Scholar’s Advanced Technological System

After seeing Director Lee go, the ark took the elevator diameter to the second basement of the main building of the Institute of Higher Studies and entered the unknown third basement floor through the access control hidden in the sample room -

That is, underground laboratories.

The system rewarded him for his wreckage, which was basically placed here, under Em's care.

Almost as soon as he had just stepped into the lab, a four-wing drone hanging from a display crept over and flew around him for two laps.

Looking at the sticky little Egg, the ark immediately opened its doors to meet the mountain lane.

“What happened to the ‘crawler'? ”

The so-called "reptile” refers naturally to the "reptile” all-terrain remote-controlled exploration vehicle, which is one of the samples of the system rewards he received when his last phase of the mission was completed.

Unlike the clothes that are woven from carbon nanofiber materials, the technological content of this thing is obviously quite high.

According to the description in the specification, its communication radius is theoretically as high as three astronomical units, and even if Mars and the Earth are at their farthest relative positions, his terminals can successfully receive signals from the "crawler” all-terrain remotely piloted exploration vehicle, at most with faint signals and, at most, high delays, which cannot be controlled in real time.

Very interested in its communication device, the ship had tried to disassemble the item, but unfortunately a non-violent means of disassembly had never been found, and the instructions clearly stated that there was a built-in self-destruction procedure, which could lead to unpredictable consequences.

Obviously this thing is probably a type of thing with a nitrogen shield.

Either use the all-purpose scanner, or you can only use scrap.

Fortunately, unlike the one-time use of a non-rechargeable nitrogen shield, according to the instructions, this item can be recharged by solar as well as geothermal energy and automatically enters low-energy standby mode when the energy is low, waiting to be restarted when the environment is appropriate.

Given the deployment of the Moon Space Station and the fact that exploration of resources on the Moon is no longer costly, this "reptile” is naturally used on Mars by the Ark.

This will not only prepare resources for future colonial activities, but will also allow you to explore the "ruins” of the New Virginia Colonial Station to see what really happened there.

Em: [Successfully landed on Mars Earth! Ready to start! (...) Niu]

The ark nodded down: "Let's start now. ”

Xiao Ai: [Yes! (๑ • ㅂ • ∙)✧]

The terminal of the Reptile ATV is a thick laptop equipped with a signal transmitting and receiving capacity as large as a half tank. And that signal transmitting and receiving device, already installed by the ark next to the water tank on the roof of the Institute of Advanced Studies, in terms of covering up the eyes and ears, is still quite well done.

But then again, even if someone finds it strange, they don't have the right to investigate here.

Even without looking at the important role played by the Jinling Institute of Higher Studies in the field of controllable fusion and aerospace, it is not easy to find out the secrets of the Air Force and the Naval Equipment Department when it comes to key cooperative R&D agencies.

Currently, the terminal of the "Crawler” survey vehicle is connected to the host of Em.

Five minutes after the order of the Ark, a pitch-black prism-shaped metal box made a leak on Mars, tens of millions of kilometres from here.

Immediately afterwards, the housing on one side of the box opened slowly, a remotely piloted car less than half a person tall and with an angular shape, rolling three pairs of half-height tires out, under preset instructions, facing the dust storm that covered the sun, heading towards the ruins of the New Virginia marked in the map.

Meanwhile, the Ark, which was underground in the laboratory, first made itself a cup of coffee, then went to the experimental table and sat down and turned on the control terminal for the survey vehicle that was placed on the table.

Quietly awaiting the countdown of communications responses, a row of dialogs jumps out of the screen as the signals gently flow from tens of millions of kilometres away.

[Lightning escape pod on!

[“Crawler” awakens successfully!

[Terminal connection successful!

As the last dialog box popped up, a clear picture quickly came from the screen, as the ark drank coffee and watched the crawler march quietly against the harsh climate.

Remote control over a delay of several minutes is obviously unrealistic, and this little guy has a simple “tool-level” intelligence level that, combined with pre-set instructions, basically allows you to complete the survey tasks in the task list without being manipulated throughout.

And the person sitting in front of the control terminal just needs to look at the signals that are delayed for a few minutes or even a dozen minutes and correct the "variables” that may appear in the survey task.

In fact, it's okay to leave this job entirely to Em, but the ark hasn't been lazy enough, not to mention he's curious about what kind of hole there is in the life support unit that congregates the best artificial biosphere technology in North America.

Without waiting long, the outline of the life-support unit has been reflected through the sky's yellow sand into the field of view of the main "reptile” camera.

Looking at the tragedy of this “relic”, the Ark recalls the concept map that Space-X posted on the official website and was forced to shush for half a second for Ares' plan.

When the escape pod is launched, the entire life support unit is substantially in a semi-defunct state. The remaining power will probably be enough for the life-support unit to stay on standby for a while, but most of this time it won't last too long.

The return compartment removes as much remaining oxygen and methane as possible before leaving, and the injected tail flame burns the shell of the life support unit.

As the "crawler” passes through the peripheral cultivation area, the ark can clearly be seen through the side lens, and the four-sided “vegetable shed” has been largely blown down by high temperature airflow, with plastic-growing vessels mostly buried in the sand.

However, these are minor problems, after all, not long after the sandstorm, which was confirmed to be global, the colonists had recycled all the crops and the entire cultivation area was largely abandoned.

Driving to the garage door, an antenna that looked like a contact angle touched the door control, quickly preloaded into the life-support unit and unlocked the garage door.

As the gate slowly opened, the crawler activated the lighting on the roof, so it swung in.

Through the terminal screen, looking at the unprotected life-support unit, the heart of the ark is also filled with emotion.

The Spark program was thwarted by attacks by unknown forces, and although there is currently no direct evidence that the CIA did it, it did not occur to him that research into stagnant artificial biosphere technology would return in such a way.

Perhaps this is what we call destiny or turning back.

Though he doesn't believe in these things.

Through the warehouse area, straight into the experimental area, looking at the plastic bagged household garbage on the ground, the image of the last few weeks here was probably restored in the mind of the ark.

In an effort to conserve living resources and valuable energy, the colonists had moved from their living quarters to this place, where food and shelter were squatted next to the only communications terminal that could connect to the BFS spacecraft.

Thinking of it here, the heart of the ark can't help but laugh.

I don't know how these fugitives will look when they get on the Xia Guang and find that they can still take a bath on the Xia Guang with their cabin.

In front of the console in the lab, the antenna that had previously been connected to the access control system protruded again from the crawler's enclosure and dotted in front of the console's chassis.

Soon, the extinguished screen lit up and a row of progress bars appeared above.

With the completion of the progress strip, it has been packed for data only to be picked, all taken over by reptiles, and passed back to the tens of millions of kilometres away from the ark.

The files presented on the control terminal screen were quickly passed over, and the ark gradually converged with a light-hearted look on its face, and a slight seriousness appeared in its color.

Even, surprised.

“… kind of interesting. ”