CHAPTER 906: CHAPTER 151: INSIDE THE ROYAL COURT

At this point, Su Zhan stood up to stretch his body.

A steel prosthetic body naturally wouldn’t feel stiff or suffer from poor blood circulation due to sitting for long, but this gene-based instinct still needed to be released. Su Zhan opened the drawer by her side and took out a storage device labeled "Coffee (Full Set)," inserting it into her interface.

Inside the Godspeed Court, there were laboratories specifically researching "spaceship interior cultivation technology." Some ingenious minds set the experimental subjects as various types of old-era cash crops. Some people had specially prepared chemical sensory prosthetics—laid with ultra-dense human sensory cells on the surface of the equipment, extremely close to human natural senses, but with more finesse than natural senses. Using such prosthetics to taste those ancient-era delicacies, and then recording them. This allows one to repeatedly experience them at any time.

Of course, since everyone’s brain neural networks have slight differences, just like everyone’s taste preferences, it’s best if you use your own memory in these cases.

However, although the things produced in the laboratory were good, the production was unstable. If there was a series of failures over a period, there might be no output at all. Besides, for Benchmark Man, this was enjoyment, a pleasure, but it wasn’t a necessity of life.

Because of this, those ancient delicacies have always been in short supply.

It was Su Zhan and her team of engineers who, after flying through the Oort cloud for a few years, arrived early at Argon II, conducting preliminary research and disassembly, which earned them a reward from the King upon returning. They were fortunate enough to enjoy firsthand and record the memory.

Then, she came to know that there were several small circles within the Godspeed Court where people shared similar memories. And because everyone’s taste preferences vary, everyone played their own game.

It was precisely because of Su Zhan’s special fondness for coffee that she could join this exchange circle.

These small circles unrelated to work are also a valuable human network resource.

Su Zhan happily inserted the storage device into her interface and selected a memory of a noticeably sour and fragrant coffee.

In fact, this experience is not purely a memory of taste signals. Benchmark Man can replace some chemical signals with electrical signals to control nerve cells. In the past, Usurpers of the State built backdoors based on this principle to ensure they could trigger the apoptosis program of nerve cells using specific quotes. But in reality, there’s a more peaceful application—to directly simulate the effect of chemicals like caffeine in the brain using signals.

Many kinds of chemicals, including caffeine and alcohol, can be reproduced using this method.

——Being able to get into the Godspeed Court was truly a stroke of luck...

Su Zhan leaned back comfortably in her chair, unable to help but think this way.

Yawgmoth was always lenient towards the Godspeed King, no matter what the Godspeed King did. Su Zhan even suspected that as long as the Godspeed King didn’t openly advocate for chivalry, Yawgmoth wouldn’t care what he would do.

Within the Godspeed Court, there’s even a lot of brazen behavior ignoring the Dyson Principle. The Godspeed King hardly interfered in any social activities in the lower tiers, forming whatever groups people wanted was entirely okay. Cultivating culture and that sort of thing was even encouraged.

For the Protector and the lower ranks of Scientific Knights, the Godspeed Court seemed almost mythical.

Before entering, Su Zhan, like everyone else, thought the Godspeed Court meant "privilege," meant "projects of interest to Yawgmoth." But after she luckily got in, Su Zhan realized how big the external impression’s deviation was.

Inside the Godspeed Court, it’s quite relaxed, and His Highness, the Godspeed King, is quite a kind person. It’s rarely heard that anyone got punished for factors like "superior mentality." Other than the Godspeed King’s Royal Guard, the Godspeed Court rarely had missions involving fighting Heroes. The Royal Guard mostly joined because their lives were too peaceful, their martial arts too honed, and they wanted opponents.

By the Kings’ standards, the Godspeed King’s Royal Guard has never been full. It couldn’t even be considered an official "army."

Of course, there’s also a rumor that His Highness the Godspeed King has a weak spot. Once a hapless fellow annoyed the King, was picked up by the King himself, and thrown into the battlefield between Heroes and Protectors during boarding combat to fend for themselves.

But these things seem to be mere legends. The Godspeed Court has various records showing "the King doesn’t care about this" and "His Highness doesn’t mind that," as if the Godspeed King is a person without taboos, with no airs, just not very talkative—a former subordinate of His Highness was said to be a chatterbox who often chatted up a storm with His Highness, yet even when His Highness got really tired of it, he just sent the person back to rest without demoting them.

You can even go to His Highness to inquire about tales of the Martial Ancestor.

Su Zhan finds it hard to imagine what would actually anger such a guy.

After enjoying the feeling of taste and caffeine for a while, Su Zhan unplugged the storage device and continued writing her report.

"Argon II" was even more complete than Argon I. By the time Su Zhan and her team arrived, there were still a few small robots operating inside.

At the time, they used a phonon cutting device to drill a large hole into the ship’s shell. To think, equipment relying on mechanical waves for cutting only gained attention after Argon I.

The technology brought by Argon I included "using mechanical waves to shatter the protective layer of uranium fuel blocks" and "using mechanical waves to interfere with the alloy crystal formation process." It’s not difficult technology, but it helped humanity directly illuminate a series of technologies.

Today, modified versions of these technologies are widely used in cutting equipment and 3D printers everywhere.

Argon’s uranium fuel blocks are encased in hard and brittle alloy. The elasticity and toughness of the uranium blocks are excellent. When specific ranges of mechanical waves are applied, the exterior hard and brittle alloy will peel off, revealing the fuel blocks inside. Magnetic alloys’ debris will also be attracted by a steel structure framework with ferromagnetic properties, then recovered by other robots. This technology is nowhere near current human technology but once inspired humanity.

The first to enter Argon II was a subordinate of the Godspeed King. Judging from Argon II’s metal shell, everyone already determined that even if there were armed robots responsible for defense inside Argon II, their weapon levels posed no threat to cyber warriors. But to be cautious, they sent in the martial artist with the highest martial arts skills first.

The robots inside Argon II couldn’t even register the presence of "alien visitors." They were still mechanically repairing the spaceship’s hull.