The entrance of the Red Lotus cockpit is at the back cervical vertebrae, obliquely down into the body, this is one of the three cores of the Red Lotus, the control core, the reason why the position of the cockpit is designed in the back, is because the engineers believe that this is the safest position, under layers of protection, and the most convenient ejection escape, the cockpit itself is a spherical pressure-resistant shell cast by high-strength titanium alloy, with a compressive strength of more than 110 megapascals, which is equivalent to sinking into the Mariana Trench without deformation, which can provide sufficient protection for the pilot- Enough protection in the eyes of earthlings.

"It's not what I thought it would be." Shang Lu stepped into the hatch with one foot and looked around, "I thought it would be a little more complicated." ”

He had expected that there would be seats, monitors, joysticks, and dense buttons in the cockpit, just like the cockpit of a fighter jet, which was mechanized and instrumented, but to his surprise, the cabin was a sleek, spherical space, with no seats, no displays, no buttons and joysticks, and only simple handles on the white inner walls.

"It's really not what you think." Shen Jiang put on his helmet and followed in, "But it's more complicated than you think." ”

The space in the cabin is not spacious, and it is no problem to accommodate a person to move freely and turn around, but it will be crowded if another person comes in, Shang Lu and Shen Jiang are crowded together, just like squeezing on a bus, the former also wants to avoid suspicion and give way to the side, but the floor under his feet is not flat, the spherical inner wall is unstable, and his feet are slid down again.

Shang Lu could only reach out and grab the handle on the inner wall to fix himself.

The inner and outer hatches slowly closed and closed, the last line of light was cut off, and the surroundings suddenly became dark and silent.

Shang Lu breathed silently in the darkness.

Shin Kang was also breathing.

Suddenly, the girl said, "Hold on." ”

Shang Lu subconsciously grasped the handle, and then like an elevator cable breaking in free fall, their feet were empty, and Shang Lu could feel the spherical cockpit tilting into the depths of the giant machine's body.

In less than a second, the cockpit slid into the bottom of the chute, and the two shook due to inertia and collided together.

"It's okay to check the respirator, it's okay to check the intercom, it's okay to check the force feedback system, it's okay to check the nerve connection." Shen Jiang spoke, moving her limbs, and as she spoke, the cockpit slowly lit up.

Every inch of the inner wall of the cockpit lit up, emitting a soft white light, Shang Lu looked around in amazement, they seemed to be inside a spherical fluorescent lamp, and the white light of three hundred and sixty degrees illuminated his big gray pants, looking at this posture, it was not an ordinary cockpit, it was indeed more complicated than Shang Lu imagined.

"Outer vision activated." Shen Jiang said.

As soon as her voice fell, the white inner wall of the cockpit seemed to turn into transparent glass, with almost no dead ends, Shang Lu's eyes widened and he exclaimed.

He stood fifty meters high overlooking the entire workshop, and at this moment he was the Red Lotus.

It's so advanced.

"Anti-advent giant equipment codenamed Shen Jiang, the first driver of Red Lotus, AHDA406619890713266, voiceprint verification, iris verification, fingerprint verification." Shin Kang said, "The system is activated. ”

More complex windows and data surfaced on the inner wall, forming a virtual control panel, and Shen Jiang could drag them at will, her fingers clicking and beating on the bulkhead in front of her, adjusting the parameters of the giant machine at her feet.

"IRGF Injection."

The light blue transparent liquid level quickly rose from under his feet, Shang Lu tapped it with his fingers, pinched it, and it was slightly sticky, and before he could do anything further, the liquid level had already submerged his waist and legs.

Shen Jiang was still operating the control panel with a blank face, turning his head to glance at Shang Lu, who looked at it like a curious monkey.

"Pay attention to wear the respirator supervisor, if the respirator fails, you will drown here." Shin Kang said, "This is not EVA, you can't breathe here." ”

"What is this liquid for?" Shang Lu asked.

"Impact-resistant and weightless." Shen Jiang replied.

As the water level got higher and higher, not above the heads of the two of them, the weightlessness effect that Shen Jiang had spoken of was manifested, and they slowly floated up, and then suspended in the center of the spherical cabin.

Shang Lu had never learned how to control his limbs in weightlessness, so his arms and legs were floating around, which caused Shen Jiang's great disgust, who said that he regretted not bringing in a rope, otherwise he would have tied Shang Lu into a crab. But for Shen Jiang, she has long been familiar with it, and the advantage of operating a giant machine in her weightless state can only be reflected, this girl is very skillful in flipping her body in the buffer, agile like a fish, and touching any point on the inner wall of the cockpit at will.

"You're going to be a good astronaut." Shang Lu said.

Shen Jiang gently pushed on the bulkhead, then slowly sank, she looked at the bulkhead above her head, and shook her head: "I don't want to go to space." ”

"Is there any place you want to go?"

"The basic setup of Red Lotus has been completed." The girl rolled over and shrunk into her heavy gear, then she spread her arms and spun around, "As you can see, this is the core of Red Lotus's manipulation. ”

The transparent bulkhead made her look like she was floating in mid-air.

This is the core of Red Lotus's manipulation, Shang Lu didn't expect it to look like this, as a giant weapon that resists the advent of high dimensions, it is too beautiful.

"All the data and information is displayed on the surrounding screen, which is a spherical screen with no dead ends, and you can do whatever you want." Shen Jiang pointed around, "I said that the core task of fighting angels is calculation, so manipulating the arms and legs of the giant machine is a relatively simple job, and simple actions can be completed by the computer itself, if manual operation is required, then rely on this set of force feedback exoskeleton system on my body." ”

"Simulated operation?"

Shen Jiang nodded: "You can't control your arms and legs with a joystick, the best way is that her hands are your hands and her legs are your legs." ”

"But she has four arms."

"Rely on a nerve connection system to assist in the operation." Shen Jiang said, "This system was developed by your automation, and the supervisor is the unit you came from." ”

Shang Lu grabbed the handle and suspended it in the transparent light blue buffer, the bubbles gurgled up regularly, he and the girl were facing one direction back to back, Shang Lu also tried to click on the spherical screen, this screen was more sensitive than he thought, and a lot of incomprehensible pop-ups popped up with a light click.

It was an operating system that he couldn't understand.

Not Windows, not Linux, not any system he'd ever seen, with a ton of characters that he looked familiar and unfamiliar with.

He had seen them in his courses on complex functions and differential geometry, but had forgotten all about them.

"I'm not going to start it, am I?"

"No, it won't." Shen Jiang replied, "Red Lotus's body hasn't been unlocked yet. ”

"Why not design a two-person cockpit? One more person should be able to share the stress of work. Shang Lu was a little curious, "Fighter jets have two-seaters, one is responsible for flying, and the other is responsible for navigation or fire control. ”

"Because the efficiency is not much, it's like if you do half of the math problem and give it to someone else to do, someone else still has to start from scratch." Shin Jiang said, "The giant machine doesn't need to set up an extra driver, in most cases, the angels don't give you time to discuss and verify the answers, and we can only make decisions alone when facing the angels, either right or wrong." ”

Shang Lu turned his head, and through the two helmet masks, he could only see half of his white side face.

There was a pause in the headset, and then he said:

"In the most urgent situation, only one person can make the decision."