Chapter 1385
: Rise and Fall
Chapter 1385 Ups and Downs
On a strange planet, suddenly seeing a familiar single-person mecha, the feeling of familiarity is even stronger than "meeting an old friend in a foreign land".
Lin Fan's mind instantly flashed through various fragments of 800. Antonio, anxious, could no longer contain himself. Without even waiting for the flying carpet to pass, he swooped down and rushed into the mecha shop.
"Hiss!" Jin Sichen gritted his teeth and held his forehead helplessly. He regretted once again that his talent was ineffective against that unorganized and undisciplined big guy.
Fortunately, the distance was not far, and as Antonio just went in, they reached the door.
The store's facade is decorated in a futuristic style, with an unknown cold white metal base. The display windows for the mechas are modeled after portholes, and even the background behind the mechas is a deep blue nebula, with star dust like broken diamonds flashing from time to time. I wonder if it's a real scene.
The automatic door opens to both sides, and the warm orange interior light collides with the cold white metal cabin outside, creating a unique attraction that makes people unable to help but explore the contents inside.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" Antonio called out to them loudly from inside the door, as if he was not a regular customer coming for the first time.
Several strong men in uniform glanced at the door, then turned away calmly and continued to focus on their own work.
Lin Fan looked up before entering the room.
The sign above the head is a relief made of an unknown material, but it emits a striking green light. In front of the four alien characters "Battle Mech" is a special symbol that looks like a brand logo.
As you enter the store, you can hear the slight electronic hydraulic sound mixed with the background sound of metal gears turning. The floating reception robot inside the door is already floating in front of everyone, emitting a gentle electronic sound.
"Welcome to the Crogate IV Single-Person Combat Mech Showroom. The latest models 'Falcon-III' and 'Rock-V' are on display and selling fast. We support inter-galactic delivery, arriving within three star days. Please select your service mode: Browse around, summon me if needed/Let me follow you for a close and detailed explanation."
Before Antonio could click on the item, his hand was rudely slapped away and the first option was chosen first.
"Alright." The hovering robot, completely unaware of the tension between the two men, continued to speak gently. "Our store offers custom mecha services. We can adjust the armor thickness and weapon configuration according to the customer's combat needs. If you have any needs, please feel free to call me. I hope you will have a pleasant shopping experience with us."
After saying that, he hovered at his own position and remained silent.
Antonio had no way to deal with Jin Sichen - he couldn't win the argument, and he couldn't really fight him. In the end, he could only glare at him fiercely and pounce on the mecha displayed in the middle.
A holographic star map hung from the ceiling of the store. Unlike the display background outside, it flashed with the popular regions and models of combat mechas on each planet.
The pale blue light occasionally shone on the mecha below at different angles, overlapping with the mecha's own light path, like a pre-set ambient spotlight, giving the cold and hard mecha a more lively feel.
The floor has a distinct anti-slip pattern, and the light green fluorescent strips inlaid at the seams guide the way and naturally divide the store space into several areas.
In addition to the hot-selling exhibition area placed in the center opposite the gate, there are more than a dozen display areas on each side that may be past styles.
On the innermost wall hung a giant device resembling a fluorescent tube. Silver-blue liquid flowed through a transparent tube, occasionally bubbling inside.
"That's the mecha coolant refill station." Jin Sichen had noticed the conspicuous light source early on and had already checked the information on his personal terminal. He flicked his wrist to show Lin Fan. "The mechas here also have overheating problems, and they're solving it by adding coolant to physically cool them down."
In 800, Lin Fan and Antonio both knew the research and development history of single-person mechas, so they also knew that one of the obstacles to research and development was the problem of material heating.
Due to the space limitations of a single-person mecha, it is impossible to be as huge as Pangu, and there is no need to consider the heat generation issue.
Although the energy source was later changed to electricity and solar energy inspired by the stars, and the materials of Gro were later changed, the improved mecha still had heat limitations when working for a long time.
Overheating not only creates a difficult operating environment for the pilot, but also causes fluctuations in the energy storage environment, creating instability. Consequently, expanding energy resources and extending operating time are also blocked.
