Abyss Express

Foreword:

[Everyone knows that it is much more difficult to turn words into actions than to turn actions into words. ]

[—Maxim Gorky]

[Part① Heartbeat of Steel]

Fifteen hundred kilometers away from the coastline of Antarctica, more than four thousand meters below the surface of the ice layer, there is the largest subglacial lake in the world.

It's called Lake Vaskato, also known as East Lake.

Peter Sergey was originally a member of the Antarctic expedition team assigned by the United Nations Philosophers Foundation. In 1992, he was exposed to five types of ancient viruses in Dongfang Lake, and later became insane, and claimed to be a descendant of a giant.

There are also early versions of the Vita imprint among these five types of viruses. How early is it? Calculated from the decay period of carbon isotopes, it should be the version 640,000 years ago.

The other four types of hybrid viruses almost transformed Sergey into another creature. His human lifespan was about to come to an end, and he came to Antarctica for an expedition at the age of seventy-one. It only took eight short weeks. The virus turned him into a baby, a gigantic baby about seventy-one centimeters long.

Sergey has been calling himself a child of Burning Man ever since.

If the frogman troops are the vanguard sentinels of the ladder to heaven, the birch armored troops headed by Sergei are the heavy infantry who overcome difficulties for the king.

There are still sixteen heavy units like Sergey that have been genetically modified by ancient viruses in the ladder of heaven.

They call themselves the Birch Troops, which are excellent firewood fuel, analogous to the world tree that carries all things in Nordic mythology, and the incredible tree of life that supports the sun.

This information can be found on the personnel identification card on Sergey's body.

After cleaning the battlefield, Teacher Aling recorded the enemy's combat deployment and personnel composition in the newly added details page of [Phoenix].

Xue Ming felt very uncomfortable. It was difficult for him to maintain his will to fight when facing such a giant enemy——

——It feels like facing lions and tigers, facing huge grizzly bears and rhinos. No matter how strong the spirit is, no matter how strong the brave man is, there is no way to resist the trembling and fear brought by the physical instinct of Homo sapiens.

This is not something he can control. On the contrary, the more sober and clear he is, the harder it is to control the madness index of the brain.

"Teacher Ah Ling, how did you do it? Such a big half-blood giant, I haven't finished my army rations yet, so if he says no, he won't!?"

He is very curious and eager to know how to deal with such a huge target.

In "All Things Cracked", there is a record of the death gate of this kind of giant creature. Giants are very rare, and the hybrid descendants of giants are all kinds of strange things. The monsters fought and fought, but the combat records left behind were so pale.

When Xue Ming saw these creatures with his own eyes, even though he had several ways of fighting in his mind, when it came time to implement them, he found that the physical body had betrayed him, and they lost the will to fight.

"Just now I felt that my head was so painful that it was about to crack, and my body was so stiff that I couldn't move at all."

He helped Mr. Ling pack his backpack and handed over the new BUR drill bazooka.

As if by magic, Mr. A Ling stuffed new firepower into the neckline, and stuffed two small tubes along the front chest into the Velcro of the two armpits, and the wizened chest became 36D again.

"It's normal." Su Ling pulled the broken red flag and threw it to Xueming: "Want to learn? I'll teach you! Make me cold clothes for tuition."

Without further ado, Xue Ming began to fiddle with his sewing skills.

Using the spirit body as a tape measure and needlework, the bright red flannelette is sewn into a coat, and Kevlar cut from the corpse of the enemy is used as an insole.

In just a few minutes, the thick woolen clothes and cloth boots to keep out the cold are ready.

Su Ling took out two candies from the waiter's pocket and threw them to Xue Ming.

"This is the secret medicine that increases courage."

Xue Ming tore open the candy wrapper and put it in his mouth, his mouth was filled with a slightly poisonous lily scent, sweet and sweet.

He squatted in front of Sergey's body, feeling the coercion brought by the body.

"Really? Teacher A Ling, you didn't lie to me, did you?"

