Chapter 114: Did You See It Clearly?
“Regarding general energy research, I won’t force you to produce results in a short time, but I hope the other functions can be implemented as soon as possible.”
“I’ll get to work right away.”
“What I want is surveillance of the status inside and outside the entire train, such as damage to the train body, airtightness, temperature and pressure, acid rain corrosion level, water storage, oil volume, passenger numbers—these data should all be displayed on the information terminal, and updated in real time.”
Professor Ma felt some pressure, but after thinking for a moment, he still nodded.
Su Huan pinched his chin. “Now you can state your demands. Do you need permissions or materials?”
Professor Ma adjusted his somewhat ill-fitting glasses. Ever since his evolution, he felt his vision had recovered somewhat, but it was still blurry, so he could only make do with wearing them.
“First, I need a carriage for research.”
“No problem. Carriages 11 and 12 are both yours and your students’, right next to Yu Jing’s number 10. It’ll be convenient for any collaboration you need. Today you can notify the other crew members to move things to the rear.”
Seeing how generous Su Huan was, Professor Ma felt the pressure ease a bit. He was just afraid some leaders would demand results without providing support.
“Then I need some general energy crystals for research.”
“Not a large quantity, but no problem.”
“Tier 1 general energy crystals?”
“Those can work too, but I can only give you one.”
“A large number of electronic products, drones from the logistics center, exoskeletons, robots…”
Su Huan thought for a moment and said, “For drones, you can ask Xiao Lin from the crew. He’s the drone operator, and all the drones brought back from the logistics center are under his management. If you need hands-on operation, he can assist too.”
The drone operator and the doctor have the same surname, so to distinguish them, the carriages nicknamed them based on age: Big Lin and Xiao Lin.
The drone operator is a bit younger, so he became Xiao Lin.
Surprise appeared in Professor Ma’s eyes. “There’s even specialized talent. Good.”
“For exoskeletons and personnel transfers, just go directly to Yu Jing. She can handle most issues on the carriages.”
Professor Ma nodded in some surprise. He hadn’t expected that child to have such a surprisingly high status on the carriages.
Su Huan turned to leave, but suddenly stopped and instructed, “Don’t go to the rear carriage for no reason. If you really need to, call Old San and the others. Come to the dining car for dinner tonight.”
“Mm, good.”
……
While walking back, he mentally calculated the plan for the second phase of the armored train.
Last time he talked about so much, but the core was really just three major components.
Upgrade armor, information terminal, expand airtightness.
The others—like oxygen generators, bullet production lines, 3D printers…—were just filling in the details.
As for exoskeletons, they were already quite mature; they just needed modifications for acid rain and special situations.
Early on, they could give the firepower specialists more load for ammunition and increase marching speed.
Later, it would come down to evolution.
Right now, the most important thing was to improve the evolutionary degree of core members, like Xiao Ba, Yu Yue—these combat personnel should reach Tier 1 as soon as possible.
He Jie’s angry cursing from outside the carriage interrupted Su Huan’s contemplation.
The bare-chested leader was naturally He Jie, water dripping from his chest hair. Behind him, Old San Zhang Kai and the other three unfortunates wore raincoats and carried sandbags as they ran wildly.
For this period, Su Huan had handed all four of them over to He Jie.
From then on, they entered days of water and fire.
“Stop!”
The four stopped, and the physically weak Old Da couldn’t hold out, getting pinned to the ground by the sandbag.
“Only ten kilometers of loaded running and you’re done? On the battlefield later, are you going to rely on your brothers to carry you?!”
“Ah?!”
He Jie single-handedly lifted Old Da and the 300-pound sandbag, roaring as the acid rain splashed away.
Old Da barely stood up.
Nearby, Zhang Kai’s hand slipped, dropping the sandbag to the ground.
He Jie flew in with a kick, directly sending him into a puddle.
Zhang Kai, his skin burning from the acid rain, howled as he jumped out of the puddle. Before he could react, a big foot stomped on him, pressing him back into the puddle.
“You damn defender, what are you howling for?”
“The manufacturers have weak physical fitness, fine, but you, a defender, are putting on a bear show for me?!”
“Everyone, get down for push-ups!”
Old San and the others instantly shivered, ignoring the stinging acid rain as they dropped into the puddles.
“I’ll call it out. On ‘two,’ come up. If anyone dares come up early, you’ll lie in the water all day today!”
“One!”
After five or six seconds.
“Two!”
“One!”
He Jie frowned, walked to Old San’s side, and grinningly stomped on his raised butt.
“Bang!”
Splashing up a puddle of water.
“I said everyone down! Is your butt sticking up or your dick too long?!”
“All of you, lie flat! Make your posture standard.”
Seeing everyone lying flat, He Jie wiped the acid water from his face and boarded the carriage directly.
He ran right into Su Huan and casually explained, “Don’t worry, there’ll be burns, but no one will die. With their physical fitness, they’ll be fine by tomorrow, at worst just suffer a bit.”
Su Huan looked at the four outside the car window. “What do you think of their talent?”
He Jie scratched his head. “I can’t say for sure about evolution, but those three brothers make good soldiers. Zhang Kai’s no good, a softie. I like that Old San kid, he’s tough!”
Both men chuckled at the same time.
On the matter of grinding others down, it was rare on the train to find someone with the same tastes as him.
“By the way, how long do you think it will take the Steel Council to take Changli County?”
Hearing this, He Jie got serious. “At least ten days, at most twenty.”
Su Huan walked toward the front carriage. “About the same as I expected.”
He Jie followed. “How long do you estimate?”
“Half a month.”
After going through the chaos at the logistics center together, He Jie was basically on his ship now. Su Huan was too lazy to hide some thoughts from him.
“Right, did you give Xiao Ba class today?”
“I’m heading there now. I just don’t get why you want me to teach Xiao Ba such niche stuff like military theory and fortifications.”
“It’s related to his ability.”
“……”
The two chatted as they walked toward the front carriage.
Old San and the others bitterly holding on in the water.
‘Where’s two?’
‘I’m asking you, where’s two?!’
……
The two arrived at carriage 4.
Pushing open the door, a smell of disinfectant hit them. There were four people in the room total.
Xiao Ba’s wheelchair was nearby, controlling a small knife to peel a somewhat wrinkled apple.
No need to say, this was also from the logistics center.
The burly man lay on the bed like a mountain, wrapped up like a zongzi, with a sword shield hanging on the metal hook on the wall.
At the moment, Liang Kuan helplessly extended one hand.
Nearby, Yu Yue pointed to the needle just inserted and asked Lin Xia beside her, “Did you see clearly?”
The latter hugged a notebook and nodded nervously. “I saw clearly.”
Then Yu Yue pulled out the needle that had just been inserted, handed it to him, and said seriously, “Good, then you do it once.”
