003 Chapter 3 The Captured Drone

Mr. Wang, the boss of Xiaoyu Company, who was standing next to him, was not happy and complained to him: "Mr. Lei, you are not kind to do this, you put out the fire, how can we find our plane?" ”

Their company's operator, when the GPS signal was interfered with, switched to the Beidou system one step slower than Damai, and originally fell behind Damai, but due to the high speed, he quickly ran to the front again. But as Chief Engineer Zhou said, it was better to come early, and the fire source point was not on the route they designed, but fell behind. Now that you're running in front of the barley company and blowing up the fire, how do you let the people behind find it? Isn't this a pit man?

Rebus shrugged and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Wang, this may be an impromptu performance by a technician. But you don't have to worry about not being able to find the source of the fire, aren't there three policemen standing next to you? They will take care of it. ”

"How much time is that going to waste? I question the legitimacy of your actions! Mr. Wang said dissatisfied.

Before Rebus could answer, he heard the operator of the small domain company on the side of the stadium exclaim: "Oh no, someone is attacking our plane".

On the screen of the UAV ground station of Xiaoyu Company, a green light flashed, and the infrared imaging screen immediately became dark, and almost at the same time, the image of the video system next to it also became a snowflake, and nothing could be seen.

"Laser blinding!" Mr. Wang popped out four words in his mouth, and then stared at Rebus with an unkind face, thinking, you are too much to do this, you just like to show off and perform, and attack our drones, is there a bottom line?

Rebus looked innocent, shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said: "It's really not us who did it, you see, it's electromagnetic interference, and laser blinding, where is this civilian drone bidding, it's more like the Pentagon is testing military drones." ”

The referee also panicked, he had never encountered these things, where is the bidding for civilian drone projects, it is about to turn into a drone war, hurriedly took out the phone, reported the situation to the above, the experts did not dare to slack off, and reported the information that there were suspected enemy elements to sabotage to the security department, ten minutes later, a Zhi-9 helicopter of the local garrison took off and flew towards the forest farm where the incident occurred.

As for the bidding competition, the experts' opinion is that the flying aircraft will continue to be carried out, and while testing these civilian drones, they also hope to drag down the saboteurs and buy time for the investigation.

At this time, there are still seven planes that can still go on, but the GPS signal of the aircraft of AST and Freezing Point is interfered with, and it is good to be able to fly back to the base in the mountains and mountains that are not familiar with the place. The surveillance drone of the small domain company can also fly, but there is only one video camera on the surveillance drone, and there is no thermal imager installed on it, so there is no problem in flying, if you want to find the source of fire within half an hour, it is basically by luck.

Now there are only two UAVs of the Barley company, which are still fully equipped and have good performance, and are most likely to complete the task. Chief Engineer Zhou thought that so many things had happened, although there was a drone with a bottle of dry powder fire extinguisher, but it seemed inappropriate to go and extinguish another fire source, so he instructed the operator to find a suitable place and throw away the dry powder fire extinguisher.

The operator of the drone is a young man in his early 20s, who has never slept at heart and has a lot of fun, and found an old farmer burning straw in the ridge under the mountain forest in front of him, so he controlled the drone and dived down.

Although the forests on the mountains here belong to the state-run forest farms, the farmland below the mountains is cultivated by local villagers. In spring, the grass is green and the leaves are wet, which is not suitable for burning grass and accumulating fertilizer, so the old farmer burns the rice stalks that have been piled up on the side of the rice field all winter and sprinkles them in the seedling field to make fertilizer. At the moment he was holding a hoe, looking at the burning fire, smoking in the bar. Suddenly, there was a buzzing sound overhead, and I hurriedly looked up, only to see a small plane rushing down from the top of the mountain, rushing towards the old farmer with a fierce momentum. The old farmer was taken aback, and hurriedly took two steps back, but the muddy road at the edge of the field was slippery, his feet were unstable, and he fell into the muddy water. The little plane didn't pay attention to the old farmer, just like the Stuka bomber, a dive, dropped a white "dinosaur egg", and hit the rice stalk pile, "bang" sounded, the sky full of white powder exploded, and the burning grass pile was instantly extinguished, and only a column of billowing black smoke came up.

