Yuri quickly became familiar with the scientific researchers in the research institute. This cowardly guy almost scrambled to do everything. Repairing damaged mechas and weapons in research and experiments was Yuri's forte. Coupled with his sweet talk and good-natured personality, everyone in the laboratory liked him very much.
Since the establishment of this military laboratory, there has been only one mechanical maintenance soldier who can stay in this laboratory that works day and night crazily and has not been transferred away by an order. Coincidentally, this person is very easy to use. This fact makes everyone feel lucky.
Occasionally, they would guess what kind of mistakes this fat man had made outside that he had been locked up here for so long.
This laboratory belongs to the Garipalan Military Academy. Around the academy, there is a military base specifically responsible for military training of cadets and strictly protecting the academy. Everything in the academy is related to the military. All instructors and scientific researchers are soldiers and have military ranks.
The most feared person in the academy is not the dean with the rank of general, but the person in charge of the seventh laboratory of the academy, that is, the old man who brought the fat man in - Boswell. This eccentric old man is not a soldier and has no military rank. However, he leads the largest military laboratory in the academy and is the first tutor majoring in mecha and weapon design.
Before the war broke out, due to the academy's system, students majoring in machinery could still be arranged to work in maintenance and other aspects. After the war broke out, all the students in the academy were converted into grass-roots commanders. The academy implemented a wartime system, and there were no more students to help with odd jobs. This made Boswell very angry! In the eyes of this old man, except for research, nothing else is worth paying attention to.
The severe war situation has long made the frontline headquarters established in the academy extremely busy and flustered. Who would have time to deal with an eccentric old man? And the old man's irritable temper has also offended many middle-ranking officers responsible for specific work assignments. Therefore, this place has become a place for punishing disciplinary soldiers in disguise. When a soldier makes a mistake, he will be thrown into the laboratory to do odd jobs.
After all, there are only a few soldiers who make mistakes. Among them, there are even fewer soldiers proficient in mechanical maintenance. The mechas and weapons damaged in experiments and scientific research have piled up like a mountain. It is really at a point where it has to be dealt with. Finally, old man Boswell put down his work and rushed to the frontline headquarters in a rage. The army finally agreed to send someone. But unexpectedly, Yuri with the mechanical maintenance automatic arm was also mistakenly pulled into the laboratory by the old man.
Looking at Yuri who seemed to take it for granted to stay here, these scientific researchers were all very curious: Could it be that this fat man had made a big mistake? Or was he simply transferred here by the headquarters to be specifically responsible for laboratory maintenance.When chatting with Yuri, they would also ask curiously. But how could the fat man tell such a shameful thing as escaping twenty-one times! Especially among those who asked these questions were several beautiful women. Yuri's firm policy of not confessing made these people even more certain of their guesses.
Milan is one of the beautiful women among these curious babies. This beautiful girl who is only twenty years old has an astonishing talent for science. But she has a very obvious shortcoming: her practical ability is too weak! Whenever people see her flustered and forgetful appearance when doing experiments, everyone in the laboratory feels a headache. After several unnecessary small accidents, the laboratory simply assigned two operators to her directly, responsible for proving her theoretical discoveries through experiments and making her designs.
Now, two people are not enough for Milan. She soon set her sights on the fat man who had nothing to do after repairing the junk and was wandering around."Fatty, come here!" Milan shouted in the hall.
Yuri, who had already become very familiar with her by pleasing and being obedient with his glib tongue, immediately put down his work and ran over as fast as he could. He knew that in this "prison", besides Boswell, this woman was the one who could not be offended the most!
This beautiful girl with a cute and innocent face is the youngest scientific researcher in this laboratory. She is almost unconditionally doted on by those technology fanatics. As long as she makes a pitiful appearance, no matter how difficult the request is, it will be accepted. This highly talented scientific beauty is the treasure of all the eccentric old men and middle-aged uncles.
"Here I am. What's the matter? Please tell me. Hehe." Yuri had his simple and honest smile on his face.
"I'm too busy! Come and help!" Milan was not polite at all. She pulled the fat man and entered her exclusive research room.
As soon as he entered the research room, Yuri was stunned. Although he usually entered the studios of other researchers, this was the first time he had seen a studio like Milan's.
This room, which is almost half the size of the outside hall, is not so much a studio as an ancient military museum. Whether it is the furnishings or the displays, even the mechas and weapons that are being made and assembled are all antique designs.
In the huge display cabinet along the wall of the room, there are some classic firearms from ancient Earth. Such as Maxim machine gun, MP38 submachine gun, Mauser 1896 pistol, Browning, Mauser 98, M1 Garand rifle, M16, AK47 and so on.
In the middle of the room, there are more than a dozen land battle mechas parked on the ground. The shapes of most of these mechas also have traces of ancient armored vehicles. There is even a short mecha whose top energy cannon is exactly the same as the turret shape of the M1A1 tank.
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At the innermost part of the room, a beautiful humanoid mecha made Yuri dumbfounded. This is not a mecha at all. This is completely a work of art. The mecha is made of an unknown alloy. Yuri can't tell what material the external armor is at all. The whole mecha shows a light blue flowing light. The streamlined fuselage and the fierce local shape make people unable to take their eyes off it. The retracted wings on the back of the mecha make people feel strange. Is this a mecha? Land battle mecha? Aerial mecha? Space mecha?
"This is a transforming mecha." Looking at Yuri circling around the mecha non-stop, Milan introduced beside him.
"Transforming mecha?" Yuri was a little disappointed.
This kind of mecha that was abundant before 2000 in the new era of the space age is basically synonymous with junk. Now, advanced private mechas and combat mechas have completely abandoned the design concept at that time. Because now mechas have strong professional divisions. Except for local transformations when walking, there is no need for full-body transformations.
