Senior executives from all over the world are holding emergency meetings, and even China held a meeting.
The sinking of the aircraft carrier fleet by the Zerg had a great impact. It proved that mankind's most advanced military weapons are still difficult to fight against the Zerg!
It also declares that the ocean is no longer a place where human ships can travel unimpeded. The whole world needs to re-explore safer routes!
Although no one wants to announce this news, such things cannot be covered up, and some gossip has spread.
In response to this incident, Dengguo held a press conference.
Baiying announced: "We have explored the Mariana Trench and achieved some results. At the same time, we also lost several ships."
"The Zerg do have the ability to threaten humans, so we have decided that from now on, the Lantern Kingdom will enter a state of emergency!"
"We will explore all the surrounding sea areas and carry out large-scale hunting of mutant creatures! We will establish a coastal defense system and a budget of trillions of dollars is in the process of approval!"
They did not say that it was the aircraft carrier fleet that was sunk this time, nor did they say that the deep-sea monster was resistant to hydrogen bombs!
Because they know very well that if this matter is announced now, the people will not only feel panic, but despair!
By then, let alone organizational defense, even the interior will be in chaos!
Other places have also maintained a tacit agreement on this matter.
Even He Xingzhou did not deliberately tell the truth. The current situation has already made everyone feel a strong sense of crisis. If the pressure is too strong, some people will be crushed!
Even so, the news of the White Eagle Fleet's defeat in front of the Zerg still shocked the world!
On international social media, netizens speculated:
"Our ships actually suffered losses? Can the Zerg destroy the warships?"
"It's terrible. I heard rumors that even the aircraft carrier was sunk by the Zerg!"
"How is it possible? The aircraft carrier will be sunk? The aircraft carrier has nuclear bombs and fighter groups!"
"No matter what, these guys have threatened us and we must eliminate them!"
"The world crisis is really coming!" The entire international stock market was dark green.
On that day, the stock markets in almost all places shut down! The stock market has stopped trading!
"The fleet has been sunk!" In the residence, biologist Barry with a bandage on his head saw the news.
"Dad, have you seen the news? You are right, the Zerg can really threaten mankind! They slandered you!" A call came from Barry's daughter Mapel, who is in her forties. , married and has two sons.
Barry's wife died young, and his daughter and two grandchildren were his few relatives. Previously, in order not to involve his daughter in his affairs, he rarely contacted Mapel.
Mapel was in a high mood and said: "They are unfair to you. You should come back and restore your reputation! Lead us to resist the Zerg!"
"No, it's useless!" Barry's mood was low, and he sighed, "It's too late!"
"Three years ago, I asked them to prepare, but no one listened to me. They all said I was crazy!"
"Now they realize that the Zerg can threaten humans! It's too late, it's too late!"
"Did you know? They only said that the ship was destroyed. I guess they must have used nuclear weapons. They still did not defeat the Zerg!"
"With human technology, it is impossible to defeat the Zerg! They evolve faster, Mapel, listen to me, you should quickly find a way to escape..."
"Dad, you are too pessimistic!" Mapel said, "They are still in the ocean, and we have to continue to live."
"But I plan to join the protest march and let them come up with measures to face the Zerg!"
"Listen to me, don't go, it's too chaotic now!" Barry discouraged.
"Okay, Dad, please pay attention to your health. We are going to prepare survival supplies now." Mapel hung up the phone.
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Sakura Island, after Baiying declared a state of emergency, they immediately announced to the entire island that Sakura Island would also enter the highest level of emergency.
One member stood up and admitted that the mutant creatures were real and that the Zerg were a threat to humans. He bowed, apologized, and resigned.
People were extremely angry and criticized him overwhelmingly. Some people even shouted that these guys who failed to respond should be shot!
A large number of people took to the streets, demanding immediate measures to deal with the Zerg and protect the safety of Sakura Island.
On the same day, the resigned member was found committing suicide at home. At the same time, there were some other people who also chose to leave this world with him on this day.
Angry to anger, the mutant creatures must be captured immediately. They sent a large number of ships and even fishing boats out to sea to hunt the mutant creatures.
At the same time, a large number of detectors are released in the surrounding sea areas to detect whether there are insect nests.
