【Summer Five】Iron City Wall

After crossing the cables and pipes, Wang Erer knocked on the innermost door of the factory.The stove next to the aisle was buzzing and bubbling, and the sparks jumped high, leaving burn marks the size of rice grains on the hammer handle.

Xia You quietly took a step back, protecting Wutiao inside.

"Old Chen, I'll come to see you!" Wang Er Er knocked on the door, "Open the door for the face!"

There was a scraping sound of tables and chairs moving at the other end of the door, and someone staggered over, twisted the handle, and appeared.

"Didn't I tell you not to run here all the time if you have nothing to do? This old man who goes in his left ear and comes out of his right ear will always be annoying!"

The fat old man with white beard and hair stood at the door, with his waist thrust forward and roaring.He is not tall, with good lateral development, with a few buttons at the belly button that are crumbling; his hair and beard are tangled up in one place, his face is so dimpled that it can kill a fly, his small eyes are bright and his face is very fierce.

Wang Laoer was not annoyed at all, he just thought he was joking: "Speaking of business, didn't you say that a young helper packed up and left, no, I brought two helpers for your old man." Refers to summer oil and Wutiao.

Old Chen blew his beard and stared, and glanced up and down, as if he wanted to see flowers from the two of them: "How dare you bring these two little white faces like bamboo poles? Do you know what a helper is? Anyone who eats soft rice can have fun!"

This man was too blunt to speak, but with such a dry face, it created a sense of comedy. Wu Tiao didn't hold back, and laughed out loud while covering his mouth.

"What are you laughing at?" Old Chen punched the iron tongs in his hand on the ground, and the echo echoed three times. "Look at you, what can you do here?"

Wang Lao Er hurriedly gave Wutiao a wink, intending to tell him to "watch his words and watch his mood" - of course, Wutiao didn't give him a look at all - but it was lightly lost.Xia You raised her eyebrows high, almost wanted to laugh because of Wutiao's hand on her shoulders, so she had to tighten her mouth and widen her eyes, trying to maintain a slightly distorted seriousness.

"Don't worry, let them show you the head office?" Seeing this, Wang Er Er could only come out to smooth things over without embarrassment: "I guarantee my reputation, if even they can't meet your requirements, I'm afraid I'll search all over the place. An iron city wall, and there is no more suitable person."

Old Chen's eyes widened: "Reputation? Hmph, ask the debt collectors behind your ass, do you have such a thing?"

Jonny quickly answered: "I agree too! Well, Master Chen, I think they are fine, and they can definitely help!"

Old Chen had nothing to say, and his big temper had to be defeated in front of Jonny.

The fire was getting hotter and hotter, but the old man still looked impatient, at least he didn't intend to rush up to chase people with his iron tongs.He looked at Johnny, and then scrutinized Xiayou Wujo, as if evaluating their actual benefits.

"This is the best blacksmith in our blacksmith shop." Wang Er Er explained in a timely manner, "You can just call him Lao Chen. If you don't have a good temper, young people should be more tolerant."

Xia You nodded: "I met Master Chen. I am Xia Youjie, and this is..." "Wu Tiao Wu."

Wutiao took the words, put his hands in his pockets, and said lightly, "What do you want?"

Being reprimanded by a young man of all ages, Lao Chen cracked the iron pliers, squinted his eyes and thought: If I don’t repair them today, I’ll fucking write my last name upside down!

"Okay, I'm not too demanding." Old Chen gritted his teeth, and every word seemed to be rolled under the blade: "All the equipment can be used as you like, and you are limited to a core-powered chest mirror within twelve hours. .”

Wang Laoer on the side looked complicated, thinking that Lao Chen really didn't show mercy this time, maybe he just didn't drive them away directly for Jonny's sake, and persuaded them to leave in another way.

