It is Kokang and Changchun

　The two captains also politely replied: "Hello, my Chinese friends, this is our duty..."

　After a round of pleasantries, the Chinese side immediately arranged accommodation and meals for the two captains, and arranged for them to be sent back on other flights to Soviet Ukraine in a few days.

　Looking around at the giant transport aircraft again, the technicians were filled with emotion: "It's hard to imagine that this technology was developed nearly 40 years ago, and it has not been surpassed to this day. It seems that China still has a long way to go in the field of large aircraft..."

　"Actually, I'm more curious about how the Russians repaired it?" Technician D believes that the Russians are unable to repair this plane today, and the plane in good condition in front of him makes him very interested.

　Technician E tutted and said, "You just believe everything the Russians say? Maybe they've just built another one, and this is the unfinished An-225."

　"Impossible. It's impossible for the Russians to produce another An-225 now. Even if they want to continue building the unfinished aircraft, they can't do it." Technician F disagreed with this view.

　Technician A reminded, "Have you forgotten what our superiors told us about the An-225 being destroyed and then returned intact? There are already many contradictions in this matter. This aircraft may have changed like the Kanmusu."

　"No," Technician F objected. "That's unlikely. If you were the Soviet Union, would you be willing to hand over a large aircraft that represents the highest level of domestic technology, and a highly sophisticated one at that, to a foreign country for research?"

　Technician G: "How about we ask those two captains?"

　Technician F: "Isn't this a case of trying to cover up one's mistake? Even if this An-225 truly was a spirit, they wouldn't tell you. If the Russians didn't care about us knowing, then it wasn't these two guys flying the An-225, but the An-225 itself."

　Technician A threw up his hands and said, "Why don't we just call the An-225 out directly?"

　Technician B grumbled, "Let's assume the An-225 is a spirit, but if it doesn't want to pay attention, there's nothing you can do. If it's not a spirit at all, then aren't you embarrassed to be talking to yourself like that in front of the plane?"

　……

　After a period of discussion, in order to verify whether the An-225 had become a spirit, the technicians decided to give it a try.

　"Hey! So why do I have to go?!" Technician A said as he looked at his colleagues who had slipped behind him and were standing in the distance.

　Those colleagues said to Technician A over the intercom, "You're the only one on our research team who's a nerd. Don't you have a game called Ash Front on your phone? More importantly, you were the one who came up with this suggestion. Who else could be better off than you?"

　"I don't think Huibao will produce modern jet aircraft..." Technician A complained helplessly in his heart.

　"It seems I can only bite the bullet and do it..."

　Technician A looked back up at the towering aircraft nose before him, gathered his words, and said, "Hello, Miss An-225, or Comrade An-225, welcome back to China. Are you interested in a chat?"

　There was silence, and the plane didn't move at all.

　If this were an anime, there would be a gust of wind blowing a fallen leaf across the scene to represent the awkwardness. However, this is reality, not anime, and there would be no wind or falling leaves in an enclosed hangar.

　Technician A paused, then continued in a gentle voice:

　"We won't hurt you. We just want to let you know that we'll be conducting research on you for the next six months. We won't hurt you. If you come out, we can share technical questions..."

　At the same time, just as Technician A was having an embarrassing one-sided conversation in front of the nose of the An-225, a blue light flashed in the bathroom of the plane, and a Russian lady appeared, holding the wall and laughing.

　"Hahahaha... I'm dying of laughter

　Hahaha……"

　Millia had just been adjusting the transparency of her human form to a state close to invisibility, standing next to the group of technicians and listening to them talking about their own things. Finally, she couldn't hold back her laughter anymore and returned to the cabin to release it.

　"It's impossible for me to come out. I can't show up in the past six months. After all, the Soviet Union has never publicly announced my existence. How can you know?" Millia muttered to herself humorously in the cabin, and it seemed like she was answering Technician A.

　"Alright, I'll stay here. Let's go out and have some fun. It'll be worth the money I exchanged for RMB in the Soviet Union, right?"

　Just as Milia was about to go out for a walk after laughing so much, she suddenly remembered something. She then went to find Dmytro in a nearly invisible state and whispered in his ear, "Tell the Chinese comrades about this. Just do the research, don't hurt me."

　Seeing that there was no one around, Dmytro whispered, "I know you just want to take the opportunity to come to China for fun, but don't go to places you shouldn't go, don't take pictures of things you shouldn't take pictures of, and be careful when you're surrounded by melons and plums. Do you understand?"

