Xu Jianguo put down the pencil he was drawing with, stood up, walked to his desk and answered the phone.
Song Changqing's voice came from the receiver: "Director, Major Song and Major Bian are here with their men!"
"Alright, take them to the third underground floor. Also, notify the three deputy directors and get ready to depart!"
"yes!"
After hanging up the phone, Xu Jianguo returned to the workbench, put the unfinished drawings into the space, then took off his white coat and put it on the back of the chair, put on his shoulder bag, grabbed his military cap, and walked outside.
Because Li Delong and his team still had to complete the manufacturing of the remaining external accessories, Xu Jianguo did not plan to take them with him on this drone testing mission.
After pushing open the door of the processing workshop and saying something to a few people, Xu Jianguo took the elevator of the institute directly to the third underground floor.
After coming out of the elevator, Xu Jianguo walked along the corridor and soon came to a storage area guarded by security soldiers.
There are six huge warehouses in the storage area, most of which store materials needed for research and development, as well as prototypes that have been manufactured but not yet tested.
The attack drones made by Xu Jianguo and his team are stored in Warehouse No. 2.
Next to the storage area, there is an extra-large freight elevator. The sides and top of the elevator are not closed. There is only a platform at the bottom with an area of 50 square meters. There are control buttons on the platform to control the elevator up and down.
This freight elevator was specially built to transport test samples deep underground.
Seventy meters below the third underground floor of the institute, there is a railway line hidden that few people know about.
All test samples can be transported directly to the eastern suburbs of Jingzhou via this dedicated line, which can effectively avoid the risk of leakage of test samples during transportation.
Xu Jianguo did not immediately contact the staff to ask them to open the warehouse, but waited patiently for others to arrive.
About twenty minutes later, a crisp sound was heard, and the elevator door on the third underground floor slowly opened. Three deputy directors and two middle-aged men in cadre uniforms walked out.
These two middle-aged men were the ones who received the order to be in charge of this drone test.
Because the elevator space was too small, everyone was divided into several groups before they all reached the third underground floor.
Hearing footsteps coming from afar, Xu Jianguo, who was sitting on a chair, stood up. After a while, he saw Song Changqing and others walking towards him.
After the two sides met, the two soldiers immediately saluted Xu Jianguo. After Xu Jianguo returned the salute with a smile, smiles appeared on their faces.
One of these two men is called Bian Jun and the other is Song Jingang. They are both from the East Suburb Base under the Jingzhou Military Region, which is where they are going later.
Since this is not the first time we have worked together, everyone is very familiar with each other and there is not much sense of restraint.
Liu Mingyu, Zhao Huanbin and Jin Hao also gathered around at this time. After the six of them exchanged a brief greeting, Xu Jianguo asked Liu Mingyu to arrange someone to contact the staff to get the drone and accessories out of the warehouse.
Because Liu Mingyu is responsible for assembly and testing, he is responsible for connecting with the warehouse to pick up goods every time there is a testing task.
As he signed the delivery note, the door of Warehouse No. 2 was slowly opened. Then the people brought by the three deputy directors, as well as the soldiers brought by Bian Jun and Song Jingang, entered the warehouse in an orderly manner and began to use flatbed carts to transport wooden boxes about two meters long and wide and half a meter high to the freight elevator.
This time, Xu Jianguo prepared two test prototypes. All the parts and external weapon accessories were packed together in more than 20 wooden boxes.
There is strength in numbers. It took less than half an hour for everyone to neatly stack all the wooden boxes on the freight elevator.
After the inventory was confirmed, the staff closed the warehouse door again.
Because the freight elevator was large enough and had a strong enough carrying capacity, everyone boarded the elevator. As Song Changqing pressed the down button, the elevator began to slowly descend and headed deeper.
With a crisp "ding" sound, the freight elevator stopped steadily at a place similar to a train platform.
Next to the platform, there was already a train waiting there with white smoke coming out of its locomotive.
In addition to Xu Jianguo and his men, there were also many armed guards on the platform.
Without further delay, everyone loaded all the wooden boxes onto the train, and then everyone got into the carriages.
With a short whistle, the train slowly left the platform and entered a dark tunnel.
The train traveled in the tunnel for nearly forty minutes before a small light appeared in front of it. That was the exit of the tunnel. However, the front of the train did not drive towards the light, but followed the change of the switch and drove into a fork in the tunnel.
Because of the smaller number of carriages, the train is much faster than ordinary passenger and freight trains.
After continuing on the fork road for more than ten minutes, the train stopped in front of a brightly lit platform guarded by soldiers. This was a secret station in the East Suburbs Base.
After the train stopped, the soldiers who had been waiting on the platform for a long time immediately came up and began to move the wooden boxes in the freight car into the back of two large trucks parked nearby.
The people from the research institute followed Bian Jun and Song Jingang onto another truck. Then the three trucks drove away quickly, out of the huge cave at the foot of the mountain, and sped towards the test site in the distance.
Soon, the truck arrived at the test site. After all the wooden boxes were unloaded from the truck, Liu Mingyu led his men to start unpacking and checking the boxes, and assemble the drone according to the assembly manual given by Xu Jianguo earlier.
Zhao Huanbin and Jin Hao led their men towards the testing site, as they also had their own work to complete.
As the personnel arrived, the entire test site began to become busy. In addition to assembling drones, others were either laying cables, debugging displays, or measuring today's wind direction and speed.
Xu Jianguo was not idle either. He took Song Changqing to check one by one, and corrected any problems in a timely manner.
Just when everyone was busy, two jeeps drove over from a distance. Xu Jianguo heard the noise and looked in the direction of the sound. As soon as he saw the license plate, he knew who was coming.
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