Spring is coming, everything is awakened from its slumber, and the grass and trees are beginning to sprout. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The sun poured more and more intense light and heat on the earth, and the scent of moistening the earth spread in the evaporating fields, and the insects, which had slept all winter, began to creep out of their burrows.

Lin Dong didn't feel this at all. As soon as he returned from home, he plunged into the experimental workshop built for him on the top floor of the Changying Group.

It was here that Lin Dong assembled most of the satellites in the Bifang Satellite System, and it was here that Lin Dong completed the transformation from theoretical to operational.

The operation room is completely different now. At that time, when assembling satellites, Lin Dong did not have much experience, and both the tools and the console were made on improvise. It was only later, when satellites were assembled in batches, that it became formalized.

Now, he's on the workbench, dressed in blue, trying to assemble a mechanical octopus -- a half-finished product in front of him.

The tentacles of the octopus should be the best to install according to most people's thoughts, but in reality this is not the case.

Because the main function of this mechanical octopus is embodied in this mechanical tentacle, so it is very thin and very strong, different materials of wires, knives, drills, welding heads and other gadgets are very complex, each wire is responsible for one to several functions, because considering that the mechanical octopus is ready to work in space, and many of the materials belong to the space "local materials" for 3D printing, so it can not be too fine, to be integrally formed.

Therefore, Lin Dong had to be very patient when assembling it, but he couldn't be very careful. This is very challenging both in terms of design and assembly.

Although he has been further designing, manufacturing and ordering parts since the end of the year, it has been almost a month now, and the mechanical octopus is less than half complete.

Lin Dong knew that everything was difficult at the beginning, as long as the first octopus was completed, he didn't need to do the rest himself. These mechanical octopuses will copy the rest one by one like duplicates - the program says this.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Jiang Hongwei is here to find you." Qin Qin opened the door and saw that Lin Dong was installing the parts, so he waited quietly, and only after Lin Dong finished installing the parts did he say out loud: "He is waiting in the reception room downstairs." ”

"Let him come up!" Lin Dong didn't raise his head, "Tell him that he doesn't need to change his clothes." ”

"Okay!"

It's true that you don't have to change your clothes. This mechanical octopus is not the same as a satellite. Because it has to survive in a harsh environment, it does not need to be assembled in a very clean and tidy environment. As long as there are no errors during assembly and no problems when the program is written, then the rest can be left to them directly.

A few minutes later, when Lin Dong was pondering which tentacle to install first, Jiang Hongwei came to the workshop under the guidance of Qin Qin.

Seeing Lin Dong holding a mechanical tentacle in his hand, he picked up a driver and asked, "Do you want to help?" ”

"Forget it, you'd better sit there honestly." Lin Dong pointed to the chair next to him: "I'm afraid that you won't do this job, and if you stain your clothes for drinking tea, you will be in trouble if you have to compensate you for it!" ”

"Hee-hee-hee......" Qin Qin couldn't help but laugh when she heard it, Lin Dong rarely told jokes, and he would tease like this in front of people who were closer and had a good relationship.

"Okay, I'm just lazy." Jiang Hongwei and Lin Dong were not polite at all, "Don't say it, I really just have such a decent set of clothes, it's dirty, and the dry cleaning fee is expensive, I'm not like you, a local tyrant......"

"Stop!" Lin Dong put down the tentacle and sat opposite Jiang Hongwei, took off his gloves, Qin Qin handed over the water cup in time, he took it and took a sip and said, "I didn't invite you to come, don't put this matter on my head!" ”

After Qin Qin poured another glass of water for Jiang Hongwei, he quietly turned around and left. She had heard Lin Dong say before that when he was talking to Jiang Hongwei, it was best not to have anyone next to him.

"We have been notified by the American side." Waiting for Qin Qin to leave, Jiang Hongwei said with a straight face: "The situation they said is roughly the same as what you said. But it's not as detailed as you say. And what they reported was that the asteroid was about to hit the Earth in about ten months, and they sent us the asteroid's position. They want to work with us to get this out of the way – in a week's time, several of the major powers will send representatives to discuss the plan, and you will be among those invited. ”

"Have we seen it with our own telescope?" Lin Dong put down the cup and asked, "With a supercomputer like Taihu Light, it should be no problem to simulate the orbit, velocity, and final landing point of the asteroid, right?" ”

"Because the asteroid passes through the Sun before reaching the Earth, the trajectory altered by the Sun's gravity and repulsion has not yet been fully calculated, so the final result has not yet been released." Jiang Hongwei explained: "But at present, it is indeed more likely to pass by the earth. ”

"So what are you going to do?" Lin Dong asked, "Listen and watch like them, or are you going to tell the actual situation?" ”

"What did you say?" Jiang Hongwei's face was honest: "We haven't calculated an accurate conclusion at present, so naturally we are following the crowd." But we're currently building an unmanned probe, and the purpose of asking me here is to see if there's anything we can do with you? ”

"Whether that thing ends up crashing or running, I'm going to leave it behind." Lin Dong patted the mechanical octopus lightly, "So recently, I will speed up the manufacture of this thing, before that asteroid approaches the earth, put my aerospace plane on it first, it is best to take samples in advance, if not, just leave it, even if it is a satellite of the earth, you always have to slowly get the good things first!" ”

"Are you sure there's something good up there?" Jiang Hongwei was a little surprised: "At present, the spectrum obtained by our largest telescope cannot be completely determined what substances are on it, why are you so sure?" ”

"I naturally have my own way." Lin Dong smiled mysteriously: "In short, it is unlikely that it will be an iron lump or a stone lump like an ordinary meteorite." If there really is a rare metal or alloy, wouldn't it be a hair? Anyway, I'm going to explore space, and now it's time to work overtime to complete the goal ahead of schedule, and there's nothing to lose......"

Jiang Hongwei knew that Lin Dong would not finish telling the truth, and it was already very good to get to this point, so he changed the topic, pointed to the octopus and said, "It's so magical?" Like you said, a high level of intelligence? Why do I feel a little unreliable? ”

"It's an experiment anyway, if you don't believe it, that's the best!" (To be continued.) )