This is what Lan Xing mentioned in his last letter.
As for the female clown, perhaps because her "plastic best friend" Jin Sichen was no longer around, and her prized flying shuttle had been taken away by her biggest worry, Lin Fan, she was in a state of complete slacking off, showing no respect to anyone who came. Seriously, who would dare say anything to her?!
It would be great if this guy didn't blow up Lan Xing, but just played peacefully in his own cave and didn't cause trouble for others.
Besides, what they said was not wrong.
There are no shortcuts to scientific development. Lin Fan and the others had already been forced to advance. They couldn't just turn to her every time they encountered a problem they couldn't solve. That would be like copying ready-made answers for homework.
It’s not like I haven’t given the answers before, but those who can’t understand still can’t understand, and those who can’t learn still can’t learn. You can’t let an ugly girl teach you step by step, right?
Think beautiful!
Anyway, the shuttle is gone, Lanxing is not in any survival crisis at the moment, and the ugly woman doesn't care about time at all.
The long process of social development is actually her accumulated experience, which is not worth mentioning at all. Compared with the anxious Lanxing people, the ugly woman's mentality is not too good.
Can scientific development be achieved overnight?
Just because I lent them the shuttle, they really think the technology is theirs? How shameless!
The ugly woman scolds everyone she sees, and makes anyone who tries to take shortcuts through her become autistic.
There was currently no one on Lanxing who could deal with her, so the technological vanity that had suddenly risen up due to the previous interstellar contact suddenly sank, and she finally began to put things into practice and make steady and solid progress.
In contrast, the development of the Supernatural Academy, with its abundant spiritual energy reserves, showed an unstoppable momentum, and the atmosphere of cultivating immortals among the people was becoming increasingly enthusiastic and in full swing...
It is a happy thing, but different positions will inevitably cause public opinion disputes.
Supernatural powers were hyped up by those who benefited from them or by the uninformed masses who yearned for them, and the hype was everywhere. It seemed that as long as you were willing, as long as you could get into a supernatural academy, in three to five years, seven to eight years, you would be able to perform a soaring ascension.
That would be fine, but many people turn around and try to hinder the development of technology.
In fact, Lanxing's technological development has been very rapid in the past fifty years.
However, scientific development is constrained by the progress of social civilization. In the absence of current civilization, it is only a matter of time before scientific and technological development encounters a bottleneck.
The Gro invasion incident just happened to bring this bottleneck forward. With the help of the advanced technology of the World Tree, it initially gave a boost, but then it got stuck as expected.
As expected, without external support, Lanxing Technology may regress in a short period of time.
After all, everyone knows that superpowers and technology are two opposing and exclusive disciplines.
According to the actual situation that Lin Fan and his team saw - the stronger the superpowers, the weaker the technological development; the stronger the technology, the less room there is for superpowers.
Just like Lan Xing before, wasn't there once no place for people with special abilities? Didn't the people in the Special Affairs Office have to hide secretly, not daring to reveal themselves?
Although cultivating supernatural powers is also an alternative scientific development, it would be a pity to let the scientific accumulation accumulated by Lanxing over the years be wasted.
Moreover, in general, interstellar development, such as spaceships and mechas, still relies heavily on the development of existing technologies.
Cultivating immortality is a personal matter, but technological development benefits the entire society and cannot and should not be easily abandoned.
Lin Fan is still studying how to integrate superpowers and mechas on the planet Bolun, wondering if the two can coexist harmoniously.
As soon as she got the affirmative answer, she knew that Lan Xing was in a state of decline. She was suddenly unsure whether it was a good thing for the Polunxing magic formula to be transmitted back to Lan Xing.
For this matter, the Noah's top management held a special discussion meeting and decided to temporarily prioritize the exploration of superpowers behind scientific and technological productivity, and provide more scientific and technological support to Lanxing in the future, striving to maintain the level of Lanxing's technological development, and preferably give it another boost.
As soon as they dozed off, they saw the pillow.
So this is the strength of a high-tech transit star?
So fragrant~