From the tone of the woman's voice as she pointed to the distant building, it seemed to her that the establishment was nothing out of the ordinary, nothing worth commenting on. But to Yun Ge, the building labeled as a restaurant was shocking in scale. This was because the so-called restaurant was completely different from the other half-constructed buildings designed for an alien planet's environment. To be precise, Yun Ge shouldn't even use the word "building" to describe this restaurant. Because this restaurant was not a building at all, but a spaceship, at least three hundred meters long and the height of a four-story building.
Behind this spaceship, there were three more. One of the other spaceships was of similar volume to the one being used as a restaurant, while the other two were significantly smaller. These four spaceships formed a square, parked in the center of the small town, and the entire town expanded around the four spaceships. However, since the construction of the entire town was not yet completed, there were half-built structures everywhere, and ditches that were dug but not yet piped, making the whole town look devoid of vibrant construction activity, instead filled with a strong post-apocalyptic atmosphere.
Unlike Yun Ge, the woman only thought that the expedition team was building the base too slowly, but did not see any problems with this half-constructed town. As Yun Ge had guessed before, many expedition teams would indeed slack off when exploring planets too far away, and were out of effective supervision from the Vivispherian people, leading to laziness in some tasks. This was most common when building settlements.
Because for the members of the expedition team, the spaceships they rode could meet all their daily life needs on the new planet. Building settlements was only to meet the needs of the people who would come later for comprehensive development of the planet. However, since there is still a long time between the preliminary exploration and development of the planet by the expedition team and the subsequent comprehensive large-scale development. Therefore, many expedition teams naturally do not want to spend too much time and energy building settlements in the early stage. Anyway, they can build the settlement before the comprehensive large-scale development begins.
The woman said truthfully, and Yun Ge nodded repeatedly in response. But Yun Ge's expression from time to time revealed his embarrassment at not knowing anything about the above matters. The woman naturally saw Yun Ge's embarrassment, so she said, "Forget it, let's go in and sit down first! Maybe after having a drink, you can recover your memory as soon as possible!"
Yun Ge nodded in agreement, and expressed his gratitude to the woman for being so considerate. The woman was about to pull the door to enter the restaurant when she reminded again, "In short, remember, before your brain returns to normal, don't let others know about your problem. Otherwise, you will be forced to stop flying! In that case, your living expenses will be greatly reduced!"
"Understand! I will definitely work hard to recover my memory. But before that, I will have to ask you to help me cover up!" Yun Ge responded obediently.
It might be the dinner time, the restaurant's business is very hot at the moment, so Yun Ge and the two of them could only sit at a temporary dining table provided by the restaurant. However, because this temporary dining table is located in the aisle between the restaurant bar and the kitchen, it has allowed Yun Ge and the two of them to stay away from the relatively noisy dining area, thus allowing them to have a relatively private conversation space in the bustling environment.
"Why are you so keen to help me hide the memory problem? Just because we are a team member? Does it mean that our relationship is not just that of colleagues?" As soon as Yun Ge sat down, he couldn't wait to ask curiously, because for some reason, he was eager to determine something with the woman in front of him with delicate features.
The woman impatiently glanced at him and replied, "Of course not! Don't think wild thoughts! The reason I'm afraid that you will be grounded due to memory problems is mainly because you still owe me a lot of money! In addition, don't always call me 'you', I do have a name. My name is Grace. I don't care whether your memory has a problem, but you must remember my name! Because, it's important to remember the name of the creditor!"
Seeing the woman's tone becoming more and more gritted when speaking, and raising her left hand into a fist, Yun Ge hurriedly responded, "Yes! Yes! I will definitely remember your name! Miss Grace, don't be angry! Let's order something to eat quickly! I... I should be able to afford it, right?" Yun Ge said while thumping his chest, but he immediately felt guilty halfway through, because he didn't know what his financial situation was now, and he didn't find any wallet or similar things on him!
"Don't worry! Although you have to pay me back every time you get your salary, since I am very reasonable, I will still leave you enough pocket money to prevent you from starving before the next salary! In addition, your salary is stored in your chip, and you only need to swipe your retina to pay!" Grace said.
Then, Grace continued with a worried tone, "However, now that you have memory problems again, it won't cause the wallet data stored in your chip to fail, right? If that's the case, then I will have to treat you to this meal again! No! If that's the case, then the cost of this meal will also be included in our debt!"
"Okay, okay! Let's first include it in the debt, and then I will repay it all at once, okay?!" Yun Ge said with a helpless wry smile.
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At the same time, he was complaining in his heart: Alas! I can't see that Grace is a money-loving guy! It seems that I have to be clear with her in the future no matter what I do! Yes! No matter where I go in the future, I have to implement the AA system with her! Otherwise, she might become my creditor forever, and I will never be able to get up!
After solving the consumption problem of this meal, Yun Ge asked again, "By the way, you said I have a chip in my body? What does this mean? Why do I have a chip in my body?"
