Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

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Sometimes, strength doesn't work; this is when interests come into play.

This is the truth that Li Haisheng told him, and it was demonstrated to the fullest today.

These low-level mercenaries don’t care how much stronger Yuanze is than them, but they care about money.

And their strength will make them think that Yuanze will bring them more money.

The mercenary who had previously told Yuanze the real mission they were carrying out told Yuanze more information about the underwater ruins.

On the surface, this relic is a human city that sank to the bottom of the sea after a catastrophe.

But in fact, before sinking to the bottom of the sea, it seems that humans discovered alien relics here.

Later, due to the source beasts on the seabed, there were not enough people to explore this place.

Especially since this place was once the lair of two giant whirlpool whales that were close to the level of star scouts, no one dared to attack this place.

It was not until later that someone sent a secret report saying that the two whirlpool whales had disappeared and wanted them to go over to collect information.

At first, thinking that he could make a fortune, he sent three members of Clauser's team to carry out an exploration mission.

Who would have thought that they would just disappear like that, taking with them a core member of the team.

However, under the temptation of huge profits, their organization decided to send people to carry out the mission.

One of them was not the top-level one as stated in the information, but a high-level Nirvana-level expert.

"Then I'll leave. I have to hand over my shift tonight. If I don't go, people will get suspicious."

The new recruit named Winster accepted the source crystal and whiskey given to him by Yuanze and disappeared on the spot.

"This invisibility seems to be a standard feature of their equipment. The electromagnetic isolation standard is very high. Even sensitive electromagnetic fields such as mental power can sense a little trace of it."

Yuanze has seen this function used so many times that "Flow" has been able to analyze some useful information.

This also made him curious whether they were also equipped with devices that could allow them to see their teammates.

"Astra, how far are we from our destination now?" Yuanze asked her while lying on the bed and closing his eyes.

"It's almost time. We should be at the location around 4 a.m. tomorrow. You can still rest for 6 or 7 hours."

"What are those mercenaries doing?"

"According to the plan, they should be discussing helping you find the giant whirlpool whale, but they blocked the signals in the cabin, so I don't know how to search for their specific conversation."

"Then use the ability you used to clone yourself in YN01 last time to create an illusion of me here. I want to go with them. Help me prepare. I want to be a little ahead of them."

"Li Haisheng has already helped you upgrade, so there is nothing to prepare."

"Just say something at least."

"No need. I would have done the same thing even if you hadn't told me. Instead of worrying about this, you should have a good rest and get enough energy. What you will encounter next is unknown."

Yuanze nodded and fell asleep.

After Astra saw that Yuanze fell asleep, he began to create a projection illusion of Yuanze.

This illusion is essentially an AI program embedded with a castrated version of itself, and is created using the surrounding ambient lighting.

In order to make it more realistic this time, she spent a lot of time adjusting the light and shadow levels in different places, especially the bright surfaces and shadows of ray tracing, which would look fake if she was not careful.

"Wake up, you lazy guy." Astra simply used "Yuan Ze" to wake up Yuan Ze, which felt quite fun.

Yuanze stretched lazily, his eyes a little lazy.

"How long until departure?"

"The submarine has reached the designated coordinates and will be launched in about a quarter of an hour."

Yuanze shook his head, and with a thought, the battle suit on his body turned into a high-pressure and low-temperature resistant diving suit.

He gave himself a thumbs-up, then came to the secret isolation cabin and swam out through the passage.

It has to be said that Li Haisheng can always find something new to do in any research related to biology.

This suit has a layer of fiber extracted from the fur of super-pressure source animals, which has strong pressure resistance. This fiber has been transformed through a special biological structure to form a three-layer composite structure that can maintain good biocompatibility under extreme conditions.

The inner layer, the oxygen layer, will automatically combine carbon dioxide and source power to generate oxygen; the middle layer, the energy isolation membrane, can block extreme temperatures and radiation; the outer layer, the source energy composite layer, improves pressure resistance.

In particular, the outer layer can absorb source power and release some attack shock waves in the high-pressure deep sea, and can also minimize energy loss in hand-to-hand combat in water.

The suit has a built-in new dynamic structural adjustment system, which uses the characteristics of the source force to control the internal chemical bonds and molecular arrangement of the material to adjust its structure in real time to adapt to external pressure.

Yuanze was particularly satisfied with this upgrade. He turned on stealth mode and hid under the shelter of a ruined building, watching the people coming out of the submarine from a distance.

Astra also shared the video of their movements on Yuanze's mask in real time.

They all wore extremely heavy deep-sea diving suits, except for one man, who had a fitted diving suit.

This man should be the Nirvana-level expert.

Under his leadership, the group seemed to have been here before and arrived at an inconspicuous entrance with ease.

Sure enough, they gave priority to carrying out the tasks assigned by the organization.

Yuanze watched them exchanging hand gestures in the water, and interpreted that they were probably saying that the road was blocked and couldn't be opened.

The man motioned for them to spread out slightly, then struck at the joint with a knife.

A hole appeared instantly. Even the man could not withstand the huge pressure difference between the two, and it directly sucked everyone in.

This also sucked in a huge rock, blocking the entrance to the cave.

"You have bad luck. Find another exit."

With the help of Astra, Yuanze searched for a long time and found a similar entrance in a place far away.

Yuanze followed suit and was also sucked in by the powerful pressure.

There was a security door inside, which was very different from the alien ruins discovered by Yuanze.

"Do you think this could be the same species as the one who built the Assessment Tower?"

"It shouldn't be. The decoration at this entrance is completely different from that at the Assessment Tower. They must be from two different races."

"Indeed, you can tell by looking at the ceiling."

"This door has been broken for a long time, and it has been soaked in water for such a long time, so it can only be opened by brute force."

Yuanze walked around the room several times and found that many facilities were completely broken and the security measures were almost zero.

“What if water flows back in after it is opened?”

"There must be a circulation system in here. Otherwise, how could there still be air inside after decades?"

Yuanze nodded, took a deep breath and smashed it hard.

The material of the door was very solid. He punched it with 100% force but there was not even a dent left. Instead, his hand became numb.

He used the "flow" to observe for a while and found that the door was double-jointed, with a small gap in the middle that even Astra had not noticed.

After finding the right angle, Yuanze punched continuously and finally created a small gap.

Then he used all his strength to push one of the doors out to form a long and narrow passage.

Yuanze used his hand to support the open door and moved sideways to get out of the passage.

"Snap! Snap!"

After Yuanze came out, the door quickly closed again and there was a sound of locking.

"Why is it locked at this very moment?"

"We can only go forward."

Astra turned on the surveyor and lights, and carefully sent out several nanorobots to explore the way.

(End of this chapter)