Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 285 Sleepless Night

That night.

"Come and drink to your valor, the performer!!"

"Cheers!" "Hahaha, cheers!"

On the open-air training ground, a group of members of the Dark Steel Force wearing casual clothes with different appearances and hair colors gathered around a bonfire, holding wine bottles high and clinking glasses, making a clear sound.

"Then I would like to thank you all for your kindness."

Xin Lailai, who had returned to his own body, looked around and looked at the crowd sitting around him, said with a smile, picked up the wine glass in his hand, and drank it all in one gulp.

Gulu~Gulu...

"Hiccup~ It's refreshing. I haven't touched alcohol for a long time. Today is a blessing to you, the performer!"

Adolf, with a reddish complexion, looked at the empty wine bottle in front of him. Although after the transformation of the prosthetic body, even if they drink alcohol, they can use the dark steel prosthetic stomach to quickly decompose it, but they are usually busy patrolling. Due to various matters and affairs, they usually don't care about the enjoyment of life at all.

It was tonight to celebrate Xin Lailai's feat of defeating an army of gastrea animals that Adolf and several other big men from Russia finally had the opportunity to satisfy their hunger.

However, it is said that it is just to satisfy the craving, but in fact it is just to drink some wine. The material life inside Leviathan is not too rich, so even at such a party, there will not be any sumptuous and delicious food. Instead, it's more alcohol plus some ordinary meat and vegetables.

"What I have done is nothing, but I have to work hard for you, Mr. Adolf, to collect the carcasses of those primitive intestines."

Xin Lailai said with a smile. He had clearly drank no less than four bottles of extremely pure spirits from the beginning of the party to now, but his tone of voice could not be heard to have changed at all. In addition, the mask prevented others from seeing it. The look on his face gave people the impression that he had not been affected by alcohol at all.

"Hehe! Hehe, sister Xiaohan, stop scratching, I give up..."

On the other side, Quan Momo, who was so drunk after only half a cup, leaned in the arms of Ling Yuzi, who was using a bionic prosthesis, and kept giggling, drooling all over the floor.

"It's a pity that we don't have enough time. Otherwise, I would have wanted to have two more drinks with the performer."

Adolf glanced at the time on the old mechanical watch on his wrist and said with some regret.

"It doesn't matter, there will always be opportunities in the future."

"Haha, that's true. After we defeat the gastrea, we will have plenty of time to drink slowly!"

Adolf laughed heartily twice, nodded and said, looked at the team members beside him, cleared his throat, and shouted:

"Okay, everyone, get up, clean up, and digest the alcohol. That's it for today!"

"Yes!"

After hearing this, the members of the first unit stood up one after another and started to tidy up the messy training ground in an orderly manner.

"Then, Mr. Performer, we will take our leave now."

Adolf, who led the soldiers to quickly clean up the scene, gave Xin Lailai a standard military salute. Xin Lailai nodded slightly and watched him leave the training ground.

"Well Lailai, I'll take her back to sleep first."

After the training ground became quiet again, Ling Yuzi picked up the sleeping Quan Momo, looked at Xin Lailai, and said.

"Well, she seems to have been busy processing the refined super-dark sword these past few days. It's been quite hard on her."

Xin Lailai nodded and signaled Ling Yuzi to take Quan Momo to rest first.

After questioning, he found out that the dark metal sword he used during the daytime battle was actually the product of Quan Momo working with Leviathan's engineering department for three days without sleep.

This is also why the quality of the big sword is so much higher than he expected.

Quan Momo's professional skills have an excellent purifying and refining effect on metals and minerals. The metals or alloys refined with that white flame can truly be made without any unnecessary impurities, completely according to Quan Momo's professional skills. Momo’s thoughts determine its ingredients.

If he keeps exercising and continues to improve his control accuracy and proficiency, Quan Momo can completely turn himself into a mobile humanoid high-precision processing military factory with just that one skill.

"As for me, there should be something Rentaro Satomi wants to say to me. I'll go back then."

"Ah."

After a brief exchange, Ling Yuzi tiptoed, and blue flames spurted out from the propulsion device behind her, taking her and Quan Momo in her arms to fly away from the training ground.

Xin Lailai looked at the tall, brightly lit building in the distance. He took a step forward, spread the wings behind his back, stirred up a gust of wind, and flew towards his destination.

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Leviathan, Anchao Steel Military Industrial Base.

"Your Excellency, performer, how was your experience at the party?"

"It's not bad, everyone is very enthusiastic."

