At the turn of August and September, it was not autumn, but the rain in the port city was drizzling down, washing away the summer heat and calming the smell of Lichen. When the cold wind from the north blew, the air began to cool and clean. A little bit more autumnal.
Standing on the platform of the building in the industrial park, Xu Le squinted at Mengmeng Qiuyu's blurred vision of the city that looked like a watercolor painting. He raised his hand subconsciously and took a puff of a Sanqi brand cigarette. The cigarette entered his throat and lungs. Some spicy, and a little sweet, just like his mood at this time.
Yesterday afternoon, in the prosperous city of Hong Kong, the running mates of Governor Ross and Medellin Congressman held a powerful campaign. The people who came to participate were not afraid of the autumn rain, and the number reached two Hundreds of thousands, just on that campaign event, Dean Lin of the Federal Academy of Sciences finally stood at the forefront. In his decades of academic career, for the first time in his academic career, he expressed his views on politics and called on the voters of the Federation. Support Ross and Medellin.
Xu Le basically didn't remember what reason the Academy's Dean Lin used. It was probably because he yearned for peace. Every contribution he made to the Federation was to resist the aggression of the Empire and unite the people of the Federation. , and Governor Ross and the Medellin Congressman are exactly what he considers credible presidential candidates, and so on.
For the first time, the Federal Academy of Sciences, which has a detached status in the hearts of federal citizens, expressed its opinion on the presidential election. In fact, not many people care about whether this is in line with the federal election law, because it is impossible for Senator Pabble to file a constitutional lawsuit at this time. The key is that this effect has already come out. After the Academy of Sciences announced that the MX mecha was successfully developed , his status in the hearts of the federal people has gone further. The bias announced by President Lin has a great impact on the psychology of voters. According to the latest federal TV poll, Ross Medellin partnered for the first time. He surpassed MP Pabble in the polls.
The autumn color is a sadness. Xu Le squinted at the sudden and desolate autumn scenery, but he did not have much sadness in his heart. He just thought that the presidential election had come, and Shi Qinghai handed it over to Secretary Shen through his own hands. Why haven't those things been revealed yet? Could it be that Mrs. Tai's side is so confident in Congressman Pable that she disdains to use these methods
In a sense, Shi Qinghai and Xu Le are just small people, but these two small people are constantly trying to do some big things. Xu Le didn't know whether he could succeed. He only knew that if a person like the Medellin Congressman stood at the top of federal power, this already corrupt federation would become even more unacceptable.
Putting the cigarette between two fingers to his lips, he took a deep breath again, and he asked softly, "The result hasn't come out yet?"
Shang Qiu was wearing a gray overalls, and stood quietly beside him, looking at something under the sky platform. There were still some drops of rainwater on the pair of huge glasses. Hearing this sentence, she knew that the young man beside her was not as calm as she seemed, and lowered her head and replied, "We have already done what we should do. Whether the final debugging test can pass or not depends on God's arrangement. ."
Since the video call that day, the engineers of the Nutshell Engineering Department knew the true origin of the mysterious technical team in the spare warehouse because of the need for confidentiality. They were shocked that there was actually only one person in the group, and Engineer Shang Qiu went directly to the spare warehouse and began to work with Xu Le.
I don't know what Xu Le and Shang Qiu said. This talented female engineer never asked about the wrong core data. Maybe she knew the truth of the matter, so the new model of the Federal Academy of Sciences was named Zihai. The secret in MX, no one knows except the two of them.
They are all engineers from Ye Luzi with extraordinary talents. The communication between Xu Le and Shang Qiu has been particularly smooth from the beginning. No matter what ideas he proposes, this female engineer seems to be able to use it. The Federation's existing technical capabilities can find a way to realize this idea, and every time Shang Qiu proposes a vague idea, Xu Le can also rely on what he has learned, the ideas taught by his uncle, and the nebula-like structural drawings in his mind. , give her some inspiration.
