Interstellar Mecha Life

Chapter 72

When entering the warehouse for the first time to repair the Green Soul Mecha, Qi Yue once encountered a problem that puzzled her.

In the mecha, there is a module just behind the body cavity of the mecha torso, avoiding the cockpit, and clinging to its power system.If it was intact, it would not have any impact, but the Green Soul repaired by Qi Yue was damaged in addition to the problem Mr. Gu Zhifeng said.This has an uncontrollable impact on the entire system.

That's why Qi Yue still doesn't know where the problem is no matter how many tests he does on the entire mech system.

In the end, she had to deconstruct, disassemble, and do system tracing according to the design drawings, to find the possible root cause and find out this mysterious module.

As mentioned before, the Green Soul is a model of the seventh generation of military mechs.Unlike the large mechas of the Traveler, which are more than ten meters high, the short and fat mechas of the Green Soul are cheaper to manufacture and are easier to mass produce.Its power system is a rare mass distribution system in mechs, even Qi Yue was not familiar with it at first.So at first she thought this module belonged to the power system.

However, after careful inspection and testing, she found that this was not the case.

This module pretends to be a stabilizing device for the power system, but it is not actually connected to the system.Most importantly, on the drawings, this module does not exist at all.

After she boldly took out the module, the performance of the mecha was intact, and various tests showed that the module had no effect on it.And after re-doing the self-inspection and testing, the mecha can finally operate normally.

Qi Yue's judgment at the time was that this module was probably a test module of the mech developer or manufacturer.

It is a long process for many system functions of the mecha from the theoretical basis at the beginning, to design, to actual industrialization, and to testing.Because in the interstellar era, mechas have penetrated into all aspects of human life, and play an extremely critical role in many important fields such as military affairs and people's livelihood.

This puts very high requirements on its security and stability.

Therefore, after the conventional development and follow-up tests, more and closer large-sample tests are needed to enrich data and samples.

Therefore, some test systems often appear in the official version of commercial mechs.Some may have an impact on mechs, so the developer will clearly indicate that and prompt users to manually close or switch to a stable mode.However, some systems do not have any impact on the functions of the mecha itself, but developers use the mecha to conduct other tests, or new tests that do not have open functions.

In this case, it will not appear in mainstream design drawings or product descriptions.

This is probably the case with this module.

Since discovering this situation, every time Qi Yue went to the warehouse to inspect the mechas, he would pay attention to whether other mechas had the same modules.

The developer of Green Soul is Rainbow Bridge Corporation, but the production of the mecha is carried out in cooperation with the dolls.

Rainbow Bridge has always been in the ranks of first-class mech companies, and its development strategy and vision are leading in the same industry.Most importantly, it has always pursued a bold and innovative strategy.It is precisely because of this that they dare to use the gravity distribution drive method in the green soul.Although it ended in failure, at the time, this move still aroused widespread appreciation and attention.

However, in the past ten years or so, the company has gradually lowered its profile, and there are few new and big moves, making them take a back seat in the public eye.

In the past, they also had their own mecha production line, but now they only do mecha research and development and authorization, and then cooperate with mecha manufacturers to draw commissions.Abandoning the actual production method seems to abandon the market.But from another perspective, it also allows the company to withdraw from the front-line battlefield that requires large-scale publicity and public relations investment, and can have more energy to concentrate on research and development.

From this point of view, they are not retreating, but retreating to advance, shifting the commercial battlefield.

In the end, Qi Yue found that almost all the mechas developed by Rainbow Bridge in the mecha library, no matter which manufacturer manufactured them, all had this module.The age of the mecha's factory ranges from decades ago to the last five years.

What kind of test has to be done for so many years?Qi Yue was more and more curious at that time, so he dismantled everything and moved them back to his office in the DREAM building while repairing - the dormitory is too small to fit so many things.

On the surface, this module consists of three black cubes with a side length of 5cm embedded in each other.It looks like an abstract work of art.When Qi Yue held it in his hand, he found that it was very light. The shell material was ordinary at first glance, but it was high-strength synthetic plastic.Although this plastic is thin and light, it is extremely strong.In addition, when the mecha was deconstructed at that time, it was found that there were shock-absorbing configurations around the module, which indicated that if the mecha was used normally, it would be difficult to damage its shell.

If she suddenly saw such protection, her first reaction would be to think that the production company was protecting the internal structure.However, after thinking about it carefully, she felt that the protection was probably to prevent the internal substances from harming the mecha, affecting the driver's operation and the normal operation of the mecha.

So what is this mysterious module?

Qi Yue had no clue at first.She first isolated the damaged module, and then began to disassemble it using simple protective measures after confirming that there was no radiation.

The structure inside the module is fairly simple.A microchip, including information processing, computing functions, and tiny memory devices, promises to store extremely large amounts of information.In addition, it seems to be equipped with an independent signal transmitter inside.However, when the shell ruptured, the launcher had stopped working and "self-destructed".This also made it impossible for Qi Yue to find out where the target of the launch was.

Because it is a non-commercial design, all configurations are quite simple and direct, without packaging, which looks very rough.This is also beneficial.Qi Yue can easily judge the purpose of many parts from their appearance, and it is also easy to find the serial number and model.

