched his nostrils; the Thousand Machine Arm was still archiving, and its speed began to pick up again.
He adapted.
The 100th unit, the 104th unit, the 108th unit.
All connected.
Zhang Yan opened his eyes.
The throbbing pain in my temples subsided within three seconds, and the temperature of the Heavenly Craftsman's Heart dropped.
The system panel displays the test results.
[Ink Soldier Array Pre-connection Complete: 108/108]
[Current maximum number of units to be precisely synchronized and controlled: 12]
[Coordinated broadcast command, not precise, maximum coverage: 108 units]
Twelve platforms.
Zhang Yan was not disappointed. This was the first test, and he could improve through training.
The coordinated broadcast coverage of all Ink soldiers means that on the actual battlefield, he can issue unified tactical commands and then precisely control twelve of them.
It's enough, enough for now.
When Guan Xing returned from the warehouse, he glanced at the test data.
"Twelve units are under precise control. This is the first time we've connected them. This number is very high; we expected eight units."
Zhang Yan said, "The four extra units are a bonus from the Guixu shared-origin environment; the bonus will disappear after returning to Earth."
"I know." Zhang Yan flexed his wrists and retracted the Thousand Machine Arm. "Continue practicing when we get back."
He opened the communication interface and sent a second message.
"I'll be home tomorrow."
"We'll discuss Mo Bing's matter in detail when we get back. First, help me clear out a large space for the underground laboratory."
After sending it, he added another message.
"I received a reply. Don't cook the ribs in advance; I want them fresh out of the pot."
send.
Guan Xing watched quietly from the side: "You even smile when you send messages now."
"no."
"You have wrinkles around your eyes."
Zhang Yan ignored her.
On the morning of the fourth day of the voyage.
The channel exit coordinates have been locked.
On the system panel, the solar system is marked with an orange dot.
Chaos is approaching at high speed and is expected to reach the exit in six hours.
Zhang Yan switched the mecha from cruise mode to standby mode.
The four core elements were tested online one by one, and the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, and Black Tortoise were all normal.
The temperature of the Tiangong Heart is stable, and the synchronization rate is maintained at 98.7%.
The final round of navigation log verification was completed by the stargazers.
"The waterway is clear and there are no abnormalities."
Zhang Yan nodded, preparing to switch the automatic navigation back to manual.
Just then, a small icon in the lower right corner of the system panel lit up.
That is the passive scanning layer of the Heart of Heaven.
After downloading the safe navigation map from the relay station, it has been running in the background, and now it has caught something.
Zhang Yan clicked on it.
Passive Scan Report
A faint signal source was detected at the edge of the solar system, 0.7 AU outside Neptune's orbit.
Signal type: Passive scanning wave
[Frequency band matching results: Cluster, Scout, Seed level]
[Confidence level: 94.3%]
Zhang Yan raised his hand from the control panel and left it hanging in mid-air.
She had already spotted the stars, and her pen remained suspended between her fingers.
"Before you set off, you instructed Nie Qingcheng to use the door network to passively shield and hide the characteristics of Earth's energy."
Zhang Yan recalled: "The shielding was effective; the three reconnaissance targets in the Kuiper Belt were already diverted by the interference."
"But this one isn't in the Kuiper Belt," the stargazer said. "It's inside Neptune's orbit, about fifteen astronomical units deeper than the previous three."
It bypassed the passive shielding on the outside and cut in from the weak point of the gate network coverage.
The community is still learning.
Zhang Yan withdrew his hand and returned to the control panel.
"We'll be at the exit in six hours," Guanxing asked. "Should we deal with this first, or go home?"
Zhang Yan didn't hesitate: "Take care of it first."
He fine-tuned the channel exit coordinates, deflecting it by three degrees, aiming for the outer edge of Neptune.
Chaos continued to glide forward.
The passageway was torn open into a narrow slit, and chaos slid out from the blue light and into the regular space.
The starry sky was overwhelming, the sun shone brightly in the far distance, and Neptune's orbit stretched out all around.
The space was empty, desolate, and sparse ice fragments floated in the vacuum.
Instead of flying directly to the target coordinates, Zhang Yan reduced the thruster output to the minimum and used the residual speed at the exit to glide without power.
The thruster's thermal signal is like a street lamp in space; he needs darkness now.
"Target location." The stargazer retrieved the data: "Seventeen degrees to the left of directly ahead, 42,000 kilometers away."
Forty-two thousand kilometers is practically next door in space.
Zhang Yan switched to the passive scanning layer, not emitting probe waves, but only receiving them.
The signal is very weak; without the sensitivity of the Tiangongzhixin (a high-performance device), conventional equipment would treat it as background noise.
Seed-level, the lowest-level unit in the swarm reconnaissance system, has no combat capability, no independent judgment, and its only function is to absorb information from the surrounding electromagnetic environment, package it, and transmit it back to the parent body.
"What is the return cycle?" Zhang Yan asked.
Stargazing and calculating in seconds: "Based on signal fluctuations, it's estimated to occur every 72 hours. The attenuation curve shows that the last transmission was approximately 51 hours ago."
That means there are 21 hours left.
enough.
Zhang Yan activated the Azure Dragon Core, and the spatial folding field unfolded.
The path of light is bent, and chaos disappears simultaneously from both the visual and electromagnetic levels.
In stealth mode, chaos accelerates toward the target coordinates.
As the stargazer watched the signal source change, the distance numbers rapidly decreased.
30,000 kilometers, 20,000 kilometers, 10,000 kilometers.
"Five thousand kilometers," the observer reported. "The target is not responding."
Two thousand kilometers away, Zhang Yan had already seen the outline of the target through passive scanning.