The old farmer, who was not far away, also splashed a side of white powder. The frightened old farmer wiped his face and looked at the drone flying away, only then did he come to his senses and couldn't help but scold: "Target ghost!" ”

Covered in muddy water, there was no way to work anymore, so the old peasant could only turn around angrily, take his hoe, and walk towards his home.

On the side of the basketball court, next to the operating table of the barley company, the drone pilot couldn't help but laugh when he saw the old farmer's embarrassed appearance. Chief Engineer Zhou, who was next to Leng Buding, said: "Your bonus this month is gone. The driver wilted.

At this moment, Wang Xiaoyu is on the hill 500 meters away next to the second fire source, he came to the front of two bamboo poles inserted in the yellow mud, the membrane net between the two bamboo poles has broken several holes, two holes, and feathers are still stuck next to it, it seems that he has caught a few birds. This kind of membrane mesh, the net cable is transparent, thin and light, and the weight of the membrane mesh with an area of more than ten square meters is less than one kilogram.

Now in the lower right corner of the membrane mesh was a gray bird, like a pigeon, which he recognized at a glance as a turtledove. He cut off the turtledove and stuffed it into his backpack, and most of the feathers on the turtledove's wings were scraped off by the net, and it was obviously impossible to let it fly. He secretly thought that it would be too wasteful to throw it in the field to feed the foxes, and it would be better for me to feast on it. Immediately afterwards, he pulled up the bamboo pole, untied the whole membrane net, and tied the two ends with ropes to the feet of the two drones he brought, and tied a fist-sized stone to each of the other two ends, so that once his two drones raised the upper end of the membrane net, the two stones tied at the lower end would flatten the membrane net, forming a membrane net more than ten meters wide and three or four meters high. The villagers use this net to catch birds, and he wants to try it to see if it can catch the drone.

The two drones he brought were modified with DJI's red and white machine racks, and the motors and batteries were upgraded, using APM open-source flight controllers. The red one is called "Little Red Eagle", and the white one is called "Big White Pigeon", which is the name given to him by his cousin Xiao Jing.

Now the little red eagle and the big white dove are about ten meters apart, forming a two-plane formation, and the two drones slowly rise into the air at the same time, each pulling a corner of the membrane net. As the two drones lifted into the air, the two rocks below also rose, and under the action of gravity, a net was slowly pulled up between them. Wang Xiaoyu was proud of it, using a bird-catching net to catch a drone is also an innovation, right? Brother doesn't have 5 million, but he has a brain that can't be exchanged for 50 million! At this time, the mobile phone in his trouser pocket rang suddenly, and as soon as he connected it, he heard Xiao Jing say nervously: "Brother, I hit a drone with a laser, and it has lost its balance and fallen into the mountains." ”

"Okay, good job," Wang Xiaoyu encouraged.

Xiao Jing continued: "But the police at the foot of the mountain pointed at me, and they seemed to have discovered where I was hiding, so I had to leave quickly. You should also hurry up and go, and stop playing with these people." After saying that, there was no sound on the phone, probably running into a certain corner of the mountain and entering the signal blind spot.

Wang Xiaoyu is confident that he has hidden well and has not been discovered by others. For the sake of safety, I also used a telescope to search the sky, and the four drones with GPS signals were jammed, and they had already flown somewhere. The fire source at the bottom of the mountain was burning brightly, and the forest policemen didn't know where to hide to cool off, but they couldn't find it.

He turned around again and searched the sky behind him, but found a small dot that was slowly approaching, it was the drone of the Damai Company, and at this time another drone of the Damai Company was rushing down the hill to throw fire extinguishers.

Wang Xiaoyu only looked at it with a telescope for a while, and then confirmed that this was a participating drone, and quickly pounced on the grass, used his hands and feet together, climbed in front of his drone ground station a few times, and manipulated his two planes. He wants to give it a try and see if the net that catches the birds can catch the drone?

In the competition field of the basketball court, the operating table of the barley company was full of onlookers, and other companies had already failed, but the other companies had completed half of the task, as long as the barley company found the last fire source point and marked the coordinates on the map, it was considered a victory.

