Chapter 514 Lin Yun

Chapter 514 Lin Yun

Chapter 514 Lin Yun
The thunderstorm on the mountain came and went quickly, and the last ray of sunset shot out a little red light from the gaps in the clouds.

The girl named Lin Yun from Yuhuangding left a deep impression on Chen Ang.

However, they did not leave each other's contact information. This meeting seemed to be just a wonderful chance encounter. The lives of the two people still extended in different directions along their own trajectories.

After leaving Mount Tai, Chen Ang returned to his hometown.

However, several strange conditions in this house cast a veil of mystery over the entire first half of the movie.

First of all, there was only a thin layer of dust in the house which had been uninhabited for a long time, and it did not look like it had been vacant for a long time at all.

Then there was the iron faucet that had been shut off for two years. The water flowing out was very clear, not muddy water full of rust.

There is also an oil painting by his father. The scenery outside the window is a tall water tower, but when Chen Ang looks out the window, there is only a building surrounded by scaffolding and under construction.

Of course, these are just inconspicuous details hidden in the movie. When Chen Ang sat on the sofa, looking at the empty and deserted house, the flashback memory finally revealed the secrets about his past.

The dark night, the thunderstorm, the strong wind, the lightning, his parents, and the blue ball of light that floated around the house like a ghost and turned his parents into ashes.

"Dr. Chen! Dr. Chen!"

The sudden shout woke Chen Ang from his memories. He was still in the interrogation room with the cold white light. The white agent who looked kind but actually had a cold look in his eyes was still sitting in front of him, as if he was a little impatient with his memories that he could not grasp the key points.

"Dr. Chen, I think the interesting things about your college life seem to have nothing to do with what we want to know."

Chen Ang was not angry because the other party interrupted his memories.

"I thought we still had a lot of time. We've only just started our journey and haven't reached the end yet, right?"

"We don't have as much time as you think, Doc." The white agent spread his hands helplessly.

The camera switched to the other side, where HX's aircraft carrier formation was cruising at sea, military exercises were in full swing, new fifth-generation fighters took off from the deck, and rockets streaked through the sky, leaving behind long, thin white exhaust.

The atmosphere is getting more tense, with all kinds of comments appearing on the Internet.

Inside the pentagonal building of the Bald Eagle, the atmosphere at the military command center was also very tense. People were constantly running in and out, and all kinds of intelligence information were gathering here. A lieutenant general couldn't help but make a suggestion.

"I think we can try to use that."

"That thing is not mature yet, but the intelligence system is taking action. Soon, the situation should be under our control again."

The scene changes.

"The situation is a bit tense now."

In the shaking military green SUV, young Chen Ang was sitting in the passenger seat, and Lin Yun was driving. The road was winding and not easy to drive on, with tall poplar forests on both sides.

“Perhaps you don’t pay much attention to the international situation, but since Big Brother had problems and disintegrated a few years ago, there has been one less superpower to check and balance us, the bipolar confrontation has ended, and one country has become the only superpower left. Our honeymoon period with the United States has come to an end.

At present, international friction is intensifying, and the United States has also begun to consciously target us."

The car was shaking and Chen Ang felt a little dizzy.

"So you asked me to come here? I know nothing about the international situation, and I just graduated with a master's degree."

"You'll know when you get there."

As Lin Yun spoke, a corner of a mysterious building complex appeared at the end of the road deep in the woods.

"Okay, here we are, new concept."

"New concept?!"

"Oh, we're used to calling it that. It's the National Defense University's New Concept Weapon Development Center. I've been working here since I graduated."

Chen Ang took a closer look after hearing this. Like almost all key institutions, this was a simple building within a tall wall. There was no sign by the gate, but there were guards standing guard at the door.

After the inspection, Lin Yun drove Chen Ang into the New Concept Weapons Development Center and took him to an office marked "System Evaluation Department 2".

"Please sit down for a while. I'll go change my clothes."

Lin Yun poured him a cup of tea and then left.

Chen Ang looked around curiously. There were whitewashed walls, simple tables and chairs, cabinets, and a large number of books in the cabinets. There was no feminine decoration at all, except for a model of a warship on the desk.

"My dad gave it to me when I graduated from college."

Lin Yun, wearing a military uniform, walked in with a brilliant smile. Her beauty that went beyond fashion made Chen Ang's heart beat fast.

