Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 282 Satellite in the Ward
A Feng demonstrated the whole process in person.

He grabbed the Y-shaped spinner, combed out a piece of black silk, and burned it with a special flame cup with a notch in the middle.

"Chairman, flying silk is very flexible and is as strong as beetle armor. However, it will deform and soften at a high enough temperature, and then it can be cut with metal scissors."

A Feng put the cut piece of black silk into a brand new glass bottle.

Zhou Yi watched as the black fibers in the bottle began to decompose rapidly, turning into numerous floating particles. As the decomposition and peeling continued, the bottle was gradually filled with a layer of uniform gray-black gas, like a collection of freely moving soot.

"They float around like soot and eventually coat the inside of the glass tank, providing the strength to keep it suspended."

A Feng pointed at the bottle and said, "As long as it leaves the spinning plant, the black flying silk will decompose. It is very unstable. The gases that are decomposed are very stable. As long as they are in a sealed container, the container can remain stable and floating."

Zhou Yi said to Hong Yun who was standing beside him, "Ask Da Vinci and Bicchi to come over."

Two employees arrived shortly afterwards.

Leonardo da Vinci gave the black silkworm a detailed inspection before checking the black flying silk.

It took two hours in total.

It concluded: "This flying filament structure is very unstable and cannot maintain a stable connection. It will gradually collapse from the fracture point to form a very fine basic structure. It forms an attachment with naturally existing particles in the air and turns into a black and gray haze form."

"The same is true for the mutant Y-shaped silkworm. A lot of dust and particulate matter in the air adheres to its body surface, so it turns black."

"The size of the basic particles of Feisi is very, very small and has strong adsorption. Under normal circumstances, it will be scattered everywhere. Due to its small content and low density, it will not have any abnormal reaction when attached to the human body, stones, trees or even airborne particles."

"But if a large amount of it is concentrated in the space of a glass bottle, it can change from quantitative to qualitative, allowing the container to float."

Zhou Yi suddenly had an idea: "In other words, we can use its adsorption properties to create new flying materials?"

"Theoretically it's possible."

Da Vinci judged: "As long as this black flying silk is placed in such a relatively closed environment, it will naturally collapse and absorb materials such as wood and metal like dye spraying, forming a stable and firm coating."

“Once you’re done, you can also give it a coat of paint or gum to make sure it doesn’t get erased by rubbing.”

"But whether it is feasible still needs experiments to test."

Squidward Beech took out a floodlight and shone different rays of light back and forth on the gray glass bottle.

Then it said, "Chairman, this material can indeed add suspension properties and may even be a substitute for "light floating" light printing, but it has a flaw."

"Highly dependent on the death ray."

Beech shone the green light in his hand, and suddenly a strong fluorescent reaction appeared in the bottle, and the flight altitude increased sharply.

When it switched to white light, the inner wall of the bottle was dotted with stars and looked very dim, and the height suddenly dropped slowly.

"The flying silk material can be suspended because of the energy movement generated by the dead light. Therefore, during the day, the flying silk has the best suspension effect, and at night their height will be greatly reduced."

"For the same amount of flying silk, the particle coating will need to consume more to achieve the original floating effect of the flying silk structure."

"It's just like bones. A bone structure that is connected as a whole can maintain better strength, but if it is broken and needs to be repaired or patched, the strength will be weakened and it will never be as good as before."

"Its advantage is that it is more plastic than the original flying silk. If there is enough of it, it can be sprayed on the surface of an ordinary ship to make the ship float."

"If we use the same paint scheme to build a glider, we don't have to worry about the carrier itself being insufficiently strong, the structure being prone to collapse, or being unbalanced. We can definitely build a large flying device."

Beach concluded: "This is a new structure with obvious advantages and disadvantages."

Zhou Yi looked at A Feng: "You are a professional in studying silkworms, what do you think?"

A Feng was a little uncomfortable with being stared at. "I've only been raising it for a little while, so I can't say I'm an expert... But I think everyone is right."

"We are still exploring the application of ordinary flying silk. As for this kind of granulated black silk, I think we should observe and experiment more first, because it consumes much more. I have tried it, and to achieve the same flying height, the length of the black silk that turns into gray mist must be twice that of the white silk."

"All in all, the Y-shaped silkworm eats twice as much as the normal silkworm, so the total cost is four times."

"We don't have that much food to waste right now. We'll consider new materials when the time is right. Right now, improving the Emerald City Glider is the most important thing."

Zhou Yi threw the topic to Afeng just to hear his judgment.

Although Afeng was still a little reserved when speaking in front of others, he remained confident in raising insects and dared to express his opinions.

Compared to his past appearance of being timid and hiding aside not daring to speak, he has made great progress now.

The raincoat armor made of insect shells and the success of the glider both increased Afeng's confidence.

