"Mr. Bloodthirsty Monkey, congratulations on successfully joining this great project. Starting from today, you will have 30 days to complete the task of making the mechanical heart. If you complete it on time, you will get the details of the TS-010628 file. If it is overdue or cannot be completed, all consequences will be borne by you." The voice disappeared and silence enveloped every corner of the room.
"Xiao Meng, do you know how complicated this task is?" Bobo's tone revealed anxiety. Munch didn't speak, but silently adjusted the countdown on the workbench to 30 days. After clicking the confirmation button, he had no way out. Watching the time passing by minute by second, Munch felt inexplicably frightened, as if there was a pair of invisible eyes staring at him all the time.
"Perhaps Moses Taylor leaked the character information, but what kind of power can accurately transmit information in dreams. And more importantly, why me? What exactly do you want to tell me? Maybe it has something to do with the strange shadow?"
Munch thought of this, walked to the bookshelf, picked up the white paper, and gently touched "Revelation" with his hand. The dots on the side cover emitted rays and scanned from bottom to top. The scan reached Munch's retina and his identity was confirmed. After finishing, the bookshelf began to vibrate slightly, and Bain, who was lying on the ground, became excited with the vibration.
Driven by the upper and lower hidden slide rails, the bookshelf began to shrink to both sides, revealing an oblate oval-shaped area. Munch stood up with the white paper in his left hand and Bain in his right hand. Sensing the change in weight, the bookshelf expands toward the bed until the central area becomes a circle and the border reaches the edge of the bed, and the bookshelf stops moving.
The bookshelves at the four corners extend out with lightweight frames and connect to each other. High-strength fiber materials quickly fill the gaps in the frames, and Munch's "secret room" is completed.
From the corner of the secret room, a white plush ball rolled out. It was deformed due to extrusion and now looks a bit like a rugby ball. After Bain saw it, he broke away from Munch's hand, rushed over and took it in his mouth with satisfaction.
Directly in front of Munch, the wall covered with black filling material is hung with various types of prosthetic accessories, such as Minovsky bone connectors, German small-caliber weapon mounts, cicada fingertip induction drives, etc. Wait, there is a dazzling array of things to see, almost filling up the wall area.
The wall where the door originally entered was now neatly stacked with countless mechanical square boxes, each row having a different color. The keywords projected on the box show the types of small parts contained in the box, including bearings, gears, chucks, induction units, etc.
At the bottom of the wall, there is a black area, which is what Munch casually sketched. TS-010628 is written diagonally in white fonts. It is very conspicuous in the messy background. There is also an exaggerated question mark that completely wraps the number. in.
The side of the glass curtain wall is now transformed into a display wall composed of LCD screens of different sizes. The switching screens monitor the main entrances and exits of the City Security Bureau and the mission information in the "Devil's Rumblings". The other nearly half of the The area displays the energy radiation associated with the parasitic tower. The workbench that was originally placed in front of the bookshelf has now been moved to the wall of prosthetic accessories directly in front, and the holographic image area is also running automatically using the secret room as the projection space.
Whenever he encounters something he can't understand, he always likes to enter this secret room that he spent two years building bit by bit. The space composed of black walls and bookshelves seemed to be completely separated from the original world, and he could freely think about any problem. Of course, the most important purpose is to provide cover for illegal body modification.
"Bobo, can you build a dynamic prediction model about Xiao Hei based on the text content of the diary?" Munch put his hand on his chin and tapped the tip of his nose gently with his index finger. He hoped to sort through the diaries of the past few months to see if he could find the factors most closely related to the shadow movement.
"Of course. I just have a question, who is Xiao Hei?" Bobo's voice revealed confusion. Munch pointed to the quiet black shadow at his feet. Under the light of the secret room, Xiao Hei was not black, but appeared dark gray. Bobo understood, mobilized the camera in the darkroom, and entered the contents of the diary in Munch's hand into the system.
"It takes a while to build a model. You can relax and listen to some soft music, which can help you think about the problems you are encountering now." Seeing that Monk did not refuse, Bobo selected Bach's "The Twelve" from the music library. "Well-Tempered Music", when the soothing piano music slowly flowed, Munch opened the first page of the diary, looked at the text, and recalled the experience two years ago. At that time, he did not know the fate of The trajectory would be completely rewritten that day.
On May 19, 2073, Munch turned 18. In order to celebrate such a monumental moment, Ovid gave him a ticket to experience the clock in the town of Ubgar. The town of Ubgar is located in the northwest border area of Tozcana City, at the foot of the Ruxi Mountains, 600 kilometers away from the main city. It is a town famous for making clocks. Several luxury clocks are now popular on the market, such as Wenxi, Tieshi, Yongzhunke, etc. are all produced there.
