"Scammer! What do you think is wrong with this world? We worked so hard under the whip of the demonic instructor for four and a half years, while others only need to serve one and a half years of military service, then attend some bullsh * t university for another one and a half years, and then sit in for the exam with us. "
"He's probably good at fixing electrical appliances. Even the thirty-seven cross-sectional diagrams of a mecha's central chip could turn that kid into an idiot!"
Zhou Yu quietly looked at Xu Le's back as he disappeared into the corridor. His expression did not change at all when he heard the discussions and disdainful comments around him. Five years of life in the military academy had given this outstanding military cadet excellent self-discipline and self-control, which was why he could be so calm.
In preparation for the invasion of the Empire, the Ministry of National Defence had started implementing a comprehensive talent plan a few years ago. The outstanding graduates of the three major military academies would undergo training and work in various large mobile companies before they officially entered the military. Zhou Yu, who should have started as a junior officer in the military, was also part of this comprehensive talent plan.
The Shell Motor Company, which had a strong military background, was naturally the first choice for this plan. However, the board of directors of the Shell Motor Company was still an independent existence from the government, so the implementation of this comprehensive talent plan was not based on the will of the officials of the Ministry of National Defence. The graduates of the three major military academies still had to go through the Shell Motor Company's independent assessment.
Zhou Yu was the trump card of the First Military Academy, and had an extremely high prestige among his classmates. When he left the dining table, the graduates of the First Military Academy put down their plates at the same time and followed his footsteps, thus overhearing his conversation with Xu Le.
"Don't bother with that idiot. Zhou Yu, during the assessment in the afternoon, you have to give your brother a hand. Piloting a mecha is not a problem, and memorizing the circuit diagrams is fine too. If you really want to do some empty design, I don't have the brains."
Hearing the word "idiot", Zhou Yu turned around and stared coldly at An Da beside him. This brainless First Military Academy student was his good friend, but at this moment, Zhou Yu could only think of the trip to Ewha University half a year ago. An Da had piloted a blue and black mecha and had been beaten into an idiot by a certain black M-type mecha.
When the First Military Academy had visited Ewha University, Zhou Yu had once had a simple conversation with the pilot of that mysterious black mecha in the mecha combat room. He had always remembered the way he had operated that black mecha. He also remembered that person's voice very clearly.
Therefore, when Xu Le's voice rang out in the cafeteria earlier, Zhou Yu keenly noticed this and specially left the table early to say a few words to Xu Le.
After a few words, Zhou Yu confirmed a fact. This auditing student from Ewha University was the operator of the black mecha!
"If I were you, I wouldn't be too arrogant in front of that Xu Le guy. Otherwise, you'll have to dig a hole and hide in it in the future." Zhou Yu stared into An Da's eyes and said, "Don't say I didn't warn you. During your internship, you also went to the basement of the Shell Motor Company. You know that it's all alloy down there. I'm just worried that you won't be able to dig it up."
As soon as this was said, the students surrounding Zhou Yu couldn't help but burst into an uproar. They didn't understand why Zhou Yu would have such a high opinion of that person, and they couldn't believe it in their hearts.
Zhou Yu looked at the expressions of the surrounding students and said with a half-smile, "If you guys don't believe me, we can make a bet. In this afternoon's assessment, he will definitely pass the baseline."
For an auditing student from a private university to be able to operate a prototype mecha and fight him to a draw — what kind of understanding of mecha did this require? Zhou Yu thought.
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The baseline of 60 points seemed to be really difficult.
Xu Le narrowed his eyes and looked at the questions on the holographic screen in front of him. His fingers subconsciously drew together and turned slightly, as if he was transferring a primitive cross-shaped tool knife. Every time he was in some kind of difficult situation, he would always do this subconscious action.
There weren't many questions on the holographic screen, only three pages in total. Xu Le started from the first question, and by the time he reached the fourth question, he had already started to feel the difficulty. Just as the HR manager of the Shell Motor Corporation Engineering Dept. had predicted, Xu Le, who had only been an auditing student at Ewha University for a year and had memorized all the previous M37 series mecha blueprints in Section H of the library, had never received a proper academy education, so he was very unfamiliar with these systematic knowledge questions.
The Shell Motor Corporation was a company with a strong military background. Although all the professors of the Mobility Department acknowledged that the design, manufacturing, and repair of mecha covered most of the fields of machine construction in the entire Federation society, the scope of the recruitment exam couldn't be entirely limited to questions related to mecha. The scope of the subjects covered was very broad.
Xu Le memorized those formulas very well, and those parameters were also deeply engraved in his mind, impossible to forget. The problem was that Ewha University was a private university after all. There was a lot of high-level information from the Federation that he had never come into contact with. Especially subjects like fluid dynamics and second-order physics, which were rarely used by private mobile equipment, were even more blank in his mind.
