Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 142 Customized Power Armor

"Mr. Manstein, why do I feel that you seem a bit reluctant... Could it be that these small shield generators are your private property?" Ke Lan asked with awareness.

Before Manstein could speak, Youyi spoke first: "Mr. Ke Lan, I just borrowed your authority in the name of secretary to investigate the property ownership of these shield generators—a total of three The small shield generators, two Nov2 and one Nov3, were all obtained by Mr. Manstein in his own name at the Ark official auction, but when paying for the goods, he used the funds from the procurement department of the base. Public account, the three expenditures totaled 770 million credits... Before Mr. Manstein repaid the money in full, these three small shield generators should belong to the Soma Consortium's property."

"Oh, it turned out that it was embezzlement of public funds. Isn't that too powerful? Don't you even make fake accounts?" Ke Lan was a little surprised.

"Mr. Manstein used the base's public funds for the reason of 'strengthening the base's defense force', so from a certain point of view, this is not considered embezzlement of public funds..." Youyi replied.

"But he didn't use this thing to 'strengthen the defense of the base'? Oh, by the way, Mr. Manstein, why did you buy this thing? Don't tell me your old man still likes to study the cutting-edge technology of Alpha civilization?" Ke As she spoke, Lan took out her mobile phone, quickly edited an email and sent it out.

"Ah, this..." Manstein didn't want to mention how regretful he was. He really just mentioned it casually at first, and he didn't expect Ke Lan to actually plan to carry the thing that weighed half a ton on his back. He went down to the mine, and even dug out his use of funds from the public account... Fortunately, although the three shield generators were in his name, they were stored in the public warehouse of the base. There is barely room for turning things around.

"I was worried about the failure of the base's main shield generator, so I bought these three small shield generators... I participated in the auction in my own name because... I was worried that the consortium's competitors would maliciously raise the price... ..." Manstein said with some lisp, obviously, he was trying hard to get this matter over.

Misappropriation of public funds, whether it’s a big deal or a small thing, in his situation, the consortium generally won’t take any severe punishment... But if he was transferred back to the Ark because of this incident, That would be a big loss.

The supervisor of the mining base is a fat job. Leaving aside other gray incomes, the oil and water that can be scraped during the crystallization and refining process are several times his apparent salary.

"However, the power of this small shield generator is less than one-thousandth of the base's main shield. If there is a problem with the main shield, what can these three small things do? Protect Mr. Manstein Is it your office?" Ke Lan asked, at this moment, his mobile phone vibrated slightly, and he glanced at it quickly - the email just sent has received a reply in less than 1 minutes .

The content of the reply letter was very short, just a photo and a few lines of text, but it cost Ke Lan a whole thousand credit points for this little thing.

But in Ke Lan's opinion, the thousand credits are worth the money.

"Mr. Manstein, you should know this young man, right?" Ke Lan raised his phone and showed the photo.

It was a young man wearing a mecha pilot suit. He had a handsome face, and his beautiful long golden hair lay softly on the shoulder armor. Behind him stood a four-meter A multi-height, red and white two-colored competitive mecha.

Seeing this photo, Manstein only felt his eyes go dark, he staggered, and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately Ke Lan reached out to support him in time: "Be careful, Mr. Manstein, if you are at your age If you accidentally fall, it will be a big accident."

"...That...that's my youngest son, Andrew." Manstein sighed and said in a low voice.

"Andrew von Manstein, 29 years old, top 18 of the No.16 Ark Mecha Competition, top 19 of the No.4 Ark Mecha Competition, No. 20... eh? Not shortlisted? It's a pity Ah..." Ke Lan read the content of the email sentence by sentence, "If you have these three shield generators, you might be a strong candidate for the championship this year compared to Mr. Andrew?"

"..." Manstein didn't speak, and his face was completely filled with an expression of "you can do whatever you want".

"Well, actually, I sympathize with him. He obviously won the semi-finals the year before last, but he didn't even make it to the top 32 last year..." Ke Lan patted Manstein on the shoulder, "Don't worry, Suo and I The shareholders of the Ma consortium are not familiar with them, so I will not disclose this matter. If we can come back safe and sound, Mr. Manstein, you are still the nominal owner of these equipment...Of course, remember to transfer the missing funds Make it up in time."

"You really won't report me to the shareholder meeting?" Manstein looked at Ke Lan in disbelief.

"Of course not, it won't do me any good." Ke Lan shrugged. "By the way, since your son is a mecha competitor, you should have a lot of mecha parts here, right?"

Speaking of this, Ke Lan turned his head and gave Layton a meaningful look, and the latter was already rubbing his hands excitedly.

"Yes." Manstein gritted his teeth, "They are all the latest models of competition-grade accessories, and some of them are pre-sale models that have not yet been officially launched...Because I haven't been able to fill in the loopholes in the public account, so Things are still piled up in the warehouse of the base. If you need it, Mr. Ke Lan, just take it and use it.”

"That's right!" Ke Lan hooked the other person's shoulders, "Look, if we really found ultra-purity crystals in the mine, it would be a fart for the money to buy accessories—"

……

Four hours later, warehouse No. [-] of the base.

Three power armors that have been modified by Layton himself and equipped with small shield generators have been worn on Ke Lan, Old Dog and Zhuo Ligetu. Except for the basic skeleton, these three armors use "Odyssey Type I" "Besides, all the other parts are backward-compatible competition-grade mecha parts. In Layton's original words, that is, "Only people who have too much money to spend and no longer regard money as money will choose it." The best custom armor you can buy".

Power armor and mecha are two completely different concepts. The former can only be regarded as a set of equipment worn by people, while the latter is a war machine that combines various top technologies, and it is made of mecha parts. Power armor, in Layton's view, can definitely be regarded as a wasteful behavior.

Of course, he still has the second half of the sentence: "Although it's a waste, it's really cool."

(End of this chapter)