The Lightless Sea 47

The researchers in the laboratory hugged each other and clapped hands in celebration. Cheers and admiration filled the space.

Dr. Zhao also high-fived and hugged his assistant with tears in his eyes. He hugged the researcher back and forth. He wanted to hug Kai Xin, but Ye Chan stretched out his arms and stopped him.

“Pay attention to your identity.” He reminded.

“Oh oh oh.” Dr. Zhao was in high spirits, not bothering with Ye Chan, he stretched outHolding Kai Xin’s palm with both hands and shaking it back and forth, “Miss, we have succeeded! What a historic scene, what a witness!”

“Congratulations.” Kui Xin shook hands with him politely.

Facing all kinds of voices and everyone’s joyful emotions, the bionic man on the test bench remained silent.

Its silvery white eyes are emotionless, it just quietly looks from left to right, from top to bottom, and then stares at everyone’s face for a long time, it can’t understand why people have such expressions on their faces, in fact …It can’t make a complete expression, because its artificial skin has not been installed yet, it is a skeleton full of muscles and internal organs.

The bionic man stared blankly at everyone, and did not make any other movements, as if withdrawn from this world.

After a few seconds, it suddenly laughed.

This laugh was really abrupt and frightening.

The moment the bionic man laughed, the entire laboratory fell into silence.

The researchers looked at each other, and the atmosphere of joy froze. They observed the bionic man on the experimental platform with weird and subtle eyes.

The bionic man didn’t stop laughing. It raised its arms and danced to grab the air around it, laughing while scratching, “Haha…hahahahaha…”

At the beginning, its laughter was a bit stuttering, lacking ups and downs, like an audio system with aging circuits, unable to make a sound successfully, but after it laughed for more than ten seconds, its laughter became more and more clear, more and more like Humanity.

“Damn, can you make this thing stop? Smile so hard that I get goosebumps all over my body.” Ye Chan couldn’t hold back and said, “What’s wrong with it, is the head part short-circuited? What are you laughing at?”

“There is no short circuit. It is imitating human beings.” Kai Xin watched for a moment and concluded, “It is imitating the clapping, high-fiving, and hugging movements of researchers by grasping the air with both hands, and its laughter is also imitating.”

“Its movements remind me of zombies in old movies.” Ye Chan said irritably.

Dr. Zhao stared and retorted: “How can you describe it as a zombie? It is as cute as a human baby. It is learning the world. Look at how strong and smart it is!” Kui Xin cited human body movements as his confidant, “Miss, you can observe it a little closer. It is so beautiful, isn’t it? It is as beautiful as the creations of nature… Man’s creations are no worse than nature’s creations. ”

Yechan: “Tsk, I can’t understand the thinking of a madman. How beautiful is it? I only saw a skeleton laughing at me. It can make a guest appearance in a horror movie.”

After a while, the bionic man stopped smiling, and it became quiet again. The waving arms stopped and hung obediently at the sides of its body, but it was still observing the reactions of the people around it, and its eyes stayed on the faces of different people.

When Dr. Zhao led Kai Xin to approach it, it twisted its head, almost wanting to turn its head 180 degrees and look back at them, but due to the limitations of its body structure, it couldn’t complete this movement.

The silver-white eyes of the bionic man followed the figures of Dr. Zhao and Kui Xin, and the head also adjusted its angle according to their positions.

“Its body is ice-cold.” Dr. Zhao stroked the arm of the bionic man, motioning for Kai Xin to touch it too.

Kai Xin stretched out his hand to touch its limbs, the body as cold as a cold-blooded animal slightly reflected the light of the laboratory.

“Their blood is the key to maintaining their activities. The energy that drives the body’s action is transported in the blood.” Dr. Zhao pointed to the exposed blood vessels. “Of course the blood is also silvery white. We are used to calling the substance flowing in the blood vessels blood, but In fact, the blood of bionic people is completely different from that of human beings, so let’s just distinguish between the two.”

“What is their service life?” Kai Xin asked.

“Type II can theoretically serve for a hundred or eighty years, as long as the body does not age.” Dr. Zhao said, “Type I materials are not good, and they can serve for thirty or forty years at most. Compared with Type I, Type II has a full range of functions. promote.”

“It doesn’t have reproductive organs.” Kai Xin said, “The possibility of their reproductive behavior has been cut off from the beginning of the design, isn’t it?”

