readytorunbook Chapter 201 Mech Research
Chapter 201 Mech Research
The air in the helicopter suddenly became quiet, and the three of them didn't know how to face everything they had just imagined. It all seemed reasonable, but something still felt off, though none of them felt they could make sense of it all.
"I'm sorry, I've dragged you all into this. If you had stayed at the base, at least you could have gone to space together in the end..." Yang Xiao laughed self-deprecatingly. "Thinking about it, it makes sense. Otherwise, how could Lu Yuan have a starship? That's a product of the space age."
“I don’t think everything we just said is correct. If we can’t find the Space Research Institute or get its data, we’ll have to go to the South China Base to find Brother Gu before going to Beijing.” Lu Yuan didn’t think Yang Xiao had implicated him. Although if he didn’t leave the South China Base, he would be considered one of the chosen ones, and his fate might be to become a survivor of the “Star Project,” what about the other humans? What about the other survivors?
Lu Yuan knew he wasn't a savior, nor was he a saint, but he had seen so many people along the way, all desperately trying to survive, including Jin Nan and Jiang Yun. Every person and every decision, while not all good, was for their own survival. If this disaster was a matter of natural selection, unavoidable, that would be one thing. But now, if this was a deliberate scheme by those at the top of the so-called wealthy and powerful, then what about ordinary people?
If even celebrities and wealthy people like Jin Nan and Jiang Yun are not included, then how many people are actually in this group? So many people are persecuted, all for the benefit of a small group—what kind of logic is that?
“Yes, yes, Gu Nanfeng must know better than us. Even if he doesn’t, with everything laid out before him, he must see things more clearly than we do.” Yang Xiao regretted once again not taking Gu Nanfeng with him when they ran away.
“I think Brother Gu and the others must already be investigating.” Zhong Qiang recalled his last conversation with Gu Nanfeng before he left. “I felt that he had already guessed that you had touched some taboo that led to you being monitored by the base. I guess he would investigate secretly on his own.”
Just as Zhong Qiang had guessed, Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao had been busy these past few days. He found an excuse to temporarily stop his research on the awakening and evolution of superhumans, and instead secretly joined Wei Cheng and Li Minze's mecha research project.
Since Gu Nanfeng himself researches new materials, the discovery and research of this material was originally intended to support the "Star Sea Project" and was used to develop interstellar spaceships. Using it on exoskeleton mechs now is somewhat of a waste of its potential.
“Brother Gu, these materials are only enough to make one mecha, and if anything goes wrong, we won’t even have enough materials to replace it.” Because Li Minze had made his own mecha as a foundation, they didn’t spend much time on the overall structure of the mecha. Li Minze quickly drew up the blueprints for a new exoskeleton mecha based on the new materials, referring to his own mecha and the research he had accumulated on Lu Yuan’s mecha during this period.
"Brother Gu, is this material really that ductile?" Looking at Li Minze's new blueprints, Wei Cheng was a little incredulous. Li Minze designed the concealable wings based on Lu Yuan's mecha, but he felt that the material was too thin and could not possibly support a person flying.
"You might not believe it, but my dad told me a joke before." Pei Sihao, who came to help with the work, said with a smile while checking the feasibility of the blueprints, "He said that the United States used to love making blockbuster movies with wildly imaginative plots. They loved watching them when they were kids. There were robots, mechs, Transformers, space, interstellar space, so many different kinds of movies. And their imaginations were so wild. Starships, space fortresses, warships, and many other high-tech products. Even some of the AI robots we see now were from American movies back then."
"Hahaha, I know, I know!" Wei Cheng and Li Minze both chimed in, "Later they stopped filming because they figured it out, and our country even built it!"
"Yes, yes, yes!" Because of Pei Sihao's well-known joke, the atmosphere in the laboratory finally improved, and everyone was no longer so gloomy.
“You just said…” Gu Nanfeng suddenly interrupted their laughter, “We’ve built everything that the US came up with.”
“Yeah, it’s hilarious. I remember my dad used to tell me these things a lot when I was little. He would take me to see blockbuster movies from the US, and later, blockbuster movies from our own country. I always thought ours were better!” Wei Cheng said.
“Yes, the US is all about individual heroism, while our country is all about the interests of the people. We usually do things for everyone, for the collective!” Li Minze, like Wei Cheng, is a bit of a chuunibyou (a Japanese term for someone with delusions of grandeur), which is actually because his father is the same type. He remembers his father always saying that he was an angry young man, and that his generation was super patriotic!
“That’s interesting.” Gu Nanfeng suddenly seemed to have figured something out and laughed.
"Second brother! Are you alright!" While the group was still chatting about the movies they watched back then, Wang Sanhai and Liu Jia rushed into the laboratory.
"Brother Sanhai! Brother Jia! You're back!" Li Minze and Gu Nanfeng had no idea that Ji Lang's team had taken on another mission to Beijing. They thought it was just that this mission was taking longer.
"Where are Captain Ji and Captain Lin?" Gu Nanfeng looked behind Liu Jia. Usually, when they returned from a mission, everyone would get together for a while, but this time neither Ji Lang nor Lin Yun showed up.
"After they came back, they went to report the mission situation to the commander-in-chief. We came here first." Before getting off the plane, Lin Yun was worried that they would not be able to get out of the commander-in-chief's office for a while, so he told Liu Jia and Wang Sanhai not to follow them and to go find Gu Nanfeng and the others first. After all, Yang Xiao and Lu Yuan had not explained why they left the base.
"Second brother! Pack your things, we have to go!" Wang Sanhai didn't really care about the base's attitude towards them. After the Wen Zhou incident, he had a lot of opinions about the entire South China Base. The reason he came back this time was to take all the ability users with him away. After all, they could have lived well by building their own base.
"What's going on?" Li Minze was a little confused, but Wang Sanhai was already pulling him toward the dormitory.
"Old Wang, don't rush!" Liu Jia stopped Wang Sanhai. It was unrealistic for them to have everyone go together. After all, not every team's ability users and ordinary soldiers got along well. Wen Zhou and Jin Laosi's situation was a special result under special circumstances. Moreover, even if they wanted to take everyone with them, it was hard to say whether others would be willing.
"What exactly is going on?" Gu Nanfeng was also a little confused. After all, in his opinion, Ji Lang and the others were just on a mission and did not know about Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao.