Chapter 56
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Chapter 56: Notebook Disassembly
Even though it was underground, the air circulation was excellent, and the lights used bulbs that captured real sunlight. It was clear this underground base was not just a hidden site; it served more as a temporary command center to withstand nuclear strikes, equipped with complete facilities.
Lin Mo had gathered some information from Old Hu. The ‘Night’ special forces unit already possessed some aerial combat capabilities for transport and evacuation support, but they urgently needed strong aerial attack forces. This indicated that their opponents were becoming increasingly formidable, requiring the deployment of jet fighters for assistance. Relying solely on ground assaults was likely insufficient, especially since the enemy had fighters as well.
Everyone knew how awkward it was for infantry to face aircraft.
The era of the “rifle and rice” was long gone; with a supportive nation backing them, the military equipment was not lacking, maintaining a high firepower advantage was essential. The decision to upgrade the unit’s equipment made by the commanders of ‘Night’ was swift and resolute.
As Old Hu had said, Lin Mo’s luggage was waiting for him in the living room, the airdrop box unpacked with a few other boxes containing various items.
Lin Mo began to tidy up his clothes and belongings, filling the empty wardrobe. He then took his clothes into the bathroom for a refreshing hot shower, washing away the chill he had collected while waiting in the wild after the airdrop.
After drying off with a towel, he retrieved his notebook bag. But when he unzipped it, he found it completely empty, seeming to always have been so, save for a mouse pad and a pitiful mouse that appeared to mock Lin Mo.
A sense of dread washed over Lin Mo.
He paused, looking around in disbelief, and opened all the other boxes again, only for his suppressed frustration to finally erupt.
“Gold Coin! You jerk! Where did you hide my laptop?!”
Lin Mo’s angry shout echoed through the room, as the Gold Coin on his wrist vanished without a trace.
Just then, a most inappropriate burp echoed from the corner of the sofa.
Lin Mo quickly swept through the room with a gust of wind, only to find a bizarre creature sitting on the sofa, fiddling with the military tactical board computer it had just acquired.
It was indeed bizarre, displaying strange circuits across its exposed body, packed with dense integrated circuits, capacitors, and various electronic components. It seemed like a screen, distorting to show Lin Mo’s familiar laptop desktop, even including the names of folders he had created, all identical.
“Gold Coin, you jerk, what did you do to my laptop?” Lin Mo snatched up the newly issued military tactical board computer and shouted at the creature on the sofa, “Give me back my computer, or I’ll send you to the lab for dissection!”
“Uh! Captain Lin Mo, first, let me declare that I didn’t do it on purpose! But now it’s like this, uh… I really didn’t mean to! It was just an accident, truly! Uh…” The Gold Coin had fully shed its dragon form, seemingly having overindulged, constantly burping and flinging parts around, speaking with a boldness that said it wasn’t afraid. “Anyway, you’ve got a new lover now, so you don’t need that old laptop anymore. Why bother? You’re magnanimous; uh… how about I transform into a laptop for you? I guarantee it’ll be top-notch performance, hehe!”
Seeing this gleeful tone, it was obvious the creature had been planning this for a while. This was not the first day it had dabbled in Lin Mo’s notebook; it had made do with a broken radio or faulty instruments in the past. Now, having a pristine laptop to indulge in was too tempting to resist.
The smug attitude coupled with the disappearance of the laptop meant only one thing: this creature had definitely devoured his laptop. Lin Mo swore deeply that the notebook wasn’t just made of metal but comprised many complex components, showing that Gold Coin had quite the appetite and didn’t seem concerned about getting a stomachache.
“You brat!” In response to Gold Coin, Lin Mo’s big foot kicked it off the sofa without reservation, ignoring the creature that had once been the bloodthirsty dragon.
“Hey! My display! How could you do that! Can you fix it? Are you a dragon or a pig?”
“Keep kicking! You should know when to stop! If you keep this up, I’ll get really mad!”
“Dragons have dignity! If you keep it up, I’ll fight back! Be careful not to hurt the screen; it was hard to fuse it together.”
“Oh dear, what do you want? Who’s afraid of whom?”
With engineering plastics, glass, PCB panels, and various electronic components scattered about, Gold Coin had barely started to digest them, fearing too much at once. At this moment, it was no match for Lin Mo, who unleashed a thorough beating, sending it rolling across the floor amidst scattered parts.
Though it suffered no real damage, it was too embarrassing for the dragon kin. If it weren’t for the more important components, Gold Coin would have likely fought back long ago. A dragon might be targeted at first, but it was not a harmless reptile.
“Humph… Gold Coin, you better not touch my computer again.” After landing a series of punches and kicks, Lin Mo held onto his military tactical tablet. As for his original laptop, he didn’t hold much hope anymore. Gold Coin’s lack of foundational electronic knowledge meant he could not expect it to restore his laptop.
This time, Lin Mo found a chance to beat Gold Coin as thoroughly as he wanted. When someone had bottled up their frustrations for too long, they needed to blow off steam. From the moment Gold Coin had ingested his laptop, Lin Mo knew this troublesome creature would never be able to restore it. Decomposed electronic products to such a degree was something that could not be played with using the wisdom of a different world’s dragon. This was a completely different concept than disrupting a black box in a fighter jet during a battle.
At this moment, Gold Coin, now misshapen from the beating, could no longer remember the locations of all the scattered components. The previously ingested laptop’s circuits and components had long since fallen apart. Though it pitifully struggled to gather the fallen parts, it was losing bits of electronic components with every passing moment. The room filled with a burnt smell; the only thing Gold Coin could manage to create was a type of electronic component—a farad capacitor.
The farad capacitor, also known as a supercapacitor or gold capacitor, was the largest dual-layer capacitor in mass production, constructed from porous active carbon electrodes and electrolytes to achieve a vast capacity.
This simple construction had little technical content, and for Gold Coin, it was easy enough to form a large-capacity battery. Now it could even power a light bulb, illuminating dimly; it had barely stepped into the electrical age.
“Can’t even run yet! You want to fly?! Hmph!” Lin Mo scoffed at it while he searched for some regulations and basic information about ‘Night’ on his tactical tablet.
The ‘Night’ tactical board computer was far from the kind of device ordinary people had seen. It had the thickness of a one-yuan coin but was incredibly sturdy, outfitted with a carbon-fiber shockproof case, its alloy back feeling extremely substantial. Lin Mo even suspected it could withstand close-range pistol fire.
Though its interfaces were abundant, some even Lin Mo didn’t recognize, the primary operation relied on touch.
The ‘Night’ unit actually had the real designation of the 6513895 unit, comprising over three hundred combat and intelligence personnel. Nearly a hundred were in operations, fifteen were staff, and thirty were in support teams, along with close to a thousand non-combat logistics personnel. The commanding officer was Colonel Feng Chenye, overseeing four combat teams responsible for assault, assassination, and reconnaissance tasks, with unlimited equipment and training support, rolling out the latest weapons immediately; it appeared they had outstanding benefits, but everyone knew these came at a price.
The surface area of the Night base stretched nearly five square kilometers, with ownership seemingly scattered among various individuals or collective units but discreetly affiliated with the military. The underground area was even more enormous, comprising seven layers, reaching depths of over one hundred meters to hold more than eighty thousand people. The ‘Night’ unit only occupied about one-fifth of this underground space; many more secret zones remained sealed off, not entirely empty but filled with military supplies, food, daily necessities, energy sources, and various industrial and electronic equipment that underwent regular updates.
Though not publicly announced, the longest-serving veterans of the ‘Night’ knew it was one of the last lifelines of the country. With the stored equipment and resources in enclosed areas, it could potentially rebuild the agricultural and industrial civilization system in times of crisis. Despite this massive underground base being just one of many scattered across China, another hidden mission of ‘Night’ was to guard this mysterious final lifeline.
This underground city might be connected to the consolidation of retired troops and engineering construction forces stationed in Xinjiang into the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in 1952. Its scale was beyond what average engineering teams could handle. Countless generations had silently labored, spending immense funds for its completion.
On the tactical board map, Lin Mo located the hangar’s position, which housed four WZ-12 helicopters and two Mi-17-B5 transport helicopters, making up the existing aerial combat and transport capabilities of the base.
As the only newly arrived fighter pilot, Lin Mo held a higher access level than ordinary combat personnel, allowing him to read more information through the tactical board computer.
What Lin Mo was most concerned about was the takeoff and landing environment for the aircraft. The ground map showed that the runway for jet fighters was narrow, only eight hundred meters long, situated in a recessed valley about fifteen kilometers away from his current location through an underground passage.
