Mecha and Knife

No. 5 living base.

Su He came over while Shen Mu was going to the toilet.

"Fuck, you're sick. Even if I'm short on time, I wouldn't be so nervous."

"You're the only one who's sick. I just came over to go to the toilet, can't I?"

"All right, all right, the camera is in your hands, you can say whatever you want."

"Who would bring a video camera when a decent person goes to the bathroom, would you?"

"I won't."

After arguing for a few words, Su He finally couldn't hold back and started to ask questions.

"Have you heard of neural link technology?"

"I've heard of it, what's the matter?"

"If the neural link technology achieves a breakthrough tension, Lao Ji, won't it work?"

"Ah? Why do you ask that?"

"Just say yes or no."

Su He's question made Shen Mu ponder. As a professional technical lieutenant mechanic, he has been called a genius by others since he was a child. He got the rank of second lieutenant when he first joined the army.

Therefore, in terms of professional issues such as mech maintenance, research and development, and manufacturing, he is more than one level stronger than Ji Xinghe. Without him, Xingyue would not have been able to build it successfully.

"Theoretically speaking, it is like this. If it is the neural link technology that I know... I can't say that Lao Ji is dead. His ability to drive the mech is no different from what it is now, and it will not become weaker. But With the strength of all mech fighters who can use this technology enhanced, it can indeed be said that the old man is dead."

Su He asked in confusion: "Why? Can't Lao Ji use this technique? Can't he become stronger?"

"Because of age, with age, the nervous system will begin to degenerate, which is irreversible at the current level of science and technology." After Shen Mu explained, he felt that Su He might not understand, so he changed his method. explain.

"Old Su, you know how to drive."

"nonsense."

"People's spiritual will and thinking can be compared to the driver of the car, and the human body is the car. Lao Ji's car is old and outdated, but because he is the driver, his spiritual will is very strong. He also attaches great importance to the maintenance of this car, so he can still drive his old car on the track and compete with real professional racing drivers. Do you understand me when I say this?"

Su He nodded, but because the two were in different compartments, Shen Mu couldn't see them.

"I understand. According to your words, the bodies of young mech fighters are equivalent to the latest sports car, or the most advanced formula car. Therefore, their technology may not be as good as the old ones, but they are really When compared on the field, they can drive faster than Lao Ji."

"That's it." Shen Mu sighed: "In a sense, the neural link technology is to make the vehicles owned by young mech fighters more powerful. But this technology cannot be applied to Xinghe is on this old car, so he may become bad."

After a moment of silence, Su He asked, "Is there any way to solve this problem?"

"No way." Shen Mu replied without any hesitation, and then explained: "The difference between the central nervous system and other organs is that its cells cannot regenerate, and the number of nerve cells will decrease with normal aging. Compared with when you were young, the number of cells will decrease by 10% to 30%, as well as the number of dendrites, dendritic spines and synapses in the cerebral cortex and pyramidal cells... Wait, uh, professionally related explanations , I’ll go back and find a paper for you, you can read it yourself when the time comes, and I’ll just click to explain it to you.”

"When people get old, the conduction speed of motor and sensory fibers slows down, and the activity of enzymes involved in the metabolism of various neurotransmitters in the human brain decreases. The specific manifestations are memory loss, movement disorders, tremors, poor sleep, depression or depression. Mania and other symptoms."

Su He asked in confusion: "But Lao Ji doesn't have any of these symptoms."

"Really?" Shen Mu asked back: "Do you still remember that Lao Ji was holding a lame man in one hand and another first-level mecha fighter in the other, and then asked Lieutenant Colonel Chen Xun, the instructor, how do you choose?" ?”

Su He recalled that scene. At that time, he felt that Lao Ji was too impulsive. If Lieutenant Colonel Chen Xun hadn't tolerated Lao Ji because of his old age, he would have to bear military punishment based on that sentence.

"All in all, Lao Ji is indeed very strong, but as I said just now, his strength is only due to his strong mental will, and he has been practicing martial arts all year round so his physical functions are very good, but this kind of aging is really irreversible. of."

Shen Mu started to get up after pulling his pants up, and said to Su He while lifting his pants: "If it's the neural link technology I know, then even if Lao Ji successfully built a brain-computer interface, he can't seem to control him. He controls the mech like his own body, his aging nervous system can't hold it, only young people can bear it."

"Brain-computer interface?"

"Well, brain-computer interface, install an interface on the back of your head to connect with the mech's operating system, this is the way of driving the mech after the application of neural link technology." Shen Mu's movement of preparing to open the toilet door froze for a moment, Then he continued: "There is one thing I didn't say just now. When people get old, their autonomic nerves will undergo corresponding changes. They will no longer be dominated by subjective will, and the human body's autonomic nerves will become disordered, leading to various internal organ dysfunctions. For example, the number of times the heart beats, the number of peristalsis in the gastrointestinal tract, and so on."

Su He frowned and asked, "I'm not old and I can't control my autonomic nerves. I can't control the heartbeat and gastrointestinal tract you mentioned."

"Just because you don't know that you can control it doesn't mean you really can't control it." Shen Mu asked, "Do you need to actively control when you breathe?"

"No need."

"Normally, but when I ask you this question, when you think you need to breathe, you need to control your breathing. It's like driving from an automatic to a manual, isn't it so?"

Su He had already started to control his breathing, and said in a daze, "It's like this."

"The heart and other internal organs are actually the same. They are all controlled by our subjective will, but you can understand this kind of control as automatic transmission. For details, you can ask relevant experts." Shen Mu finally opened the toilet door and walked out At the same time, he said: "This kind of autonomic nervous dysfunction is the reason why I said that Lao Ji cannot use this technique. He has practiced Kung Fu for fifty-five years, so he can continue to control his body after he gets old, but He hasn't piloted a mecha for fifty-five years."

creak.

