Chapter VII: The Royal Knight
The days of study are naturally boring, especially for Lin Chong, it is even more lonely, his self-introduction has become famous in the college, and people give him the nickname "mixed rice!" Lin Zhong doesn't care about other people's strange eyes, two o'clock a day, and he looks honest and dedicated.
No, the month-long theoretical course has ended, and the first test has arrived, this time, they will go to the destroyer HMS Royal Knight, a retired warship of the Navy moored in the base hangar, to carry out ship maintenance operations.
Lin Chong was walking back to the dormitory at the moment, when suddenly, a few people came out of the corner of the corridor and stopped Lin Chong.
"Stop!" It was the blonde boy from last time, Von Nolan, who stopped Lin Chong.
"Something?" Lin Chong saw that the other party was not good, and he was not afraid, he had seen this kind of scene a lot when he wore open crotch pants on earth.
"You garbage doesn't deserve to enter the navy, in order to maintain the honor of the navy, I hope you can voluntarily give up this test and leave here." Von Nolan stared at Lin Chong's eyes and said coldly.
Lin Zhong laughed directly after hearing this, this test is about to eliminate the bottom five, this kid thinks too highly of me, he even thinks that I can't get into the bottom five?
"How do you know I can't be in the bottom five?" Lin Zhong asked rhetorically.
Von Nolan was stunned for a moment, and let Lin Zhong not be able to fix it.
"I hope you can figure out who you're talking to today, and then be self-conscious, I don't want to overwhelm people, I hope you can understand!" After von Nolan finished speaking, he took a step back, solemnly saluted Lin Chong, and then said: "The navy needs people who dare to fight, dare to sacrifice, and people who eat together, and they will only waste the opportunity to enter the navy in vain." ”
This set of combination punches made Lin Chong really feel that he was occupying the pit and not, no.
"Huh? Is there really no shortage of sweepers in the fleet? Lin Zhong opened his mouth and shouted at von Nolan's back.
I saw that the blonde boy trembled all over, his fists clenched, and he seemed to be about to turn around and beat Lin Chong, but in the end he was deflated and left quickly.
Lin blinked his innocent eyes, scratched his buttocks, and walked towards the dormitory.
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In the auditorium of the college, Gao Wencai took twenty-one students and boarded the light rail to the base hangar.
Without saying a word, the train whizzing through the closed tunnel soon arrived at the hangar, which was an underground hangar that had been remodeled with perfect use of the crater. The guards on guard checked and verified the identities of everyone one by one and began to let them go. The heavy and thick metal hangar door slowly opened, and you were greeted by the decommissioned Navy destroyer, the Royal Knight. Everyone looked up, the sharp nose, streamlined hull, flanked by huge booster engines, from the bow to the stern, it was a hundred meters long, and the belly of the fuselage was mounted with four huge naval guns, which looked very old.
"Students, this is an early destroyer in the Navy, and now it has been decommissioned, and today, your test is to successfully restart this spacecraft." Gao Wencai pointed to the spaceship in the hangar and said to the students.
Everyone was a little excited, but also a little nervous, this was the early naval warship they had seen, and for them as young fleet elites, the Royal Knight was definitely an old antique.
Just when everyone was eager to try, Gao Wen secretly observed Lin Chong, only to see him looking at the spaceship thoughtfully, and for a while he didn't know where this expert came from, holding his chin with his hands on his chest, looking like he knew very well.
Von Nolan was also staring at Lin Chong.
"Alright, the test begins, I'm going to see the ship start in an hour, let's do it." Gao Wencai waved his hand, and everyone rushed to the stern of the ship, ready to board the ship!
Only Lin Zhong didn't follow, just put his hands behind his back and began to walk around the spaceship with a big grin, as if admiring some treasure, and made strange sounds from time to time.
The hatch at the stern of the ship opened, and a ponytail girl who was about to enter the ship noticed Lin Chong, and couldn't help but poke her head out and look at Lin Chong curiously.
"Wu Dieyi, what are you looking at?" When von Nolan saw the girl at the stern, he walked over and stretched out his hand very gentlemanly and asked Wu Dieyi to act together.
"It's nothing, Nolan-san, let's go." Wu Dieyi replied absentmindedly, and after speaking, he put his hand on von Nolan's outstretched arm and went to the upper deck together.
