After leaving Tannagost, Hao Ren did not return home directly. Instead, he teleported to Kuiper Space Station. He docked his spacecraft in his own dedicated port and watched the staff in the port bustling with entry and exit registration and facilities preparation through the external monitor. A translucent figure stood beside him with a curious look on her face. "Is this my home port?"
The translucent figure was Nolan. Nolan had spent more than a week adapting to her new "body" while docked at the Crapple Research Station. At the same time, she had learned a lot of the daily operations of the Petrachelys. Although she was still not proficient, she was now basically a qualified operating assistant.
Nolan's ability to master such complex knowledge in a week should be attributed to her current life form. Her learning ability was no longer restricted to the human category. The MDT had helped to remove the performance shackles of the AI girl. With the help of the ship's mainframe, Nolan mastered new knowledge very quickly. In the past more than a week, she had only spent a small part of her time learning new knowledge. Most of her energy was completely focused on adapting to her new life.
"When I'm not on a mission, you basically stay here." Hao Ren pointed to the port outside. "Do you remember the previous docking procedure? Don't forget to send the identification code and receive the guidance signal. You are an imperial official ship. If you mess around, it will cause a lot of trouble. "
"Got it. You have said it several times." Nolan put her hands on her hips and then looked at the starry sky at the other end of the port with some anticipation. "But it will be very boring to stay in the port …"
"Want to go out?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows. After more than a week of getting along, Nolan was not as cold and distant as when they first met. Some of her thoughts were easy to guess. "How about this, within the range of the Milky Way, don't go too far. I want to be able to call you back at any time when I'm on a mission. Your navigation star map has a map of the Milky Way's forces and a list of civilizations. Don't disturb their order … Well, there is a security protocol anyway. You can't disturb them. "
Nolan blinked. "Within the range of the Milky Way … This is not too far?!"
She did not expect Hao Ren to agree so readily. She had thought that it would be good enough if she could stroll around a hundred light years away.
Before Hao Ren could say anything, the MDT on the console muttered, "With your current performance, this is just a stroll. Most of the universe is empty. You can step on the accelerator for a few light-years without hitting anything."
Nolan nodded with a yearning look on her face. "I haven't experienced real space yet. When I was at CARS, I only ran around the gravitational circle of a star a few times … Ah, I'm suddenly looking forward to it!"
The MDT smirked. "Heh, you better get used to it as soon as possible. You have to get used to the feeling of being a ship. When I was adapting to being a human, I had a hard time too. Worldview is a wonderful thing..."
"No one will think that your sound card is broken if you don't say a few words." Hao Ren unplugged the MDT from the console slot and waved goodbye to Nolan. "Then I'll go back to Earth first. Contact me if anything happens here."
After Hao Ren left with his people in the teleportation room, Nolan was left standing alone on the deserted bridge. However, standing here was just a holographic image of her. Nolan could not feel any first-person perspective from this image. Her real senses came from the spaceship. This metal beast, hundreds of meters long, was hovering in the port of Kuiper Station. Nolan concentrated and once again experienced the strange experience brought to him by this still somewhat unfamiliar body. She could feel the vast space that she was in. She could sense the humans and robots walking around not far away. She could sense the energy turbulence in the nearby port facilities. She could even sense that there was another spaceship leaving the port in another port dozens of kilometers away.
Nolan was almost greedily perceiving all of this. She imagined her body immersed in the waves of information in the real world. She 'opened' her 'eyes' and watched the scene in front of her with countless external monitors on the spaceship. Over and over again, she confirmed this place.
This was the real world. There was no reincarnation, no virtual reality, no script. The whole universe was really running around her. Everything was so real, and she no longer had to worry about it suddenly disappearing. Nolan, the girl who had experienced 10,000 years of reincarnation, had finally ushered in what she had dreamed of countless times: waking up from the dream and facing reality.
