Volume 1: The Escape of the Holy Maiden Chapter 97 The Shuttle Boat: A Man-Made Whale Soaring Through Space
Wu Weichen is a meticulous guy, although such a person will definitely make people feel a headache in life, after all, no one wants to get too close to a stone. If it weren't for sharing an absolutely unforgettable experience, the iron man tenderness of the straight man of steel shattered Salina's heart defense in an instant, and it would be absolutely impossible for Salina, a mature woman as attractive as Salina would never have taken a fancy to this big stone.
But at work, the character of an old turtle like Wu Weichen is absolutely popular. Not to mention anything else, just looking at his back can give people a feeling that this person is very reliable, absolutely reassuring.
In the process of being taken by Wu Weichen to the shuttle boat, Wu Weichen had no extra words except for some explanation at the beginning, just walked forward with his head in a hurry. However, probably considering that Chu Yuesheng's legs and feet didn't seem to be very convenient, his steps were not very big, and his pace was not let go, so Chu Yuesheng could barely keep up.
The space elevator itself has the function of a freight hub, because it carries a large number of shuttle ships to and from heaven and earth, and there are not only special stops and parking lots, but also supporting facilities. Whether it's the repair and maintenance of the shuttle boat, or the eating, drinking and entertainment of those drivers who drive the shuttle boat back and forth, it is easy to find facilities that provide related services near the space elevator. Even if it is a gold kiln that allows others to squander a lot of money, as long as you are familiar with the routines or have a regular customer to lead, it is not impossible to find it. A space elevator connects the ground and space, and also closely links the spaceport overhead and the land around the space elevator, forming a business circle that forms a complete industrial chain around the space elevator, driving the local economy to make rapid progress.
Wu Weichen, or the shuttle boat prepared by the Security Council for Chu Yuesheng and the others, was parked at a stop relatively close to one of the entrances to the space elevator.
Although it was prepared early, the shuttle boat is not a deformable hovercar, and you can put it down with a corner. Since the shuttle boat has the name of "boat", its size must of course be leaning on the boat. Even the simplest shuttle boat, which is simply used to carry people, in order to ensure that the integrity of the boat body and the stability of the atmospheric pressure in the cabin can be maintained even if it is exposed to the outer space environment without atmospheric protection, all shuttle boats are without exception covered with a thick layer of armor made of memory metal, and a sealed cabin with constant temperature and pressure can be specially built inside to allow human activities inside. Just these two things combined, the space required is definitely not small, plus a variety of equipment, the size of the shuttle boat can be imagined.
Even if it is not as huge as those real starships, there are still tens of meters in length, a width of more than ten meters and a height of several meters, these data are the basic of the basics.
The reason why memory metal was chosen to make the shell is because there are too many small objects moving at high speed in the space environment of the adjacent planet. Although these little things often do not have a lot of energy, they have amazing penetrating power due to their super high speed, and can easily smash holes and holes in metal plates. Although it is said that as long as the energy shield is turned on, it can easily defend against these space debris that is not high in itself, but the large energy shield that can protect such a large area as the entire shuttle boat is a military product, how can it be configured for civilian shuttle boats. Therefore, there is no way to configure the energy shield for each shuttle boat, and the shuttle boat manufacturer can only go off the rails, thinking of such a way that is not a way.
That is, stack the thickest armor and take the most painful beating! Directly use the memory metal that is not very strong but easy to maintain as the external armor, even if the car is hit by space debris in every good place, it doesn't matter, anyway, as long as you drive the shuttle boat into the maintenance shop and soak in the electric pool, the outermost layer of memory metal can immediately become like new. This not only solves the problem of the protection of the shuttle boat, but also gives birth to the shuttle boat maintenance industry, and even drives the common development of the upper and lower industrial chains.
Shuttle boats are big guys, just like warships, and they can only be parked in fixed places. The place where Wu Weichen and the three of them are going with Chu Yuesheng now is the docking station where the shuttle boat is parked.
As he walked, Chu Yuesheng suddenly remembered something, so he asked, "Wu ...... Brother, Xingxi Baixue said before, our human inner ghost has hacked the portrait recognition system of the fair scale, has this matter been dealt with?"
Wu Weichen's walking speed remained the same, and he answered Chu Yuesheng's question while answering: "The loophole in the system has been found, and our hackers are now reversely tracking down the physical coordinates of that traitor." He should be hiding on the Internet now, and he doesn't have time to pay attention to us. ”
Therefore, if people are going to catch it, it is really worthy of the Security Council, and it is a bull break.
