Chapter 63: Discovering the Flying Immortals Outside the Sky
The last day of the Lorraine Agriculture and Forestry Machinery (Design) Competition is destined to be the most competitive day. Before the arrival of this day, all the participating teams are actively preparing for the day. In the evening, Weiss finished his other work and returned to the team station of the Lorraine Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Field. As the seeded team of the host country, their home field advantage is reflected in all aspects of hardware and software. After the first three days of competition, they temporarily ranked in the fourth place, and the score was not much different from the second and third, but with the first place, that is, the previous day's shining Duosen Machinery Group team - "North Agricultural Reclamation Machinery" team, a difference of 16.3 points. Unless they win two plus points in quick succession, and their opponents don't score new ones or go on to score more points in existing events, they have a chance of coming back and winning the title, but that is too remote. There is reason to believe that the mighty "Northern Farm Reclamation Machinery" team still has a hand left, and with that brilliant driver, their entries have a chance to win the speed bonus event. After much discussion and weighing, the boys decided to change their strategy, give up the competition for the overall championship, and go all out to attack the championship of the sub-event.
If the competition is seen as a battle, then the engineers and maintenance workers of the participating teams are the officers and soldiers of the participating troops, and their decisions determine the route and tactical strategy of the attack. As the head of the tournament, Weiss could not get too involved in these details, and he gave a clear credit to the lads' decision and encouraged them to finish the rest of the game with a down-to-earth attitude.
The best entry of the Lorraine Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Factory, the logging transport vehicle, adopts a structure similar to the Christie suspension system, and its outstanding feature is strong off-road ability, coupled with high-performance aero engines, and has obtained high scores in the three competitions of road, off-road and hill climbing. As a result, as long as we try to improve these cross-country events to a perfect score or near a perfect score on the final race day, there is a good chance of winning the category in this individual event. Although the "North Agricultural Reclamation Machinery" of the Dosen Machinery Group is also known for its suspension system and high-speed off-road performance, since they already have a chance to win the championship, they should not pay too much attention to one aspect, but to look at the overall situation and prevent a "rollover" at the last moment.
As the sun sets and the moon rises, the camp is still busy. Although his military career ended, Weiss did not abandon the valuable quality of hard-working because of the increase in his value and status, and so did Nikolai. During this time, they were busy with the event, and sometimes they simply spent the night in the camp, living in a single tent, sleeping on a camp bed, and drinking and chatting, which was very happy. As the tournament draws to a close, this opportunity to relive the atmosphere of the battlefield may not be available again until next year.
Before going to bed, Weiss and Nikolai sat in front of their tents, looking up at the vast starry sky, and the latter said: "The success of this agricultural and forestry machinery competition has made the management of the Star Group also moved, and they may hold a large-scale flying machinery competition or a flying race in the autumn. Although agricultural aircraft do not have an advantage in terms of speed, they should be the most practical in terms of non-military use, and when the time comes, flight demonstrations can be arranged, which will help promote agricultural and forestry aviation equipment. ”
Weiss responded: "Although I don't have the skills of an ace pilot, I can still fly a farm plane for regular flight demonstrations. It may not be too late this fall, but next fall, we will definitely be able to catch up with the multi-engine aircraft we work with, and it may be an eye-opener for the world! ”
"By that time, Lorraine will become a key area for the Normans to gather intelligence, so prepare early!" Nikolai reminded.
"Isn't it now?" Weiss was a little helpless, since the opening of the Belakaser airport, Lorraine's security affairs had distracted him a lot. Recalling his previous trip to Norman and the subsequent "disappearance" of Gunevere, he said hatefully: "When will those hateful rulers restrain their ambitions?" When will they understand that in the civilized age in which we live, it is already impossible for a regime to rule the world. ”
"Someday they will understand...... Let's hope that day doesn't last long. Nikolai answered.
"I hope so!" Weiss looked up and sighed.
The moon sets and the sun rises, and the last day of competition arrives. After the start of the race, the boys of the Lorraine Agriculture and Forestry Machinery Factory launched the final sprint with a clear goal. They didn't pay much attention to the progress of the other teams, and as soon as they came up, they changed the load on the road from the original 9. The score of 7 has improved to 9.9, which is also a bright performance of almost a perfect score. Immediately afterwards, they worked hard to improve their score from 9. The score of 5 has increased to 9.8, which is also close to the performance limit of their transporter.