Just when the others were busy working around in the spaceship, Lin Chong disappeared, and he didn't even keep an eye on Gao Wencai, who had been guarding the door, but he wasn't worried at all, it was heavily guarded here, and people couldn't be lost.
Because the whole empire uses earth timekeeping uniformly, this hour is not too long.
Inside the ship, von Nolan commanded several students to repair the main thrusters. Various other areas are also being tinkered with.
"Please gather on the bridge immediately, repeat, please gather on the bridge immediately!" The announcement in the spaceship suddenly sounded, and everyone immediately stopped what they were doing and went to the bridge.
Soon, except for Lin Chong's absence, everyone else arrived.
Gao Wencai stood in the command position of the bridge, stroking the various panels covered with dust, as if recalling something.
"Is Lin Chong back?" Gao Wencai asked.
Everyone shook their heads.
"It's time, come on, start the ship!" Gao Wencai said to the students.
Everyone began to move towards their familiar positions, they were all fleet elites, and it was natural to start the spaceship.
Von Nolan confidently came to Gao Wencai's side, which was the captain's command position, responsible for the command of the whole ship.
Gao Wencai smiled and gave up his position and motioned for von Nolan to start.
"Royal Knight, ready to start!" Von Nolan confidently issued the order.
"Start the power system and lift the ship's lighting control!"
"The power system is working properly! Lighting restrictions have been lifted! ”
"Start the engine to warm up!"
"The main engine is starting to warm up and is running normally!" The female student on the sub-console replied.
Looking at Nolan in the command position, Gawain was a little distracted, until an alarm sounded, which woke him up.
At this time, Nolan was also startled, and as soon as he looked down, he saw a fault alarm pop up on the information panel, and after more than ten seconds, the main engine turned off directly.
Because it is an early spaceship, there is no shipboard artificial intelligence, and there are many deficiencies in the flight control system, which cannot intuitively show where the spacecraft is wrong, and can only rely on manual investigation of the alarm area.
Obviously, these students do not have such experience, and the ships they are on now have quite mature shipboard artificial intelligence, quantum combat computers, and of course, various robots, including maintenance robots, to take on part of the work on the ship.
Not long after the main engine was turned off, the ship's power system failed, and all systems on the bridge were taken offline.
Everyone looked at each other, and after a short silence, Nolan stepped down from the command position in despair.
"When I checked just now, I didn't find any problems with the power system and power system, and we replaced all the old parts, but where did it fail?" Nolan muttered to himself, as if asking the others again.
"Could it be a lack of fuel? After all, the ship was decommissioned and idle here. Someone speculated.
"How could it be, I saw that the fuel was full just now, and besides, knowing that we tested it today, the hangar staff would definitely fill it up in advance." The girl sitting on the powertrain sub-console shook her head, she was sure she was not mistaken.
So, the crowd fell silent again, which means that they tested and did not pass. Nolan thought to himself, as the captain of the ship, I didn't make a mistake, and it definitely won't be the last five, thinking of this, he didn't delve into what the problem was, and stood aside, waiting for the teacher to speak.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Gao Wencai sighed silently in his heart, and suddenly felt disappointed.
"Let's go back!"
It was a simple three words, but few people heard Gao Wencai's disappointment, he thought that the elite of these fleets would be able to start an old antique, but the facts disappointed him. At the moment when Nolan stood aside silently and waited for him to speak, Gao Wencai had a glimmer of realization in his heart, is the failure of the navy really just a hardware problem?
He was about to step out of the bridge when he saw a black thing come in and stand in front of him.
Lin Zhong? Nolan's eyes were sharp, and he immediately recognized Lin Chong.
"Lin Chong, where did you go? The test is over! Gao Wencai said in frustration, as if he was not interested in this group of students.
Lin Chong grinned, the already dim bridge, coupled with the black dirt on his face, this opening showed a neat row of big white teeth.
Everyone saw Lin Chong's dirty appearance, and there was still a smell of engine oil on his body, and they avoided him one after another.
Lin Zhong ignored them, cautiously walked past Gao Wencai, and jumped into the captain's command position.
"Royal Knight, activate!" Lin Zhong roared and pressed the switch of the power system.
"System startup ......"