The Federation's educational resources were already moving in the direction of fairness as much as possible, but due to the difference between a private university and a military academy, there was a lot of information that could only be accessed by the three major military academies. Take mecha blueprints, for example. A typical private university definitely wouldn't have them. Section H of Ewha University's library had all the previous M37 series blueprints. This was already very impressive, but what about after the M37 series?
"The working principle of the rear wheel auxiliary steering system, WAS, can't be used in which type of self-propelled equipment?"
"How much of a loss of balance will the servo motor installed twelve centimeters outside the beam cause?"
"Under the environment of deep sea volcanic rock at a depth of thirteen thousand meters, what material should be used to achieve the highest cost-performance ratio for the pressure-resistant cabin?
"XWD platform …"
"Under the illumination of level 10 units of light, the trend of the electron transition of the crystal ore is as follows …"
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The questions on the first two pages already covered more than ten research directions related to engineering. Although they were all objective questions, to answer these questions, one had to grasp first-hand information and systematic analysis. These were the things that Xu Le currently lacked the most. His finger lightly tapped on the holographic screen, but his eyebrows were furrowed even tighter.
Although it was a little strenuous, Xu Le didn't feel the slightest sense of defeat. This was a possible situation that he had already thought of before he applied for the job. Uncle Feng Yu and Professor Zhou both thought that he was a genius in mechanical engineering, but mechanical engineering was faced with material objects and leaned more towards practice. On the other hand, the Shell Motor Company's recruitment of R&D personnel leaned more towards theory, and his theoretical knowledge couldn't possibly be more complete than those outstanding officers of the three academies.
The twenty objective questions were finally finished. Xu Le gently exhaled and wiped the sweat on his forehead. Some of the questions, especially those related to material science, were basically not difficult for him. In the operation room of the Donglin District's mine pit, in order to repair those ordinary household appliances, Uncle Feng Yu had obtained so many materials from god knows where. After years of nurturing, Xu Le now had a natural sense of touch when it came to materials.
However, some of the questions really gave him a headache. After calculating the questions on the first two pages, Xu Le found that he could only guarantee that he could answer two-thirds of the questions correctly. He silently calculated for a moment. If the next holographic screen question was still of this difficulty, then he would just barely pass the baseline.
Xu Le slightly relaxed. His finger lightly tapped on the holographic screen, and the last question of the Shell Motor Company recruitment exam appeared in front of his eyes.
It was indeed the last question, because the holographic screen on the last page was completely clean. There was only one question and one blueprint.
Xu Le was slightly taken aback, and a trace of nervousness flashed through his eyes. This was because what he was most worried about now were the subjective questions. There was only one question on the last page, and it actually took up 40 minutes. It was clearly a difficult question. If this question involved the design and deduction of some modern military mecha, how could he have found a feasible direction in such a short amount of time?
Narrowing his eyes, he stared unblinkingly at the blueprint on the holographic screen. The nervousness in Xu Le's eyes disappeared, replaced by vigilance and a strong sense of unease. His face also gradually paled, because he had discovered something that made him very uneasy — this blueprint looked somewhat familiar.
This was not the blueprint question on the blank piece of paper Jian Shui'er had left in the hospital, but there seemed to be some vague similarities. For the past few days, Xu Le had been troubled by the abnormal electrical discharge in his cerebral cortex and the bizarre and variegated images that would appear in his eyes from time to time. Now that he saw the familiar blueprint, his thoughts involuntarily returned to that annoying night.
This blueprint should be a blueprint for the power transmission of some kind of large-scale equipment. However, it was different from the blueprint that Jian Shui'er had forgotten in the hospital. It was not a power source, but a more powerful instantaneous energy output device. The question required the examinee to find a few mistakes in the blueprint and make changes based on their own understanding to ensure that the instantaneous energy output of the device was stabilized within a certain power range.
Xu Le had no idea what this device was. He could only guess the nature of this device based on the data given in the question. He studied it seriously for a long time, and vaguely grasped some sort of clue. The key to this question should be at the bottom left of the blueprint, where the control of the maximum lateral G value of the electron jet was. However, the problem was … although he knew how the electron jet worked, he had never seen the actual thing, not even a three-dimensional analysis diagram.
He silently stared at the blueprint on the holographic screen. His face became paler and paler, and a drop of cold sweat began to seep out of his forehead.
In the recruitment exam meeting room, there was a sense of disappointment. It seemed that the outstanding students of the Third College did not have much confidence in such a complicated question. Some students even consciously began to leave the exam hall.
Xu Le continued to stare at the holographic screen in silence. His fingers gently rubbed together, and his eyes gradually narrowed. The students who gradually left the exam hall, as well as the staff of the motor vehicle company, gradually noticed the pale-faced young man at the back.
In a mythical story about the time before the catastrophe, there was once a powerful person who said, "I want light, so there was light in this universe."
The silent Xu Le stared at the blueprint on the holographic screen and silently said in his heart, "I want the three-dimensional analysis diagram of the electron jet."
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