Gene Game

90 The Truth at the Tip of the Iceberg (2)

"What's that again?" Lu Fei reached out and leaned forward, only the screen was touched.

    "That was the earliest exoskeleton experiment, code-named'Atlas', produced by Garrod Space Systems in the United States in 1974." The old man was fascinated, "Of course it is very simple from today's perspective, but it has created In an era, with the help of the machine we saw, the adult male in the picture successfully lifted a 350kg weight. The academic circles generally believe that this is the initial prototype of the modern power armor. At the Penn University seminar in 2014, the world Scholars from various countries also held a 40th anniversary ceremony."

    "350kg? It's not bad now. I can't lift such a heavy thing with my original body." DPJ-09's load capacity is only 250kg.

    "The problem is the weight of the equipment. Don't just stare at the person, look at that guy's side. The weight of the whole machine is more than 750kg. Even so, with the human electronics and material technology at the time, it is not easy to do this. This is what we should Some technological level."

    "Pioneers are always great," Lu Fei said. "We surpassed them only because we stood on the shoulders of giants."

    "Miss Lu Fei's quote is very appropriate. The problem is that it was already 1974 and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was just eight years later."

    Following the words of the old man, the screen changed again, and they were on the battlefield filled with gunpowder. The rugged mountains are full of ravines, the yellow-brown land is barely covered by vegetation, and the light blue sky is clear and high. Liu Yi immediately recognized this as Afghanistan.

    Those agile and maneuverable power armors on steep slopes that are difficult for ordinary people to walk confirmed the guess. He was familiar with every model he saw, and even passed through several of them. The frightening MDA "tulip", the MDC "catastrophe" that almost changed the outcome of the war, and the most classic and most produced MDS-84. The Soviet-made power armor is clumsy in appearance, and the craftsmanship is very rough under close observation, with uneven paint, messy rivets, surface armor with crooked seams, and there is always a strong smell of engine oil.

    But let's not say that it is against the guerrillas that only have AK47, RPG and 107 rockets in their hands. They are confronting the main U.S. military aircraft M2A1 and M2A2. These silly guys are also stable and reliable, and they are loyal under any circumstances. Give full play to your performance and become the owner's most trusted companion. Later in Vietnam, Mexico, and Gondwana, the old but durable Soviet-style power armor showed what an excellent power armor should look like to its American counterparts who were technologically advanced but difficult to maintain.

    There was a saying on the battlefield that if one shot was shot, the one that had to go home and repaired was a German product, the one that was shot 10 rounds could go home smoothly was an American one, and the only one that was shot 100 rounds could make it back to the base was MDS. -84. Of course, the one who voluntarily throws into the arms of the enemy without a shot must be French.

    "Eight years, only eight years later," the old man's voice was still clear between the roar of machine guns and artillery, "Soviet people can put the second-generation power armor into use on a large scale. From scratch, from research and development to actual combat, In the middle, it passed the initial first-generation power armor. It was too fast, it was too fast, and it was almost counterintuitive. The problems that need to be overcome range from materials to compilation. There should be no such degree of technological progress. No matter how genius their technicians are."

    "You mean, they stole American technology?"

    "This possibility also exists, but it's the same as they said that the J20 of the Celestial Dynasty was American technology that was stolen. After so many years, Americans have always been stolen. Is this world all stupid? No, their technology does not come from themselves, but the target is not American."

    "Whose technology is that?" Liu Yi couldn't think of anyone with more advanced technology than the United States or the Soviets. It would be in the 1970s. "Don't tell me the stolen heaven."

    "What you think is impossible is often the answer: yes, it was stolen from the heavens."

    Liu Yi suspected that he had heard it wrong. "How is it possible?" He scratched his head, "The power armor technology of the celestial dynasty that year was worth stealing by the Soviets? The PLA's power armor equipment was in the early 1990s."

    The old man laughed loudly: "The'Heavenly Dynasty' here refers to the geographical celestial dynasty. In short, you only need to understand that since that era, our world has undergone some unusual changes, and some technologies that shouldn't exist have been acquired. Explosive development. Where did these technologies come from?"

    The screen has changed again. Liu Yi has not only seen the things displayed this time, but also personally touched them not long ago. "this thing……?"

    "Yes, the thing you found is a QR code from two thousand years ago." The screen shows the bronze box he took from an odd man in Baishou Town. The lid opened on its own, revealing the uneven pattern on the bottom of the box. .

    "Two thousand years ago? QR code?" Lu Fei grasped Liu Yi's hand firmly.

    "That's right, the QR code two thousand years ago, without mentioning the content of the scan, first of all, it is inconsistent with common sense-the invention of the QR code has only been more than forty years, almost the same time as the power A. You guys. Don't you think it's weird?"

    The two nodded together, it was more than strange, they were almost dead strangely.

    "Right, there is something that existed before it was invented. It is very strange to look at it. In fact, what Xiao Liu got is not a special case. We have similar discoveries all over the world. They have different shapes and are recorded on different materials. , But they are undoubtedly QR codes. You can read information with a mobile phone. We call them prehistoric QR codes collectively."

    "Prehistoric? At least the one I found was two thousand years ago. It would have been prehistoric long ago."

    "The name is not very precise, but it sounds very flavorful, so we unanimously approved the name. Please be patient, please look at where we have found the prehistoric QR code."

    No need for the old man's reminder, because their curiosity was provoked, Liu Yi and Lu Fei couldn't even blink their eyes.

    The first to appear on the screen is the famous Roman Arena. Four-story circular arcade, each arcade is connected by eighty arches, and the statue in each arch is ten meters high. Some of those statues are warriors, some are craftsmen, and some are scholars holding books.

    The camera zoomed in and landed on the book in the hands of one of the scholars. Although time passed and the years eroded and the pages of the stone-carved book were severely worn, it could still be recognized that it was a QR code.

    "The ancient Roman Arena was built between 72 and 82 AD, and it is close in time to what you found," Professor Xu explained. "Look at the following again."

    This time around is the famous Stonehenge in England.

    The old man pointed to his feet-actually the picture said: "This is much older than the others, built 4,300 years ago. Look at the stone path under your feet, the axis of the stone formation, and the sun rising in the summer solstice in the same straight line. ."

    "Where is the QR code?"

    The angle of view suddenly increased, as if the clouds were flying in the fog. On the side of the huge boulder at the top of the stone formation, in the very inconspicuous corner, they really saw the tightly arranged small squares. If it hadn't been pointed out by someone, others would probably treat it as an accidental stain.

    The scene that appeared next was a bit strange. It was a huge square tower, somewhat similar to the towering tower in "Game of Thrones" that doubled as a lighthouse. Liu Yi wondered, wondering, did they use the scenes of the TV series? No, he suddenly realized that what he saw before his eyes was the prototype of the tower in the novel and TV series in reality, but—

    The professor obviously noticed his confusion: "Yes, you must have recognized it. This is the Alexandria Lighthouse, the one destroyed by the earthquake in the 14th century."