A fat man who was reborn from the dead? He transforms into a perfect male god in a week.

Two months later.

Nantianmen Mecha Assembly Workshop.

Liu Jianguo has been living in this workshop for almost forty days.

A temporary prefabricated house was built for him next to the workshop.

Inside was a folding bed and a kettle.

He lived and ate in the workshop.

I take my reading glasses off my neck less and less often.

He never let go of the vernier calipers.

Old Zhao came to visit once in between.

After standing at the workshop entrance for a long time, staring at the giant frame that wasn't even fully assembled yet, my voice became hoarse again.

"Engineer Liu, you don't need to worry about the funding."

"Money is no object."

What about the materials?

"There's plenty of ore at the Moon Palace."

"What about manpower? Should we add more people?"

"Need not."

"I've got enough of my men."

Old Zhao glanced at the group of dusty-looking engineers in the workshop.

The lid of Chen Gong's cup fell off for the eighth time.

Mr. Zhang's glasses fogged up so much they looked like a steamer.

"How long has it been since they had a rest?"

"I work shifts."

Even when working shifts, you still need to rest.

"Let's rest."

"How many hours of rest per day?"

Four.

"Is four hours enough?"

"That's enough."

"And what about you, Engineer Liu?"

"I won't rest."

Old Zhao opened his mouth, but didn't try to persuade him further.

He knew that Liu Jianguo was like that.

He wouldn't rest until the work was finished.

After he finished working, he could sit in the corridor and text his wife for half an hour.

The construction of the Yinglong was three days ahead of the two months Jiang Chen had mentioned.

Once the materials arrived, titanium alloy components refined from lunar minerals were continuously transported back from the Moon Palace.

The carrying capacity of the twelve space elevators became apparent at this point.

The ore was sent into the air, the components landed on the ground, and the journey was unimpeded.

Liu Jianguo led his precision machining team to polish every joint and every piece of armor plate to an error of no more than 0.01 millimeters.

Once, after measuring a set of joint data, Engineer Chen stared at the instrument for a long time.

"Engineer Liu, this level of precision..."

"What's wrong?"

"It's a whole level above the battle armor."

"The standards set by Academician Jiang."

"The armor is 0.1 millimeters thick, and this is 0.01?"

"Um."

"An object over 300 meters long, with an accuracy of 0.01 millimeters?"

"Um."

Mr. Chen screwed the lid on the thermos cup and then unscrewed it again.

I twisted it three times.

"I'm so happy to have been a part of building this thing in my lifetime..."

"It was worth it."

"This is the second time today you've said it was worth it."

"I can say it eight times a day."

Engineer Zhang was wiping his glasses nearby.

"Data collection is complete."

"Skeleton stress test passed."

"The powertrain system integration test has been passed."

"Weapon system fully loaded."

His voice trembled slightly when he finished reading the last sentence.

"The Yinglong... is now fully assembled."

The workshop fell silent for a moment.

Then Liu Jianguo put the vernier caliper in his hand into his pocket.

He walked to the foot of the Yinglong ship.

Look up.

330 meters.

From this angle, the mech's head almost touches the workshop's dome.

A helmet shaped like a dragon.

Streamlined armor.

Two enormous folding wings unfold from its back.

The paint job is dark gray with subtle gold patterns.

"Beautiful," Liu Jianguo said.

After he said those two words, his eyes welled up with tears.

He took out his phone and sent a message to his wife.

"It's finished."

"Its name is Yinglong."

"It can fly."

His wife replied, "Show me the photos when you get back."

"No photos, it's confidential."

"Then come back and tell me about it."

"good."

……

The day after final assembly was completed.

Jiang Chen has arrived.

He stood at the foot of the Yinglong ship and looked up for a while.

"good."

Liu Jianguo waited on the side.

"Academician Jiang, the test flight plan is ready."

"Um."

When will it fly?

"today."

Liu Jianguo was stunned for a moment.

"today?"

"Um."

"Not adjusting for another two days?"

"Need not."

Jiang Chen walked to the control panel at the foot of the mecha.

The Yinglong is controlled differently from the armored vehicle.

The armor is wearable.

The mech is a remote consciousness link with built-in AI assistance.

The system of Datang has been deployed.

Jiang Chen placed his hand on the control panel.

Consciousness connection activated.

The voice of the Tang Dynasty echoed in his mind.

[The Yinglong mech system is online.]

[Power core: Four fusion reactors, providing stable output.]

[Skeleton stress: Normal.]

[Weapon System: Standby.]

[Consciousness connection synchronization rate: 99.7%]

"That's enough."

