(Thank you, thank you. I can only say thank you. Rushing to fourth place at the last moment was all thanks to everyone's support. I'm just a loser.
I thought for half an hour this morning and decided to seriously solicit votes this month. I need to write well and definitely satisfy everyone. But … this chapter is a little boring. Sob sob, I won't write such difficult and dry things in the future.
Today is the first day of the month. I don't know what rank I'll get this month, but last month, I was already fourth. I'm still scared of Qiu. Anyway, everyone can just throw your monthly votes at me. I won't let everyone down. Let me say something fierce. This month … I'm going to write 200,000. Sob sob, even that bastard Fenghuo wouldn't dare to set a word count. I'm scared of Qiu!)
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The newest generation of mecha developed by Shell Motor Company had yet to be named. Internally, it was temporarily known as the MX. This generation of mecha had been developed for over 10 years. Compared to the previous series of M52 mecha, the MX mecha had a decisive breakthrough in terms of power.
The MX mecha still used Jingnong's high-energy batteries as its power source. However, two of the newest jet engines were installed at the back of the mecha's waist. These engines could instantly increase the mecha's power output to four times that of the M52 mecha!
This design was undoubtedly a bold and genius idea. After 10 years of research, after overcoming a series of material and microelectronics difficulties, the multi-engine technology of a warship had finally been successfully transplanted into a mecha. The realization of this idea not only made the engineers of the entire Shell Motor Company rejoice, the Federal military also felt an unprecedented excitement.
Two times the normal power in a steady state, four times the normal power in an instant — this was an indicator of leapfrogging development. If placed on the battlefield, the MX mecha with four times the normal power could completely rely on its powerful mobility to treat the old mecha like a clumsy child. What made the military most excited was that if the multi-engine technology matured in the future and the mobility of the military mecha increased once more, then in a situation where the energy consumption of a warship was decreasing by the day, typical long-range weapons on the battlefield, such as self-propelled cannons or fibre-optic guided rockets, would find it very difficult to hit a mecha that was evading at extremely high speed …
If that day really came, then in a war between the Federation and the Empire, other than the warships suspended in space as a deterrent, these extremely mobile military mecha would no longer be used for special operations. They could also be placed on the battlefield as the main force for advancement. Without a doubt, this would be a fundamental change in the nature of war!
Currently, only 14 prototypes of the MX mecha developed by Shell Motor Company Engineering Dept. and the Federal military had been produced. However, the production speed demonstrated in the laboratory had already satisfied all parties. It would take at least two years for this new batch of mecha to undergo mass production and become a true fighting force. Moreover, the Federal military did not know whether the Empire had made any breakthroughs in the multi-engine technology of the mecha. Thus, the Federal military had given the Shell Motor Company an exceptionally strict time limit.
Between the Federation and the Empire, no matter which side was the first to possess this type of high-performance mecha and throw them into battle, they would definitely win the initiative of the war.
The Federation had an old saying: Lose a nail, break a hoof; break a hoof, break a war horse; break a war horse, wound a knight; wound a knight, lose a battle.
This type of mythical battle, which could only be seen in movies and novels, had never appeared in the history of the Federation. However, this demonstrated the importance of details and logistics in war. Moreover, the new generation of the MX mecha could change certain forms of war, using the power of technology to bring about changes in the strength of war.
Therefore, when the Department of National Defence gave the Shell Motor Company a strict time limit, the head of the engineering department and the engineering staff were not at all surprised. They also understood the significance of the mecha they had developed. If they wanted to leave their name in history as an engineering staff, then the development of the MX mecha this time would definitely be the best opportunity.
Time was of the essence. After ten years of research and development had ended and standard laboratory parameters had been obtained and simulated, the Shell Motor Company Engineering Dept. sent the four MX prototype mecha to the Whitewater Company for its subordinate Whitewater Company to use in the regional conflicts in the Bermuda Triangle Star Region to obtain first-hand data on the battlefield.
