After sending Sihan back to his "home", I followed Yun Hao to the Lingzhou Institute of Mechanical Engineering, where he worked. The Institute of Mechanical Sciences is very large, located in the edge of the city, more than a dozen large steel structure workshops are the characteristic buildings of this place, look at me from afar attracted by these buildings, Yun Hao explained: "Many of these factories are our studios, you also know that the mecha still occupies a lot of space, here each of us has their own work area, and some of the workshops are separated from many independent blocks for everyone to use." ”

"Where is your work area?" I asked. Yun Hao pointed to a factory, but instead of taking me there, he took me into his office, or design room.

His office is not very large, only about forty square meters. Inside, two cabinets filled the two walls, the cabinets were covered with all kinds of parts, and there were several delicate mecha models that proudly showed me the exquisite craftsmanship of their master. There are also two robots standing in the corner of the room, the two arms of these two robots are full of various operating tools, and there are various tools such as drilling, welding, stamping, etc., which should be the commonly used operating robots of the Academy of Mechanical Sciences. The two robots were rectifying the parts, and when they saw Yun Hao coming back, they immediately came over and said in unison: "Master, things are all sorted out, we are ready to go back to the factory." ”

The voice of the robot was designed by Yun Hao to be a voice in his twenties, with a bit of a child's voice, which sounded a bit like Sihan's tone. Yun Hao nodded and said: "You two have done a good job of light drilling and strong welding, and today I will go to the factory to assemble the control system first." ”

"Yes! Master! The two robots obediently walked out the door.

"They call you Master?" After watching the two typical machine assistants leave, he couldn't help but ask Yun Hao strangely, generally the designers of these mecha departments have more or less a few robot assistants, but they are generally called the number and number, and I really haven't heard of the name of the robot assistant.

"Huh! Scold! Yun Hao smiled and said: "Those older ones like to call a few numbers directly, and now those of us who are younger prefer to choose a name according to the function of the robot, so that it is more catchy." For example, the light drill, perforation, drilling is its main function, and the strong welding can weld some difficult parts. Don't you think it's easier to get into the groove at work? ”

"Really? And this function! I was a little surprised, so I found a chair and sat down and said, "Didn't you tell me about these two robots when you asked me to come to your office?" ”

"Of course, the main reason for calling you here is to give you a feel for my working environment and to give some advice. You may be more able to give good advice in this environment, and sometimes people's ideas are different in special circumstances than at home. ”

I nodded, it's really strange, although it doesn't make sense logically, but a lot of amazing ideas in history have really been thought of in some special circumstances, and the influence of environment on people's minds is really special.

"How do you want to improve it, future master!" I quipped.

Yun Hao didn't answer directly, but asked, "Do you have any suggestions?" ”

I sat in my chair, breathing in the slightly metallic air, feeling the effort

I was so focused by the atmosphere around me that I could hear the heartbeat of my friend sitting next to me.

"Each mecha is the product of a compromise between the offensive and defensive ends, and the defense is based on the shield attack by the laser gun, and both of these are powered by the Jegida system, if only the system's energy ceiling could be increased, but this is not possible in the short term." Yun Hao saw that I didn't say anything, and said to himself.

"Laser guns! Do you have to use a laser gun? A flash of radio flashed through my mind, and I stared straight at Yun Hao and said, "If you can find a weapon that can replace the laser gun, maybe you can change this situation." ”

"What else can you use without a laser gun?" Yun Hao's eyes seemed to grow a lot in an instant, and clear lines flashed across his young face, and he stared straight at me, trying to find some answers in my eyes.

"I can't think of this at the moment, but I'm thinking backwards, in the age of light, the damage of high-energy lasers to mecha or human bodies is fatal, and the shield must not be less, nor can it be reduced. If you can find a weapon to replace the laser gun, or free the laser gun's energy supply from the Jagida system and let the Jejida system focus on defense, then the number of times the mecha shield is currently resisted will be greatly increased. ”

"Then can we increase the size and install two systems on one mech?"

"That's fine, isn't that any difference from building two mechs?"

"yes!" Yun Hao nodded, the path of increasing the volume was basically denied by us.

