Chapter 2601
After the captain brought food and tea to Sokov and Yakov, he exited the room and thoughtfully closed the door for them.
"Your weapon design drawings have been completed, what are your plans next?"
"I don't know." Sokov, who was eating, said vaguely: "Although the drawings are completed, it will take two or three days to make the prototype gun, and then there will be a series of testing work. I estimate it will take a few more days. It will take me a few days before I can leave here and go home.”
"Misha, when you went to Comrade Ustinov's office, did he ask you to sign a confidentiality agreement and then asked you to join a design team and participate in a major research and development project?"
After hearing this, Sokov couldn't help but be stunned, and then asked: "Why, Comrade Ustinov also asked you to sign a confidentiality agreement?"
"Yes, he once asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement." Yakov replied without hesitation: "But I refused. What about you, did you sign it or not?"
"No, I didn't sign." After Sokov finished speaking, before Yakov could ask, he took the initiative to explain the reason for his refusal: "A major project that requires signing a confidentiality agreement means that in the following days, We will live a life of isolation from the rest of the world, unable to see our loved ones. This may be three or four years, or it may be thirty or forty years. I don’t want my child to be unable to see his father in person after he is born. ”
"Misha, you did the right thing." Yakov nodded and said: "With your current status, there is indeed no need to participate in any major research and development projects. In fact, it is not bad to stay in the General Ordnance Department. When you have design inspiration, you can Develop several new types of light weapons; if you don’t know what weapons to design for the time being, you can continue to write books. In fact, I envy you. You know so many things and your life is very fulfilling. "
"After designing the machine gun this time, I don't think I will design any new weapons. After all, I have exhausted my talents." Sokov said: "I think if I have time, I can still sit down and write some novels. If I can't let others I get higher honors.”
"Actually, there are thousands of writers and weapons experts, but only a handful of them are famous. But the few weapons you designed are enough to make you an excellent military expert. "After Yakov said this, he picked up the cup and took a sip of hot tea, and then thought of something: "By the way, what did you mean by 'the talent is exhausted'? Why have I never heard of it before?"
"This is an idiom from the East." Sokov heard what Yakov said and realized that he had just inadvertently used a Chinese idiom. He quickly explained to Yakov: "Hundreds of years ago, there was a surname When Jiang's literati got older, they had little creative inspiration and the articles they wrote were no longer attractive. People said that Jiang's talents were exhausted. "
"Oh, so that's what happened." Yakov nodded slightly, and then said: "By the way, Misha, have you heard about the Chelyabinsk Research Institute?"
"No." Sokov shook his head and asked curiously: "What happened to the research institute in Chelyabinsk?"
"I heard, just heard, I can't guarantee the authenticity of the matter." Yakov said: "I heard it from a military expert in the office. He was drunk at the time and kept mumbling. He kept talking, and I was sitting next to him and happened to hear something. "
"What is it? Come on and tell me."
"When we returned from the Far East and passed through the Tunguska region, didn't we discuss the so-called alien civilization? Do you remember this?"
"Remember, of course I remember." Sokov urged the other party: "Yasha, tell me quickly, what is the connection between the Chelyabinsk research institute and the Tunguska explosion?"
"In the late 1920s, our country sent a scientific expedition team to the center of the original explosion. The scientific expedition team members discovered a huge meteorite. Although it was only more than one meter high, it weighed an astonishing 30 tons, which was heavier than the same meteorite. The volume of gold is heavier.”
Sokov was considered a top student in later generations, so he naturally knew that although gold is a precious metal, metals heavier than it still exist. For example, the density of gold is 19.2g per cubic centimeter, tungsten is 19.3g per cubic centimeter, tantalum is 16.6 cubic centimeters, platinum is 21.5 cubic centimeters, iridium is 22 cubic centimeters, and osmium is 22 cubic centimeters. . So when he heard this, he couldn't help but interrupt and asked: "Since it is heavier than gold, what metal is it?"
"After testing, it was found that it was a metal that does not belong to the earth." Yakov continued: "In order to transport this magical piece of metal, a special railway was built, and then the metal block was pulled to Chelyabin by train. Sk, then sent to a hidden factory and established a research institute.”
"Then what is the use of this piece of metal? Have you researched it?"
"What I am going to say next is the most incredible thing. Although I am very familiar with the military expert, understand his character, and know that he is not a liar, I always feel that what he said is ridiculous. It’s a fairy tale. If you don’t believe it after listening to it, don’t refute me. Just treat it as a science fiction story.”
"Tell me, Yasha." At this moment, Sokov wanted to know the purpose of this magical metal: "I was just listening to the story."
"Initially, the stone was placed in a hall. The researchers tried every means but could not cut the stone. Until one day, when a technician was sitting on the ground next to the stone to rest, someone asked him to do something. He casually put a drawing in his hand on the ground, Yakov said: "When he came back, he unexpectedly found something like an eye emerging from the stone, emitting a beam of light and illuminating the drawing. . Soon, a magical scene appeared. As the light beam disappeared, an object marked on the drawing appeared in the open space next to it. "
When Sokov heard this, he couldn't help shouting in his heart: "Wow, this is too exaggerated. After a beam of light scans the drawing, the things on the drawing automatically become real objects. It is simply a fantasy. "But thinking of the prior agreement with Yakov, he did not interrupt the other party, but allowed the other party to continue speaking.
"When the people at the institute discovered this situation, they were immediately overjoyed. They quickly brought more drawings, hoping that the same miracle could happen again." At this point, Yakov shrugged and spread his hands. : "As a result, the drawings were brought, but the mysterious light did not appear again."
"In other words, after that mysterious eye scans the drawings with light, it can turn the design data on the drawings into physical objects?" Sokov looked at Yakov and asked: "Yasha, I'm right. ?"