“It’s not all right, most of them are for the convenience of design. After all, this is the first type II bionic body, mainly to verify the feasibility of the Type II plan. If the activation is successful, the gender is not considered.” Dr. Zhao Said, “When it is put into the market, we will design male and female bionics to cope with different types of work and different occupations. The current design plans include combat type, housekeeping type, maintenance type, and service type…”

Actually, various types have been considered… Mechanical Dawn has a lot of ambitions.

They not only have ambitions, but also the means, technologies and resources to implement them.

Kai Xin couldn’t help thinking, when did her trash dad become so awesome? Not only did he gather a bunch of highly capable subordinates, but he also developed the company to this size.

Her rubbish father in the first world was a bully for a few years at the beginning, but after a few years, he quickly drifted away. Because he was drifting away, he dared to form a gang to invest. In the end, he was unpopular and lost After a crushing defeat, the money ran abroad. If he was really capable, how could he end up like this?

A faint sense of disobedience emerges in my heart… Perhaps, the trash daddy in the second world is better than the bull in the first world?

Before Kai Xin had time to think about it, the cold touch on her arm brought her back to her thoughts.

The bionic imitated Kai Xin’s movements and stroked her arm with his hand.

Kai Xin looked at the bionic man in surprise. After touching Kai Xin’s arm, the bionic man stretched out his hand to gently touch her soft cheek, then withdrew his hand and touched its own cheek., Touched back and forth several times.

“It is wondering why it is different from you?” Dr. Zhao guessed, “Your sense of touch is different. It has a tactile system.”

“It seems to be.” Kai Xin said, “Doubt, curiosity, is this considered emotion?”

Dr. Zhao thought for a while, “The essential reason that drives the bionics to do this kind of inquiry behavior is not necessarily emotion, it may be learning consciousness. We strengthened their learning consciousness when designing, and they will think and discern, so as to better Serve humans well, just like artificial intelligence can ‘think’ through data.”

“That’s right, everything is uncertain, and everything needs experiments and data observation.” Kai Xin took a step back, avoiding the hand extended by the bionic man.

The bionic man stretched out his hand towards Kai Xin in a daze, without any intention of letting go. Seeing that Kai Xin avoided it, he stretched his hand forward again, trying to touch her. However, Kai Xin had no intention of being touched by it in the past, so the bionic man shifted his target and began to touch Dr. Zhao next to it.

Dr. Zhao thought for a while, then stepped back and stood shoulder to shoulder with Kai Xin.

“Come here, get out of bed and come over here!” Dr. Zhao’s eyes lit up, and he muttered something. He stood on the spot and moved his legs, raising his legs in a funny way, demonstrating to the bionic man how these legs are used, “Get out of bed , stepping on the left leg first, then the right leg, walking step by step.”

Ye Chan, who was watching, said, “You must be a good father.”

Dr. Zhao: “What the hell?”

Yechan complained: “You are like a father teaching a child to walk, patient and expecting, ‘Come here, come here, come to daddy’, that is, the sense of sight is very serious.”

Dr. Zhao was cheerful and not angry: “Researchers treat their proud works like they treat their own children. This is not an exaggeration.”

It may be that Dr. Zhao’s demonstration had an effect, and the bionic man really started to move his legs.

It first sat on the test bench and kicked its legs, and then realized that it was wrong to walk, so it tried to stand up. After five or six attempts, it failed until it accidentally fell off the test bench and fell face down. on the ground.

Dr. Zhao quickly ran over: “Mother, this first body can’t be broken, and it will be used for later experiments.”

With the help of Dr. Zhao, the bionic man stood upright. It walked in a daze, raised its legs mechanically, and swayed three times with each step. Dr. Zhao is right. They have strengthened the learning consciousness of the bionic man. Its learning ability is indeed very strong. After only a dozen steps, it has mastered the knack of walking, and its walking posture is much more normal.

Dr. Zhao circled around the bionic man, really like a father watching a child walk, for fear that it might bump into something.

“Bionics don’t have common sense of society, so they can’t be put on the market immediately after they are manufactured?” Kai Xin asked.

Dr. Zhao was too busy to answer, and the female assistant beside him said: “Yes, but there is already a solution, you can implant some memories and basic common sense into their brains, just like implanting programs into artificial intelligence. Just let them run according to the program.”

Ye Chan said to Kai Xin: “Let’s go, don’t bother them. If you are interested in the experimental project, I will take you to see other things. What’s so interesting about the silver-white bone frame?”

“Yeah.” Kui Xin glanced at the bionic man, and left with Ye Chan.