"Of course not!" Su Ling squatted down with Xue Ming, patted the corpse's cheek lightly, and turned the hybrid giant's chin: "Is this kind of candy bad?"

Xueming: "Yes. It's too sweet. I feel like my head is starting to rust when I hold it in my mouth. The smell of lilies is poisonous. What kind of dark food is this?"

Su Ling: "It is my courage."

Xue Ming: "Is there any scientific principle? This weak toxicity can speed up my metabolism? Can it cause a stress response in my body? Can it stimulate the secretion of adrenaline?"

Su Ling shook her head: "No, no, it was made by my employer."

Hearing this, Xue Ming lost his mind and speech for an instant.

"It's hard to eat. It's very sweet. This little idiot came into the kitchen to make dynamite. It took so much effort to make such a plate of candies. She didn't know that lilies are poisonous, so she thought the name was very nice." Su Ling held out two fingers. The corners of his mouth curled up with a bright smile: "When I was fighting these monsters, I was in the state of taking the secret medicine for victory—I couldn't accept the fact that I was defeated, and I couldn't imagine how sad my employer would cry after losing me."

Xue Ming looked at the Heart of Steel in his hand, which was the spiritual bridge between him and Xiao Qi.

In the abnormal spiritual pressure environment near Niflheim, the effect of this kind of spiritual link also becomes ineffective.

"The boss just gave you a pair of wedding rings. You have to establish more connections with my apprentices and do more rituals. Things that are more intuitive than rings and stimulate the five senses, such as candies, perfumes, and photos. Language is so pale, we speak [more], in fact, to cover up [less] in our hearts, it is easy to turn actions into words, but it is difficult to turn words into actions. Maybe you can still maintain your sanity in other environments, maintain Your spiritual shield, but when you come to this dead land, to a dangerous situation beyond your cognition, your physical body begins to become fragile and fragile."

"I believe that David Victor also taught you how to overcome fear. It is different from his shameless and sexy dance. Eating candy is my unique secret. It is the people and things I need to protect. Let me be inspired Stay awake under pressure." Su Ling took Xue Ming's hand and patted the back of it lightly: "Don't let my apprentice shed tears, but whenever you think of her crying helplessly, I believe that courage and anger will instantly ignite you , this is the fate between you and her, it is your talent, just because of your cold living habits, never doing redundant useless work, you think this kind of ceremony is superfluous-establish more links with the people you care about, put The obsession is entrusted to specific material props, as long as you take out these props, you can immediately think of the corresponding people and things, and at that time, no matter what it is, it will not be able to destroy your will to fight."

Xue Ming was still in fear, under the terrifying coercion of the powerful enemy, he could hardly think.

Su Ling went on to say: "The soul power attack we encountered on the way was also accompanied by the sound of a flute. That was the ceremony of the king of salary. I am afraid that the king of salary can go to this day because he relies on this ceremony to stay awake. Come fight madness."

At the beginning of the journey, at the Nine Worlds Station, people set foot on this necessary path for something, a goal that must be accomplished, and a person that must be protected. These seem to have little practical significance in the eyes of others The ceremony is like an eye-catching signpost on the journey of life.

In the eyes of strangers, teacher Aling's candy is just a slightly poisonous candy, which is a dark dish. It is this VIP who supports the soul and the source of courage to stay awake.

Without the increase of the Heart of Steel, the fear brought by Xue Ming's keen inspiration engulfed him.

At this moment, he felt that his spiritual essence seemed to wake up from the quagmire. His eyes were clear, and he thought in his heart—it turned out that Jason Megan was in such a terrifying environment, and he was saying goodbye to the waiter.

The bitterness of failure can destroy Jason's spiritual world.

That shameful grief could tear apart Jason's spiritual beacon.

During these long and short more than a thousand days and nights, this Dacian man was able to get out of such a terrible psychological shadow and return here——

——There is no doubt that he is a strong man, a reliable partner with a heart of steel.

As if possessed by a demon, Xue Ming turned on his phone and diary, searching for the records of words and deeds and photo recordings of his partners along the way. Find familiar people and things in unfamiliar environments.

