Chapter 144

Luo Zemin shook his head, “If it’s not enough, we can only consider combining segments For example, two segments spliced together horizontally are twenty meters long, and two segments spliced together vertically are ten meters high”

Xu Man pursed his lips, “Can it be as sturdy?”

Tan Changlin interjected, “You can consider leaving gaps in the design Just like putting together a block, leave a good slot, and after the two sections of the wall are put together, then use welding or other means to fix it”

“You know where I’m going to use this thing That environment doesn’t support welding” Xu Wen disagreed, who could play with fire at the bottom of the sea

Luo Zemin was certain, “Trust me! No matter who you get, it won’t change the fact that this number is the limit of the printed wall Any higher and longer and it’s not guaranteed to be sturdy

Do you want to build a building? If you want to build a building, frankly speaking, our current technology is not up to it The average building has a floor of about three meters, and I mean a floor

We can only print one floor, and the rest has to be built up manually It’s difficult, and the cost savings go up

The main thing is the quality, which we haven’t tested However, I personally feel that the quality may not be comparable to manual construction”

Xu Man shook his head, “It’s not building a building But pretty much the same thing”

Tan Changlin comforted Xu Man, “This is already the best and fastest way”

Xu Man didn’t say anything

If it was a simple expansion of Rainbow Island, such a size was indeed no problem

Little by little, slowly

But any ship that could become a battleship would be over a hundred meters long

Lu Yuanzheng said that the one parked in front of his house was one hundred and seventy-seven meters long

This meant that seventeen pieces would have to be put together for the length alone, and who knew how many times the joints would be able to withstand the wind and waves?

However, Xu Man thought again, in front of such a huge thing as the Kaya, what use was a wall? Even if the Kaya didn’t use much strength at close range, the heavy weapons on board would be blown away in one go, and this would mean nothing to the Kaya in terms of actual constraints

On the contrary, if they made a wall that was not strong enough to be broken by the Kaya, could they be accused of provoking a war between the two countries?

Thinking this way, Xu Man let out a sigh of relief and asked Luo Zemin, “Can we adjust the length?”

“Only short and not long Within the longest range and the highest range, the size can be adjusted at will”

Xu Man nodded, “That’s enough! About how long will it take to get it done?”

“The earliest would be next week”

“I’m actually pretty quick here Mainly I saw the list of raw materials you gave Brother Xu The raw materials you want are a few especially rare, and they’re not easy to find internationally Brother Xu definitely couldn’t find them for you, and I’ve gone through a lot of trouble and entrusted a lot of people to buy them It’s already on its way, and when it’s really shipped over, it’ll take a few more days”

“No rush” Xu asked, it was useless to be in a major hurry

Next to him, Tan Changlin’s gaze was attracted by a rectangle in the corner, pointing at it and asking, “What’s that?”

Luo Zemin looked back, “A three-dimensional printer!”

“Can I take a look?”

“Sure”

Tan Changlin rubbed his hands together and walked over, and Xu Man followed curiously

“This is what a normal printer should look like!” Tan Changlin half-bent his waist and lowered his head for a serious look

This printer was about a meter and a half long and fifty to sixty work-hours high, and was working, supposedly printing a red round cup

There were a few of the same model thrown on the ground next to it, and it could be seen that it was going through a debugging process from crude to more and more refined

Tan Changlin tsked twice in exclamation, and then looked down to see how it worked carefully

This printer is considered a finished product, but in order to facilitate the debugging of the peripheral guard are not on, you can still see the parts inside

The plastic used for printing looks like a long wire, except that the wire is insulated on the outside and has a copper core on the inside This is just a red solid plastic wire

One end is connected to the print head, heat-treated, a little bit of it runs according to a set trajectory, and then a cup is printed out slowly

Just really, really slow! If it was to be produced at this speed, it wouldn’t be far from bankruptcy, and there was still room for improvement

Xu Wen also smelled a pungent odor of melting plastic

Luo Zemin chased after him and smiled at Xu Man with some embarrassment, “Sorry! Using your research without permission I just wanted to make a more normal printer to test it”

Xu Wen: “”

Her printer wasn’t normal?

Luo Zemin could see the protest in her expression and busily said, “I didn’t mean that I meant to get a smaller and more convenient one to test it”

Xu Wen, of course, wouldn’t really count on it and nodded, complimenting him, “You’re very good! Being able to cite one and do it well”

Luo Zemin was much more impressive than Xu Man had expected

Moreover, even a small cup needed to have a model program, and in an era where computers were far from popular, no matter if Luo Zemin had asked for help or gotten it himself, it was particularly impressive

Either the human resources are awesome or the strength itself is awesome

Luo Zemin waved his hand, “It’s all from the drawings and data you gave me You’re the awesome one!” He lifted his wrist to look at his watch, “It looks like you should still have some time to door It’s too hot in here, why don’t we talk somewhere else? I know a dessert store that makes particularly delicious cold drinks and cakes”