The regional conflicts in the Bermuda Triangle Star Region had never stopped, and the experimental weapons planet chosen by the Whitewater Company was also far from the parts of the Empire where spies could infiltrate. All of this was for the sake of secrecy. Even so, the Federal military still sent out the most powerful warship of the Third Military Region to follow the Whitewater Company's combat team from afar and enter the Bermuda Triangle Star Region.
On one hand, it was to cooperate with the Shell Motor Company Engineering Dept. in collecting data, and on the other hand, it was naturally for the sake of secrecy. On that barren mineral planet, all the refugees and thugs who could come into contact with the new MX prototype mecha had to die in the end.
For the birth of a new generation of mecha to require the protection of a fleet, this fully demonstrated the importance of this matter to the Federation.
The small group of thugs on that barren mineral planet was eliminated by the Whitewater Company's combat team in seven days. Under the lockdown of the Third Military Region's fleet, this news was not leaked and did not attract the attention of any other forces. However, when the engineers of the Shell Motor Company Engineering Dept. carefully calculated the data of the new mecha on the battlefield, they discovered a very fatal problem.
If this problem was not solved, the Federation's new generation of mecha, the MX, could only stand quietly in the laboratory forever and never become a powerful weapon in the battle between the Federation and the Empire.
This difficult problem alarmed all the senior executives of the Shell Motor Company's board of directors and engineering department. It angered the Federal military, who had been waiting excitedly for the results of the experiment. Everyone was waiting for the birth of a new generation of mecha, but in the end, they were greeted with such terrible news!
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The Federation's new generation of MX-type mecha was a top secret among top secrets. Therefore, the research and development work for the past ten years was basically done by the Shell Motor Company Engineering Dept. alone. Although the higher-ups of the Department of Defense occasionally thought about whether they should let the experts from the Gu Zhong Company, or at least the Husk Institute or the Federal Academy of Science participate in the research, this was because the Gu Zhong Company's multi-engine design was undoubtedly the world's leading technology. However, due to the reasons of secrecy, these ideas were not implemented in the end.
Last autumn, the Whitewater Company's battle experiment on the edge of the Bermuda Triangle star field exposed a fatal problem with the new generation of MX-type mecha. The Shell Motor Company Engineering Dept. had been unable to solve this problem, so the human resources manager, José, had personally poached people during the spring recruitment. He wanted to find some inspiration from these young, outstanding engineers with no inherent experience.
Unfortunately, this batch of outstanding young people had only entered the engineering department for a short period of time. They were unable to provide any help to solve the inherent problem of the new generation of mecha. Moreover, the pressure from the Federal military was too great, so the engineering department had no choice but to ask for help from the outside world.
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When Xu Le had first seen that email, he had already been stunned by the genius of the twin-engine design. Those seemingly complex but actually simple lines had already become extremely streamlined in his eyes, giving off an existence of infinite beauty and enjoyment. Before his eyes, there was a faint metallic glow.
This was the culmination of the collective wisdom of the Federation engineers. Every part of the design had gone through endless deductions and calculations, and could not be changed at all. Or rather, in the eyes of a mature engineer, it was impossible for them to even think of destroying such a beautiful design.
The research institute had officially joined in the research and development of the new generation of mecha, mainly to solve the problem that the new generation of MX mecha had exposed in battle. However, this was still the Federation's most top-secret and cutting-edge technology, so researchers like Xu Le could only obtain the relevant data and blueprints through email. They were unable to fully understand the power model of that prototype mecha.
Xu Le's life interest was in this aspect. Moreover, he now had some hidden reasons to enter the engineering department and have an independent space to research mecha. Thus, these past few days, he had been very attentive to this matter.
He was just a junior researcher who had just completed his systematic education. How could he solve a problem that even the best engineers of the Federation could not solve just by relying on these schematics that were as simple as a leopard's skin? If it had been anyone else, perhaps looking at those blueprints and that problem in the email, they would have felt a sense of powerlessness and dejectedly give up.
