Chapter 2: Red Lotus
Fate is not thin for Shang Lu in the end, on his 24th birthday, it introduced Shang Lu to the temple of giants, compared to other peers, this birthday is too cool, it is the gap between patting the face and a big pocket - this is how the world gave Shang Lu a big pocket, he stepped into the cave of the 151 security base for the first time, raised his head and thought: I am an immortal board, old man Ji should have told me that this thing is so big.
How big is it?
Shang Lu secretly thought that if it had a dick, then his whole person was not as big as its dick.
The working platform is nearly forty meters high from the ground, more than a dozen floors, but Shang Lu can only reach its chin when he stands here, Old Man Ji said that its nickname is Red Lotus (the taxi driver master is also called so), it sounds like a beautiful name, but Shang Lu thinks it may be more appropriate to call it the eight-armed Nezha, because it really has four arms, this crimson giant stretches its arms like Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian man, his back against the cave wall, and his head hangs and sleeps in the majestic light shrouded in the dome.
Shang Lu suddenly wanted to poke it to see if it would wake up like a miracle.
"Mo Bangha." Someone saw his tendency to dangerous movements, "There is high voltage. ”
Shang Lu retracted his hand and turned his head, it was Old Man Ji.
"Everybody's coming here for the first time wants to touch it." The old man grabbed the iron railing of the bridge with both hands, leaned forward slightly, and raised his head as if to meet the huge head, "But it's powered now, and if you run into a leak on your back, the 12,000 volts of high-voltage electricity will flow through your body to your feet—"
As he spoke, he paused with his foot on the metal floor of the platform.
"Then we'll have to go to the Martyrs' Tomb in the Botanical Garden to find you a pit."
Old man Ji is the chief engineer of the support base and the person responsible for receiving Shanglu, and he has a very heroic name, called Ji Yingying. As one of the designers of the Red Lotus, he is old, understands technology, and has a high status, except for the commander and political commissar of the base, he almost has the final say in the base, and ordinary petty officers have to call him the chief.
"How does it feel to see it?"
"Great." Shang Lu replied, "Can it really move?" ”
"Reluctantly, just slowly." Old man Ji said, "You haven't seen its leg rod yet, have you?" In the second storehouse, it can be folded, like the canopy of self-propelled guns. ”
Shang Lu leaned against the railing and looked down, the ultimate humanoid weapon suspended in the cavern, only the upper body, a combination of thick and craggy metal frames, connecting rods, bones, and crimson shell armor, like a giant stripped of flesh and exposed internal organs, and mutilated body. There are people coming and going in the cave warehouse of the base, gray overalls and gas masks, and Chongqing dares to cover so tightly on this hot day like a stove in August and September, relying on the environment of 15 degrees Celsius in the cave all year round.
People shuttled in the flashing lights and loudspeakers, and the only two idlers seemed to be Old Man Ji and he Shang Lu, and the two walked up all the way, looking around.
"Let's go, go forward, I'll take you around on the first day." Old man Ji said, "These will be your business scope in the future, but don't be afraid, slowly get acquainted with it, it's not complicated...... That old man at the head of your house has an attitude towards you coming to 151? ”
"It is the duty of the husband to defend all mankind."
Shang Lu replied smoothly.
"That's good." Old man Ji sighed, "You said that we are young people here every year, there are a lot of people, but there are few professional counterparts, like your automation institute, most of them go to Chengdu, go to the rear, go here and there, as long as you listen to 151, it will run faster than a rabbit." ”
Old man Ji said that Shang Lu was the first graduate of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to be voluntarily assigned by the base in the past three years.
He was puzzled, too.
In the past few years, the graduates of the automation institute are all fragrant and sweet, the rear base, the central institute, the government departments, the major enterprises, where are they not robbing people?
There was actually one who ran to the front line, but he was caught by Lao Ji.
He is 58 this year, and he has lived most of his life, from the top to the bottom, from the bottom to the top, he didn't see what the motive of Shang Lu's kid ran 151, and in the end it can only be attributed to the fact that this young man's ideological consciousness is high.