"After witnessing such a scene, I think that is the most normal reaction. After all, you showed in front of them how powerful the Dark Steel Mecha is."

In the corridor, Xin Lailai and Satomi Rentaro walked side by side. After chatting with each other about tonight's situation with a chuckle, they came to a heavy door.

[Authentication completed, authority level VI, allowed to pass]

Buzz, rumble—!

As Rentaro Satomi walked to the face authentication area and the cold electronic female voice sounded on the radio, the arc lock on the heavy door in front of him began to rotate slowly, and the door made of nearly two meters thick ultra-dark metal The two sides moved inward, and the roar of mechanical operation began to come from behind the door.

"We are here, Your Excellency the Performer. This is the core area of ​​Leviathan, the production and research and development base of Darksteel mechas."

Satomi Rentaro's voice sounded, and Xin Lailai looked at the scene in front of him, his eyes slightly focused, without speaking, silently followed Satomi Rentaro's pace, and walked behind the gate.

Boom, boom...!

As soon as they entered the door, the roar that originally sounded vague outside the door immediately became extremely deafening. Looking around, they could see that below them, hundreds of machines were connected to various pipes. Large machines more than one meter high are placed around, and with huge roars, they 'spit out' pieces of jet-black alloy that reflect the metallic luster, and transport them to various areas through conveyor belts.

Xin Lailai moved his eyes to the area on the left, and saw that in the upper left corner of the factory, robotic arms were moving around a huge skeleton, and dazzling sparks came from the welding device at the front of the robotic arm. Blooming out, welding the gaps between the ultra-dark metal plates at an extremely slow speed.

"Although Leviathan has been expanding the scale of the military factory since the emergence of the Great Rift, it is limited by manpower and other conditions. Even if there are sufficient raw materials, it still takes a long time to produce a dark steel mecha. More than a day.”

"However, for today's Leviathan, the current dark steel mecha is actually enough. After all, relatively speaking, the most difficult step is not the production of the dark steel mecha, but the driver's nourish."

Satomi Rentaro walked Xin Lai Lai on the plank road above the factory, introducing Xin Lai Lai to the situation of the factory as he walked. “Today, there are 426 dark steel mechas available in Leviathan, but there are only 306 soldiers who can pilot the dark steel mechas.”

"Except for Yanzhu and the 19 people from the Zero Unit led by her, the other three Dark Steel units have a total of only 287 people. If it is only the confrontation in Phase V, this number is actually more than enough, but if the opponent is If we switch to stage VI..."

When Satomi Rentaro said this, he stopped, looked up at the things in front of him, and said no more.

Xin Lailai raised his head and looked up at the things in front of him from this angle together with Satomi Rentaro:

The tall mecha stood quietly in the center of the factory under the support of the support frame. The surface of the dark mecha was full of pits of various sizes. The twelve wing blades and the shield on the left arm were separately disassembled and hung aside. A pitch-black sword more than ten meters long was placed flat in front of the mecha, being wiped by each mechanical arm.

Vaguely, it seemed that a faint smell of blood could be smelled, as if the blood wrapped around the mecha in front of him had not completely dissipated.

"Fighting against gastrea, Darksteel Powered Armor Type A, also known as Darksteel-A, is the prototype of the mecha you are using today, Your Excellency, Performer."

"In terms of performance, there is actually no difference between it and the Dark Steel-B type used by Captain Adolf and the others. It is just equipped with all the weapons originally designed for gastrea combat."

"However, after repeated tests, we found that weapons such as the spiritual amplification device and the Immortal Wing Blade are not of much use to soldiers like Captain Adolf who were transformed from normal humans. I chose to replace this part of the weapon with other things, so the Dark Steel-B series of airframes came into being.”

As Satomi Rentaro narrated, he slowly led Xin Lailai around in a circle and came to the back of the dark mecha. He looked at the huge ravine on its back where the sword was installed, and stared at the The 'sword box', which was almost as tall as the entire mecha, said:

"Your Excellency, Performer, you have personally experienced the feeling of driving a dark steel mecha today. What do you think of its specific power when used as a weapon?"

"Very strong."

Xin Lailai raised his head, looked at the dark mecha in front of him, squinted slightly, and said calmly:

"If I were to face this kind of weapon alone, even if it was driven by a non-domain person, as long as there were more than ten of them, I would probably have no choice but to escape for my life."

Normally, the biggest flaw of mecha driving is that the driver's reaction speed is often far behind the mecha's movement speed, so many times he can only make some very simple actions.

But the soldiers equipped with dark steel prosthetic eyes perfectly overcome this flaw.