"Then let's do this."

Zhou Yi said, "Afeng, if you need any support, go directly to the heads of the departments. If you are not comfortable speaking directly, go to Gong Zheng. He is thick-skinned and is not afraid of negotiating with other departments."

Gong Zheng also leaned on his cane and smiled: "If you have any problems, just come to me. Anyway, I have been scolded by them behind my back a lot, I am used to it."

Ah Feng also relaxed and grinned, "Okay, okay."

……

After finishing his work there, Zhou Yi went all the way to the special ward on the third floor of Maria Hospital.

There are no beds here, only two metal support platforms, each with a satellite fixed on it.

The one near the door was shaped like a large dance floor light ball, with five antennas that looked like long metal poles, and the surface of the metal shell had a lot of burns, scratches, and impact dents.

It has cables inserted all over its body, and the other end is connected to the imaging vehicle. Da Vinci introduced: "This patient is an old experimental satellite named "Dongfanghong No. 703". It fell into the Dead Sea and degenerated into a semi-civilized body. After installed the time anchor program and calibrated the time axis through the Black Water Ghost, it is currently recovering well."

Dongfanghong-1.

Zhou Yi was in a daze for a second.

This is the first artificial satellite launched by China.

Unexpectedly, it transcended the old human era and still survived completely in the wasteland era.

"Can I talk to it?"

"Yes. But it doesn't have a voice module, so the message needs to be transferred."

Under Da Vinci's guidance, Zhou Yi put on the information transceiver.

"Hello, Dongfanghong No. 1, I am Zhou Yi, the chairman of the Wasteland Development Company. How do you feel now?"

A voice came from the headset: "I am recovering, but my information and body are too old and outdated, resulting in the loss of a lot of previous data. Thank you for restoring me."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but ask: "Do you still remember the old human era?"

“There is no record of that.”

He felt a pang of regret.

Although I already know that this is the most likely answer.

"Were you transformed into a semi-enlightened form by the attack of the Xinghu?"

"I was not attacked by the Star Hub."

Dongfanghong No. 1 said: "I am too old, and the body of the aircraft was damaged, causing it to fall into the inland sea. In addition, I am not a member of the Star Hub. I am an independent satellite."

Zhou Yi said, "The Star Hub is made up of satellite groups, right?"

"I am not sure."

The test satellite replied, "Because I didn't join them. But there are indeed many satellites that belong to the Star Hub. In addition, there are also space stations. They are involved in a wide range, not only on Earth, but also in the outside world."

"What is the Hub doing in space?"

"From what I understand, the Star Hub is looking for ways to build more satellites so that they can eventually reach various extraterrestrial planets."

It said: "But we satellites alone cannot do this. We need other intelligent life to complete this step. For example, the new generation of humans on Earth are the group that Xinghu focuses on and supports."

This time, Zhou Yi's doubts were finally answered.

The old king, who was once one of the three giants of the resistance army, failed in his fight against the Celestial Beings, and now wants to use the satellite as the main body to open up another territory outside the earth.

Dongfanghong-1 doesn't know much else as its database was severely damaged.

Zhou Yi looked at another satellite by the window.

Compared with Dongfanghong-1, this model is obviously much newer.

It is square, and the rectangular solar panel is folded up. It looks very light overall. The material may be aluminum, and it is wrapped with a layer of gold metal foil.

"This is Beiyou-1, a special satellite in the 'Sky Calculation Constellation', responsible for aerospace computing, and a satellite with strong computing power."

"It installed a time anchor earlier than Dongfanghong-1 and underwent several repairs. But the results were not good," Da Vinci said.

"703 tested and confirmed this and found that it was locked by a program. As long as the program is not cracked, it will always execute looping data, causing its signal channel to be blocked, isolating it from interacting with the inside and outside at the program and data level, and it cannot be restored to normal."

Zhou Yi immediately realized: "Was it Xing Shu who did it?"

"Yes."

The electromechanical doctor said: "703 is trying to crack it, but it will take time."

Zhou Yi pondered in his heart.

I don’t know if it’s possible to have the same consciousness.

He tried to put his hand against the outer wall of the satellite.

Energy input.

Consciousness is in sync.

It worked!
Zhou Yi tried to say, "Beiyou No. 1, can you hear me?"

"Yes. Who are you? Can you connect with me directly?"

An excited voice sounded in my head.

"Please tell the life on the ground not to enter the Star Hub, and not to respond to the Star Hub!"

"The Star Hub is collecting all kinds of data on life on the ground, and transforming them into data using the Star Hub Light Seal... To put it bluntly, it is uploading the intelligent life on the ground in the form of a light seal and turning it into a part of the satellite!"

Zhou Yi frowned when he heard this, realizing that this matter was not simple.

(End of this chapter)