"Come on, sign this first."

Lin Yun sat down at the desk, took out a document from the drawer and handed it to him.

Confidentiality Agreement!

Chen Ang took a look at it, flipped through it with a pen, but did not sign immediately.

"I still don't understand, what is this for?"

"Didn't your teacher tell you?" Lin Yun asked with a smile.

Chen Ang shook his head.

"He just said he wanted to introduce me to a national defense research project involving electrical engineering. It mainly contains a large lightning simulation device, a complex magnetic field generating device, and an even more complex sensor detection system."

"It seems that you are still thinking about studying lightning, so you should come to us."

Lin Yun smiled and took the initiative to explain: "New concept weapons research and development, as the name suggests, is the research and development of innovative military weapons that are different from conventional ones."

She gave several examples.

For example, in World War II, the Soviet army tied explosives to trained military dogs and let them crawl under German tanks, or trained a group of birds to carry small bombs, such as graphite dust bombs that can paralyze the power system, and spray solutions that can make the road surface slippery and impassable...

"We produce concepts. Most of these concepts are useless, and some even look like jokes. But as long as one percent or even one thousandth of them can become reality, it will be very meaningful to the country."

Chen Ang was a little hesitant. To be honest, he didn't want to get involved in complicated matters, but Lin Yun was very optimistic about him.

“Although our work is to discover the feasibility of various ideas, it does not just stay at the theoretical stage. Sometimes we will also conduct further research, which may go to a considerable depth, such as the lightning weapon system we are about to talk about.

By the way, how have you been these past two years? Are you still tracking ball lightning every day? "

This topic undoubtedly fits Chen Ang's interests better, and he nodded.

"Of course, this is the topic of my graduate thesis, but for now I can only track it on paper. After all, ball lightning is something that can only be encountered by luck."

"Then I'll take you to see something good."

As Lin Yun spoke, he picked up the phone, as if he was contacting someone about a visit or something.

At this time, the camera swept across her desk. There were two photos pressed by glass on the table. One was a photo of Lin Yun and several Marines. She was the only woman in the photo and looked very young.

The other photo was of a middle-aged naval officer who looked somewhat similar to Lin Yun and had a very good temperament.

At this time, Lin Yun finished the call, took him out of the office, and got into another car. "We have spent a lot of effort on lightning weapons in the past two years, but we have not been very successful. Fortunately, you came not too late, at least the equipment has not been removed from the site."

Lin Yun started the car with a touching smile, but Chen Ang became interested in a small ornament hanging on the rearview mirror.

It was a piece of bamboo as thick as a finger, with two sections and a branch attached to it. Although it was very old, it must have a different story to be hung here.

Chen Ang reached out to take it down for a closer look, but Lin Yun, who was driving, grabbed his wrist.

"That's a landmine," she said calmly.

"What?" Chen Ang looked at her in surprise, then looked at the piece of bamboo.

"An anti-personnel mine, captured on the front line in Guangxi in the early 1980s. It has a simple structure, low cost, and a concealed appearance. It does not need to be buried when deployed, and it is not easily detected by ordinary mine detectors. The only problem is that it cannot kill people, but it is more efficient than lethal weapons in reducing the enemy's combat effectiveness."

This beautiful girl who touched Chen Ang's heart calmly talked about blood, weapons and death in front of him, just like other girls of the same age discussing cosmetics.

"This... is too dangerous. Can it explode?" Chen Ang became nervous unusually and asked, pointing at the bamboo.

"It should work."

Lin Yun’s words shocked Chen Ang, but she was very happy.

"Yeah, it's still cocked...but I like the feeling of it."

She stared calmly ahead with her clear eyes, and after a long while she whispered, "Can you understand that feeling?"

"Just like how I feel about ball lightning?" Chen Ang asked back.

"Sure enough," Lin Yun smiled, "You can understand me."

"Yeah, it seems that we are all the kind of people whose entire lives are occupied by something." Chen Ang couldn't help but sigh.

The car turned onto a very narrow road, passed through an orchard, and finally stopped.

Afterwards, Lin Yun took Chen Ang and showed him some of the research results of New Concept.

For example, there was an airborne lightning weapon. When lightning shot out from the belly of a helicopter and hit a pile of waste oil drums on the ground, the movie audience was shocked.

