Learn one small skill every day

"You're going to watch me sleep?"

"Yes."

"as long as you are happy……"

Bai Miao changed into his pajamas, glanced at Emma standing by the bed, and tentatively asked, "Want to sleep together?"

Emma chuckled: "To expect something that is obviously impossible."

"Then remember to wake me up at 8:30 tomorrow morning, and while you're at it, prepare the strawberry pudding that the R&D manager, Gong Ni, likes. As a secretary, you can manage that, right?"

Emma neither agreed nor refused.

This means there's a chance.

Or maybe we should just let her do odd jobs from now on.

Emma stood beside him, but Bai Miao really wasn't in the mood to sleep.

I have no idea what she's really thinking.

Pretending to be asleep in bed, around eight o'clock, Bai Miao estimated that it was about time and sat up in bed.

When I opened my eyes, I found Emma still standing motionless in the same spot as last night.

"I am up."

"Yes, you are more hardworking than I imagined."

Emma rarely praised Bai Miao.

"What's today's schedule? Besides being on duty?"

"I'm glad you brought this up, but there's nothing extra to do today. However, if unexpected events occur, we'll still need you, the captain, to be able to adapt to the situation."

"Don't worry, it's still based on your first instinct."

Chapter Ninety-Four: Three Accessories? Three Types of Cutting-Edge Technology!

Gong Ni, the head of the R&D department, arrived for his shift with a head of messy black hair.

Seeing Bai Miao sitting in the chair, she was about to get angry when she saw the strawberry pudding on the table.

"This...this is for me, right?"

Bai Miao nodded emphatically.

"You actually knew that this is my favorite."

Gong Ni's face immediately broke into a smile, and he began to wolf down the strawberry pudding.

"Considering your sincerity and the fact that you only assigned me one day of work, I will not pursue the matter of you delaying my research."

As he spoke, Gong Ni skillfully processed the documents on the projector.

"What kind of things does your R&D department usually research and develop? I'd like to know the technological level of our Endless Energy ship so that I can have a general understanding of our overall capabilities."

"So you're interested in this. Where are you from?"

"City."

Gong Ni nodded: "Looks like you're not illiterate. Have you studied mathematics?"

Bai Miao thought to himself, "Who doesn't know math? I'm really good at math."

So Bai Miao confidently replied, "I have studied it."

To Bai Miao's surprise, Gong Ni actually wrote the formula directly on the projector and immediately asked Bai Miao a question.

After a few questions, Bai Miao conceded defeat.

I was wrong, I shouldn't have said I had studied math...

Gong Ni wasn't surprised: "Your mathematical foundation is decent, but your depth of understanding isn't enough. But at least it shows you're qualified to engage with science."

It seems that a strong foundation in mathematics is a prerequisite for the R&D department.

"The R&D department generally studies two directions: attack and defense."

"We manufacture weapons and ammunition, and we also make shields to deal with enemies at sea or on land. As for your question about technological level, I can proudly tell you that currently, even a city with a development level of 5 cannot match the technological level of the Endless Energy Ship. Well... that's not entirely accurate. Some cities have unearthed a lot of ancient relics from the sea, some of which contain advanced technology."

This is what they mean by civilization being largely built upon archaeology...

"So if... I mean if, we have a conflict with the city, are we capable of dealing with the city's threats? Or are we capable of razing the city to the ground?"

Emma glanced at Bai Miao with surprise, seemingly quite taken aback by his words.

But in the end, she didn't say anything and just continued reviewing her documents.

After thinking for a moment, Gong Ni said decisively, "Yes! We can temporarily concentrate our power to attack the continental plate where the city is located, which would sink the entire city into the sea. Of course, this requires complex and precise calculations to ensure that the sunken continental plate does not trigger an underwater volcanic eruption, thus harming the Endless Energy."

After speaking, Gong Ni looked at Bai Miao with a hint of expectation in her eyes.

"So, the weapons on our Endless Energy ship are finally going to be useful? Which city are you planning to attack?"

"No, no, no... I was just asking. Do you have any individual weapons?"

I'm just asking, does this woman really want to do this?

"Yes, the most powerful weapon for individual soldiers, the Gungnir, has a range of 1.2 meters and can penetrate 1 meter of 24DI steel. Each bullet is meticulously crafted and requires a large amount of resources..."

Bai Miao was a little confused and interrupted the somewhat fanatical Gong Ni: "Wait, what you're talking about... is it a gun?"