"Why? Because like me, you are also a semi-intelligent mechanized organic life form that has been modified by high-level bionics." Grace handed the menu to a restaurant staff member who was wearing sunglasses and was tall and thin, and then stretched her left hand, which was made of pure metal, in front of Yun Ge, so that he could see her arm clearly.
"Semi-intelligent mechanized organic life form? You mean, like you, I also have mechanized parts in my body?" Yun Ge looked carefully at Grace's exquisitely crafted mechanical palm, and then checked his own hands, and asked. Yun Ge did not show any surprise or fear at this time, because in his subconscious, he thought what Grace said was nothing to be shocked about. It seems that Yun Ge should have thought that things should be as Grace said.
"Don't look, we have different parts modified. Your hands are fine, so they have not been modified. Moreover, it's not just us, all Vivispherians have now upgraded to semi-intelligent mechanized organic life forms." Grace retracted her left hand and then pointed to the top of Yun Ge's head and his chest.
Yun Ge touched the top of his head according to Grace's indication, and then he found a small piece of metal in the middle of the top of his head. Yun Ge was very surprised, and then he quickly opened the vest that was similar to armor he was wearing to check his chest. Then Yun Ge saw that there was a whole palm-sized metal plate on the left side of his chest. He also found that this metal plate was obviously not just simply covered on his chest, but was obviously perfectly combined with his body through some exquisite craftsmanship.
"W-why is this so? Does it mean that there is something wrong with our bodies?" Yun Ge asked worriedly.
Grace looked at her metal left hand and said, "Some people's bodies are modified because there are problems, and it is forced to be modified. For example, my left hand was modified because the injury was serious and had to be modified. In addition, in addition to us, the modification of the Vivispherians' bodies is to let us live better and longer."
"Live better and longer? So, what kind of group are we Vivispherians?" Yun Ge knew that he shouldn't ask this question. But because Yun Ge had no memory of the Vivispherians and the situation here, he still asked this seemingly strange question under the impulse of curiosity.
Fortunately, Grace did not feel that Yun Ge's question was strange, and she seemed to be used to the situation where Yun Ge asked such a question. So, she picked up a bottle of somewhat sticky liquid sent by the waiter and took a big sip before explaining the situation of the Vivispherians to Yun Ge.
The term “Vivispherian” is a simplified reference to the “Vivispherical people”. This is a race with a high-tech civilization that originated from V-star and has a history of tens of thousands of years. However, it should be noted that although the Vivispherians' technology is very developed today, they only developed to such a high level of technology in the last few hundred years. The root of the rapid development of Vivispherians' technology is that their ancestors accidentally mastered the method of using thunder, and invented a way to store artificially generated electricity and a storage battery for electricity during the process of studying the method of using electricity.
After that, with the continuous progress of the Vivis civilization, they finally discovered the technology to extract electricity from a variety of gases that are cleaner, richer, Sustainable and renewable. At the same time, the Vivispherians also developed precision and tiny portable battery modules that can be carried by individuals, which can actively charge and autonomously convert energy sources into electricity, for each Vivispherian to carry with them.
This is not the end. With the research on bionics by the Vivispherians also achieving a major breakthrough, the Vivispherians finally mastered the technology to reasonably modify the organic bodies of the Vivispherians with machinery, allowing the Vivispherians to have微创 surgery to modify important organs and other human tissues into bionic machinery. Then, through the implantation of a miniature bionic chip in the Vivispherians' brains, these bionic machinery organs can be perfectly coordinated to ensure that the Vivispherians can significantly extend their individual lifespan while greatly reducing the wear and tear of internal organs.
"So, after our bodies are modified with bionics, how do we reproduce?" Yun Ge couldn't help but ask. But soon, he found that his question seemed to be a bit off-topic and hurriedly shook his hands to indicate that Grace could choose not to answer.
However, Grace did not feel that Yun Ge's question was a problem, so she replied, "Of course, Vivispherians have the ability to reproduce offspring. But because our body modification technology requires a lot of resources, and to prevent the overall quality of Vivispherians from declining due to excessive reproduction of offspring, we have a relatively strict control over the population. This is also why we need to enter space and continuously explore new living spaces. Only in this way can we obtain more resources and build more habitats to alleviate the pressure brought by the population to us."
Grace took a hot fried potato chip and continued, "In addition, although we Vivispherians are born with a very strong digestive system, which is enough for us to digest food from different planets, we do not have a very strong reproductive system. This leads to the probability of the reproductive system developing diseases increasing exponentially with the increase in the number of times required for reproduction. For the sake of health, Vivispherians who want to reproduce usually undergo bionic modification of the reproductive system after two or three reproductions, to ensure that their reproductive system will not develop any diseases in the future, and thus will not affect their lifespan."
"Of course, this kind of bionic modification of the reproductive system, although it will cause the modified to lose the ability to reproduce offspring, but it will not cause everyone to lose the most basic ability. So from this point, the bionic modification of the reproductive system is still very satisfactory overall." Grace said this, and then realized that the topic she was talking about was a bit too sensitive. So she hurriedly pressed her pretty lips and avoided Yun Ge's eyes, drinking the thick but delicious liquid in the glass in one go to relieve the awkward atmosphere.