Xiangchuan looked at the thick outer armor in front of him and sighed in his heart: He really came to the future world with the SF background...
If the gravity-free cars, fully automatic kitchens and robot service staff we see at home and on the street are products of elementary school students’ science fiction imagination, then the wrapped body in front of us looks like it would appear in "Light ×" or "War × Machine" The training outer armor is a product of science fiction imagination at the middle school student level.
——It’s not that she has played these games, but that the leader of a certain group in their company’s publicity department is a huge fan. Every now and then, he puts some private pictures on the PPT used for the monthly product meeting. The female employees in their marketing department all memorized the name of the game.
Since I haven’t actually played the game, Kagawa’s imagination of how the heavy training armor will move is completely based on Tony Stark’s cool equipment in the movie. Don’t ask, people who watch movies at monthly company gatherings will know this. . Although Tony Stark is indeed handsome.
While Kagawa was looking at these behemoths that were nearly two meters tall with a blank look on his face, the members of the physical education department in each class couldn't sit still and rushed to apply to be the first to conduct heavy outer armor simulation training.
Please! Heavy outer armor! This is a giant object that will only be used when exploring non-gas giant planets! It's something that you don't usually get a chance to ride even on a military escort ship! Now I can actually take a test ride!
Even if it is just a training machine, it is enough to make these sports club students who usually study a lot of exoskeletons and exoskeletons look like hungry wolves pouncing on food.
Naturally, those in non-sports clubs such as Kagawa or the squad leader choose to let those who are willing to have enough fun before trying it. After all, it is a prescribed training, and everyone who sees it has a share.
"But having said that, why are there so many training machines?" Liang Gong looked at the training ground. There were nearly a hundred heavy-duty training external armors placed here. Usually, training machines of this size would only appear on the ninth ship. For ship groups such as the 10th Ship Group or the 10th Ship Group that explore routes or develop planetary resources, their own ship groups are engaged in agriculture. When they go near non-gaseous giant planets, they only have force escorts to collect a certain amount of planetary soil and convert it into energy or energy. Fertilizer needed to maintain nutrients in the land.
"I heard my mother mention that the heavy outer armor of our escort ships will be replaced with new models. The old ones have been retired. Maybe they were used by this base and converted into training aircraft?" Nancy explained.
"Nancy, why don't you try it? I remember you are also in the engineering club, right?" Xiangchuan looked at her curiously.
"During the holidays, my mother and I went to the construction site and basically opened up all the outer armor. We have also opened up the latest trial machines. Now I can operate this batch to carry construction materials when I was in elementary school." Nancy looked up proudly. He looked at his peers who were sitting in the outer armor operating compartment under the guidance of teachers and instructors. The implication was, seniors, I won’t compete with you juniors for old toys.
"Changing so many units at once?" Aino frowned, "Does our fleet have so much liquidity?"
"Huh? Are these expensive?" As soon as Xiangchuan opened her mouth, she received the helpless looks from people around her, like they were looking at little fools. She raised her eyebrows: It doesn't matter, I'm immune.
"Expensive, very expensive." As the only expert among the people present, Nancy explained, "A heavy-duty outer armor can allow you, Xianggawa, to build twenty Tongue-style kitchens. Do you think it is expensive?"
Forehead……
Regarding this metaphor, Xiangchuan had a hard time. Let’s just say it wasn’t expensive. Last week, she suddenly lost a third of the pocket money she had saved since she was a child. Let’s say it was expensive, which was half of her life’s pocket money. The level of money, compared to the missile radars in her previous life that cost less than what she would have earned even if she worked tirelessly in the company for ten lifetimes, it seems that some are not so expensive...?
This is how people's view of money is distorted.
Seeing the confused and confused expression on Xiangchuan's face, Ouyang Yating and Ainuo, who had not been together for long but had a good grasp of her brain circuits, knew that their president must be thinking about something.
