Legend of the Planet Builder-Chapter 169 - s 166 167 The Chaos Begins (Additional

Chapter 169 -s 166, 167 The Chaos Begins (Additional Chapters 9 and 10 for Purple Mysterious Immortal Emperor)_2

Chapter 169 -s 166, 167 The Chaos Begins (Additional Chapters 9 and 10 for Purple Mysterious Immortal Emperor)_2

Some of the tycoons had already heard the news about the aircraft carrier fleet sinking.

They began building doomsday bunkers, buying weapons and ammunition, and assembling security teams…

Some people started going out into the streets, preaching about the end of the world and extolling various gods, also gaining a large following.

Not only within societies but also between nations, a race for resources had begun.

Ships, trains, and airplanes transporting ores, oil, and food were traveling back and forth across the world, with some places even deploying military transport aircraft for assistance!

The chaotic era had begun!

Fortunately, Shen Zhou had been preparing for three years, so the impact was minimal amid these upheavals.

The internet users in Shen Zhou were also discussing this matter.

“Have you heard? Bai ying went to fight the Zerg and lost several ships!”

“The Zerg is terrifying! Their sea power is now world-class, and yet they didn’t win?”

“No wonder we’re building the Iron Great Wall, just in case these guys land. It’s unimaginable!”

“Besides the Mariana Trench, do we have any insects in our sea area?”

“We started acting early, so we should have already explored it, right?”

“Don’t panic, follow the command! I’ve been following He Xingzhou’s account. He hasn’t posted anything recently, which proves the issue isn’t significant.”

…

He Xingzhou had indeed not posted anything because he was busy keeping track of research, discoveries, and countermeasures against the Zerg while also studying mechanical arms and exoskeletons, leaving him overwhelmed.

At this moment, He Xingzhou was at the National Mechanical Science Research Institute, conducting tests on a medium-sized mechanical arm.

In front of him was an industrial mechanical arm with a total length of 48 meters.

Of that, 40 meters made up the main arm, resembling the massive crane-like arm of a crane, mainly used for stretching, extending, rotating at thirty to sixty degrees horizontally, and extending upward.

The main arm was primarily responsible for lifting, rotating, and bearing weight.

The 8-meter-long auxiliary arm, on the other hand, took on the main operational functions.

Beside He Xingzhou were Lu Jianye along with Academician Zheng Yan, the deputy chief engineer of the mechanical arm research and design team, who were explaining their achievements.

“After we received Mr. He’s design drawings, we worked overnight to study and improve the plans. With the cooperation of the manufacturing team, we made this medium-sized mechanical arm in the shortest possible time.” Zheng Yan proudly looked up at the steel creation.

Unlike the bulky two-segment structure of crane arms, this mechanical arm, although divided into main and auxiliary arms, featured a multi-segment design.

Upon close inspection, each arm was composed of sections, resembling those of a shrimp’s body structure.

In the past, due to reasons like materials, design, power, and manufacturing, such a design for mechanical arms was simply impossible.

But now, after three years of industrial advancement, such designs had become possible!

Therefore, the multi-segment design allowed the main and auxiliary arms to rotate in all directions and operate at full angles, making them more agile than human arms!

Zheng Yan continued, “The ultra-high power motor combined with industrial metal-air batteries formed a power unit providing it with power, surpassing the hydraulic system we used before! The efficiency is also higher!”

“The main arm plus the auxiliary arm and multi-axis linkage and promotion perfectly formed a fully free operational space.”

“There’s also an AI intelligent operating system that can conduct precise operations through a computer. If you install it on an engineering vehicle, then it’s the most advanced construction machine in the world!”

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“Let’s see it in action!” He Xingzhou said and the operator immediately activated it.

The forty-meter-long mechanical arm began various rotations and operations.

The auxiliary arm of the mechanical arm could have different devices installed, for example, a drill for drilling, cast iron for piling, pincers for transporting, and so on.

The mechanical arm performed operations such as drilling and transporting flexibly and smoothly.