"Heart guard equipped with an integrated core" - this thing must not only have the highest hardness in a set of armor, but also have to go through deep laying, pondering, and carry a sufficient amount of energy to become the power core of all armor on the whole body.Not only will the requirements for design accuracy increase geometrically, but it also means that every part, even a screw, must have a high enough compatibility, otherwise it will be impossible to build a neural network that connects other limbs.

Without even thinking about it, Xia You simply said, "Okay. Where are the materials?"

Old Chen's original intention was to let them retreat in spite of difficulties, but Xia You agreed decisively, thinking that they were not afraid of tigers when they were newborn calves.He was aroused, waved his hand and said: "Get local materials. As long as there are in the factory, you can use whatever you want."

As soon as these words came out, both of them felt relieved.

Wujo pulled out his hand, put his fingertips on the frame of the sunglasses, and tapped a few times.The data on the virtual screen stagnates for a moment, flickers, blurs, and then is rewritten line by line to run in a completely different program.He squinted his eyes for a while, and nodded with satisfaction: "Old man, you'd better wait here, lest you run out of hands to catch your chin later!"

These words are full of madness, but Xia You is not surprised, just turns around and smiles at Wu, his eyes are full of pleasure.

Wang Lao Er dragged Johnny away, leaving old Chen guarding the factory to watch how the two brats were tossing about.

They didn't even say a few words, they only got together to discuss for a while when the timer started, and then they separated as if they had a plan in mind, and each went about his own business.Xiayou walked through the high and low shelves inside the factory, looking for the materials he needed according to the labels; his mind was spinning fast, and every time his fingers brushed a label, he listed its properties, fineness and high-temperature calcination effects one by one in his mind , if not, immediately go elsewhere.

Wutiao grabbed a measuring cup from the nearby workbench and went straight to the concentrated reaction machine.Old Chen was dubious at first, thinking that although this young man had a good idea, he didn't know that the operation of the reaction machine was extremely complicated. It was usually only controlled by the division of labor and cooperation of workers who had been in the factory for more than half a year. How could it be controlled by a mere boy?

Until the five movements quickly opened the safety brake, buckled the brake, and cracked open more than a dozen buttons, the five fingers leaped in front of the instrument panel with self-consciousness, and each step was precise and neat, making people dazzled.

Within 5 minutes, there was only a "click", the huge reaction machine humming slowly, the underlying chains biting each other harshly, releasing steam from all sides.The aged beast that had been forcibly awakened sighed heavily, straightened up amidst the lingering white steam, and began to melt the crystal-blue liquid in its body.

The green light ring gradually lit up, and the words "in normal operation" were burned on Lao Chen's retina, and he was dumbfounded for a moment.

"Good guy," Old Chen couldn't help admiring, "Is he so strong?"

There was a lot of movement on their side, and almost the whole factory knew that Lao Chen wanted to "make things difficult" for the two young people.This time, seeing that the concentrated reaction machine was activated by one person, suppressed exclamations came from all around, as if they were all paying attention to the young man who controlled the giant beast in the palm of his hand.

Wujo didn't realize it, and even sat down at a workbench while waiting for the machine to heat up, took out a pen and paper, and sketched out the structure of the heart mirror.With just a few strokes, its internal structure is vivid on the paper, which is as clear as a real shot—as if he already had a highly completed model in his mind, and he can explain his thoughts without scoring with just his hands. Difference.

The reaction machine made a dull beep, Wutiao immediately jumped up from the chair, and rushed to the diverter port with the measuring cup.Open the cover, adjust the output power, and the semi-viscous liquid will slowly flow out and be filled into the specially treated measuring cup.

After heating, the drive fluid is closer to ice blue, like a glass of fiery clear sky.Gojo came to the forging table with the cup in his hand, opened the drawer to search for the mold, and poured one-third of the scalding liquid into the cup.

The spherical mold is filled with the drive fluid, and it makes a scorching sound.He stared at the overflowing viscous liquid seeping into the plastic tube, slowly stagnating, and gradually solidifying at an imperceptible speed, and finally blinked very slowly.