In the whole module, there are three pieces of white mud with unknown attributes, which is rather peculiar.After McDull tested it, listed all the properties on the screen, and judged, this is not any known material.

Qi Yue asked McDull to conduct various in-depth tests on this material. If it was a synthetic material, it would decompose its components. If not, it would compare it with the closest known material, or at least judge the place of origin from its properties.

Qi Yue analyzed it from other internal structures.

The contents of the chip are not difficult to interpret, and the stored data can be read out quickly.But the dense data made Qi Yue look very strange, and he couldn't recognize what it was after looking at it for a long time.

In the module, there is also a conversion device that caught Qi Yue's attention.The function of this device is very simple and obvious, it is to collect the signal and convert it.It is a bit similar to the signal converter of heat-sensitive material gold deuterium ochre that Qi Yue used before.It's just that it converts heat signals into digital signals, so what does this device convert?

In other words, what kind of signals are those three groups of white substances used to collect?
This incident happened in the middle of the last semester, but Qi Yue has never had a clue.It wasn't until shortly before the start of school, when the summer internship was almost over, that she accidentally discovered some clues.

At that time of year, the Symposium on the Utilization of New Materials in the Small Magellanic Cloud is held, and this year is no exception.Although Qi Yue has never participated in it, she occasionally browses the reports and related papers of such conferences.Although the things mentioned at the meeting are more theoretical, and there are not many that actually produce practical application value in the end, many wonderful ideas and persistent attempts by people in the industry always surprise people.

This year, because of the white mysterious substance, Qi Yue suddenly had an idea to look through the historical records of this meeting.

This time, I really found something.

At a conference about 40 years ago, a young man whose family had a mining business and who was studying mineralogy discovered a substance that seemed to have an unknown effect on the surrounding electronic equipment.The young man brought it to the meeting as a newly discovered substance and described in detail all the test results on it.

After comparison, Qi Yue found that many of the contents he mentioned in the report were quite close to the white substance she discovered.

Some data is provided in the report.The young man said that after a long period of research, he has not discovered the principle and function of this substance. If there are professional scholars who are interested, he hopes to cooperate in research and subsequent development.

Qi Yue couldn't find any more information.The young man's family company and several mining companies have jointly made several investments, but none of them seem to have any connection with the Rainbow Bridge.Qi Yue gave these to McDull for background cross-comparison, and took part of the data in the report to compare with the test results in his hand.Some data discrepancies were found.Further mining and analysis of the data revealed that this bias in the results is likely due to the gravity of the location.

Is this also a gravity-sensitive material?But after comparing it with gravity-sensitive materials, its data still looks strange.

It was after the midterm exam this semester, less than two months after Xing Tianhe called to inquire, that Qi Yue finally determined that this white matter should be related to dark matter and dark energy.But during that time, she really didn't have the spare energy to conduct further research on it.

Most of Qi Yue’s spare time is devoted to the mech team—not only to carry out the daily training of the mecha team, to repeatedly modify the design plan and run in with the driver and team members, but also to give Angel extracurricular guidance to help him Get better grades on final exams and homework.Later, when Bolanski and other team members met, they joked that Qi Yue was eccentric and asked her to help with counseling.

They didn't take it seriously at first, after all, there were junior and senior students among them, and their majors were quite different from what Qi Yue had learned.Unexpectedly, Qi Yue said: "I have read your summary before, and I also found the syllabus of the corresponding course. Although I can't give you a comprehensive tutoring, if you don't understand any part, I can help you look."

She said it conservatively, but after getting along for more than half a semester, everyone has also figured out Qi Yue's characteristics.If she dared to say that, she was absolutely [-]% sure.

Everyone was shocked for a moment, and then they couldn't wait to test and ask for advice, which made Qi Yue even busier.In the end, she had no choice but to say: "These tutoring are external forces and secondary. The most important thing is everyone's subjective motivation and subjective desire to learn. Learning is hard work."

Everyone sighed when they heard it.

After receiving Xing Tianhe's communication, Qi Yue immediately returned to the DREAM building.She intends to do a complete set of tests on the material before the competition begins.

McDull designed some experiments according to Qi Yue's request, and began to collect data one after another.However, due to the local astronomical environment of Sokoses, it may not be very ideal to test dark matter and dark energy here.

After thinking about it, she sent a message to Xing Tianhe through an encrypted channel, sending her understanding of this substance, a basic description and some pictures.I hope he can give me more information so that she can know what kind of finished product she needs to produce.

Amidst the busy schedule, the crucial intramural competition for the DREAM mecha team is coming.Compared to other big mecha teams, DREAM, which has just raised their eyebrows this year, can be regarded as an upstart.Whether it can really establish its status needs to be tested in one or two competitions.If they can't pass the intramural competition, no matter how generous the sponsors are, no matter how tall and beautiful the building is, no matter how many and best mechs they have, it's useless.

It's like saying that no matter how much ability is more important than grades, when it comes to finding a job in the talent market, unless you have internship experience, grades are still the most important criterion for others to measure you.

Lose or win, there is no third outcome.

(End of this chapter)