　"I know, I know." Milia knew what the old captain wanted to say and promised solemnly, "I will not spy on any of our allies. I came to China just to have fun, that's all."

　After saying that, Millia walked through the wall and out of the hangar in her current state. When she walked out of the public toilet in the city outside the airport, she materialized and changed into her regular clothes.

　"Let's head southwest, towards downtown Xi'an~" Millia stretched her body, ready to follow the route on the paper map, along the Beijing-Kunming Expressway - Xi'an Outer Ring Expressway - Yanxi Expressway, transferring all the way to downtown Xi'an on foot.

　"I heard that Xi'an is the birthplace of Chinese civilization (Xianyang, Luoyang: me TM), equivalent to Moscow in Russia and Kiev in Ukraine. But why is Xi'an not the capital of modern China?" Millia, who lacks a systematic understanding of Chinese history, scratched her head.

　Millia had already run out of the hangar, but the Xi'an Aircraft Industrial Corporation technicians inside the hangar were still chatting with the An-225, trying to bring out the possible aircraft girl.

　In a sense, he did come out, but... he didn't seem willing to stay in this small place for half a year, so he went to Xi'an to play on his own.

　Millia's behavior is consistent with the character of a spirit aircraft - advocating freedom and unrestrainedness in the sense of space activities.

　Technician A chatted with Millia's real body for a long time, but there was still no response. In the end, he had no choice but to stop chatting.

　Then the technicians gathered together to discuss and decided that the previous attempt was not rigorous because there might be a possibility of intentional reading without replying, and further more rigorous methods were needed to test it.

　About an hour later, Changchun, far away in Qingdao, received a call from AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Corporation. The caller was an aviation research team affiliated with Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Corporation.

　"What? Comrade, you're asking me if there's a way for ship girls to sense each other and tell whether a ship has become a spirit or not..." Changchun frowned slightly and thought for two seconds before realizing what the other party was asking.

　"Unfortunately, we don't have this ability in reality. However, in the early historical shipgirl stories, this setting is indeed quite common... We all dream of having this ability, okay? But unfortunately, reality is so cruel..."

　Changchun heard the other side's intentions, which were to ask if she had the ability, and if so, to send a ship girl to determine whether the An-225 had become a spirit. She said embarrassedly:

　"Comrade, you're asking a ship to determine if an airplane is a spirit... well... hehe. Even if we had that ability, we wouldn't necessarily be able to identify an airplane if we could identify a ship..."

　A phone call between the Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group and Changchun directly dashed the team's hopes. After hanging up the phone, the team gathered for a small meeting to decide what to do next.

　Ultimately, they decided to put this issue aside for now; the most important thing now was to acquire the core technology of the An-225. Thus, a bunch of specialized equipment, instruments, and tools, including the oil pump, were pulled over and placed in front of the An-225.

　The technicians held various tools and instruments in their hands, looking at the super transport plane in front of them with a grin on their faces.

　As for the oil pump, it is used to empty the fuel tank of the An-225. Wouldn't it be dangerous if the fuel is not drained when the aircraft is being used for research?

　At this moment, Millia, who was walking in the fields beside the highway, suddenly felt uncomfortable all over her body. This discomfort lasted less than half a second and then disappeared.

　"Strange? Is it an illusion? Never mind..."

　The Bible of the Small Fan Side Machine Circle (Author's Vent Chapter)

　Qingdao, Shandong, China

　The first day of November was one of the few holidays in Changchun, and she was playing "Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic" in her room.

　In her current save file, the first and second industries have already developed, so naturally she needs to develop the tertiary industry. The only tertiary industry in this game is tourism.

　Changchun built two large hotels—the kind of grand, luxurious five-star hotels you download from the Creative Workshop. One hotel caters to tourists from Soviet countries, the other for tourists from NATO countries.

　"It's decided. The hotel for NATO tourists will be built here. The room rate will be the highest.

　Tourists from those NATO countries should just spend all their travel budgets! Hehehe~"

　Changchun smiled in a sly manner that was both beautiful and cute, while operating the mouse to plan and place the hotel on the open space.

　Her favorite thing to do in the tourism industry was to squeeze the wallets of NATO tourists. Although Soviet tourists also stayed in luxury hotels, the room prices were extremely low, which was in stark contrast to the treatment of NATO tourists.

　In addition, there is a garbage disposal system in this game. Changchun uses NATO customs as a garbage dump and exports various recyclable garbage to NATO, while the customs import and export transactions on the Soviet side are all normal commodities.