It was only then that Lao Chen realized that there was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead, which he was reluctant to shed before, but now it finally began to streak across the bridge of his nose, dripping down in strands.

Not long after, Xia You came back with two baskets full of materials.He put the things on the ground, and the two of them each occupied half of the table, working on the parts at hand separately, without any communication from the beginning to the end.Wujo focused on the power furnace while Xiayou was busy building the frame structure. They each completed independent parts and then combined them into one.

The more Lao Chen watched, the more frightened he became.It is already extremely difficult to select the most suitable part from the hundreds of thousands of materials in the storage room. They actually separated the "defense function" from the "drive function", and completed their respective tasks with only a few auxiliary equipment.On top of this, assembling two completely different systems is almost the biggest problem faced by drive armor researchers in this century, regardless of the simultaneous operation of two people.

In that palm-sized space, just one misaligned cable will completely disrupt the internal ecology and cause irreversible damage to the operation.Scholars who have professional assistants to help them do it quite laboriously, but these two young people are extremely efficient. One holds down the circuit board, and the other connects the wires on the opposite side. Their fingers do not tremble, as casually as if they are passing a cup of tea.

This is simply impossible—those tiny components can’t bear to be gently plugged in and out, and it is even more required that the partner should not make even the slightest omission.High-intensity concentration will quickly wear down the spirit of workers, and they often have unstable mood swings-and fluctuations mean mistakes.

But Xiayou and Wujo never stopped from the moment the timing started, even though their clothes were so wet that water could be wrung out, they didn't make any unnecessary movements.

With cables as the network and connections as the bones, hundreds of millions of electronic wafers are criss-crossed, weaving an ocean.Xia You and Wujo are clearly two individuals, but they have a tacit understanding like sharing a soul: they form a pair of hands together - the supreme wisdom serves as the bone and blood, and the technology is transformed into the central nervous system throughout.

The continental shelf was born from those hands, the palm lines cracked the ravines and canyons, and the chaotic phosphorescence returned to tranquility.

The ram was embedded in the ice water, the heat escaped to the surroundings, and the white steam surged upwards.

When the clock pointed to the eighth hour, everything in the factory was completely silent, except for fiery eyes following the young man, witnessing the clean and clear breast shield rising slowly from the cooling tank.

The alloy with the highest toughness is polished to a bright surface, from which a little blue seeps out, resembling waves.The wires are woven into bundles, winding and enveloping the exquisite drive core, and the light changes with the angle, and it looks like a beating heart in general.

The craftsmen stared at it with bated breath, and even their admiration was completely taken away.

"finished."

Xia You said softly.

His voice was so hoarse that he could hardly hear it, sweat rolled down his cheeks, and his lips were pale.The excessively overdrawn energy began to bite back, and he had to hold on to the five pieces tightly so as not to collapse.

Lao Chen walked over silently, without looking at his mirror.

He looked up at the two of them with a solemn expression, and he spoke loudly: "It's absurd for you to help in the factory, and I can't agree with it. But after all, it's too old, this old bone thinks it can teach you something, if If you don't mind, just come with me."

The craftsmen who had been peeping at their workstations cheered softly and turned their backs on the newcomers.Someone poked and teased Lao Chen secretly, and the latter immediately got bruised and hopped back.

Xia You suddenly slackened and almost fell to the ground.He breathed out with difficulty, and said in five ears: "Thanks to you, it's done."

A few strands of black hair were glued together with sweat and stuck to his forehead wetly.When he got closer, the tips of his hair and his breath brushed against the bases of his five ears, half of which was cold and half hot, and his heart felt itchy as if he had been scratched.

Wutiao tilted his head, rubbed the tail of his hair to those slender black eyes, and whispered, "Otherwise? We are the 'strongest'."

"Most...strongest?" Xia You chewed these two words repeatedly, and after a long while, said with a light smile, "It's really like what you can say."