The biggest disadvantage of a full-body transforming mecha is that it is useless! For example, a heavy land battle mecha that requires thick armor and weighs dozens or even hundreds of tons by itself. Even if it turns into a land-based aviation fighter, it is still something to be played with. Redundant parts, redundant weight, a wasteful super-powerful engine, and a strange fuselage that cannot fully conform to aerodynamic theory will all be unsolvable problems.
Since land battle mechas cannot meet the needs of atmospheric air combat, what about aviation mechas?
Space fighter mechas based on space aircraft carriers don't need to transform either. In a vacuum environment without gravity, what's the point of transforming? Different from space fighters whose purpose is to destroy, the task of space fighter mechas is to board and capture enemy warships. They are generally dispatched at the end of a battle. Either the battle has basically been locked in victory, or the fighter losses are too great and mechas are needed as combat power supplements. Space fighter mechas in humanoid shape are also suitable for ground combat needs. This adaptation is based on the shape of space mechas themselves and there is no need for transformation.
By the same token, space mechas are also not suitable for atmospheric air combat on planets. They are even heavier than land battle mechas. In the weightless space, such mechas are allowed. But in the atmosphere, they will definitely be targets to be hit.
Yuri secretly curled his lips. Unfortunately, this movement did not escape Milan's eyes. She grabbed Yuri's ear and said angrily, "This is the most advanced mecha in our laboratory. You dead fat man. You haven't seen much of the world. How dare you look down on it!?"
In the past few weeks, this seemingly gentle, innocent and harmless beauty had bullied the fat man the most. So this grabbing and twisting was really clean and neat.
Yuri yelled "Ouch, ouch." The painful expression on his face made all humans unable to bear to look without a little blur in their eyes!
Milan had already seen through the fat man's tricks. She twisted it hard again before letting go and said angrily, "Come here! I'll let you see what a real transforming mecha is!"
She pressed the automatic remote control device in her hand, and the cockpit cover of the mecha popped up. She boarded the cockpit along the mechanical legs. When the cabin door was about to close, she glared at Yuri and said, "Bumpkin, watch carefully."
As Milan operated, Yuri was really shocked this time. The external armor of this mecha was like magic and decomposed into small pieces one after another. Then it quickly shrank together like compressed sponge and disappeared into a square hole on the back of the mecha. Subsequently, the mecha began to change. The first thing to change was the color. That strange flowing light flashed, and the whole body of the mecha turned black. Then, the limbs and head quickly folded together with the fuselage and began to transform as a whole. This kind of transformation was like melted cheese. After a few seconds, this cheese solidified into a black meteorite with some realistic textures.
"This life can't go on!" The fat man took a breath of cold air in his heart: "Liquid metal!!!"
"Keep watching!" Milan's voice came from the mecha's electronic loudspeaker.
With a "pop", the mecha almost popped out its limbs and returned to its original shape in an instant. At the same time, the external armor also popped out from the square hole and quickly covered the whole body.
Yuri felt a little collapsed.
"Oh my god! Liquid metal with memory properties! Used to make this... This woman is crazy!"Subsequently, the mecha simulated the forms of land-based aviation fighters, space fighters, small transport ships, and universal land battle mechas suitable for all terrains.
Milan jumped off the mecha and asked triumphantly, "How is it! Now curl your lips again."Tian Xingjian was at a loss for words. After a long while, this wretch with a simple and honest expression asked, "This toy is quite valuable, right? How much can it sell for?"
Milan was almost pissed off. She said viciously, "Toy? You go and try it yourself and see if it's a toy!"
From what Yuri had learned in mecha design, metallurgy, and physics, this thing was really just a toy. Liquid metal sounds great. But in fact, all metals that can change shape at will have a problem - softness!
This kind of metal that can change shape was discovered by people thousands of years ago. However, although this metal can be transformed in a short time by controlling a special resonance frequency through a computer and has both liquid and solid forms, its hardness has never been able to be increased.
If an alloy is made to increase hardness, then it will not be fully liquefied, and the time consumed for transformation will also be lengthened. A liquid metal alloy that can reach the hardness level of steel is estimated to take a week for liquid-solid transformation. Therefore, except for some special purposes, this rare metal is rarely used in the military.
What's the use of something that is soft and weak even if it can change in countless ways? In Yuri's eyes, this mecha is probably not much better than his privately treasured high-fidelity rubber doll of ancient Earth. The hardness of these metals simply cannot meet the needs of combat! Moreover, this kind of metal is usually very heavy. For example, pure gold is a relatively soft metal. Liquid metal is not only heavier than gold, softer than gold, but also more expensive than gold.
However, soon, Yuri knew that this thing in front of him was definitely not a toy, but a lethal weapon. A lethal weapon that can be called the greatest invention in the history of mechas in a hundred years!
A piece of metal the same as the mecha was put into the metal measuring instrument by Milan. The exaggerated indicators made Yuri once suspect that there was something wrong with this machine! The hardness of this thing is six times harder than the currently known super-hard alloy, while its weight is the same as the lightest super-light alloy. More importantly, the ductility unique to liquid metal makes the comprehensive defense ability of this metal infinitely expand!This is not enough! The most deadly thing is that this super alloy actually has the characteristics of memory metal! The person who invented this metal is definitely a genius among geniuses! This is simply a miracle that only a god can create!
"Okay, I admit, this thing is not a toy!" Yuri was completely defeated. Facing this mecha that absolutely occupies the pinnacle of current technology, even the most shameless person cannot deny it. After all, facts are facts.
Looking at Milan with a proud smile on her face, Yuri's problem of courting death recurred: "Where did you steal this mecha from?"