Sun Jiahao quickly mustered a thousand Mecha Warriors.
He first selected the five hundred Starry Sky Marines from the Fourth Interstellar Fleet.
They could all wear the medium-sized Mecha converted from the Aurora-class Warplanes, standing six meters tall.
Then, he chose five hundred Starry Sky Marines from the Fifth Interstellar Fleet.
These five hundred were the best performers in the twelve-hour training session.
They wore the Ordinary Mecha converted from the Thunder-class Fighters, and like Xia Chujian, were three meters tall.
Mao Yonggui and Chu Qingjuan wore the Advanced Mecha converted from the Ghost-class Fighters, standing fifteen meters tall.
The two of them followed Xia Chujian, acting as the Captain's Personal Guards.
Although Sun Jiahao and Li Dali both wanted to be Xia Chujian's Personal Guards, they knew that they were not as skilled in Mecha piloting as those elite pilots.
Because these elite pilots were already accustomed to switching between Starry Sky Fighter and Mecha forms in combat.
At crucial moments, they could switch back to Starry Sky Fighter mode, which was something they couldn't replace for the time being.
With Xia Chujian's order, these thousand-plus people entered a Carp-Class Interstellar Airship.
This type of Airship was mainly used for transportation, equipped with two sets of engines with different performance characteristics, which could be switched at any time, allowing it to fly both inside and outside the atmosphere.
Therefore, it was often used as a transition from large Interstellar carriers outside the atmosphere to Flying Vehicles inside the atmosphere.
The piloting of the Interstellar Airship could be completely controlled by Mechanical Intelligence.
Especially after entering the atmosphere, Mechanical Intelligence control was safer and more convenient than human control.
Currently, automatic driving had been implemented within the major countries of the Beichen Galaxy.
Therefore, when Interstellar Airships entered these areas, they would use Mechanical Intelligence to drive, integrating into the "automatic driving" family, which would be safer.
If entering an unfamiliar area without maps, the Mechanical Intelligence-driven Interstellar Airship could detect and react to unknown terrain faster than humans.
Therefore, when Xia Chujian took her people into this Carp-Class Interstellar Airship, she didn't bring a pilot, but directly activated the Airship's automatic driving function, which was taken over by the Airship's own Mechanical Intelligence.
Of course, to be on the safe side, Xia Chujian quietly had Seven Lù assist with the driving.
Fortunately, according to the Interstellar Fleet's driving rules, when the transportation vehicles belonging to these Interstellar troops entered the interior of an unfamiliar planet, they needed to proactively cut off network connections with the Flagship.
This was to prevent any unforeseen circumstances below from affecting the Flagship through network and electromagnetic interference.
Only after ensuring the safety of the unknown area would the network connection be restored.
Now that this Carp-Class Interstellar Airship had no network connection, it was easy for Seven Lù to take over.
It quickly took care of the Carp-Class Interstellar Airship's Mechanical Intelligence.
Because it wasn't the first time doing this with Xia Chujian, it had even developed its own method.
Inside Xia Chujian's fully enclosed helmet, Seven Lù was proudly taking credit.
"Master, Seven Lù doesn't need to directly take over the Mechanical Intelligence here now."
"Seven Lù only needs to issue instructions to it regularly, and it will run Seven Lù's instructions once, just like it's a self-generated operating program."
"Even if that Marshal Huo comes to check, he won't be able to see any difference!"
Xia Chujian thought, of course, he wouldn't be able to see it.
If Seven Lù didn't directly take over, it wouldn't leave any traces. Who could tell who created an operating program? Mechanical Intelligence could originally generate program systems itself based on changing situations.
Otherwise, what would be the point of calling it Mechanical Intelligence? She smiled and praised it: "Seven Lù has become capable! This self-learning function is really good!"
Seven Lù's childish voice revealed an undisguised excitement: "Master is too kind! Master, be careful! The Airship is about to land!"
Xia Chujian quickly looked at the display screen on the control panel.
This was a high-definition physical display screen, one hundred and fifty inches in size.
In front of her control panel, it was like a wall-sized baffle.
Xia Chujian saw the terrain of the planet below begin to appear on the physical display screen.
It was similar to the terrain that Sang Yadi had previously photographed with drones, but it was even higher definition.
On the left side of the display screen, natural climate data for this area even began to appear.
This included altitude, topography, vegetation species, and of course, the amount of nuclear radiation in the atmosphere and soil.
Moreover, perhaps because Seven Lù had intervened in the operation of this Starship Airship, this time the detection data also included air humidity.
Xia Chujian remembered very clearly that the drone's detection data did not include air humidity before.
She curiously asked Seven Lù, "Seven Lù, what's with this air humidity? The data is off the charts!"
Seven Lù said in a childishly solemn voice, "Master, this matches the data in Seven Lù's database."
Xia Chujian was even more curious: "...Are you talking about that outdated database from ten thousand years ago? How does it match?"