But Xu Le knew that he had talent in this area, and even more so, he knew that those blueprints in his mind were an existence that bordered on miraculous.
If he could solve the problem of the new generation of MX mecha, for an engineer, this was an irresistible temptation. Thus, in these past few days, Xu Le's attention was completely focused on the laboratory, using an unimaginable speed to carry out design simulations, calculations, and inferences.
The new generation of MX mecha was a groundbreaking dual-engine design, with one main engine and one auxiliary engine. The main engine was like the power output system of previous mecha, driving the mecha's movement speed. Meanwhile, the auxiliary engine was the crux of this system. If the jet design was combined with small wings to assist with balance, the mecha could instantly increase its speed in battle, raising the performance of the entire mecha to a terrifying degree.
In the engineering department's laboratory, the dual-engine design transplanted from warship multi-engine technology perfectly fulfilled the designers' original intentions. The new generation of mecha's mobility was fully demonstrated. However, in Whitewater Company's experimental use, after one and a half minutes of continuous battle, the dual-engine system of the four new generation mecha would completely fail!
There was even one new generation of mecha that had experienced an irreversible explosion in the midst of an experimental battle.
The investigation report after the incident pointed out that there was a major difference between the data collected by the Nutshell engineering department in the experiment and the actual battle, resulting in this accident. The new generation of mecha's dual-engine design would enter the full-power stage at the end. When both engines were pumping out maximum power, the internal Z4 suction electron jets would experience severe instability in their trajectories. This would cause cracks to appear in the high-strength material of the engine casing, and these cracks would even spread throughout the entire mecha …
In the laboratory, the full-power stage of the dual engines was basically in a static state. However, in battle, the full-power stage would definitely occur during the most intense moments of a battle between military mecha. The instability of the electron jets would be greatly magnified when the mecha was moving at high speed, leading to unexpected consequences. It could be that the engines would simultaneously shut down for self-protection, or it could also be that … it would explode.
Problems occurring were not scary. After all, this was a new generation of mecha that was epoch-making. Just the adjustments in the laboratory alone could not accomplish everything. The key was to discover the problem. This time, the problem discovered on the planet at the edge of the Bermuda Triangle did not cause the engineers of the engineering department to feel anxious at the start. If there was a problem, there would be a solution.
However, when the top engineers of the Federation easily discovered the problem, they were extremely saddened to find that this problem was basically … very difficult to solve.
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The power source of a mecha was a high-energy battery. The electron jets converted the power in the power source into electron jets that traveled at close to the speed of light. These electrons would then be shot into the space of the engine, where they would be converted into usable energy. Through the mecha's complex transmission system, the mecha would move.
The electron jets were the most intricate part of this system, and also the least eye-catching part. The engineering department's design was still based on the old design. From their perspective, the twin engines only added an additional electron jet channel — there was no fundamental difference. No one would have thought that this normally inconspicuous electron jet would become a dangerous bomb in the new MX-type mecha.
Reducing the wave interference between the twin engines was easily accomplished by the engineers, but they had no way of completely dissipating this type of interference in such a tight system. As long as there was a single point of interference, those electron beams inside the normally silent electron jets would suddenly become as sensitive as a virgin. They would either turn their heads shyly or run away, or silently stroke a willow, or tear apart their own clothes in anger with a red face …
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The problem lay within the Z4 electron jets. With the current level of technology of the Federation, there were many ways to control the trajectories of the electron beams. However, those methods required the use of large scale equipment, so they could only be installed on a battleship and could not be used on a mecha.
Once the high-speed electron beams diverged, they would enter a kind of vortex state. Under the control of a field, they would flow in all directions. If they could figure out the trajectories of the electron beams during the full power phase of the twin engines, then the engineers of the Federation would definitely be able to design the corresponding sensing equipment to redirect these electron jets back into the space of the engines.
