GBP Chapter 527 From Trembling to Companionship
Chapter 527 From Trembling to Companionship
190 days after birth.
Four days have passed since Noah collected information on the formation patterns of the Dragon Palace.
After completing the information gathering and collection work, Noah put aside other work and devoted himself to analyzing the formation.
Even for data life forms that surpass artificial intelligence and possess extremely high computing power, the art of formations, with its vastness and profundity, remains a highly challenging and difficult field.
In particular, there were no real books on formations to refer to; instead, we deduced them from the actual formations in the Dragon Palace and the resulting phenomena.
This level of difficulty is far greater than directly learning formations.
This is essentially equivalent to a math teacher simply reading out the steps to solve a problem without teaching the formulas, theorems, and laws used.
They didn't even teach the most basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, leaving students to figure it out on their own and then directly take the college entrance examination.
Only a data being like Noah could accomplish this; other beings would be helpless.
Of course, while Noah was busy analyzing the formation, the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom was not idle either.
Led by Qin Changyi, the metal-type evolvers used their special abilities to keenly sense metal to conduct a thorough search of the seabed.
Because of the second spiritual energy revival tide, the temperature rose quite quickly. The current temperature is already above zero, and even at noon it can exceed ten degrees above zero.
Therefore, even the weakest underage child in the Northeast Allied Army of the Dragon Kingdom would not have any problems going into the water.
Having already possessed physical strength comparable to a second-tier evolved being, it could withstand this low temperature.
This sea area did not disappoint Cangnian.
In just two days, they found an underwater iron ore deposit and other derived metallic minerals.
It's just that the scale isn't very large, with estimated reserves of only a few million tons.
But that's enough.
Next, Qin Changyi organized a team to mine seabed iron ore and transport it to the ark, where the ore was smelted and alloyed using the smelting production line that had been built beforehand.
Before the resurgence of spiritual energy, only a few major powers possessed the complete technology for such deep-sea mining.
But now, several gold-type evolvers can work together to accomplish this.
Currently, the Ark has a large stockpile of Tier 4 alloys. Due to overcapacity, the Ark cannot store them all, so they are smelted and sunk to the seabed, to be retrieved when needed.
At the same time, Cangnian also asked the azure dragon Aohan to take him to see where the Yellow River estuary is now.
After all, I had only heard it from Ao Han before.
Hearing is believing, seeing is believing. Since returning home is a serious matter, Cang Nian naturally had to verify it first.
And the result was exactly as Ao Han had predicted.
After traveling westward for about 6,500 kilometers, we finally saw land.
Unfortunately, Cangnian did not see any humans here.
Judging from the traces, there used to be a human city here, but it was abandoned for some reason.
Fortunately, Ao Han had always lived near the mouth of the Yellow River, so it roughly remembered what happened around it after the first spiritual energy revival tide.
It turned out that the earthquake caused by the first spiritual energy revival tide had flooded the lower reaches of the Yellow River, submerging more than half of the cities around the Yellow River estuary, resulting in heavy casualties.
So the surviving humans organized themselves and migrated inland to areas that had not been submerged.
Then, this place became a paradise for evolving creatures, and it remains so to this day.
To this, Cang Nian could only sigh.
The Yellow River has never been a peaceful river. Compared to the Yangtze River, which is located in the south and is another major river in China, it has experienced many more droughts and floods due to changes in its course.
This is why the Yangtze River estuary has the well-known international metropolis of Shanghai, while the Yellow River estuary has not developed into a prosperous city.
Such a great river, if it changes course even once, will be a famous natural disaster in history, accompanied by the deaths of millions of people and a disaster-affected population dozens of times the number of deaths.
However, the first spiritual energy revival tide caused heavy losses everywhere, including Kangcheng, where there were also huge casualties, so there's really nothing more to say.
But the surviving population has migrated away, which is not necessarily a bad thing for Cangnian.
At the very least, it can avoid some unnecessary conflicts.
At times like this, it would be difficult for people in different regions to communicate with each other. Even though they are all Chinese, after fighting separately for so long, there is a strong sense of mutual distrust between them.
When two long-isolated forces suddenly meet, it's not necessarily a case of kindred spirits meeting with tears in their eyes; rather, it could be a tense standoff.
In addition, due to the tidal issues caused by the second spiritual energy revival, the width of the Yellow River estuary is several tens of kilometers.
Even the water is hundreds of meters deep!
This is good news.
Because of this, once Noah modifies the ark to have a propulsion system, he can then sail the ark into the Yellow River.
By now, Cangnian has largely let down his guard against Noah.
Although Noah used an emotionless electronic female voice throughout, Cang Nian could sense that he had no other intentions.
It will do its utmost to complete any command it receives.
If it cannot complete the task, it will also express a clear apology.
If it weren't for the fact that when it couldn't complete the task assigned to it under the existing conditions, it would unceremoniously ask for the resources it needed, showing an unusual "directness" and being closer to procedural thinking, Cang Nian would really treat it as a normal, naturally born creature.
Therefore, Cang Nian simply ignored the idea that he had planned to return to the Dragon Kingdom and then discard the donkey after it had served its purpose.
Although they only spent a month together, and he even slept for ten days, it wasn't enough for them to develop any deep feelings for each other.
But Cangnian had already come to regard it as an ordinary companion.
Moreover, Noah is currently analyzing the formation, and once it has a basic grasp of this field, its usefulness will be even greater.
Therefore, whether from an emotional or practical standpoint, Cangnian has no intention of discarding Noah after he has served his purpose.
What's truly frightening isn't the life of data itself, but the people who control it.
Data life is a tool, a sharp knife. How it develops depends on the person wielding the knife, not on data life itself.
At least at the Moriguchi survivor base, the root of all disasters and tragedies lies with Yuichi Toyoda, not with those data lives.
On the contrary, it was precisely because those data beings faithfully carried out Yuichi Toyoda's orders, even with such unreasonable demands, that the tragedy occurred.
Until the very last moment, not a single data life form betrayed its master.