"Last night, a gas pipeline leak occurred on XXX Road. Emergency repairs are currently underway..."
"Dry weather, fire is as fierce as a tiger, fire prevention needs to be taken seriously, XX community... "
"The construction site of the unfinished building resumed work, the machinery roared like thunder in the middle of the night, and the residents complained bitterly..."
“Am I paying too much attention to this?”
"It seems like there are a lot of incidents like this in the Magic City recently..."
Xia Xu muttered to himself as he put his phone back into his pocket.
A month and a half passed in a flash, and it was already a month and a half later.
His life was relatively peaceful. His studies and research at school progressed steadily, and his company's development was also speeding on the fast track.
But he didn't know whether he was not used to this kind of calmness or was a little nervous, but he had become a little suspicious for no reason recently, always feeling that something bad was brewing.
Occasionally, one or two explosions, fires, or even just noise disturbances in the news would always inadvertently draw his attention.
But in fact, such incidents have indeed become more frequent in the past one or two months compared to the past, but it is actually nothing special when the time span of several cases is stretched to one or two months.
This situation is more like a sensitive reaction, just like many people always see a specific number when looking at the time.
This is not a coincidence or some kind of interference from the unknown. It is just that the mind is subconsciously sensitive to this number, and the peripheral vision will shift its attention when it notices that the time has reached this number.
He is in the same situation now, playing with his mobile phone and scanning all kinds of information, but he can always inadvertently catch a glimpse of this kind of news among the thousands of information flows.
"Forget it, let Lao Yang and the others take some time to pay attention to it."
It was just a small episode and some distracting thoughts while playing with the phone. After making the decision, the thoughts quickly stopped. Xia Xu, carrying a pile of takeout boxes, pushed open the door of the Xinghai Research Group's activity room.
"It's time to eat, beauties. If I starve you to death, those flower protectors will not let me off."
Carrying a bunch of takeout, Xia Xu walked into a studio near the door with a smile.
The activity room of the Xinghai research team has a spacious hall and four rooms. The hall is a public activity space, three rooms are used to store equipment and serve as workrooms for Zhou Jiwalker and others, and the last one is occupied by Tang Youxin and others and is arranged as an information room.
Although the Xinghai research team is currently developing a passive exoskeleton, it does not mean that electronic equipment cannot be added.
At the very least, smart glasses and the auxiliary systems they carry are indispensable, and the early warning module of the Bai Ze system can also be added. Coupled with the system optimization of the Spider Weaver and the Spider Predator, Xiao Baihua and her team's task is not much easier than Zhou Jiwalker and his team.
"What are you busy with? Let me see."
After casually putting the takeaway on the tables of Song Yu and Ge Qingyan, Xia Xu walked to Tang Youxin's seat with a smile, dragged over a bench and sat down, his eyes sweeping over the computer screen of Little White Flower.
"No, you are not allowed to look."
Little White Flower's reaction was inexplicably big. With a slightly red face, she hugged her computer monitor and blocked the screen completely.
"I say, you guys are not here to slack off and secretly watch some indecent things, right?"
Xia Xu couldn't help laughing and started making jokes at Song Yu and the others.
"Hehe, we didn't, but we don't know if your girlfriend was watching behind our backs."
"Alas, I can't say it. After all, she is the boss's wife. I dare not offend her. I can only say that those who understand will understand."
"You should reflect on yourself for this kind of thing. If this is the case, it must be because you have corrupted our Youxin and turned her into a little slut."
The three girls laughed and joked while skillfully taking their takeout and starting to eat.
"What nonsense are you talking about? No, I didn't."
Tang Youxin's face turned red again because of the three people, and she was embarrassed and angry and pouting.
"If you don't have it, just let me take a look. Why are you blocking the screen?"
Xia Xu teased with a smile, but had no intention of really going to see it.
Everyone has their own little secrets and needs their own private space. There is no need to get to the bottom of everything.
After being bored for a while, Xia Xu did not stay here for long. He quickly got up and delivered lunch to Zhou Ji and the others.
At this moment, except for Zhou Ji's girlfriend Jiang Yuanyuan who was not present because she had classes, Zhang Meng, Lu Dong, Zhou Ji, Walker, and the newly joined Cao Yuan were all gathered in the studio where the spider weavers were exhibited last time. This is also their usual assembly workshop.
However, this time, what was displayed in the center of the room was no longer a spider robot, but a set of pure black combat uniforms supported by a puppet model.
The overall color of the combat uniform is as black as ink, without any other colors, but there are slightly raised mesh patterns all over the limbs and bones. The changes in light and shadow brought by the layers add a gorgeous light and dark gradient to the deep black.