"Yun Hao, you know more specific things than I do, and I can't say anything about professional things, but I want to remind you that according to our battle situation in the Red Flame Star, we must first determine what kind of mecha we need. The design of anything is based on function, like the current first, second, and third class mechas, to put it bluntly, they are actually a kind of mecha, and the first and second mecha are just adding ignition power on the basis of the three types of mechas. I think this must change, and there is definitely a need for different types of mechs with different functions on the battlefield. ”

"Yes, I agree with that." Yun Hao nodded, "I have preliminary considerations in this regard, the current combination of the first, second, and third aircraft is not of much significance, the firepower is too weak, I consider making the original one bigger and stronger, at least it can be substantially different from the three categories in terms of firepower, rather than adding small howitzers and AT missiles on the basis of the original three machines." ”

"I even considered not using the Jegida system directly, but using other ones that are slightly larger and more energetic." I casually said, in fact, I am a layman about the energy supply system of the mecha, and I don't know if there is a larger system suitable for the mecha. Yun Hao's eyes rolled straight, but he didn't react much. Both sides were thinking about the problem and neither was talking.

Without the voices of the two people, the whole office seemed so silent, only the parts of the room secretly borrowed and reflected the sunlight outside, which seemed a little angry. At this time, it suddenly occurred to me that there are two humanoid robots indoors, which seems to be good, who understands the loneliness of a person!

"I still want a humanoid mecha!" Yun Hao and I suddenly uttered the same words in unison and at the same time, both of us were stunned, and at the same time

Haha laughed.

"The overall plan is decided, the mecha is still designed to be humanoid, and the weapon adopts external energy mode, so it doesn't matter if the energy supply system of the laser gun is larger, or it simply uses other weapons. Shields will be strengthened to increase the survivability of the mech. After improving the survivability of the mecha, you must make the mecha fine, and you can't just use a laser gun plus grenades and AT like a machine. It's rare for a squad of mechs to have two types of mechs, one of which can be enlarged in size to allow room for a stronger energy supply system. ”

Yun Hao's eyes lit up, sweeping away the haze just now, and a little excited expression appeared on his face. The most painful thing for researchers is that the direction is not clear, as long as the general direction is set, there is a goal for the work, there is motivation with the goal, and there is basically nothing that cannot be done with motivation. Therefore, the determination of direction is crucial for researchers.

"Good!" Seeing that my friend has set the general direction, I am also happy for him.

"Do you have any suggestions on the composition of the mecha in the squad, I always feel that the current number of 15 planes in a squad is a bit too much, and the ratio of one, two, and three planes is not very reasonable. I'm still not as good as you when it comes to using mechs, and I'd like to hear your advice. Determined the direction of improvement of the mecha monomer, Yun Hao also took into account the way of the mecha team, the way of teaming is of course very important, and a reasonable mecha configuration can better play the role of each mecha.

"Since we are considering making the mecha more refined and stronger, the original 15 planes and a squad model feel a little more. It is more reasonable to consider 8~9 planes in the preliminary consideration, and there should not be more than 10 planes. If the combination is two mechas, it may be more reasonable to configure 5, 3 or 6 and 3. If it's three mechs, then it's 5, 2, 1 or 5, 3, 1 mode. I thought about it for a while, and then I expressed my opinion strongly. I say that I am strong, because I myself have no good reason to say that my ideas are right, purely out of intuition, and intuitive things are not analyzed with reason.

Yun Hao nodded, he seemed to understand my thoughts, and didn't ask why. He also seems to know that there can be a lot of variability in the way teams are formed, and my opinion is not necessarily correct.

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much about that." Seeing my friend's thoughtful look, I persuaded, "Do what you have to do first." You can make a basic mech first, regardless of the number of teams. There is also a large mecha with enhanced force, which is definitely also wanted. If these two are done, we will decide the next step. R&D is moving forward in continuous improvement, and it is certainly unrealistic for us to think too much about it at present. ”

"Yes!" Yun Hao stretched his brows and said, "That's it, let's make two kinds of mechas, one big and one small, first!" By the way, I'll report you to the entry list! You're going to give me a staff officer anyway. ”

"Whatever you want!" I laughed, stretched out my palm and struck Yun Hao violently. I have a hunch that Yun Hao's design this time will definitely change the current combat mode of the mecha, and he will bring revolutionary changes to the mecha.

The two walked out of the office, gulping in the fresh air outside. The warm sunlight shines very comfortably, making the whole person more energetic.