Other places are doing similar things. For a time, the deep-sea detector actually became the most in-demand product, and people everywhere couldn't get enough of it.
In addition, in supermarkets in White Eagle, Maple Leaf, Hans, John, Kangaroo and other places, people lined up to buy food, water, medicine and toilet paper.
In front of the gun store, a large number of people buy guns and ammunition to prepare for disaster.
In Times Square, merchants rented out advertising screens to promote: "Privately customized doomsday bunkers to ensure your safety! We also have doomsday weapon packages, doomsday survival packages, and biohazard packages..."
The service was so popular that wealthy people rushed to buy it. As capitalists, they were better informed.
Even some giants have learned about the sinking of the aircraft carrier fleet.
They began to build doomsday bunkers, purchase weapons and ammunition, and form a security team...
Some people began to take to the streets, preaching about the end of the world and various gods, and also gained a large number of fans.
Not only society, but also countries have begun to compete for resources.
Various ships, trains, and planes transporting ore, oil, and food travel around the world. Some places even directly dispatch military transport aircraft to assist with transportation!
The era of chaos has begun!
Fortunately, China has been preparing for three years, so it has not been greatly affected by these fluctuations.
Netizens in China are also discussing this matter.
"Have you heard? White Eagle's went to have a fight with the Zerg, and several ships sank!"
"The Zerg are too scary! Their maritime strength is now the best in the world, but they didn't win?"
"No wonder we want to build the Great Steel Wall. If these guys land, we can't even think about it!"
"Except for the Mariana Trench, are there any bugs in our waters?"
"We acted early, we should have detected everything, right?"
"Don't panic, follow the command! I have been paying attention to He Xingzhou's account, and he has not posted any updates recently, which proves that the problem is not serious."
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He Xingzhou did not post anything, because he had to pay attention to the research, discovery and countermeasures against Zerg in various places, and he also had to study robotic arms and mechanical exoskeletons, so he was very busy.
At this time, He Xingzhou was testing a medium-sized robotic arm at the National Institute of Mechanical Science.
In front of him is an industrial robotic arm with a total length of 48 meters.
40 meters of it is the main arm, which is like the huge mechanical main arm of a crane. It is mainly used to telescope, extend, rotate 360 degrees horizontally, and extend upward.
The main arm is mainly responsible for lifting, rotating, load-bearing and other functions.
The eight-meter-long jib is responsible for the main work function.
Beside He Xingzhou, Lu Jianye and Zheng Yan, an academician of the Academy of Engineering and the deputy chief engineer of the robotic arm research and design team, were talking about their results.
"After we received the design drawings from Mr. He, we started working overnight to study and improve the plan. With the cooperation of the manufacturing team, we manufactured this medium-sized robotic arm in the shortest time." Zheng Yan raised his head and looked at this with appreciation. Made of steel.
Different from the bulky two-stage structure of the crane's robotic arm, this robotic arm, although it is also divided into a main arm and a auxiliary arm, is multi-stage.
If you look closely, each arm is actually composed of sections, similar to the body structure of a Pipi shrimp.
In the past, due to reasons such as materials, design, power, and manufacturing, the design of the robotic arm simply did not work.
And now, after three years of improvements in industrial standards, such a design has become possible!
Therefore, the multi-section design allows the main arm and jib to rotate in all directions and operate at all angles! More flexible than human arms!
Zheng Yan continued: "Ultra-high-power motors and industrial metal-air batteries are combined into a power pack to provide power for it. It is more powerful than the hydraulic method we used before! It is also more efficient!"
“The main arm plus the auxiliary arm and multi-axis connection and promotion perfectly form a full-degree-of-freedom operating space.”
"There is also an AI intelligent operating system, and the computer can perform precise operations. If you install it with the body of an engineering vehicle, it will be the most advanced engineering machine in the world!"
"Start it and see!" After He Xingzhou finished speaking, the operator immediately started it.
The robotic arm with a total length of forty meters began various rotations and construction.
Different equipment can be installed on the sub-arm of the robotic arm. For example, if you install a drill bit, you can drill holes; if you install cast iron, you can drive piles; if you install pliers, you can carry it, etc.
You can see that the robotic arm is performing operations such as drilling holes and carrying things with great flexibility.