“A single mechanical arm can complete operations that would take a whole construction team half a day! And they can work 24/7 without rest, all intelligent operations!” Lu Jianye remarked with pride, “Using this type of mechanical arm extensively in engineering machinery will enhance our construction speed a hundredfold—it’s no exaggeration!”

Everyone agreed in admiration.

At this point, He Xingzhou suddenly asked, “What do you think it would be like if we installed heavy mechanical arms with chainsaws on the Iron Great Wall?”

“Ah… chainsaws?” For a moment, everyone was stunned by his thought process. They were always thinking of construction, while He Xingzhou was considering military applications.

He Xingzhou thought for a moment and said, “It seems quite useful! With mechanical arms installed up there, they could first assist with things like transportation.”

“Secondly, when the Zerg attacks, there will inevitably be those who get close to the Iron Great Wall to cause damage. Using missiles at close range is unrealistic, as it would damage the Iron Great Wall itself. We don’t currently have advanced laser weapons. Using mechanical arms with chainsaws, electric hammers, and other electric weapons to sweep and effectively block them is feasible!”

“Most importantly, it only consumes electricity rather than critical materials like gunpowder, shells, or fuel!”

“In close defense on the city wall, a hundred heavy mechanical arms surpass the effectiveness of a hundred armored vehicles!”

“That does make sense, though we don’t quite understand military aspects. Mr. He can discuss it with military scientists.” Zheng Yan suggested.

He Xingzhou then instructed Xuanwu, “Xuanwu, send my idea to the military scientists for their study.”

“Yes, the information has been sent.”

He Xingzhou asked Lu Jianye, “Mr. Lu, has mass production of this mechanical arm begun?”

“It has already begun!” Lu Jianye replied, “We’ve urgently requisitioned several large-scale machinery manufacturing plants to start production, treating it with special priority during this extraordinary period; the mechanical arms produced are being directly sent to the Iron Great Wall project department.”

“I won’t participate in the research on heavy mechanical arms, production of mechanical arms, and development of supporting engineering vehicles—I’ll leave that to you.” He Xingzhou said.

“No problem, we can handle these tasks!” Lu Jianye and Zheng Yan readily agreed. With this medium-sized mechanical arm as a foundation, developing heavy mechanical arms would be much easier.

He Xingzhou still needed to design the mechanical exoskeleton. This piece, although smaller and lighter than mechanical arms, was no less difficult in design and manufacturing!

The critical reason was that mechanical exoskeletons were meant for human use!

All mechanical actions needed to adapt to human physiological structures and movements to integrate seamlessly with the user!

It required the combination of materials technology, bionics technology, micro-energy technology, robotics technology, sensor technology, and control technology, among others, to complete.

“Material choices include aerospace hard aluminum alloy, titanium alloy, titanium aluminum alloy, composite materials, nanometer materials, flexible textile materials…”

Returning to the Tower Research Institute, He Xingzhou immediately immersed himself in pondering this piece.

Mechanical exoskeletons came in many forms, such as medical mechanical exoskeletons for assisting the disabled, civilian mechanical exoskeletons for construction, and auxiliary combat exoskeletons for military use.

He intended first to design a universal mechanical exoskeleton, as it had the widest application, standardization, and could be produced quickly on a large scale.

“Since large-scale production is needed, a relatively low-cost plan must be used…”

He Xingzhou began designing and researching, while also receiving proposals from research teams across Shen Zhou.

The most mature technology among these was naturally an auxiliary military mechanical exoskeleton designed by the military, which He Xingzhou planned to upgrade and improve.

A few days later, just as He Xingzhou completed the leg support section of the mechanical exoskeleton, a message disrupted his work rhythm.

In the Xuanwu Plan executive chat group, He Hongwei urgently contacted other members and sent a message saying, “Urgent news, suspected Zerg nest discovered in the Sakura Trench; significant numbers of mutant creatures are gathering from surrounding waters. Our intelligence analysts believe these Zerg may land in nearby areas!”

He sent over an intelligence report, and everyone was startled upon reading it.