However, the problem was that the trajectories of the high-speed electron jets could not be measured. In the lost quantum state, the Federation's tens of thousands of years of research would never be able to solve this problem.
The development of the new generation mecha of the Federation seemed like it would be ruined by this small electron jet.
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After experiencing countless failures, Xu Le sank into silence. Seven days had already passed. Looking at those complicated blueprints on the holographic screen desktop, he still could not find any direction. The blueprints that flashed through his mind like a dream were indeed of great help to him. Thus, in seven days, he had already tried more than 50 designs. This speed had already surpassed the imaginations of the top designers in Shell Motor Corporation Engineering Dept..
However, they were still failures. No matter how whimsical the design was, in front of that mischievous electron beam, they were still tangible objects. There was no way to capture their trajectories.
He stared silently at the three-dimensional screenshot of the Z4 electron jets on the holographic screen. Suddenly, his brows furrowed. He understood something. In such a small system, it was impossible to capture the electron beams. To solve this problem, they had to predict the trajectories of these electron beams in advance from the moment the electron beams were interfered with …
However, the problem was, according to the theories of the Federation's scientific community, the trajectories of high-speed electron jets should be random. How could they predict it?
Quantum immeasurable.
Subconsciously, Xu Le's eyes lit up. His finger clicked open the index tree in the middle of the database. He opened Professor Shen's research results that had not made any progress over the years. Quantum immeasurable dynamics!
Old Professor Shen's papers had been published before. The chief editors of the academic journals, as well as the highly respected people in the academic community, only wrote some replies out of respect for this Nebula Award winner. However, no one supported Old Professor Shen's views.
Xu Le silently and quickly checked the research results of Old Professor Shen over the years. His eyes narrowed more and more, and became brighter and brighter. As the scientific community of the Federation said, the unpredictability of quantum dynamics was basically an axiom. Although Old Professor Shen's theories seemed simple and beautiful, there was not the slightest possibility that they could be proven. Speaking from the opposite side, they could not even be proven false.
It was just a beautiful and illusory bubble.
However, this bubble was so real in front of Xu Le's eyes. He simply moved a chair and sat in front of the table. He forgot about the simulation system modification and began to seriously and interestedly learn Professor Shen's theories from the beginning.
A beam of electrons traveling at close to the speed of light, within a certain order of magnitude, after being disturbed by a fixed wave band, what kind of trajectory would it follow? What kind of beautiful flower would it turn into?
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While Xu Le was alone in the laboratory, constantly guessing what kind of flower that beam of electrons would turn into, there were countless researchers like him in the Federal Academy of Science, Shell Motor Corporation Research Institute, and the engineering department. All of them were fully immersed in the battle to solve the Z4 electron jet. Most people did not know that this problem was related to the Federation's newest generation of military mecha. After experiencing countless failures, many people gave up. However, Xu Le did not give up.
This was because he knew that this was a critical moment for the Federation's newest generation of mecha. Speaking of which, it was strange. It seemed that he had a much higher security clearance in the research institute than the average researcher.
However, an unexpected incident disrupted the rhythm of Xu Le's life.
Seeing the man in the military uniform walk into the elevator with a gloomy expression, Xu Le put out the cigarette in his hand, held it in his hand, and walked into the ward. He looked at the pale and nervous girl on the bed, smiled, and said, "Did your family ask you to go back?"
Zou Yu nodded tiredly and said, "Since the doctor said there's no big problem, I don't want to go back for the time being. You know, the most important thing for pregnant women is their mood."
"Since you know, then you should make yourself feel better," Xu Le advised.
