Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 619 - 615: Participating in the Purchase

Following this announcement, every civilization could choose to go to area "F-203" to participate in the final clearance sale without any limitations on the number of participants.

Because the Dyson Sphere was so immense, transport ships were still necessary to reach the destination.

The ion engine slowly ejected flames, and for some reason, Zhang Yuan always felt an unsettling anxiety... Perhaps it was the instinctive unease about the absolutely neutral Amoeba Faction soon departing.

A highly trusted umbrella was about to vanish, and the New Human Civilization, which had not experienced many wars, seemed like flowers in a greenhouse.

"In fact, it’s not just us. Most civilizations haven’t gone through many wars."

"I even believe that the reason why there are so many Sinking Civilizations is that everyone has been living too comfortably."

"You’re right, but also not quite," Zhang Yuan said, "War can force a civilization to develop due to external factors, but it can’t promote progress within a civilization."

A few hours later, the high-speed spaceship arrived at an enormous square with an area of one million square kilometers. Looking down from above the spaceship, the square was divided into 1202 sectors, densely packed with mechanical equipment, some of which were as large as mountains!

Guided by the local Artificial Intelligence, people parked their spaceships and then received a series of trading forms.

[Dear New Human Civilization, greetings! This document is a list of the trading materials.]

[In this square, the prices of all materials have been marked. You can visit these devices up close and choose to make a purchase.]

[In area F-208, the Amoeba Civilization is celebrating the official completion of the Dyson Sphere. Your civilization can also choose to go there and participate in the ceremonies.]

Zhang Yuan inspected the "Micro-Nano Alpha 3 Maintenance Robot" in front of him. It was large, standing tall like an elephant, with a total of 12 mechanical arms.

After examining the specific parameters, Zhang Yuan inwardly praised the robot, which was capable of repairing machinery with complexity levels below "D99G0".

This type of robot, capable of complex logical judgments, touched on key areas of the field of Artificial Intelligence.

There was a general principle when designing maintenance robots: the complexity of a certain maintenance robot’s design should be higher than the item it needed to repair.

To put it specifically, humans could design robots to repair washing machines because washing machines are simple in structure and have few components. The robot could determine what parts were damaged.

If the washing machine’s complexity is 1, then the robot that repairs washing machines might have a complexity of 10.

A complexity of 10 is still within human comprehension.

But what about machines with complexity levels several orders of magnitude higher than a washing machine?

Take, for example, an excavator. The difficulty of designing an excavator is 20, so the complexity of a robot that maintains an excavator might soar to 100. It’s not feasible to expect a robot designed to repair washing machines to fix an excavator.

That is, the more complex the machine, the greater the difficulty for robots to repair such complex objects, by several orders of magnitude.

Of course, with human capabilities, such excavator maintenance robots can still be designed. And it was these fellows who helped humanity complete the neutron star collision project.

But what about things of a few orders of magnitude higher in complexity? For instance, robots that repair other robots, or the Departure Spaceship, with a complexity of a billion!

This spaceship had hundreds of billions of parts, involving engineers of several hundred varieties, with more than 300,000 people related to the project!

This type of ultra-complex cutting-edge technology could only rely on humans for maintenance. Having robots as assistants was fine, but it was absolutely impossible to automate the entire process.

The main reason was that humans could not design such highly intelligent robots.

Designing a spaceship was already extremely difficult, and designing a robot to maintain a spaceship was several orders of magnitude more so, well beyond their capabilities... By the time the engineers sluggishly designed such a maintenance robot, tens of thousands of years would have passed, and the spaceship would have been long obsolete!

Designing complex repair logic is even more troublesome than educating infants and toddlers. While educating children might be complex, it’s exhaustive, in theory, everyone is unique, yet there have been so many humans in the world, nothing new under the Sun, and history has long had people similar to you, with enough data in the databases...

Therefore, a combination of robot teachers and a few human teachers can accomplish the education of a large number of children.

But repair robots can’t do that, some broken parts aren’t worth fixing and would be more practical to manufacture anew...

Thus, these "Micro-Nano Alpha 3 Maintenance Robots" produced by Level 5 Civilizations are quite attractive to humans.

"Micro-Nano Alpha 3 Maintenance Robot, remaining quantity: 19,009,829, price: 32 AmiBa Points each."

"The usage rules are as follows..."

"Purchasing one hundred robots will grant access to the robot’s database."

This type of robot is capable of maintaining mechanical devices with a difficulty below "D99G0." Just input the machine’s blueprint into its database, and the robot will be able to master maintenance skills, which is very convenient.

"D990G0" is a trade market standard that professional engineers should be able to understand. The first symbol is meant to be

Zhang Yuan knew it was a standard, but didn’t know exactly how it was calculated.

The trade market also specified the exact usage of these robots: they could be used but not hacked. Should someone try to forcefully crack their Artificial Intelligence, the robot would self-destruct.

If you wanted to buy the robot’s database, the price would surge significantly.

"Considering its capabilities, a price of 32..."

Zhang Yuan felt the price was reasonable, but it was still a bit expensive for the entire New Human Civilization. Buying one or two units was fine, but purchasing more was simply unaffordable.

Without scale, these robots weren’t particularly useful. The repair capabilities of a few Senior Engineers could compete with one robot, so why spend money on them?

After visiting several batches of robots, all were significantly ahead of Level 4 Civilizations in terms of autonomous intelligence. Their material quality was average, nothing imagination-defying.

"This damned trade market is really asking for the moon! Thirty-some AmiBa Points for a single robot, with a total of nineteen million units! These things can be made indefinitely, so why sell them for such a high price?" an engineer lamented long and hard, finding the price far too high. Seeing such a large inventory made it even harder to decide to purchase.

"They are a Level 5 Civilization after all; making money is simple for them... especially from those lower-level civilizations."

"Have you not heard the anecdote of trading eight hundred million shirts for one airplane?"

"Old Zhang, let’s go! The spaceship has arrived!" Old Yang called out, leaving around two hundred engineers to investigate the vicinity.

"You guys continue the survey here; we’ll check other places."

"No problem."

They were headed to the Dyson Sphere’s completion ceremony, to witness the legendary Level 6 Civilization!

Boarding the Dyson Sphere’s exclusive large Transport Ship, Zhang Yuan discovered that contingent cabins were filled with oddly-shaped aliens; some looked like gorillas, some resembled rocks, and others were fully armored in machinery, their true appearances obscured.

Each group belonged to its own civilization’s cabins, only visible when boarding or disembarking through transparent dome covers.

Having seen so many aliens over the years, Zhang Yuan wasn’t too concerned, simply closing his eyes to rest and rejuvenate.

After half a day’s journey, the spaceship arrived at a new venue, where people had glass rooms belonging to their civilizations.

Before leaving the spaceship, Zhang Yuan looked through the window and finally beheld the true appearance of the Amoeba Civilization!