Chapter 65, Power Armor
The siege by mushroom beasts that everyone suspected did not happen, and everyone began to play in the mushroom forest again.
Well~ It is indeed a game. After all, there is no danger in the conventional sense for them in the mushroom forest.
"Tree King Holy Mushroom, this thing is the most delicious." Xia Mian jumped down from the mushroom, his arms full of Tree King Holy Mushroom.
"Among the Tree King's creations, only the Tree King's Holy Body Mushroom has the strongest aura of the Tree King." Fugate nodded and said.
"After the death of the Tree King and before the birth of the Little Grass King, those sages and others ate the Tree King's Sacred Body Mushroom raw at banquets in order to feel the Tree King's aura and miss the Tree King," said Shamian.
She had experienced this matter personally, and she had to say that the sages at that time were still talented people, unlike the ones who followed were all similar people.
"Then these juniors really don't know what to say." Kuru didn't know how to complain about his juniors.
You have cooked the fungus after all, and you are really not afraid of the hallucinogenic power that the Tree King Holy Body Mushroom will mutate.
"Here are some shiitake mushrooms."
"Speaking of which, Arecino's eyes look a bit like mushrooms."
"Are you saying the opposite, but these two mushrooms do look very similar. If you make the cross red, it will look even more like it."
Arecino was quite speechless. Her eyes were connected to her own bloodline. They were the manifestation of her own bloodline. They were full of cursed power. If she observed them for a long time, she would even be pulled into the terrifying illusion created by the bloodline.
Often people would go crazy just by looking into her eyes for too long.
But it was obvious that these people in front of them didn't care much about the curse in her bloodline.
Although this gave Arlecino a long-lost sense of relaxation, it also had many shortcomings.
For example, she will also be teased. In the past, the only person in the Hearth House who could talk to her like this was Creevey, and the rest of the people were afraid of her. Even in the Hearth House now, only Charmian and Foquet Te would occasionally talk to her like this.
Others are more in awe of her. As for the children, they feel a mixture of awe and dependence on her. Some also have feelings of fear towards her.
To the delicate Arecino, these are like looking at the lines on the palm of his hand.
This feeling made Arlecino feel a little familiar and strange.
This feeling seems to be that of ‘friends’?
"I seem to understand why Fugate must take me with him. Is he afraid that I will have psychological problems? This underestimates my psychological quality." I thought of some of Fugate's works.
Arecino also read various of his own works that Fugate moved to his office. After all, some knowledge is indeed very useful, and with the blessing of intelligence development potions, even those who specialize in combat can Arecino was also able to learn many things easily.
Arecino was also funny on the inside, but still tasted the grilled mushrooms and mixed mushroom soup calmly on the outside.
Although the cooking in the wild is not exquisite enough, it is fresh and excellent enough, and it tastes unique.
"Mushroom man!" Hetara shouted towards Arecino who didn't know what he was thinking.
As a result, Fugate and Charmian punished him with an iron fist.
"Don't give people random nicknames, bastard."
After Fugate and Charmian's iron fist correction, Hertara, who became more and more free of herself, finally returned to her ladylike appearance, and apologized to Arecino with a bruised nose and a swollen face.
"What a noisy guy." Baanka said with emotion, "This guy was not so active before."
"?Speaking of someone coming, the person who came to Wuyu Chou Forest must be a scholar who studies some weird things." Hetara said.
Everyone followed Hetara's gaze and saw an old man wearing scholar's clothing appeared in their eyes, followed by several young scholars and a few mercenaries.
"Young men are disturbing you, do you mind if we borrow a fire?" the old scholar said. Judging from his clothes, he should be a Hebanda of the Shenglun sect.
"I'm still a little concerned." Kulu said, "But it's still okay to borrow a fire."
"Speaking of which, young man, you seem a bit familiar. Have we met somewhere?" the old scholar asked.
"No," Kuru said.
After borrowing a fire, the old scholar set up his own camp not far from where Fugate and his friends were camping.
Well~ This place is the most suitable place to set up a camp nearby, so it is quite common to camp together.
However, both sides also tacitly reserved room for defense.
After the old scholar and the others set up their camp, Fugate and the others started chatting again.
Kulu expressed his guess: "These guys are probably here to cultivate and balance the environment. According to Shamian, it should be their school that purified the Wuyu Chou Forest and then revived such a huge Mushroom Forest.”
Fugate nodded: "The characteristics of artificial intervention here are a bit obvious, but it's okay. It's much better than the place in Fontaine Arenas."
When Fugate was working (fishing) in Fontaine, he went there. Compared to the well-treated area of Wuyu Choulin, there is still a huge amount of residual pollution there.
Even many pure water elves have been polluted and turned into turbid water elves.
"It's not like the people of Fontaine have never thought about purifying the place, but they all ended in failure." Arecino said, "The pollution in that place is not comparable to the pollution in the Wuyu Forest."