- In fact, Shang Lu's ideological consciousness, saying that Gao Na can't talk about it, he has always felt that mankind must be defeated, but he really didn't do any ideological struggle when he chose 151.
Two months ago, when this kid graduated with a master's degree, he faced the distribution list, and without saying a word, he pulled the ration of grain, oil and materials from top to bottom for all units, and filled in the 151 Nanshan support base, which has the highest per capita value.
The tutor was shocked and called him to the office overnight and asked you if you are tired of being crooked? Do you know where 151 is?
Shang Lu said that he knew, in Chongqing, in Nan'an District.
The instructor asked you again, do you know what the South Shore area is? That's the front line! It's going to die!
Shang Lu said that he knew, if he died, he would die, and he would die anyway, so it was better to die after eating enough.
From a certain point of view, he didn't come here to save mankind, but he just felt that mankind had no future, so it was better to lie flat and rot, and it was better to have brilliant fireworks to watch when it was rotten.
Two months later, Shanglu was sent here as a technical commissioner of the 151 Nanshan Support Base supported by the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The tutor called Lao Ji and said that Lao Qiudeng, I can hand over the student to you, and I asked you if you have one less hair.
Old man Ji and the mentor are decades of old acquaintances, and when they were studying the neural connection and control system of the giant machine driver together in the Institute of Automation, they patted their thighs excitedly: There is finally a suitable successor, don't think about running when you come.
"Note that the control system test ends, repeats, the control system test ends."
A grand female voice suddenly sounded overhead, and Lao Ji and Shang Lu, who were standing on the work platform, raised their heads together, and the bright yellow alarm lights swirled and flashed.
"Chief Engineer ——!" Someone in the corridor overhead poked his head out and shouted, "The self-inspection is over!" ”
Old man Ji turned his head and said, "Hold steady." ”
Before Shang Lu could react, the corridor under his feet suddenly shook slightly, and then it began to descend slowly, and Shang Lu hurriedly grabbed the railing.
Only then did he realize that the working surfaces were all movable, and that these working bridges around the giant's body like scaffolding rose and fell in turn, regrouping.
Old man Ji took Shang Lu to trot up on the covered bridge, and went around the narrow path to the back of the giant robot's neck, and the other people on the working surface also gathered over, they held folders and tablets in their hands, and when they saw Lao Ji, they gathered around and talked about their work.
"Chief engineer, the pressure of the hydraulic cylinder is maintained at the level of 86%, do you need to adjust it again to see this result?"
"The Riemann probe and the gravitational detection gyroscope still need to be adjusted, and there is a difference of about 0.04 microseconds."
"Chief Engineer! The output pressure of the 302 core is unstable! ”
"Mom, you're coming one by one! Come one by one! ”
Old man Ji was blocked all of a sudden, and his eyes were filled with layers of work logs, and he didn't know which problem to deal with for a while.
Shang Lu was slightly left aside, which gave him a chance to observe the back of this giant humanoid weapon, he bypassed the crowd around Lao Ji, took two more steps forward on the corridor, and reached out to touch the mottled shell of the mecha, Shang Lu noticed that the back of the neck of this behemoth - that is, there was a closed hatch in front of him that was nearly one person high, which was screwed with bolts, and before Shang Lu could take a closer look, he heard a loud "snort" from inside the mecha.
It sounds like the sound of a large truck venting a cylinder when it brakes.
Immediately after that, the bolts on the hatch began to turn, and at the same time, there was a "click" sound, I don't know what was moving, Shang Lu thought that there might be a big spider in it (thinking that only a spider can control four arms at the same time), it was crawling out frantically, its eight legs scraping the metal inner wall, and now it was about to break the restraints and escape-
With a click, the hatch opened, and the young woman leaned wet in the crimson light.
She was covered with equipment as heavy as a spacesuit, and she carried a helmet in her hand, and her whole body was black, except that her face was as white as a piece of paper.
Shang Lu was stunned.
"Hey! Blind? She took a breath, then shouted at Shang Lu who was in a daze, "Pull me!" ”