Right now, the Sixth Division was so busy that they could barely breathe. However, everyone was so excited that they were willing to work as hard as they could.
At first, they thought that they would have to build a temporary base on two underdeveloped B Rank habitable planets, and they were even prepared to be laughed at by the B Squadrons ahead of them. But who would've thought that things would take such a huge turn?
Thanks to this, Silin's influence in the Sixth Division grew even greater. Many of the team members would mention that Shotton would be replaced by Silin as the commander of the Sixth Division during private conversations. Silin was still very young, and Shotton was in the prime of his life. Judging from the current situation, Shotton couldn't be promoted to the A Squadron in the short term, so they only talked about it when they had nothing to do with each other.
Silin had talked to Dias once about this rumor. No one knew what Silin and Dias talked about, and the two didn't behave strangely after the conversation, so no one paid it any attention.
Sigma explained the situation of the base to the technical team one by one, and then left them to figure it out on their own. The childish bastard didn't have the patience to stay with the technicians all day.
After a heated discussion about the base's defense network, they finally decided to build a three-layer defense network. The first layer was the defense network built by the technical team. The second layer was the defense network built by Eudy, Beaver, and Silin. The third layer was the "one-track" defense network that existed to begin with. The last layer was the base's foundation, and it wouldn't be manipulated by anyone. Of course, this "anyone" didn't include Sigma.
Eudy and Beaver had built a database based on the data Silin brought back from Sector S's prison. At the same time, they upgraded the defense network and developed a new defense network. However, the technical team didn't agree with Eudy and Beaver's new defense network. That was why the three-layer defense network was created.
Sigma didn't mind setting up three layers of defense as long as they didn't destroy the base. Apart from that, they could do whatever they wanted.
Recently, some of the members of the Sixth Squad had been familiarizing themselves with the Lovag Guardian Beasts. Although these genetically engineered beasts looked ferocious, their personalities were not what they appeared to be. They only had one bottom line, and that was not to destroy the base. Therefore, these ferocious-looking Lovag Guardian Beasts were actually loyal to the base. If outsiders attacked, these Guardian Beasts would fight until they died.
To the people of the Sixth Division, this was undoubtedly good news. At the very least, the Lovag Guardian Beasts would not betray them. From a certain point of view, these simple-minded creatures were very cute.
Silin observed for a moment. After more than twenty days, the Lovag Guardian Beasts were showing signs of reproducing. If their food supply was stable, the second batch of Lovag Guardian Beasts would arrive soon. When the second generation of Lovag's guardian beasts arrived, Sigma would implant them with a chip similar to the one implanted in the first generation. They would work together to defend the base.
Recently, Sigma had been very happy to have a large group of playmates, unlike the dormant Lovag Guardian Beasts in the past. As a result, Sigma, Xueqiu, and the others could often be seen running around the base like crazy. What a child who's been holding back for so long!
To everyone's surprise, however, Huimao had always been quiet and spacing out.
Today, Silin, Eudy, and Beaver were conducting the final inspection of the second layer of defense network.
"Let's take a break. We're tired from all the work we've done. The last bit will only take three hours, and we'll still have time to eat dinner with everyone," Beaver said while wiping the sweat off his face.
"Then let's rest. I'm hungry too." Silin took out some food from his bag and told everyone to fill their stomachs. They hadn't made it in time for the inspection of the defense network.
"Say, Wheeze, why don't you go out and play with them?" Eudy asked Huimao. He knew that the Miantuan was nowhere to be seen as of late because it was playing with Sigma, Xueqiu, and the others.
"Wheeze's been spacing out a lot lately," Beaver said. The cat had been sitting next to them and watching them inspect the network for days.
"I'm meditating! I'm meditating! " Huimao was furious. Spacing out and meditating were two completely different concepts. While it was true that the cat spent most of its time spacing out, it was still meditating a lot of the time.
Silin flicked Huimao's ears. "Fine. What are you meditating about?"
Huimao's ears twitched, but he didn't say anything. Silin and the others didn't rush him either. Ten minutes later, Huimao finally couldn't hold it in any longer and said, "I'm thinking if I should change my name."
"Isn't your name pretty good? You named it yourself, didn't you?" Silin knew about the cat's narcissism.
"But," Huimao raised a paw and bent the tip, "Silin, Czedow, and Sigma all start with the word 'Xi', so I'm thinking if I should add a 'Xi' in front of my name?"
"There's no need," Silin said. "Besides, my surname isn't Xi."
"That's right!" Huimao's eyes suddenly lit up. It was true that Silin's surname wasn't Xi. Silin said that his surname was "Yuan", so it didn't matter what came after it as long as it wasn't his surname.
Huimao's thoughts were very simple, so it didn't take long to figure it out. It was at this moment Sigma and the others came over to invite Huimao out to play.