Chief Engineer Zhou stared nervously at the control platform of the task machine, looking at infrared imaging for a while, and watching the image transmission video for a while, for fear of missing every important clue, as long as the second fire source point is found, their drone business of Damai Company will usher in a milestone development.

A small hill with a height of three to five hundred meters above sea level appeared in front of it. The trees here are relatively sparse, and in some places there are mountains made of yellow mud, one in the east and one in the west, and from a distance it looks like a scar left by a boil on the head. Chief Engineer Zhou secretly thought to himself, the fire source point is likely to be around this small hill, after all, where the trees are too thick, it is also very dangerous to build a fire source point, and if you are not careful, it will cause a mountain fire, and the police always find a suitable open space to light the fire.

By throwing away the dry powder fire extinguishing bottle like a dinosaur egg, and lightening the load, the mission machine flew faster, and like a cheerful little bee, she buzzed and flew towards the hill in front of her. The image on the hill on the screen is getting clearer and clearer, there are some pine trees growing sparsely, as well as a cluster of waist-high thatch in the east and west, and there are open spaces with yellow mud exposed everywhere.

He stared at the screen, carefully searching for every suspicious spot. Some large trees swooped in on you, and the drone had already flown to the top of the mountain. Suddenly, two drones rose in the grass in front of them, one red and one white, about ten meters apart, and they were violent, as if they were trying to block the way of their drones. Which company came out to make trouble? Now that more than half of the electricity is consumed, I don't have time to entangle with them, and I can't care about it so much. Chief Engineer Zhou said in a deep voice: "Rush over, don't pay attention to them!" ”

The pilot of this mission plane was a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and he was obviously much more mature than the young man who had just operated the surveillance plane to scare the old peasants. The current altitude is about the same as the two drones blocking the road in front of them, and the other party is still rising, so it is difficult to pass over their heads for such a short distance, so they have to drill under them. I saw his left thumb hook the throttle down, and the drone quickly dived and rushed under the two drones blocking the road in front of him.

The plane swept over the treetops, and the grass on the ground rushed towards it, which showed that the controller was also a master of art and bold, and pulled the drone to a very low height. Even Chief Engineer Zhou, who was watching from the sidelines, couldn't help but admire. Suddenly, the camera froze, the world seemed to stop suddenly, and then there was a mess of pictures on the screen, one moment the blue sky and white clouds, and the other time the green grass and treetops, the picture was beating violently, as if it was a fish that had fallen into the net and was struggling desperately. The controller hurriedly checked the trajectory of the GPS plane, showing that the plane remained in place, and what was even more bizarre was that there was a young man with a beard in the picture. Soon, the screen was pitch black and nothing could be seen.

"It must have hit something", although he looked anxious, Chief Engineer Zhou still calmly analyzed. In fact, Chief Engineer Zhou is right, their drone hit the little red eagle and the big white pigeon two drones pulled up the membrane net, the network line of this bird catching membrane net is thin and transparent, even the eyesighted birds can not see clearly, often hit headlong, how can the controller who relies on the camera to observe it be able to see it?

Chief Engineer Zhou hurriedly asked the operator of the surveillance plane next to him: "Where did your plane fly?" Hurry up and find out! The monitor plane had just lowered its altitude to the foot of the mountain and threw a dry powder fire extinguishing bottle, and by the time he climbed to the top of the mountain, he was already more than two miles away from the mission plane. At this time, he realized that the task in front of him had gone wrong, and he suddenly pushed the throttle to the maximum, and galloped forward at a speed of about 20 meters per second, Xiao was so, and when he arrived at the scene, it was already more than a minute later.

At this time, the pilot of the surveillance plane was afraid of accidents, did not dare to rashly lower the altitude, flew to a place about 100 meters above the hill, slowly turned around twice, kept taking pictures, and transmitted clear images back to the game scene of the basketball court.

Chief Engineer Zhou has connected to a laptop computer and personally processed the information sent back by the drone, only to see that there was a piece of grass that had been trampled in a mess under the scene of the incident, but the surroundings were empty, no one was there, and his own drone was gone, how could this be?