He saw Ah Xing's selfie, and Xiaoqi's childish love letter written when he was in unrequited love.

The twelve rounds between him and Jason in the ring—

——and [Your blood is like my blood, your heart is like my heart]

Xue Ming seldom looks behind, his mind always seems to be moving forward, peeking into the unreachable future. Trying to bear the psychological pressure brought by all kinds of horrible conjectures, because Xue Ming's birth environment has affected his thinking mode, he subtly believes that the past is painful and need not be mentioned again.

But now, he has so many good memories, but because of this habit of thinking, he seldom takes out these precious things to look at them again.

In Teacher Aling's eyes, the spiritual power shield on the big boy's head was gradually recovering, and under Niflheim's abnormal spiritual pressure, under the erosion of a black mist, it turned back to a brilliant golden color.

Su Ling: "Well done!"

Xue Ming clenched the diary tightly, with an unusually dignified expression, frost in his heart and fire in his eyes.

He finally understood why Teacher Su Ling could manipulate so many pyroxenes and use so many different types of life talismans.

This VIP seems to have many personalities, and uses the spiritual energy of emotions as a tool to confront Sergei head-on. During the wrestling, he uses ten chicken blood hibiscus stones to strengthen the nerves, stimulate the organs to secrete hormones, and manipulate The Calamity Beast's energy absorbed by the muscles and stomach is something that can only be done with a burning heart. Courage and determination are like a volcanic eruption.

Xueming has always envied Ah Xing.

This big brother seems to be full of enthusiasm and curiosity about everything, never afraid of getting hurt, and will cry for strangers, he is like the hero in an adventure story, his eyes are always clean and clear.

During this trip to RSH, Xue Ming only thought that everyone would survive. It was an unexpected joy to help Jason complete the exploration task. The smoke hit the jackpot.

But these things were not optional for Jason.

Not some "it's okay if you can't do it" routine.

It's not a job, it's not a business-to-employee metric.

It is not a few pale words in a journal.

It is impossible to go to the Pavlov substation, take a few so-so photos of the windmill, and then go back to perfunctory.

——It is a giant, it is not a windmill.

Xueming: "Well, I understand."

Su Ling snapped her fingers, but didn't ask the apprentice what the young man he was looking for understood.

"Walk!"

This VIP acted swiftly and vigorously, jumping all the way, climbing up the iron frame like a spirit ape, and brought the old man in the No. 2 workshop back to the first floor in a few breaths.

"Old man, what should we do now? What do you want us to do?" Su Ling asked.

The old engineer was frightened when he was brought down by the distinguished guest, and muttered in his mouth.

"You can't be gentle with my old arms and legs."

Su Ling: "I don't like talking nonsense, there are still possibilities outside."

She paused, and opened the UI panel to search for the structure of the troops left by Sergey.

"There are about 170 more enemies. They are deployed from the Elephant Trunk Hill Military Station on the north side of the sea. They are patrolling half of the outpost and are searching for available resources. Ogre Sentinels build graves, and if their mission had a shift, the bodies would have been found."

Speaking of this, Xue Ming followed up and explained: "The radio is not used here, and these enemies probably don't know that Sergey has died. This straggler who ran out from the Birch Tree Fortification Team followed us to the power workshop. He He is a very successful guy, and if he wants to monopolize your spiritual essence, he probably didn't call on his partners to help him."

Su Ling: "But the next time we fight, it won't be that simple."

Xue Ming: "The equipment of these giant hybrid soldiers should be more than light weapons on their bodies. If they are fully armed and open their positions, it will be a life-and-death confrontation. The combat effectiveness of these ten or so giant hybrid units will become very terrifying."

The old man listened to the two passengers explain the basic situation. He rubbed his arms. He suffered from the cold in the No. 2 workshop and ran all the way to the workshop foundation.

"Come with me, come with me, come with me! Boy! You're a mechanic, aren't you?"

Xueming: "Understand a little bit."

