Dong Lihua wondered if Academician Zhao was setting him up, but in reality, he also knew approaching the anti-gravity device from below was not highly dangerous.
The anti-gravity device did not involve too many chanical operations; the only thing was the rotating disk at the bottom, and the core high-energy beams were all sealed within the pipes. Even if there was a leak, there would be virtually no danger.
Thus, the dangerous aspects were twofold: one, the large device was rotating; two, the uncertain anti-gravity effects that the experint might produce.
The rotation of the anti-gravity device had been fashioned into a large disk, with protective asures at the bottom and around it to prevent any parts of the device from being thrown off during operation.
If one were to approach from below, it was unlikely there would be any issues.
Moreover, since this was an anti-gravity experint, they had made the protective suit nearly equivalent to a spacesuit, with iron wrapping the entire body and a thick shock-absorbing sponge inside, giving it a strong ability to withstand physical impacts.
The suit also had substantial weight to it, roughly around forty kilograms.
Wearing such a heavy protective gear made one feel reassured, although it significantly affected how one could walk.
Dong Lihua mustered his courage and conscientiously donned the protective suit, ready to go over and see what Zhao Yi was referring to.
One of his engineers, noticing his sowhat frightened deanor, asked, "Shall I go instead?"
He did not believe there was much danger.
Dong Lihua imdiately shook his head, insisting, "I’ll go. It’s too dangerous!"
"Huh?"
The others were sowhat puzzled.
Dong Lihua didn’t bother to explain and acted as if he were a valiant soldier prepared to lay down his life. In reality, however, he thought this was the mont to show courage, to contribute to the project and the experint, to truly take the lead.
How noble that sounded!
Cough cough~
Anyway, they had completed a historic major research and developnt project. Perhaps it would be recorded that the person in charge, Dong Lihua, fearlessly headed to the frontline, sacrificing for the experint...
Wait.
Actually, the main reason was that, upon careful consideration, Dong Lihua felt there was no special danger. Zhao Yi had only said "approach," not go under the device; there was really nothing frightening about it.
As he walked towards the device from a distance, Dong Lihua did not forget to look back and instruct, "Get a cara, take a picture of !"
"But... we don’t have a cara," the puzzled assistant replied.
"A phone will do."
"We don’t have a phone either... I’ll go find one." The assistant, upon hearing this, sped off to look outside; understanding Dong Lihua’s intent was to capture his ’valiant’ frontline stance.
anwhile, Dong Lihua thought, "The photo must appear casual, as if it wasn’t intended to be seen."
"Of course, it definitely won’t work in the short term; it can only serve as a nto. If people knew I took a photo, no matter the circumstances, it would constitute a violation of discipline!"
"Even without a photo, it doesn’t matter; the surrounding surveillance will record it, although it will be blurry, just a small figure..."
Moving with mixed feelings and heavy steps, Dong Lihua approached the device. Initially fifty-so ters away, he advanced only thirty ters—a distance that took him nearly half a minute to cover.
The snail-like pace was intolerable to Zhao Yi, who simply left the command center, put on a safety helt, and went over.
Several people hurried to stop him. "Academician Zhao, no, it’s dangerous! If you approach, you must wear the protective suit!"
"No need."
Zhao Yi said, "It’s my experint. I understand it, there’s no danger, rest assured."
As he moved forward, several others followed suit by donning protective helts.
Ahead.
Dong Lihua finally inched his way to a spot ten ters from the device, when he felt sothing was off. Unable to identify the problem imdiately, he believed that Zhao Yi would not deceive him and that there must be so discovery at hand. He had always expected to see sothing, not to feel sothing.
He stopped for a few seconds before realizing he seed to have beco lighter.
"I’m lighter!"
Dong Lihua exclaid in astonishnt, instinctively giving a hard jump. He could typically jump only ten centiters, but now leaped over half a ter.
"Ahh~~~"
He shrieked in terror.
In most people’s imagination, feeling weightless and jumping high unexpectedly would bring surprise and amusent; the reality might be different. Suddenly losing the effect of gravity, especially unprepared, propelling high into the air could be like drowning, the sensation of not being able to control one’s body might cause intense panic.
At that mont, Dong Lihua reacted exactly this way, yelping in fright as if already in grave danger, unable to maintain his balance and tumbling face-first into the ground.
His panic wasn’t just due to losing his balance; he also feared truly ’floating’ upwards, with the swiftly spinning anti-gravity device directly above his head on a slant. Should he ’float’ into it, he had no intention of testing the quality of his protective suit.
In reality, Dong Lihua’s position was relatively safe, with a lateral distance of over fifteen ters from the anti-gravity device, which was nearly five ters off the ground.
Furthermore, the project team had other safety asures in place. Dong Lihua was tethered by a hauling rope, so if any problem arose, the workers behind him could pull him back with the rope.
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