John let out a small chuckle at VAS's response and then recalled his predicament about his two options before, but after his little banter with VAS, he was more relaxed and looked at the options again. “It would be better if I started creating the network facility first and connected to the shelter. There are not only potential resources, but knowledge that would be valuable too.”
After making a decision, John had a facility built on the east side of the core. He began by creating an empty window and then proceeded to draft a rough plan for the factory's structure.
Factory Structure Section Development Facilities North Mech N/A East Human Network South Research Departments Recycling West Bio N/A
Currently, outside the core, on the east side, the nanodust started to separate as a half-transparent wall extended outward from the core, pushing the nanodust away from the wall. After sufficient clear space had been made, the floor started to become like a quivering liquid, and from this liquid, structures started to emerge from the floor, as if being lifted out of water.
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The structures that came to view were a mechanical satellite dish with four panels surrounding the antenna in the center; two panels looked plain, but the other two had a rough material-like surface. The satellite pointed straight upward and was surrounded by instruments like computers and monitors. Once everything was set, the transparent wall became darker and thicker until the room became a cube-like room like the core.
John was informed that the core completed the facility, right after John had the connection to the hazard shelter restored. While waiting for the restoration to be completed, John recalled the body of the girl and asked VAS, “Hey VAS, is the body okay? Anything to report about it?” It didn't take long for VAS to reply. “I was able to connect with it, and we can also recover the data we extracted from the brain, and we can also manually control it. By the way, what do you plan on doing with it?”
“If my assumption is right, the shelter should have a medical bay, correct? So I would have it healed and functional. The soul disappeared, but its essence remains, so basically, the girl is not dead yet. She could be useful to study the outside world.” VAS was in agreement with John. “We could also use her body to understand how the world changed from the knowledge we gained from what we were able to recover here.”
John nodded, and then, thinking about understanding the world, John could help remember those small spy bots in the movies and asked VAS. “Hey VAS, could we make small scouting bots to see what is going on outside from where the girl came from?”
VAS was silent for a moment and was shining, too; after a while, he replied. “We require a robotic facility and component facility; the robotic facility is the frame chassis of the scout, and the components' facility is the hardware inside the scout. The core puts everything together and adds AI to control the scout, and the network facility allows wireless data transfer.”