However, she had lost the ability to touch this real world. All she could feel were precise and cold numbers: 0.96G, 27 ℃, 96.35KPa … These numbers came from the countless sensors of the Petrachelys. Each sensor was more accurate and complex than a biological nerve. She browsed through these numbers and could not feel any temperature or weight from them. Her judgment was only 'normal' or 'abnormal'.
"I have to adapt to life as a spaceship." Nolan sighed, or rather, the holographic projection sighed. She focused on the distant starry sky. "Let's go see the stars."
The Petrachelys sent out a departure signal. After the automatic response system of Kuiper Station responded, it floated briskly to the starry sky outside the port. Several busy port staff in the distance looked curiously at the movement of the spaceship. They did not know why it was leaving after only a few minutes of docking. At this time, Nolan's voice echoed in the port. "I'm going for a walk. Please help me prepare some polishing wax. I'll come back and wax my lower armor belt."
Nolan decided to work hard to be a good spaceship from today onwards. She would start by paying attention to self-maintenance.
The port staff looked at each other. A young staff member pressed his hat and said, "Oh my … Mr. Inspector's spaceship didn't speak before, did it?"
"Don't ask too much," an old staff member coughed twice and looked serious. "Everything in the Empire has its own personality. Hurry up and prepare the polishing equipment!"
Two days after returning from the Plane of Dreams to Earth, Hao Ren's life had returned to its original track. So did his tenants. Most of them were people who had experienced great storms and waves. They had the kind of temperament that wouldn't change even if Mount Tai collapsed in front of them. No matter how much they had experienced outside, they would always be able to quickly continue their lives after returning home. But it was not to say that nothing had changed. The incident on Zorm had left a deep impression on everyone, and they were still talking about it these two days.
Zorm had appeared. Would there be more planets like Zorm in the universe of the Plane of Dreams, protected by the guardians?
Hao Ren was lying on the table fiddling with the MDT. The holographic projection of the MDT showed Raven 12345's figure. He reported his experience in the Plane of Dreams, and now the communication between the two was coming to an end.
"Preserving the diversity of civilizations is also the daily job of an inspector," Raven 12345 said with a smile on her face. She was in a good mood. "And the more civilizations that are preserved, the easier it is to find clues about the goddess of creation."
"Next, I plan to expand the scale of the search in the Plane of Dreams. Maybe there are other sane guardians who survived. I want to gather them together, and if possible, rebuild the guardian team of the Star of Creation," Hao Ren said. Although these ideas seemed too far-fetched at the moment, he was full of confidence. "The sane guardians have accepted the order of the goddess of creation. Whether they have complaints or not, they will help to stop the crazy First Borns and brain monsters. So if we can rebuild the guardian team, it should make the Plane of Dreams safer."
"Well … and maybe there will be guardians who know about the Wall of Reality," Raven 12345 nodded. "It's up to you. You have proven your ability to deal with this mess. You are a genius."
Hao Ren opened his mouth, thinking that the goddess's way of phrasing was as fierce as ever. The amount of sand in her words was enough to hurt his teeth.
"Ahem, thank you for the compliment." He coughed twice. "Do you have any other instructions?"
"Yes. Next time, can you not let your daughter jump around in front of the camera? It makes me dizzy."
Hao Ren looked down with a blank expression. Lil Pea was jumping on the table. The little girl occasionally looked up at Raven 12345's face. But most of the time, her attention was on the MDT. The little girl was waiting for Papa to finish talking to Raven, and then she could continue to push the MDT around the house.
Hao Ren waved at Raven 12345 and hung up the communication. At the moment the communication ended, the MDT let out a sharp whistle. "I have something to talk to you two —"
It only managed to shout half a sentence before it was carried away by Doudou on top of its head.
Hao Ren smiled as he looked at Lil Pea happily playing with her big toy not far away. Then he leaned back and leaned on the chair.
"Rebuilding the guardian team … Isn't it too early to think about this?"
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