Song Ren was surprised to find that the other party had recognized the wrong person. In Pangu's video, he also appeared in the camera at the end.
But maybe the camera wasn't close enough to capture his close-up; or maybe everyone's attention was on the mecha at the time, and no one noticed that it was him who stepped forward to save people.
Later, Cui Yan quickly intercepted all the videos, and Pangu’s people had no way to watch them again. It was normal that they couldn’t recognize him based on the little memory they had at the time.
He remained calm and silent, looking at Xie Bisheng.
Xie Bisheng, of course, preferred to obscure Lin Fan's presence and smiled faintly at Song Ren. Song Ren immediately knew what to do.
"I'm fine. I suffered some minor injuries, but I'm much better now." Song Ren didn't say whether he was or not, but directly answered the other party's question.
Of course, I can't tell the whole truth. It's impossible to say that I wasn't hurt after falling from such a height.
Telling a little lie can both appease the other person and prevent subsequent problems.
"Oh, that's good, that's good." As he expected, the chief engineer did not ask any further questions.
He saw the eye contact between Xie Bisheng and Song Ren, guessing it was something confidential, and smiled knowingly. After a few more pleasantries, he went about his business.
The staff soon found out that the tall man carrying the equipment box was the driver who rescued Pangu last time.
"That's the captain and instructor of our reserve team. He's extremely powerful..." Pangu driver was naturally very familiar with Song Ren, and praised him to others.
So Song Ren's identity was confirmed...
When everyone's eyes were focused on Song Ren, Li Chunhua was looking at Pangu intently.
"It's so big..." He whispered as he got closer to Lin Fan.
In other words, Lin Fan's social distance has become smaller now, otherwise only Song Ren can hear his muttering.
In the vast space, the most eye-catching thing is naturally Pangu, followed by the huge scaffolding-like equipment platforms built around Pangu. Workers are busy working on these platforms.
But now, most of them stopped what they were doing and leaned over the railings to watch Song Ren.
Pangu stood quietly not far ahead. Even from Lin Fan's height, he could only clearly see Pangu's feet. At a height of over seventy meters, more than twenty stories high, the higher one went, the harder it was to see clearly.
Lin Fan saw Pangu up close for the first time. Compared to the shock he felt the previous time, he felt as if something was missing...
Jin Sichen, on the other hand, was the opposite of her and felt a lot of emotion...
Before meeting Pangu, he, like all ordinary people, thought that the space station being built in outer space was the highest level of technological development.
After meeting Pangu, he realized that he seemed to be wrong. The technological strength displayed by 800 far exceeded the current level of public awareness.
Today, when he arrived at the underground fortress, he witnessed a variety of high-tech products that were beyond the public's imagination and had long been in regular use here. This discovery once again demonstrated that the outside world's positioning of the 800 was wrong.
Do you think what you see is all?
No!
You only see what they let you see.
800's true technological strength is far greater than what he shows!
After seeing everything in the underground fortress, you will no longer be amazed by the various virtual high-tech in science fiction movies. Here, those have become commonplace and ordinary things.
Jin Sichen had seen all kinds of strange people and things in the special affairs office, and at this moment he had to admit that he was not very knowledgeable.
Think about the first day you passed by the flight base and saw the row of brand new fighter jets on the tarmac.
At first glance, none of them looked familiar. He had assumed it was because he had little knowledge of military equipment that he couldn't identify the various fighter models. But now he thought, those might all be new models that had been developed...
800 is hidden so deeply!
The level of technological development is obviously so advanced, why is it hidden?
Several guesses flashed through Jin Sichen's mind.
"Tsk!" He chuckled and gasped.
He was wondering how a 800-year-old outsider like him could be brought into such a confidential place so easily.
Humph! Accompanying Lin Fan was secondary. Xie Bisheng was taking this opportunity to show him 800's strength.
The power of technology...
What a pity... He signed a confidentiality agreement and can't say anything.
I can’t say…
"Let's go up and take a look?" Xie Bisheng saw that Jin Sichen was staring at Pangu and seemed very interested, so he politely invited him.
Jin Sichen frowned as he looked at the towering equipment platforms. He asked Lin Fan, "Do you want to go up and take a look?"
"Go, go, go!" Li Chunhua was afraid that Lin Fan would not agree, so she kept repeating it.
This little Li... Lin Fan had no choice but to go along with him. She had recently gotten used to Li Chunhua's smiling face and didn't want to be glared at by him again.
She nodded.
Li Chunhua jumped up with joy, clenched his fists and made a successful gesture. Then he quickly reacted, straightened his expression, and walked seriously.
Song Ren quickly glanced at Xie Bisheng and saw that he didn't notice and was concentrating on leading the way, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Has Li Chunhua been a little too cocky lately? He needs a good scolding tonight.
Xie Bisheng took the four people into the elevator.
As it ascended, Pangu gradually appeared before them, from its toes to its head. Like a slow-motion movie, it was a feast for Li Chunhua's eyes.
The elevator stopped at Pangu's head.
"Come, I'll take you to the driver's cab for a look." Xie Bisheng always smiled easily when facing Lin Fan, just like an amiable elder.
"Thank you, Deputy Chief."
"Thank you, Deputy."
…
The staff on this floor greeted Xie Bisheng one after another, stealing glances at Song Ren.
Xie Bisheng nodded all the way, Jin Sichen smiled, Lin Fan didn't care, Song Ren didn't look away, and Li Chunhua was overwhelmed.
Several people walked quickly to the back of Pangu's head. There was a door leading to the driver's cabin.
After taking a few steps inside, there were several staff members in the cab. When they saw Xie Bisheng coming in, they all stood up and greeted him.
"You guys are busy, we will leave soon." Xie Bisheng comforted him.