The old engineer tore down the red flag and the dustproof cloth of the engineering base frame.

"How much do you know about diesel engines?"

Xueming: "Understand a little bit."

[Part② Battle Gong]

The red flag faded, and Xue Ming saw the mechanical arm hovering in front of the shaft tube of the main frame. This is like an eight-axis cutter head cutting and processing center in the last era. There is no computer. An engineer who is proficient in iron can manipulate eight cutting heads and a gimbal at the same time, and process the target in the base frame according to the industrial design drawing. remodel.

Su Ling's eyes lit up when she saw this thing.

"Baby!"

The processing body inside the pedestal is almost six meters high, which is the true content of the weapon platform.

Its steel body still has knife marks. The two thick and strong steel bones seem to be designed in comparison with the lower limbs of ancient dragons. The steel wires twisted between the skeletons are its muscles. It is powered by two V46 twelve-cylinder turbodiesel The engine constitutes the lower power assembly, with a total output of about 1,500 horsepower.

Corresponding to the design of the dragon's lower limbs, it is always in a squatting posture with its knees curled up.

This all-terrain weapon platform has almost no artistic aesthetics at all. Its lower body is like a strong frog. In order to deal with the muddy environment, it maintains a half-squatting posture all the time.

There are two simple and crude mounting base chambers at the waist, Xue Ming climbed onto the steel frame without saying a word, and measured the size with a spirit tape measure.

The old engineer said: "It can hang a 12.7mm parallel machine gun."

Xue Ming then groped up and came to the main cabin and turret of the weapon platform.

He climbed into the driving seat, only to feel that it was very narrow and cramped. Fortunately, the instrument panel of this equipment was labeled in Chinese and Russian languages.

The upper body of the weapon platform is still not protected by armor plates, like an unfinished semi-finished product.

Its pressure relief valves, fuel lines, oil circuits and steel nooses were all exposed.

After so many years, except for the aging and deformation of some rubber parts, the blued anti-oxidation layer of the steel frame is still as clean as new.

"What kind of steel is this? Master?" Xue Ming leaned out from the cockpit.

The old engineer shook his head: "Not anymore."

Xueming: "No more?"

Old engineer: "The steel grades of the Soviet Union are no longer available. According to your country's standards, its yield strength is a little better than Q345E, and it is more cold-resistant-it is a legacy left by our motherland."

Xue Ming leaned forward and slapped the steel beast's main weapon, which was a shell with a diameter of 88 mm.

"Why is the main weapon of this thing the 88 Cannon?"

The old engineer was adjusting the circuit of the machining center, and replied without turning his head: "At that time, we did not have the ability to transport 88mm anti-aircraft guns. This is the German artillery Flak18. It is a spoil of war seized from the battlefield. They are transported by the train. Here, we use whatever we have."

"This is [Materialism]?" Xue Ming adjusted the muzzle in the main cockpit, only listening to the buzzing sound when the electronic fire control started to operate, and protruded two sections of the barrel from the steel frame, which were symmetrically designed on the left and right sides . With two shots at a time, the reload is also double the efficiency.

"It's just a part of [Materialism], its name is [Big Frog] - it's an engineering prototype, the efficiency of the multi-axis machining center is too low, we were going to use it as an engineering robot for processing armor, you also see Yes, its cabin is compact and narrow." The engineer grandfather asked Su Ling to go to the warehouse to carry the equipment and armor, and turned to Xueming and shouted: "This is for RSH newborns. If there are unfortunate deformed children, dwarfs or amputated limbs Soldiers who can sit in the [big frog] and contribute a piece of steel to the ideal of the motherland."

After all, the old engineer pointed to other base frame processing centers.

Those are different styles of steel frame bare metal, divided into different grades of steel.

They are aviation aluminum alloy for oxidation treatment, ultra-lightweight [Forest Ape].

It is a [Black Veined Butterfly] made of titanium-plated alloy steel with high strength to overcome difficulties.

It is an orange-red construction machine [Nikola Tesla] made of copper-silver conductive material.

