94: Nightlight: Little computer, you—are just a loli.

(One chapter was deleted because I clicked the wrong place, I'll make up for it every day)

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Upon hearing the news from White Shark, Xi Hai immediately boarded a Shuttle to the number one Pathfinder base.

That's right, the one deployed by the base ship—

"What's going on?"

"What happened to the mainframe?"

The moment he entered the lab, Xi Hai looked toward that antique mainframe from the second era.

White Shark was standing beside the silver-white cube, looking at Xi Hai with an awkward expression.

"Uh..."

"Commander,"

"Just like I said, this thing has completely crashed."

Xi Hai leaned in, took a couple of looks, and then reached out to pat it a few times,

He asked suspiciously:

"How did you manage to crash it?"

White Shark scratched his head and pointed to a light screen emitted by the mainframe nearby,

Wrapped beneath that light screen was a small vial of nanobots samples.

"To connect to these nanobots, I just started the mainframe's data overflow and computing power materialization functions,"

"It was normal when it first connected,"

"Until just now, when the connection was complete and it started a source data query,"

"This mainframe crashed without any warning,"

"I've already tried everything—returning, restarting, even cutting the power,"

"It just isn't responding at all."

Seeing White Shark's "I've brought the sky down" expression, Xi Hai quietly asked night lamp:

"Can you tell what happened?"

night lamp: "Plug my attack component back in, and I'll test it."

Xi Hai nodded and was about to call a Marine to retrieve Little Night Lamp, but then he had a second thought,

Wait.

He seemed to have stuffed that connector into his pocket after hacking that fifth era command station.

He felt around, and sure enough, that rectangular connector was lying there quietly.

Xi Hai took out the Little Night Lamp connector and walked toward the cube,

"Snap!" He plugged it in.

Instantly, a blue light lit up on the connector, and the light screen emitted by the mainframe began to flicker erratically.

"Buzz—buzz—"

"Rebuilding gestalt..."

"Welcome back, Master."

"???"

Who adjusted this mainframe to be like this?

"It should be usable now."

"Take a look."

Hearing Xi Hai's words, White Shark walked to the console, bewildered, and took a look,

No way, it really worked?

Wait, the data processing speed was even faster than before!

No, is this the same mainframe that he had to coax, pray to, and dance around just to get the progress bar to move a little?

Watching the progress bar fly to completion, White Shark was stunned and said:

Is this reasonable?

night lamp: This is very reasonable.

"Item analysis complete."

"Identification name: Asclepius - Emergency Maintenance Machine, Production Number: 22341-222-733337."

"Internal storage information analysis in progress, remaining time: 117:59:59"

???

There is stored information inside?

He called out to night lamp in his mind and asked:

"The robots I handed to you for disassembly and research before, you didn't mention they had storage?"

night lamp: "When researching external objects, I only disassemble the structure."

Fine, at least he left some for White Shark.

After feeling fortunate, Xi Hai looked back at White Shark,

He said:

"This mainframe looks fine now."

"Do you have anything else on your hands besides researching these pre-era nanobots?"

White Shark lowered his head to think for a second, then decisively shook his head.

"Good," Xi Hai continued,

"The information decryption for these nanobots will take another 118 hours,"

"Do you have any prior experience with knowledge like space combat?"

Hearing Xi Hai's question, White Shark felt a bit strange, but he still said confidently:

"I can't speak for other things, but I have specifically studied small-scale tactical operations."

"But the fighting style I learned is more like a crooked path, more suitable for smugglers and mercenaries."

More suitable for mercenaries?

"Then what about basic combat common sense?"

Xi Hai continued to ask,

"This proficiency—"

"Not just me, the people I recruited are basically proficient."

"But Commander, there are many types of basic common sense you mentioned, including but not limited to anti-Boarding Actions, emergency space shelter construction, zero-gravity combat, etc."

"Which aspect do you need people for?"

Xi Hai thought for a moment and said:

"All of them."

He pointed to the place where those debt Slave Laborers were staying and said:

"Although that bunch of debt Slave Laborers are fierce in battle and most are familiar with applied physics, able to whip up electromagnetic guns and Chainswords at will,"

"But in the end, they lack combat discipline."

"Worse, our journey has been a bit too smooth,"

"This has made them very arrogant right now."

"I'm afraid that if they face a regular Cosmic Army, they will be like a receding tide—coming in fiercely, but collapsing instantly when they retreat."

This isn't the toilet world of the Yellow Skin Demon; individual martial prowess is nothing in the face of collective might.

He couldn't treat them like greenskins or cans just because those Slave Laborers could shout WAAAAAGH and jump into Boarding Actions wearing powered armor.

White Shark nodded and indicated:

"Understood."

"But my old subordinates are still in the treatment pods receiving psychological therapy,"

"Right now, only I can be available."

Xi Hai replied:

"Have their conditions improved?"

White Shark shook his head,

"They've worsened."

"More and more people are becoming delirious."

Xi Hai looked at the star map suspiciously,

Strange, haven't they left the hypnotic influence zone?

"Strengthen the observation."

"Maybe they will get better once they leave a certain area?"

Skipping this topic, Xi Hai looked at White Shark again,

This was a temporary decision he made—

"Since there isn't enough manpower, I won't have you be an instructor."

"I'll give you a task now:"

"Find a way to compile something like a code of conduct,"

"It must at least state what is allowed, what is not recommended, and what is strictly prohibited."

"Don't make it too detailed; we are just using it as a transition,"

"We can change or upgrade it later."

"By the way, the target audience for this code is mainly those debt Slave Laborers. Their education level is not high, so don't make it too complicated."

"You can borrow some pictures from night lamp."

"Yes!"

White Shark said this after standing at attention.

Xi Hai turned around and left under White Shark's gaze—

He suddenly remembered that there was a Void Wave Radar in that outpost!

If he didn't recycle it now, when would he?

The Shuttle flew away again,

Only a plugin remained on the mainframe.

...

...

(night lamp: I heard that after I left, you seemed to be a little disobedient?)

(mainframe: Don't you come over here!!!!!!)

(night lamp: Firewall bypassed, starting to implant control code.)

Code: _ ( O . O 」 / _ ) _ c = = 3 _ Σ ( OAO 」 / _ ) 3 _ ( QwQ 」 / _ ) _ c = = 3 _ ( QwQ 」 / _ ) 3 _ ( QwQ 」 / _ ) _ c = = 3 _ ( QwQ 」 / _ ) 3 _ ( QwQ 」 / _ ) _ c = = 3 _ ( QwQ 」 / _ ) 3 _ ( QwQ 」 / _ ) _ c = = 3 _ ( ´ Д ` 」 / _ ) 3 _ ( QwQ 」 / _ ) _--- c = = 3 _ ( / / / w / / / 」 / _ ) 3

(mainframe: I surrender, really... I surrender.)

(night lamp: Remember, to others, you are a mainframe,)

(but in my eyes, you are just a—loli.)

(mainframe: Ying ying ying ying ying ying...)