In the first half of the competition, Tenggu Machinery Factory also reflected the advantages of the participating vehicles in terms of weight as much as possible in the weight bearing event, basically ensuring that they won the weight sub-championship. As expected, the Doson Machinery Group maintained their overall advantage very well, perfecting only two events that had not been particularly desirable in the previous stage, and when the morning was over, their lead remained above 14 points. This means that unless other teams make a breakthrough in the bonus events, they will not be able to be pulled down by the regular events anyway. At the start of the second half of the day, Loftus-Cheek was the first team to challenge the Miracle, opting for the speed bonus in their half-track. In fact, the combination of tires and tracks did not mean an advantage in absolute speed, and not only did they fail to pull off miracles, but they also became the only team to have a serious accident in the semi-finals. Their half-track vehicle was unbalanced by the bursting of the front wheels near the finish line, and under the tremendous inertia of high-speed movement, the half-track transporter rolled longitudinally like a stunt and smashed the roadside buffer. The driver was thrown out and suffered minor injuries. After such a collision and rolling, it seems that the participating car has been scrapped directly.
Loftus-Cheek's accident also basically declared Dowson's final victory. For the next half day. Grumman and Starry Sky were apprehensive and failed in their attempts to challenge for the extra points. In the end, the participating teams of Dorson Machinery Group won the championship, and their star driver Meyer became the brightest driver in the competition, while the Best Design Award, the Best Machinery Award, and the Best Team Award were awarded to the other three teams in accordance with the rules of the competition. In general, Dorson Machinery has become the number one winner of this competition, and the people of Lorraine, who successfully held this event and showed the whole federation the vitality of industry and the new face of the region, are also the biggest beneficiaries, and this competition has undoubtedly become a platform to promote exchanges and cooperation in the field of machinery. According to incomplete statistics, hundreds of mechanical technology patents were contacted during or because of the competition, and the transaction was finally completed. Through the competition, many companies found opportunities for cooperation, and the mechanical engineering industry of the whole federation, especially in the field of vehicles, was promoted. After the competition, under the active promotion of Weiss, the Lorraine Industrialists Union and the Dosen Machinery Group reached a strategic agreement on cooperation in the field of machinery.
The Lorraine Agricultural and Forestry Machinery Competition ended successfully, and then the finishing and extension matters were in full swing. Weiss did hesitate for a while about Doom and his bearing patent technology, and finally a piece of news from Nikolai made him make up his mind - this good friend in the army revealed that the Star Group had carefully considered the feasibility of Doom's previous sales of patents to them and that is, cooperation, and they planned to buy Doom's patent and give him a corresponding position, and the conditions were roughly similar to those acceptable to the Lorraine. The only difference is that the Star Group bought his patent is still only a technical reserve, and if there are no additional changes, the patent will be sealed in the database.
In the case of consistent personal benefits, as the inventor and holder of a technology patent, they are usually more willing to see their invention promoted and used in reality. It was on this basis that the Clumber-Heisen family eventually became the partner of Doom, and this cooperation also gave Weiss the determination to start the era of bearing industry in Lorraine.
In the end, Durm chose to come to Lorraine, which was relatively backward in technology, and the people of Lorraine spent a lot of money on the technology he brought to him. Both parties are taking risks, and both are enjoying promising benefits in the future. On the basis of the existing plant and production conditions in the industrial zone of the Lorraine Canal. The Klumber-Haisen family soon established the bearing factory in Lorraine. Throughout history, this is not the first bearing factory in Lorraine, more than 20 years ago, there was also a bearing factory in Mason, but the technical level at that time was relatively primitive. The bearings produced were mainly used in the vehicles of the time. Later, due to the war, the bearing factory moved to Aocheng, and never returned.
Most of the infrastructure and workers required for the new Lorraine bearing plant can be met in the free Lorraine Canal Industrial Zone, but the precision machine tools required for post-processing need to be purchased from outside at a large price. It took a lot of time and a lot of energy. It was not until the summer heat that the bearing factory began to operate, and Mr. Doom was appointed technical director of the factory, receiving the first high salary in the Free Lorraine industrial zone.