In an instant, with an electronic sound, all the control panels on the bridge were online, and the lights in the cockpit flashed a few times before all of them turned on. Then Gao Wencai's eyes lit up, and he turned around, his gaze locked on Lin Chong. Nolan was even more surprised.
In the surprised eyes of everyone, Lin Chong switched to the power system sub-control console and operated, muttering: "The main engine begins to warm up, and the auxiliary engine begins to detect attitudes." ”
"The power system is running normally, start the shield charging commissioning!"
"Gravity System Start Self-Test ......"
"Spacecraft airtight self-test ......"
Lin Zhong operates back and forth on each console, skillfully and precisely. This stunned everyone present, and even Gao Wencai was a little suspicious that the person who came back just now was Lin Chong.
"You... You... You..... How did you do that? Nolan's face flushed, and he stammered in surprise.
Lin Zhong ignored him, and after making sure that all the systems were working properly, he wiped the stains on his face with his sleeve and came to Gao Wencai.
"Lao Gao, are you okay?" Lin Zhong said with a grin.
Gao Wencai, who had not been able to react for a long time in surprise, subconsciously replied: "You can do this for the first time, better than me back then!" ”
"Hahaha, Lao Gao, you are too modest, I just want to eat for a while." Lin Zhong squeezed his eyes at Nolan.
Although Nolan felt very humiliated at the moment, the daredevilness in his heart still drove him to ask: "I prompted a fault just now, but all systems are normal, how can you not fail?" ”
When Lin Zhong heard this, he immediately noticed that this kid didn't hold back his fart, so he simply rolled his eyes and chose to ignore it directly.
Gao Wencai came back to his senses, and was also curious, and asked, "Xiaozhong, tell me, how did you do it?" ”
"Hey! That's it, when we first came, as soon as I entered the hangar, I smelled a smell of aviation oil, and then I carefully looked around the spaceship, and I found that there were many bullet marks and traces of energy weapon burns on the abdomen at the end of the spaceship, and it seemed that it had suffered quite serious trauma, so I thought that the storage tank of all kinds of fuel fuel had been damaged and leaked, so I was ready to check the power and energy lines, but when I saw that Nolan was repairing, I didn't check, and went directly to drill the fuel tank on the lower level of the spaceship, A closer look reveals that the sensing system is malfunctioning. Lin Chong told the story, the more the classmates listened, the more ashamed they became, and the unconvincing in Nolan's eyes gradually dissipated.
"So, I went to the hangar archives management office to check the maintenance log of the Royal Knight, and found that after the ship was parked here, it has been used for base teaching, so the orderly staff has never refueled the spacecraft, but when the spacecraft was first docked, it was cleaned and repaired to repair the leaking fuel tank." Lin Zhong said, and found that Gao Wencai's hand was trembling slightly.
He slowly walked up to the captain's seat, stroked the console, and continued with a sigh of relief: "Later, I contacted the maintenance department and asked them to refuel the Royal Knight in the name of the academy, and fed back the sensing failure of the fuel compartment to the maintenance team, informing them that the original maintenance records did not meet the current situation of the ship, and hoped that they would be overhauled. That's it, the Royal Knight, to start again! ”
After Lin Zhong finished speaking, he turned around and quietly looked at Gao Wencai, this time he did not have a hippie smile, but a face full of respect.
Gao Wencai nodded with great satisfaction, a smile appeared on his face, and he said excitedly: "Well done, Lin Chong, I am very satisfied!" I'm very satisfied......"
With that, Gao Wencai turned his back and slowly walked outside. Everyone didn't know why, but they saw Lin Chong quickly follow, and everyone hurriedly followed behind Lin Chong.
Lin Chong rushed to Gao Wencai's side, gently grabbed his arm with both hands, and in an instant, Lin Chong felt Gao Wencai's detachment, and hurriedly held on tightly.
Gao Wencai took a deep breath before he slowly spoke: "I'm old, I can't do it, I have to rest in the future." ”
"Where is it, the days are still long." Lin Zhong replied solemnly.
"You kid say something serious, I'm not used to it, let's go, go back!" Gao Wencai pointed at Lin Chong with his right hand and scolded with a smile.
"Yes! Captain! Lin Zhong said solemnly.
Gao Wencai's eyes instantly turned red, and he was twenty disciples behind him.