There are a total of 21 platforms. They are completely naked, without armor and weapons, standing quietly in the power workshop. They are the products of [Materialism].

The old engineer held two large tanks of diesel oil and asked Xue Ming to send down the main body of the fuel tank of [Big Frog]——

——I saw that the weapon platform was in a low-lying state, and an oil pipeline was sent into the waist of this steel monster.

In just a few seconds, there was a signal of oil circuit failure on the dashboard.

Xue Ming turned over and got off the plane, half of his body got into the belly of this giant steel beast, cleaned up all the pipelines, and refurbished and replaced the catheter sleeve and rubber.

The old engineer grinned from ear to ear when he heard the notification that the oil circuit had returned to normal.

——It can be done, it must be done!

Xueming's face was full of oil, and he shouted to the engineer grandfather: "Simple fault, simple repair method, don't be too happy, this thing hasn't been touched for decades, I don't know how many hidden diseases there are."

It took more than an hour and forty minutes, and Xue Ming went up and down more than 20 times to renovate this iron lump from the beginning to the end. In the key powertrain group, there are ultra-high-strength stressed carbon steel parts that are very easy to rust. Xue Mingde used the spirit body to cooperate with the punching needle to open the mold, re-select the steel in the warehouse, and compare the original parts with the multi-axis cutter head. Dimensional cutting and forming repairs burrs, and there is no error in the tolerance.

Brother Xingchen is right. Only he, Jiang Xueming, can do this. Only his spiritual body can deal with these complex non-standard parts. Only a few humans use their hands to assemble this huge and precise armor. It is an impossible project.

After solving the fault signals visible on the instrument panel, its self-inspection system can detect more than 20 diseases—if it can’t be found out, you have to start the powertrain and let it go two steps before you know if you are sick or not. sick.

When starting [Big Frog], there is also a special sound password identification.

The old engineer immediately brought a big gong from the main stage of the theatrical performance. The gong and drum were originally made of copper, but there are too few copper mines in this place. It is a scarce metal to wire the power system.

"This is our battle gong. When we hold a mobilization meeting, we will knock on it when we are about to fight. It is made of steel and has a very special sound-we use it as a power-on password."

After all, the engineer grandfather found the hammer from the tool bar of the pedestal, and slammed the big gong.

Crisp and piercing notes echoed in the power workshop——

——In Xue Ming's eyes, on the dashboard of the console, the intonation symbols jumping up and down were finally corrected.

When the two diesel engines start, it is like two hearts start beating. The black smoke rushed out along with the rumbling exhaust pipe, but it took only a few seconds for it to be sucked into the air outlet.

The weapon platform's fan-shaped webbed feet take the first step forward, stepping on a solid platform, and these webbed feet can move like flying in the mud.

The old engineer shouted: "It's alive! It's alive!"

The bright red Soviet flag was printed on the armor plates of the legs. This heavy armor with a thickness of 20 mm was hung from Su Ling's hand by the steel cable of the suspension machine, and passed to the engineer grandfather on the ladder frame.

The old Red Army swings the hammer—

——Knock off the rivets, apply thread glue, and tighten the fist-sized nuts on the armor joints.

The banners of sickles and hammers were still bright red on the green-gray salt coating of the steel armor.

Xue Ming carefully manipulated the torso of the battle armor, aligned its steel frame with the armor of the crane, and asked Su Ling and the engineer grandfather.

"I want a manual! Don't these weapons platforms have combat records? Haven't you used them before?"

"Used on the surface! In Afghanistan!" The sound of the rumbling diesel engine almost overwhelmed the old man's voice, and he yelled while putting more armor on [the big frog]: "KGB destroy all data Already! Our understanding of these big guys, the processing level of this precision steel component has retreated to the tsarist era! Without you! It is impossible to move!"

Su Ling raised her head and said to Xue Ming.

"I finally understand why my apprentice clings to you like a wolf like a tiger - your efficiency in making money with your hands is faster than Buffett's stock trading."