Xu Man hesitated, but still nodded, Luo Zemin’s place was just too hot

What Luo Zemin wanted to talk to Xu Man about was cooperation

He wanted to use this 3d printing technology of Xu Man to start a business, specializing in 3d printers in the future

To start a business, you have to operate the factory first, so you can’t afford to pay Xu Man’s royalties, and discuss with Xu Man wants to let her technology into the stock

As long as Xu asked to agree, he immediately went back to apply for a patent

Whether successful or not, will give Xu Man 20% of the shares

Xu Man is of course very optimistic about 3d printer technology, but also optimistic about Luo Zemin this person

Dare to fight and venture into the brain flexible focus is not forgetting the roots

So Xu promised

Luo Zemin handwrote a letter of commitment to Xu Man, said that when the factory related procedures are registered, will give her a formal contract

Tan Changlin wasn’t there when we talked about this

I don’t know whether it was out of politeness or because he really didn’t like desserts, but when he got to the dessert store, Tan Changlin said he still needed to buy supplies and left first, making an appointment with Xu Man to meet her at the pier

Xu Man talked to Luo Zemin about the relevant matters, and then took a detour to say hello to his second brother, before departing back to Rainbow Island

Tan Changlin was already waiting for her at the pier, carrying his necessities in his hand

Just a piece of soap horn for washing clothes

Xu Man then realized that he was just leaving a door of space for him to talk to Luo Zemin

It turned out that his emotional intelligence wasn’t as low as he had previously shown

Back to Rainbow Island

As usual, Xu Man stopped in front of the Kaya and gave them a portion of the fruits and vegetables he bought from Pengcheng

They gave the money to Xu Man as usual, only this time, the chief officer named Caster took the initiative to open his mouth to greet Xu Man, “Beautiful lady, thank you! But you should refrain from giving it away in the future”

Xu Man was a bit puzzled, “Why?”

“And why do you insist? As far as I know it’s very unfavorable to you, isn’t it?”

“You should also know that my husband is also a soldier I know that he has a hard time when he is out and about! When I see you guys I think of him out there, and I’m just thinking of being nice to you guys as a good deed If one day my husband is forced to go out and can’t go back to his country or home, someone will be able to send him some warmth That’s all, nothing good or bad!”

All those on board the Kaya who heard these words were moved by them

Besides the soldiers, they were all still sons, fathers, and husbands, and their families were thinking of them at home at the moment

Especially since they were special in this profession, they were stuck here without their families knowing anything about it

Caster wanted to say something, but in the end he only said thank you

Although he didn’t know what had happened, the fact that the other party took the initiative to speak, and in a concerned tone, was a huge breakthrough for Xu Man

During dinner, Xu Man mentioned this to Lu Yuanzheng

Lu Yuanzheng furrowed his brows and fell into deep thought

Seeing that his expression wasn’t right, Xu Man wondered, “What’s wrong? Is there something wrong?”

“As of right now, there’s only one thing that’s considered unfavorable to you in your proximity to them”

“Right, my sisters-in-law’s misunderstanding of me” Xu Man subconsciously interjected, and his expression turned serious when he finished

How did a group of their officers and soldiers trapped on the Kaya know about the island?

“There are spies?” Xu Man shook his own head in denial as he finished speaking, “There are currently no ordinary people on this island, either soldiers or military wives and children At the very least, they’re elites like Tan Changlin who work in the national character unit It’s impossible for there to be spies”

Lu Yuan raised his eyebrows, “People suspect you, but you are generous enough to believe them unconditionally”

“If I want to be like them, won’t I appear to be foolish and ignorant as well?”

“Also! My daughter-in-law is the smartest” Lu Yuanzheng said putting down his chopsticks, “Good daughter-in-law, go home by yourself after eating in a while, I’m going to have a meeting”

“You’re not full yet!” Xu Wen pointed at the bowl in front of him

Generally, Lu Yuanzheng and the others didn’t waste food, they wouldn’t have leftovers of the rice they had beaten no matter how much

Right now, there was still most of the rice in Lu Yuanzheng’s bowl

“People have heard us talking, how can we still eat? I’ll have to report this Why don’t you take it back for me and I’ll eat it when I get back tonight”

There were priorities

If the enemy could sigh tea to the island’s movements than wasting a bowl of rice was too serious to delay

In the end, Xu Wen ate the entire portion of rice

She had said that she would be his strongest support, and she would do what he couldn’t

This night, Lu Yuanzheng did not return all night

The next day, their red and blue confrontation continued, and if you look closely, you will find a lot of ships missing

Lu Yuanzheng did not go

Xu Wen was eating breakfast when Lu Yuanzheng came back in a hurry and asked her, “Daughter-in-law, do you know how you can completely prevent sonar?”

“Huh?” Xu Man blinked, “Sonar? You mean they’re carrying sonar? But sonar can only detect objects and not listen in on conversations?”