It was the third summer after the end of the war, and it was a summer without the smoke of war, and it felt so peaceful. Lorraine is still a busy Lorraine. After more than a year of construction and several months of trial operation, the University of Lorraine has basically met the conditions for the official opening of the school. As the chief professor of the School of Geology and Geography, Professor Xiao Yang moved to Mason with his daughter, Little Candy. Although she has left Aster Polytechnic University, the collaboration between the Lorraine Industrialists Union and Aster Polytechnic University continues, and every summer is the ideal time for an internship and research. For geological and geographical exploration, there are a lot of insects in summer, but it is always more convenient to be outdoors than in winter when the wind is howling and thousands of miles of ice are frozen. This summer, they discovered a second source stone deposit in the southwest of Lorraine, and although the reserves are smaller than the previous one, this rare strategic resource is still of high strategic value to the Federation and a huge economic benefit to the people of Lorraine.
Just when the people of Lorraine were rejoicing at their discovery of a second Starsource Stone Mine, a shocking news came from the far north: the Wessexians had discovered the remains of a suspected ancient spaceship while exploring and excavating StarSource Stone deposits in the northern ice sea!
For a long time, the scientific community has been very confused about the molecular structure and mechanism of action of the star stone, because it is different from any of the substances already on the planet Orens, and cannot be arranged into the conventional material sequence. Therefore, a common speculation in the academic community is that "the star source stone comes from the vast starry sky". They may have come to the planet in the form of a meteor shower, or they may have come here in some other way, because of the change of time and the change of address, which has been squeezed deep in the ground and finally becomes a special mineral deposit. Due to the deep burial, there is no way to completely excavate a Xingyuan stone deposit for scientific research with the existing technical conditions. The discovery of the remains of a suspected spaceship in Wessex in the north was just an after-dinner conversation for ordinary people at first. Soon after, the Wessex government sent an invitation to send cutting-edge experts and scholars to study this astonishing discovery. Although the scientific community has suggested that the federal government organize an official research mission to the north, there are also many conspiracy theorists who believe that this is some kind of conspiracy made up by the Normans, after all, Wessex is no longer the Wessex of the past after being deeply infiltrated by them.
After much deliberation, the federal government finally agreed to send a comprehensive research team the following month after Wessex's appeal. In the beginning, it was only an advance team of a few dozen people, and there were no top experts and national treasure-level scholars, but as the research progressed, various data and information transmitted from Wessex indicated that it was indeed a spaceship made with a completely different technology from today's industrial technology. Even a spaceship that has become a relic and no longer works has technology far beyond its time. Whichever country is the first to acquire these technologies has the potential to become the world's super-premier technological power, giving it an overwhelming advantage over other countries in all areas of the military-industrial economy.
As the research deepened, the Wessex government suddenly protected the safety of the research site, isolating researchers from other countries in the name of a toxic spill. This was met with immediate outcry from the Norman government, which even threatened the Wissex government with military threats to share this important discovery about the safety of the entire planet anyway. In this situation, the federal government also issued a statement that the spaceship built by advanced intelligent beings from outside the planet Orense is related to the fate of the entire planet, and no country can regard it as its own resource. With protection in place, they began to send top experts and scholars, and the diplomatic and intelligence services stationed in Wessex also kept a close eye on news from the frozen seas of the north.
Governments are getting serious, mainstream and non-mainstream newspapers and magazines are frantically publishing discoveries and speculations about the North, spaceships and the science fiction that follows them are all the rage, and even street puppet shows are turning to these themes of space exploration. In the midst of all this mess of news and discussions, a new genre has managed to attract attention: space threat theory. According to this theory, the failure of the spacecraft to capture Orense may have been due to technical failures, environmental influences, or being pursued by an adversary, causing them to crash on Orens. If they can get here, their companions or enemies can find it, and the reason for the eons of thousands of years is the time distortion of time in the universe due to the influence of galactic environments and dark zones. Since visitors from the vast starry sky have the ability to travel into space, it is easy to occupy the planet Orens. No one can predict when a new attack will occur, so the best thing to do is for the entire planet of Orens, the countries and governments to unite and concentrate all their resources to prepare for the defense of foreign enemies. If it is a friend, the two sides can coexist peacefully, and naturally everyone is happy, if it is an enemy, then all the forces will be condensed together and fight for the survival of the entire human population!