It was the first time for the organization Dawn of Machinery to unveil the mysterious veil to Kai Xin. Of course, she wanted to see more and learn more about it.

“You rarely paid attention to these projects and experiments before, why are you suddenly interested this time?” Yechan asked casually.

“Just ignore it if you’re interested, and ignore it if you’re not interested.” Kai Xin also pretended to say casually.

“That’s right.” Yechan said, “Why don’t you go to the exoskeleton armor department to have a look. I heard that there is a new type of exoskeleton armor experiment recently.”

“Okay.” Kai Xin said.

After leaving the elevator and walking along the glass tunnel, they entered the fully enclosed metal corridor.

After passing through five gates in a row, a room marked “High-Risk Equipment Laboratory” came into view at the end of the corridor.

Yechan clicked on the display next to the metal gate, and a researcher’s face appeared on the display.

“Dr. Qiu.” Yechan nodded to the female researcher on the display screen, “Can I visit now?”

“Wait ten minutes.” Dr. Qiu hung up the communication without saying a word of nonsense.

Yechan turned around and shrugged at Kai Xin, “Scientists are all arrogant people, and most of them are a little eccentric. Dr. Qiu hates nonsense, and the boss will be treated the same when he comes.”

“I can tell.” Kai Xin said, “They are also pure people, obsessed with research.”

“That’s right.” Ye Chan said.

Ten minutes later, the gate opened on time. Dr. Qiu put his hands on his chest in a white coat and said bluntly: “You have twenty minutes to visit. I didn’t say twenty minutes to keep you stuck for twenty minutes. Here, go early if you can.”

“Got it.” Ye Chan walked in as usual.

Kai Xin stepped into the high-risk equipment laboratory. Through the thick explosion-proof glass, he could see the researchers wearing masks and manipulating the machine and welding. In front of him was a mechanical hand, composed of thousands of thin nailed metal materials. A fine machine that resembles a human hand.

The molten metal splashed in all directions, and the dazzling sparks were so hot and bright that it hurt people’s eyes.

Kai Xin took the shading mask and put it on, and felt that his eyes felt much better.

Dr. Qiu’s assistant explained to Kai Xin: “This is the latest type of enhanced exoskeleton armor we developed. The purpose of this type of armor is to improve the combat effectiveness of people who do not have mechanical prosthetics.”

He took aOnly the assembled exoskeleton armor, the overall appearance of this exoskeleton armor is black, the special coating makes it seem to absorb light, its appearance does not look bulky, on the contrary it is very light and flexible.

“This is the right arm armor, which can be adapted according to the shape of the user’s arm.” The assistant said, “Try wearing it.”

Kai Xin raised his right arm and put on the exoskeleton armor with the help of his assistant.

As soon as the arm was stretched in, the mechanical structure of the exoskeleton armor would be automatically adjusted and locked tightly, and it would be firmly locked on her arm, but it would not make people feel squeezed and stuffy. The position of the elbow and the length of the metal sheet on the upper arm of the forearm are stretched and fine-tuned to cover her entire arm. The metal at the finger position is also tightly fitted to the skin, and the knuckles are slightly raised. One can imagine the impact of this thing on a human body. Sometimes it can cause additional hit damage.

The thickness of the metal shell of the exoskeleton armor is much thinner than Kai Xin imagined. After wearing it, the arms are only a little thicker, and it is hardly conspicuous when the sleeves of the clothes are pulled down.

The assistant asked: “Can you tell me about your experience in using it?”

“Light and thin.” Kai Xin said, “It’s a bit beyond my expectation.”

A look of pride appeared on the assistant’s face: “Yes! Compared with other types of bulky exoskeleton armor, the biggest advantage of this armor is that it is both light and thin while maintaining its power! We used light alloys. On the premise of ensuring flexibility, we tried to reduce the connecting parts as much as possible, and it took two years just to design the drawings.”

He led Kai Xin to the small room on the side of the laboratory, “This is a small test site, you can test it. In theory, it can at least double your strength. If you put all the exoskeleton armor on your body Equipped with all the equipment, it can increase by about two times. However, the full armor cannot be tested for the time being, and we have not completed the assembly yet.”

There is a boxing dynamometer in the test room, and it is a special version of the boxing dynamometer. Both the strength and the upper limit of the force are much higher than the normal version.

Kai Xin walked up to the dynamometer, clenched his fist with his right hand, and slammed it on the dynamometer.

With a sound of tying, the number on the dynamometer jumped rapidly, jumping to 500 in the blink of an eye, and finally fixed at 537 pounds.

