Chapter 89: Dreamscape: A New Discovery

At exactly ten o’clock at night.

Du Qiu fell asleep with his head on a crystal pillow that he had replicated with his own hands.

A camera quietly recorded everything beside him.

At ten twelve, Du Qiu began to snore lightly, indicating he had entered dreamland.

At two ten in the early morning, a faint glimmer of light passed over the crystal pillow.

At this moment, Du Qiu finally saw a white vortex in his dreams, and when he realized it had appeared, he couldn’t help but focus his attention on it.

Then, the sentence echoed from the depths of his consciousness!

“… Consciousness upload successful!”

Goodness, he felt that the speed of his cosmic roving this time was much slower than before.

If it was a high-speed train before, now it’s like riding a fast coach bus.

It appears there might be some issues with the crystal pillow he replicated; he would have to check it thoroughly tomorrow.

Nevertheless, as he saw a dazzling array of stars, he was ecstatic inside.

The replication of the crystal pillow succeeded!

A feeling of having destiny in his grasp emerged spontaneously.

The original crystal pillow was unique and always coveted by Walkerson, who sent two groups of people to forcibly take it.

If it were lost or destroyed, Du Qiu would no longer be able to connect to the extraterrestrial civilization in his dreams.

Now, this worry was gone forever.

As long as Du Qiu wanted, he could create countless crystal pillows, solving the issues on Blue Star. If he could gradually take control of the production base of alien civilization in the future, he would have complete control over the technological treasure trove in his dreams.

After being happy for a while, Du Qiu quickly decided to descend into the intelligence core.

Recently, he had been busy dealing with three new materials – oh, it should be four, including the crystal substance.

He spent all his time in the dream working on research, comparing, and purifying the end products, setting aside the white vortex that used to match 81 sub-intelligence centers.

Tonight, Du Qiu planned to continue this work.

At this moment, Du Qiu found his memory to be functioning perfectly as well, without any occurrence of forgetting.

As Du Qiu went through the matching process, he discovered that the upper-level functions for material collection and purification were all gone.

Gradually, he encountered functions that led him to fantastical thoughts.

For example, the State Transition Module.

This module only has two sets of programs: one named Transport State, and the other named Production State.

Just from the naming, it seems that a certain item can transform between a transport state and a production state.

When he read through the programs, he became slightly excited.

Could the supermachine have Transformer-like abilities, allowing it to change shapes?

Without a doubt, the supermachine’s appearance that Du Qiu had seen before – occupying millions of square meters with 49 large tubes digging into the earth – must be its production state.

So, what would the transportation state of the supermachine look like?

Considering the size of the supermachine, the means to transport it must be a spacecraft; and how enormous that spacecraft must be?

Du Qiu stopped his wild thoughts and began to study the programs for the two states in earnest.

To his surprise, upon sensing this sub-intelligence center, he did not acquire the expected visual data.

“Beep – Information data incomplete.”

That was the response he received, and it was the first time Du Qiu had encountered this; had the information been this way whenever he studied various functions, he would have been devastated.

Luckily, it was now that he encountered a function module with incomplete data.

Strange, this shouldn’t be happening. Given the storage capacity of the supermachine’s intelligence core, there’s no reason why these details wouldn’t be saved.

This is information about the supermachine itself, akin to a machine’s basic manual; how was it possible that the manual was not saved, but other details were?

Du Qiu thought for a long time but could not figure it out. He could only examine the program content, but found it to be surprisingly simple.

The programs didn’t explain how the state change was performed; they simply listed modules to be closed or opened, followed by the state change to transport or production.

Looking at these, Du Qiu knew he could not experiment now.

Joking aside, if he suddenly turned the supermachine from production to transportation state, the maintainers would shut down the supermachine in the blink of an eye.

Suddenly, Du Qiu thought that since his consciousness could connect with the supermachine in dreams through the crystal pillow, there should be a corresponding reception module here in the supermachine.

As soon as this occurred to him, he immediately searched for the remaining bottom-level function modules through the intelligence core and indeed found the corresponding module.

However, when he attempted to retrieve information, the feedback he got was “Information data missing!”

Well, the previous was incomplete, but this one was outright missing.

Is it possible that the maintainer, during the last shutdown for major repairs, deleted the information?

Right, the maintainer is three kilometers away from the supermachine; how does it shut down or restart the supermachine so quickly?

Du Qiu suddenly pondered this question.

After some thought, he began to quietly use various operational sensing subsystems to detect anything unusual in their vicinity.

First, he reviewed all the sensing subsystems he was familiar with. It seemed there were no changes in the ability to sense the surroundings.

He was about to directly access the visible light sensing subsystem when he suddenly took notice of the term supermagnetic imaging sensing subsystem.

He remembered seeing this subsystem called upon multiple times in production programs to check internal and external material conditions.

This must be the most widely used sensing subsystem among those he did not understand.

In other words, this sensing subsystem has a function similar to X-ray vision.

Deciding to see what the situation would be when this subsystem sensed the surroundings, Du Qiu issued the command through the intelligence core.

Almost instantaneously, Du Qiu could see the complete panoramic view around the supermachine.

A 360-degree panorama – wow!

Du Qiu was somewhat dazed for a moment.

This panorama was a color image!

He noticed that there was a large space underground beneath the supermachine and saw the 49 tubes that went deep into the ground.

Then, a huge semi-circular underground metal closed channel appeared before his eyes.

Wow, is this an underground high-speed train?

Inside the channel, there were two-way tracks with trains carrying giant cubes moving at high-speed back and forth.

At both ends of the channel there were huge loading and unloading machines, with cargo trains full of giant cubes moving from the supermachine to below the steel jungle three kilometers away.

Empty trains were rushing back at high speed.

Train cars on both tracks were tirelessly moving back and forth, monotonous yet orderly.

Du Qiu found this new discovery immensely interesting. With the size of the supermachine, three kilometers is not very far.

He recently designed several fully automated production lines and was very familiar with the movement of products between two processes.

Indeed, this underground high-speed transport tunnel in Du Qiu’s eyes was just a transfer between two processes in an alien production base.

The view Du Qiu got from this supermagnetic sensing subsystem was as if he were right there.

He noticed that the entire semi-circular channel was likely completely vacuum-sealed, and by his estimation, the speed of the trains on the track should reach 3000 kilometers per hour.

That is to say, the transfer of goods over these three kilometers would only take 3.6 seconds.

This is exactly like an automated production line transferring from one process to the next.

Du Qiu was interested in this underground high-speed vacuum transport method. Isn’t it just like the underground high-speed vacuum maglev train concept currently envisioned on Blue Star?

Given that the transport vehicle transports at such a high speed, accelerating from static to high speed and then back to static again, the cubic goods inside the vehicle remain completely still.

This contains amazing scientific secrets – at least, the alien civilization had unique solutions to counteract the impact of acceleration changes.

If he could learn it, it could be applied to many fields.

This dream alien production base is truly a vast technological treasure trove!

And this supermagnetic imaging system, although the principles behind it are unclear, the functionality is too powerful – only, how far can it sense?

Right, he should be able to use it to perceive what’s inside that steel jungle!

Fourth update.