Steel Chang'an

Chapter 22

"Do you know where the puppeteer lives?" Su Sheng lay on the bed, resting his left arm behind his head, looking at the ceiling.

After Li Jing left, only he and Mu Yun were left in the room.

Thinking of the battle after leaving the city tomorrow, Mu Yun felt that he should take a good rest first.He sat down on the edge of the bed where Li Jing had been lying, brushed off the cigarette ash on the sheet, and said casually, "I don't know, and I'm not interested in knowing, I just want to sleep now."

"Some say he lives in the sky, some say he lives on the sea, and some claim to have seen him on the frozen sea north of the northern border," Su Sheng said to himself, "he has a super huge The golden battleship is as huge as Kunpeng. He can swim in any sea area, the sea is frozen for thousands of miles, and no one can notice it moving under the ice. Sometimes he flies through the air, like a large cloud fly over your head and you won't see anything."

"These are just legends, no one has actually seen a puppet master." Mu Yun said.He was a little strange, since he left Chang'an, this venomous young man obviously talked a lot less, but now he suddenly started chattering again.Mu Yun rubbed his eyes and yawned. Was this brat deliberately trying to make things difficult for him?
"My father has seen him." Su Sheng said stubbornly, "My father, the lord of the Northern Iron Union, the Red Knight Sumugan, never came to see me once after I got that strange disease. .The last time I saw him, he gave me this body, made my younger brother Su Qi his heir, and sent me to Chang'an."

"I didn't know until today why he never came to see me after I fell ill." Su Sheng said in a low voice, "Because he was never in the north at that time. Ever since I fell ill, he has been looking for As for the whereabouts of the puppet master, I don't know what method he used to ask the puppet master to help me make a body."

Su Sheng sighed, "It's a pity that all these years, I only know how to hate this body, but I never thought of being grateful to him. I didn't even say a word to him when I left the northern border. I should have known The old man was so short-lived, I should have had a chat with him then."

With your mouth, if you say a few more words with you, you will make your life even more short-lived, right?Mu Yun complained in his heart.

But it was only then that he realized that even though Su Sheng seemed indifferent when he heard the news of Su Mugan's death and his younger brother Su Qi's disappearance, this kid's heart was not as heartless as it appeared on the surface.

Thinking that the body Su Sheng was using now was the only relic left to him by his father, Mu Yun couldn't help but feel a little guilty.The left hand of this body has been used by him to replace the mecha and materials, and now there is only a bare arm left on the left shoulder.Mu Yun thought to himself, in the future, he will have to find a left hand for this kid, even if it can't reach the level of ingenuity of the puppet master, it will have to be on the same level as that.

It's just that before he had time to say anything, he saw Li Jing walking in, wearing only a shirt, and he was holding the coat that was originally on his body. There was something wrapped in the coat, and he threw it to Su. Sheng said: "Try it on."

Su Sheng took the thing, unwrapped it for a look, and immediately cheered "Wow".Mu Yun also leaned over curiously, and saw that it was a maintenance mechanical arm commonly used by mechanics.This robotic arm is equipped with various types of drill bits, wrenches, and welding torches, which can be ejected and retracted as needed.However, the function of the mechanical arm modified by Li Jing is much more complicated. In addition to the various tools needed to repair the mecha, there is also a metal storm machine gun attached to the elbow of the mechanical arm.

"Where did you get the machine gun?" Mu Yun asked.He only changed the mechas and materials in the Jing Ge arsenal, and the weapons equipped with the mechas need to be replaced as the level of the mechas increases. With the current level of the two zero-type mechas, even if you buy them, they are suitable for use. It won't be long before the weapon is eliminated, so Mu Yun doesn't intend to waste money on it.

"I took a little from the batch of materials you exchanged, and bought them from the market." Li Jing said lightly.Only then did Mu Yun realize that Li Jing had just made a special trip to the market.Like this metal storm machine gun, it belongs to the electronic sniper rifle. The ammunition is directly filled in the barrel and ignited by electronic pulse. It can shoot 1 bullets every 500/6 second without filling and reloading. For people with only one hand That being said, it's pretty easy to use.