The assistant gasped in shock: “Oh my god! You are really the reincarnated boxing champion!! You can win the championship if you participate in the lightweight women’s boxing competition, right?”

Excluding the boosted power of the exoskeleton armor, Kai Xin’s own strength should not be underestimated. If the strength foundation is strong, the boost given by the exoskeleton will be stronger.

Yechan looked at the numbers on the force gauge: “Play conservatively, miss.”

“Just try it, it’s not really testing the limit.” Kai Xin shook his hand.

Yechan said, “What else do you want to see? I’ll take you there.”

“Let’s watch while walking…” Kui Xin removed the exoskeleton armor.



In the dark and depressing room, the only light source is the light blue ball of light suspended on the table.

“…”

“No, she doesn’t have any doubts, you can rest assured about that.”

“…”

“Yes, I was also surprised, this was unexpected…”

“…”

“The plan is proceeding step by step. Why did you suddenly change your mind? Is it because of her? If you change the plan rashly, I’m afraid it will be bad for us.”

“…”

“Okay, I see, I will do as you ordered.”

“…”

“I’m sorry, I understand that I shouldn’t ask, but why?” The man sat on the edge of the table, leaning forward to face the blue light ball, and asked eagerly and puzzled, “Why her? Why my daughter… ”

The light blue ball of light fluctuated, interrupting the man’s unfinished words.

“…”

“Okay, I won’t ask any more.” The man closed his eyes, “I will do my job well.”

The light blue ball of light on the desktop went out.

After a few seconds, the lights in the room turned on, and the artificial light source dispelled the darkness.

“Beep–”

The man answered the communication: “Hello?”

“Boss, I’ve finished taking the young lady to finish the work, and took her to visit a few projects by the way. Do you want to see her again or let her go directly?” Ye Chan asked.

Kai Haidong tugged on his suit and tie, and said impatiently, “Let this rebellious girl go straight away.”

“Ah, this…” Yechan hesitated to speak, “Okay, I’ll take her back.”

Just as Yechan hung up the communication, the blue ball of light in front of Kai Haidong’s desk suddenly lit up again. He was so frightened that he almost fainted, and hurriedly said, “What’s your order?”

“Put on the hidden headset.” A few lines of text were displayed on the blue light ball, “Call her over, and tell her what I say, and don’t ask anyone else, don’t say unnecessary words.”

Kui Haidong bowed his head and said, “Okay.”

He took out a small hidden headset from the watch and put it in the ear canal, then rubbed his face, opened the desk drawer, took out a mirror to look at his face, used a small comb to tidy up his hair, sat behind the desk and took out The momentum of the big boss.

“Yechan.” Kui Haidong called, “Call my daughter over.”

Ye Chan: “…?”

He said, “Boss, I just sent Missy home.”

“When I called her back again, I suddenly realized that there was something I didn’t explain to her.” Kai Haidong said.

Ye Chan: “Okay, I’ll contact her right now.”

After a while, Ye Chan returned the communication.

“Boss, Missy said she would come back if you asked her to come back. Wouldn’t she lose face and refuse to go back even if she said nothing?” He said, “Missy beats someone very painful. I may not be able to beat her in hand-to-hand combat.” , she doesn’t want to come back, I can’t tie her here with Yinmian, can I? YinmianThe kid looked very reluctant. ”

Kui Haidong: “…”

His expression sank, and he was about to give the death order, but the light blue light ball displayed: “Forget it, next time.”

Then the light ball went out.

“Alas.” Kai Haidong thumped his forehead and said tiredly, “Okay, let’s go back when we get back.”

“Good boss.” Yechan hung up the communication.

Silence returned to the room.

Kai Haidong sighed wearily, got up and walked to the wall on the right side of the room.

Following his movements, a gap was soundlessly cracked in the wall. This was a hidden door, behind which were rows of glass display cabinets. Some glass showcases contain mechanical armor, some contain new mechanical prostheses, and some contain simulated parts such as arms and legs… It’s like a weird collection.

Kai Haidong came to the innermost glass display case and looked down at the objects in the display case.

It was a human body, which was different from that of Type II bionics. This human body was obviously full of flesh and blood, with lifelike colors, just like a real human being.

It closed its eyes tightly, its heartbeat was silent, like a dead body. Its head was severely damaged, and its remaining face was very similar to Kai Xin.

There is a line of words on the label of the display case: “Type I bionic human, No. 1 body.”



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