Chapter 121: Surveillance Cameras Throughout The Train
General-purpose Exoskeleton: Scavenger-I type.
The full name was decided just like that.
Su Huan took down the hanging customized version, looked up and asked, “How do you wear it?”
Yu Jing pointed to her calf, “Actually, the best way is to use it skin-tight, so the exoskeleton fits the muscles better.”
“Is that why you don’t wear clothes?”
“You can wear clothes too, but it affects the feel. I plan to research a skin-tight combat suit to wear specifically inside the exoskeleton.”
“Like yoga pants or fitness clothes?”
“Pretty much.”
During the conversation, the Train Conductor was already stripped naked and ready.
Yu Jing squatted down and toggled something on the exoskeleton, then looked up with her clean little face and said, “You can inject energy first.”
Su Huan raised an eyebrow, and the general energy conversion current quickly poured into the exoskeleton under his feet, “Like this?”
Before the words finished, the armor plate-like thing on the exoskeleton’s foot surface quickly opened to both sides, revealing the black shoe sole. At Yu Jing’s indication, he stepped on it, then the foot surface made a slight friction sound, the armor plate automatically began to close, covering the entire foot back up to the ankle.
Yu Jing explained, “The shoes are fully sealed. The armor plate material uses Qing Steel. If energy is injected, it will automatically open and close according to your intent. Without energy, it can only be operated manually.”
Su Huan found it interesting and manipulated it a few times, “Can’t this armor plate cover the whole body?”
“Not yet, the technology isn’t there.”
Yu Jing tied the zip ties on the waist and legs, and Su Huan instantly felt the difference.
It was like having an extra set of bones all over his body. Even if he did nothing and just stood there, he could feel a force supporting him.
“Will it be corroded by acid rain?”
“We’ve already considered that. The metal surface has a coating film, and the joints use Tier 1 material Butcher gelatin for lubrication, so it won’t be eroded by acid rain in the short term.”
Su Huan moved his body simply, then quickly punched forward.
A satisfied expression appeared on his face; there was no pulling sensation as he had imagined.
The exoskeleton on his arm quickly matched his movements.
Then came a series of tactical movements like running, jumping, and rolling.
Su Huan went through all the movements he could think of. If not for the occasional crisp clanging of the exoskeleton colliding with parts on the ground, he would hardly feel any hindrance.
Flexible to an astonishing degree.
Moreover, due to the special material of the bionic suction cups on the feet, he didn’t need to deliberately slow his steps, and walking made no sound.
“You can try wall walking. Remember to keep the energy supply steady.”
Yu Jing reminded from the side.
Su Huan walked straight toward the wall. His two feet were like octopus tentacles, adsorbing firmly the moment they stepped on it, and the whole person walked on the ninety-degree wall surface.
As long as the energy transmission was kept stable, even if he struggled more violently, he wouldn’t fall.
As for the former, it was no issue for Su Huan at all; he could stably supply energy to various equipment even in battle.
Walking down the carriage wall, Su Huan didn’t hide his admiration for the exoskeleton.
He simply put his clothes on over it and didn’t take it off.
Before leaving, he instructed Yu Jing to make several more as soon as possible.
Then he headed to Carriage 11.
While walking, he was still thinking about how many points to price this thing at.
At the rate Jiang Rong and Lu Xiao earned points, a hundred points was a bit cheap; over a thousand and they definitely wouldn’t try it. Probably setting it at four or five hundred per unit should be fine.
It was at a level they could reach if they jumped a little.
It could briefly harvest some points from their hands while ensuring the value of points and not discouraging their enthusiasm for earning points.
Moreover, subsequent maintenance and modifications were all long-term business.
The carriage bridge between Carriage 10 and 11 was piled with a large amount of miscellaneous items: various circuit boards, hard drives, monitors, and wires and equipment Su Huan couldn’t recognize.
This was pure chaos.
Frowning and bypassing these tripping hazards, Su Huan pushed the door into Carriage 11, and everything he saw made his brow twitch.
This group of students hadn’t learned a bit of Professor Ma’s elegance, or rather, Professor Ma’s elegance didn’t involve work.
This time he really felt like he had entered a space station.
The partitions on both sides had all been removed and replaced with a lot of equipment he didn’t understand, like a miniature building. Fans made buzzing noises, dense wires crisscrossed above, looking like the ball of yarn his grandmother used to knit sweaters, operating in a pattern he didn’t understand.
Three students were squatting there, continuing to add things to this tangle of complex wires.
Hearing the footsteps, they turned and greeted Su Huan.
“Professor Ma is inside, right?”