"A single robotic arm can complete operations that would take a construction team half a day to complete! And they can work around the clock, 24 hours a day, and they operate intelligently!" Lu Jianye said proudly, "Such robotic arms are widely used. In terms of engineering equipment, our project construction speed has increased a hundred times, which is definitely not a boast!"
Everyone was convinced and praised him one after another.
At this time, He Xingzhou suddenly said: "What do you think would be the effect if a heavy-duty robotic arm and a chainsaw were installed on the Great Steel Wall?"
"Ah... chainsaw?" Everyone was shocked by his train of thought. They had always been thinking about engineering construction, and He Xingzhou was thinking about military applications.
He Xingzhou thought for a while and said, "It seems to work! The mechanical arm is installed on it, and it can first assist transportation and the like."
"Secondly, when the Zerg attacks, there will inevitably be guys who get close to the Great Steel Wall to destroy it. It is unrealistic to use missiles at close range and will damage the Great Steel Wall itself. We don't have advanced laser weapons now. Use mechanical arms to install chainsaws, electric hammers, etc. Electric weapons, sweeping, can effectively block!"
"The most important thing is that it only consumes electricity and does not need to consume important materials such as gunpowder, shells, and fuel!"
"In close defense of the city wall, a hundred heavy-duty robotic arms are more effective than a hundred armored vehicles!"
"It does make sense, but we don't know much about military aspects. Chief Engineer He can discuss it with military scientists." Zheng Yan said.
He Xingzhou then told Xuanwu: "Xuanwu, send my idea to military scientists and let them study it."
"Yes, the message has been sent."
He Xingzhou asked Lu Jianye, "Mr. Lu, has the mass production of this robotic arm begun?"
"It's already started!" Lu Jianye said, "We have urgently requisitioned several large-scale machinery manufacturing factories and are currently manufacturing them. We treat them very seriously in these extraordinary times. The robotic arms leaving the factory will be sent directly to the Great Steel Wall Project Department."
"I will not be involved in the research and development of the heavy-duty robotic arm, the production of the robotic arm, and the development of the supporting engineering vehicles. I will leave it to you." He Xingzhou said.
"No problem, we can complete these!" Lu Jianye and Zheng Yan agreed. With this medium-sized robotic arm as the basis, it will be much easier to develop heavy-duty robotic arms.
He Xingzhou also needs to design a mechanical exoskeleton. This thing is much smaller in size and mass than a robotic arm, but the design and manufacturing difficulty is not low at all!
The most critical reason is that mechanical exoskeletons are for human use!
All mechanical movements must adapt to the physiological mechanism and movements of the human body. To make the machine and the human being one and the same!
It requires the simultaneous combination of material technology, bionics technology, micro-energy technology, robotics technology, sensor technology and control technology to be completed.
"Material selection includes aviation hard aluminum alloy; titanium alloy; titanium aluminum alloy; composite materials; nanomaterials; flexible textile materials..."
When He Xingzhou returned to the Sento Tower Research Institute, he immediately thought about this thing.
Mechanical exoskeletons are also divided into many types, such as medical mechanical exoskeletons for disabled people; civilian mechanical exoskeletons for construction projects; auxiliary combat exoskeletons for military use, etc.
He Xingzhou plans to design a universal mechanical exoskeleton first, which will have the widest range of uses, unified standards, and faster mass production.
"Since we want to produce it on a large scale, we have to use a relatively low-cost solution..."
He Xingzhou started designing and researching, and at the same time, he also received plans from various domestic research teams in China.
Among them, the most technologically mature one is naturally an auxiliary military mechanical exoskeleton designed by the military. He Xingzhou plans to upgrade and improve on this model.
A few days later, He Xingzhou had just completed the leg support part of the mechanical exoskeleton when a piece of news interrupted his work rhythm.
In the chat group of the Xuanwu Project Executive Officer, He Hongwei urgently contacted other members and sent a message: "Urgent news, an insect nest is suspected to be found in the Sakura Trench! And there are a large number of mutated creatures gathering from the surrounding sea areas. Our intelligence officers analyzed, These Zergs may land in nearby areas!"
He sent over a piece of intelligence information. Everyone looked at it carefully and were shocked.