Seven Lù said, "This proves from the side that Seven Lù's database is not outdated!"
Xia Chujian: "How does it prove that?"
Seven Lù displayed two sets of data on Xia Chujian's eyepiece screen.
It said, "The set of data on the left is the air humidity data of Senze Star ten thousand years ago."
"The set of data on the right is the air humidity data of Senze Star ten thousand years later."
"Master, look, aren't they almost the same?"
Xia Chujian said, "There's a slight difference, but it's within the allowable range of error."
Seven Lù said triumphantly, "Master is right! This proves from the side that the data from ten thousand years ago in Seven Lù's database is correct!"
"Senze Star was actually a planet where ninety-nine percent of the area was covered by water ten thousand years ago!"
Xia Chujian immediately understood and said in surprise, "But now, you can't see any water on the surface!"
"Now, ninety-nine percent of Senze Star is land area covered by vegetation, right!"
"It's truly a sea change..."
Xia Chujian said with emotion, but Seven Lù's childish voice sounded a little strange.
It muttered softly, "It's not a sea change... it's still the sea, it's just that the ocean is hidden by the roots of those plants."
"This place only looks like land, but it's not at all!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
"Seven Lù, what do you mean by 'not at all'?"
Seven Lù didn't speak, but after this Carp-Class Interstellar Airship officially landed on a narrow east-west open space, it controlled an unmanned probe vehicle to drive out of the Interstellar Airship.
This type of unmanned vehicle was not large, about the size of a small cart. There were two extendable mechanical arms on the left and right sides of the vehicle body, and there was also an extendable mechanical arm at the front, protruding forward.
After the unmanned vehicle ran ten kilometers south, it came to the edge of this open space.
Further ahead was a dense vegetation-covered area.
There were towering ancient trees of various colors, which looked completely different from the trees of the Beichen Empire.
Just like what they saw in the video footage provided by the base.
Most of the trees were self-contained systems, without a single leaf.
The colors were bright and varied, with dazzling pink, deep sapphire blue, and reddish-orange like the morning glow.
There were also pure white trees like ice sculptures, so beautiful that people couldn't close their mouths.
The shape of the branches looked like succulent plants, but when the mechanical arm of the unmanned vehicle touched them, they were hard.
It was nothing like a succulent plant, it was simply like the hardest stone!
Then, the front end of the unmanned vehicle's mechanical arm switched to the shape of a drill bit, and plunged fiercely into the vegetation-covered ground area! As soon as it plunged, the unmanned vehicle's monitoring and detection equipment began to work.
It continuously transmitted various ground data detected back to the terminal of the Interstellar Airship.
Xia Chujian and Seven Lù checked the data together.
"Huh? The soil here seems very loose..." Xia Chujian said thoughtfully, "Seven Lù, can you compare it with the soil data of the Beichen Empire?"
Seven Lù said, "The comparison is very simple. The conclusion is that the soil here can't really be called soil at all. It can only be called sea sand, or sea dust, or water surface deposits!"
Xia Chujian: "...Surface accumulation, is it what I think it is?"
Seven Lù's childish voice was a little excited: "Yes! So the so-called vegetation-covered soil here is not soil!"
"Then the area covered by vegetation here is not land!"
"This is still the ocean!"
"However, because the plants in the ocean have mutated and grown wildly, they have become towering trees."
"Their roots have also mutated, becoming huge and intertwined."
"Over the past ten thousand years, a large number of marine animals have died."
"Their rotting bodies and non-rotting bones have gathered on the surface of the sea, and are wrapped in sea sand, making them look like land... but it's not land at all!"
"This Senze Star, ninety-nine percent of its area, is still a planet covered by the ocean!"
"The place where we are parked is the real land!"
"It is that very small amount, only one percent of the planet's area!"
"This basically matches the information in Seven Lù's database from ten thousand years ago!"
Its meaning was that its historical data was actually more accurate than the data provided by the base...
But Xia Chujian didn't pay much attention to Seven Lù's hidden meaning.
She squinted her eyes, looking at the towering trees from the high-definition display of the Interstellar Airship, especially those leafless trees that looked like succulent plants.
The colors of the branches of those trees were strange and varied, almost every color was present, except for green!
Xia Chujian murmured: "I understand, that's not a big tree... that's coral!"
"That's coral growing from the bottom of the sea!"
"No wonder it's so different from normal trees..."
Seven Lù also said: "Yes! That is a Coral Tree formed by the heteromorphism of seabed coral! But it has already mutated, and does not need to grow entirely in seawater."
"Nor does it need a very clean environment."
"Anyway, the coral that cannot adapt to the environment has already died out."
"The current mutated Coral Tree can be as high as several thousand or ten thousand meters, and it is no longer the same species."
Xia Chujian widened her eyes and exclaimed, "How is that possible?! These Coral Trees are only a few hundred meters high at most, where do the several thousand or ten thousand meters come from?!"
This is the second update for today.
There will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
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