After the ropeway arrived at the station, the two parted on the platform, Chen Yu was going to the battle station of the headquarters operations section on duty, Shang Lu continued to walk forward, through a long bridge over an artificial dark river, the long bridge was erected in a huge mountain cavity, which was filled with thunderous water, and the white and surging waterfall poured from the height of six or seven stories into the pitch-black pool below, which was drawn from the Jialing River, powered by twelve pumps, pumping two hundred cubic meters of water per second into a four-kilometer-long, four-meter-diameter pipeline, leading from the riverside to here. It then flows to the various cisterns.

If you accidentally fall off the bridge, the body could be found anywhere on the base, including the cooling water filter of the nuclear reactor.

After passing through the pool, there is 110 caves, that is, the No. 1 giant machinery workshop, the arch is 30 meters high, when you pass under the arch, you will feel that you are entering the country of giants, the alloy steel door page has a thickness of half a meter, sitting on the rails and pulleys, one is 500 tons, two is 1,000 tons, and you can't blow it up when you close it.

Shang Lu put on his white hard hat and straightened it up.

Today is his first day on the job.

The area of the 110 cave is the size of a standard football field, the first glance you can see the dark red giant machine directly opposite the door, you have to look up from a hundred meters away, it is backed by the cave wall, surrounded by cascading work surfaces and scaffolding, like a huge sculpture that has been artificially dug out of the rock, and like a relic of some super ancient civilization, human beings are excavating and unearthed, laser welding and cutting sparks are falling down like raindrops, looking up at it from afar, It will always make you think that the presence of the Red Lotus makes the whole workshop look like a huge shrine, and the giant machine is the statue of the god Tongtian standing in it.

Objects that are large enough to produce divinity are no exception, and man-made machines are no exception.

There is a circle of sun lamps hanging at the top of the cave, illuminating the whole workshop transparently, and each headlamp has a brightness of 40,000 lumens, which will blind the dog's eyes when you look directly.

Under normal circumstances, there will be more than 100 people working here at the same time, the chief engineer is the top leader here, the old man Ji always wears a dirty white coat and stands high at the top of the work surface, he has a unique set of his own dressing taste, such as wearing two pairs of glasses at the same time, wearing one-piece overalls in a white coat, left-handed walkie-talkie and right-hand Geiger counter, maintaining a giant machine is a tedious and dangerous job, everyone must strictly follow the rules and regulations to avoid accidents.

Red Lotus is the third generation of giant machines, at present, it is the most advanced generation, and it is also the most complex generation, Old Man Ji said that when they designed giant machines in the early years, the difficulties encountered by the humanoid engineering team were the greatest, and the problems were one after another, the first question was why to design a human form, the second question was how to make this thing stable, and the third problem was how to not sink into the ground when the soles of the feet were steady.

Later, when they encountered Wave 041 Angel, all the non-humanoid giants under 40 meters tall were shattered, and the first problem faced by the humanoid engineering team was solved.

From top to bottom, Red Lotus has a total of three cores, 17 modules, and 164 subsystems, of which the computing core is in the head, the control core is in the spine, and the power core is in the chest and abdomen. More on that later.

Shang Lu had a folder under his left arm, a bag on his right shoulder, and he covered his head and trotted all the way through the cave.

The steel cable above his head is lifting a twenty-meter-long arm, this is just a small arm, the whole arm is a full forty meters long, to be honest, the name of Red Lotus is not as suitable as Liu Bei, because its arm is really beyond imagination, fifty meters tall and forty meters long arm, the proper arm is longer than the knee, this arm has eleven degrees of freedom, the servo relies on sixteen high-power three-phase asynchronous motors, powered by four high-power six-axis traction motors with hydraulic systems, each with a power of more than 9000KW, One arm is equivalent to the locomotive of four electric locomotives.

Old man Ji said that there was an accident in the lifting system, and the 11-ton parts were lifted halfway to the steel cable and broken, and they were smashed on the spot - fortunately, they didn't hit anyone.

Shang Lu said.

Old man Ji jumped up at once, and shouted that baby, don't be careful, safety production quality standards, man-machine material law ring, man-machine material law ring! People come first, and in this place, more than anything else, people are the most prone to problems.

"Pretty boy! Handsome! Someone on the side of the forklift not far away waved his arms and shouted at Shang Lu, "Run faster!" Mo Zhandao! ”

Shang Lu also waved at him and hurriedly ran away.

The workshop was full of aluminum alloy plates, and the workers were busy cutting and welding, Shang Lu looked at them curiously, not knowing what these mountains of aluminum alloy were going to be used for, he went around to the side and walked up the stairs step by step to the aerial work surface.

The operation surface is like a winding mountain road going up in a circle, there are people working on each floor, Shang Lu has "borrowed and borrowed, borrowed and borrowed", he wants to go to the highest point, because Old Man Ji is there, and the dirty white coat is on the side of Honglian's head.

Today, Old Man Ji wants to take him to familiarize himself with the content of the work, the chief engineer is responsible for the overall coordination of all the maintenance, repair, update and testing work of the giant machinery, which is one of the most important positions in the 151 base, in addition to commanding the operation, all aspects of the giant machinery must be taken care of by the chief engineer, Old Man Ji said proudly, now there are no more than five experienced giant machinery engineers like him in the whole human world.

While talking, he also stuffed Shang Lu with a maintenance manual as thick as Cihai.

"Don't be afraid, ambition is not old, young people have time, energy, talent and talent, you see that the chief engineer of 161 is only thirty years old." Old man Ji said, "Give you a few years, you are 100% better than him." ”

"Baby, you have a great responsibility." Old man Ji said again, "The life and death of all mankind, the only remaining human civilization, are all on your shoulders, do you know?" You have a five-year service agreement with the base, right? ”

"Yes."

"What do you think about changing it to fifty years?"

Shang Lu panted and climbed to the highest platform, raised his head and looked, lying down.

What about Old Man Ji?

The dirty white coat didn't know where it had gone.

In her place was a tall, slender young girl, leaning against the railing of the platform, dressed like the other workers in a one-piece blue overalls, wearing a black cap, not knowing what was being chewed in her mouth, her short black hair pressed under the hat swaying in the hot wind, and her gaze not knowing where to fall.

Shang Lu was stunned.

Big change of life?

The sound of her feet on the metal floor startled her, and the girl slowly turned her head, blowing a white bubble out of her mouth, her eyes focused on Shang Lu, from the bottom up, and finally on his striking white hat.

She tilted her head:

"Picket?"

Shang Lu was stunned for a second, and then pointed to his helmet with a ghostly gesture:

"Superintendent."