Jiang Chen said.

"take off."

[Instructions received. Yinglong launch procedure initiated.]

The workshop dome slowly opened.

A massive canopy of sky was revealed.

The folding wings on the back of the Yinglong are deployed.

Two giant wings with a wingspan of over 200 meters were spread out in the sunlight.

The dark gray armor gleamed with a cold light.

The fusion reactor is ignited.

Four units in parallel.

The workshop floor shook.

Then Yinglong's feet left the ground.

A mech that is 330 meters tall.

It's taking off.

It rises slowly.

Passing through the dome.

Ascending into the sky.

The construction team on the ground all looked up.

Someone had their mouth open and forgot to close it.

Someone was holding up their phone to record a video, their hand shaking.

After ascending to a certain altitude, the Yinglong hovered above Nantianmen.

A huge shadow was cast on the sea of ​​clouds.

Looking up from the ground, it resembles a suspended steel statue.

Liu Jianguo stood at the workshop entrance, looking up.

His hex wrench really did fall to the ground this time.

He didn't pick it up.

Mr. Chen was standing nearby when the lid of his thermos fell off again.

This time he didn't squat down to pick it up.

Mr. Zhang's glasses fogged up so badly that he couldn't see anything.

He stopped wiping it.

Just look up at it.

Director Cao arrived without anyone noticing.

He stood outside the workshop, pinching his thigh.

"I pinched it for the fourth time."

"Is this still a dream?"

"No," Liu Jianguo said.

"It's flying."

"Three hundred and thirty meters."

"Flying."

……

The military received the news much earlier.

Major General Zhang and Minister Chen stood on the viewing platform at Nantianmen.

The viewing platform is some distance from where the Yinglong is hovering.

Even from that distance, the oppressive feeling still overwhelmed me.

The 330-meter-tall mech was suspended in the air.

It blocked half the sky.

Major General Zhang gripped the railing so tightly his knuckles turned white.

"It took flight."

"It really flew."

Minister Chen stood there speechless.

He opened his mouth several times, but in the end only managed to utter one sentence.

"this……"

"This is fucking real."

Major General Zhang took a deep breath.

"I've fought wars my whole life."

"I've never seen anything like it before."

"I used to think armored vehicles were ridiculous enough."

"Looking at the armor now, it's just a toy."

Minister Chen regained his composure.

"With that thing flying in the sky, who dares to touch it?"

"Nobody dares to move."

"With the Yinglong hovering here, the entire airspace is ours."

"Five more."

When Major General Zhang heard "five more," his hand clenched tighter.

"Five more."

"Yinglong was just the first."

"Gonggong, Zhurong, Houyi, Kuafu, Xingtian."

"Make them one by one."

Minister Chen looked at the huge outline in the sky.

How can others possibly fight back?

"There's no way to fight."

"Dimensional reduction attack."

"wrong."

Major General Zhang shook his head.

"This is not a reduction in dimensionality."

"This is a crushing defeat."

"Dimensional reduction at least keeps you within one dimension."

"This isn't even on the same level."

……

The Yinglong hovered for about ten minutes.

Then Jiang Chen issued a maneuver command through the mind link.

The Yinglong began maneuvering.

accelerate.

Turn around.

dive.

Pull it up.

A 330-meter-tall giant mech performed fighter jet maneuvers in the sky.

The construction team on the ground gasped in surprise.

Someone shouted "Holy shit!"

Then everyone started shouting.

"Holy crap!"

"Holy shit! Holy shit!"

"It's doing a somersault!"

"A somersault over 300 meters!"

"I'm speechless!"

"666!"

"Jiang Shen yyds!"

Chen Xiaopang saw it in Lingxiaodian's live stream.

Someone secretly started a live stream at the Nantianmen construction site.

Although the image was blurry, the huge outline flying in the sky was clearly visible.

The comments section is going crazy.

"Is this a mecha?"

"More than 300 meters?"

"Was it made by the River God?"

"Made by the River God."

"Jiang Shen has created a science fiction film."

"This is not a science fiction movie."

"This is mythology."

"Yinglong."

"The Yinglong from the Classic of Mountains and Seas."

"The myth has become reality, family members."

"I'm speechless."

"Trembling with fear."

"I almost dropped my phone when I saw that somersault."

"A somersault over 300 meters."

"What does that mean?"

"Newton must be turning in his grave."

"The river god doesn't follow the laws of physics."

"He came according to mythology."

"Yinglong."

"A dragon that can fly."

"He actually created a dragon."

"And it's a dragon that can do somersaults."