Since Wu Weichen, an authoritative figure, had already said so, then Chu Yuesheng was relieved. If even the Security Council can't lock down the position of that traitor, then this kind of person is definitely condescending to be a traitor, and he can get ahead by doing anything right, so why bother to be a dog for other civilizations.
Chu Yuesheng didn't know that Wu Weichen's casually set up flag was recovered so quickly.
The docking station of the shuttle boat is actually right in front of you, and after walking out of the vacuum rail station disguised as a warehouse, you can immediately see the shuttle boat regularly parked in the depression of the berth in front of you.
By definition, these behemoths are like man-made whales roaming the atmosphere and beyond, large in size but with an honest appearance, making every day a tireless trip to transport living creatures from other planets to the surface, and then transport the goods on the ground to the spaceport, through which they are transported to other planets. But to be honest, from a distance, they don't look as cute as whales, but rather like freshly cut cigar sticks, long, thick, and dirty. In addition to the fact that the cargo port can be opened and closed, only the logo of the Chamber of Commerce can be used in a different color on the entire shell, just like the logo on the cigar with vegetable glue.
This stop is dedicated to the freight shuttle boat, the volume of the shuttle boat parked here is several times larger than those manned shuttle boats, but the pedestrians passing by can not see any of them, can only see a large number of load robots or support or pull a large number of goods in an orderly shuttle among them, although chaotic but self-contained. With the unified coordination of artificial intelligence, even if there is only a few millimeters between each other, these load robots will never let the goods collide. The machine's orders and sensors are precise enough to make this dangerous act of tap-dancing on the tip of a knife the norm.
Wu Weichen took Chu Yuesheng and the three of them straight into the stop, and crossed in front of the loaded robots dragging goods. After discovering that a pedestrian was approaching, those load-bearing robots all immediately stopped moving, and waited until Chu Yuesheng and them left before continuing to start, and it was a safe mess.
Soon, they came to the side of a shuttle boat that looked indistinguishable from the shuttle boat around them. The shuttle boat is restocking, and the load robot will put boxes of boxy goods near the cargo port, and the crane inside the shuttle boat will automatically stretch out the hook claw to grab the goods into the cargo hold, and place them in the best way calculated by the intelligent program.
Wu Weichen didn't say anything, and walked in directly from the intake. The machines that were running automatically stopped as Wu Weichen approached, and moved out of the way, allowing Wu Weichen to enter.
Ordinary cargo shuttles really can't do this. Because the cargo compartment and cockpit of the cargo shuttle ship are separated from each other. This is also to save costs, and there is no life-sustaining system for human activities in the cargo compartment of the cargo shuttle. If someone accidentally walks into the cargo compartment and doesn't get out in time, the vacuum environment of outer space will definitely kill that person when the shuttle leaves the atmosphere and has not yet entered the spaceport. Therefore, the cargo warehouse of the cargo shuttle ship has very strict restrictions, and it is absolutely not allowed for humans to enter directly. The only explanation why Wu Weichen was able to walk in through the cargo port was that the shuttle boat had been modified and had a special purpose.
This kind of warehouse is actually very suitable for Tibetans, who would have thought that someone could hide in a warehouse with a vacuum environment, which normal humans can't do anyway. It is said that Xingxi Baixue stepped on such a blind spot, modified the locking restrictions of the intelligent program, and got into the cargo hold of a cargo shuttle ship, thus avoiding the layers of inspection of the spaceport and running out of the spaceport. As for how she escaped from the shuttle boat that was bombed by the air police, and how she escaped to the surface and slipped into the university town, this is probably another matter.
Don't ask, asking is the black technology of the Star Curtain Saintess, and it doesn't need to be explained.
After following Wu Weichen into the transformed freight shuttle boat, Chu Yuesheng found that the warehouse here was indeed a kind of goods, and the area where the real living creatures were stacked was only the first half of the warehouse, and those boxes were still placed on both sides, and there was a special walkway for people to pass through in the middle. After passing through the crates, they saw a quarantine door that had been opened.
Behind the isolation door is the cockpit that has been enlarged a lot, and Wu Weichen is now sitting in the driver's seat and has begun to tick the shuttle boat's driving system on the touch screen. He finished the cargo hoisting operation near the intake and submitted an application to the integrated control room of the space elevator to leave the berth and enter the space elevator. Because he took the special approval channel, he quickly got the permit.
With a slight shaking, the shuttle boat had already taken off.