"Nancy, Aino, go ahead, leave her alone." Ouyang Yating urged. She only had a rough understanding of the outer armor, and now it was time to listen to what professionals said.
Nancy looked at Xiangchuan's strange expression and couldn't help laughing, but she still explained seriously: "The hardware cost of an outer armor is basically 40 million to 50 million stars. These are actually the most expensive peripheral costs. The most critical drive system is cheap and purchased from the 10th Fleet. An outer armor system costs nearly 200 million stars, not counting the cost of regular maintenance."
Two hundred million! When Xiangchuan heard this number, he had a sense of reality that these iron lumps were expensive, and he couldn't help but take a breath.
Aino continued what she said: "In terms of cost alone, one outer armor costs 200 million to 300 million stars. More than 100 units are not just as simple as 20 to 30 billion, but also involve maintenance costs and the like. The average annual military expenses and development funds of our fleet add up to more than 10 billion. The main ship escort group, armed escort ships and the Energy Development Bureau all scramble for this amount of funds every year. How can the government have extra funds to replace it? More than a hundred external armors?”
"Maybe... the funds were temporarily increased?" Xiangchuan guessed with a confused look on his face.
"The economic backwardness of the Third Ship Group is not something that happened in the past two hundred years. Where did our ship group get tens of billions of working capital that we can use casually? If there really was so much money, the Education Bureau and the Agriculture Bureau would have taken it away first. , which round will get the military department and the Energy Development Bureau?" Aino said.
Then... where did these more than a hundred training aircraft and the heavy outer armor that filled their gaps come from?
With complicated doubts, everyone looked at the heavy outer armor that was twisting or moving nimbly on the training ground.
But thanks to the hundreds of heavy-duty outer armors, and under the rule that each person could test ride for fifteen minutes, it wasn't long before it was Kagawa's turn to choose the last one.
To be honest, since the last time she experienced the weird sphere in physics class, Kagawa has been a little bit PTSD from this modern sealed device, but after all, it is a part of training, and she was forced to sit in it by the teacher and instructor. Operation warehouse.
"Relax, the operation is almost the same as a robotic exoskeleton." The instructor comforted him.
But the problem is that she has never even operated a robotic exoskeleton! It's true that there is this memory in "memory", but when did that happen? Before going to elementary school!
Just as Kagawa was thinking about whether to take the opportunity to rush out of the operation compartment, the heavy outer armor suddenly closed and locked her tightly.
So dark! So narrow! very scary! This cry, which seemed like an ancient comic, appeared in Xiangchuan's mind.
She subconsciously wanted to wave her hands to struggle, but then she found that her hands could move freely...?
[Yes, keep it this way. 】The instructor's voice came from the communicator inside the heavy outer armor, "The outer armor is equipped with brain wave induction and nerve induction in the joints. As long as you keep your brain awake and recite your next behavior in your mind, you can make it happen." The outer armor moves freely as usual. 】
She followed the instructor's instructions and tried a few things, and she was able to move around freely. Although it felt a little weird to walk without her feet touching the ground, it was still better than the weird sphere in physics class. But a new problem also emerged.
"Instructor, I can't see the front, how do I turn on the main view screen?"
After taking the first step, Xiangchuan didn't dare to move because her eyes were completely dark.
[Try closing your eyes and then slowly opening them, imagining that you wake up and see your surroundings. 】
Close your eyes, open your eyes, and then everything goes black.
"Instructor, I still can't see anything."
【Huh? This is really strange. 】
So Kagawa's heavy outer armor simulation training turned into main-view screen repair training.
Not far away, Ouyang Yating held her forehead, Ainuo looked at the sky, and Liang Gong smiled bitterly.
Why does my president always make troubles that have never happened before when he encounters closed equipment?
I will try my best to make up for the chapter I owe this week. Thank God there is no big exam this week. I had exams for four days last week and I was numb...
Please give me a monthly pass and recommend me to collect it, my dears!
(End of chapter)