"It's a gun! But there's no one on the ship who can use it right now! So it's mounted on a machine gun, with a rate of fire of 100 rounds per second. Even a Leviathan could make a hole in its back."

Bai Miao had no concept of the gun's power, but the image of turning a Barrett into a machine gun and firing it at a high rate of fire seemed somewhat bizarre to him.

Emma coughed lightly: "Minister Gong Ni, please control your emotions. You must remember that our Endless Energy's current reserves can only support Gungnir's firing for 0.01 seconds."

Just one bullet, huh?

What nonsense are you talking about?

Huh? It seems like 24DI steel is recorded in the knowledge base?

Bai Miao immediately looked up the data for this type of steel: Mohs hardness 9.5, yield strength 8500MPa.

I think chromium only has a Mohs hardness of 9?

Bai Miao was certain that this thing could take down an aircraft carrier with a single shot.

This is good stuff; we have to find a way to trick it into our hands.

No, I'm the captain, this ship belongs to me, how can you call that a lie?

At the same time, Gong Niyi said sternly to Emma, ​​"When introducing weapons and equipment, we must introduce their parameters under optimal conditions. Only in this way can the captain understand how high the performance of the weapons made by the R&D department is, and only in this way can the captain agree to allocate more resources to the R&D department."

As he spoke, Gong Ni looked at the captain and said, "Captain, for the next salvage operation, I hope we can allocate 80% of the final resources to the R&D department. This way, we will have sufficient resources to support new research."

So the captain also has to do this...

Bai Miao could already foresee the scene where, once the Endless Energy Ship had collected enough resources, all these ministers would come to him one by one asking for more.

"We'll talk about that later. Do you have any clues about the three missing parts from our Endless Energy? I mean, what were their original functions, and why were they lost?"

Bai Miao raised the question that concerned him the most.

What are the accessories?

The head of the R&D department should be aware of this, right?

Gong Ni nodded, then shook his head.

"I don't know how it was lost, but I know what was lost. One was a medical pod, which could bring a person back to life as long as they had a breath left; another was a computer that could simulate events that would happen in the near future; and the last was a machine that could turn back time."

"?"

So outrageous?

Gong Ni seemed to see the surprise in Bai Miao's eyes and covered his mouth to laugh: "The technology on the Endless Energy is more advanced than you think. There are some things that I can't even understand the internal workings of, after all, this ship was built before I did."

At this point, Gong Ni added, "If people on land were to retrieve these things, they certainly wouldn't return them to us willingly, so Captain, your hypothesis is very likely to come true!"

Gong Ni was very excited at the thought that his weapon would have a use.

This made Bai Miao wonder about her mental state.

Unlike typical researchers, Gong Ni didn't wear a white lab coat; she simply wore a shirt and a red pleated skirt.

Suddenly, Nebebivo's image appeared on the holographic projection, and he yawned at Bai Miao.

"Captain, we've spotted a convoy about 20 degrees east of north, ten nautical miles away. They don't seem to have spotted us. Shall we make contact?"

Upon hearing that he had finally encountered people from outside, Bai Miao replied without hesitation, "Of course, bring the boat closer to me!"

Chapter Ninety-Five Extermination Order

"Captain, before you make contact with outsiders, I still feel it is necessary to remind you that you represent the entire Endless Energy. I hope you will not behave in a way that would negatively impact the image of the entire ship in front of outsiders."

"Would you like to go?"

Emma nodded slightly, as if she had been waiting for Bai Miao to say those words: "I'm willing to help."

“I would be happy to get rid of those little barnacles who want to profit from the Endless Energy.”

Bai Miao felt that Emma's attitude towards outsiders was extremely bad, and she even did not want to have any contact with the outside world.

“Emma, ​​you have to understand that the chances of finding the missing parts by just searching blindly are very low. If we get information from outsiders, we’ll find the parts much more efficiently.”

The normal process usually involves actively contacting the land, gathering intelligence from areas that have reached the level of a kingdom or city, and then determining the direction to move forward to find parts.

However, Bai Miao had the ability to find his way around, so he skipped the previous evidence-gathering stage.

But this doesn't mean that Bai Miao didn't want to have contact with land.

This will affect your exploration progress after clearing the level.

Emma simply asked, "Captain, would you trade with seaweed?"

"No...why do you ask that?"

"That's good. It seems you're not so naive as to be beyond redemption. I hope you remember what you said."

The Riddler?