Munch took the ticket and looked at Ovid with eyes full of emotion. This gift represents Ovid's good intentions. For Munch, who loves mechanical modifications, the town of Ubgar is simply paradise. This expensive fare must have cost Ovid a lot of his savings.
In the field of mechanical industry, clocks with exquisite designs and complex functions can make people who like machinery crazy at any time. A precise mechanical watch ticks five times per second. Like the human heart, it must operate in various complex situations without failing. Isn't this fascinating? Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, the town of Ubgar still maintains the tradition of making all parts by hand.
Take the tourbillon device as an example. It is necessary to place a high-precision suspended constant-motion instrument in a small dial, and then accurately place the escapement speed regulating system on it. Use constant rotation to offset the deviation caused by gravity. In addition to the tourbillon device, a dynamic anti-radiation barrier needs to be set up to send out trace amounts of calibrated radiation waves at all times according to changes in the surrounding environment to offset the interference caused by the transition domain and parasitic towers...
Munch was sitting on the water-drop car, and his head quickly passed through various precision-operated mechanical units, and his excitement was indescribable. Outside the window is Ovid's slightly stooped figure. As the vehicle started, Ovid's figure gradually retreated and became smaller and smaller. Countless warm fragments of life flooded into Munch's heart...
The 600-kilometer journey was not too far, and it only took more than an hour. When entering the town of Ubgar, the first thing I saw was the only low-power parasitic tower in the entire city of Totzcana, numbered No. 32. The overall size is only about half of the normal parasitic tower, there is no "green belt" around it, and the coverage radius of the "silver plate" is also much smaller.
When the location of the Parasite Tower was chosen in Ubudgarh, there was a lot of opposition. First, the parasitic tower has strong radiation, which will have a great adverse impact on the accuracy of manual watchmaking. Furthermore, Ubgar Town has a population of less than 100,000 and is located on the city boundary. The parasitic tower built at a huge cost cannot maximize its benefits. It should be located in other areas with a larger population and a wider area.
But in the end, the Parasitic Tower Construction Committee led by Sami still firmly chose the town of Ubgar, but adjusted the power and scale of the Parasitic Tower to the lowest level. The external publicity is that this is done to prevent any town from being left alone, but in fact everyone knows that the large reserve of mechanical talents in Ubgar Town is the root cause of all this.
The water drop truck gradually stopped, and Monk walked out with his bag on his back. This was his first time coming to Ubgar, and he had only heard about it in news reports before. Although Munch had imagined it countless times on the way here, he was still shocked by the city scene in front of him.
The roof of the building is mostly red, with scattered patches of brown, gray and black. The building height is generally three to five stories. The Shangyu Clock Museum in the center of the town stands in a pyramid-like shape. On the slope due east, there is a huge handmade clock statue inlaid with the hands breaking through the skyline. At a specific angle, the statue's pointer completely coincides with the parasitic tower not far away.
The regional division of Ubgar Town is like a regular chessboard, with long and straight streets running parallel to each other. Residential unit plots and tabulation unit plots are evenly distributed on both sides of the street and blend into each other. It is said that this layout is to facilitate the frequent travel between the living unit and the work unit for watchmakers. At the same time, it also provides the most convenient transportation conditions for watchmakers to communicate with each other anytime and anywhere.
Munch happily strolled down the street, excited by all the obsessive-compulsive details. The building is completely perpendicular or parallel to the four directions without any deflection. The tile lines on the street are perfectly aligned with the boundaries of the buildings next to it. The automatic lighting system was precisely placed in the center of the area... Everything in front of him made him feel that the smell of engine oil in the air was extremely sweet.
At the first stop, Munch chose to go straight to the Watch Experience Center to release all kinds of fantasies about precision instruments in his mind. The experience center is on the top floor of the Watch and Clock Museum. Without any guidance, you can look at the towering museum building and walk along the straight street to the west. In less than ten minutes' walk, you will arrive in front of the museum entrance hall.
Skipping the exhibition content on the first three floors, Munch took the elevator directly to the fourth floor. The top of the watch experience center is covered with a glass skylight with automatic light adjustment function, making the entire space transparent and bright. Thousands of processes, large and small, for making a watch are integrated in the space on the fourth floor. From the production of the basic dial, to the design and debugging of the movement, to the assembly of the escapement, all the processes that may be involved are in You can see it all here.
Munch watched all this greedily. Although he did not know much about the craftsmanship and principles of clock making, the ticking sound of the clock at this moment sounded to him the most beautiful music in the world. But what he didn't know was that this music was just the prelude before the accident.
