By the time Wang Ping'an led Angeli back to the laboratory, Tu Shengli seemed to have finished his work.
Wang Ping'an: "Can we start testing?"
Tu Shengli raised his head and glanced at him: "Okay. But I personally advise you, if you have any psychological problems and fail to pass the psychological evaluation in the future, then you will be grounded forever."
Wang Ping'an: "It's not bad. I think my behavior is somewhat feminine, so it shouldn't get me grounded."
Tu Shengli nodded: "It depends on your choice. We actually hope that you two will continue to help us. Anyone else would definitely not have made such great progress so quickly.
"Especially the point of receiving radar signals as sounds. Although I personally think that when testing other people in the future, 80% of them will still visualize radar signals, but you have provided a very good idea, and you have also proved that this idea can go forward.
It makes sense."
Wang Ping'an: "We also propose to use this brain-computer interface to control ordinary combat boats. If this experiment succeeds, wouldn't it be a greater contribution to the entire project?"
Tu Shengli smiled: "Yes. And to be honest, I personally think the possibility of success is very high. You are right. That human-shaped body may indeed trigger the uncanny valley effect."
Angele suddenly interrupted at this time: "If this is really the case, wouldn't the humanoid body be completely meaningless?"
Wang Ping'an recalled that when he first started his driving internship, he felt that there were a bunch of screens in the cockpit and a bunch of readings on them that made his head feel big.
Wang Ping'an just said "Oh", and the instructor said: "Of course, Lao Fei sometimes makes mistakes. When looking at the instrument, he glances at it without distinguishing it carefully. He relies on 'inertia' and thinks there is no problem. Don't worry, if something happens once
If you can survive, you won’t make this kind of mistake again in the future.”
Before the radar could emit radar waves, the antenna received cosmic background radiation, and Wang Pingan's "ears" heard chattering sounds again.
Wang Ping'an immediately responded and sent "Welcome home" composed of Morse code using navigation lights.
Wang Ping'an turned to look at her in surprise: "That seems to be the case..."
There are also non-humanoid mechas in Gundam, such as Elmes. But in the anime, it seems that anyone who pilots a non-humanoid mecha will die.
Next came a series of instructions, which Wang Pingan successfully completed.
The instructions for victory are: turn the combat boat at a small angle.
"What's the basis?" Tu Shengli asked, "Just a feeling?"
Wang Ping'an immediately used the attitude control engine to rotate the axis of the combat boat fifteen degrees. The entire operation was smooth and smooth, with no unnecessary angles at all, and the overall attitude was maintained very well.
"I hope so. Experiment begins, first level contact!"
It's like sitting in a spherical cockpit, except that in the traditional spherical cockpit, all the data of the spacecraft are displayed on various screens. The pilot needs to pay attention to a lot of screens, and also let the co-pilot——
To be precise, the extravehicular operator helps keep an eye on it.
New instructions came: turn on the radar system.
Wang Ping'an was frightened at the time and asked the instructor: "What if I don't survive?"
Wang Ping'an: "It was because we were not used to it before, but now that we are all seasoned, we will definitely be able to go smoothly."
His first reaction to this novel feeling was to share it with Angele.
Angele said quickly: "He has taken off the gloves of his spacesuit in a near-vacuum cockpit before, just to ensure that his fingers are agile enough. This happened when he took the Silver Star. That time
After getting off the spacecraft, his hands were swollen like a theme park mascot wearing a puppet suit."
Wang Ping'an immediately complied.
**
Wang Ping'an knew that he had made the right bet almost as soon as he picked up the combat boat.
Then Angele's illusion appeared again, floating in the same imaginary spherical cockpit.
Tu Shengli: "For the first time, I will put the combat boat in the hangar, the same as the previous experimental process of the humanoid machine. If everything goes well, we can advance to the off-ship test today."
From Tu Shengli's point of view, he should have just been in a daze for a short while.
"Then die." The instructor said lightly, "How normal. After you graduate, you have to fly on the front line for ten years. Currently, one-tenth of our graduates will not survive these ten years, and an average of hundreds of people are eliminated every year.
One percent."
So Tu Shengli decided to go directly to the test outside the ship and let the ground crew in the hangar operate the robotic arm to "hoist" the combat boat controlled by Wang Ping'an into the space.
He really doesn't need to look at the instruments to know all the data of the spacecraft.
Tu Shengli glanced at Wang Pingan: "I probably understand. I hope your idea is true."
While Wang Ping'an was thinking wildly, he suddenly remembered that he was still experimenting and quickly checked Tu Shengli's instructions.
A new command is issued: turn on the navigation lights, use the navigation lights to flash and send Morse code.
Naturally, people would not mistakenly think that they have become a combat boat, so when the sensor data came in, Wang Ping'an looked at the data with a bystander attitude, feeling like -
——Damn, this looks more like Gundam.
When checking the instructions, he found that he had just been thinking wildly, as if only five or six seconds had passed in the real world.
Wang Ping'an thought: There are church bells over Angeli's side, which shows that this background radiation can be turned into various different sounds. Let me try changing it here too. For example, it can turn into the heartbeat of the universe or something.
His instructor told him this: "You are not used to it now. When you get used to it, you will subconsciously pay attention to various numbers that should be paid attention to. You will feel that you are not specifically looking at that screen at all, but you are right."
The numbers are crystal clear.
Tu Shengli: "Yes, the performance improvement brought by the autonomous mass movement method is not worth the loss of structural strength. What we are more concerned about now is that after applying this brain-computer interface technology to ordinary combat boats,
How much performance improvement can it bring?"
It's good now, the spaceship has literally become a part of me.
Wang Ping'an: "I personally feel that it should improve a lot."
But now, Wang Pingan knows everything about the spacecraft.
In the next few minutes, Tu Shengli's graduate students fixed Wang Ping'an and Angeli on the test bench and put on the brain-computer interface.
This conversation left a very deep impression on Wang Pingan, so he has been very careful not to become the kind of old pilot who becomes careless just because he is used to the spacecraft.
"Every veteran pilot is like this. It's as if the aircraft has become a part of you and you know it very well. So you just need to fly more and practice more and become a veteran pilot."
The radar antenna on the side of the combat boat slowly unfolded.
The spherical cockpit in his fantasy also has a bunch of screens, and a lot of spacecraft data is also displayed on the screen, but he can clearly understand these data without looking at the screen.
The next moment, the cosmic background radiation turned into a low heartbeat.
Listening to this heartbeat, Wang Ping'an suddenly had the feeling that something indescribable would pop up, so he quickly replaced it with the noise of a harmless vegetable market.
Just at this time, the echo from the cruiser arrived. Wang Pingan turned the optical equipment of the combat boat to match the echo with the image.