In terms of style, it is a bit slim-fitting, but it is not a tight-fitting suit. Instead, it is a bit like a muscle suit used to disguise muscular men. Under its surface covered with mesh patterns, the texture of muscles is filled in very lifelike.
The bulging biceps, the not-too-exaggerated but equally protruding pectoral muscles, the enviable vest line and eight-pack abs…
It is not as exaggerated as that of a bodybuilder, but it is more natural and more beautiful like the golden ratio. It is not difficult to imagine that anyone wearing it can visually become a very impactful muscular man.
"Walker, give me a hand and put on my hat. I want to try on the visor."
Pushing the door open, Zhou Ji was greeting Walker.
"Oh well."
Walker responded and casually lifted the hat behind the neck of his black combat uniform.
It was a hood made of the same material that covered the entire head including the cheeks.
At the same time, it seems to be filled with some frames that are not so easy to deform, so it can stand up easily after being put on, and it is not as loose as the fabric hoods of sweatshirts and other clothing.
This was also something Xia Xu specifically requested to add. One reason was to take into account the possibility of needing to cover the face, and the other was to provide head protection.
The hood is also filled with graphene and a layer of carbon sponge, with a carbon fiber frame in the middle. When put on, it can block most of the power even if it is a headshot from a sniper rifle.
Of course, there is another function, which is to fix the visor.
A literal face guard.
The whole body is silvery white, and the overall shape is a not-so-large V-shape.
This design is based on a relatively advanced type of knight armor from ancient Western times.
The V-shaped visor is the best in facial protection among all armors. Stabbing attacks such as spears will be slid aside due to this structure, and chopping is not effective against this structure and metal material.
However, this visor is certainly not as exaggerated as a real knight's helmet. The bulge is relatively small. In addition to providing slight protection and covering the face, its more important purpose is to provide visual assistance.
There is also a 'V' between the eyes and the nose of the visor. It is a dark red eyepiece that occupies a small half of the visor and is enough to cover most of the visual range.
Just look at the dark red display lens and you will know that it is essentially similar to smart glasses. A system equipped with smart glasses can call upon a variety of visual enhancement functions such as night vision and motion tracking, and can also call upon brain wave control programs.
"Brother Xu, you're back just in time. The mask has been assembled, but the system hasn't been installed yet."
Noticing Xia Xu, Zhou Ji stopped putting the mask on the puppet model.
"Okay, I'll take it over to Youxin and the others to install and test it. You guys can eat first."
Xia Xu nodded slightly, took the mask in his hand, and looked up at the puppet model: "The progress is quite fast, it's almost done."
Zhou Ji nodded: "Well, the rest is basically fine-tuning and testing. The force-conducting veins and bionic muscles require a lot of actual testing and fine-tuning. I suggest that it is best to conduct a vehicle impact test. I don't know if Lu Dong's wind-breaking technology is reliable, so it needs actual testing..."
"If I say it's reliable, it's definitely reliable. Let me tell you, my black technology will win all the running awards in the Olympics in a few minutes. It's just like the shark skin swimsuit, which is banned in the Olympics."
Lu Dong retorted dissatisfiedly.
Under the hands of a group of passionate talents, the production of graphene combat suits is not only progressing rapidly, but there are also many creative ideas and little surprises during the process.
For example, Lu Dong, who has three stars in mechanical engineering and four stars in aerodynamics, designed a windbreaker inspired by shark skin swimsuits during the design of combat uniforms.
The shark skin swimsuit is a high-tech swimsuit that was once banned from the Olympics.
Shark's skin has a special texture that can reduce friction with water. This swimsuit is made to imitate shark skin, so it can enhance swimming speed. It is not too exaggerated, but for competitive events with little difference between each other, it is tantamount to using cheats.
The technology used to create the windbreaker developed by Lu Dong is very similar. It uses the texture structure of the clothes to guide air flow and reduce air resistance, thereby increasing running speed to a certain extent.
There are many little surprises like this.
For example, Zhang Meng proposed arranging graphene sponges to mimic muscle structure.
This can not only protect the whole body but also move in sync with the muscles, using the elasticity of the graphene sponge to accumulate mechanical energy. Whether it is punching or raising your legs, it can add extra strength and reduce muscle pressure when bearing weight.
For example, Jiang Yuanyuan proposed using a pseudo-vacuum method for quick donning.
Normally, even putting on socks and gloves is quite troublesome, and this kind of tight clothing is even more troublesome. However, if you place it in a low-pressure pseudo-vacuum environment, the whole set of clothes will automatically bulge up, and you can easily put on the clothes through the hole left outside.
There are countless creative ideas and small details like this. The large number of wonderful ideas generated by everyone's brainstorming finally created the current graphene combat suit, or graphene passive exoskeleton.