Li Jing installed the machine gun on the mechanical arm. When the electronic controller of the machine gun was activated, Su Sheng only needed to aim and shoot the enemy by vibrating his arm.

The metal storm machine gun uses special miniature bullets with extremely strong penetrating power. A metal storm gun filled with bullets is not cheap in the market.Li Jing said it lightly, but Mu Yun knew with his toes that the material Li Jing used to exchange for this machine gun was definitely more than "a little".

Mu Yun couldn't help but smiled slightly, thinking that what Li Jing said was quite ruthless, but in fact he had long planned to make a mechanical arm for Su Sheng, so he couldn't help but feel a little funny.After putting on the robotic arm, Su Sheng was excitedly adjusting various functions on the robotic arm, and shouted, "Boss, I knew you were a good person. This robotic arm is better than that prosthetic hand." Much cooler!"

"Hehe, is it cool?" Li Jing narrowed his eyes, allowing Su Sheng to indulge himself for another minute with his mechanical arm on, and then slapped him on the head, "Come work with me if you're cool enough, what do you think?" What did I build this robotic arm for you?"

After Li Jing led Su Sheng to the hangar, Mu Yun finally had a good sleep as he wished.

When he woke up, the sky was bright, but the room was empty. It seemed that Li Jing and Su Sheng had spent the night in the hangar.

Mu Yun put on her clothes and walked into the hangar, but saw Li Jing leaning against a wall and smoking a cigarette, while Su Sheng was climbing up and down on the bracket next to the mecha, doing the final finishing work.

"No way, I thought you were just talking casually, so you really let this kid assemble mechas?" Mu Yun looked at the two zero-type mechas that were almost assembled, and said in surprise, "You wouldn't Tell me, these two mechas were assembled by this kid alone, and you are just smoking a cigarette next to the supervisor?"

"Hehe, otherwise, what are apprentices for?" Li Jing squinted his eyes and said, seeing Mu Yun's unbelievable expression, he patted his shoulder, "Don't worry, a famous teacher produces a high-level apprentice, and assemble two sets of this A mecha of this level is as easy as building blocks for Su Sheng, absolutely no problem."

no problem?Your attitude of exploiting child labor is obviously very problematic!Mu Yun complained in his heart.

But having said that, after seeing Su Sheng's method of repairing the engine of the special mecha, and knowing that he is Li Jing's apprentice, Mu Yun has no doubts about the level of this little devil's mecha assembly.It's just that the words "a famous teacher produces a good apprentice" are true, but why does it sound so awkward when it comes out of Li Jing's mouth?

Just as Mu Yun was thinking, Su Sheng didn't feel the slightest bit of being exploited, so he ran excitedly to report to Li Jing: "Boss, the two mechas have been assembled and can be accepted!"

"Well," Li Jing pressed the cigarette casually, and said to Mu Yun, "Go and feel it."

Mu Yun put on the close-fitting sensor armor specially designed to operate the mecha, and entered the cockpit.After activating the operating system, he first opened the parameter panel.He found that although Li Jing was stingy with people, he was generous with mechas. Li Jing was not stingy at all with the batch of high-grade materials he exchanged for, and used all of them on these two zero-type mechas.

Ordinary people would probably vomit blood on the spot when they saw Li Jing's usage of high-grade materials.

Why do you say that?

Because Li Jing's idea of ​​modifying the mecha is really weird!

First of all, among the batch of high-grade materials worth more than 1000 million that Mu Yun exchanged for, most of them are Xuanwu alloy.

Although the Xuanwu alloy is several grades lower than the top Amaterasu alloy, it is still ranked among the top ten high-strength alloys on the mainland. The xuanwu alloy with a cross-section of 1 square millimeter can hang a heavy object of 90 kg without deformation, and its heat resistance is also quite high. The general alloy casing can only withstand high temperatures below 700 degrees, and the war machine with a xuanwu alloy casing Armor, but it can fight in high temperatures above 700 degrees.