Xu Man knew about sonar

It was often used in the military, such as torpedoes and submarines

But sonar couldn’t listen in, so what was said shouldn’t have heard her sisters-in-law talking about her

Lu Yuanzheng pursed his lips, ”It wasn’t heard through sonar It should be that the sister-in-laws happened to be heard by the people they came to place the sonar on when they were playing on the beach to say bad things about you”

Xu asked, “”

It took her a moment to digest this information

“You mean they left the Kaya? And have installed sonar devices in our area? But, haven’t our officers and men been watching them?”

“Last night we searched the bottom of the ocean and found several containers with sonar devices inside One of them isn’t far from the patch of sea where you guys usually play

I suspect that one of their people snuck out and put it there

As for surveillance, how can we be negligent with human patrols, not to mention that they have sonar to help them avoid our patrols” Lu Yuanzheng’s face was bad

If there was sonar, it was really especially troublesome

At the very least it would be impractical to get on board from the bottom of the Kaya via a frogman, and in fact no living thing would be able to get close to the Kaya unnoticed

It would make Lu Yuanzheng and the others very passive

As far as Xu Wen knew, there was no complete sonar shielding technology until she wore it

The few she knew of, Lufthansa and the others knew of as well

“Can’t we use that as an excuse to blow them away?”

Lu Yuanzheng shook his head, “We have no proof they did it There are no visible markings on all the equipment As long as they’re dead set against admitting it, there’s nothing we can do”

Xu Man thought about it for half a day, and the few he knew of, either the technology was not up to the task, or the known methods, were not very effective

Seeing that Xu Man didn’t have any better suggestions, Lu Yuanzheng instructed her to keep it a secret, not to let her other sisters-in-law or children know about the sonar, and left again with hurried feet

If it wasn’t for the fact that Xu Man had seen a lot and wanted to know if Xu Man had a solution, he wouldn’t have told Xu Man

It was also at Song Xueqin’s authorization that he asked

The sonar technology, which was really bad to crack, made Rainbow Island very passive

Xu Man knew that this time around, he couldn’t let the Kaya stay here no matter what he said

Song Xueqin, as well as the other officers and soldiers on the island, arrived at Rainbow Island and met throughout the day

Guess what, they were discussing how to blow away the Kaya

The following evening, Xu Wen brought a lot more dairy products and fruits to console the officers and soldiers on the Kaya

The Rainbow’s guards had gotten used to it and didn’t stop Xu Man when they saw him out and about

They all thought that Lu Yuanzheng was on the houseboat as well

Like yesterday, Caster was much friendlier to her

Xu Man took the opportunity to make a request to see the Kaya ship

Expectedly, Caster refused with a defensive face

Xu Man didn’t leave, nor did she try to persuade her much, sitting on the deck of the houseboat with a watering face

Caster: “”

After a while Caster said, “This is a military ship, thank you outsiders for coming aboard”

Xu Wen blinked and dropped a tear

She had carefully calculated the angle, and the tear must have fallen trembling from her eyelashes, rolling from the corner of her eye all the way to her lips

This was something she had rehearsed many times in front of the mirror, and even she herself looked particularly moved

Lu Yuanzheng had only seen it once and warned her against using beauty tricks

Xu Wen looked pitiful, her eyes clear and innocent: ”But, in our place, military ships can be visited I’ve even gone up to see them Could it be that your ships are so rudimentary or technologically low-end that even an ordinary civilian can take a glance at them?”

Caster shook his head, “Impossible!”

Nor could any warship be studied by an ordinary woman with a single glance

They had heard a little about Xu Wen’s identity, and had vaguely heard the people on their island scolding her again for something

Caster’s adjutant’s heart stirred when he remembered this, what if he could really bribe Xu Man?

This idea made him a little excited

If he could really get the wife of the other party’s chief officer to be his undercover agent, then

Caster’s adjutant attached himself to Caster’s ear and said his thoughts

Caster frowned and disagreed, ”What’s it like to utilize a woman? Not to mention she’s so friendly to us!”

The adjutant persuaded him for a while, the general idea, if translated into Chinese, was that those who accomplish great things do not bother with small details, and so on and so forth

Anyway, Xu Man was just an ordinary citizen, so what was the difference between letting her on board the ship and letting a lot of visitors from other professions on board in China?

Caster had better be persuaded

Staying on a ship for a long period of time was actually a very mentally testing thing

Especially since, for fear of exposing the number of people on their side, only a handful of people dared to take turns going up to the deck every day to let off steam

The cabin rooms were too depressing, and the diet was also single

The fruits and vegetables Xu Man sent every day were definitely not enough for a ship full of people to eat, and could only be given to the sick and diseased for a taste

It would still be worth it if he could utilize Xu Man and return home early to complete his purpose

With this in mind, Caster agreed, saying that only Xu Man could board the ship alone, and that he would need to be searched

Xu Man didn’t expect to be able to convince them so easily, and froze for a moment, then his heart surged with fear

In that ship, there were at least three digits of officers and soldiers

What would happen if only she, a woman, got on the ship?

In case she is forced No, even if she is held hostage, it is still a trouble