This kind of tacit understanding has reached the extreme level of cooperation. In fact, it started a long time ago when the two of them had never met. Shang Qiu has been in charge of the finalization of the MX mecha. Xu Le is underground in the engineering department these days, mainly to cooperate with this girl, but he didn't know this at the beginning, and Shang Qiu didn't think that the spare The technical support unit in the warehouse turned out to be a guy younger than himself.
The air on the rooftop was a little cold, Shang Qiu tightened his overalls, and put his hands around his chest, but squeezed the dizzying Bai Nen even more exaggeratedly. Xu Le has long been used to the figure of this female engineer, and is no longer as nervous and stunned as before. After being stunned, he handed her a cigarette and said, "I can't be as calm as you."
"I'm pretending."
Shang Qiu came to him and lit a cigarette, the reddish cigarette butt trembled in the autumn wind, she exhaled the smoke a little jerky, coughed twice and said, "After graduating from Capital University, I joined the engineering department, and all The first and last job I took over was the MX mecha, and I actually only did this one thing in my life, and today I can know if this thing can be done successfully, of course I will be a little nervous.”
Xu Le glanced at her, took a deep breath of the cigarette, put the cigarette end in the water stains on the railing to extinguish, and said, "I'm also very nervous."
The profession of an engineer, unlike a battleship commander, remains a male-dominated world, depending on differences in thinking patterns and interest in metal machinery between the sexes. He thought that when Shang Qiu had just graduated from Capital University, he would be able to directly enter the core department to study MX mecha, and in just a few years, he had changed from an ordinary technician to a technical director today. Capability has been most fully demonstrated.
The federal government has given the Nutshell Engineering Department a week, and today is the last day. No matter how many ideas need to be tested and how much finishing work remains to be done by the hundreds of engineers in the Engineering Department, today must come up with a result. . In fact, when Xu Le and Shang Qiu were smoking on the rooftop, it was the time when officers from the General Assembly Base of the Ministry of National Defense came to the Engineering Department for joint inspection.
Success and failure can be determined in just a few hours. As Shang Qiu said before, what they were supposed to do had already been done, and it would be meaningless to stay in the warehouse, so they simply left the warehouse and came to the autumn scenery and autumn rain on the rooftop. It seems that the only way to get away from the tension and depression atmosphere of.
It's amazing to say that the engineering department's MX mecha is undergoing acceptance, and the two most important and critical engineers are hiding outside, not wanting or daring to pay attention to those things at all.
Almost at the same time, Mr. Jose's voice rang through the intercoms of Xu Le and Shang Qiu.
The two looked at each other, and from the other's eyes, they found that Mr. Jose's tone did not show any content. The young talented man and woman wiped the rain from their foreheads tacitly and walked silently towards the building.
When he reached the entrance of the building, Xu Le threw the damp cigarette butts into the trash can, Shang Qiu gave a slight pause, and did the same.
The two entered the spare warehouse along the passage.
In the past, the warehouse, which was unusually empty and quiet, with only the sound of the assembly line and the robotic arm, was extremely lively today, because many people came. Although those people were standing there at this time and did not whisper, Xu Le felt this atmosphere. Not fit at all.
He looked at the silver-white mecha on the platform in the distance, and squinted at the small-looking figures below the tall mecha.
The director of the General Assembly Base of the Ministry of Defense is here, the president of the Nutshell Mobile Company is here in person, and there are many technical personnel from the military and research institutes, all of whom are wearing dust-proof and radiation-proof work clothes, goggles and full equipment. It looks like warship maintenance personnel are walking in space, and they can't see each other's identity and status at all.
Xu Le looked at the test officers who covered their bodies, and couldn't help laughing at the scenes when they were smoking, eating lunch, and exercising in front of the MX mecha.
When he walked down the metal ladder, Secretary Bai and Major Lan Xiaolong quietly came behind him. One was his personal secretary and the other was a soldier who was ordered by the Ministry of Defense to protect his personal safety. Naturally, they would not leave. He is too far.