To put it simply and crudely, after using Xuanwu alloy, the defense value of the mecha has been directly improved by a level.

This is also the reason why Mu Yun changed so many Xuanwu alloys at once.The Xuanwu alloy worth more than 1000 million is enough to replace a starlight armor, the most advanced of the [-]-ton mechs.Li Jing was not polite at all, and used up all the black black alloy in one go.

It's just that Li Jing didn't hit the Xuanwu alloy on the outside of the mecha, but on the inside of the mecha - he replaced all the joints of the two zero-type mechas with Xuanwu reinforced alloy joints!

It’s like you obviously have a pile of reinforced iron plates that can be wrapped around the meat and can withstand a strong blow, but you have carefully wrapped this pile of reinforced iron plates inside the meat, and when you chop it up with a knife, the meat will still be meat , still don't fight!

In other words, more than 1000 million was dropped, and the defense value of the two zero-type mechas was the same as it was originally, and it has not improved at all.

This kind of weird modification idea is so weird that most people can't understand it!
However, Mu Yun is not an ordinary person.

Even though he saw Li Jing hitting all the joints with more than 1000 million xuanwu alloy at the first sight, the corners of Mu Yun's eyes twitched violently a few times.But soon he discovered that Li Jing's thinking was not weird, but rather a high-end thinking, but it was very impractical in the eyes of ordinary people.

This is because the original joints used by general mechas are all precisely calculated, and can definitely support the normal operation of the mecha at the highest speed, so ordinary people will never spend money to upgrade the joint parts inside the mecha. Not to mention the use of Xuanwu alloy, a high-strength alloy specially used to make machine shell armor, on the joints of the mecha.

However, this idea is only valid in ordinary low-end battles, and it is another matter in high-intensity and high-speed battles.

Certain high-difficulty operations, such as making the mecha suddenly turn in the air during a high-speed charge, will generate huge torque, which will even exceed the pressure limit that the mecha's original joints can withstand.In other words, if the joint strength is not enough, it is definitely not enough to support explosive operations at high speeds.

Mu Yun recalled that in the duel when Li Jing defeated him with One Man in the World, One Man in the World jumped into the air and landed on the ground in an instant, and jumped behind the armor Xifeng. This was the most critical winner in the whole duel.This difficult operation requires the mecha's waist joints to be twisted 360 degrees in an instant. If Li Jing hadn't upgraded the internal joints of Tianxia Yiren, a 40-ton mecha would have been broken in two from the middle.

Therefore, Li Jing replaced all the joints of the mecha with Xuanwu strengthened alloy joints. On the surface, it looks weird, but in fact, he has considerations from actual combat experience.

It can be said that the use of Xuanwu alloy to modify the joints has improved the maneuverability of the two zero-type mechas by a level.

However, the improvement effect of this maneuverability can only be reflected in high-explosive operations.

If the knight operating the mecha can't perform high-explosive operations at all, then this improvement in maneuverability is tantamount to staying on paper and has no effect.

Moreover, even if the knight operating the mecha can perform several high-explosive operations, if it cannot be maintained all the time, then this improvement in mobility can only flash a few times in a battle.

More than 1000 million materials can directly increase the defense value of the mech by one level in any situation, and can also increase the mobility of the mech by one level under certain special circumstances. Li Jing chose the latter.

This is obviously not the most cost-effective option.

This is why Mu Yun felt that although Li Jing's idea of ​​modification was understandable, it still seemed unreliable.

But Li Jing, as the number one knight on the Pangu Continent in the past, could he really make a mistake in the choice he made on the mecha?
Mu Yun stared at the rows of data flowing on the internal parameter table of the mech, and a thought flashed through his mind—could this be what Li Jing really wanted him to feel?

(End of this chapter)