For some reason, Zou Yu found herself bleeding a little in the bathroom last night. Amidst that scream, Xu Le rushed in anxiously and sent her to Wangdu Hospital immediately. After the doctor's examination, it was confirmed that Zou Yu was at risk of miscarriage. Xu Le was nervous but also a little surprised. Zou Yu's health was excellent. Recently, she had completely stopped smoking and drinking. For her to have signs of miscarriage, it could only be something else.
Could it be that she was frightened at Linyuan Restaurant that day? He looked at Zou Yu on the bed. After a moment of silence, he said, "I can understand. You're very nervous right now."
Zou Yu stared blankly at the snow-white ceiling above her head. After a while, she said, "You don't understand. You men will never understand. When a mother finds out that once the child in her womb is born, it can only be an illegitimate child pointed at by others, how terrible her mood is."
Xu Le was a careful and sensitive person, but it didn't mean that he could read all the thoughts of the people around him. After hearing these words, he was stunned and his mood became heavy. This was indeed a problem that Zou Yu and the child in her womb would have to face. If others asked now, he could still say that he was the father of Zou Yu's child in her womb. But what about the future? The child would grow up eventually, and Shi Qinghai … he still didn't know if he was still alive.
Zou Yu retracted her gaze and looked coldly at Xu Le. She said, "You said that you would be responsible for me and the child in my womb on behalf of Shi Qinghai. How are you going to take responsibility?"
"I don't know," Xu Le answered honestly.
Zou Yu closed her eyes and was silent for a long time. After a long time, she said softly, "Forget it. This has nothing to do with you."
"If I hadn't insisted, maybe you wouldn't have wanted this child in the first place."
"This is my child. It has nothing to do with you."
Xu Le suddenly realized that when he was with Zou Yu, he would talk more and more. Did this mean that he already saw her as a friend? Looking at the pale-faced Zou Yu on the bed, his mood suddenly became gloomy. He subconsciously thought of the words he said to Zhang Xiaomeng when they were planning the future.
"When the child registers in the future, put my name in the father column."
Xu Le was a guy who didn't hesitate once he made a decision. In this regard, he really didn't act like a 20-year-old young man. He was more like an old man who had weathered the hardships of life and seen through everything.
Zou Yu slowly opened her eyes and looked at him with a very strange gaze. After a while, she said softly, "Are you really crazy? You can pretend to be the child's father, but you're really going to … "
Xu Le smiled and didn't say anything.
In the quiet Linyuan of Wangdu Hospital, Xu Le retracted his gaze from upstairs. The lights in Zou Yu's room were turned off. He stood alone in the darkness. Looking up at the starry sky, he saw two bright moons. It wasn't the Double Moon Festival, so there was no ball. He once loved someone, but that person was already dead. He thought in his heart that he would probably never fall in love again.
He walked to the trash can and was about to throw in the cigarette butt in his hand when he suddenly stopped. Xu Le slowly tore open the filter and tore the sponge inside one by one. He tore the sponge into a thin and fluffy mess. He thought in his heart, Uncle was right back then. The life of the people in the Federation was indeed like a mess.
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"What kind of shape will this beam of electrons turn into after it dissipates?"
In the quiet laboratory, Xu Le narrowed his eyes and looked at the constantly changing image on the holographic screen table. The trajectory of the electron beam in the theoretical model was like a child who would never settle down. It was riding a roller coaster with different curves. Sometimes it protruded, sometimes it turned back. Sometimes it was like a flower, but most of the time it was like a cloud of fog.
"It will turn into a mess."
An old voice sounded behind him. An old finger reached over and slowly entered a few extremely unfamiliar parameters into the theoretical calculation model on the holographic screen table. At the same time, a simple formula was added.
The finger seemed to have magic. As the parameters and formulas were entered, the chaotic fog of the electron beam on the holographic screen table gradually gathered and overlapped. It became clear and turned into countless fine and uniform lines that stretched and fell. It seemed to have no pattern, but in fact, there was order in the chaos. It was like a mess made of a string. As long as the end of the string was pulled, all the directions of the mess could be determined.
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