“Yes, Teacher is over in the monitoring room.”
Su Huan continued forward. The walls had many small cabinets mounted, along with various zip ties for bundling, and indicator lights suddenly flashed.
Another student hurried over, grabbed a notebook hanging from a bracket above, and operated it.
The knowledgeable Train Conductor glanced at it.
Hmm, couldn’t understand it.
But he was satisfied with this feeling. Passing through the crisscrossing equipment and looking at the dazzling monitor interfaces gave him a strange sense of security.
It was a sense of security wrapped in civilization, steel, and information.
Carriage 12 was completely connected to Carriage 11, and the door in between no longer served as a partition. The room was divided into several large and small workbenches, with Professor Ma’s workbench right in the center.
Seeing him approach, the old man stood up and walked over a few steps, smiling mildly, “We made some progress a few days ago, but I wasn’t sure if showing it would meet your requirements. These past few days I’ve been tinkering and added some more things.”
“Mm, I’m looking forward to it too.”
Su Huan was a bit serious. If the steel train was a body, then the terminal system Professor Ma built was the train’s nerves and sensory organs.
With this system, he could truly interact with the external environment.
And extend his tentacles to every aspect of the train.
If he didn’t understand it, how could he control the train?
In the center of the desk was a huge screen, but not the one from the information center. Surrounding it were over a dozen screens of various models; Su Huan even saw the tablet he used last time to look at the map among them.
He didn’t know how they connected them.
“This is the full train surveillance part. Compared to the database and artificial intelligence, this is easier to make and more intuitive.”
After a simple introduction, Professor Ma gave Xiao Zhao a look.
The young man smoothly pressed a few keys on the keyboard, and all the data on the screens suddenly disappeared, changing to a unified image.
Su Huan saw the content on it clearly, and his eyes lit up.
The center screen clearly showed the workers busy on top of Carriage 7.
Though their figures were somewhat blurred by the rain, Su Huan could still clearly see Huang Hai exchanging something with Wang He, their expressions visible.
Perhaps hearing the sound, everyone looked up, and their shocked faces were all captured in Su Huan’s eyes without missing a bit.
The other dozen or so screens each showed different views: some dozens of meters on the side of the train body, overlooking through the rain curtain this steel giant beast crouching on the steel rail.
Some in front of the driver’s cabin, peering into the internal space through the explosion-proof net and new glass.
Others from the train body’s perspective, looking toward the buildings on left and right.
One of the screens seemed locked on something, with a red box flashing on it.
Xiao Zhao explained, “A selection box means the drone captured a moving object. Green box is humans; if it can’t distinguish, it’s all red box. The current recognition system can only judge based on existing data, with a high error rate for mutated beasts. We’re working on improvements.”
“Like this flashing red box, it should be a zombie in the building that we captured.”
A flash of curiosity in Su Huan’s eyes, “How did you manage to launch drones without losing signal? Has general energy tech broken through?”
Xiao Zhao awkwardly glanced at her teacher, and under the encouraging gaze, said honestly, “Actually, the general energy issue isn’t solved. I just thought of a clever workaround: using wired drones for connection.”
Su Huan realized, “So these drones all have wires trailing behind them?”
“Yes, this not only stably transmits the image but also sends energy, ensuring long-term hovering. The only drawback is it limits their flight distance. The farthest drone flies only about three hundred meters high, which is the main screen in the center.”
Accompanying Xiao Zhao’s explanation, the drone gradually ascended, and the height in the bottom left of the screen reached 300m and stopped.
The steel train in the image became a long line, with workers like tiny ants.
Xiao Zhao picked up the tablet on the desk, tapped a few times, connected the charging port to a data cable, and handed it to Su Huan.
“Train Conductor, please look. It shows our current position and the surrounding map.”
“Map?”
“We searched over ten thousand electronic devices on the train and finally pieced together this electronic map, then added some parameters. Places our drones have flown over are lit up, surrounding areas are gray, and places with zombies or supplies are marked.”
“How many drones in total, and how are they placed?”
“A total of forty-four drones, one per carriage, with three super long-line ones: the main screen one, plus the front and rear of the train. Currently, drones are placed indoors. We’re thinking of opening fixed flight cabins on the carriage tops specifically for placing and replacing damaged drones.”
“Flight cabin design is fine. If you have ideas, you can start implementing today. Where are the drone footage currently stored, and how many days can it save?”
“All drone footage is stored in the database. Because 4K footage is too large, only the three main cameras are 4K; the rest are standard 1080p high-definition…”
Professor Ma nodded with a smile on the side.
Clearly, he wanted his student to show off more in front of Su Huan.