"That's right...after all, it is an alchemical giant beast close to the level of the devil." Fugate nodded, "At most, it is all kinds of pollution left behind by those beast-realm hounds after they died in battle."
A few people played in Wuyu Chonglin for a few days, and also caught a few Shenbo peaches that can only be produced in Wuyu Chonglin. This kind of fish tastes really sweet. Originally, the fish masters expected to cultivate fish like this. Fish for dessert, but unfortunately due to various factors, the fish dessert was not a success.
In addition, this kind of puffer fish is relatively rare and expensive, making it difficult to use as food, so people usually breed it as an ornamental fish.
But Fugate and the others don't care about that.
Satisfaction and enjoyment is what they should really be focusing on.
"Okay, let's go back." Fugate said after visiting most of the beautiful scenery in Wuyu Forest.
Announce that this outdoor dinner + leisure trip is completely over.
Then they hurried all the way back to the Sixth Level Manor. After opening up some of the deeper permissions in the Sixth Level Manor to several apprentices, Fuquet took Arlecino and started to walk in the subspace with Shamian.
"The scenery in subspace changes differently every time I see it." Arecino looked around curiously.
She and Charmian were almost hanging on Fugate.
After all, she and Charmian have not yet completely mastered the skill of subspace walking, so if they want to walk in subspace, they need someone to guide them. For this trip, Fugate took them both.
"If you want to see it often, you'd better learn astral projection quickly."
Astral projection is similar to an out-of-body experience, but the level is much lower. You can basically access spiritual energy when it reaches the explosive level in this world, and you can put your consciousness or a clone of your consciousness into the subspace.
Then travel, study and other behaviors in the subspace.
But it's a pity that Arecino can't learn this kind of non-combat spell.
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"Charmian, are you ready?" Fugate asked.
"Well, you're ready," said Charmian.
"Start dressing." Fugate nodded and said to the machines around him.
With the cooperation of the machine spirit, Charmian began to wear power armor. This was not the final version of the power armor, but a prototype made by Fugate.
It is just a mass-produced product, but the required system is not missing at all and can be used normally.
But there are some problems, that is, this armor can only be used by people with a similar body shape to Shamian or Shamian, otherwise many models will not fit.
"How does it feel?" Fugate continued to ask after most of the armor was put on.
"It feels okay, a little oppressive, but not serious," said Charmian.
"Then proceed with the final installation of the head armor. If there is any problem, stop it immediately." Fugate said. "Also pay attention to the electronic muscle bundle. You do not have a black carapace and an external neural link device, so it is normal to have a certain delay. , don’t worry.”
"Also, you have to be careful about device overloading."
"You have said it many times." Charmian said speechlessly.
Fugate scratched his head and shut up.
"Head armor, get dressed." Following Fugate's order, the machine spirit began the final installation work, and a huge helmet enveloped Charmian's head.
"Each system begins self-checking." Charmian said in a muffled voice, with mechanical and electronic sounds in his voice. The voice-breathing grille can amplify the wearer's voice and psychic war cry.
Each system starts self-checking in about ten minutes.
Xia Mian said, "The self-examination shows that everything is normal."
"Then let's start testing," Fugate said.
"First comes the operational test."
The action test was quickly completed, and the long-distance running test and the combat test were next. These two tests were relatively noisy, so naturally they had to inform the boss and even report to the Fontaine Academy of Sciences, otherwise they would be treated as It would be bad if the rampaging robots were targeted.
"Has the power armor been manufactured?" Arecino said in surprise.
"Only the inner armor is considered completed. The outer layer of power armor is a mass-produced product made of substandard steel." Fugate shook his head and said, "But after testing, we can predict the final effect of the finished product."
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The inner armor is a substitute developed by Fugate for the situation where the black carapace is not implanted. It needs to be worn close to the body. The ceramic steel mixed with fine gold is made using a special process because its special structure is very soft and can detect the human body. The movement of the muscles is then converted into signals for transmission.
The inner armor is already complete and has been tested. This time it is mainly for testing the power armor.
"It's so strong. Although it hasn't reached the level of captain yet, it's very close." Arecino squinted his eyes and looked at the power armor that had completed all the test items step by step.
"The next step is to start testing the elemental power strengthening system." Fugate said.
"I understand." Charmian's voice came to Fugate's ear.
Then the power armor exploded with a ball of lightning, and then the power armor began to test the previous movements again, but it was visible to the naked eye that the speed was much faster.
"What do you think?" Fugate asked.
Arecino commented: "It has completely surpassed the previous level."
[Charmian·Inferior ceramic steel alloy power armor, challenge level LV97-LV102] Fugate is actually asking about the system.
Arecino also answered, which reminded Fuquet that the nominal boss from home was also watching.
So I asked in my heart: "Can you predict the challenge level after the power armor is built according to the [Thunder and Lightning] plan?"