"Not busy, not busy, we can come in later." Although the staff didn't know why Xie Bisheng came, it was obviously better for them to avoid him, so they quickly retreated.
"Come and take a look. This is what Pangu's cab looks like." Xie Bisheng proudly showed it to the others.
The cab is large and is equipped with many advanced electronic devices.
"There are three doors..." Li Chunhua noticed that there were several thick metal doors at the entrance.
"Yes, it has three layers of protection, and there's an escape hatch on the top." Xie Bisheng pointed to the top of the cab. "The driver can be encased in the escape pod and eject from there."
The four of them looked up at the same time.
There was a spiral circular pattern on the top, which might be the location of the escape hatch. Three pipes hung down from the circle, connected to something like a hanging chair, and many other pipes hung down from the side of the hanging chair.
"This is the driver's seat." Xie Bisheng pointed to the hanging chair-like thing and introduced it.
Li Chunhua ran over to take a look and found that it was indeed a half-hanging suspended chair, a bit like the swings that children sit on in the park.
"Why is it a suspended seat?" Li Chunhua asked puzzledly, "How do you control it?"
In the past, mechanical controls were all performed by pressing buttons or joysticks while sitting in a seat.
"Pangu uses the latest intelligent control system, which combines commands with real-life movements. The driver wears special clothing connected to these circuits, and when he moves his body, Pangu will make corresponding movements."
Xie Bisheng looked at the seat proudly. "The seat only serves to fix the core, restricting the driver to the absolute driving position and ensuring that he does not fall out of the driving area when his center of gravity changes."
It was used to hold the driver in place, and the upper and lower spaces were for the driver to move his hands and feet more freely. Lin Fan understood this for himself.
"This is also an escape pod, right?" Song Ren guessed after taking a few glances.
"Yes, it's an escape pod, and the wires on it are connected around the escape hatch. Once a dangerous situation occurs, the seat will pop out of the escape pod, wrapping around the driver, and these wires will become guide rails. The three wires on the seat will simultaneously exert an ejection force to shoot the escape pod out." Xie Bisheng knew that he couldn't hide it from Song Ren, after all, he almost became a Pangu driver at that time.
Jin Sichen nodded, thinking the same thing as he did.
Li Chunhua nodded in confusion. "Has the current control system already achieved this level of mimicry?"
"It's already possible, but it's not perfect yet. We're still adjusting and improving it," Xie Bisheng said frankly. "There's still a lot of room for debugging the system and controls. The last accident was the biggest lesson."
The Pangu Cave nearly suffered a tragic accident during its first test run. All the staff at the Pangu Cave took this as a lesson and continued to improve and debug the machine.
"Scientific development is always unavoidable and will inevitably lead to failures. We can only do our best to reduce the probability of failure." Xie Bisheng sighed, "If it weren't for Lin last time..."
When he mentioned Lin Fan, he looked around and found her standing in front of the window without saying a word.
Xie Bisheng walked over and asked, "What are you looking at?"
"This place is different from what I thought." Lin Fan was confused.
Pangu's eye, or transparent window, is a rectangular curved surface with a wide angle of nearly 140 degrees, occupying a considerable area in the spacious cockpit.
She originally thought that the transparent window should be as clear as glass, allowing her to directly see the scenery outside, but she didn't expect it to be gray and hazy with tiny granular patterns on it.
Looking out from the inside, there was nothing to see except a blur of light and shadows. The huge window had no other function except to let in a little light from outside.
"Haha, did you think this place was filled with glass?" Xie Bisheng laughed, "Ordinary tempered glass can't be used here."
He didn't know where he pressed the button, but the dim screen suddenly brightened up, a circle of red light appeared on the edge, and the blurry light and shadow became clear, and the busy staff outside suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
There was a lot of incomprehensible data scrolling around the screen, and there were also some magnified images from various angles on both sides.
"Deputy Chief Xie, did you activate the window?" a voice came from outside.
It turns out that once the window is activated, Pangu's eyes will turn red. The staff outside noticed it immediately and hurriedly called out to confirm it.
"Yes, I will turn it off later." Xie Bisheng's response reassured the staff who came in to check.
"Just leave it open, no need to close it. We were planning to open the window to collect data later, and now is a good time." The other party said with a smile and quickly retreated.
He quickly appeared in the side window, returned to the control position not far away, and started working with other colleagues.
"This isn't glass. It's made of a special material... Well, you can think of it as a display screen," Xie Bisheng explained in general terms. "It only displays images when it's turned on. Otherwise, it'll look just like what you just saw."
He did not elaborate on the details.
Confidentiality was a must, of course. But even if it wasn't, these people might not understand the technical terms he used.
"These data..." Li Chunhua wanted to ask curiously, but felt it was inappropriate, so she quickly stopped talking.
Xie Bisheng said nonchalantly, "It's program instructions, and some data. If the pilot gets on board, his body data will also be displayed on it. The screen content is synchronized with the large screen in the control room. We can see these in the control room. It helps the pilot control the mecha."
"Can it be controlled from the backend?" Jin Sichen asked. A mecha that can be controlled from the backend would be a drone mecha, right?
"The backend can be controlled, but its flexibility and maneuverability are not as good as the driver's own control. In addition, there are some problems with remote control, such as signal stability and transmission delay. Therefore, backend control is only a supplementary means, and normally it is controlled by the driver himself." Xie Bisheng replied seriously.
Jin Sichen nodded. Seeing that Lin Fan had been staring outside for a long time without moving, he followed her gaze and looked down.
On the ground, tiny figures like worker ants kept shuttling back and forth, busy at work.
Just as he was about to ask, he heard a faint sigh from Lin Fan:
“Humans…are so insignificant…”
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