Chapter 2 Chapter Two Examination and Training

The strange metallic creature moved slowly forward against the edge of the wall, then climbed up again.Look at this skinny thing, like an armadillo.It is covered with a thin shell, connecting the three parts of the body is full of electrical components, it looks like a snail again! A helicopter hovered two meters away from the wall. A flexible, movable robotic arm protruded from the front of the helicopter. The front clamp dangled around the monster, but it just couldn't clamp it. . "Damn it!" Garros Tabry muttered and cursed, "the helicopter is jolting around like this, trying to catch it is a joke! How can it do such delicate work with its claws stretched out? Not even on flat ground!"

He glanced at the pilot: "Hey, can you make this precious plane a little more stable?" "Fly closer to the wall," ordered Dr. David Brown. The driver Yamanaka Hiroshi stared at Brown with no expression on his face. He typed an instruction into the console, and the screen immediately flashed a red signal, and a line of words appeared: "Illegal instruction, the distance is not safe enough!" Yamanaka Hiroshi said nothing Without saying a word, the helicopter was still wandering in the same place. "The propeller is still 50 centimeters from the wall, well, maybe 70 centimeters," Brown said loudly. "In two or three minutes, this monster will climb the suspension beam, and we can't catch it. Let's use the manual mode to catch it." It. Come on, we can't make a mistake this time, Taburi!"

Hiroshi Yamanaka looked suspiciously at the half-bald scientist with a pair of glasses sitting behind him.After a pause, he turned his head and typed another command slowly on the console, moving a large black joystick to the left position.The red signal flashed again, and a line of prompts appeared on the screen: "Enter manual control mode, no automatic protection!" Hiroshi Yamanaka moved the helicopter carefully, and slowly leaned towards the wall. Engineer Tabry was already ready. His hands were inserted into the control gloves, and he kept opening and closing the large pliers at the end of the manipulator.Finally, the flexible long arm of the manipulator stretched out deftly, and the clamp clamped the joint of the "snail" body.The feedback signal from the sensor in the glove told Taburi: It was successful, the monster was caught!

"I've got it!" Tabouli exclaimed ecstatically.Slowly, slowly, he began to retract the manipulator, trying to get the prey into the helicopter cabin. Suddenly, a gust of wind blew by, the helicopter shook violently, and the mechanical arm holding the monster hit the wall with a "bang", and Taburi felt that the tongs were loose. "Hold on! Hold on!" he yelled loudly, while continuing to recover the robotic arm. Hiroshi Yamanaka tried to control the drift of the helicopter, but the nose sank slightly, only to hear a harsh bang from the tail, and the blade of the metal rotor hit the wall.

Hiroshi Yamanaka reacted very quickly and immediately pressed the emergency switch, bringing the plane back to the autopilot state.Suddenly, the alarm sounded loudly, and the red light of the engine room monitor flashed: "Serious failure! Serious failure! Evacuate immediately!" Hiroshi Yamanaka ejected out of the cabin without any hesitation and opened the parachute; Taburi and Brown followed closely behind. , also popped out of the cabin. When Engineer Tabry withdrew his hand from the control glove, the clamps of the mechanical hand loosened, and the weird animal fell to the platform a hundred meters deep below, breaking into countless small pieces.

Although controlled by the automatic landing system, the helicopter without passengers still wobbled and fell to the platform below.The landing gear hit the platform hard, bounced and fell, and finally rolled over on its side. Not far away, a burly man jumped out of the platform lift.In his brown military uniform, decorated with medals across his chest, this is General Voroye Posov, the commander of Operation Newton.He had just come out of the "Operation Rama Command Center", with an excited expression on his face, and he strode swiftly towards an aircraft that was waiting for him.

Behind him, a blonde girl with blue eyes struggled to follow.The girl was wearing a uniform of the International Space Agency, and her shoulders were covered with large and small camera equipment.General Posov asked the aircraft's electrical engineer Richard Workfield aloud: "Anyone hurt?" "During the ejection, Taburi bruised his shoulder, and it looks like it's not that bad. But I've spoken to Nicole, and she said there's no bone damage, and the limbs are fine, just a lot of scratches. .” Posov jumped into the front seat of the aircraft and sat next to Walkerfield, with the control panel in front of him.The blonde girl hurriedly stopped the camera and climbed into the back seat.Her name is Frances Sabatini and she is a reporter.

Posov waved her down and said: "Go and see De Jardin and Tabry." He pointed to the other end of the platform, "Wilson might already be over there." Posov and Workfield let the aircraft glide quickly to a distance of 400 meters, and they saw that David Brown, a thin man in his 50s and wearing a new military uniform, was busy stuffing the parachute into his rucksack.Posov got off the aircraft and walked towards the American scientists. "Are you okay, Dr. Brown?" General Posov's face was gloomy. Brown nodded without speaking. Posov held his temper and said word by word: "Maybe you can tell me what was going on in your mind when you asked Hiroshi Yamanaka to switch to manual control! It's just the two of us here, we can discuss it." Brown remained silent.

"Didn't you see the warning light?" Posov continued, "Have you ever thought that such a cleverness may put the astronauts' lives at risk!" Brown's face was ugly, and he glanced at Posov unhappily, and said bluntly: "At that time, I just wanted the helicopter to get closer to the target. Besides, this was the only way to catch that thing. Isn't the mission..." "Don't tell me about the task!" Bosov interrupted him angrily, "Remember, the safety of personnel comes first at any time, let alone this kind of simulation training. It’s written, it’s principled! I’m telling you, I’m appalled at the way you’ve used this crazy method! Well now, the helicopter is destroyed, Taburi is injured, and you’re lucky no one died.”

David Brown ignored Posov and turned to organize the parachute again.His shoulders kept shaking, and he stuffed the parachute into the transparent bag vigorously. It seemed that he was also out of breath. Posov got on the aircraft, waited for Brown to pack it up, and then asked Brown to sit on it and go back to the base together.Brown kept shaking his head and remained silent.When the aircraft stopped, he put on his rucksack, left the wreckage of the helicopter in frustration, and walked towards the elevator.