"Light scanning?!" Yakov said with some surprise: "Misha, you used this word quite accurately. The strange stone illuminates the blueprint with a beam, isn't it just scanning?"
"Later, did the stone scan other drawings and turn the things on the drawings into real objects?"
"It is said that the eyes on the stone will appear once every two years, and then the provided drawings will be scanned, but each scan does not take long." Yakov continued: "The scanned drawings have some changes. They become real objects, and some don’t change anything at all.”
When Sokov heard this, he began to wonder about the strange behavior of this strange stone: "Yasha, you said that the reason why the drawings swept by the stone could not be transformed into real objects is because the value of the item is not high. , or is there an error in the drawing design?”
Regarding Sokov's statement, Yakov was stunned for a while, then slowly nodded and said in a tone of approval: "Misha, what you said makes perfect sense. I also feel that those who have been scanned by the beam, but Drawings that have never been turned into physical objects are either of low value or poorly designed.”
"So among the weapons currently in service in our army, which ones are directly transformed from strange stones?"
"Katyusha rocket launcher." Yakov replied without hesitation: "Haven't you noticed that the Katyusha rocket launcher has never been improved since it was finalized? Also, the design drawings of the new rocket launcher you invented It has also been scanned by that beam. Otherwise, do you think we can design such an advanced rocket with our existing military technology?”
Yakov's statement made Sokov dubious, because he and Yakov did not go to Chelyabinsk at all.
Yakov obviously saw Sokov's confusion and added: "Misha, the city we went to was indeed not Chelyabinsk. But as far as I know, the drawings you designed were copied at that time. Several copies were sent to Chelyabinsk. I think the reason why they were produced so quickly was because of the beam scanning.”
"Yasha, I don't agree with your statement." After hearing what Yakov said, Sokov took the opportunity to express his doubts: "Even if my design drawings have been scanned by the beam, it can produce such a Too many rockets? You know, the amount of rockets consumed from the time they are put into the battlefield is astronomical. I don’t think that just a beam of light can meet the needs on the battlefield. "
"Misha, you are too anxious. I haven't finished speaking yet. It's not too late to express your opinion after you listen to me."
Sokov nodded and made a gesture of invitation to Yakov: "Yasha, please continue."
"I didn't finish what I just said, which caused you to misunderstand." Yakov said: "The equipment that has been turned into physical objects through drawings will be quickly sent to other areas for disassembly and measurement, and then based on the test results The data will be used to produce corresponding parts for assembly. The new rocket is disassembled and measured, and then the parts are produced in different factories, and then assembled in a unified military factory.”
"Oh, that's it." At this time, Sokov finally understood why the Soviet army continued to produce more advanced weapons and equipment despite losing its main military industrial city, Yakov said The said mysterious research institute should be indispensable.
"Scan the drawings and get the real thing?!" Sokov kept mumbling, and a terrible thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "Oh my God, no wonder the intelligence agencies are trying their best to cultivate a fake president. It turns out he is For this matter.”
Yakov heard Sokov muttering something and couldn't help but ask: "Misha, what are you talking about?"
"I didn't say anything." Sokov said covertly: "I just think this matter is too incredible, unimaginable, simply unimaginable. Although you said that the military industry expert can't speak, I still think this should be He was talking nonsense when he was drunk. There is no strange stone from the alien world, and there is no magical beam that can transform the data in the drawing into a physical object."
"Misha, I've said it before. I heard it from others. I can't guarantee the truth of the story. Just let you listen to it as a story."
"Yes, yes, you are right." Sokov nodded vigorously and said very cooperatively: "In fact, I just listen to this matter as a story."
Yakov filled his stomach with Sokov's and drank a few cups of hot tea. Then he stood up and said: "Misha, I have to go back to work. You are tired for so long, so you should take time to rest. I will come to see you another day."
After seeing Yakov off, Sokov called the captain in and asked him to clean up the things on the table.
After the captain packed up his things, he respectfully asked Sokov: "Comrade General, do you have any other instructions?"
"No, you go out first." Sokov waved his hand at the captain and said, "I want to rest."
Sovkov returned to the inner room, lay on the bed and began to recall the Arabian Nights story that Yakov said: a strange stone from outer space, eyes appeared on the stone, and after scanning the drawings with a beam, the things on the drawings can be turned into real objects. No matter how you listen to this, it sounds like an April Fool's Day joke.
But after repeated thinking, Sokov connected it with the fake president. If the fake president really replaced Truman, it means that he can access important secrets of the old Americans. If he reviews the drawings of a national weapon like the atomic bomb as the president, will the people below dare not agree?
Even if the design drawings of the atomic bomb fill several rooms, as long as he can see the key drawings, figure out the principle of the atomic bomb explosion, and then hand over the information to the Soviet side, it will play a vital role in the Soviet development of the atomic bomb.
He vaguely remembered that the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb, RDS-1, was an implosion-type nuclear weapon like the American atomic bomb, with solid plutonium as its core. It seemed that the Soviet side had learned all the inside stories of the Manhattan Project through other channels. If the fake president's plan succeeds, they will get more specific inside stories.
Thinking of this, Sokov felt that it was natural for Ustinov to suddenly invite him to join an important research and development team. After all, he had been accompanying the fake president on his way back to Moscow from Berlin. Even if the other party did not reveal any information to him, there would always be people who would suspect that he might have mastered some inside stories, so it would be natural to put himself in an isolated area in the name of joining the research and development team.
After understanding this, Sokov became uneasy. If Ustinov invited him to join the research and development team again, would he agree or not? If he agreed, it would mean that he would live a life isolated from the outside world in the next few years or even decades; if he did not agree, would someone make him disappear from the face of the earth?