Learn one small skill every day

Chapter Ninety-Seven High Performance

"Emma, ​​I want to..."

"No."

After annihilating a developing civilization, the Endless Energy continued its voyage. Bai Miao reflected on this and decided that the next time they made contact with other civilizations, they must hide the Endless Energy in advance and only send a small number of elites.

This way, the conditions for annihilating the opponent will not be triggered.

Bai Miao is now planning to talk to Emma about installing a swimming pool on the rooftop terrace of the captain's cabin.

But he was rejected before he could even speak.

"Can you please let me finish? All I want is a swimming pool."

Emma looked at Bai Miao with a hint of disdain: "It's only been two days since you took office, and you're already thinking about using your position as captain to seek special privileges for yourself? You're something else."

"Just tell me if what I, the captain, am doing is acceptable."

"…OK."

This is what they call subconsciously rejecting something first, and then listening to the specific details.

“The R&D department can handle this task.”

Emma handed the pot to Gong Ni.

Gong Ni raised his eyebrows: "Captain, the R&D department does have a small swimming pool, but that thing has a chance of randomly teleporting people swimming in it to the sea at a depth of more than 15000 meters. If you don't want to become a speck of tar between Leviathan's teeth, I suggest you don't use it."

"I just want a space where I can swim, without all that weird technology."

Bai Miao looked at Gong Ni: "I'm starting to doubt the reliability of the props your R&D department produces. If they're this unreliable, do you still want your resources?"

“Hey, hey, hey… Captain, Captain, that swimming pool wasn’t made by our R&D department. It’s a relic salvaged from the sea. It has some very unique space technology on it, you know? That swimming pool doesn’t need to have its water changed. It automatically exchanges the water inside with seawater periodically. This is the kind of technology we want to learn,” Gong Ni argued. “Captain, at worst we can make you a bigger bathtub.”

After speaking, Gong Ni seemed to consider the usage environment: "How about adding an automatic water heating function and a function to block cold wind?"

"No need, sigh... I'll just go take a bath myself."

The skill of underwater breathing should also be able to be tested in a bathtub.

The second day passed in this way. Before 22:00 PM, Bai Miao tested his skills in the bathtub.

The skill can only be activated when every part of the body is underwater.

However, once the skill takes effect, Bai Miao is able to obtain oxygen continuously.

There is no need to use your nose or mouth to absorb oxygen from the water.

In other words, as long as a person is in the water, they will not drown.

Then comes the most important part of each day: the shift duty.

Tonight has left Bai Miao somewhat devastated.

There were three anomalies, occurring in three different departments.

One anomaly was the addition of a door in the corridor, another was the presence of extra clutter on the table in the crew activity room, and the last anomaly was the same as last night.

Also, the skills I drew today are a bit different.

The previous two days were somewhat related to the ocean, but today's skill is [Mechanical Mastery].

[Mechanical Engineering Proficiency LV1: You can identify the structure of a basic mechanical device and reproduce it.]

"It's somewhat related to technology... so it should be of some use."

Bai Miao looked around and found that this skill could only allow him to see the shape of something, but it couldn't tell what the inside looked like.

However, the most urgent task is to find out why these increasingly numerous anomalies are occurring.

Bai Miao felt that things couldn't continue like this.

If I didn't have the skill of finding fault, the position of captain would be far too difficult, wouldn't it?

Was it because I triggered some kind of punishment mechanism?

"Emma, ​​why are there several times more unusual phenomena tonight than yesterday?"

As soon as Emma appeared, Bai Miao asked her directly.

"Captain, you're asking me this question because you want comfort or an answer. If it's comfort, I suggest you go to sleep early. Would you like me to sing you a lullaby? If you want an answer, I can only say I don't know."

"What the hell..."

Bai Miao was furious. After all that, were they just trying to fool him?

"I want you to sing me a lullaby, sing it to me until eight in the morning!"

Emma paused for a moment, then frowned slightly and said, "I never expected you to have the nerve to make such a request. Are you a baby? Will you cry if I don't sing?"

"You can either sleep with me, or sing me a lullaby by my bedside. The choice is yours!"

Emma was silent for a moment, then, to Bai Miao's astonishment, she pulled back the covers and lay down on the bed.