There is also a charged air generator, which sucks in a large amount of air, makes it charged and then discharges it. The two devices generate positively and negatively charged air respectively, which are distributed at different heights to form a discharge electric field in the atmosphere.

In this way, if a flying vehicle breaks into it, it will be bombarded by the thunderclouds.

When they saw a small model plane being struck by lightning in the middle of the red and blue air layer and exploded into pieces, more viewers began to subconsciously move their butts.

Different from Wang Hao's previous science fiction films, his shooting techniques in "Ball Lightning" are undoubtedly more realistic. It feels as if the Chinese military does have these new weapons.

However, Lin Yun quickly gave the reasons for the failure of these projects, which were nothing more than excessive energy consumption, too difficult control, too short range, and lack of practical value.

"So we thought we'd come up with a new lightning weapon system, and you can probably guess what it is..."

"Ball lightning."

Chen Ang looked at the helicopter on the test site that was still discharging electricity towards the ground.

"If this type of lightning could be artificially generated, its potential would be truly immeasurable.

It’s hard to imagine that there is something that can pass through a wall in the form of a ball of fire, without emitting any heat, but can vaporize a person in an instant.”

"Yes, I have seen documented cases of ball lightning."

Lin Yun nodded.

“There are records that it once burned a person sleeping in the quilt to ashes, but there was not a single burn mark on the quilt.

There are also records of it entering a refrigerator and instantly turning the frozen food inside into steaming cooked food while the refrigerator itself was still running.

All of this shows that it has an incredibly precise selectivity in striking targets, a feature not possessed by any other weapon system.”

However, looking at the excited Lin Yun, Chen Ang couldn't bear it, but he still interrupted her and said:
"But it's difficult, and the chances of success are even lower than if you had improved these lightning weapons.

At present, the academic community still knows nothing about ball lightning, and some people are even unwilling to acknowledge its existence, let alone artificially generate ball lightning and develop it into a weapon. "

"That's exactly why we found you. Besides, we won't let you take all the responsibilities for this kind of project. We have other foreign players."

Lin Yun persuaded:
"It's mainly because we value your persistence in this area. Sometimes when doing research, perseverance is often more important than anything else. We don't want someone to give up halfway through the research."

"But I still think it's meaningless to spend too much energy on this thing." Chen Ang insisted.

"Do you feel guilty about developing weapons?" Lin Yun suddenly asked.

"I don't know how to put it either." Chen Ang was silent for a moment and sighed deeply. "Maybe you haven't seen how ball lightning kills people, but I have seen it, and it killed my parents!"

“I watched them burn to ashes in an instant, and then the human-shaped ashes fell to the ground with a light touch of my finger.

I didn’t even tell the police at the time, and they wrote ‘missing’ in my parents’ case file…”

"Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you!" Lin Yun seemed flustered.

"It doesn't matter," Chen Ang responded calmly, "It happened a long time ago, but personally, I have no interest in lightning weapons."

"I understand how you feel. You are a kind person and it was me who was inconsiderate."

Chen Ang shook his head. "I'm not as complicated as you think, nor am I that kind. I just don't want to see ball lightning burn people to ashes again."

"So do you want to see someone burn us to ashes one day?" Lin Yun asked back.

Chen Ang opened his mouth to speak, but Lin Yun didn't give him the chance.

“The truth is only within the range of cannons. We may not be the first to use weapons, but we cannot be without them!”

After saying that, she took off a brooch on her chest. It was the only decoration on her body. It was a sword, but only as long as a matchstick. It had a simple shape, but it sparkled with bright silver light.

"Do you think it looks good?"

Lin Yun held up the brooch and Chen Ang nodded.

"This is a gift from my alma mater to the students when we graduated. There is also a sculpture of this sword in our school.

I do like weapons and I do like danger, but I don't like war because my mother died on a battlefield.

But judging from the current situation, war is no longer a question of whether we like it or not.

"Forging swords for the country" is the motto of my alma mater and it is also our responsibility.

Of course, you are not a soldier, and I am not going to force you, but if the skin is gone, where will the hair be attached?
Think about it carefully! "

Lin Yun turned and left. In Chen Ang's palm, her sharpest sword in the world was lying quietly.

(End of this chapter)