Xueqiu was lying on Sigma's back. Tang Qiuqiu couldn't carry him like she used to because the white fatty was gaining weight at an insane rate. Although Tang Qiuqiu couldn't carry him, and the other members of the Sixth Squad didn't want to either, Sigma could. In fact, he didn't feel any pressure at all. The Miantuan was lying on top of Sigma's head and giggling happily.
"Hurry up, Wheeze! Kari wants to duel us!" Xueqiu tilted his head to the side and said.
Huimao happened to be in a good mood, so he asked excitedly, "That kid wants to duel us? What kind of duel? "
"Duel in the air!" Sigma answered immediately. The long, wavy lines on his face showed just how excited he was right now.
Duel in the air?
Silin looked at them and asked, "He's flying a fighter?"
"Yeah, Kari said he'll be flying a fighter. Oh, and maybe Udoze too." Xueqiu pulled at his ears and laughed.
"Then how are you going to fly up there?" Beaver asked.
"I can fly by myself!" Sigma's hemispherical body slowly changed shape and floated up into the air. It was very agile in this small space.
"If Sigma can fly, then what about you kids? Are you going to lie on it like you are now? "Silin asked.
"Of course not!" Xueqiu raised his head. "We have Lovag!"
Huimao's eyes flashed when he heard this. Silin thought, This cat is up to no good again.
"Are there no stakes?" Huimao asked.
"Stakes?" Sigma scratched its head and only put its hand down when it touched the Miantuan. Clearly, it didn't know what "stakes" meant.
Huimao, Xueqiu, and the Miantuan shared a look. They all knew what Sigma was thinking, and they all laughed sinisterly.
"Alright, this time we're going to lose everything in that Cary bastard's cabinet until there's nothing left of him!" The gray cat shouted.
"Yeah, we're going to make sure he loses everything in his cabinet!" Silin and the other two thought to themselves as they watched the guys leave.
"Lovag's guardian beast can fly?" Eudy narrowed his eyes.
"I think so, according to them," Beaver said. No one knew about this. "Should we go check it out?"
Silin looked at the rest of the work. "We can't delay this. Are you sure you can come back in an hour?"
Beaver shook his head. "Forget it. Let's finish the inspection first."
The three immediately got to work. Although they were working faster, they didn't slack off. What was supposed to take three hours was now done in one and a half hours.
After packing up their tools, Silin and the other two walked out of the base.
There were quite a lot of people outside the base. They were all watching the battle, cheering and roaring from time to time. Of course, the cheers were for Huimao and the others. Many of them were making fun of Kari.
"Udoze, hurry up and come help us!"
Kari was almost going crazy in his fighter. These guys are so hard to deal with. His observation window was filled with the thick layer of mud bombs thrown by Xueqiu and the others. It was easy to see how badly Kari was getting beaten up.
When Kari's fighter was hit by a mud bomb, the people below it roared in unison. Kari was so angry that smoke was rising from his forehead. In the end, he couldn't help but ask Udoze to come up and share the firepower.
When Silin and the others went out, Udoze happened to be flying his fighter. Kari was caught in a pincer attack from three sides. Two Lovags were carrying Xueqiu and Huimao, the Miantuan was with Huimao, and Sigma was on the other side.
Sigma was as excited as a child that had just been let out to play. Xueqiu and Huimao weren't easy to deal with, and the Miantuan would occasionally toss mud bombs at them.
"Those Lovags are pretty agile in the air," Eudy said.
It was true that if Wheeze hadn't contacted Sigma and opened the underground base to them, the reinforcements they sent might not have been able to come out on top. No one knew that these guys could fly at the time, not to mention that they couldn't fly at all.
There was an opening on each side of the Lovags' back. Before this, Silin didn't think that they were wings. After all, these guys looked too similar to terrestrial insects. But now it seemed that Sigma's master had thought things through. If Silin's guess was right, these Lovags could move freely in the water.
They were the product of genetic engineering. In their natural state, there were very few creatures that could do everything in the air, on land, and in water. These Lovags were very qualified to be guardians.
Udoze's fighter took off some of Kari's firepower, but Sigma was clearly more excited than Huimao. Just like Huimao, its mud bombs were incredibly accurate. Although the interval between each throw was short, and it didn't seem like it was aimed, it had actually done thousands of calculations and threw them according to the most likely trajectory.
Silin had been studying Sigma all this time. Although most of the robots in the League of Stars looked similar to humans on the outside, most of them were still mechanized on the inside. The Robert Family had improved their robots a lot and made them more human-like and intelligent. Czedow, on the other hand, was closer to a human than the Robert Family's robots.
However, Czedow's thinking was only superior compared to the Robert Family's robots. Compared to Sigma, Czedow's thinking was a little more human-like.