【Calculating···】
[Charmian·Adamantite Ceramic Alloy Power Armor Complete, Estimated Challenge Level LV115-LV120]
[Special entry: Adamantite ceramic alloy power armor, immune to most attacks below LV 110 and below. Attacks below LV 130 will be greatly reduced. Currently immune to physics, elements, rules, energy, divine power, soul, spirit Energy, mind, spirit, space, dimension (part)...not yet immune to time, memes, thoughts, mathematics, cause and effect...]
Fugate nodded secretly. It was much stronger than he had calculated. Fine gold is powerful.
But when he saw the last ones who were not immune, Fugate couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
Each of these unimmunized people is more idealistic and more abstract than the last. Fugate doesn't really want to continue working towards these guys.
"How strong can mine be?" Arecino asked curiously.
"It's not the same model. The one you have is made of leftover materials after all. It is naturally much weaker than this one, but it is better than this model in terms of flexibility, portability and combat effectiveness." Fugate said.
Arecino's armor was naturally inferior to Charmian's.
But Fugate didn't mean to fool around.
"Okay, the element test is completed, Xia Mian can take a rest."
"Okay."
The three of them returned to the smelting plant. With the help of the machine spirit, Shamian finally crawled out of the power armor.
Looking at Charmian Fugate, who was covered in sweat, he frowned.
"Aren't the cooling systems and ventilation systems fully functioning?" Fugate asked.
"The operation is very normal. This is just sweat after strenuous exercise." Shamian said. "Usually this kind of sweat is easily blown away by the wind, but inside the power armor, this sweat is not easily discharged. There is also an inner armor blocking the ventilation system.”
"Are there any symptoms of dehydration?" Fugate asked.
"No, the body detection system and energy replenishment system are operating very normally." Shamian said.
"That's good. It seems that the next step is to modify the inner armor. At least it can't affect perspiration." Fugate said.
"A little sweating doesn't matter," Charmian said.
"Then it means that a lot of sweating will still have an impact." Fugate nodded. "I understand. This is a problem caused by poor consideration during the previous design, and it is not difficult to solve."
The main reason is that there was no severe sweating during the simple inner nail test.
"Adjust the frequency of the rhythm device and add a closeable sweat groove design to the inner armor to solve the problem."
Fortunately, it was not a serious problem and it was relatively easy to solve. Fugate even completed the design and renovation on the same day.
In fact, as long as we don't conduct various physical energy consumption tests in an exaggerated manner like today, this situation will not happen.
But since there are hidden dangers in this regard, Fugate is naturally perfect.
"It is normal for the inner armor to have problems. After all, it is not a black carapace that has been tested for a long time." Fugate said after handing the inner armor to Shamian.
"Feedback to me as soon as possible if you have any questions in the future."
After many tests, it can be seen that the design of the power armor is indeed very mature, and the foundation is very good, making it easy to carry out various personalized transformations.
Problems in various tests are often caused by Fugate's modifications, while problems with the original design rarely occur.
Even if there is a problem, it is because of the use of inferior ceramic steel.
Later, a practical test was conducted, and the subject was Arecino.
When they were not wearing power armor, it could be said that Charmian and Arecino were equally matched in terms of combat prowess. However, after Charmian put on the power armor, he easily suppressed Arecino and beat him. Recino was also tenacious and managed to survive for two hours under such pressure.
It is true that the power armor is always a little slower in reaction, otherwise Arecino would probably be defeated within a few dozen moves.
However, this reaction is completely acceptable.
In short, with the power armor, Xia Mian has confirmed that he can participate in the demon-level battlefield, even if he wears this kind of rough armor.
The next days were a bit boring. Fugate waited for the ceramic steel to reach the standard to be refined, and then cast it into parts of the power armor.
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On this day, in the courtyard of Buffati Mansion, the children were all out on missions or looking for a living.
It was a rare occasion for Fugate and Arecino to chat together.
The content of the chat between the two of them was inseparable from their mutual dislike of the target [Doctor].
"Speaking of which, I went to the Winter Palace for a meeting some time ago. [Doctor] called you one of the top researchers under him. What do you think of this?" Arecino asked.
"I have reservations about that," Fugate said, rolling his eyes.
"[Doctor] said that he can host more than a hundred scientific research projects at the same time. I wonder how many scientific research projects you have started now?"
“A total of three projects have been launched in recent years,” Fugate said.
"The steel smelting project has two goals; the ceramic theory is 100%, which is currently in production and is being optimized, and the mithril theory is 23%."
"The four goals of the alchemy potion project have been completed so far. We are working with Shamian to complete the optimization of various known potions, mainly in three directions: improving quality, increasing output and reducing costs."
"Armor project, three goals; [Thunder and Lightning] power armor, theoretical 100%, physical progress 27%; [椤 Zhu Jinyan] power armor, theoretical 98%; [Evil Moon Tribulation Fire] rapid reaction armor theory 71%. ”
(End of chapter)