　After the construction plan is placed, it will start to build automatically as the game time passes; Changchun picked up the enamel cup with a red star on the left hand side and prepared to drink water.

　"Huh? No more milk? I was so engrossed in the game that I thought there were still two mouthfuls left." After saying that, Changchun placed the cup in his left hand on the front and lower part of his left breast, and began to squeeze his left breast with his right hand, and a trickle of holy milky white spring water flowed into the cup.

　Emmm... you read that right. Changchun is currently naked, completely naked. She had just recharged herself an hour ago. The cup of sweet spring water she just drank came from the big bun on her right.

　Anyway, what's there to be afraid of when the door is locked in your own room? If someone knocks on the door, it's no big deal. You can just change your outfit with one click. Isn't this one of the biggest benefits of this ability of the KanColle?

　After receiving the call, Changchun took a couple of sips, put the cup aside, and continued playing his game. While waiting for the game to be built, Changchun opened the Steam Workshop interface to see if there were any new mods that were fun, useful, or good-looking.

　"What's going on? Steam is stuck?" Just as Changchun was browsing the creative workshop, Steam suddenly froze and there was no response no matter what he clicked. Just when Changchun wanted to call up the task manager, the computer suddenly blue screened.

　Changchun frowned and said, "Tsk... Why did it suddenly blue screen? I haven't had time to save the file yet~" She stood up, pressed and held the power button on the chassis for five seconds, forced the computer to shut down and then turned it on again.

　The restart process went smoothly and he successfully entered the system and desktop. Changchun didn't take it seriously because it was normal for a computer to occasionally have a blue screen after using it for a long time.

　Just after Steam and Wallpaper Engine started up on the computer, the computer screen froze again and went straight to the blue screen.

　"Again?" Changchun was very confused. She restarted the computer again, but the result was still the same.

　After a few times, she found that every time Steam and the wallpaper engine were opened, the computer screen would freeze completely and the graphics card would go offline.

　Most people can imagine what it feels like when the screen is completely frozen, but how do you determine that the graphics card is offline?

　The brand and model of the graphics card used in Changchun computers is "Colorful RTX3090 24G Vulcan OC". Colorful's 3090 Vulcan graphics card comes with a color electronic display screen to show the status of the graphics card.

　When the graphics card is simply powered on, the electronic display will show an initial animation. Only when the screen starts to display the GPU temperature, occupancy, frequency, and current time, does it mean that the graphics card is officially activated and connected to the computer system, forming an integral part of the entire host hardware ecosystem.

　Similarly, when the graphics card's electronic display changes from the GPU status and current time back to the initial animation, it means the graphics card is offline. Changchun uses the above principle to determine whether the graphics card is offline.

　She thought it might be a problem with Steam and Wallpaper Engine. After she uninstalled these two software and restarted the computer, there were no problems for several minutes.

　Just when Changchun thought everything was fine, she opened the browser to download Steam back. However, when she opened the browser to look for the official Steam website, she only opened two or three web pages before the screen froze again without any warning like before.

　This wasn't the end of it. This time there wasn't even a blue screen, just a constant freeze. After about ten seconds, the graphics card went offline again.

　"Really?! In the end, I still have to shut down the machine forcefully. All my efforts are in vain... Alas." The continuous failures made Changchun a little angry.

　Because Changchun bought two ADATA D50 Blowing Snow co-branded DDR4 16G memory sticks and installed them in the computer the day before the computer broke down, expanding the original 32G memory to 64G, so she first suspected that the problem was with the memory stick.

　But she didn't think the memory stick was faulty, but rather had poor contact, because memory sticks are rarely damaged under normal use. Furthermore, she played games for several hours the day the two new sticks were installed, and everything worked fine.

　So she turned off the computer, took out the two newly bought memory sticks, wiped their gold fingers (i.e. gold-plated interfaces) with an eraser, and then installed them back.

　However, the fault persists.

　"It's possible that there's something wrong with the graphics card, but hardware is generally difficult to break down..." Changchun thought so, and she began to use the elimination method to check for computer failures.

　Changchun unplugged the image signal transmission cable connecting the graphics card and the monitor, and plugged the data cable end that was originally connected to the graphics card socket into the corresponding socket on the motherboard.

　This is mainly done through elimination method, using the CPU's integrated graphics to determine whether the independent graphics card is faulty. Simply put, connect the monitor to the integrated graphics to see if the screen is still stuck or something. If there is, it means it is not

　If there is no problem with the independent graphics card, it means that the problem is with the independent graphics card.