Major Lan Xiaolong looked at Shang Qiu beside Xu Le, raised his eyebrows, and showed a hint of ambiguous expression in his eyes, but Bai Yulan still had a calm and beautiful face, and lowered her head slightly.
Xu Le did not ask them what the result of the inspection was, because since Mr. Jose informed him, the result must be waiting ahead.
Xu Le and Shang Qiu walked towards the MX mecha, and the sound of footsteps was not loud, but it was particularly clear in the warehouse. The officials who were talking in front of the mecha turned around and looked at the young man and woman after hearing what Mr. Jose said. They seemed a little surprised.
The huge metal sound covered the footsteps of the two of them. The passage between the spare warehouse and the engineering department was completely opened, and the extremely thick and heavy alloy wall was moved to another place. The engineers who were still in the headquarters of the Engineering Department to cooperate with the acceptance work came over from there one after another and converged with the people in the warehouse.
With incomparably complicated emotions, these engineers glanced at the MX mecha that was already standing by the body structure, enjoying the feeling of being a parent for the first time, and then turned their attention to Xu Le and the approaching Shangqiu. These engineers knew very well that without these two young technicians, the engineering department's research and development of the MX mech would never have ended so quickly.
No one spoke, and the interior of the empty underground warehouse was silent. Suddenly, the skylight system above the warehouse turned on, and the simulated natural light fell on the platform.
Under the sky, the silver-white MX mecha stands on the platform, the firepower system on the left robotic arm is fully open, and the newly designed circulating main gun is silently and ruthlessly aiming at the sky. There are eye-catching streamlines flowing along the edge of the flying wings. It seems that the next moment, this new type of mecha, which has been condensed with more than ten years of effort by the Nutshell Motor Company, will move.
At this time, Xu Le and Shang Qiu were just before the platform. He looked at Mr. Jose and Zhou Yu, but forgot to shake hands with those big men.
Mr. Jose looked at the two young people in front of him with complicated eyes, and suddenly felt that he was the luckiest supervisor in the history of the Nutshell Company. He had just discovered the genius of Shang Qiu in the engineering department a few years ago, and the result was immediately after God. He brought Xu Le, a freak, to him.
He nodded slightly.
I don't know which engineer suddenly clapped his palm, and the applause sounded sparsely, just like the drizzle that had just started that night. The applause became louder and more urgent, as if The rain is getting bigger and roaring, washing away all the boredom in the world, leaving only a fresh and clean sky.
The thunderous applause resounded through the empty underground warehouse, and even the president and the director of the Ministry of National Defense General Assembly began to smile and applaud.
Countless eyes looked at Xu Le and Shang Qiu, and countless applause was given to them or themselves. The engineers were excited and thankful that they knew that the biggest contributor to the successful development of the MX mecha were these two young people.
Xu Le and Shang Qiu looked at each other, and then grinned like a child. The MX mecha developed by the engineering department passed the inspection and they succeeded.
The applause still refused to stop for a long time. The palms of some engineers were already red, so they simply started stomping their feet and booing. It seemed that Xu Le and Shang Qiu had to say something at this time. They were both technicians and gave their glory to them. As a young man, it is equivalent to giving yourself respect.
Xu Le looked around, his smile was a little silly, he awkwardly bowed his head in all directions and thanked him.
For the birth of the new generation mecha of the Federation, the Nutshell Motor Company has been conducting research since more than ten years ago. Even from an earlier time, scholars and experts have been working hard, and these engineers around have never stopped working. And some old experts have bid farewell to this world in such a long process.
Whenever Xu Le thought of this, he felt that the glory should be attributed to them, to those who were applauding. This was not hypocritical or hypocritical, but his real thoughts. He always thought that he had only solved the last problem, and then It's like building a tall building. The foundation and body of the building were built by predecessors. He just built the last floor of the house, but he had to enjoy the applause and respect of so many people. He was a little embarrassed.