Su He opened the toilet door and came out with an ugly expression.

Shen Mu glanced at Su He's waistband: "You really came to see me while I was going to the toilet, you didn't come to shit at all."

"Is it okay if I didn't pull it out?" Su He was in a bad mood.

"All right, all right, I've said it all, you can say whatever you want with the camera." Shen Mu didn't mean to argue, and his expression became serious: "Why do you ask me this?"

Su He sighed: "Actually, you already guessed it, so why ask me again."

Shen Mu did guess it, he knew a long time ago that this technology would make a breakthrough, from the mechanical eyes of the blind, the mechanical legs of the lame, the mechanical hand of the left hand, these mechanical prosthetics that also use the nerve link technology can be seen.

"But isn't this a good thing?" Shen Mu asked puzzledly: "Old Ji is so old, we can't let him drive the mech to fight all the time, it's our young people's business to protect our family and country. And Xinxin , In another year or so, Xinxin's treatment will be completed, and Lao Ji will bring Xinxin to live on the blue star, and he won't need to drive a mecha anymore."

"I also hope that Lao Ji will bring Xinxin back to Azure Star." Su He said in a depressed mood, "But you didn't realize that Lao Ji has never forgotten the matter of revenge?"

Shen Mu was silent.

He knew that Ji Xinghe had always wanted revenge, everyone who knew Ji Xinghe knew it, and Ji Rong Xinyue knew it too.

Otherwise, why would Ji Xinghe risk his life in the No. 5 base to fight?

If it is just to help the war win, the role that a professional mechanic can play, the role that a peerless master can play as an instructor, is really less than the role that a super mech warrior can play when he goes to fight? ?

"That can't be helped." Shen Mu turned and walked outside the toilet: "I really can't help Lao Ji with this matter, no one can help him. Unless..."

Su He chased after him: "Unless what?"

"Unless the neural link technology achieves a higher level of breakthrough, it can transform Lao Ji into a complete and powerful nervous system, but this kind of breakthrough is impossible to complete in a hundred or two hundred years, but Lao Ji can't last that time. .”

"Nonsense, Lao Ji will definitely not be able to last that time, and neither can we. Lao Ji is a martial artist, not a cultivator."

"I now hope that Lao Ji is a cultivator. I heard that cultivating immortals can make people younger, and the aging of the nervous system can also be reversed. Then the old man can use the neural link technology."

"If Lao Ji is a cultivator of immortals, would he still need the neural link technology? Still need the machine armor? Isn't the swordsmanship good?"

"If there ever comes a day, Lao Ji won't know how to use a sword, he will definitely know how to use a sword, because he doesn't know how to use a sword."

"Old Ji knows how to use a sword. His weapon has been replaced by a sword. Have you heard of tungsten steel?"

"Fuck, it's true or not. In front of that thing, ordinary imperial mechs will only end up being chopped up."

"Really, Lao Ji snatched a mecha epee made of tungsten steel and gold."

"Hiss...Earl-level mecha or Marquis-level mecha?"

"Count class."

"Fuck, old man, when he comes back, I can help him change the sword into a knife. If it is the eight-cut knife he likes, one heavy sword is enough to transform into two."

"It will take about a week. He is currently repairing mechas in a military camp."

"Help me contact him and ask him to bring back the sword. There is not enough equipment in the barracks to change it. Our base can change it."

"Then let me tell him."

...

Ji Xinghe, who was repairing the mecha, received a message from Yu Suhe, saying that Ji Rong Xinyue was well and brought Ji Rong Xinyue's greetings and Shen Mu's suggestion.

This made Ji Xinghe very happy, because he himself didn't know how to change the mecha epee, and he still had to be a real professional to do it.

He does know how to use a sword, but he's better at using knives, especially the Hachi-knife. Because of the mismatch of weapons before, his strength has not been brought into full play.

But the epee that had been held by his mecha was not put down. Now he can't leave this barracks, and he won't put down this sword until he leaves, because he is being suppressed.

The Xinghe team had already left, and they were going to another battlefield, but Ji Xinghe, the captain of the Xinghe team, failed to follow. From this point of view, the suppression he encountered was already obvious.

In terms of his strength, the speed of obtaining gold stars on the battlefield must be faster than that of the blind man and the lame man, even if the two of them not only have the help of the Galaxy team, but also the help of the other two mecha teams.

He is even faster than Jackson and Han Li in obtaining gold stars. From the perspective of strength, Jackson and Han Li's mech performance is stronger than Ji Xinghe.

But they will not fight like Ji Xinghe.

Ji Xinghe is willing to fight, but he doesn't want to die, so the essence of his battles has always been described as the strong attacking the weak.

Han Li, Jackson, and other super mecha fighters whose strength is equal to or surpassed Ji Xinghe's strength will only attack the strong with the strong and the strong with the weak in battle.

This is the responsibility and obligation they are willing to undertake, and it is the responsibility and obligation that Ji Xinghe is unwilling to undertake.

Perhaps, this is also one of the reasons why Ji Xinghe was suppressed.

Since you are unwilling to take on more responsibilities and obligations, why should you be given more resources and meritorious service?

The message from Su He bluntly stated some of what Major General Tu Yuan said, confirming Ji Xinghe's analysis and speculation about his suppression.

But so what?

Ji Xinghe will not change for anyone except Ji Rong Xinyue, he could change for another person, but that person has left this world.

"The real machine test is completed."

Ji Xinghe, who repaired the twelfth mecha alone in five days, looked at the person beside him who came to receive it and said, "Help me settle the contribution points, thank you."