　After Changchun changed the output source of the monitor to the integrated graphics card, he ran the computer for an hour and found that the previous problem did not occur. Now Changchun was sure that the problem was with the independent graphics card.

　Changchun then turned on the integrated graphics card and ran the software and programs to see if there were any problems. After another hour, she found that the blue screen was gone, but there was a new problem - when she opened the B station webpage to play the video, there was no sound.

　"блядь..." Good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes singly. This would be annoying for anyone, so much so that even the Changchun dialect came out.

　Similarly, after using the process of elimination to determine that the audio wasn't the problem, she began looking for the cause in the system settings. That's when Changchun discovered that the volume icon in the lower right corner of the taskbar was muted.

　If it were an ordinary person, they would definitely think that they had muted the volume and forgotten to turn it on. Changchun also thought so. When she wanted to drag the volume bar, the volume bar seemed to be locked and did not move at all.

　This was the first time Changchun had encountered this problem. She first considered the audio output method, then thought there was a problem with the sound driver. However, she checked the audio output, uninstalled and reinstalled the sound driver, but it still didn't help.

　In the end, Changchun was helpless and could only search online to see if there was any solution to similar situations.

　The Internet is really a brainstorming platform. Changchun found the same situation and solution. She pressed the "Win+R" key combination to open "Run", entered "services.msc" in the input box and clicked OK.

　At this time, a "Service" window popped up. Changchun found the "Windows Audio" service among the many service programs and discovered that it was not enabled.

　The service description reads: "(This service) manages audio for Windows-based programs. If this service is stopped, audio devices and effects will not work properly..."

　Changchun suddenly realized what was happening. "So that's why. This service is indeed not enabled. Let's enable it right away."

　After Changchun activated this service, the speaker icon and volume bar in the lower right corner of the taskbar could finally be adjusted. She couldn't wait to turn up the volume and then continued to play the video to test the sound.

　The result was surprising. The speakers were still silent, without a sound at all. There was only the changing and moving images of the video.

　"I'm so pissed off, so pissed off!" Changchun's mentality was completely broken, and he blamed her impatiently: "First the system blue screen, then the graphics card malfunctioned, and now there's a problem with the sound and I can't find a solution... I'll just reinstall the system! If the graphics card can't be fixed, I don't believe the sound can't be fixed either!"

　Changchun had no other choice but to download 360 System Reinstall Master from 360 Security Guard. After backing up the important files on the C drive, he reinstalled the system with one click.

　After another hectic process, the system was finally reinstalled. Changchun operated the computer with a feeling of uncertainty, fearing another blue screen or freeze.

　In the following time, the computer did not have such problems. Changchun felt relieved. She breathed a long sigh of relief and wiped the non-existent sweat from her forehead.

　It was only then that Changchun remembered a popular saying in the computer industry: "Restarting solves 90% of problems, reinstalling solves 99% of problems, and changing computers solves 100% of problems."

　"No matter how much I try, it's still not as thorough as a one-click system reinstall..." Changchun said with a hint of helplessness. "Anyway, it's finally fixed."

　She continued to open Steam to play "Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic", put the plan of the luxury hotel on it, saved the file, and then let the workers and engineering machinery in the game build the ship equipment by themselves.

　But this time, Changchun no longer had the pleasure of playing games before the computer broke down. He always felt like something was missing and muttered, "It's so annoying! The computer broke down and wasted my time and ruined my mood..."

　Changchun tried to find some fun to calm herself down. She knelt on the floor beside the bed, pulled out a box from under the bed, and opened it.

　There are a bunch of weird little toys inside.

　Changchun licked his lips and thought to himself, "How long will it take this time? One hour? Or two hours? Hehehehe~"

　Chapter 358: Beacon Fire Home

　Gaza Strip, Palestine

　"The deep sea is coming! The blue sky is here! Gaza will have peace! Palestine will have peace!"

　A group of people were at the seaside port, watching a World War I-style cargo ship slowly dock at a small pier, all shouting excitedly.

　This World War I-era freighter was carrying relief supplies from the deep-sea America. These supplies, it is no exaggeration to say, are the hope of survival for the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

　There were two destroyers responsible for escort not far away. They were a little further away from the shore, keeping a vigilant eye on everything in the air and on the sea to prevent possible long-range attacks.

　In the captain's room, the supply sauce loli, wearing a black tights with blue stripes, said to all the deep-sea pioneers in her body: "The ship has stopped, everyone can unload the supplies."