"You are really amazing." Xu Le forcibly suppressed his inner excitement, looked at Shang Qiu beside him and said seriously, a young girl can actually complete the design of the dual-engine assembly, if you want to say the biggest contributor, It should be her beside her.
"I know I'm amazing at this."
Shang Qiu replied with a smile, but the two hands in his sleeves had already clenched their fists. Facing this scene, how could she not be excited when she devoted all her youth to this
Like Xu Le, she bowed and thanked the engineers around her. She still wore her gray overalls and saluted in all directions. When she lowered her head, she didn't know how many spring lake waves were exposed in front of everyone's eyes, but she was generous as if she had everything Do not know in general.
"Oh." Major Lan Xiaolong called out softly behind Xu Le.
The engineers began to whistle, and there was jubilation in the warehouse.
After Shang Qiu stood up, Xu Le whispered beside her, "Intentionally?"
"I'm the supervisor. I know how hard they have worked all these years. Since they are successful today, of course they will distribute some benefits." Shang Qiumei said with a smile, "You deserve the most credit, do you want me to give you big benefits?"
Xu Le subconsciously glanced at Shang Qiu's bulging chest, and quickly shook his head.
Shang Qiu laughed twice, leaned over, stood on tiptoe and kissed his face fiercely, with a crisp sound.
Xu Le touched his face, then scratched his head, knowing that this only meant happiness and nothing else. But in the eyes of the surrounding engineers, it was more than that, so the whistle became louder, and there were strange screams, and the atmosphere in the field suddenly reached a climax.
Magnolia, who had been bowing her head all the time, also raised her head at this moment. He smiled and gently lit a cigarette and took a breath.
He is a non-smoker, making exceptions only when he is emotionally disturbed. Amid the thunderous applause, he quietly thought to himself, when Xu Le finally designed the assembly with Shang Qiu, he, the test pilot, had done many tests, and could he be considered to have made some contributions to MX
Just at 4:32 pm that day, before the results of the joint inspection between the Ministry of Defense and the Nutshell Motor Company had been reported to the federation, a headline appeared on the federation's largest news bulletin board: "Department of Nutshell Engineering. The new MX mecha has been successfully developed!"
The largest news bulletin board in the federation is called the sky of the stars. Every day, countless federation citizens choose to view or publish real-time news here. It is divided into countless categories and divisions. Therefore, the refresh rate of the main news area is very fast, and there is only one headline. Immediately after being squeezed to a dozen pages, it did not attract much attention.
But then, someone reprinted the news on a microblog, pointing out that this afternoon the new MX mecha of the Nutshell Engineering Department has passed the joint acceptance of the Ministry of Defense and the company headquarters. Until this time, no one noticed the news, and at the same time, the previous title that had been sinking to the bottom was also re-turned.
The most discussed among the federal people today is the Zihai mecha of the Federal Academy of Sciences and the presidential election. The public's enthusiasm and cognition of mecha have been stimulated to an unprecedented level, so this news immediately attracted the attention of many people. , immediately make up the red top.
It's just that the people don't understand. The Federal Academy of Sciences has successfully developed it, so why continue with the fruit shell? There are George Carlinists who began to scold the federal government for information blocking, duplication of construction, and waste of resources provided by taxpayers. There are military enthusiasts who began to try to analyze the deep meaning of Nutshell's move, but they didn't read it. When it comes to pictures and videos, they don't know the big difference between the MX of the Nutshell and the Zihai of the Federal Academy of Sciences.
For a while, the discussion about the new mecha of Nutshell went on enthusiastically into the middle of the night, but the vast majority of people expressed their incomprehension of the matter, doubting or even accusing the intention of the Nutshell company. At this time, a post called the open letter of the Nutshell Engineer was put on the news bulletin board, like a boulder entering the water, causing a thousand waves.