"666 isn't enough."

666666.

"Six 6s."

"One mech and one 6."

"Save it for now."

"Use it when you have all six."

Chen Xiaopang sent a screenshot of the live stream to Li Mo.

"Look."

Li Mo replied, "I saw it."

"Yinglong."

"The first one."

"Five more."

Chen Xiaopang typed: "You're starting to sound more and more like Jiang Shen (a famous Chinese martial arts master)."

"Um."

"Versailles this season."

"I'm just stating the facts."

Chen Xiaopang put down his phone and leaned back in his chair.

The reaction abroad is even stronger.

Mark Sike tweeted immediately.

Just one word.

"Majestic."

Someone below is translating.

"magnificent?"

"Magnificent?"

"He didn't use 'Impressive' and 'Interesting' this time."

"The wording has been changed."

"This means he was truly shocked."

"So shocking that even the words have changed."

"The last thing that made him change his words was a lunar mineral map."

"This time it's a mecha."

"A mech over 300 meters long."

"It can fly."

"Its name is Yinglong."

"The vocabulary of 'masek' is getting more and more sophisticated."

What's next?

"I bet Sublime."

What are you betting on?

"I bet he'll run out of things to say in the end."

"When all six are in full formation, he'll be speechless."

"I'll bet a bottle of Coke."

"make a deal."

The comments section of overseas netizens was filled with nothing but despair.

"They built flying mechs."

"Over 300 meters high."

"It can fly."

"We still can't build rockets that can be recovered normally."

"The gap hasn't narrowed."

"It's too wide."

"And it's an exponential increase."

"I'm speechless."

"Literal meaning."

People have started to analyze the dimensions of the Yinglong.

What does 330 meters mean?

"Ten times taller than the Eiffel Tower."

"Seventy-five times taller than the Empire State Building."

"It can also fly."

"It can even do somersaults."

Is this reasonable?

"unreasonable."

"That's why it's called the River God."

"What he does is never reasonable."

"But it's all true."

"That's the most outrageous part."

That hurts.

"reality."

"That's so real."

Chen Xiaopang took screenshots of those comments.

Send it to Li Mo.

"Look at other countries."

"Um."

"I'm desperate."

"Um."

Could you please say something longer?

"I'm completely desperate."

Chen Xiaopang smiled.

"You're starting to sound more and more like Jiang Shen (a famous Chinese comedian)."

"Infected."

"Who infected you?"

"Jiang Shen."

"I work under him every day."

"Your speaking style will be assimilated."

"It's an occupational hazard."

"What kind of occupational hazard?"

"Versailles occupational disease."

"The symptom is that the responses are getting shorter and shorter."

His tone grew increasingly indifferent.

"In the end, it became a single word."

"Um."

"Just like you."

"Um."

"See?"

"Yes, again."

He sent Jiang Chen a message.

"Jiang Shen, the Yinglong has taken off."

"The trending topics are exploding."

"Masek said Majestic."

Jiang Chen replied with a single word.

"oh."

Chen Xiaopang looked at the word "oh" and smiled.

He thought to himself, "Jiang Shen built a mecha over 300 meters tall and flew into the sky," and replied with an "Oh."

This Versailles has reached its pinnacle.

"Versailles Squared."

He muttered something to himself.

[Ding! Detected that the host has successfully launched the first 100-foot-long mech, Yinglong. Myth has become reality, shaking the world.]

[Stunning Value +3000 million]

Jiang Chen glanced at the system notification.

Then he said to Liu Jianguo.

"The Yinglong is back in position."

"Begin constructing the Gonggong nameplate."

Liu Jianguo gripped the vernier caliper tightly.

"good."

"Gonggong, naval combat type."

"The kind that goes into the water."

"Um."

"Academician Jiang, the Yinglong spacecraft... flew beautifully."

"good."

Liu Jianguo turned and left.

When he reached the workshop entrance, he squatted down and picked up the hex wrench.

I wiped the dust off.

He put it back in his pocket.

Then he sent another message to his wife.

"The Yinglong has taken off."

"I built it."

My wife replied with a voice message.

He clicked to listen.

My wife said in a voice message, "Come back quickly, the kids hardly recognize you anymore."

Liu Jianguo smiled.

He replied with a single word.

"Soon."

He hung up the phone and stood at the workshop entrance.

I glanced back at the dark gray behemoth inside.

Yinglong stood quietly on the assembly rack.

Its folded wings resemble a sleeping god.

"Take a rest first."

"Gonggong, it's your turn."

He turned and went back to the workshop.

……