A human's thinking wasn't perfect, and there were always so many flaws in a person's personality. Some were childish, and some were deep. Sigma was more like a child than a human. The only difference was that Sigma was wearing a robot's skin.
Sigma would get nervous when it was in an emergency, but it would show its "mood" on its face when it encountered something fun. Czedow, on the other hand, was more like an adult who had experienced the world. A robot like Sigma was the most carefree choice for its creator, and very few people paid attention to a childish robot like Sigma.
Sigma didn't have a liquid crystal nuclear brain or a central chip, but Silin's research revealed that there was something similar to a human brain inside its brain. It was a discovery that shocked Silin to no end.
What kind of person was the creator of Sigma? To think that the creator actually treated Sigma like a human!
The more Silin learned about Sigma's way of thinking, the more interested he became in Sigma's "birthplace". The technological civilization there wasn't necessarily much higher than the League of Stars's, but each had their own strengths. At the very least, they were a little more unique than the League of Stars when it came to the creation of robots.
When would the "shortcut" be completed?
In the end, Kari lost everything in his storage cabinet, and Udoze lost a third of his stock. When the battle was over, Huimao and Xueqiu split the spoils, and the two Lovags came over to join in the fun. After all, they had a share in the victory, so they squealed happily after getting the food and crawled back into the underground cave. This incident caused Huimao and the Lovags to volunteer themselves whenever there was an exciting duel, but no one in the Sixth Division was stupid enough to compete with them again.
After the temporary base was built, they had to send people to collect energy ores from planets with energy signatures they detected during the search for suitable planets. Energy reserves were essential for the survival of the base.
Other than that, they also had to collect food and go hunting. The food grown in the base was just the beginning, and it wasn't enough to supply the daily needs of the entire Sixth Division.
Silin and the Lovags were going to search for energy ores and food, but Sigma couldn't leave. It had to stay at the base. The Lovags couldn't leave either. This was their base, and they wouldn't leave even if they died.
The good news was that the base was covered by the network, so Huimao told Czedow to send the footage to Sigma.
Sigma wasn't interested in energy ores, but it was interested in mining them. Therefore, while Cillin and the others were mining the energy ores, Sigma was staring at the big screen in envy. Why wasn't it the mining machine that they were talking about?
On the mining planet, Silin and the Lovags came across some nutritious plants that could be used as food. All they had to do was remove the poison sac from their bodies.
Silin even demonstrated the process to Sigma, causing the Lovags to move their fingers as if they were touching the plants themselves.
While Sigma was watching the footage intently, a squeak suddenly came from behind.
It was a ten-centimeter-tall newborn Lovags. Adult Lovags didn't come into the base often, and they rarely came after the Sixth Division arrived. But this newborn Lovags was different.
Sigma had implanted a chip into it after it was born. Without the chip, the Lovags were considered "idiots" and "retards". But after the chip was implanted, the Lovags were no different from children. They were curious about everything and often moved around Sigma. In its core consciousness, Sigma was the safest character.
Little Lovags had poked its head out to look for Sigma's movements, but it noticed that Sigma hadn't gone out to play as of late. That was why it came over.
Little Lovags jumped onto Sigma's arm. Although its pincers were small, they were very strong and attached to Sigma's arm.
"Meow! Little Lovags are here!" Huimao and the others greeted Little Lovags.
"Yiyayiya —" Little Lovags were very happy to see them. They jumped on Sigma's arm to express their excitement.
Silin didn't interrupt Huimao and the others' video chat with Sigma. He cleaned the plants in his hand and collected some seeds. At the same time, he collected the poisonous sacs inside the plants. These were very rare medicines.
This planet was very strange. Its habitability was between C and B rank. Places with dense vegetation didn't require protective clothing, but places with sparse vegetation did.
There were energy ores in places with sparse vegetation, and some people were mining them. Right now, Silin was in a place with dense vegetation.
The reason why Silin thought this planet was strange wasn't because of its habitability. It was because there were no animals on this planet.
There were a lot of highly evolved plants, but not a single animal. Not even a small insect could be seen. The evolution of the species on this planet was clearly different from other planets.
Without animals, the competition between the plants was very fierce. They had evolved all kinds of methods. If a tree couldn't move, it would be "strangled" by the vines. The vines would pierce their thorns into the tree trunk to absorb nutrients. However, although the vines could climb up quickly, they moved horizontally very slowly. As long as the tree moved slightly, it would break free from the vines. If the vines were too tight, and the tree moved too hard, the vines would break, and the vines would wither.
There was also a kind of fruit that looked like a pomegranate. When in danger, the top of the fruit would open and spit out the seeds inside one by one. When Silin came over, he was attacked by these fruits.
At the same time, Cillin also saw one of the vines that had extended towards the fruit being shot by the 'bullets' the fruits spat out.
This was a very strange place.
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