With the help of prosthetic eyes, they can easily keep up with the speed of sound. Coupled with the strength of the Dark Steel Mecha itself, a Dark Steel Mecha can be used as a robot with all attributes at 90 points and explosive defense. The little BOSS to deal with.

Just because he can drive this thing to fight against a giant creature hundreds of meters tall like Ji Su Er during the day, and split two stage V giant beasts in half with one sword, he can already tell that the Dark Steel Machine is How terrifying is A's explosive power?

"However, the flaws of this thing are also obvious. If I guess correctly, it should be difficult for Mr. Adolf and the others to drive it for more than half an hour, right?"

Xin Lailai glanced at Rentaro Satomi and spoke, revealing the most fatal flaw of the Dark Steel Mecha.

Battery life.

This does not just refer to energy issues, it is a problem that exists in all mecha weapons. What Xin Lailai said is difficult to last for more than half an hour, referring to the limit time that pilots like Adolf can sustain.

The lifespan of prosthetic eyes, physical pressure, mental load...

There are ways to solve the first two, but the latter has almost determined the battle time of the Dark Steel Mecha.

Even if he replaces the prosthetic body of Anchaogang, even if he has an unusually complete will, there is only as much mental power as there is.

Although under the influence of the special magnetic field formed by the combination of dark steel and the life magnetic field, the intelligence attributes of Adolf and other modified human soldiers who drive dark steel mechas have improved a lot without knowing it, but they are still barely above 10 points. Degree.

Compared with pure ordinary people, this is already at the superhuman level, but compared with Xin Lailai and those cursed children who are born with powerful power, the mental power brought by 10 points of intelligence attribute Nothing at all.

"Not only that, if my estimate is correct, even Miss Yanzhu, it should be difficult for her to last for more than half an hour when using the mental amplification device, right?"

He has already experienced the power of the mental amplification device. Once it is turned on, it is equivalent to instantly controlling all gasterozoans below stage IV, and it can also interfere with the actions of gasterozoans in stage V and above. It can be said to be true. An artifact for special attack against gastrea.

But on the contrary, there is no free benefit in the world. The spiritual amplification device is essentially just amplifying the spiritual field, not generating something out of thin air. To amplify the suppressed field with a radius of 500 meters to that extent, there is no need for mental load. Say more.

According to his previous detection results, Lan Yuan Yanzhu, who has awakened the realm, now has an intelligence attribute of 85 points, and it is a real attribute.

It sounds like it is already very high, but in fact, if there is a real competition for the upper limit of mental load, Xin Lailai, who has condensed the spiritual world, will definitely be stronger than the opponent.

After all, as the highest-level spiritual space, the carrying capacity and intensity of the spiritual world are no joke.

But even so, when Xin Lailai used the mental amplification device, he could still clearly feel that he could only last for about 40 minutes at most before falling into a state of mental weakness. From this, we can imagine the mental load of the mental amplification device. To what extent.

In fact, when he said that Yanju Aihara could last for 30 minutes, he was even guessing too high.

"Your Excellency, the performer, is right. The biggest flaw of the Dark Steel Mecha is indeed this. This is also the fundamental reason why we have not chosen to take action against those lone Zodiac signs."

Satomi Rentaro answered calmly, with no surprise or panic in his eyes.

The inability to conduct a protracted battle means that if they want to kill the Zodiac, the tactics they can choose suddenly become much less.

"So, Mr. Satomi came to me tonight to ask if I have any solutions to these problems, or to know if I can help Mr. Adolf and the others become stronger in the remaining time?"

"This is indeed a purpose, but when I come tonight, I actually want to talk to Mr. Performer about future combat plans."

Satomi Rentaro turned around, looked at Xin Lailai quietly, and said slowly:

"In this case, even if I encounter any misfortune in advance, you can lead the people of Leviathan to continue fighting."

Boom!

The roar of mechanical operation sounded like thunder in the ears of the two of them. Xin Lailai looked at Rentaro with a calm expression in front of him, squinting his eyes slightly, and a faint light flashed in his dark pupils.

"Interesting, can I ask, what made Satomi-dono suddenly become so unfounded?"

"It's nothing, it's just a dream I had recently."

Satomi Rentaro turned around and looked at the assembly lines below. The mechanical structure in his eyes was rotating slightly, as if he was remembering something.

"In that dream, I saw my own body, and that was it."

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　PS: Xin Lailai: Byd doesn’t say anything to help people sleep well at night, right? !

　　

　

(End of this chapter)