"The computer is temporarily powered off. The power-on time is set to 7:30 PM. Good night..."

As she spoke, Emma closed her eyes and peacefully wrapped herself in half of the blanket.

?

You're asleep already?

Bai Miao lay down next to Emma with some skepticism.

A wave of heat emanated from Emma, ​​suggesting that she possessed some kind of thermostatic circulatory system.

Just as Bai Miao reached out a finger to poke Emma and feel her texture, Emma suddenly opened her eyes, her red pupils staring straight at Bai Miao.

"Faced with a secretary who was completely unprepared, you still couldn't control your desires and made a move, huh?"

"Didn't you turn your phone off?"

Bai Miao was startled.

"That was a little test for you. Although there is no rule on the ship that the captain cannot do these things, just in case, I would like to remind you that I am not human. I suppose you are not intelligent enough to understand what I just said. I want to emphasize that I do not have the functions you imagine."

"Are the other ministers the same as you?"

Bai Miao finally had a chance to ask this question.

Emma gave Bai Miao a meaningful look: "Do you want an answer or some comfort?"

You don't know, do you?

Do you want to use the same trick on yourself twice?

"No, I know, they are similar to me, but not the same kind of being. To be honest, I am high-performance."

As she spoke, Emma winked proudly.

"...Get out of here."

Bai Miao resisted the urge to kick Emma off the bed and let Emma stand at the head of the bed by herself.

If we keep talking, I'll get so angry I'll die.

"Can I take that you have no ideas about machines? It seems you still retain basic human rationality."

"Don't talk anymore, I want to sleep."

Bai Miao lay on the bed, thinking that he was the one who made Emma suffer, and even made her lie on the bed, so why did he not get any benefit in the end?

How can I gain the upper hand in my next argument...?

Bai Miao mentally replayed his argument with Emma, ​​the culprit standing by the bedside. The more Bai Miao thought about it, the less he could sleep. Soon it was seven in the morning.

The person on duty today is the head of the Operations Management Department.

I hope he's as easy to manage as Wiener.

Chapter Ninety-Eight: Risks of Salvage

"Hello Captain, I am Irina, the head of the Operations Management Department."

After Irina entered the captain's cabin, she bowed gracefully to Bai Miao, then sat down at the table and began to handle the day's affairs.

"Hello, what would you like to drink? I'll get it for you. You can put work aside for now and take your time."

"Give me some matcha milkshake, I guess you wanted to talk to me."

Irina wore white gloves, a black sweater, and short brown hair that covered her left eye.

"As a newly appointed captain, I do want to talk to each of the department heads to get a better understanding of everyone's work progress."

"Then why didn't the captain arrange for security and a manager of the power plant?"

"Well... those two departments are relatively simple to operate, and the security minister doesn't care about my safety as the captain at all. You guys are more important."

Irina smiled gently: "It's alright, Captain, I understand."

"Could you tell me what your department does during the salvage operation? Are there any precautions to take?"

The Operations Management Department is mainly responsible for salvaging artifacts from the sea, but Bai Miao is unclear about the specific circumstances under which the Operations Management Department would be allowed to go into the sea.

If there are any underlying rules here that Bai Miao is unaware of, it would be fine if the extermination of the external natives were to occur, but it would be troublesome if it were to harm the captain.

Irina took a sip of her milkshake and began to explain the workflow of her department.

Bai Miao summarized it as: "If it rains but doesn't produce water, and there's light, there must be a ghost."

During its journey, the Endless Energy's artifact detector will conduct searches. When an indicator light illuminates, it means that there are valuable artifacts in the ocean at the Endless Energy's current location, and the operations management department needs to dispatch a team to retrieve them.

If it is raining when the lights come on, the captain can choose to stay where he is and wait for the rain to stop before continuing the salvage operation, or abandon the relics at that location and move on.

This means the captain has to make a choice again.

Bai Miao is now very particular about the choice of captain.

Last time, it was my own choice to make contact with the other side that led to the destruction of that civilization.

When Bai Miao encountered the salvage site during the rain, he wasn't sure if it was a sign that the salvage site was extremely dangerous and that continuing the salvage operation even after the rain stopped would bring unpredictable consequences.

Irina did not provide an answer as to whether the other captains continued the salvage operation after the rain stopped.