When I picked out a picture, I found that two bamboo poles were exposed from one of the clusters of grass.

"Lower the height to 10 meters," he instructed the monitor operator next to him, "focus on shooting around that tuft of grass". The operator hesitated and said, "Is it dangerous to descend so low in this airspace?" ”

Chief Engineer Zhou said: "No, the two intercepted drones flew away, and there was no one below, so you have to lower the altitude to check the details below."

So the drone slowly descended to a height of ten meters from the top of the mountain and hovered. This time, more clear images were taken, there were still there next to the two bamboo poles, and there were a bunch of messy footprints on the grass, but the two drones just now could not be found, and their own drones were also missing. The operator seriously photographed the surroundings three times, but still could not find any trace of his drone and the other two criminal drones, and there was nothing to be done.

Chief Engineer Zhou suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked the task operator next to him: "Check the trajectory of the plane and see where the plane is now?" When the drone was trapped in a fishing net just now, although the video image was a mess, the GPS signal track could still clearly show the location of the aircraft.

"There was no signal a minute ago", replied helplessly by the controller. "What about the next game?"

Chief Engineer Zhou patted his head and said, "I almost forgot about this in a hurry," and hurriedly said to the operator of the monitoring plane: "You quickly take off into the air and continue to complete the task that the No. 1 machine has not completed."

"Didn't the referee say that you can't change the machine?" The operator hesitated.

Chief Engineer Zhou said angrily: "The company also stipulates that you are not allowed to play WeChat at work, have you played?" ”

The operator didn't dare to speak, controlled the drone, and hurriedly lifted off into the air. But he couldn't help muttering: "I don't have an infrared imager on this machine, and finding the source of fire is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

"It seems that we have met a master," Chief Engineer Zhou sat down in his chair and said worriedly, "The other party won the blow, immediately evacuated, and also dismantled the drone's battery, so that you have no way to track, acting like Yamamoto's special forces, could it be that a certain special forces did it?" ”

When his little red eagle and big white pigeon teamed up to catch the task drone of Damai Company, the two drones were still hovering in mid-air, he ran over for the first time, turned off the power supply of Damai Company's drone, and pulled out the battery very quickly, and the propeller of the drone had been mixed with the network cable, and it was impossible to take it off.

As soon as Wang Xiaoyu took out the scissors to cut off the drone and the fishing net, he suddenly heard a shout from behind: "Stop!" What are you doing! ”

Wang Xiaoyu was startled, he didn't find the three forest policemen at the foot of the mountain in the telescope just now, thinking that they had sneaked up the mountain to capture him, so he turned around and ran away in fright. I had just run two steps when I tripped over a ground station backpack on the grass and almost fell. I hurriedly hung the backpack on my back, and when I looked back in a hurry, I saw a person dressed as a villager 50 meters away holding a wooden stick and trotting over. It turned out that there were still plainclothes on the mountain, Wang Xiaoyu was so frightened that he turned around and ran down the mountain.

After running more than a dozen steps, I remembered that the two drones were still hovering in the air, and people could find themselves quickly according to the information of the drones. Hurriedly stopped, fiddled a few times on the ground station, and set the two-plane formation to auto-follow mode, but he ran in a hurry, he forgot to set the height, and it became the system's default fifteen meters. However, there is still a fishing net about five meters high hanging under the drone formation, and the bottom of the fishing net is only about ten meters above the ground.

The man behind him chased after him and shouted: "Catch the thief, stop, don't run, catch the thief."

Now Wang Xiaoyu panicked in his heart, this drone, to say the least, is worth tens of thousands of yuan, according to China's criminal law, even if the amount is more than 10,000 yuan, if it is caught, it will be sentenced to a few years. He already regretted that he was acting rashly, he just wanted to take revenge on them, but he committed a crime of stealing for no reason, and he became a thief. This thought he ran faster, but fortunately he liked to play football when he was studying, and his physical exercise was quite in place, with his ears whistling, the wind under his feet, and running forward along the mountain road lifelessly. While running, he cheered himself up: "Huaxia's law, if you are caught, it will be considered a crime, and if you are not caught, even if you are your own, you can escape."