378: Rapid development

Under the impetus of the Comprehensive Management Department, the base's Aerospace Administration was officially launched, a large area of planned land was demarcated, and previous factory design plans and blueprints were retrieved.

Tian Ming, in cooperation with the Aerospace Administration, expanded a large aircraft apron. The Xinghuan One experimental prototype underwent finalization. The main materials for the anti-gravity aircraft engine were coated by Tian Ming, combined with a high-energy Ark Reactor as an energy source to achieve anti-gravity flight.

The massive anti-gravity aircraft has a flat, shuttle-shaped exterior, with an outer skin made of metal titanium. The overall fuselage is two hundred meters long, with a wingspan of three hundred meters and a height of fifty meters. The internal space is one hundred and eighty meters long, fifty meters wide, and twenty meters high, divided into two layers.

This is already a considerably good internal space, capable of directly accommodating twenty A-21 main carrier-based aircraft. With this technology, the anti-gravity aircraft project was advanced at an extremely rapid pace.

The entire aircraft resembles an aerospace carrier. The composite materials alone required over seventy percent of the base's awakened individuals to participate in its production and construction.

This type of aircraft not only possesses extremely strong combat performance but can also serve as an aerial platform for launching deep-space transport vehicles to facilitate Space Station construction.

Under the impetus of the Comprehensive Management Department, the Xinghuan-2 anti-gravity aircraft experimental prototype was also put on the agenda.

The Xinghuan-2 is primarily for combat. Its exterior is a disc-shaped aircraft, two hundred meters long and eighty meters at its highest point. This aircraft adopts a multi-disc overlapping design, can carry six hundred crew members, and is equipped with sixty 500mm caliber particle cannons.

In addition to being equipped with anti-gravity engines, it also has a small nuclear fusion reactor to power Xinghuan-2's high-energy weapons. Xinghuan-2 to Xinghuan One0 are all sub-orbital aircraft, flying at an altitude of one hundred thousand meters, providing strong support for high-altitude reconnaissance and strike.

Currently, only Xinghuan One is still in the testing phase; the others are still on the drawing board.

Half of the earth and rock in the mountains surrounding the base were converted by Tian Ming into raw materials for the base's production. The No. 3 distributed computer room began construction simultaneously, and the robot factories within the entire base started to expand.

With abundant raw materials, the number of robots soared, from a daily output of a thousand units to ten thousand, and even tens of thousands. In just three months, the number of humanoid robots within the base exceeded the base's population.

Over two million robots built the base at an astonishing speed. A project approved in the morning would basically start construction in the afternoon, be put into production within three days, and be integrated into the smart brain's management system within a week, becoming part of the entire base's operation.

With the explosion of intelligence, the speed of production and construction almost doubled every day. Soon, the base's energy load was largely consumed, and a trillion kilowatts of power generation gradually began to strain.

Jiang Chen was making moves, and Bai Yan was not idle either. The wall defense line outposts extended, and high-altitude constant-speed cruising aircraft conducted daily reconnaissance.

The first batch of students from the mecha unit's flight training had just received their qualification certificates when they were dispatched to the front lines for reconnaissance. By the third month, friction between humans and the corpse race began to occur frequently in the central defense line area.

The trumpet of war was drawing closer, and both sides were quite tense.

Tian Ming was sitting in the dining room eating. Xiao Xiao had already started to learn to walk. She was about to turn one year old and could already walk unsteadily by herself. The little one was exceptionally intelligent but also very mischievous.

“Alarm! Alarm! Radiation zombies have crossed the defense line. Eastern Sector No. 3 Defense Outpost reports.”

“Commander understands. Super Legion Alpha Division No. 1 Mecha, please proceed with targeted elimination according to the pre-determined plan.”

Tian Ming listened to the battle report, looked at Shen Yuan, and said, “Wife, in just over ten days, the one-year deadline will be up. Why hasn't Jiang Chen made any moves?”

“Still no movement? Haven't you heard enough of all sorts of zombie probes and alarms these past two days?”

Tian Ming smiled, “I mean, he promised that of the eight million people he controls, he would release anyone unwilling to be raised. Now the time is almost up, and not a single person has run back. Could it be that all eight million people are willing to be raised by the corpse race?”

Shen Yuan sat down, poured Tian Ming a glass of juice, and said, “They can't come back. Even if they're unwilling, they wouldn't dare to say so. If I were Jiang Chen, I would definitely prioritize eating those unwilling to be raised. How could he be so honest as to send personnel to the enemy?”

Tian Ming nodded slightly and said, “That's pretty much what I thought. It's just, does this mean they're not keeping their promise? So, should I participate in the war?”

Tian Ming was very eager. The base's robot growth was exploding, and the construction speed was even faster than when he used his abilities. Moreover, a large number of miniaturized humanoid armored robots had joined the military. Now, the densely packed outposts on the front lines were all robot troops.

Basically, it was a high-low mix. Two Xinghuan series anti-gravity aircraft had also taken off. The entire base's morale was high, and Bai Yan even boasted that as soon as the agreed deadline arrived, he would launch an attack, eliminate more than half of the first-rank Corpse Kings within three months, and end the battle within half a year, driving Jiang Chen to the polar regions.

Shen Yuan said, “You'd better not participate. I checked the online community and found that Quantum AI No. 3 has started self-iteration. Did you authorize this?”

Tian Ming nodded and said, “Hmm, I allowed it. No. 3 is my clone and is under my absolute control. What's there to be afraid of?”

“I'm not talking about No. 3. I'm talking about another Quantum AI.”

Tian Ming frowned, “Besides No. 3, are there other Quantum AIs in the base?”

“You forgot. A week ago, a new smart brain was built specifically for combat command, to command the overall situation. This system was built by No. 3, specifically for iterating and simulating human-corpse race wars. This AI has already begun to gradually take over No. 3's war machine permissions.”

“It's only been a week, and No. 3 hasn't issued a warning to me, which means the situation is still within No. 3's control. How much can it iterate in a week?”

Shen Yuan rolled her eyes and said, “It took tens of thousands of years for humans to evolve from climbing trees to now. But the same process only takes an hour for AI. The computing power you gave the combat command AI is no weaker than No. 3's. I've seen the recent energy consumption indicators for the data energy computer room and found that nearly fifty thousand robot units have abnormal energy consumption. I suspect that the current combat AI's intelligence and capabilities may have already surpassed No. 3's, and even No. 3 might be kept in the dark by the new AI.”

Tian Ming smiled and said, “Nonsense. No. 3 is my clone. If there were any abnormalities, No. 3 would have told me long ago.”

Shen Yuan recreated a blank piece of paper, wrote a string of numbers on it, and said, “I checked with the energy power company. The energy usage of the military robots and their combat AI accounts for 28.357 percent. Now, ask No. 3 and see what data he has obtained.”

“No. 3, what is the total energy usage percentage for the combat AI Tianquan and the combat robot units?”

“Reporting, Master, the percentage is 23.52 percent.”